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1981-2011 [Box set]

B.E.F. , B. E. F. Audio CD
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Product details

  • Audio CD (10 Oct 2011)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Virgin Catalogue
  • ASIN: B005L12SJ4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 57,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Ball Of Confusion (Remix)Tina Turner 4:12£0.89
Listen  2. The Secret Life Of ArabiaB.E.F. Featuring Billy MacKenzie 3:59£0.89
Listen  3. There's A Ghost In My HousePaul Jones 2:57£0.89
Listen  4. These Boots Are Made For WalkingPaula Yates 2:49£0.89
Listen  5. Suspicious MindsGary Glitter 3:53£0.89
Listen  6. You Keep Me Hanging OnB.E.F. 2:46£0.89
Listen  7. Wichita LinemanGlen Gregory 4:20£0.89
Listen  8. Anyone Who Had A HeartB.E.F. & Sandie Shaw 3:10£0.89
Listen  9. Perfect DayGlen Gregory 4:08£0.89
Listen10. It's OverB.E.F. 2:43£0.89
Listen11. Ball Of Confusion (Backing Track)Tina Turner 3:45£0.89
Listen12. The Secret Life Of Arabia (Backing Track)B.E.F. Featuring Billy MacKenzie 7:06£0.89
Listen13. There's A Ghost In My House (Backing Track)Paul Jones 2:56£0.89
Listen14. These Boots Are Made For Walking (Backing Track)Paula Yates 2:46£0.89
Listen15. You Keep Me Hanging On (Backing Track)B.E.F. 2:44£0.89
Listen16. Anyone Who Had A Heart (Backing Track)B.E.F. & Sandie Shaw 3:20£0.89
Listen17. It's Over (Orchestra Mix)B.E.F. 2:41£0.89


Disc 2:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Someday We'll All Be FreeB.E.F. Featuring Chaka Khan 4:02£0.89
Listen  2. Family AffairB.E.F. Featuring Lalah Hathaway 4:05£0.89
Listen  3. Early In The MorningB.E.F. Featuring Richard Darbyshire 4:59£0.89
Listen  4. FreeB.E.F. Featuring Billy MacKenzie 4:52£0.89
Listen  5. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)B.E.F. Featuring Terence Trent D'Arby 3:42£0.89
Listen  6. I Want YouB.E.F. Featuring Tashan 6:40£0.89
Listen  7. A Song For YouB.E.F. Featuring Mavis Staples 4:45£0.89
Listen  8. Try A Little TendernessB.E.F. Featuring Billy Preston 4:28£0.89
Listen  9. I Don't Know Why I Love You (Extended)B.E.F. Featuring Green Gartside 4:09£0.89
Listen10. A Change Is Gonna ComeB.E.F. Featuring Tina Turner 4:45£0.89
Listen11. Feel Like Makin' LoveB.E.F. Featuring Ghida De Palma 4:18£0.89
Listen12. In My LifeB.E.F. 3:24£0.89
Listen13. In My Life (Drums And Vox)B.E.F. 3:25£0.89
Listen14. In My Life (Acapella)B.E.F. 3:04£0.89
Listen15. Family Affair (Acapella)B.E.F. Featuring Lalah Hathaway 3:25£0.89
Listen16. I Want You (Alternative Introduction)B.E.F. Featuring Tashan 6:59£0.89
Listen17. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) [Instrumental]B.E.F. Featuring Terence Trent D'Arby 3:41£0.89
Listen18. I Don't Know Why I Love You (Original Version)B.E.F. Featuring Green Gartside 3:50£0.89


Disc 3:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Optimum ChantB.E.F. 4:12£0.89
Listen  2. Uptown ApocalypseB.E.F. 3:10£0.89
Listen  3. Wipe The Board CleanB.E.F. 3:47£0.89
Listen  4. Groove ThangB.E.F. 4:06£0.89
Listen  5. Music To Kill Your Parents ByB.E.F. 1:26£0.89
Listen  6. The Old At RestB.E.F. 5:39£0.89
Listen  7. Rise Of The EastB.E.F. 2:52£0.89
Listen  8. Decline Of The WestB.E.F. 3:04£0.89
Listen  9. A Baby Called BillyB.E.F. 4:02£0.89
Listen10. Honeymoon In New YorkB.E.F. 2:14£0.89
Listen11. B.E.F. IdentB.E.F.0:36£0.89
Listen12. Trade Winds (Work-In-Progress Mix)B.E.F. Featuring Mavis Staples 5:10£0.89
Listen13. Co-Pilot To Pilot (Work-In-Progress Mix)B.E.F. Featuring Kelly Barnes 4:08£0.89
Listen14. Smalltown Boy (Work-In-Progress Mix)B.E.F. Featuring Billie Godfrey 7:36£0.89


Product Description

CD Description

'B.E.F: 1981-2011' (Special Edition) celebrates 30 years of British Electric Foundation, the brainchild of Martyn Ware, Craig Marsh and Glenn Gregory, more commonly known as Heaven 17.

