Art Of Noise, The - And What Have You Done With My Body, God?
Label:
Catalog#:
ZTT 201 CD
Format:
4 x CD, Compilation
Country:
UK
Released:
07 Aug 2006
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Abstract,
Experimental
Tracklist
| The Very Start of Noise | ||||
| 1-1 | Beat Box (One Made Earlier) | 2:18 | ||
| 1-2 | Once Upon A Lime | 3:21 | ||
| 1-3 | War (Demo 2) | 1:27 | ||
| 1-4 | Close To The Edge | 2:19 | ||
| 1-5 | Confession | 1:02 | ||
| 1-6 | Moments In Love | 7:52 | ||
| 1-7 | Sign Of Relief | 1:27 | ||
| 1-8 | Who's Afraid Of Scale? | 4:36 | ||
| 1-9 | So What Happens Now? (Take 2) | 4:23 | ||
| 1-10 | The Subject Has Moved Left | 1:43 | ||
| 1-11 | It's Not Fair | 4:27 | ||
| 1-12 | Close To The Edge (Ruff Mix) | 5:54 | ||
| 1-13 | A Time For Fear (Who's Afraid?) | 4:33 | ||
| 1-14 | Moments In Bed | 6:11 | ||
| 1-15 | Untitled | 0:55 | ||
| Found Sound and Field Trips | ||||
| 2-1 | Moments In Love (12" B Side Idea) | 3:10 | ||
| 2-2 | Tears Out Of A Stone | 2:56 | ||
| 2-3 | Samba #2 | 0:39 | ||
| 2-4 | The Chain Of Chance | 4:36 | ||
| 2-5 | Fairlight-In-The-Being | 4:37 | ||
| 2-6 | Diversions 3 | 3:53 | ||
| 2-7 | Close (To Being Compiled) | 3:47 | ||
| 2-8 | Diversions 5 | 3:46 | ||
| 2-9 | Damn It All! | 1:42 | ||
| 2-10 | Structure | 1:13 | ||
| 2-11 | The Angel Reel: Hymn 1 (Take 2) | 0:36 | ||
| 2-12 | The Angel Reel: Hymn 3 | 1:20 | ||
| 2-13 | The Angel Reel: Fairground | 0:43 | ||
| 2-14 | And What Have You Done With My Body, God? | 4:40 | ||
| 2-15 | Klimax | 1:48 | ||
| 2-16 | Who Knew? | 2:36 | ||
| Who’s Afraid of… Goodbye? | ||||
| 3-1 | War (Demo 4) | 4:39 | ||
| 3-2 | The Focus Of Satisfaction | 11:01 | ||
| 3-3 | Moments In Love (7" Master Rejected) | 3:44 | ||
| 3-4 | It Stopped | 4:27 | ||
| 3-5 | The Uncertainty Of Syrup | 1:21 | ||
| 3-6 | The Long Hello | 4:34 | ||
| 3-7 | The Vacuum Divine | 0:47 | ||
| 3-8 | The Ambassador's Reel: Beat Box | 3:54 | ||
| 3-9 | The Ambassador's Reel: Medley | 10:56 | ||
| 3-10 | The Ambassador's Reel: Oobly | 1:20 | ||
| 3-11 | Goodbye Art Of Noise | 0:37 | ||
| 3-12 | Moments In Love (Untitled Edit) | 1:06 | ||
| Extended Play | ||||
| 4-1 | Battle | 0:27 | ||
| 4-2 | Beat Box | 4:49 | ||
| 4-3 | The Army Now | 2:03 | ||
| 4-4 | Donna | 1:45 | ||
| 4-5 | Moments In Love | 5:11 | ||
| 4-6 | Bright Noise | 0:05 | ||
| 4-7 | Flesh In Armour | 1:24 | ||
| 4-8 | Comes And Goes | 1:19 | ||
| 4-9 | Moment In Love | 1:27 | ||
| 4-10 | That Was Close - Diversion Eight / Diversion Two / Closest / Close-Up / Close (To The Edit) / Closed | 20:44 | ||
| 4-11 | Moments In Love / Moments In Love (Beaten) | 14:28 | ||
| 4-12 | Love Beat | 5:16 | ||
| 4-13 | In Case We Sneezed | 0:31 | ||
| 4-14 | A Time To Hear (Who’s Listening) | 3:32 | ||
| 4-15 | (Do) Donna (Do) | 3:12 | ||
| 4-16 | Battle Outtakes | 0:25 | ||
Credits
Artwork By -
Steve Gibson
Compilation Producer - Pete Gardiner
Compilation Producer [Assistant] - Vicky Ball
Compiled By [And Curated By] - Ian Peel
Edited By [Additional 2006 Edit], Producer [Additional 2006 Production] - Anne Dudley (tracks: 1-11, 1-13, 2-1, 2-5, 2-7, 3-4)
Mastered By [Digital Remaster] - Dennis Smith (3)
Written-By, Recorded By, Engineer, Producer - Art Of Noise, The
Compilation Producer - Pete Gardiner
Compilation Producer [Assistant] - Vicky Ball
Compiled By [And Curated By] - Ian Peel
Edited By [Additional 2006 Edit], Producer [Additional 2006 Production] - Anne Dudley (tracks: 1-11, 1-13, 2-1, 2-5, 2-7, 3-4)
Mastered By [Digital Remaster] - Dennis Smith (3)
Written-By, Recorded By, Engineer, Producer - Art Of Noise, The
Notes
4 CD hardbound digi-book set including 56 tracks, 41 previously unreleased with 36 page booklet containing track-by-track commentary by all five original members.
CD1: The Very Start of Noise - early demos and tests.
CD2: Found Sound and Field Trips - experimental recordings.
CD3: Who’s Afraid of… Goodbye? - alternate recordings from the Who's Afraid album, and final ZTT-era tracks.
