The Face – The Very Best of Visage
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The Face - The Very Best of Visage is a compilation album by the British synthpop
group Visage
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Released in 2010, the 30th anniversary of the band's seminal hit "Fade To Grey", the album includes four versions of the track including the original 7" and 12" versions, and two new remixes by club DJs Michael Gray
and Lee Mortimer. All of the band's other singles are featured on the album (some in their extended 12" formats), except for their final single "Beat Boy" which is not included at all.
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...
group 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 :...
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Released in 2010, the 30th anniversary of the band's seminal hit "Fade To Grey", the album includes four versions of the track including the original 7" and 12" versions, and two new remixes by club DJs Michael Gray
Michael Gray (DJ)
Michael Gray is a British DJ and house music producer. He is also half of the dance music production/remixing duo Full Intention.-Career:Gray began his career as a British house DJ in the 1990s, and became in demand as a remixer, often with Jon Pearn under the name Full Intention, providing house...
and Lee Mortimer. All of the band's other singles are featured on the album (some in their extended 12" formats), except for their final single "Beat Boy" which is not included at all.
Track listing
- "Fade to Grey" (Michael Gray remix 2009)
- "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...
" (12" version) - "We Move" (remix)
- "Tar"
- "Fade to Grey" (album version)
- "In the Year 2525In the Year 2525"In the Year 2525 " is a hit song from 1969 by American pop-rock duo Zager and Evans. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969. The song was written by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label in 1968...
" - "The Anvil" (7" remix version)
- "Night Train" (edited album version)
- "The Damned Don't Cry" (album version)
- "Love Glove" (7" single version)
- "Pleasure Boys" (12" version)
- "Visage" (12" version)
- "Fade to Grey" (12" version)
- "Der Amboss" (German language version of "The Anvil")
- "Fade to Grey" (Lee Mortimer remix 2009)