Landscape

Landscape A Go-Go: The Story Of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Boxset (Includes Free Signed Print)

Boxset $47.00

Release Date: Jul 21, 2023

Discs: 5

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Landscape – Richard James Burgess, Chris Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John L. Walters – is best known for the ground-breaking electro-pop of ‘Einstein a Go-Go’ and ‘Norman Bates’, which were made into memorable and influential videos. Formed in London, the band toured the UK constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing jazz, punk and rock venues and releasing instrumental EPs on its indie label Event Horizon before signing to major label RCA Records.

The group used electronic processing, synthesizers, electronic drums, and music computers, and from the late 1970s focused on making records in the emerging genre of synthpop.

After signing to RCA, they released their debut album ‘Landscape’ in 1979. Their next album in 1981, ‘From the Tea-Rooms of Mars...to the Hell-Holes of Uranus’, included the Top 5 UK hit "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates”. Their third album was 1982's ‘Manhattan Boogie-Woogie’. After release of this album, Heaton and Thoms left the band and they became a trio, composed of Burgess, Pask, and Walters.

Track Listing:

CD 1 Landscape

LANDSCAPE (1979)

1 Japan
2 Lost In the Small Ads
3 The Mechanical Bride
4 Neddy Sindrum
5 Kaptin Whorlix
6 Sonja Henie
7 Many's the Time
8 Highly Suspicious
9 Gotham City
10 Wandsworth Plain

LIVE IN NORWICH 1979

11 Caterpillar Tracks **
12 The High Window **
13 Kaptin Whorlix **
14 The Mechanical Bride **
15 Highly Suspicious **

LIVE IN LONDON 1977

16 Stranger **

** First release on any format

CD 2 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … to the Hell-Holes of Uranus

1 European Man
2 Shake the West Awake
3 Computer Person
4 Alpine Tragedy ¶
5 Sisters ¶
6 Face of the 80s
7 New Religion
8 Einstein a Go-Go
9 Norman Bates
10 The Doll's House
11 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … a) Beguine ¶
12 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … b) Mambo ¶
13 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … c) Tango ¶

BONUS TRACKS

14 When the Chips Are Down **
15 European Man [7-inch] ±
16 Norman Bates [7-inch with narration] ±
17 Electro New Religion **
18 European Man [12-inch] ±
19 Einstein a Go-Go [12-inch] ±
20 Norman Bates [12-inch without narration] ±

** First release on any format ± First CD release ¶ Medley. First CD release as separate tracks

CD 3 Manhattan Boogie-Woogie

1 One Rule For the Rich
2 Manhattan Boogie-Woogie
3 Colour Code
4 The Long Way Home
5 It's Not My Real Name
6 Bad Times
7 When You Leave Your Lover

BONUS TRACKS

8 It's Not My Real Name [12-inch] ±
9 Back On Your Heads [7-inch B-side] ±
10 (A Case Of) Mistaken Identity [7-inch B-side] ±
11 Manhattan Boogie-Woogie [instrumental mix] **
12 The Long Way Home [instrumental mix] **
13 Bad Times [‘Good Times' instrumental mix] **
14 One Rule For the Rich [instrumental mix] **

** First release on any format ± First CD release

CD4 Before and After

U2XME1X2MUCH EP (1977)

1 U2XME1X2MUCH ±
2 Don't Gimme No Rebop ¶ ±
3 Sixteen ¶ ±

WORKERS PLAYTIME EP (1978)

4 Workers' Playtime ±
5 Nearly Normal ±
6 Too Many Questions (Don't Ask Me Why) ±

LIVE IN LONDON UNRELEASED (1977-78)

7 The Camera Never Lies **
8 Bagel Street Blues **
9 Sleazy Feet **
10 Eugenie **
11 Watt is Knott **
12 Goldilox and the Jelly Bean Shuffle **
13 Tribute **

LANDSCAPE III (1983)

14 So Good, So Pure, So Kind [7-inch] ±
15 The Fabulous Neutrinos [7-inch] ±
16 You Know How To Hurt Me [7-inch] ±
17 Feel So Right [7-inch] ±
18 (I'd Love To) Fly Away [7-inch] **

** First release on any format ± First CD release ¶ Medley

CD5: Excursions 2 Other Versions

1 Einstein a Go-Go [‘Einstein on the floor', 2023 remix] **
2 One Rule For the Rich [UK cassette] ±
3 Japan [12-inch] ±
4 It's Not My Real Name [UK 7-inch] ±
5 Colour Code [UK cassette] ±
6 When You Leave Your Lover [UK cassette] ±
7 (A Case of) Mistaken Identity [12-inch B-side] ±
8 Back On Your Heads [12-inch B-side] ±

LANDSCAPE III

9 (I'd Love to) Fly Away [12-inch] **
10 So Good, So Pure, So Kind [12-inch]
11 You Know How To Hurt Me [12-inch]
12 The Fabulous Neutrinos [12-inch] ±
13 Feel So Right [12-inch] ±

BITS AND PIECES

14 Norman Bates [short version without narration, released as 12-inch] ±
15 It's Not My Real Name [UK cassette] ±
16 Einstein a Go-Go 7-inch [UK ‘no phones' radio mix] ±