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Asides Besides
Asides Besides is a compilation album by Talk Talk, released on 20 April 1998. It is a collection of rarities, B-sides and demos previously unavailable on CD. It was issued as a companion volume to the band's 1997 album remasters and has been described as "[tying] up loose ends" in the band's career. The album received positive reviews. The album only contains tracks from the 1982–1988 period, as EMI could only obtain rights for Talk Talk music from this period. An album of rarities for Talk Talk's career after 1988 was released in 2001 as Missing Pieces.
Talk Talk released four studio albums on record label EMI in the 1980s, as well as numerous singles, an EMI-curated remix album (It's My Mix), and several EPs. Though the four studio albums were remastered onto CD in the 1980s (and again in 1997), the singles, remix album and EPs all contained B-sides and remixes that were not republished onto CD. A surge in Talk Talk's popularity arose following the 1997 aforementioned remasters of the band's catalogue, which was coupled with a new compilation album entitled The Very Best of Talk Talk, as well as new material from Mark Hollis and .O.rang. To capitalise on this, EMI decided to remaster and re-release all the previously unavailable songs on one double album.
Disc one consists solely of remixes, all of which had only been available on 12" singles and were not available on CD at that time. New unauthorised Talk Talk remixes had been released on the 1991 compilation album History Revisited which the band disowned and tried to block the release of.
One notable omission was the 12" remix of "Why Is It So Hard?", a song recorded by Talk Talk for the soundtrack of the 1984 motion picture Firstborn directed by Michael Apted. The 12" remix of this song was only released on the Italian and Canadian 1985 remix album "It's My Mix".
Disc two opens with rare demo versions of "Talk Talk" (already featured in its extended form on disc one), "Mirror Man" and "Candy", all of which had appeared on a limited edition double 7" single of "Such a Shame".
The disc then progresses into B-sides in chronological order of release, from "Strike Up the Band" (the B-side to Talk Talk's first single "Mirror Man" from 1982) and ending with "John Cope", the B-side for "I Believe in You" from 1988.
Disc two also includes the single version of "Why Is It So Hard?" even though it was never released as a single or as a B-side. The version on this album is also slightly different to the version on the Firstborn soundtrack.
Disc two features three songs that had previously been available on CD. "My Foolish Friend", appeared on the 1990 retrospective album Natural History, but was not included in the 1997 CD remaster campaign. "John Cope" and the edited version of "Eden" appeared on the CD Single release of "I Believe In You".
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Asides Besides
Asides Besides is a compilation album by Talk Talk, released on 20 April 1998. It is a collection of rarities, B-sides and demos previously unavailable on CD. It was issued as a companion volume to the band's 1997 album remasters and has been described as "[tying] up loose ends" in the band's career. The album received positive reviews. The album only contains tracks from the 1982–1988 period, as EMI could only obtain rights for Talk Talk music from this period. An album of rarities for Talk Talk's career after 1988 was released in 2001 as Missing Pieces.
Talk Talk released four studio albums on record label EMI in the 1980s, as well as numerous singles, an EMI-curated remix album (It's My Mix), and several EPs. Though the four studio albums were remastered onto CD in the 1980s (and again in 1997), the singles, remix album and EPs all contained B-sides and remixes that were not republished onto CD. A surge in Talk Talk's popularity arose following the 1997 aforementioned remasters of the band's catalogue, which was coupled with a new compilation album entitled The Very Best of Talk Talk, as well as new material from Mark Hollis and .O.rang. To capitalise on this, EMI decided to remaster and re-release all the previously unavailable songs on one double album.
Disc one consists solely of remixes, all of which had only been available on 12" singles and were not available on CD at that time. New unauthorised Talk Talk remixes had been released on the 1991 compilation album History Revisited which the band disowned and tried to block the release of.
One notable omission was the 12" remix of "Why Is It So Hard?", a song recorded by Talk Talk for the soundtrack of the 1984 motion picture Firstborn directed by Michael Apted. The 12" remix of this song was only released on the Italian and Canadian 1985 remix album "It's My Mix".
Disc two opens with rare demo versions of "Talk Talk" (already featured in its extended form on disc one), "Mirror Man" and "Candy", all of which had appeared on a limited edition double 7" single of "Such a Shame".
The disc then progresses into B-sides in chronological order of release, from "Strike Up the Band" (the B-side to Talk Talk's first single "Mirror Man" from 1982) and ending with "John Cope", the B-side for "I Believe in You" from 1988.
Disc two also includes the single version of "Why Is It So Hard?" even though it was never released as a single or as a B-side. The version on this album is also slightly different to the version on the Firstborn soundtrack.
Disc two features three songs that had previously been available on CD. "My Foolish Friend", appeared on the 1990 retrospective album Natural History, but was not included in the 1997 CD remaster campaign. "John Cope" and the edited version of "Eden" appeared on the CD Single release of "I Believe In You".