From: http://theseconddisc.com/2011/08/25/whats-the-world-james-offer-up-new-rarities-box/#more-8523
Manchester’s James have been going strong for nearly 30 years, amassing some 19 Top 40 singles in their native England. It’s kind of a surprise, then, that the recently-announced The Gathering Sound is only their first box set. But it sure is a good one.
The set chronicles James‘ discography, from their earliest recordings in 1982 to last year’s EPs The Night Before and The Morning After, across three CDs, one DVD, a vinyl record and a USB stick. The three CDs feature a program of studio rarities, most of which are entirely unreleased or haven’t seen the light of day on compact disc, a set of live tracks and those aforementioned EPs collected on one disc. The 12“ vinyl features four unreleased demos, while the DVD contains the first release of the band’s 1991 Come Home Live video in the disc format.
To top it all off, an 8 GB, J-shaped USB drive contains all of the band’s studio albums, from 1986’s Stutter to 2008’s Hey Ma, as well as a small helping of non-LP material (the band’s non-LP singles later released on 1990’s Gold Mother and four tracks from greatest-hits compilations) ¨C all in hi-res FLAC files or 320 kpbs MP3s. The drive also includes 24 of the band’s promotional music videos. (Completists take note: the bonus tracks from the band’s remastered editions of their 1990s albums are not present here. However, all tracks from Gold Mother, including the single tracks from the 1991 repressing, are present.)
Everything is encased in a 12“ x 12“ box with a 44-page liner notes booklet, badges and replicas of backstage passes. Additionally, the first 500 pre-orders get a special signed art print; all pre-orders will receive three exclusive demos as digital downloads.
James, The Gathering Sound (Universal Music (U.K.), 2011)
Disc 1: Rarities
Willow
Say It with Flowers
JustHipper
Mosquito
Left Out of Her Will
Doubts (BBC Radio Manchester Radio Session)
Count Your Blessings
Weather Change
Pressure¡¯s On (Demo)
Jam 1
Jam 2
It¡¯s a Fine Line
Hedex
Long to See
Scratch Card
I Thought You Were (Demo)
All My Letters
Dust Motes (Absolute Radio Session)
Disc 2: Live
Folklore (1982 gig)
Announcement (1982 gig)
Burned (Bath Moles 1988)
Hymn from a Village (Glastonbury 1990)
Hang On (Glastonbury 1990)
Maria¡¯s Party (Alton Towers, Staffordshire, July 1992)
America (Town & Country Club, London, December 1992)
Sit Down (Town & Country Club, London, December 1992)
Sound (Town & Country Club, London, December 1992)
Honest Joe (Brixton Academy, 9 December 1993)
Come Home (Shepherds Bush Empire, March 1997)
Johnny Yen (Manchester Apollo, 11 April 1998)
What For (Glasgow Lighthouse 1999)
Stutter (Shepherds Bush Empire, June 2000)
Fine (Sound Republic, June 2001)
Bubbles (2008 live gig)
At the Seams (A Cappella)
Disc 1, Track 3 was the B-side to ¡°So Many Ways¡± 12¡å single ¨C Sire JIM 4T, 1986.
Disc 1, Tracks 4-5 was the B-side to ¡°Ya Ho¡± ¨C Blanco y Negro NEG 26T, 1988
Disc 1, Track 8 from flexi-disc release (FLX-940), 1990
Disc 1, Track 14 from ¡°Just Like Fred Astaire¡± CD single ¨C Fontana JIMCD 23, 1999
Disc 1, Track 17 was a bonus track with iTunes edition of The Night Before (Mercury, 2010)
Disc 2, Track 3 from One Man Clapping (One Man Records ONE MAN 1, 1988)
All other tracks on Discs 1 and 2 previously unreleased
Disc 3: The Night Before the Morning After
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
Tracks 1-7 originally released as The Night Before (Mercury 2730015, 2010). Tracks 8-15 originally released as The Morning After (Mercury 2750433). All tracks released as one release in the U.S. (Mercury B0014689-02, 2010)
LP: Demos
Sit Down (Demo)
How Was It for You (Demo)
Gregory¡¯s Town (Demo)
Ring Those Bells (Demo)
DVD: Come Home Live (originally released as PolyGram Home Video 083 092 3, 1991)
Come Home
What¡¯s the World?
Lose Control
Sunday Morning
Ring the Bells
Bring a Gun
Whoops
Government Walls
Walking The Ghost
Next Lover
God Only Knows
What For
Sit Down
How Was It for You
Stutter
USB: Studio Discography
Stutter (orginally released as Blanco y Negro/Sire JIMLP-1, 1986)
Skullduggery
Scarecrow
So Many Ways
Just Hip
Johnny Yen
Summer Song
Really Hard
Billy¡¯s Shirt
Why So Close
Withdrawn
Black Hole
Strip-mine (originally released as Blanco y Negro/Sire JIMLP-2, 1988)
What For
Charlie Dance
Fairground
Are You Ready
Medieval
Not There
Ya Ho
Riders
Vulture
Stripmining
Refrain
Gold Mother (originally released as Fontana LP 846 189-1, 1990)
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 (from Fontana single JIM8, 1991)
Come Home (Flood Mix) (from Fontana single JIM6, 1991)
Lose Control (from Fontana single JIM7, 1991)
Seven (originally released as Fontana LP 510 932-1, 1992)
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 (originally released as Fontana LP 514 943-1, 1993)
Out to Get You
Sometimes
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 (originally released as Fontana LP 522 827-1, 1994)
Hammer Strings
Pressure¡¯s On
Jam J
Frequency Dip
Lay The Law Down
Burn The Cat
Maria
Low Clouds (2)
Building A Fire
Gospel Oak
DVV
Say Say Something
Rythmic Dreams
Dead Man
Rain Whistling
Basic Brian
Bottom Of The Well
Honest Joe
Arabic Agony
Tomorrow
Laughter
Sayonara
Whiplash (originally released as Fontana LP 534 354-1, 1997
Tomorrow
Lost a Friend
Waltzing Along
She¡¯s a Star
Greenpeace
Go to the Bank
Play Dead
Avalanche
Homeboy
Watering Hole
Blue Pastures
Millionaires (originally released as Fontana CD 546 386-2, 1999)
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 (originally released as Mercury CD 586 146-2, 2001)
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
Coffee and Toast
Hey Ma (originally released as Fontana CD 1764287, 2008)
Bubbles
Hey Ma
Waterfall
Oh My Heart
Boom Boom
Semaphore
Upside
Whiteboy
72
Of Monsters and Heroes and Men
I Wanna Go Home
Non-Album Tracks from Hits Collections
Runaground (from The Best Of – Fontana 536 898-2, 1998)
Destiny Calling (from The Best Of – Fontana 536 898-2, 1998)
Who Are You (from Fresh as a Daisy: The Singles – Mercury 1731846, 2007)
Chameleon (from Fresh as a Daisy: The Singles – Mercury 1731846, 2007)
Videos (1988-2001)
So Many Ways
What For
How Was It for You?
Come Home
Lose Control
Sit Down
Sound
Born of Frustration
Ring the Bells
Seven
Sometimes
Laid
Say Something (Original)
Say Something
She¡¯s a Star
Tomorrow
Waltzing Along
Runaground
Destiny Calling
Sit Down ¡¯98
I Know What I¡¯m Here For
Just Like Fred Astaire
We¡¯re Going to Miss You
Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)
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