This new “Best Of” compilation traces Almond’s singles career from Soft Cell through to his solo work and collaborations.
Highlights of “Hits And Pieces” include Tainted Love, What!, Say Hello Wave Goodbye, the Number One reaching Gene Pitney duet Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart, his interpretation of Scott Walker’s cover of Jacques Brel’s Jacky with its epic kitchen sink production from Trevor Horn, a cover of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love with, Bronski Beat, Melancholy Rose and Ruby Red from the Mother Fistalbum, a Tony Visconti produced nugget The Dancing Marquis, last year’s The Velvet Trail, the glam stomper Varieté and another cover in the form of The Days Of Pearly Spencer. To complete the package is the newest track on this compilation: the previously unreleased A Kind Of Love.
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Track Listing
Single CD Digital Version
1. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
2. Soft Cell – Bedsitter
3. Soft Cell – Say Hello Wave Goodbye
4. Soft Cell – Torch
5. Soft Cell – What!
6. Bronski Beat with Marc Almond – I Feel Love
7. Marc Almond – Stories Of Johnny
8. Marc Almond – Tears Run Rings
9. Marc Almond with Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart
10. Marc Almond – A Lover Spurned
11. Marc Almond – Jacky
12. Marc Almond – My Hand Over My Heart
13. Marc Almond – The Days Of Pearly Spencer
14. Marc Almond – What Makes A Man (Live)
15. Marc Almond – Adored and Explored
16. Marc Almond – The Idol (Part 1)
17. Marc Almond – Child Star
18. Marc Almond – Scar
19. Marc Almond – A Kind Of Love (Radio Edit)
2CD Version
CD1
1. Memorabilia (Soft Cell)
2. Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (Original 12” Version) (Soft Cell)
3. Bedsitter (Soft Cell)
4. Say Hello Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell)
5. Torch (Soft Cell)
6. What! (Soft Cell)
7. Where The Heart Is (Soft Cell)
8. Soul Inside (Soft Cell)
9. Down In The Subway (Extended Single Version) (Soft Cell)
10. I Feel Love (Full Length Version) (Bronski Beat with Marc Almond)
11. Black Heart (Marc & The Mambas)
12. Stories Of Johnny
13. Melancholy Rose
14. Tears Run Rings
15. Ruby Red
16. Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart (Marc Almond with Gene Pitney)
17. A Lover Spurned
CD2
1. The Desperate Hours
2. My Hand Over My Heart
3. Jacky
4. The Days Of Pearly Spencer
5. What Makes A Man (Live)
6. The Idol
7. Adored and Explored
8. Brilliant Creatures
9. Child Star
10. Tragedy (Take A Look And See)
11. Glorious
12. Variety
13. Burn Bright
14. The Dancing Marquis
15. Bad To Me
16. Scar
17. A Kind Of Love (Full Length Version)
18. Tainted Love (Marc Almond with Jools Holland and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra)