Valuable Passages

Valuable Passages

2xLP: US 1986 (Factory/Relativity FACT 164/88561-8123-1) [test pressing]
2xLP: US 1986 (Factory/Relativity FACT 164/88561-8123-1)
2x cassette: UK 1986 (Factory FACT 164C) [boxed]
CD: UK 1986 (Factory FACD 164) *
2xLP: AU 12.86 (Factory Australasia/CBS FACT 164) ***
2xCS: AU 12.86 (Factory Australasia/CBS FACTC 164)
CD: AU 12.86 (Factory Australasia FACD 164) ****

Tracklisting

[LP One]

2:58 Sketch for Summer
5:00 Conduct
2:22 Sketch for Winter
3:45 Lips That Would Kiss
5:21 For Belgian Friends
3:36 Danny
3:35 Piece of Out of Tune Grand Piano */**
6:46 Never Known
2:14 Jacqueline
6:32 The Missing Boy

[LP Two]

3:21 Prayer
4:09 Spent Time
6:44 Without Mercy (Stanzas 4 to 7)
7:04 Without Mercy (Stanzas 10 to 12)
5:58 The Room
10:17 Blind Elevator Girl
4:02 Tomorrow
6:21 L.F.O. Mod *

* Not on CD
** Excerpt from FBN 10
*** First editions stickered and with pictured inner sleeves, later editions without.
**** Imported UK issue only, initial copies with sticker having silhouette logo and "Factory Records Australasia Import".

Run-out groove

US LP

88561-8123-A1, Pa 9.86, Mastered by Trutone
88561-8123-B1, Pa 9.86, Mastered by Trutone
88561-8123-C1, Pa 9.86, Mastered by Trutone
88561-8123-D1, Pa 9.86, Mastered by Trutone

AU LP

FACT 164, MX 218173, Record One, 74693, Smx 74693, 6A, Å
FACT 164-2, MX 218174, Record One, SMX 74694, Smx 74748, 6A, Å
FACT 164 3, MX 218175, Record Two, SMX 747947, 6A, Å
FACT 164-4, MX 218176-B, Rec Two, SMX 747948, 6A, Å

Notes

Design: 8vo. There is a (USA only) 16" x 24" promotional poster from 8vo for this release. The Nov/Dec 1986 isssue of The Catalogue lists a DAT format release (FACT 164D) as planned for 1987. The track LFO MOD appears on the Factory Once reissue of The Guitar and Other Machines.

A Factory Australasia letter describes this release: "VALUABLE PASSAGES is a compilation double L.P. that draws from all the DURUTTI releases... Vini Reilly and members of THE DURUTTI COLUMN are featured on Morrissey's latest L.P. VALUABLE PASSAGES is only released in Australia and the U.S.A."

Circuses and Bread

Circuses and Bread


Bread and Circuses

CD: UK 07.86 (04.86) (Factory FACD 154)
LP: BL 05.85 (Factory Benelux FBN 36) [white label]
LP: BL 05.85 (Factory Benelux FBN 36)
CS: BL 05.85 (Factory Benelux FBNC 36)
CD: UK 06.86 (Factory Australasia FACD 154) ***
LP: DE 1986 (Normal NORMAL 20)
LP: ES 1986 (Nuevos Medios 33 207 L)
LP: FR 1986 (Attitude Records ATT 004)
LP: IT 1986 (Base FBN 36)
CD: BE 12.93 (Crépuscule TWI 988-2)**
CD: UK 10.07 (LTM LTMCD 2510) *

Tracklisting

Pauline (2:46)
Tomorrow (4:03)
Dance II (5:37)
Hilary (3:13)
Street Fight (4:01)
Royal Infirmary (4:18)
Black Horses (8:36)
Dance I (4:58)
Blind Elevator Girl (Osaka) (10:17)
All That Love and Maths Can Do *
I Get Along Without You Very Well *
Verbier (For Patti) *
The Aftermath *
A Silence *
Cocktail *
Telephone Call *
Mirror A *
Mirror B *

** - Retitled "Bread and Circuses" and with different artwork
*** - The Factory Australasia is an imported UK issue. Initial copies came with a sticker having Factory silhouette logo and "Factory Records Australasia Import".

