Tracks UPTOWN: The Optimum Chant Uptown Apocalypse Wipe The Board Clean Groove Thang DOWNTOWN: Music To Kill Your Parents By The Old At Rest Rise Of The East Decline Of The West
Tracks Tina Turner: Ball Of Confusion Billy MacKenzie: The Secret Life Of Arabia Paul Jones: There's A Ghost In My House Paula Yates: These Boots Are Made For Walking Gary Glitter: Suspicious Minds Bernie Nolan: You Keep Me Hanging On Glenn Gregory: Wichita Lineman Sandie Shaw: Anyone Who Had A Heart Glenn Gregory: Perfect Day Billy MacKenzie: It's Over
Tracks Soul Warfare Houses in Motion I Don't Depend on You Burn for You Geisha Boys & Temple Girls Morale Word Before LAst Circus of Death
Record of the Year according to Melody Maker.
Tracks (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang Penthouse And Pavement Play To Win Soul Warfare Geisha Boys And Temple Girls Let's All Make A Bomb The Height Of The Fighting Song With No Name We're Going To Live For A Very Long Time
"...high-power, high thought electrofunk...clean, crisp, energetic and unselfconscious." - Trouser Press
"...Heaven 17's wonderful appreciation of where the tangible and intangible forces in life collide, where truth, myth and a mighty matter mesh and mangle, it is consistent, allusive, an advancing, dancing, flirting entertainment..." - NME
"...marks no less an occasion than the resurrection of the pop melody, spilling out tunes that twist, turn, writhe sideways and snake backward like some souped-up funicular loco bumping and grinding akong the rails of funkdom." - Melody Maker
Things are coming together, from eleven small acorns eleven big songs are beginning to grow. Green was he brief and true as an arrow we complied, real drums, real bass, real guitar. How much more real can you get? We have just checked our army we have 32 men all at peak fighting strength.
Tracks Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry Who'll Stop The Rain Let Me Go Key To The World Temptation Come Live With Me Lady Ice And Mr Hex We Live So Fast The Best Kept Secret
Tracks Five Minutes To Midnight Sunset Now This Is Mine The Fuse Shame Is On The Rocks The Skin I'm In Flamedown Reputation And That's No Lie
Tracks Heaven 17 Megamix We Live So Fast Penthouse And Pavement Let Me Go Temptation Who'll Stop The Rain (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang Let's All Make A Bomb (New Version) Counterforce Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry And That's No Lie Sunset Now
Tracks Contenders Trouble Somebody If I Were You Low Society Red Look At Me Move Out Free
Tracks Big Square People Don't Stop For No One Snake And Two People Can You Hear Me? Hot Blood The Ballad Of Go Go Brown Dangerous I Set You Free Train Of Love In Motion Responsibility Work (CD) Giving Up (CD) The Last Seven Days (CD) The Foolish Thing To Do (Gregory vocal) (CD) Slow All Over (CD)
Tracks Chaka Khan: Someday We'll All Be Free Lalah Hathaway: Family Affair Richard Darbyshire: Early In The Morning Billy Mackenzie: Free Terence Trent D'Arby: It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding Tashan: I Want You Mavis Staples: A Song For You Billy Preston: Try A Little Tenderness Green Gartside: I Don't Know Why I Love You Tina Turner: A Change Is Gonna Come Ghida De Palma: Feel Like Makin' Love
Higher and Higher - Best of Heaven 17 Virgin CDV 2717 (CD and Cassette only) Released March 1993
Tracks Temptation (Brothers In Rhythm Remix) (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Rapino Edit) Let Me Go Come Live With Me This Is Mine I'm Your Money Play To Win (And That's No Lie) Contenders We Live So Fast Sunset Now Trouble Height Of The Fighting (He-La-Hu) Penthouse And Pavement Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang Temptation
Tracks Temptation [Brothers In Rhythm Remix] (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Rapino Club Mix] And That's No Lie [Remixed To Enhance Its Danceability] Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry [Extended Dance Version] Train Of Love In Motion [The Mainline Mix] This Is Mine [Filmix] The Foolish Thing To Do [Version 1] Play To Win [12" Extended Version] Let Me Go [12" Extended Version] Penthouse And Pavement [Tommy D's Master Remix] Come Live With Me [12" Extended Remix]
Bigger Than America WEA 0630-16346-2 Released 29th September 1996 (in Germany)
Tracks Dive (4:28) Designing Heaven (5:13) We Blame Love (4:47) Another Big Idea (4:55) Freak! (4:07) Bigger Than America (3:58) Unreal Everything (4:08) The Big Dipper (4:55) Do I Believe? (4:55) Resurrection Man (4:04) Maybe Forever (4:40) An Electronic Prayer (4:41)
WPCR-905/WEA - Japanese release with extra tracks
All titles writtten by Gregory, Marsh, Ware - Another BEF production
Glenn Gregory - Programming and Vocals Ian Craig Marsh - Programming and System 100 Martyn Ware - Programming and Synthesizers
A resource for New Wave music and genres it encompasses. Created: 28/5/96 Modified: 30/7/97 Maintained by: Ashley Fletcher nwc@nerosoft.com