Be Bop Deluxe | Futurist Manifesto: The Harvest Years 1974-1978

Be Bop Deluxe Futurist Manifesto: The Harvest Years 1974-1978

‘Futurist Manifesto – The Harvest Years 1974-1978’, collects together the five studio albums Be-Bop Deluxe recorded for EMI’s progressive imprint Harvest Records.

This five-disc set also features the single ‘Japan’ from 1977, available on CD for the first time, as well as single edits for ‘Electrical Language’, ‘Love In Flames’, ‘Panic In The World’ plus their biggest hit, ‘Ships In The Night’.

Also included is a whole disc of previously unreleased rarities, demos and live tracks.

DISC ONE
Axe Victim (1974)
1. Axe Victim
2. Love Is Swift Arrows
3. Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus
4. Third Floor Heaven
5. Night Creatures
6. Rocket Cathedrals
7. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
8. Jets At Dawn
9. No Trains To Heaven
10. Darkness (L’Immoraliste)
Futurama (1975)
11. Stage Whispers
12. Love With The Madman
13. Maid In Heaven
14. Sister Seagull
15. Sound Track
16. Music In Dreamland
17. Jean Cocteau
18. Between The Worlds
19. Swan Song

DISC TWO
Futurama – Bonus tracks
1. Between The Worlds (Original Single Version)
2. Maid In Heaven (Live)
Sunburst Finish (1976)
3. Fair Exchange
4. Heavenly Homes
5. Ships In The Night
6. Crying To The Sky
7. Sleep That Burns
8. Beauty Secrets
9. Life In The Air Age
10. Like An Old Blues
11. Crystal Gazing
12. Blazing Apostles
Sunburst Finish Bonus tracks
13. Shine
14. Speed Of The Wind
15. Blue As A Jewel
16. Ships In The Night (Single Edit)

DISC THREE (59.43)
Modern Music (1977)
1. Orphans Of Babylon
2. Twilight Capers
3. Kiss Of Light
4. The Bird Charmers Destiny
5. The Gold At The End Of My Rainbow
6. Bring Back The Spark
7. Modern Music
8. Dancing In The Moonlight (All Alone)
9. Honeymoon On Mars
10. Lost In The Neon World
11. Dance Of The Uncle Sam Humanoids
12. Modern Music (Reprise)
13. Forbidden Lovers
14. Down On Terminal Street
15. Make The Music Magic
Modern Music Bonus tracks
16. Futurist Manifesto (B-side 1977)
17. Quest For The Harvest Of The Stars
18. Autosexual
19. Japan (A-side 1977)

DISC FOUR (63.35)
Drastic Plastic (1978)
1. Electrical Language
2. New Precision
3. New Mysteries
4. Surreal Estate
5. Love In Flames
6. Panic In The World
7. Dangerous Stranger
8. Superenigmatix
9. Visions Of Endless Hopes
10. Possession
11. Islands Of The Dead

Drastic Plastic Bonus tracks
12. Blimps
13. Lovers Are Mortal
14. Lights
15. Electrical Language (Single Edit)
16. Love In Flames (Single Edit)
17. Panic In The World (Single Edit)

Disc Five
1. The Saxophonist (Demo)
2. Visions Of Endless Hopes (Demo)
3. Blue As A Jewel (Demo)
4. Speed Of The Wind (Demo)
5. Possession (rough mix.)
6. Maid In Heaven (Top Of The Pops backing track)
7. The Modern Music Suite (Live, previously unreleased)
8. Forbidden Lovers (Live, previously unreleased)
9. Down On Terminal Street (Live, previously unreleased)
10. Swansong (Live, previously unreleased)
11. Heavenly Homes (Flashman Remix, previously unreleased)