Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome C/D

I didn't say *Howe* plotzed, more like what stereotypical Yes fans might have thought of it. Dare I say.

The song structures on "...Pleasure Dome" are pretty much traditional all the way. The title track may last for 13 minutes, but other than the intro and outro, it keeps to the same mood and groove throughout, with none of the mood changes and dymanic changes that are typical of prog.

A second CD as proposed above might be the greatest CD ever made, come to think of it...

There was a recent upgrade of the original CD, with proper cover and inserts, but no 2CD package as such (at least not in the UK).

"we get buzzed off the fact that warhol's heard of us,
because he got buzzed off the fact that picasso had heard of him"

BANG!

That bassline on 'Wish The Lads Were Here'!

timely revival.

anyone tempted by the new boxset ?

as much as i love the whole excess of ztt, i have to admit that this boxset does nothing for me.

which is a massive letdown as i really wanted the definitive FGTH boxset of this album.

i.e. remastered version. multiple cds of all the commercially available remixes/b-sides. cd of extras.

+ big f*ck off print of the original inner sleeve artwork ...

but hey ..

am totally down with the big print idea

I want the new box but the pledgemusic pages says not available to US backers

boo ..

knowing ztt there will be probably be a usa exclusive edition with a very subtle difference ..

I've been listening to this album a fair amount over the last couple of days after the recent Frankie singles poll, and it's been really hitting the spot for me. However, I'm thinking that the tracklisting on the original CD issue is superior to the vinyl version: the first CD issue replaces the album version of 'Two Tribes' with the Annihilation mix (even though it keeps the 'For The Victims of Ravishment' title) and merges it with 'The Last Voice' and gets rid of the section with Chris Barrie doing the "Prince Charles talking about orgasms" bit, and it replaces 'Ferry (Go)' and 'San Joe (The Way)' (which I've never liked) and replaces them with the far superior 'Happy Hi!' ... Side One and Side Four are basically represented in the same way on the original CD.

So what's the definitive version of this album? I swear, this band has like 60 billion different versions of every goddamn thing they released.

Just picked up the 2CD 25th anniversary remaster of this, having never listened to it before. Phew!