OMD / Junk Culture deluxe reissue

If they are looking to do Crush, I hope they include the film as a DVD, and mention that DJ Shadow took a sample from the album.

Can’t believe Andy and Paul would let it still go ahead. After all, it’s their music/legacy which is being messed around. Or does nobody actually know or care what they do anymore?

Yep, I just got the 2cd edition and the above mistakes are true unfortunately. “yay”

assuming the track mistakes are real,
i’ve canceled my order until it gets sorted out.
it’s also absolutely shameful and a disgusting oversight,
considering how much homework and careful detail
has gone in to the four previous remasters.
i’m speechless and befuddled!

Wrappup won’t be on this as they have made an error and repeated All Wrapped Up on the second disc and the extended version of Talking Loud And Clear has been edited down to 6 minutes cutting off nearly 3 minutes. It looks like the single edit of Tesla Girls will appear on the main album as well. The band have been made aware of these problems but the release is still going ahead.

Thing is, if they instead made full use of the first disc to stick on some extras (some artists – like ABC and Tears for Fears for example – did this with their 2CD deluxe editions) – then we would have been able to enjoy more goodies appended to the track listing: for example, after the regular 10-track album on CD1, track 11 could have been “The Angels Keep Turning…” as it was the initial free 7″ given with the parent LP… then maybe this could have been followed by either the Junk Culture demos or unreleased material, or, variously, the 12″ versions of the singles – whichever would have fitted on. Then of course CD2 could have had some of the additional [missing] Tesla Girls mixes as well as the live B-side tracks such as “Waiting For The Man” and “Telegraph” from “Never Turn Away” and “Tesla Girls” respectively….thus rounding everything up nicely. Ah well……such is life!

A re-issue with 160 minutes of space
should include all released versions – 7″ and 12″.
Especially if they only released in a limited number of countries
or promotional. ( “Tesla Girls” US remixes )
If then a few minutes are free on the second disc, this can
be filled with demo versions.
Re-issues are ( in my opinion ) for a collector’s.
I’m very disappointed about this release.
Not interested in buying this and supporting that kind of re-releases.
Universal should take a look about Donna Summer’s “Another Place And Time” 3 CD re-release. THIS is a perfect one!

i hope that they will do the same for CRUSH and PACIFIC AGE

For me this was the first disappointing album from OMD that started their second phase of more accessible, mainstream, and far less experimental material. I find the b-sides from Junk Culture, Crush, and The Pacific Age to be m0re interesting than the albums. Will get this set and hope the others are similarly remastered to get the b-sides on CD. Navigation could now be a triple CD to collect all the non-album, original songs. My interest in OMD was reinvigorated with History of Modern and especially English Electric which was one of my most-played albums of the last couple of years. A wonderful return to form.

Quite a nice little package indeed. Echoing previous comments, I certainly hope a deluxe treatment of Crush follows soon!

Ok I will put this more clearly: The group’s name, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, is misspelled on the cover! I hope that will fix that. What if they released The Beatles Deluxe CDs, and some youngster spelled it “The Beetles” on the front cover….?

This looks great. The last OMD album I’m really bothered about. I have the single disc expanded editions of the first four albums -it would be fantastic to have 2 disc deluxe editions of those. But for now, this will do fine.

What a shame they couldn’t have offered a surround sound version of these great songs, I can’t help but feel it would be amazing mixed in 5.0. Not to be I guess, but if it were, I would buy it. This is just the sort of album in my view that begging to opened up to hear more of the music in surround.

Like they noticed in another blog, how do they spell “Manoeuvres” on the front cover? I guess Collins/Cobuild were wrong along with all other dictionaries? Or, God forbid, did they really spell it wrong on this Deluxe Edition?

I think the delay(s) were due to OMD ensuring that they were happy with the release

Presumably if this sells ok then Crush will follow

Pacific Age would be great too

How many mixes of Tesla Girls are currently available on cd and where please?

Despite a few inevitable omissions still a very welcome package – some of the tracks from the vinyl singles finally making their CD debut has to be a good thing. Deluxe ‘Crush’ next, please….maybe with all the various 12″ mixes of ‘So In Love’ together at last?

Oh, and as an aside: fans of similarly warm-hearted electronica may be pleased to hear Blancmange finally have a new LP out next March, including a deluxe two-disc edition.

Bonus tracks are a nice mixture – glad to see some demos and unreleased songs. Could have lived without the b-sides that were released on ‘Navigation’ a few years back personally (same with some 12″ versions from the Blank+Jones release), but can obviously see why the include them.

Finally! I’d lived with my vinyl copy all this time, waiting on a nice remaster before I bought this on CD. Finally caved in and bought an 80s CD edition of this just a month ago. Gah. Still, looks good. I hope Crush follows soon.
The 12″ of Julia’s Song is on the ZTT The Art Of The 12” Vol 2 thing, if anyone’s interested. That weird longer edit of Never Turn Away from the picture disc 7″ would have been a nice addition here.

Having recently purchased the 12″ of Talking Loud and Clear which features Julia Song (extended) on the B-side I have to say it’s no great loss to CD2 – it’s pretty poor (the original is a great song).

Incidentally I wonder if OMD will do a 30th anniversary tour of Junk Culture. That’s something I would love to see…

I’m almost sure we finally get the regular extended version of Tesla Girls here. And it’s about time! The US mixes are pretty worthless in my opinion and the main remix (Specially Remixed Version) can be found on the Blank & Jones compilation.

Looks like we have to do without Julia’s Song (Extended Version) or the Re-Recorded Version would be that version. Anybody?

Great to have the B-sides and Never Turn Away (Extended Version) remastered on CD. Hope they were gentle on the compression. compress

I’m disappointed there’s only one remix of TESLA GIRLS, but otherwise this is very exciting!

2015… Expected better. Will probably give it a miss would prefer missing tracks especially more mixes of Tesla only blank space…

This looks nice — I’d love to see a few more rare tracks on there of course, but this is a pretty good selection.

Preordered this when I first heard about it at the start of November. The original release date was December this year and so far it has been put back three times.
Here’s hoping that this release date is real.

Junk Culture is my favourite mid-period OMD album and some of the b-sides are superb (e.g. Her Body in My Soul/The Angels Keep Turning…). Really glad it is getting the deluxe treatment. Hearing some unreleased tracks will be a real bonus too.
Has the material been remastered?

I also hope the 12″ mix of Tesla Girls is the standard UK 12″ remix and not one of those disappointing mixes that appeared on the US 12″ and on the limited version of the UK 12″.

The two unreleased songs from the 2nd CD sound interesting and with the B-sides and extended mixes makes this look like a really good package.

There are a few extra versions and live tracks that could have gone on here to make it complete, but just on a basic level, the live version of Waiting for the Man should have gone on here to round out the regular 12″ tracks.

I think Universal have set out their template for these, with only the original album on CD1 regardless of length and remaining disc space, and then a bunch of extra material on CD2. God knows it’s a Shame (sic), because the first disc must have room for several 7″ mixes and/or B-sides. Then the second CD could go to town with demos, remixes and whatever else they fancy.

But I will still be definitely buying this one.

Some 7″ edits (Talking Loud and Clear anyway) would be good – instead of the demos.

Looking really good. I just hope the extended mix of Tesla Girls isn’t the same version as on the So 80’S compilation. Also Tesla Girls is the only single with various versions , I was kind of hoping we got more versions of this track on the re-issue. Otherwise as good as can get.