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Titanic Days [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Kirsty MacColl Audio CD
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Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer-songwriter.

MacColl scored several pop hits from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. During this era, she often sang on recordings produced by her husband Steve Lillywhite, notably those of The Smiths and the song "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues.

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  • Audio CD (8 Oct 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Salvo
  • ASIN: B008YE9DWU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 22,350 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. You Know It's You
2. Soho Square
3. Angel
4. Last Day of Summer
5. Bad
6. Can't Stop Killing You
7. Titanic Days
8. Don't Go Home
9. Big Boy On A Saturday Night
10. I Just Woke Up
See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Angel (Piano mix)
2. Angel (Single Mix)
3. Angel (Apollo 440 Remix)
4. Angel (Stuart Crichton Remix)
5. Angel (Into the Light Mix)
6. Angel ( Mysterious Mix) (previously unreleased)
7. Tread Lightly (Live at the Fleadh Festival, 1995)
8. Caroline (Live at the Fleadh Festival, 1995)
9. They Don t Know (Live at the Fleadh Festival, 1995)
10. Innocence (Live at the Fleadh Festival, 1995)
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Kirsty pulled yet another album from the top drawer with Titanic Days in late 1993. Superbly arranged with typically sharp lyrics and classy melodies, it yielded the beautiful single Angel, which received plenty of remixes (added here as bonus tracks), including a recently unearthed 'Mysterious' mix; while Soho Square has become something of an anthem with her fans. 'I always thought it should have been a single," said Mark Nevin. 'Every time I am in Soho Square and I see Kirsty's bench there, I feel very proud to have written that song with her.' Mostly recorded in her home studio with regular co-conspirator Nevin and then picked up for release by ZTT, Titanic Days is certainly darker (her 'sad divorce album', as Kirsty put it) but no less enjoyable than any of her previous long players. The loneliness and emotional distress in the lyrics, the bitter pills, are all wrapped in beautiful, lushly euphoric arrangements and relentlessly catchy hooks. A firm favourite with her fans, Titanic Days was obviously made with great care and attention and generously rewards those that pay close attention to it. 'MacColl emerges from behind the wit and wordplay with a new emotional directness,' concluded Q magazine. In turn Pause & Play found it to be her best album to date: 'in a way, her own Pet Sounds.'

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2CD set newly remastered incl lots of rare bonus tracks and nice booklet with extensive new sleeve notes

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kirsty's classic album 28 Aug 2005
Format:Audio CD
The re-release of Titanic Days in 2005, some 10 years after its original appearance, is an absolute delight. The album originally appeared on IRS in late 1993 in America only. A UK release followed in Spring 2004, but a combination of very poor promotion and the usual stupidity of Radio One programmers drowned the album at birth. It was a criminal loss. This album is an absolute classic. Kirsty later described it as her "sad divorce album". Written with ex Fairground Attraction legend Mark E. Nevin, the album chronicles Kirsty at a low ebb as her marriage to Steve Lillywhite fell apart. But it's not a depressing album. There is anger, frustration (The marvellous opening line - "I want to shake up this world and not to feel so useless"), melancholy, sadness (Soho Square - her best song?), anger (the title track) but also humour ("I want a brief encounter in a stolen car/a hand on my buttock in a Spanish bar). There is an attractive dance sensibility to the penultimate song "Just woke up". This is not the story of someone getting out of bed in the morning. This is the realisation that you are in an impossible situation, which reaches its peak in the extraordinary closing track "Tomorrow never comes". The beginning sounds like a requiem. "Let my tears dry/in the light of a setting sun" sings Kirsty, which more or less describes how she spent some time in subsequent years escaping the British winter by travelling to Cuba. ZTT have more than redeemed themselves with this re-release. The second CD features Kirsty's "Dear John" letter to Steve Lillywhite. At the time it was thought to be too close to the bone and given to Eddi Reader. It was nominated for an Ivor Novello award as the best song musically and lyrically. It should have won. There are also unreleased songs such as "King Kong", and those long impossible to find unless you are in Australia B sides "Touch me" and "Fabulous Garden", which is worth the price of the album if only for the strength of its lyric - "and if I gave you an inch for every time I was hurt/I'd be pushing up daisies six feet under the dirt/and if you gave me a flower for every broken vow/we'd have a fabulous garden by now".
Kirsty wrote so many great pop songs, but this is her most coherent album. Buy the greatest hits, revel in the joy of the "From Croydon to Cuba" anthology, but if you want that rare gem - an album you will listen to and love day in day out for years - you must buy "Titanic Days".
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful 18 Dec 2006
Format:Audio CD
I wish I could describe in words just how beautiful this album is, but I just cannot find the adjectives! Just to know that Kirsty once walked on this planet makes me feel wanted. Kirsty is often compared to other female artists but to me she is up there with the great writers like Willy Russell, John Betjeman, Carol Ann Duffy, Jennifer Donnelly and Philip Larkin. She was a poet who put her words to music and this music is real. Many of the tracks are all by Kirsty but the ones that are not are co-written with the astonishingly talented Mark Nevin who I've had the privelage to recieve two e-mails from. This is a unique, unusual, witty and deeply moving piece of art from one of the greatest person to ever walk the planet.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars By Far Kirsty's Best Album 30 Jun 2008
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I bought this back when it was released in the mid nighties and am still listening to it today (2008)!!
The quality of the music and lyrics on this album are quite simply breathtaking and never seem to date, all the ingredients of a TRUE classic.
My only regret is that I never made the effort to go see her live back then.

If you only ever buy one Kirsty CD, or in fact if you only ever buy one CD at all by anyone, then make it this one! You will not regret it!
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