Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven

[omar]

Out in July by Sony this will be a 10 cd singles boxset. No links as yet but I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of publicity in the next week or two...


Tracklist :

CD1

Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Club Mix]
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Social Mix]
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Unsocial Mix]
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Special US Remix]
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Special Club Remix]


CD2

Young Guns (Go for It!)
Go for It!
Young Guns (Go for It!) [12" Mix]


CD3

Bad Boys
Bad Boys (Instrumental)


CD4

Club Tropicana
Blue (Armed with Love)
Club Tropicana (Instrumental)


CD5

Club Fantastic Megamix
A Ray of Sunshine (Instrumental Remix)


CD6

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Instrumental)


CD7

Freedom
Freedom (Instrumental)
Freedom (Long Mix)


CD8

Last Christmas (Single Version)
Everything She Wants
Last Christmas (Pudding Mix)
Everything She Wants (Remix)


CD9

I'm Your Man
Do It Right (Instrumental)
I'm Your Man (Extended Stimulation)
I'm Your Man (Acappella)


CD 10

The Edge Of Heaven
Wham! Rap '86
Battlestations
Where Did Your Heart Go?

Some obvious omissions:

1. Bad Boys (12" Mix)
2. Young Guns (US Club Mix)
3. Club Fantastic Megamix (Edit)
4. Careless Whisper (George Michael solo but often associated with Wham)
5. A Ray Of Sunshine (Recorded For The Tube, 1984)
6. Last Christmas (Alternate Mix)
7. Where Did Your Heart Go? (Edit)

Let's see if the tracklist is updated or not?

[xymox970]

Cant imagine this would be the final tracklisting.

These omissions are frankly shocking.

[omar]

Superdeluxeedition has it listed in various formats including the 10 CD set, a single CD (which collects all the 7" A sides plus a few extra remixes), vinyl (individual 7" singles etc). But no updated tracklist. So pretty much what is posted is what we'll get.

[ZippY]

Young Guns (Go For It) (Special US Re-Mix) (6:43min.) and Going For It (5:10min.) are also absent.

[omar]

Young Guns (Go For It) (Special US Re-Mix) (6:43min.) and Going For It (5:10min.) are also absent.

I thought Young Guns (US Club Mix) and the (Special US Remix) were the same?

[ZippY]

Young Guns (Go For It) (Special US Re-Mix) (6:43min.) and Going For It (5:10min.) are also absent.

I thought Young Guns (US Club Mix) and the (Special US Remix) were the same?

You're right

[Sean]

Kind of bummed they didn't include a cd single for Careless Whisper.

[anfunny2003]

You can see the track lengths via the iTunes/Apple Music pre-order link;

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-si ... 1683588816

It clarifies a few things, like 'Young Guns (12" Mix)', which on the UK 12" vinyl A-side is 5:10. As the link gives the time as 6:56, it's obviously the USA 12" version. That's actually a good thing, as it's not been on CD previously, unlike the UK one. Similarly, there are two edits of the 'Club Fantastic Megamix', a 7" and 12", and as it's only the 3:57 showing here, they've left off the full 12" mix. They've left off quite a few things actually, like the Bad Boys 12", the live on The Tube B-side from the 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' 12", etc. Such a shame they didn't include all the original material from the original single packages - it wouldn't have taken much to include everything, there's so little as it is.

[omar]

Hold your horses if you're buying the 10cd boxset. CD 1 Wham Rap (Special US Remix) is actually Young Guns (US Club Mix). It's also on iTunes so you can preview it yourselves. Also Young Guns (UK 12") is missing and replaced by the US Club Mix according to iTunes.

[Sean]

Hold your horses if you're buying the 10cd boxset. CD 1 Wham Rap (Special US Remix) is actually Young Guns (US Club Mix). It's also on iTunes so you can preview it yourselves. Also Young Guns (UK 12") is missing and replaced by the US Club Mix according to iTunes.

Man, who does the quality control for these releases.

[budaniel]

Also missing is one of the two "long" mixes of Freedom. I think the one called long version runs about 7:10 and is the UK 12", and another called long mix runs about 6:20 and is the US extended version.

[eLeMeNOhPeaQ]

Is it alright if I leave this here?



In the US, it was billed as Wham! featuring George Michael.