Persons Unknown: The Complete Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Persons Unknown
  7:15
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Old Tart's Song
  2:21
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Crisis
  3:26
• 4
  Ideologically Unsound
  2:40
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Bremen Song
  7:16
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Political Love
  2:31
• 7
  Jump Mama Jump
  3:03
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Under the Doctor
  2:49
• 9
  Reality Attack
  5:22
• 10
  Piano Lessons
  3:46
• 11
  Closed Shop
  2:45
• 12
  I Wanted the Moon
  2:45
• 13
  Revenge
  2:09
• 14
  Cat's Eye
  2:28
• 15
  Ice Cold
  3:19
• 16
  Radio City
  3:50
• 17
  Reality Attack
  7:58
• 18
  Alienation
  3:44
• CD 2
• 1
  Statement
  4:30
• 2
  Another Hero
  4:58
• 3
  Hole in the Wall
  4:12
• 4
  Underbitch
  4:15
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Alienation
  6:48
• 6
  Pretty Polly
  4:03
• 7
  Good Time
  6:58
• 8
  Other
  5:50
• 9
  Daughters and Sons
  5:17
• 10
  Tender Love
  1:45
• 11
  State Control
  3:28
• 12
  Dirty Work
  4:31
• 13
  Promenade Immortelle
  6:55
  5.0 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  Persons Unknown
  4:06
• 2
  State Control
  2:57
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Old Tart's Song
  1:34
• 4
  Bully Boys
  2:18
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Tension
  2:47
• 6
  Another Hero
  3:38
• 7
  Don't Go Home Tonight
  3:20
• 8
  SS Snoopers
  4:35
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Other
  5:03
• 10
  Daughters and Sons
  5:05
• 11
  Fucking Mother
  3:42
• 12
  Dirty Work
  3:41
• 13
  Alienation
  6:06
• 14
  The Offending Article
  4:41
  5.0 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Where's the Pleasure
  3:07
• 2
  Lovers Are They Worth It?
  2:48
• 3
  I've Done It All Before
  3:18
• 4
  Whiskey Voice
  1:04
• 5
  Ménage Abattoir
  4:28
• 6
  Take the Toys From the Boys
  2:21
• 7
  Soft Touch
  2:37
• 8
  Take the Toys (reprise)
  0:56
• 9
  Velvet Launderette
  3:27
• 10
  Rio Disco Stink
  4:16
• 11
  Cry No More
  3:16
• 12
  Mandy Is Having a Baby
  2:57
• 13
  Fear of Freedom
  6:19
• 14
  Statement (orchestral version)
  5:10
• CD 5
• 1
  One Good Reason
  3:16
• 2
  Cinnamon Garden
  3:14
• 3
  Perfect Crime (Rebels or Hooligans)
  4:47
• 4
  Tension (single mix)
  3:23
• 5
  Fear of Freedom
  7:00
• 6
  Where's the Pleasure
  3:13
• 7
  Too Close for Comfort
  4:46
• 8
  Real Woman
  3:45
• 9
  Rio Disco Stink
  5:54
• 10
  Are You Happy Now?
  3:53
• 11
  Too Proud
  4:20
• 12
  Tell the Children
  3:04
• 13
  White Cream Dream
  3:59
• 14
  State Control
  3:59
• 15
  Tension
  3:38
• 16
  I've Done It All Before
  4:27
• CD 6
• 1
  Real Woman
  3:44
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Voodoo Pappadollar
  4:32
• 3
  Hot for Love
  3:32
• 4
  Riot in My Mind
  3:54
• 5
  Feeling the Pinch
  2:09
• 6
  Desperate Days
  6:19
• 7
  Too Close for Comfort
  4:12
• 8
  Rockface
  3:34
• 9
  No More Lies
  2:44
• 10
  Too Proud
  4:16
• 11
  State Control (Banjo)
  0:22
• 12
  Are You Happy Now?
  3:08
• 13
  White Cream Dream
  4:02
• 14
  Are You Happy Now? (remix)
  4:30
• 15
  Cry No More
  3:30
• 16
  Voodoo Pappadollar
  4:20
• 17
  Rockface
  4:00
• CD 7
• 1
  Price of Grain
  2:46
• 2
  Stonehenge 1985
  2:54
• 3
  Jenny
  3:34
• 4
  Girls Over There
  4:00
• 5
  Let It Go
  3:46
• 6
  Cupid
  3:43
• 7
  Mirrors and Glass
  2:08
• 8
  Abort the System
  3:39
• 9
  All the Way
  4:56
• 10
  I Hate the West
  4:03
• 11
  Stranger
  3:13
• 12
  The Money's Not Real
  2:32
• 13
  Seducer
  3:07
• 14
  The Force
  3:56
• 15
  Oh Boy
  2:57
• 16
  Hot Slots
  2:50
• 17
  I've Done It All Before
  3:40
• 18
  The Hook
  2:46
• 19
  Torture
  2:39
• 20
  Statement
  4:35
• 21
  Persons Unknown
  3:19

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Release credits

• Adrian Grey-Turner
  producer [10-11]
• Agent Orange
  drums (drum set) [7.1-4, 6.4-5, 6.9]
• Bernhardt Rebours
  bass [1.1-11, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.8], bass guitar [1.1, 3.7, 3.11, 2.2-9, 2.12-13], synthesizer [1], vocal [12]
• Bernie Clarke
  producer [6.1-4, 6.6-8, 6.14, 7.1-4, 5.2-3], remixer [14]
• Chris Grace
  bass [2], fretless bass [1-13]
• Chris Heaton
  synthesizer [13]
• Cynth Ethics
  keyboard [5.2-3, 6.1-9, 6.14]
• Eve Libertine
  additional [13]
• John Brand
  remixer [14]
• John Loder
  engineer [1], recording [1.1, 2.12-13]
• Lance D'Boyle
  drums (drum set) [2.2-9, 2.12-13, 5.2-3, 4.1-13, 6.1-3, 6.6-8, 6.14, 1.1-11, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.7-8, 3.11], vocal [12]
• Mark Dunn
  bass guitar [14]
• Martin Heath
  bass [6.1-3, 6.6-8, 5.3]
• Max Vol
  bass [6.4-5, 6.9, 7.1-4]
• Nil
  other instruments [1]
• Penny Rimbaud
  producer [1.1-9, 2.2-9, 2.12-13]
• Pete Fender
  bass [1-13]
• Richard Famous
  guitar [4.1-13, 5.2-3, 6.1-9, 6.14, 1.1-11, 7.1-4, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.7-8, 3.11, 2.2-9, 2.12-13], producer [5, 9], vocal [12]
• Simaen Skolfield
  producer [1-13]
• Stuart James
  producer [1-13]
• Vi Subversa
  background vocals [11], guitar [4.1-13, 5.2-3, 6.1-9, 6.14, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.7-8, 3.11, 1.1-11, 2.2-9, 2.12-13, 7.1-4], vocal [3.2, 3.4-5, 3.7-8, 3.11, 7.1-4, 4.1-13, 5.2-3, 1.1-10, 6.1-9, 6.11, 6.14, 2.2-9, 2.12-13]
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  Persons Unknown: The Complete Recordings

  7x CD
  27 March 2026