Metamatic Forums John Foxx John Foxx Glimmer: The Best Of

Rob

Does Glimmer cover the period with Virgin only, his solo career and work with Louis Gordon and Nation 12 or his entire music career?

Cheers

Chris

New profile pic on myspace which I presume to be front cover artwork (very tasteful)

Yep! I like it. Nice choice for the front cover.

Chris

I'm afraid that I can't remember the exact track-listing - but from memory it was quite a cross-section of stuff from Metamatic onwards, and that includes material recorded with Louis Gordon... I'll post the full and final track-listing just as soon as I can...

Rob

Track listing has now been published at Tesco: -

http://www.tesco.com/entertainment/product.aspx?R=872468

More Metamatic than I was expecting. Wot - no Broken Furniture no Falling Room

Hmmm...

I think we should wait for news from official sources.
Not saying its wrong, but "Stepping Sideways"?
Does that really fit in?

Surprised to see Ultravox tracks in there myself

But all are Ultravox songs that John and Louis have since reworked on various "Live" albums, so if these are John & Louis's versions, I don't see why they shouldn't be there.

If this is the tracklisting, it seems a shame that there isn't a new song or two on there, to encourage people who've already got everything else several times over to buy the album.

An odd choice of tracklisting in places - think I'll pass on this one.
Though had it offered something new...

...And nothing from From Trash or TCM. How very odd indeed.

One for the new fans I guess

If it is the correct tracklisting, I'm confused by why the space for at least three tracks at the end of Disc 2 has been taken up with 'Versions' of other tracks previously available. Extended or Early - such tracks are for collectors and completists (us lot!)really, not the casual buyer who I thought a 'best of' was aimed at.

Will be interesting to hear them though - especially Burning Car.

If it is the final tracklisting, it would be interesting to know if the choice of songs is John's or Steve's.