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Release Date: 2023-06-16Label: Parlophone
Outer slipsleeve of hard glossy cardboardAll discs in individual digisleeves (gatefold cardboard sleeves)
60-page booklet
Blu-ray discs are region free ['ABC' logo].
Cat# 5054197296215 appears on each digisleeve rear, each disc face, and on booklet rear. The outer slipsleeve has no cat#.
Each digisleeve comes with cover image on front, just the cat# on sleeve rear, with track list, credits and images of single sleeves on the inside.
Booklet contains commentary by PSB on all tracks.
Made in Germany.
All CD tracks are presented in their original UK single version except where stated (CD2-13). Hence the versions found on CD1 are the same as found on "Discography (The Complete Singles Collection)".
However the following tracks offer an alternative version:
- CD1-8 "Always On My Mind" (4:04) has a longer fade-out by 10 seconds compared to any previously released version (the printed duration 3:54 is incorrect).
- CD1-18 "Was It Worth It?" (4:35) has a longer fade-out by 10 seconds compared to the original (the printed duration 4:23 is incorrect).
- CD2-8 "Se A Vida É" has a slightly longer (around 3 seconds) fade-out compared to any previously released version.
- CD2-9 "Single-Bilingual" has echo effects for some vocals ("Barcelona") that are not on the original single version.
- CD2-11: The first few seconds of "Somewhere" are different, and some vocal samples from the "West Side Story" movie have been removed.
- CD2-13 "New York City Boy" is an edit, 13 seconds shorter than the original US single version. The shorter version was also used on "PopArt (The Hits)".
- CD3-4 "Love Etc." is not the original single version, but the mix included for the first time on the "Yes / Further Listening 2008–2010" re-issue (the drums and bass don't stop at 2:23 as on the original versions).
- CD3-8 "Winner" is a slightly different mix, released for the first time on the "Elysium / Further Listening 2011–2012" reissue (the background orchestration is removed from the last minute of the song, and some other minor differences).
CD1-2 duration listed as 4:18 (actually 4:24), CD1-8 as 3:54 (4:04), CD1-18 as 4:23 (4:35).
About Blu-ray content:
- BD1-8: The video of "Always On My Mind" is not an actual upgrade of the original, but a re-creation made using parts of the remastered "It Couldn't Happen Here" film from 2020. A couple of shots and effects are different to the original version of the video because of that.
- BD1-14: The video of "Being Boring" mistakenly included is the previously unreleased censored U.S. version. A corrected disc was released a few months later and sent to anyone who requested it --> Smash (The Videos 1985-2020)
- BD1-27: The video of "Single-Bilingual" includes a slightly different mix of the audio compared with the original, the same mix that appears on CD2.