Marc Almond - The Stars We Are (Expanded Edition) (1988/2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 952 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 332 Mb | 02:25:05
Pop Rock, New Wave | Label: SFE Records, Cherry Red Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 952 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 332 Mb | 02:25:05
Pop Rock, New Wave | Label: SFE Records, Cherry Red Records
This is the first expanded edition re-issue of Marc Almond’s 4th solo album, “The Stars We Are”, since its original release in September 1988. This re-issue is a three disc set that, on its first disc, couples the original 10-track album with its initial release’s CD and cassette only bonus tracks and with the B-Sides of its associated singles. A second CD features all known extended and remix versions of the album tracks. A third disc, a DVD (Region 0, PAL), compiles all six of the promotional videos filmed for the album, including the Tim Pope directed ‘Bitter-Sweet’ and the alternate U.S. version video of ‘Tears Run Rings’ as directed by Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle fame.Tracklist:
“The Stars We Are” was the first of two albums recorded for Parlophone and was Marc Almond’s return to a highly infectious and chartable pop. The first single ‘Tears Run Rings’ confirmed the revitalised, unabashed pop that characterised the record and reached #26 on the UK Singles Chart. But, it was the third single, ‘Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart’, a duet with the 1967 hit song’s original singer Gene Pitney that provided the commercial zenith of the album; the single reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart for 4 consecutive weeks in early 1989.
The album was recorded with an assembled band ‘La Magia’ which comprised of former Willing Sinners members Annie Hogan, Billie McGee and Steve Humphries as a core unit. The album is a shimmering arc of musical textures, compulsive melodrama and euphoric uplift. As well as further singles ‘Bitter-Sweet’ (UK#40) and ‘Only The Moment’ (UK#45), the album contains an homage to goth sensibilities in ‘Your Kisses Burn’ a duet with Nico (her last ever studio recording) as well as an extravagant mini-operetta, ‘Kept Boy’, a duet with cult chanteuse Agnes Bernelle.
1. The Stars We Are (03:44)
2. These My Dreams Are Yours (05:28)
3. Bitter Sweet (03:20)
4. Only the Moment (04:41)
5. Your Kisses Burn (04:43)
6. The Very Last Pearl (04:45)
7. Tears Run Rings (04:21)
8. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (04:40)
9. The Sensualist (05:28)
10. She Took My Soul In Istanbul (06:21)
11. The Frost Comes Tomorrow (04:18)
12. Kept Boy (06:13)
13. Everything I Wanted Love to Be (03:12)
14. King of the Fools (04:17)
15. Real Evil (05:13)
16. The Stars We Are (Full Length Mix) (06:02)
17. Tears Run Rings (12" Version) [Remix] (05:17)
18. Bitter Sweet (12" Version) [Remix] (05:10)
19. Only the Moment (All the Time In the World Mix) (06:26)
20. These My Dreams Are Yours (Through the Night Mix) (08:53)
21. Tears Run Rings (Justin Strauss Remix) (07:09)
22. Bitter Sweet (The Big Beat Mix) (06:02)
23. The Sensualist (Ultimate Ecstacy Mix) (07:00)
24. She Took My Soul In Istanbul (The Blue Mosque Mix) (10:20)
25. Tears Run Rings (The La Magia Dance Mix) (07:09)
26. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (Solo Version) (04:41)
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FILE: 02 These My Dreams Are Yours.flac
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FILE: 01 The Stars We Are.flac
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FILE: 24 She Took My Soul In Istanbul (The Blue Mosque Mix).flac
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FILE: 23 The Sensualist (Ultimate Ecstacy Mix).flac
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FILE: 02 These My Dreams Are Yours.flac
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