Broken Skies Outspread Wings (1984–2006)

Compilation by Steve Hackett

Released 5 October 2018

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Till We Have Faces
  • 1
    Duel
    4:48
  • 2
    Matilda Smith‐Williams Home for the Aged
    8:06
  • 3
    Let Me Count the Ways
    6:05
  • 4
    A Doll That’s Made in Japan
    3:56
  • 5
    Myopia
    2:55
    5.0 ★
  • 6
    What’s My Name
    7:05
  • 7
    The Rio Connection
    3:20
  • 8
    Taking the Easy Way Out
    3:49
  • 9
    When You Wish Upon a Star
    0:48
  • CD 2: Feedback ’86
  • 1
    Cassandra
    4:08
  • 2
    Prizefighters
    5:13
  • 3
    Slot Machine
    4:22
  • 4
    Stadiums of the Damned
    4:42
  • 5
    Don’t Fall
    4:25
  • 6
    Oh How I Love You
    3:58
  • 7
    Notre dame des fleurs
    3:12
  • 8
    The Gulf
    7:20
  • 9
    When the Heart Rules the Mind (2018 re‐record of GTR track)
    5:20
  • CD 3: Guitar Noir
  • 1
    Sierra Quemada
    5:18
  • 2
    Take These Pearls
    4:14
  • 3
    There Are Many Sides to the Night
    7:22
  • 4
    In the Heart of the City
    4:34
  • 5
    Dark as the Grave
    4:38
  • 6
    Lost in Your Eyes
    4:55
  • 7
    Little America
    4:55
  • 8
    Like an Arrow
    2:50
  • 9
    Theatre of Sleep
    3:04
  • 10
    Walking Away From Rainbows
    3:10
  • 11
    Paint Your Picture
    2:57
  • 12
    Vampyre With a Healthy Appetite
    5:29
  • 13
    Tristesse
    4:01
  • 14
    Sierra Quemada (demo)
    4:30
  • 15
    Take These Pearls (rough mix)
    4:11
  • 16
    In the Heart of the City (original version)
    4:19
  • 17
    Vampyre With a Healthy Appetite (demo)
    4:41
  • CD 4: Darktown
  • 1
    Omega Metallicus
    3:48
  • 2
    Darktown
    4:59
    5.0 ★
  • 3
    Man Overboard
    4:17
  • 4
    The Golden Age of Steam
    4:09
  • 5
    Days of Long Ago
    3:23
  • 6
    Dreaming With Open Eyes
    6:54
  • 7
    Twice Around the Sun
    7:15
  • 8
    Rise Again
    4:26
  • 9
    Jane Austen’s Door
    6:13
  • 10
    Darktown Riot
    3:10
  • 11
    In Memoriam
    7:59
  • 12
    Flame
    4:21
  • 13
    Coming Home to the Blues
    6:13
  • 14
    Fast Flower
    4:33
  • CD 5: To Watch the Storms
  • 1
    Strutton Ground
    3:05
  • 2
    Circus of Becoming
    3:48
  • 3
    The Devil Is an Englishman
    4:27
  • 4
    Frozen Statues
    2:59
  • 5
    Mechanical Bride
    6:40
    2.0 ★
  • 6
    Wind, Sand and Stars
    5:07
    2.0 ★
  • 7
    Brand New
    4:40
  • 8
    This World
    5:19
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    Rebecca
    4:20
  • 10
    The Silk Road
    5:25
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Pollution B
    0:59
  • 12
    Fire Island
    5:24
  • 13
    Marijuana, Assassin of Youth
    5:49
  • 14
    Come Away
    3:12
  • 15
    The Moon Under Water
    2:14
  • 16
    Serpentine Song
    6:49
  • 17
    Reconditioned Nightmare
    4:04
  • 18
    If You Only Knew
    2:25
  • CD 6: Wild Orchids
  • 1
    Transylvanian Express
    3:44
  • 2
    Waters of the Wild
    5:35
  • 3
    Set Your Compass
    3:37
  • 4
    Down Street
    7:34
  • 5
    A Girl Called Linda
    4:44
  • 6
    Blue Child
    4:24
  • 7
    To a Close
    4:48
  • 8
    Ego and Id
    4:07
  • 9
    Man in the Long Black Coat
    5:07
  • 10
    Cedars of Lebanon
    4:01
  • 11
    Wolfwork
    4:49
  • 12
    Why
    0:46
  • 13
    She Moves in Memories
    4:59
  • 14
    The Fundamentals of Brainwashing
    3:00
  • 15
    Howl
    4:31
  • 16
    A Dark Night in Toytown
    3:42
  • 17
    Until the Last Butterfly
    2:28
  • DVD-Video 7: Surround Sound 5.1 Mixes
  • 1
    Wolfwork
    4:47
  • 2
    Set Your Compass
    3:42
  • 3
    Cedars of Lebanon
    4:02
  • 4
    Brand New
    4:42
  • 5
    Serpentine Song
    6:47
  • 6
    Circus of Becoming
    3:56
  • 7
    When the Heart Rules the Mind
    5:21
  • 8
    Mechanical Bride (Paris 2009)
  • 9
    Rise Again (Offenbach 2017)
  • 10
    Rainbows (Cologne 2011)
  • DVD-Video 8: Somewhere in South America
  • 1
    The Floating Seventh
    1:26
  • 2
    Mechanical Bride
    6:48
    2.0 ★
  • 3
    Medley
    5:13
  • 4
    Serpentine Song
    6:43
  • 5
    Watcher of the Skies
    5:08
  • 6
    Hairless Heart
    2:55
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Firth of Fifth
    3:00
  • 8
    Riding the Colossus
    4:13
  • 9
    Pollution
    2:41
  • 10
    The Steppes
    6:12
    2.0 ★
  • 11
    Gnossienne #1
    3:46
  • 12
    Walking Away From Rainbows
    4:03
  • 13
    Sierra Quemada
  • 14
    The Wall of Knives
    2.0 ★
  • 15
    Vampyre With a Healthy Appetite
  • 16
    A Tower Struck Down
  • 17
    Lucridus
  • 18
    Darktown
  • 19
    Camino Royale
  • 20
    Intros
  • 21
    In Memoriam
  • 22
    Horizons
  • 23
    Los Endos
  • 24
    ‘Somewhere in Italy’ (backstage footage & interviews from the 2000 Italian tour)

