Maximum Joy (album)
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Maximum Joy is a greatest hits album by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, released on by ZTT Records
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album.
The track listing is a mixture of singles and album tracks. The band's seven singles are accounted for here, in their album versions. Also featured are the four cover versions the band committed to album.
Rounding out the collection is a bonus CD of newly commissioned remixes by people like Rob Searle and Peter Rauhofer
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To celebrate the release of Maximum Joy, ZTT re-issued the three Welcome To The Pleasuredome
-era singles complete with more of the 2000 remixes.
Repertoire Records
from Germany collected two discs worth of these mixes and issued them as The Club Mixes 2000
.
Design and art direction were by Simon Griffin & Ed Sullivan at Dolphin Studio.
CD Two
ZTT Records
ZTT Records is a record label founded in 1983 by NME journalist Paul Morley, record producer Trevor Horn, and businesswoman Jill Sinclair. The label's name was also printed as "Zang Tumb Tuum" and "Zang Tuum Tumb" on various releases....
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Background
The album takes its name from a song title from the band's LiverpoolLiverpool (album)
Liverpool is Frankie Goes to Hollywood's second album, released in October 1986 . It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.The album was a commercial...
album.
The track listing is a mixture of singles and album tracks. The band's seven singles are accounted for here, in their album versions. Also featured are the four cover versions the band committed to album.
Rounding out the collection is a bonus CD of newly commissioned remixes by people like Rob Searle and Peter Rauhofer
Peter Rauhofer
Peter Rauhofer is a DJ, remixer and producer who formerly went under the moniker Club 69 as well as Size Queen. A native of Vienna, Austria, he is famous for his remixes of a number of Madonna's songs including "Nothing Really Matters", "American Life", "Nothing Fails, "Nobody Knows Me", "Get...
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To celebrate the release of Maximum Joy, ZTT re-issued the three Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Welcome to the Pleasuredome was the debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, first released in the UK in October 1984 by ZTT/Island Records. Originally issued as a vinyl double album, it was assured of a UK chart entry at number one due to reported advance sales of over one million...
-era singles complete with more of the 2000 remixes.
Repertoire Records
Repertoire Records
Repertoire Records is a German record label from Hamburg, Germany, specialising in reissues of classic pop and rock albums originally issued in the 60s and 70s. The chairman is Thomas Neelsen....
from Germany collected two discs worth of these mixes and issued them as The Club Mixes 2000
The Club Mixes 2000
The Club Mixes 2000 is a remix album by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. It was released in 2000 by Repertoire Records of Germany.The album's tracklisting is made up almost exclusively of new remixes commissioned by ZTT in 2000 for the Maximum Joy hits compilation campaign.- Track listing :CD One#...
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Design and art direction were by Simon Griffin & Ed Sullivan at Dolphin Studio.
Tracklisting
CD One- "RelaxRelax (song)"Relax" is the debut single by British dance group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in 1983. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome ....
" - 3:57 - "Two TribesTwo Tribes"Two Tribes" is the second single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in May 1984 . The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome....
" - 3:22 - "Ferry Cross the Mersey" - 4:03
- "The World Is My Oyster" - 1:58
- "Welcome to the PleasuredomeWelcome to the Pleasuredome (song)"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is the title track to the 1984 debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
" - 13:39 - "Maximum Joy" - 5:30
- "San Jose" - 3:09
- "Warriors of the Wasteland" - 5:00
- "Rage HardRage Hard"Rage Hard" is the fifth single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released in August 1986.-Background:Having topped the charts around the world with Welcome to the Pleasuredome and its accompanying singles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood took off to Amsterdam to record the follow-up album, Liverpool...
" - 5:02 - "War" - 6:12
- "Watching the WildlifeWatching The Wildlife"Watching the Wildlife" is the seventh and last single by British pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Released in early 1987, it is taken from the album Liverpool....
" - 4:17 - "Born to Run" - 4:05
- "The Power of LoveThe Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)Holly Johnson, former singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, recorded his own version of "The Power of Love" which was released on his 1999 album Soulstream and was released as a single which made #56 in the UK. The single stayed in the charts for 2 weeks...
" - 5:30
CD Two
- "The Power of Love" (Rob Searle Club Mix) - 8:38
- "Relax" (Club 69 Future Anthem Part 1) - 11:27
- "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Remix) - 11:23
- "Maximum Joy" (DJ Rene Club Mix) - 9:45
- "Two Tribes" (Rob Searle Club Mix) - 9:18
- "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sander's Coming Home Mix) - 10:18
- "Two Tribes" (Apollo Four Forty Remix) - 6:10
External links
- Maximum Joy at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...