Merciful Release 3CD Box

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Merciful Release 3CD Box - Rhino compilation box of their 2006 re-releases

Discription

41-track digitally remastered 3-CD album set from the Kings of 1980s Goth, comprising the albums First and Last and Always, Floodland & Vision Thing, featuring 16 Bonus Recordings including alternative, extended and live versions (2 of which are previously unreleased); each disc is presented in a digipak sleeve, with the set housed in a stickered & sealed card slipcase.


Release Notes

  • Label: Rhino Records
  • Catalogue#: 5101-19186-2
  • Format: 3CD Compilation Box
  • Released: 2007 (UK)


Remarks

  • As these CDs were issued as remastered re-releases already in 2006,
each disc of this box set has its own catalogue number and is sold separately as well.
- First And Last And Always: 5101-17579-2
- Floodland: 5101-17580-2
- Vision Thing: 5101-17582-2
  • The discs each come in a fold-out digipack including a booklet
of 16 pages (First And Last And Always) or 20 pages (Floodland and Vision Thing)
with an according piece of band history and release information, photos
and lyrics - (no lyrics, though, with First And Last And Always).
For further details, please check the according individual releases.


Sources


NOTE:
Even though this is some sort of "official release", it is only a matter of record company sales.
Andrew Eldritch or The Sisters of Mercy had no involvement in the remastering process or in these releases.
They were, in fact, not even consulted.


Track Lists


First And Last And Always


Merciful Release 3CD Box - Rhino re-release compilation box (back)
Track Duration
1-1    Black Planet    4:26
1-2    Walk Away    3:25
1-3    No Time To Cry    4:02
1-4    A Rock And A Hard Place    3:33
1-5    Marian    5:44
1-6    First And Last And Always            4:02
1-7    Possession    4:38
1-8    Nine While Nine    4:12
1-9    Amphetamine Logic    4:53
1-10  Some Kind Of Stranger    7:34


Bonus Tracks

1-11  Poison Door    3:41
1-12  On The Wire    4:21
1-13  Blood Money    3:13
1-14  Bury Me Deep    4:44
1-15  Long Train    7:30
1-16  Some Kind Of Stranger (Early)         8:38


Floodland


Track Duration
2-1    Dominion/Mother Russia           7:00
2-2    Flood I    6:23
2-3    Lucretia, My Reflection    4:57
2-4    1959    4:14
2-5    This Corrosion  10:55
2-6    Flood II    6:46
2-7    Driven Like The Snow    6:28
2-8    Never Land (a fragment)    3:00
Merciful Release 3CD Box - Rhino re-release compilation box (top)


Bonus Tracks

2-9    Torch    3:55
2-10  Colours    7:22
2-11  Never Land (full length)             11:59
2-12  Emma    6:20


Vision Thing


Track Duration
3-1    Vision Thing    4:35
3-2    Ribbons    5:28
3-3    Detonation Boulevard    3:49
3-4    Something Fast    4:31
3-5    When You Don't See Me            4:54
3-6    Doctor Jeep    4:41
3-7    More    8:22
3-8    I Was Wrong    6:11
Merciful Release 3CD Box - Rhino re-release compilation box (bottom)


Bonus Tracks

3-9    You Could Be The One    4:01
3-10  When You Don't See Me (Remix)         4:43
3-11  Doctor Jeep (Extended Version)    8:59
3-12  Ribbons (Live)    4:25
3-13  Something Fast (Live)    3:02