CD mastering info (FACD 154)

FACD 154 MPO 02 . MPO France 06 Compact Disc

Run-out groove (FBN 36)

White label

FBN 36-A//59233-1
FBN 36-B//59234-1

Standard

FBN 36-A//59233-2
FBN 36-B//59234-1

Notes

Production: Vini Reilly
Design: 8vo (FACD 154)
Artwork: Herbert Bayer (TWI 988-2)

LP and cassette versions were also released as FBN 36 and FBNC 36. There also is a poster for the Benelux editions. Sized 24" x 12" it is titled "Du Pain et des Jeux", in orange and gold, and is totally different to the LP sleeve design.

The Nov/Dec 1986 isssue of The Catalogue lists a DAT format release (FACT 154D) as planned for 1987.

LTM reissue notes

Circuses and Bread was originally released on the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. This expanded CD edition also features ten bonus tracks including compilation album tracks Verbier and The Aftermath, five previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album Short Stories For Pauline, and the rarely heard 1983 single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, Anthony H. Wilson. The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. 19 tracks. 74 minutes of music.

Available direct from LTM and in good record shops.

Notes (additional)

FBN 36 was originally to have been an album 'Short Stories for Pauline', but was unreleased due to pressure from Factory Records in the UK. They didn't want this to interfere with the release of FACT 144 'Domo Arigato', Factory's first CD. 'Short Stories for Pauline' was shelved as Vini Reilly had recorded a new album in the meantime.

The contents were to be:

At First Sight * (4:15)
A Silence *** (?:??)
Journeys By Vespa * (3:20)
Limitations * (?:??)
Model * (?:??)
Duet * (?:??)
Destroy She Said * (3:47)
Take Some Time Out * (3:32)
Mirror A ** (?:??)
Cocktail *** (?:??)
Telephone Call *** (?:??)
Mirror B *** (?:??)
A Room in Southport * (?:??)
College * (?:??)

* Released on FBN 2 CD, most of them with different titles.
** Released on 'The Sporadic Recordings' CD.
*** Unreleased.

A New Age In Music [Airea, 1986]

LP CA 1986 [Airea, AIRS 1]

Tracklisting

Without Mercy (excerpt)

Notes

Canadian compilation/sampler also featuring Stephen Caudel, Tim Cross, Claire Hamill, Kitaro, Tom Newman, Dashiell Rae, Michael Rother, Johannes Schmoelling, Alan Stivell, John Themis and Rick Wakeman.

Crépuscule Collection 3 - The Rough With The Smooth

LP BE 1986 (Les Disques du Crépuscule, TWI 651)

Tracklisting (The Durutti Column only)

Madeleine

Notes

Crépuscule compilation also featuring Crispy Ambulance, Anna Domino, Paul Haig, Steven Harrison, Wim Mertens, The Pale Fountains, Blaine L. Reininger, Section 25.

Abuse - Artists for Animals [Slip Records, 1986]

LP UK 1986 [Slip Records, SD 003]

Tracklisting (The Durutti Column only)

The Aftermath

Notes

Charity compilation album also featuring The Style Council, Anne Clarke / Patrick Fitzgerald, Kevin Hewick, Ralph Steadman, Robert Wyatt, Madness and Attrition.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

7": BL 1985 (Factory Benelux FBN 51) [white label]
7": BL 1985 (Factory Benelux FBN 51)

Tomorrow [4:03]
Tomorrow (Live in Japan) + [3:00]

~ 7FBN 51-A, 58991
~ 7FBN 51-B, 58992

12": bL 1985 (Factory benelux FbN 51) [white label]
12": bL 1985 (Factory benelux FbN 51)

Tomorrow [4:03]
Tomorrow (Live in Japan) + [3:00]
All That Love and maths Can Do [3:33]

