1985

Tracklist

• CD 1: Towers Open Fire (Sept 1983 – February 1985)
• 1
  Trumpets (radio session)
  3:29
• 2
  Be My Enemy (Prototype)
  4:08
• 3
  The Ways of Men (radio session)
  6:33
• 4
  The Waves #1
  4:09
• 5
  Old England (demo)
  4:00
• 6
  Towers Open Fire
  4:36
• 7
  Down Through the Town
  0:56
• 8
  Ribbon of Steel (live)
  2:15
• 9
  Bury My Heart (live)
  7:23
• 10
  The Three Day Man (live)
  4:24
• 11
  Medicine Bow (TV Performance)
  3:00
• 12
  This Is the Sea (live)
  5:57
• 13
  A Door for My Soul (Home demo)
  1:09
• 14
  Son of Rags
  2:18
• 15
  In My Bed
  1:51
• 16
  The Pan Within (instrumental demo)
  3:29
• 17
  Even the Trees Are Dancing (Full Length)
  7:53
• 18
  Theme
  0:53
• 19
  Fuzz Guitar Vamp
  0:33
• 20
  Death Is Not the End
  4:48
• CD 2: The Black Book (February – March 1985)
• 1
  Beverly Penn (piano demo)
  5:24
• 2
  Don’t Bang the Drum (piano demo)
  3:15
• 3
  Be My Enemy (piano demo)
  3:57
• 4
  The Day I Ran Out of People
  2:05
• 5
  Winter Blows
  3:24
• 6
  The Mercenary and the Samaritan
  0:53
• 7
  Looking for Dickon
  2:20
• 8
  Spirit (piano demo)
  2:01
• 9
  All the Bright Horses
  0:41
• 10
  Custer’s Blues (piano demo)
  3:30
• 11
  The Woman in Me
  2:42
• 12
  Paris in the Rain
  4:31
• 13
  The Song of Sitting Bull
  2:55
• 14
  Talk About Wings
  1:05
• 15
  The Whole of the Moon (The Writing of)
  9:16
• 16
  The Pan Within (piano demo)
  4:34
• 17
  No Sun in the Sky
  2:59
• 18
  Winter in the Blood
  4:11
• 19
  We Belong to the World
  2:02
• 20
  The Whole of the Moon (piano demo)
  6:16
• CD 3: A Sky Full of Crows (March 1985)
• 1
  Medicine Jack
  4:13
• 2
  Medicine Jack Boogie‐Woogie
  0:28
• 3
  The Sound of Snow
  3:17
• 4
  The Pan Within (instrumental)
  6:12
• 5
  It Should Have Been You / Guitar Play
  3:08
• 6
  Old England (early take)
  6:14
• 7
  Old Macmichael Had a Band
  2:33
• 8
  Sweet Thing
  7:01
• 9
  Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town
  1:24
• 10
  Spirit (Full Length)
  4:12
• 11
  Then You Hold Me
  4:57
• 12
  Trumpets (instrumental #1)
  2:56
• 13
  Rain Come Down
  5:41
• 14
  Son of Dirt
  6:15
• 15
  This Is the Sea (Drum Pad version)
  17:38
• CD 4: The Ladder (March – May 1985)
• 1
  Medicine Bow (Elemental Rough mix)
  5:49
• 2
  Trumpets (instrumental #2)
  3:02
• 3
  Be My Enemy (Rough mix)
  3:43
• 4
  Sleek White Schooner
  3:45
• 5
  Sweetheart Like You
  4:19
• 6
  This Is the Sea (Fast) (Mike Lead Guitar demo)
  4:50
• 7
  Adrian and the Piano Storm
  8:51
• 8
  Beverly Penn (Synth version)
  1:04
• 9
  This Is the Sea (Fast) (Tom Verlaine Lead Guitar version)
  4:56
• 10
  The Waves #2
  4:48
• 11
  The Ladder (demo)
  1:17
• 12
  Beverly Penn
  6:10
• 13
  Don’t Bang the Drum (Livingston mix)
  7:29
• 14
  Ribbon of Steel (Slide Guitar)
  2:09
• 15
  Paisley Park
  1:02
• CD 5: Mountaintop (May – November 1985)
• 1
  The Whole of the Moon (Livingston mix)
  5:41
• 2
  High Far Soon
  2:17
• 3
  This Is the Sea (Livingston mix)
  6:28
• 4
  Medicine Bow (Full Length)
  5:46
• 5
  The Pan Within (Wickham’s First Play)
  1:14
• 6
  Miracle
  1:16
• 7
  World Party (demo)
  3:24
• 8
  I Am Not Here
  0:23
• 9
  Born to Be Together (radio session)
  5:12
• 10
  Higher in Time (radio session)
  3:43
• 11
  The Whole of the Moon (video version)
  4:58
• 12
  Meridian West
  3:34
• 13
  Don’t Bang the Drum (radio session)
  5:54
• 14
  Medicine Bow (radio session)
  5:18
• 15
  Behold the Sea (radio session)
  6:39
• 16
  Beverly Penn 2023
  5:40
• CD 6: This Is the Sea (original album)
• 1
  Don’t Bang the Drum
  6:46
  3.5 ★
• 2
  The Whole of the Moon
  5:02
• 3
  Spirit
  1:48
  3.0 ★
• 4
  The Pan Within
  6:12
• 5
  Medicine Bow
  2:45
• 6
  Old England
  5:31
• 7
  Be My Enemy
  4:17
• 8
  Trumpets
  3:36
• 9
  This Is the Sea
  6:29

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Release credits

• Anthony Thistlethwaite
  double bass [3], saxophone [1]
• Chris Whitten
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Delahaye
  percussion [1]
• Karl Wallinger
  bass synthesizer [1], percussion [3], producer [3], synthesizer [3]
• Mick Glossop
  mix [1], producer [3]
• Mike Scott
  guitar [1], piano [1, 3], producer [1, 3], vocal [1, 3]
• Roddy Lorimer
  trumpet [1]

Issues

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  1
  (Combined release view)
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  1
  1985

  Digital Media
  23 February 2024
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  1
  1985

  6x CD
  23 February 2024
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  1
  1985

  6x Digital Media
  23 February 2024