Next Sanctuary reissues, Info Scan/In A Hole out 23 Jan 06

In A Hole & Infotainment Scan reissues will be out in January 2006; Middle Class Revolt & Cerebral Caustic are scheduled for March.

I don't want to put up tracklistings until MES has approved them, but Infotainment is planned as a double CD with radio sessions, singles tracks and some other studio stuff. In A Hole will be the same as 2002 Voiceprint + edition.

edit 2 December:

Tracklistings are:

THE INFOTAINMENT SCAN

CD1
Original album:
1. Ladybird (Green Grass)
2. Lost In Music
3. Glam-Racket
4. I'm Going To Spain
5. It's A Curse
6. Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
7. Service
8. The League Of Bald-Headed Men
9. A Past Gone Mad
10. Light/Fireworks
Bonus tracks on original CD:
11. Why Are People Grudgeful?
12. League Moon Monkey Mix

CD2
John Peel session #16, 13/3/93:
1. Ladybird (Green Grass)
2. Strychnine
3. Service
4. Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
Mark Goodier session, 17/5/93:
5. Glam Racket
6. War
7. 15 Ways
8. A Past Gone Mad
Permanent single CDSPERM9:
9. Why Are People Grudgeful?
10. Glam Racket
11. The Re-Mixer
12. Lost In Music
Outtakes and alternate versions:
13. A Past Gone Mad (alternate version)
14. Instrumental outtake
15. Service (instrumental demo)
16. Glam Racket (instrumental demo)
17. Lost In Music (mix 3)
18. Lost In Music (mix 7)
19. Lost In Music (mix 14)


IN A HOLE

Same tracklisting as In A Hole+ version released by Voiceprint in 2003, ie.

CD1: original Mainstreet, Auckland show from 21 August 1982;

CD2: encores from that show + The Container Drivers / C'n'C-Black Night / Look, Know / Who Makes The Nazis? / Gramme Friday / Slags, Slates etc (from various other NZ shows on that tour).

Bah, and there I was hoping that Infotainment would be at least a triple with all the circulating versions of Lost In Music on it...

As the young folk say...YAY!

Could that include the Goodier session version of Glam Racket maybe...or will they put that session on the MCR reissue?!

Hmm, yes Infotainment Scan will seem rather empty without 14 or so versions of Lost in Music.

I take it it will have the single mix (or master or whatever I am allowed to call them) of Glam Racket, Why Are People Grudgeful, and Lost In Music. (I note the discography now notes the versions / mixes are slightly different).



good news too about the radio sessions - the Mark Goodier session version of Past Gone Mad (with MES' can't be bothered out of sync vocals at one point) and 15 Ways (surprisingly enough) are classic.

I've already made my own "alternate" Infotainmen Scan on mix tape.

This is great news, but expensive.

Sanctuary much! (sorry...)

I don't think Conway said anything about non-Peel sessions, did he?

Hmm. Good point.

i never did get around to listening to all 14

Hmm. Good point.

He said radio sessions...

I'd have thought he'd have just said Peel sessions if he meant Peel sessions, unless he's just been deliberately mysterious...

Never knew there were different versions of this track - but I presume (and pray) your comment here is intentionally ironic. Not that I dislike the song, on the contrary, but there doesn't need to be 14 versions of anything.

The single versions, to my ears and from what I can recall, are merely different masters, not remixes. Either way the differences are in no way significant enough to warrant inclusion of the tracks more than once. The reissues might contain rarities etc but should still be an enjoyable listening experience for non-obsessives. Obsessives can hunt down the original single on eBay if they don't have it, which they probably do. That's how it works, folks. I have something of the completist fever myself (within some modicum of reason), but if I really wanted very (very) slightly differing versions of tracks, I would be happy to seek them out myself without subjecting the more casual listener to needless repetitionrepetitionrepetition...

Great news about In A Hole

Some other studio stuff sounds the most intriguing to me.

Will In A Hole be any different to the (excellent) + version?

Do I have to buy it again?

Some other studio stuff sounds the most intriguing to me.

I think that's got to be at least a couple of alternate versions of Lost in Music..!

Aren't Sanctuary going to bother with the planned Bootleg 2 set? I was looking forward to that myself.

Never knew there were different versions of this track - but I presume (and pray) your comment here is intentionally ironic. Not that I dislike the song, on the contrary, but there doesn't need to be 14 versions of anything.

The single versions, to my ears and from what I can recall, are merely different masters, not remixes. Either way the differences are in no way significant enough to warrant inclusion of the tracks more than once. The reissues might contain rarities etc but should still be an enjoyable listening experience for non-obsessives. Obsessives can hunt down the original single on eBay if they don't have it, which they probably do. That's how it works, folks. I have something of the completist fever myself (within some modicum of reason), but if I really wanted very (very) slightly differing versions of tracks, I would be happy to seek them out myself without subjecting the more casual listener to needless repetitionrepetitionrepetition...

Oh here we go again...



Bottom line is -

- Clayts' discography admits they are different
- you do
- I do
- I am sure others do too.
- The CD's have a lot of space, I can't see them being filled with all the different takes of Lost In Music.

I think putting officially released tracks comes first myself, no matter how much I like outtakes and bootlegs.

I hate to dredge this up, but a certain compilation that fell short meant I had to hunt on Ebay for a CD single with different mixes, and Ebay as my recent experience has shown is not cheap (well when you take the kid in a sweet shop approach ).

I better leave it that I suppose.

Never knew there were different versions of this track - but I presume (and pray) your comment here is intentionally ironic.

There are in fact 14 versions floating around...

I agree that I like these type of reissues to concentrate on "cleaning up" the discography by picking up spare mixes and stray tracks. I'm dying to hear "A Day in The Life," but not to pay $20 for "The Collection" or more for the original compilation in came from.

That said, I'm sure that the tracklist for "Infotainment Scan" has already been picked, and if it is anything like the previous Sanctuary reissues I will be pleased.

I recommend listening to all 14 versions of Lost In Music in one go. Your life will never be the same again.

I thought it was an apochryphal story about the 14 remixes.....dreamed up by someone who was bored.....

They could be added as mp3s for computer use, as a bonus, like Portugal on Sparta single.

Is that a common thing?

Sounds reasonable -- THE FUTURE OF CDS.