Master Series (Visage compilation)
Encyclopedia
Master Series is a 1997 continental Europe-only compilation album
by the synthpop
band Visage
. This compilation is one of the most hard-to-find Visage records and was until March 2009 the only way to find songs from the Beat Boy
album on digital format (except "Love Glove", which also appeared on The Best of Visage
, released in 1994).
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
by the synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
band Visage
Visage
Visage are a British New Wave rock band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s, and are best known for their 1980 hit "Fade to Grey".-New Wave years :...
. This compilation is one of the most hard-to-find Visage records and was until March 2009 the only way to find songs from the Beat Boy
Beat Boy
Beat Boy is the third and final album by the British pop group Visage. It was recorded at Trident Studios between 1982 and 1983 and released on Polydor Records in September 1984...
album on digital format (except "Love Glove", which also appeared on The Best of Visage
The Best of Visage
Fade to Grey – The Singles Collection is a 1983 compilation album by the British synthpop group Visage. Released as a stop-gap between studio albums whilst the band was experiencing contractual difficulties, the compilation includes all seven of the Visage singles released up to that point , as...
, released in 1994).
Track listing
- "Fade to Grey" – 3:49 (Billy CurrieBilly CurrieBilly Currie is an English violist, violinist, pianist, keyboardist, and songwriter...
/Midge UreMidge UreJames "Midge" Ure, OBE is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter...
/C. Payne) - "The Damned Don't Cry" – 3:55 (Steve StrangeSteve StrangeSteve Strange , is a Welsh pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage...
/Ure/Currie/Rusty EganRusty EganRusty Egan was the drummer for the British new wave band, The Rich Kids. They were founded by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, bass guitarist and backing vocals, occasional lead vocals; with Steve New guitarist and backing vocals, occasional lead vocals; and fronted by Midge Ure guitarist, lead...
/Dave FormulaDave FormulaDave Formula, , is an English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk band Magazine, and New Romantic ensemble Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s and in the "world music" band The Angel Brothers.-Early Years and St...
) - "Love Glove"– 4:00 (Strange/Egan/S. Barnacle)
- "Mind of a ToyMind Of A Toy"Mind of a Toy" is the third single by the British pop group Visage, released on Polydor Records in March 1981, and also the third to be taken from Visage's eponymous debut album...
" – 3:32 (Strange/Ure/Currie/John McGeochJohn McGeochJohn Alexander McGeoch, , was a Scottish guitarist who played with a number of bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage and Public Image Ltd....
/Egan/Formula) - "Der Amboss" (German version of "The Anvil") – 5:37 (Strange/Ure/Currie/Egan/Formula)
- "Questions" – 6:11 (Strange/Egan/S. Barnacle)
- "Visage" – 3:47 (Strange/Ure/Currie/McGeoch/Egan/Formula)
- "The Promise" – 3:59 (Strange/Egan/S. Barnacle/A. Barnett)
- "In the Year 2525" – 3:41 [original 1978 mix] (Rick Evans)
- "The Anvil" (single remix by John Luongo) – 4:26 (Strange/Ure/Currie/Egan/Formula)
- "Beat Boy" – 6:46 (Strange/Egan/S. Barnacle/Formula/Barnett)
- "The Steps" – 3:14 (Strange/Ure/Currie/McGeoch/Egan/Formula)
- "We Move" (1983 remix by John Hudson) – 3:45 (Strange/Ure/Currie/McGeoch/Egan/Formula)
- "Only the Good (Die Young)" – 5:58 (Strange/Egan/S. Barnacle/Formula/Barnett/Currie)
- "Motivation" – [by mistake an unknown group's track was put here] – 5:46
- "Blocks on Blocks" – 4:00 (Strange/Ure/Currie/McGeoch/Egan/Formula)