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Merciful Release 3CD Box - Rhino compilation box of their 2006 re-releases

Discription

41-track digitally remastered 3-CD album set from the Kings of 1980s Goth, comprising the albums First and Last and Always, Floodland & Vision Thing, featuring 16 Bonus Recordings including alternative, extended and live versions (2 of which are previously unreleased); each disc is presented in a digipak sleeve, with the set housed in a stickered & sealed card slipcase.

Release Notes

• Label: Rhino Records
• Catalogue#: 5101-19186-2
• Format: 3CD Compilation Box
• Released: 2007 (UK)

Remarks

• Issued as a remastered re-release, each disc of this box set

has its own catalogue numberand is sold separately as well.

• First And Last And Always: 5101-17579-2
• Floodland: 5101-17580-2
• Vision Thing: 5101-17582-2

• The discs each come in a fold-out digipack including a booklet

of 16 pages (First And Last And Always) or 20 pages (Floodland and Vision Thing)

with an according piece of band history and release information, photos

and lyrics - (no lyrics, though, with First And Last And Always).

Sources

• All bonus tracks are taken from the singles accompanying the original album releases
• Except for 1-16 / Some Kind Of Stranger (Early) and 2-11 / Never Land (full length) which were previously unreleased.
• The mixes of the First And Last And Always album are those of the original vinyl release and for the first time available here in CD-format.

NOTE:
Even though this is some sort of "official release", it is only a matter of record company sales.
Andrew Eldritch or The Sisters of Mercy had no involvement in the remastering process or in these releases.
They were, in fact, not even consulted.

Track Lists

First And Last And Always

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• 1-1    Black Planet
• 1-2    Walk Away
• 1-3    No Time To Cry
• 1-4    A Rock And A Hard Place
• 1-5    Marian
• 1-6    First And Last And Always
• 1-7    Possession
• 1-8    Nine While Nine
• 1-9    Amphetamine Logic
• 1-10  Some Kind Of Stranger

Bonus Tracks

• 1-11  Poison Door
• 1-12  On The Wire
• 1-13  Blood Money
• 1-14  Bury Me Deep
• 1-15  Long Train
• 1-16  Some Kind Of Stranger (Early)

Floodland

• 2-1    Dominion/Mother Russia
• 2-2    Flood I
• 2-3    Lucretia, My Reflection
• 2-4    1959
• 2-5    This Corrosion
• 2-6    Flood II
• 2-7    Driven Like The Snow
• 2-8    Never Land (a fragment)

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Bonus Tracks

• 2-9    Torch
• 2-10  Colours
• 2-11  Never Land (full length)
• 2-12  Emma

Vision Thing

• 3-1    Vision Thing
• 3-2    Ribbons
• 3-3    Detonation Boulevard
• 3-4    Something Fast
• 3-5    When You Don't See Me
• 3-6    Doctor Jeep
• 3-7    More
• 3-8    I Was Wrong

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Bonus Tracks

• 3-9    You Could Be The One
• 3-10  When You Don't See Me (Remix)
• 3-11  Doctor Jeep (Extended Version)
• 3-12  Ribbons (Live)
• 3-13  Something Fast (Live)