~ FBN 51-A//59157-1
~ FBN 51-B, 59158-1

Notes

Production: Vini Reilly / The Durutti Column and Anthony Wilson
Design: Joël Van Audenhaeghe

Greetings

Greetings


The Greetings Box


The Greetings Compact

12": IT 1986 (Materiali Sonori MASO 70003) ["Greetings Three"]
3x12": IT 19?? (Materiali Sonori MASO - was not allocated a catalogue number) ["Greetings Box"]
CD: IT 1989 (Materiali Sonori MASO 90001) ["Greetings Compact"] *
CD: IT 1990 (Materiali Sonori MASO 90014) ["The Greetings Compact Vol 2"] **

Florence Sunset * [5:07]
All That Love and Maths Can Do ** [3:39]
San Giovanni Dawn ** [3:59]
For Friends In Italy * [4:42]

Notes

As well as appearing in various combinations on the various releases of "Greetings", all four tracks also appeared on the Materiali Sonori compilation Red Shoes.

According to Materiali Sonori, the Greetings Box was not allocated a catalogue number. Presumably this was because the individual components (3x 12" singles) already had their own catalogue numbers.

From Brussels With Love

From Brussels With Love

CS: BE 11/80 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007) [with booklet]
CS: BE 10/82 (Crépuscule TWI 007)
2xLP: BE 12/86 (Crépuscule TWI 007) *
CD: DE 4/87 (Interphon IPCD 72001)
CD: JP 11/87 (Crépuscule Au Japon/Victor-JVC VDP 5150)
CD: BE 1988 (Crépuscule TWI 007-2)
CD: BE 9/99 (Crépuscule TWI 007-2)
CD: UK 12.02.07 (LTM LTMCD 2479)

Sleep Will Come [1:50]
Piece For An Ideal [2:15]
Weakness And Fever * [5:20]

2xLP: JP 1983 (Crépuscule Au Japon/Shinseido Sirius TWI 008/SC-10)
2xLP: BE 1983 (Crépuscule TWI 008)

Sleep Will Come [1:50]
Weakness And Fever [5:20]

LTM reissue notes

Originally released as a deluxe cassette/book package in November 1980, From Brussels With Love featured 22 exclusive tracks from the international avant garde and new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records roster. Then, as now, the contributing artists include Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, Dome, The Durutti Column, John Foxx, Martin Hannett, Richard Jobson, Bill Nelson, New Order and Michael Nyman. The programme also includes extended interviews with Brian Eno and iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau. This new CD edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and features 76 minutes of material. Most of the tracks featured here remain unavailable elsewhere. For reasons of space just one has been deleted from the original cassette (A Certain Ratio), although this track is available on LTMCD 2443. The 20 page facsimile booklet features original artwork by Benoit Hennebert, Claude Stassart and Jean-Francois Octave, as well as archive images and detailed liner notes.

In stock at LTM Central and available by mail order, plus outlets like Sister Ray already have it in stock.

Ghosts Of Christmas Past

Ghosts Of Christmas Past


Ghosts Of Christmas Past


Ghosts Of Christmas Past

LP: BE 12/81 (Crépuscule TWI 058)
LP: BE 12/82 (Crépuscule TWI 158) *
CS: BE 12/82 (Crépuscule TWI 159) *
LP: JP 1983 (Crépuscule Au Japon / Shinseido SC-9)
LP: BE 12/86 (Crépuscule TWI 658)
CD: BE 1988 (Crépuscule TWI 058-2)
CD: BE 9/99 (Crépuscule TWI 058-2)
CD: UK 11/07 (LTM LTMCD 2426)

* - renamed Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake)

Tracklisting (The Durutti Column)

One Christmas For Your Thoughts [4:25]
Snowflakes [4:13]

LTM re-release notes

New CD release of the classic compilation album released on ultra chic Belgian indie label Les Disques du Crépuscule on December 2 1981. Ghosts Of Christmas Past/Chantons Noë featured exclusive festive tracks from the international avant garde and new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records and Postcard rosters.

