Annotation
5 discs in individual paper sleeves packaged in a 12x6" box set with booklet.
The catalog number of the set is 537 143-2 but individual discs (1 through 5) are separately numbered as well (537 144-2 through 537 148-2).
Annotation last modified on 2011-06-18 15:45 UTC.
Tracklist
| |CD 1 | |||
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# | Title | Rating | Length |
1 | In the City
| 2:20 | |
2 | Takin’ My Love
| 2:16 | |
3 | Art School
| 2:02 | |
4 | I’ve Changed My Address
| 3:32 | |
5 | Slow Down
| 2:40 | |
6 | I Got By in Time
| 2:08 | |
7 | Away From the Numbers
| 4:03 | |
8 | Batman Theme
| 1:31 | |
9 | Sounds From the Street
| 3:15 | |
10 | Non‐Stop Dancing
| 2:28 | |
11 | Time for Truth
| 3:11 | |
12 | Bricks and Mortar
| 2:37 | |
13 | All Around the World
| 2:24 | |
14 | Carnaby Street
| 2:24 | |
15 | The Modern World
| 2:31 | |
16 | London Traffic
| 1:51 | |
17 | Standards
| 2:30 | |
18 | Life From a Window
| 2:54 | |
19 | The Combine
| 2:22 | |
20 | Don’t Tell Them You’re Sane
| 3:42 | |
21 | In the Street Today
| 1:33 | |
22 | London Girl
| 2:42 | |
23 | I Need You (For Someone)
| 2:43 | |
24 | Here Comes the Weekend
| 3:31 | |
25 | Tonight at Noon
| 3:03 | |
26 | In the Midnight Hour
| 1:53 |
CD 2 | |||
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# | Title | Rating | Length |
1 | News of the World
| 3:29 | |
2 | Aunties and Uncles (Impulsive Youths)
| 2:34 | |
3 | Innocent Man
| 4:18 | |
4 | David Watts
| 2:57 | |
5 | ‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street
| 2:39 | |
6 | Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
| 4:45 | |
7 | So Sad About Us
| 2:38 | |
8 | The Night
| 1:47 | |
9 | All Mod Cons
| 1:20 | |
10 | To Be Someone (Didn’t We Have a Nice Time)
| 2:30 | |
11 | Mr. Clean
| 3:29 | |
12 | English Rose
| 2:51 | |
13 | In the Crowd
| 5:41 | |
14 | Billy Hunt
| 3:02 | |
15 | It’s Too Bad
| 2:37 | |
16 | Fly
| 3:21 | |
17 | The Place I Love
| 2:54 | |
18 | Strange Town
| 3:49 | |
19 | The Butterfly Collector
| 3:10 | |
20 | When You’re Young
| 3:14 | |
21 | Smithers‐Jones
| 3:02 | |
22 | The Eton Rifles
| 3:59 | |
23 | See‐Saw
| 2:35 |
CD 3 | |||
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# | Title | Rating | Length |
1 | Girl on the Phone
| 2:57 | |
2 | Thick as Thieves
| 3:40 | |
3 | Private Hell
| 3:51 | |
4 | Little Boy Soldiers
| 3:33 | |
5 | Wasteland
| 2:52 | |
6 | Burning Sky
| 3:32 | |
7 | Smithers‐Jones
| 3:01 | |
8 | Saturday’s Kids
| 2:54 | |
9 | Heat Wave
| 2:24 | |
10 | Going Underground
| 2:56 | |
11 | The Dreams of Children
| 3:08 | |
12 | Start!
| 2:31 | |
13 | Liza Radley
| 2:33 | |
14 | Pretty Green
| 2:37 | |
15 | Monday
| 2:59 | |
16 | But I’m Different Now
| 1:51 | |
17 | Set the House Ablaze
| 5:02 | |
18 | That’s Entertainment
| 3:34 | |
19 | Dream Time
| 3:54 | |
20 | Man in the Corner Shop
| 3:14 | |
21 | Music for the Last Couple
| 3:44 | |
22 | Boy About Town
| 2:00 | |
23 | Scrape Away
| 4:00 |
CD 4 | |||
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# | Title | Rating | Length |
1 | Funeral Pyre
| 3:30 | |
2 | Disguises
| 3:18 | |
3 | Absolute Beginners
| 2:51 | |
4 | Tales From the Riverbank
| 3:35 | |
5 | Town Called Malice
| 2:55 | |
6 | Precious (12″ version)
| 5:55 | |
7 | Happy Together
| 2:51 | |
8 | Ghosts
| 2:12 | |
9 | Just Who Is the 5 O’Clock Hero?
| 2:15 | |
10 | Trans‐Global Express
| 4:00 | |
11 | Running on the Spot
| 3:07 | |
12 | Circus
| 2:11 | |
13 | The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong
| 2:20 | |
14 | Carnation
| 3:28 | |
15 | The Gift
| 3:08 | |
16 | The Great Depression
| 2:51 | |
17 | The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
| 3:35 | |
18 | Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
| 4:40 | |
19 | Beat Surrender
| 3:26 | |
20 | Shopping
| 3:22 | |
21 | Move on Up
| 3:54 | |
22 | Stoned out of My Mind
| 3:21 | |
23 | War
| 2:44 |
CD 5 |
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Credits
Release
art direction and design/illustration: | Simon Halfon |
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photography: | Keith Bernstein Paul Cox (photographer) Ian Dickson (photographer) Jill Furmanovsky Frank Griffin (photographer) Laurens Van Houten Ken Hutchins Mike Laye Gered Mankowitz Simon Marsh (photographer) Stephen Morley Denis O'Regan Carlos Olms Pennie Smith (photographer) Derek De Souza Virginia Turbett Arnold Williams |
liner notes: | Neil Allen John Devlin (Jam fan) Pat Gilbert Paolo Hewitt John Reed (British music journalist) |
compiler: | Dennis Munday |
manufactured by: | PMDC (UK) |
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Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/1083006 [info] |
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ASIN: | UK: B0000076ET [info] |
Release group
Wikipedia: | en: Direction Reaction Creation [info] |
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Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/92385 [info] |
Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000542208 [info] |
Wikidata: | Q3708943 [info] |