More by Steve Hackett

Release credits

  • vocal [9]
  • co [2, 5, 8, 13], keyboard [3.2, 3.5, 3.8, 3.13, 4.8], mix [5, 8, 13], piano [8], producer [8], programming [2, 5, 8, 13], strings [8]
  • electronic instruments [1], programming [10]
  • electronic instruments [3], engineer [9], guitar [1], mellotron [7], mix [3, 8], producer [5, 8], programming [9], recording [3-4, 7-8], strings [4], synthesizer [7]
  • background vocals [11], bass [8], cello [5], mix [4.5, 3.11], recording [5]
  • clarinet [9]
  • vocal [2]
  • guitar [1, 3], producer [3], vocal [3]
  • vocal [1-3, 5-6]
  • bass [1, 4, 6-7, 12]
  • mix [6-7]
  • background vocals [7], drums (drum set) [8], membranophone [1, 4, 6-7, 12]
  • saxophone [4.2, 5.7]
  • drums (drum set) [1]
  • additional [16], background vocals [16], bass [6], bell [4], engineer [12], keyboard [6], mix [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.10, 3.12, 5.1, 4.4, 4.6], recording [4.4, 4.6-7, 5.1], strings [4, 6], woodwind [4]
  • vocal [5]
  • flute [6.7, 6.10, 6.13, 5.16], guitar [8], solo [16]
  • bass [11]
  • background vocals [7], keyboard [3.1, 3.4, 3.6-7, 3.12, 4.2]
  • drums (drum set) [2], keyboard [6.8, 2.1-5, 2.8, 3.9], membranophone [3-5, 8], piano [6], programming [9]
  • bass [1]
  • arranger [2]
  • electronic instruments [3], recording [3, 8]
  • flute [5, 13]
  • bass [2, 9, 13], conductor [11], electronic instruments [3], guitar [6.4, 4.1], keyboard [4.2, 4.9, 2.9], mellotron [10-11], membranophone [4, 11, 13], mix [3.9, 4.1-3, 4.7, 4.9-11], piano [13], producer [4-5], programming [4.1, 4.7, 4.9-10, 4.13, 2.9], recording [1-4, 7, 9-11], strings [10-11], woodwind [4]
  • bass [1], fretless bass [7]
  • 12 string guitar [3], additional [4], electronic instruments [3], flute [6], guitar [2.1-9, 3.1-2, 3.4-13, 4.1-3, 4.6-10], guitar family [5, 11, 13], harmonica [4.2-3, 4.13, 3.6-7, 3.12, 2.5], lead vocals [2.9, 4.11], mix [4], other instruments [10-11], pan flute [6], percussion [13], piano [3], rainstick [4.3, 3.11], spoken vocals [2, 6, 10-11], strings [3.8, 4.4], violin family [5], vocal [4.8-9, 4.13, 3.2, 3.4-9, 3.11-12, 2.1-5, 2.8], woodwind [4]
  • guitar [9]
  • bass [2]
  • performing orchestra [2]
  • choir vocals [3, 11]

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