Bill Nelson - Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam [3CD / BLU-RAY] (CD Box Set)

The album was originally recorded in 1979, with sessions taking place for an intended follow-up album by Bill's recently formed group Red Noise. However, EMI Records, Bill's then record label, declined to release the recordings and the material remained unreleased. Four recordings appeared as the Do You Dream in Colour EP on his Cocteau label in 1980. The following year Bill licensed the original stereo mixes of the album to Mercury Records who issued the album in the Spring of 1981. A groundbreaking record, Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam reached a peak of #7 on the UK charts and is to date Bill's most commercially successful album.

This limited and expanded edition boxed set features a newly remastered version of the original album mix, but also features an additional 53 tracks drawn from new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes by Stephen W Tayler of all the surviving recording sessions from 1979, along with a previously unreleased radio session from March 1981, a BBC John Peel session from June 1981 and a collection of rare single tracks from the era. Also included is the rare promotional film of Do You Dream in Colour?

The box set has an illustrated 68-page book and an essay and also includes postcards and a poster, making this release the definitive statement on one of Bill Nelson's great works.

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Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Banal
2. Living in My Limousine
3. Vertical Games
4. Disposable
5. False Alarms
6. Decline and Fall
7. White Sound
8. Life Runs Out Like Sand
9. A Kind of Loving
10. Do You Dream in Colour
11. U.H.F.
12. Youth of Nation on Fire
13. Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam

CD 2:
1. Ideal Homes (Original Single Mix)
2. Instantly Yours (Original Single Mix)
3. Atom Man Loves Radium Girl
4. Dada Guitare
5. Banal (Extended Mix)
6. Turn to Fiction
7. Hers is a Lush Situation
8. Mr. Magnetism Himself
9. Youth of Nation on Fire (Extended Mix)
10. Be My Dynamo
11. Rooms With Brittle Views
12. All My Wives Were Iron
13. Living in My Limousine (Remix)
14. Birds of Tin
15. Love in the Abstract
16. Konny Buys a Kodak (Radio Session)
17. After Life (Radio Session)
18. Boom Year Ahead (Radio Session)
19. Art of Vision (Radio Session )
20. Rooms With Brittle Views (Radio Session)
21. Stay Young (Radio Session)
22. Sleep Cycle (Radio Session)
23. Jazz (Radio Session)

CD 3:
1. Banal
2. Living in My Limousine
3. Vertical Games
4. Disposable
5. False Alarms
6. Decline and Fall
7. White Sound
8. Life Runs Out Like Sand
9. A Kind of Loving
10. Do You Dream in Colour
11. U.H.F.
12. Youth of Nation on Fire
13. Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
14. The World and His Wife (Bonus Track)
15. Dancing Music (Bonus Track)

BLU-RAY:
1. Banal
2. Living in My Limousine
3. Vertical Games
4. Disposable
5. False Alarms
6. Decline and Fall
7. White Sound
8. Life Runs Out Like Sand
9. A Kind of Loving Do You Dream in Colour
10. U.H.F.
11. Youth of Nation on Fire
12. Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
13. The World and His Wife (Bonus Track)
14. Dancing Music (Bonus Track)