The The - Matt Johnson and others, 1980-1995, B-sides + Pornography Of Despair + compilation tracks, 66:13 + 61:08
Disc 1
1. Nature of Virtue (first version) POD vinyl b side low recording of cassette of vinyl
2. Nature of Virtue (second version) Infected sessions?) good rip or CD
3. Leap Into The Wind POD vinyl POD b side low recording of cass of vinyl
4. Mental Healing Process (For A Mixed Up Kid) POD b side good rip or CD
5. Absolute Liberation POD b side good rip of CD
6. Uncertain Smile (12 inch extended remix version) 10:03 REDO
7. Perfect (early version) 9:55 maybe POD
8. Three Orange Kisses From Kazan POD b side good rip or CD
9. Fruit Of The Heart sounds like Infected session? b side good rip or CD
10. Soup Of Mixed Emotions POD instrumental
11. The Sinking Feeling (version 1) POD 4:08
12. Waiting For The Upturn POD b side good rip or CD
13. dumb as death's head POD (vinyl flexi disc rip)
1: Perfect, 7", Epic EPC A3119, 02.83, UK / 2: Perfect, 12", Epic EPC A13 3119, 02.83, UK / 3-5: This Is The Day, 2x7", Epic EPC A3710, 10.83, UK / 6: Uncertain Smile, 12", Epic EPC A13 2787, 10.82, UK / 7: Perfect, 12", Epic EPC A13 3119, 02.83, UK / 8: Uncertain Smile, 7", Epic EPC A2787, 10.82, UK / 9-10: Perfect, bonus 7" with first edition of Soul Mining (Epic EPC 25525, 10.83, UK), XPR 1250 / 11: Infected, Epic TRUTH D3, 2x12", 11.86, UK / 12: Uncertain Smile, 12", Epic EPC A13 2787, 10.82, UK / 13: Melody Maker, flexidisc, 09.83, UK
Disc 2
1. Black And White
2. Controversial Subject
3. Cold Spell Ahead
4. Hot Ice
5. Born In The New S.A. REDO
6. Flesh And Bones REDO
7. Harbour Lights CD
8. Sleeping Juice CD
9. Disturbed CD
10. Angel instrumental REDO
11. Scenes From Arctic Twilight CD
12. Lip Tripping CASSETTE RIP BAD
13. Untitled
14. What Stanley Saw
15. Darkness Falls CD
16. lung shadows added to compilation
1-2: Controversial Subject, 7", 4AD AD 10, 08.80, UK / 3-4: Cold Spell Ahead, 7", Some Bizarre BZS 4, 09.81, UK / 5-6: Heartland, 7", Epic TRUTH T2, 07.86, UK / 7-8: Sweet Bird Of Truth, 12", Epic TRUTH 1, 12", 05.86, UK / 9: Infected, Epic TRUTH 3, 7", 10.86, UK / 10: The Beat(en) Generation, 7" Epic EMU 8, 03.89, UK / 11: Slow Emotion Replay, CDS, Epic 659077 5, 04.93, UK / 12: Volume 6, CD compilation, World's End Limited/Total Record Company 6VCD6, 04.93, UK / 13: Some Bizarre Album, LP compilation, Some Bizarre BZLP 1, 02.81, UK / 14: Perspectives and Distortion, LP compilation. Cherry Red BRED 15, 81, Europe / 15: Judge Dredd soundtrack, CD compilation, Sony, 95, US
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The Pornography Of Despair (1982)
Pornography Shadows
-- ingsoc
-- interzone23
-- rappard
-- http://www.thethe.com/sections/utilities/discography.html
THE PORNOGRAPHY OF DESPAIR (1982)
I realise much confusion surrounds this album. This stems from the fact there were at least two, and sometimes numerous, versions recorded of most of it's songs, including 'Perfect/Screw Up Your Feelings', 'Uncertain Smile/Cold Spell Ahead', 'Mental Healing Process (for a mixed up kid)', 'Waiting For The Upturn', 'The Sinking Feeling', 'The Nature Of Virtue' amongst others. I began writing 'P.O.D.' even before I'd finished recording 'Burning Blue Soul'. The deal with Ivo and 4AD was a one off album deal and as I was not yet signed to either Some Bizzare or CBS/Epic I had to beg, steal and borrow studio time wherever I could find it. The original 'P.O.D.' had far more in common with 'Burning Blue Soul' than with the subsequent 'Soul Mining'. Although I did manage to finish off the original album under my own steam it was never fully mixed as by that point I became involved with Some Bizzare and CBS/Epic. Stevo, my manager at the time, really liked the rough mixes he heard but along with the CBS/Epic A&R department felt that I should re-record them in a more commercial vein. This I did, editing, re-writing sections, speeding up some songs, slowing down others etc. but I was never entirely happy with the results as they seemed neither as experimental as the earlier versions or even particularly commercial to my ears. I decided that they should just be used as b-sides while I began work on yet another, more commercial, album 'Soul Mining'. But the question I am continually asked of course is if/when 'The Pornography of Despair' will finally be released. The problem is not legal here but purely technical because although I fully own the copyright of the original album, as with 'Spirits' there is the slight problem of locating some missing tapes before digitising them and then mixing the album. I have literally hundreds of reels of magnetic tape in old cardboard boxes in storage. Most unmarked! I am the only person who can listen and decide what to keep and what to throw. The other problem is that magnetic tape of a certain era sheds it's oxide very badly so you have to actually bake it overnight in special ovens at low temperature in order to be able play it without destroying either the tape itself or completely gumming up the guides and heads of the analogue tape machine. Even after this process they are only playable for a number of weeks before turning mushy again. So, the truth is that in order for me to release both these albums as I would like them to be released, i.e. with all of the songs present and correct and fully mixed, it will involve a very expensive and time consuming, not to say tedious, process. But hopefully some day, yes.
++ http://www.connollyco.com/discography/the_the/index.html
1980 July Controversial Subject
1981 September Cold Spell Ahead
1982 October Uncertain Smile
1983 February Perfect
1983 September This Is The Day
1986 May Sweet Bird of Truth
1986 July Heartland
1986 October Infected
1987 January Slow Train To Dawn
1989 February The Beat(en) Generation
1989 July Gravitate To Me
1989 September Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
1989 Kingdom of Rain
1991 February Jealous of Youth
1992 December Dogs of Lust
1993 June Love Is Stronger Than Death
1993 Slow Emotion Replay
1994 January DIS-INFECTED (EP)
1994 I Saw The Light
1995 February 14 HANKY PANKY
1999 Shrunken Man
Singles
1980 Controversial Subject - - -
1981 Cold Spell Ahead - - -
1982 Uncertain Smile
1983 Perfect
1983 This Is the Day
1986 Heartland
1986 Infected
1987 Slow Train To Dawn
1987 Sweet Bird Of truth
1989 The Beat(en) Generation
1989 Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) - - Mind Bomb
1989 Gravitate to Me - # 15 Mind Bomb
1989 Kingdom of Rain - # 16 Mind Bomb
1990 Jealous of Youth - # 7 Solitude
1991 Shades Of Blue EP - - -
1993 Dogs of Lust # 25 - Dusk
1993 Slow Emotion Replay # 35 - Dusk
1993 Love Is Stronger Than Death # 39 - Dusk
1994 Dis-Infected EP # 17 - -
1995 I Saw the Light # 31 - Hanky Panky
1999 Shrunken Man - - Naked Self
