Bill Nelson Quit Dreaming... 3CD/Blu-Ray

[BigManRestless]

From Cherry Red / Esoteric in November, I assume the same format as the Be Bop Deluxe / Sound On Sound reissues.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/bill-nelson ... xe-box-set

DISC ONE

QUIT DREAMING & GET ON THE BEAM THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX

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

DISC TWO

SINGLES & RADIO SESSIONS 1980 - 1981

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 1981)

17 After Life (radio session 1981)

18 Boom Year Ahead (radio session 1981)

19 Art of Vision (radio session 1981)

20 Rooms With Brittle Views (radio session 1981)

21 Stay Young (radio session 1981)

22 Sleep Cycle (radio session 1981)

Jazz (radio session 1981

DISC THREE

QUIT DREAMING & GET ON THE BEAM SESSIONS - NEW STEREO MIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER

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

Bonus tracks

14 The World and His Wife

15 Dancing Music

DISC FOUR

QUIT DREAMING & GET ON THE BEAM SESSIONS – HIGH RESOLUTION 5.1 SURROUND SOUND & NEW STEREO MIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER - 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

Bonus tracks

13 The World and His Wife

14 Dancing Music

[ABOATES]

Ordered! Thanks for the heads up. This is such a terrific album. I am excited to have the rare tracks on CD.

[Kilbey]

This news prompted me to re-listen to his 3 "new wave" albums "Quit Dreaming", "The Love That Whirls" and "Chimera". All albums are good, but different.
"Quit Dreaming" was released in 1981, but recorded in 1979 and initially it was intended to be a Red Noise album. It is the more rock sounding of the three, with evident punk influences. "Do You Dream In Colour?", however, is an electro-pop classic, very catchy, excellent production. "The Love" is more electronic, very much what you'd expect in 1981 (when it was recorded) from the group of artists such as Japan, YMO, John Foxx, i.e. art new wave electronic pop. "Chimera" has only 6 songs, but each one of them is a gem. All these albums have some very memorable tunes, very uptempo and, what I must say reluctantly, were recorded in the times when Bill Nelson could really sing.
It will be really interesing to hear the new mix of "Quit Dreaming", as the original mix is not very good in my opinion, with too narrow stereo to my taste. I really enjoyed the new mixes of some Barclay James Harvest albums which were made by Cherry Red for their deluxe editions a few years ago.
So I am looking forward to this reissue, though I have the 2005 remaster, the new mix appeals to me much more than the bonus tracks.