Thompson Twins / Quick Step & Side Kick / neon yellow vinyl LP

Well, I really looking forward to this one… Vinyl 180 did a excellent job with the Dead Can Dance vinyl remasters back in 2008/09, so I expect they’ll do a similar good job on this one.

You always see their albums in charity shops dirt cheap.

I’m with Straker and Ralph, another release from TT, 80’s also rans…

I for one am very excited. If my memory serves me correctly there is only one other TT coloured vinyl release and that was back in 1982. In The Name Of Love 7″ pink vinyl from Germany/Netherlands. I already have my preferred colours for Into The Gap (the blue used for Joe’s hair in the logo) and for Here’s To Future Days (red used for Tom’s hair). I wonder if there are plans for the last 3 albums to also be released?

Like a lot of us TT Fans I have a list of things I would love to see happen. Into The Gap Live on DVD, all the 7″ mixes remastered, video DVD and any HTFD pre Nile Rogers recordings released. I think we have had our lot from the Warner years as a lot of it has been released digitally.

I loved this album when it came out and still do. I am not really sure how I came to buy it, but it was the right sounds at the right time. I am not so sure I need either the new copy or the even newer one next year, as I still have my vinyl in very good condition and the recent CD box from a couple of years back. That said, I really don’t think yellow is the color I would have chosen.

I am still waiting for a “Singles Collection” with all their original 7″ mixes in chronological order.

@Dennis – I hear your lament. Whilst there’s only ever been one real video compilation (Single Vision – release on VHS/BETA/LD), there never was a follow up one that encompassed all from Side Kicks all the way to Queer. You really have to hunt down the videos for albums that came after Here’s To Future Days (Ooo, what I wouldn’t give to hear a Nile Rodgers free version of that album!) – not only that, but there are varying versions of videos that were done of some videos between Side Kicks and Queer. The problem mainly lies with different labels the TT were involved with, so I think the prevents a real comprehensive collection. Anyways, I digress.

I’m a TT collector, so whatever gets released I’ll buy.

I don’ care, I’m getting both! :-)

Step & Side Kick has been reissued a couple of times on CD as remastered and expanded twice (1 CD edition in 2004, 2xCD edition in 2008), but there is a fan base out there that will happily buy this item. It’s no different than, say, when Record Store Day comes around twice a year. There’s stuff that gets re-released on vinyl (either colored or regular black) and I suppose you could say the same thing – who’s it aimed at? It’s aimed at the collector. Also, in noticing the release date for this item, it is getting released around the time of Black Friday here in the U.S., so perhaps this item is part of that event perhaps?

Unbelievable, another reissue + still no company can collect all promo videos and release them as dvd…

I really hope there will be a deluxe box for Into the Gap

As nice as this is, isn’t it a bit of an “own-goal” for Weatherbox to announce this and then say they’re releasing it again as a 2LP deluxe edition next year?

I’ve quite liked their Ultravox releases such as Vienna, Monument and Quartet.

As much as this would be a “nice-to-have”, I may well just wait to see what the double album offers.

They must have a loyal fan base. I had the cassette version and then the double CD set so I guess you would class me as a fan.

When I think of all the amazing music that remains out of print and only available to dedicated crate-diggers and then I see the Thompson Twins getting yet another unasked for re-release, I could weep. Who’s this aimed at? Who wouldn’t already have this on one format or another that already wants it?