November 16, 2022

New boxset in February 2023: "Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89"

Steven Wilson has curated a new boxset, selecting 58 tracks from his formative years. Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89:

This is my personally-curated attempt to redress the balance, and to perhaps introduce any 1980s-sceptics out there to the idea that conceptual thinking and ambition didn’t suddenly evaporate after 1977. Ambitious, weird and thrilling music was all around you in the 1980s - if you looked in the right places.

Quite a few of the usual suspects have made the cut: Wire, The Stranglers, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Kate Bush, Ultravox, Tears For Fears, Propaganda. Good to see that acts like The Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Swell Maps and Crispy Ambulance also got his stamp of approval. collection set will be released as 4CD and a 7LP boxset. A shortened 2LP version will contain 19 tracks. Liner notes by James Nice.

Tracks:
  1. I Should Have Known Better - Wire
  2. A Better Home in the Phantom Zone - Bill Nelson's Red Noise
  3. Back to Nature - Magazine
  4. Complicated Game (Steven Wilson 2014 Stereo Mix) - XTC
  5. Careering - Public Image Limited
  6. The Raven - The Stranglers
  7. Puppet Life - Punishment of Luxury
  8. Astradyne (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) - Ultravox
  9. Contract - Gang of Four
  10. I Travel (Extended Version) - Simple Minds
  11. Sketch for Summer - The Durutti Column
  12. Cognitive Dissonance (Steven Wilson 2022 Mix) - Robert Fripp and the League of Gentlemen
  13. The Fatal Day - in Camera
  14. Health and Efficiency - This Heat
  15. Burning Car - John Foxx
  16. I Can't Escape Myself - The Sound
  17. The Eternal - Joy Division
  18. Big Empty Field - Swell Maps
  19. Enemies - Art Nouveau
  20. The Joy Circuit - Gary Numan
  21. The Gospel Comes to New Guinea - 23 Skidoo
  22. All My Colours - Echo and the Bunnymen
  23. Ghost Town (Extended Version) - The Specials
  24. They All Run After the Carving Knife - New Musik
  25. The Him - New Order
  26. White Car in Germany (Single Edit) - The Associates
  27. Sealand - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  28. Talking Drum - Japan
  29. Faith - The Cure
  30. Hit - Section 25
  31. Three Dancers (Steven Wilson 2021 Mix) - Twelfth Night
  32. Airwaves - Thomas Dolby
  33. Are You Ready? - Crispy Ambulance
  34. The Outsider - Rupert Hine
  35. Knife Slits Water - A Certain Ratio
  36. Memories Fade - Tears for Fears
  37. Patient - Peter Hammill
  38. In a Waiting Room - Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake
  39. Donimo - Cocteau Twins
  40. Close (To the Edit) - The Art of Noise
  41. Rawhide - Scott Walker
  42. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
  43. Dalis Car - Dalis Car
  44. Dream Within a Dream - Propaganda
  45. Waking the Witch - Kate Bush
  46. Ivy and Neet - This Mortal Coil
  47. Beehead (7" Version) - Perennial Divide
  48. This Corrosion - The Sisters of Mercy
  49. Ascension - O Yuki Conjugate
  50. Gutter Busting - Slab!
  51. No Motion - Dif Juz
  52. Murderers, the Hope of Women - Momus
  53. The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
  54. R.E.S. - Cardiacs
  55. Good Morning Beautiful - The The
  56. Omega Amigo - The Shamen
  57. Night Sky, Sweet Earth - No-Man
  58. The 3rd Time We Opened the Capsule - Kitchens of Distinction

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