Marc Almond - Hits And Pieces: The Best Of Marc Almond And Soft Cell (2017)

Hits And Pieces The Best Of Marc Almond And Soft Cell, comes available as a 2 CD disc, single CD disc or download and traces Almond s singles career from Soft Cell through to his solo work and collaborations. Almond has always excelled at recording superb singles he has secured a body of work that encompasses truly outstanding originals, covers and duets. Highlights of Hits And Pieces include Tainted Love, What!, Say Hello Wave Goodbye, the Number One reaching Gene Pitney duet Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart, his interpretation of Scott Walker s cover of Jacques Brel's Jacky with its epic kitchen sink production from Trevor Horn, a cover of Donna Summer's I Feel Love with, Bronski Beat, Melancholy Rose and Ruby Red from the Mother Fist album, a Tony Visconti produced nugget The Dancing Marquis, last year's superb The Velvet Trail, the glam stomper Varieté and another unforgettable cover in the form of The Days Of Pearly Spencer. To complete the package is the newest track on this compilation: the previously unreleased A Kind Of Love, three effortlessly breezy minutes that hint at Almond's past the 'light summery psychedelic sounds' on that mid-60s transistor radio, the Northern soul scene that inspired Soft Cell to cover Tainted Love and What! without really sounding much like anything Marc Almond has recorded before.

TRACKLIST

01. Tainted Love
02. Bedsitter
03. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (7 Single Version)
04. Torch (7 Single Version)
05. What?
06. I Feel Love
07. Stories Of Johnny
08. Tears Run Rings
09. Somethings Gotten Hold Of My Heart
10. A Lover Spurned
11. Jacky
12. My Hand Over My Heart
13. The Days Of Pearly Spencer
14. What Makes A Man (Live)
15. Adored And Explored (7 Edit)
16. The Idol (Pt. 1)
17. Child Star
18. Scar
19. A Kind Of Love (Radio Edit)