The album now features nine bonus tracks drawn from later editions of the album released between 1982 and 1986. These include seasonal contributions from The Pale Fountains, Antena, The French Impressionists, Mikado, Winston Tong and The Arcadians (aka French pop polymath Louis Philippe), as well as extra tracks from Paul Haig and The Durutti Column.

The booklet features original artwork by Benoît Hennebert and Jean-François Octave, as well as a facsimile of the LP insert featuring Christmas postcards, and detailed liner notes. The original 'bauble' cover art by Hennebert is widely recognised as one of his finest designs.

This new edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and features 70 minutes of material. Most of the featured tracks remain unavailable elsewhere.

The Return of The Durutti Column

FACT 14c The Return of The Durutti Column

LP: UK 1980 (Factory FACT 14) [sandpaper sleeve] */**
LP: UK 1980 (Factory FACT 14) [black sleeve] *****
LP: UK 1980 (Factory FACT 14) [white label of black sleeve edition] *****
CS: UK 1986 (Factory FACT 14C) [boxed] ***
CD: UK 1988 (Factory FACD 14) ****
7": UK 1980 (Factory FACT 14) [flexi-disc] *
LP: AU 07.80 (GAP/EMI FACOZ 1002)
CS: AU 07.80 (GAP/EMI TC-FACOZ 1002, 500 copies)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer (3:01)
Requiem For A Father (5:08)
Katharine (5:30)
Conduct (5:02)
Beginning (2:28)
Jazz (1:38)
Sketch For Winter (2:24)
Collette (2:23)
In "D" (4:12)
Sketch For Winter (2:25) ****

Run-out groove

Stencilled

~ FACT 14 4 PBG A1, Sound Clinic, EG, S-6
~ FACT 14 4 PBG B1, EG, S-3

Not stencilled

~ FACT 14 4 PBG AI, FACT 14 A1, Sound Clinic, EG, S-4
~ FACT 14 B1 14 PBG BI, EG, S-2

Factory Australasia

~ FACOZ 1002 A, Maxicut At 301, Otto ******
~ FACOZ 1002 B, Maxicut By 301, Otto

Black sleeve and white label test pressing

~ FACT 14 A3, 4 PBG, Townhouse, CR
~ FACT 14 PBG A3, CR

Tracklisting - Martin Hannett's Testcard 7" flexi*

First Aspect of the Same Thing (3:42)
Second Aspect of the Same Thing (2:59)

~ LYN 7561

Credits

The Durutti Column is Vini Reilly on guitar
and Martin Hannett on switches
Recorded at Cargo, Rochdale
Mixed at Strawberry, Stockport
Engineers Chris Nagle and John Brierley
33 1/3 rpm
Published by Movement of 24th January Music
A Factory Records Product
(P) © 1979

Notes

* Martin Hannett's 'Testcard' 7" flexidisc. (Shares the same FAC number as the album.)
** There were three editions of the sandpaper sleeve (total edition of 2,000): Some have FACT 14 sprayed on (in black or white) and the 7"; some haven't got the sprayed FACT 14 but the 7"; and some have no spray and no 7". (The sprayed FACT 14 was official.) There are initial pressings on dark-red (see-through) vinyl. Some sleeves (a smaller subset probably) are sprayed "THE RETURN OF THE DURUTTI COLUMN". Though unusual in the context of the whole edition, they are official.
*** With sandpaper insert.
**** Released as part of FACD 224.
***** Black sleeve issue is an additional mix (version) with less reverb & more phasing. Variable textured sleeves.
****** Otto is the name of the cutting engineer

Production: Martin Hannett
Design: Dave Rowbotham and Anthony Wilson (Sandpaper sleeve concept) / Paintings by Dufy (Black sleeve reissue)

Notes

The sandpaper sleeve is an homage to Situationists Guy Debord & Asger Jorn's Memoires (book, w/sandpaper cover; original edition published 1959).

There is a promo poster for the Factory Australasia edition, 30" x 40", designed by Andrew Penhallow.