CD4: Extended Play - rare EPs, including Into Battle (tracks 4-1 to 4-9), That Was Close (track 4-10) and The Tortoise And The Hare (tracks 4-11 to 4-13).
Retail release: 7th August 2006. Copies were available to order via ztt.com from 19th July 2006, and shipped shortly after.
A promo sampler CD was bundled with ztt.com orders placed before 21st August 2006.
Art Of Noise were: Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley.
"This Ars Nova edition is number six in Zang Tumb Tuum's artefact series, previously hidden away as number 102 in the Incidental Series."
Book foreword (edited):
"1983 to '85, when these early sessions took place, was an intense period. The finished recordings have become ubiquitous - and are regularly re-sampled and referenced by artists as diverse as Janet Jackson and The Prodigy - but the demos, alternative mixes and studio experiments, the very genesis of the Art Of Noise, have never been heard since. Did they even exist? It was thought not. After all, Trevor Horn has a reputation for not saving anything if a recording session doesn't work out - if you change course, erase the tapes and move on. Don't look back.
But Zang Tuum Tumb went on a search. Into the vaults of London's recording studios - Sarm East, Sarm West, Angel Studios, Utopia and Mayfair, all of which hosted these early sessions. Tomb Raiders of the Lost Ark, Zang Tumb Tuum was on a mission… and struck gold. The complete Art Of Noise sessions, 1983 to 1985, as presented here, for the first time, never before heard or released."
CD1: The Very Start of Noise - early demos and tests.
CD2: Found Sound and Field Trips - experimental recordings.
CD3: Who’s Afraid of… Goodbye? - alternate recordings from the Who's Afraid album, and final ZTT-era tracks.
CD4: Extended Play - rare EPs, including Into Battle (tracks 4-1 to 4-9), That Was Close (track 4-10) and The Tortoise And The Hare (tracks 4-11 to 4-13).
Retail release: 7th August 2006. Copies were available to order via ztt.com from 19th July 2006, and shipped shortly after.
A promo sampler CD was bundled with ztt.com orders placed before 21st August 2006.
Art Of Noise were: Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley.
"This Ars Nova edition is number six in Zang Tumb Tuum's artefact series, previously hidden away as number 102 in the Incidental Series."
Book foreword (edited):
"1983 to '85, when these early sessions took place, was an intense period. The finished recordings have become ubiquitous - and are regularly re-sampled and referenced by artists as diverse as Janet Jackson and The Prodigy - but the demos, alternative mixes and studio experiments, the very genesis of the Art Of Noise, have never been heard since. Did they even exist? It was thought not. After all, Trevor Horn has a reputation for not saving anything if a recording session doesn't work out - if you change course, erase the tapes and move on. Don't look back.
But Zang Tuum Tumb went on a search. Into the vaults of London's recording studios - Sarm East, Sarm West, Angel Studios, Utopia and Mayfair, all of which hosted these early sessions. Tomb Raiders of the Lost Ark, Zang Tumb Tuum was on a mission… and struck gold. The complete Art Of Noise sessions, 1983 to 1985, as presented here, for the first time, never before heard or released."
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Reviews & Discussion
This box set is the real deal - an extended version of the first Art of Noise LP with alternative versions, diversions, ideas and mixes along with some cassette only bits that a lot of people would not have heard... great material from the days before they started turning out some rather weak material after leaving ZTT! Lots of nice sleeve notes too with the group commenting on the various tracks. It's quite surprising how they seem to milk the same bunch of samples but still keep things sounding fresh and new and how their sound is still unique and endearing years later!
One strange thing I discovered about this is that one of there early tracks is a straight rip-off of a track from The Who - "A Time For Fear (Who's Listening)" is almost perfect copy of the opening to "Baba Riley", so perhaps it should be subtitled "(The Who's listening)", though they do state in the notes they thought it was someone else they ripped off and it seems they never got sued!
One strange thing I discovered about this is that one of there early tracks is a straight rip-off of a track from The Who - "A Time For Fear (Who's Listening)" is almost perfect copy of the opening to "Baba Riley", so perhaps it should be subtitled "(The Who's listening)", though they do state in the notes they thought it was someone else they ripped off and it seems they never got sued!
If something can fight against piracy, dear record companies, this is such a marvellous object. Not only does it gives the pleasure to have many versions, diversions and exclusive jewels, not to mentions digitally crisp versions of those rare and collectable items any AON lover has been hopping to get, but this is a BEAUTIFUL object. Made like a book, with a hardcover and the 4 cd displaying elegant images sticked behind of the front and back covers, but the rest is a very elegant and stylishly designed book with interviews of AON key members commenting tracks and moments in music.
Yes, we do have already some of the material displayed there. Yes, the fact of having alternative version of the Who's afraid LP has its limits if you are not a desperate AON-spotter.
But I've never been happy with spending that much money for a record since a long time.
No. Not for a record, but for an object. A straight and direct diversion. An incidental art artefact. Or Not. Or yes. Or a Spanner in the work.
Art too can makes some noise, friends!
Yes, we do have already some of the material displayed there. Yes, the fact of having alternative version of the Who's afraid LP has its limits if you are not a desperate AON-spotter.
But I've never been happy with spending that much money for a record since a long time.
No. Not for a record, but for an object. A straight and direct diversion. An incidental art artefact. Or Not. Or yes. Or a Spanner in the work.
Art too can makes some noise, friends!
A bit too late for it would've made it a great LP set of goodies prior to their debut-LP, however, it is a perfect object of digital beauty you'll ever likely to find these days.
And a perfect way to terrorize your neighborhood. The Art of Noise are deviant and sweet, funny and oblique... and they still manage to get away with it. Something truly delightful to be afraid of indeed.