Always Now [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Section 25 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 30, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: LTM
• ASIN: B00006AL8H
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,244,322 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Friendly Fires

2. Dirty Disco

3. C.P.

4. Loose Talk (Costs Lives)

5. Inside Out

6. Melt Close

7. Hit

8. Babies in the Bardo

9. Be Brave

10. New Horizon

11. Haunted [*]

12. Charnel Ground [*]

13. Human Puppets [*]

14. Knew Noise [*]

15. Up to You [*]

16. Girls Don't Count [*]

17. Oyo Achel Da [*]

18. After Image [*]

19. Red Voice [*]

Editorial Reviews

70 minute re-release of the cult, spacey 1981 debut album originally released as Fact 45, produced by Martin Hannett at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio. This remastered CD includes 9 tracks from the Girls Don't Count (Fac 18) and Haunted (FBN 3) singles as well as rare compilation tracks and album outtake Human Puppets. The newly re-modeled artwork faithfully reproduces the original Peter Saville sleeve design and contains facsimile memorabilia and detailed sleevenotes. 19 tracks in total. LTM. 2000.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Profound originality, January 23, 2003

By 

felipe echevarria "Felipe Echevarria" (Loveland, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Always Now (Audio CD)

Well now, what to say, what to say...this has been one of my absolute favorites since it first released in 1981. Those fortunate enough to own the vinyl version were treated to one of the most exquisitely designed sleeves ever, with ornate marble printing elegantly hiding within a sturdy school bus yellow folding envelope. But it got even better from there. The music takes you on a journey, that, to me, rivals anything Joy Divsion or Crispy Ambulance ever embarked upon. Deeply interesting and very different, moody and hopeful, angry and serene, and then deeply interesting again. Included here on the import CD version you get 9 extra songs (numbers 11-19), which for me wreck the final mood that New Horizon leaves you with, but there are still a few fine works in the extra set, especially #'s 14, 15, and 16, which were produced in part by Joy Division's Ian Curtis. Section 25 is like an emergency flare you fire in desperation toward the black sky when you're stranded in a life raft. Play it loud, and float upstream into the fullness of the void.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, one my faves, May 3, 2007

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windwindteartear (north america) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Always Now (Audio CD)

This album is usually described as gloomy. It's not. The overall effect of the album is happy and upbeat ("there's plenty of sadness in the world today / so why should we make any more / life's a feeling / yeah"), especially the last 2 songs on the album. The genius production of the album by Martin Hannet, amazing drum sounds. Nobody has ever made a snare and bass drum sound so fascinating and powerful.

Unfortunately, the cd reissue doesnt include actual marble paper-lined envelope style record sleeve. Now that's class.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the perfect opening act, August 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Always Now (Audio CD)

ladies and gentlemen:imagine you are in the audience at the joy division concert(late 1978,manchester or thereabouts).the bitter end of "sunny jim's" labour government.in america,the "aberration" of carterism will ignominiously implode in a year or two.but first consider the band that precedes the spectral mister curtis-section 25.only the "clever bastards from blackpool" could open the show!the music the cassidy brothers offered the jd fans is reduced here(on this cd,always now)in a minimalist,trippy format that gave philip glass pause,i'm sure.their weltanschauung is somber,surely,but for all that a classic example of late seventies less-is-more dance music 98% of the world missed at the time.this is music that sounds like a long lost gospel reads-lithe,vibrant,luminous,and elegant.defy everything-and by all means check out this disc.