This 30th anniversary 3 disc collection consists of:
CD1 - 'Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One'. Including - Tina Turner's cover of The Temptations 'Ball of Confusion', plus covers by Paula Yates, Billy Mackenzie, Paul Jones, Glenn Gregory and Sandie Shaw. Completed with seven bonus tracks.

CD2 - 'Music of Quality and Distinction Volume Two'. 1991's follow up to 'Volume One' features: Tina Turner 'A Change Is Gonna Come', Billy Mackenzie 'Free', Lalah Hathaway 'Family Affair', Green Gartside's (Scritti Politti) 'I Don't Know Why I Love You'. CD2 also features six previously unreleased versions of; 'In My Life', 'Family Affair', 'I Want You', 'It's Alright' and 'I Don't Know Why I Love You'.

CD3 - Music From Stowaways To Dark. Includes for the first time on CD 'Music For Stowaways', B.E.F.'s first release, previously released on cassette only 31 March 1981. Plus previously unreleased outtakes and a new track from the forthcoming 'Music of Quality and Distinction Volume 3: Dark' release. Packaged in a lift-top lid box with a poster + 5 postcards.


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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
BEF Box Good in Parts 24 Oct 2011
Format:Audio CD
A nice package comprising the two Music of Quality Albums, plus bonus tracks mainly instrumentals, plus Music for Stowaways and a preview of the next album 'Dark'. Also includes facsimiles of the single covers plus a nice poster. Although a big Heaven 17 fan I had not previously heard much of this material an I was pleasantly surprised by the majority of this collection. Volume 1 is the stand out set as it presents a variety of music given the 'electronic' treatment. Ball of Confusion, There's a Ghost in my house and Wichita Lineman are the highlights. Volume 2 is too 'soulful' for my liking as it is not personally my favourite genre of music. However, you would have to be very hard hearted not to be moved by the Green Gartside version of I don't know why I love you but I do.

I was looking forward to the Music for Stowaways album the most, some of the instrumentals are of their time and could be regarded as simplistic and repetitive now. Decline of the West and Honeymoon in New York are classics, but I was shocked by the very crude edit of Decline of the West - how did that make it on to the final release? Disappointing - although it is available in its full glory on the remastered Penthouse and Pavement. 'Smalltown Boy' plus the new material featured in the recent Roundhouse Gigs suggest that the new album might be worth checking out when it is released in Spring 2012.

Overall a bit of a mixed bag -excellent packaging, some stand out tracks, but the 'Decline' edit is inexcusable.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Right, I have just received this box set and admit I only really purchased it to get my hands on a remastered version of the seminal Music For Stowaways. Well I never would have guessed it... What do I discover upon playing the CD back? Only that Decline Of The West one of the best tracks from Music For Stowaways has been cut! Extraordinarily badly cut I might add, and quite unnecessarily in my view. Why has this been done? Well I can only assume it was for reasons of space, so that an extra track could be tagged on to the end. But to spoil an album like this so that you can include a seven minute demo taster for the next B.E.F. release - Music Of Quality and Distinction Vol 3 is really ham fisted and cheap. You either value the material you are releasing or you don't. If you don't then why, as in this case, bother re-issuing it at all?

When you consider the time and effort put in to the earlier excellent Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17 release, to discover this sloppy lazy editing is really annoying. I can't believe Martyn Ware sanctioned this?! It's not even as if this version has been done with any thought or care - the music just starts half way through with absolutely no regard for the original dynamics of the track.

I know that the full version of Decline Of The West is available on the reissue of Penthouse and Pavement and I'm assuming that was why it was considered okay to cut it here, but really this is surely not the point. An album like Music For Stowaways should be respected as the pioneering electronic work it so surely is, not ruined to make room for a demo!!! This is not good enough I'm afraid and completely at odds with the quality one used to expect from a B.E.F.release.

I'm sure there are other fans out there who, like me, have been waiting for Music For Stowaways on CD for a long time. Now when it finally gets an official release we are given this tossed off version seemingly with the approval of one of its originators. A begrudging two stars but only because I now have Glenn Gregory's rendition of Wichita Lineman on CD for the first time.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
First class 20 Nov 2011
By Andyowl
Format:MP3 Download
The British Electric Foundation at it's finest.If your in to early Heaven 17 this is for you. Really well produced.
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