The House of Love - The House of Love [5CD] (CD Box Set)

The House of Love [5CD]
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The House of Love were one of the most successful and critically acclaimed bands to grace Creation Records back in the late 1980s. Their eponymous debut album, which was cited as one of the best of 1988 by music magazines and indie fans alike, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year!

Expanding on 2012'€™s 3CD version, this super deluxe edition offers the band'€™s complete Creation recordings from 1987-1988, together with a raft of rarities and previously unissued bonus material. It also boasts all their Creation Records singles, from the original versions of Shine On, Real Animal and Christine to their final single for the label, Destroy the Heart.

For the first time, the album is remastered from the original quarter-inch tapes. Discs two and three combine all their non-album tracks with numerous House of Love demos and early mixes, many of which were never released, Disc four soaks up the various BBC radio sessions for John Peel while Disc five combines mostly unissued live tracks from various shows.

This 5CD package is housed in a stylish hardback book set with fresh sleeve-notes from NME journalist Neil Taylor (with interview quotes from lead singer/guitarist Guy Chadwick and original bassist Chris Groothuizen) and rare images from the band'€™s photographer Suzie Gibbons.

- 5CD
Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Christine
2. Hope
3. Road
4. Sulphur
5. Man To Child
6. Salome
7. Love In A Car
8. Happy
9. Fisherman's Tale
10. Touch Me
11. Shine On (Demo)
12. Christine (Demo)

CD 2:
1. Shine On
2. Love
3. Flow
4. Real Animal
5. Plastic
6. Nothing To Me
7. The Hill
8. Loneliness Is A Gun
9. The Hedonist
10. Welt
11. Destroy The Heart
12. Blind
13. Mr. Jo
14. Shine On (Guy Chadwick Demo)
15. Real Animal (Demo)
16. Touch Me (Demo)
17. Happy (Demo)
18. Road (Early Mix)
19. Salome (Early Mix)
20. Fisherman's Tale (Early Mix)
21. Destroy The Heart (Demo)
22. Shine On (Fuck Version) (Flexidisc)

CD 3:
1. Road (Longer Early Mix)
2. Sulphur (Early Mix)
3. Happy (Early Mix)
4. Fisherman'€™s Tale (Early Mix)
5. Touch Me (Early Mix)
6. Salome (Early Mix)
7. Shine On (Band Demo)
8. Real Animal (16 Track Demo)
9. Christine (16 Track Demo)
10. Hold On Me (16 Track Demo)
11. Hope (Early Mix)
12. Man To Child (Early Mix)
13. Love In A Car (Early Mix)
14. Modern World (Welt) (Demo)
15. Little Girl (Mr Jo) (Early Mix)
16. Sulphur (Early Mix)
17. Happy (Early Mix)
18. Touch Me (Early Mix)
19. Shine On (Early Mix)
20. Real Animal (Early Mix)
21. Destroy The Heart (Early Version -€“ No Guitar)

CD 4:
1. Destroy The Heart
2. Nothing To Me
3. Plastic
4. Blind
5. The Hedonist
6. Don't Turn Blue
7. Safe
8. Love In A Car
9. In A Room
10. The Beatles And The Stones
11. Christine
12. Loneliness Is A Gun

CD 5:
1. Christine (Live: Vredenburg, Utrecht, Holland)
2. Man To Child (Live: Vredenburg, Utrecht, Holland)
3. Road (Live: Vredenburg, Utrecht, Holland)
4. Shine On (Live: Vredenburg, Utrecht, Holland)
5. Plastic (Live: Groningen, Holland)
6. Sulphur (Live: Groningen, Holland)
7. Touch Me (Live: Groningen, Holland)
8. Nothing To Me (Live: Groningen, Holland)
9. I Don'€™t Know Why I Love You But I Do (Live: Groningen, Holland)
10. Never (Live: Top Rank, Brighton)
11. Se Dest (Live: Top Rank, Brighton)
12. The Hedonist (Live: Top Rank, Brighton)
13. Soft As Fire (Live: Top Rank, Brighton)
14. Fisherman'€™s Tale (Live: La Cigale, Paris, France)
15. Happy (Live: La Cigale, Paris, France)
16. Love In A Car (Live: La Cigale, Paris, France)
17. Destroy The Heart (Live: La Cigale, Paris, France)

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