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One minute trailer for the release of The Gathering Sound boxset.
The Gathering Sound delivered a stunning anthology of James’ long musical career. It contained all the studio albums up to its release 13 years ago, plus many rarities and demos, a DVD, booklets, stickers and badges.
As well as four rarities and live discs, all the tracks from the following studio albums are included (and non-album tracks from the listed compilations) on a USB:
Stutter: Skullduggery / Scarecrow / So Many Ways / Just Hip / Johnny Yen / Summer Song / Really Hard / Billy’s Shirts / Why So Close / Withdrawn / Black Hole
Strip-mine: What For / Charlie Dance / Fairground / Are You Ready / Medieval / Not There / Ya Ho / Riders / Vulture / Stripmining – Refrain
Gold Mother: Come Home / Government Walls / God Only Knows / You Can’t Tell How Much Suffering (On A Face That’s Always Smiling) / Crescendo / How Was It For You? / Hang On / Walking The Ghost / Gold Mother / Top Of The World / Sit Down / Come Home (Flood Mix) / Lose Control
Seven: Born Of Frustration / Ring The Bells / Sound / Bring A Gun / Mother / Don’t Wait That Long / Live A Love Of Life / Next Lover / Heavens / Protect Me / Seven
Laid: Out To Get You / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Dream Thrum / One Of The Three / Say Something / Five-O / P.S. / Everybody Knows / Knuckle Too Far / Low Low Low / Laid / Lullaby / Skindiving
Wah Wah: Hammer Strings / Pressure’s On / Jam J / Frequency Dip / Lay The Law Down / Burn The Cat / Maria / Low Clouds / Building A Fire / Gospel Oak / DVV / Say Say Something / Rhythmic Dreams / Dead Man / Rain Whistling / Basic Brian / Low Clouds / Bottom Of The Well / Honest Joe / Arabic Agony / Tomorrow / Laughter / Sayonara
Best Of: Destiny Calling / Runaground
Millionaires: Crash / Just Like Fred Astaire / I Know What I’m Here For / Shooting My Mouth Off / We’re Going to Miss You / Strangers / Hello / Afro Lover / Surprise / Dumb Jam / Someone’s Got It In For Me / Vervaceous
Pleased To Meet You: Space / Falling Down / English Beefcake / Junkie / Pleased To Meet You / The Shining / Senorita / Gaudi / What Is It Good For / Give It Away / Fine / Getting Away with It (All Messed Up) / Alaskan Pipeline
Fresh As A Daisy: Who Are You? / Chameleon
Hey Ma: Bubbles / Hey Ma / Waterfall / Oh My Heart / Boom Boom / Semaphore / Upside / Whiteboy / 72 / Monsters and Heroes and Men / I Wanna Go Home
The Night Before: It’s Hot / Crazy Ten / Below / Porcupine / Shine/ Dr Hellier / Hero
The Morning After: Got the Shakes / Dust Motes / Tell Her I Said So / Kaleidoscope / Rabbit Hole / Make For This City / Lookaway / Fear
Rarities Disc: Willow / Say It With Flowers / Just Hipper / Mosquito / Left Out of Her Will / Doubts / Count Your Blessings / Weather Change / Pressure’s On / Jam 1 / Jam 2 / It’s a Fine Line / Hedex / Long To See / Scratch Card / I Thought You Were / All My Letters / Dust Motes
Live Disc: Folklore / Announcement / Burned / Hymn From a Village / Hang On / Maria’s Party / America / Sit Down / Sound / Honest Joe / Come Home / Johnny Yen / What For / Stutter / Fine / Bubbles / At The Seams
DVD – Come Home Live: Come Home / What’s the World / Whoops / Lose Control / Sunday Morning / Ring the Bells / Bring a Gun / Government Walls / Walking the Ghost / Next Lover / God Only Knows / What For / Sit Down / How Was It For You / Stutter
Vinyl: Sit Down / How Was It For You / Gregory’s Town / Ring Those Bells
Release Name: | The Gathering Sound |
Artist Name: | James |
Release Date: | 10th December 2012 |
Format: | Compilation Box Set |
Catalogue: | B01G7OHLC2. Barcode: 602527531298 |
The Gathering Sound is a stunning anthology of James’ long musical career. It contains all the studio albums up to publication, many rarities and demos, a DVD, booklets, stickers and badges.
The studio albums are: Stutter, Strip-mine, Gold Mother, Seven, Laid, Wah Wah, The Best Of / Unhinged (Compilation), Millionaires, Pleased To Meet You, Fresh as a Daisy – The Singles (Compilation), Hey Ma, The Night Before, The Morning After
The music is spread over a USB back-catalogue, three CDs or rarities and live recordings, a DVD and 12″ Vinyl. All the studio albums are on a unique J-shaped USB stick apart from The Morning After The Night Before, which is on CD (as a single album as the US import version was).
Also included are a 6-page A5 booklet featuring personal contributions from each of the band members and those associated with the group, including One Of The Three curator Dave Brown.
There is a 12″ scrapbook featuring previously unseen and rare photos, memorabilia, cuttings and many other items straight out of James personal archives including a complete timeline of James’s career annotated by the band.
And finally postcards, badges and sticky satin replica backstage passes, all in a 12″ presentation box.
Not found on Spotify.
Full set of promos of 3 x cd and 1 x dvd from The Gathering Sound box.
Rarities Disc: Willow / Say It With Flowers / Just Hipper / Mosquito / Left Out of Her Will / Doubts / Count Your Blessings / Weather Change / Pressure’s On / Jam 1 / Jam 2 / It’s a Fine Line / Hedex / Long To See / Scratch Card / I Thought You Were / All My Letters / Dust Motes
Live Disc: Folklore / Announcement / Burned / Hymn From a Village / Hang On / Maria’s Party / America / Sit Down / Sound / Honest Joe / Come Home / Johnny Yen / What For / Stutter / Fine / Bubbles / At The Seams
DVD – Come Home Live: Come Home / What’s the World / Whoops / Lose Control / Sunday Morning / Ring the Bells / Bring a Gun / Government Walls / Walking the Ghost / Next Lover / God Only Knows / What For / Sit Down / How Was It For You / Stutter
The Morning After The Night Before : It’s Hot / Crazy / Ten Below / Porcupine / Shine / Dr Hellier / Hero / Got The Shakes / Dust Motes / Tell Her I Said So / Kaleidoscope / Rabbit Hole / Make For This City / Lookaway / Fear
Release Name: | The Gathering Sound (full promo) |
Artist Name: | |
Release Date: | 1st September 2012 |
Format: | Promo Box Set |
Catalogue: | n/a |
Four discs in foldout plastic sleeve with full tracklisting. Does not include tracks from the vinyl or the USB.
Watermarked uncatalogued 12 track boxset sampler
Sit Down / Laid / Sound / Tomorrow / I Know What I’m Here For / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Whiteboy / Porcupine / Willow / Hedex / Hang On (Glastonbury 1990) / Stutter (Shepherds Bush Empire 2000)
Release Name: | The Gathering Sound (sampler) |
Artist Name: | |
Release Date: | 1st October 2011 |
Format: | Promo Album |
Catalogue: | n/a |
Eight songs from the USB stick, but two from each of the studio and live discs of the boxset