Thompson Twins
/ BABBLE Discography
THOMPSON TWINS ALBUMS - P2 (1985-94)
"Here's to Future Days"
Time Capsule - (1985)
US CS promo Arista TCC-8276
A - ?:?? Interview
B - ?:?? Lay Your Hands On Me
?:?? King For a Day
?:?? Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
[interview with Tom Bailey and Nile Rodgers, with excerpts from Future
Days, King For a Day, Revolution, Don't Mess With Doctor Dream and Lay
Your Hands On Me; contains T-shirt, button, document and tape ("Here's
to Future Days Promotional Cassette". box is 9 1/2" tall, 3" wide]
Here's To Future Days - (September 20, 1985)
UK 12" Arista 207164
UK CS Arista 407164
UK CD Arista 258-979
JP 12" Arista 28RS-4
JP CS Arista 28RT-4
JP CD Arista/BMG 25RT-89 [1997 re-issue]
GE CD Arista 610 355-222
MX 12" Arista LAE-664
MX CS Arista CS-664
A - 4.24 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.21 Lay Your Hands On Me
2.58 Future Days
4.53 You Killed the Clown
4.05 Revolution
B - 5.20 King for a Day
4.45 Love is the Law
4.44 Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
3.39 Tokyo
3.32 Breakaway
[North American 12" has 'Roll Over']
[MX 12" has the lyrics in the sleeve]
CA 12" Arista AL8-8276 [omits 'Breakaway' / Columbia House Edition]
US 12" Arista AL8-8276 [omits 'Breakaway']
US 12" Arista/RCA R-144367
[Has AL8-8276 printed on it too, omits 'Breakaway', RCA Music Service Edition]
US 12" Arista 8L 88275 [omits 'Breakaway']
US CS Arista AC8-8276
US CS RCA C144367
A - 4.24 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.21 Lay Your Hands On Me
2.58 Future Days
4.58 Roll Over
4.05 Revolution
B - 5.20 King for a Day
4.45 Love is the Law
4.44 Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
3.39 Tokyo
4.53 You Killed the Clown
3.32 Breakaway
CA CS Arista/RCA AC8-8276 [RCA Music Service edition]
US CS Arista AC8-8276 [early sleeve]
US CS Arista AC8-8276 [later sleeve]
US CS RCA C144367
A - 4.24 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.21 Lay Your Hands On Me
2.58 Future Days
4.58 Roll Over
4.05 Revolution
B - 5.20 King for a Day
4.45 Love is the Law
4.44 Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
3.39 Tokyo
4.53 You Killed the Clown
3.32 Breakaway
GE CS Arista 407 164 [contains remixes]
GE 12" ARISTA/ARIOLA 207164GE WLP 12" ARISTA/ARIOLA (?) 207164 (number is on the vinyl only)
["Unverkäufliche Musterplatte" on label]
GE 12" ARISTA/ARIOLA 207164
[apparently released as one 12" without the additional 12" of remixes]
GE 2x12" Arista 207 164/FRE TT1
[also # B-3151, sold separately; + fan club insert]
OZ stickered promo 2x12" Arista/Festival Records RML 53179
OZ 2x12" ?? VPLI 7511 [gatefold]
A - 4.24 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.21 Lay Your Hands On Me
2.58 Future Days
4.53 You Killed the Clown
4.05 Revolution
5.20 King for a Day
4.45 Love is the Law
4.44 Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
3.39 Tokyo
3.32 Breakaway
extra tracks :
(side 2-407 164)
(disc 2--FRE TT1)
A - 6.23 Shoot Out
4.59 Alice
3.20 Heavens Above!
B - 5.44 the Kiss
7.05 Desert Dancers
[FRE TT1 was not manufactured in UK, only in GE
then distributed to the UK]
[GE 12" 207 doesn't have rollover but has the remixes, GE CS 407
has rollover but not breakaway, as does the GE CD 610]
US CD Arista ARCD 8276
4.24 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.21 Lay Your Hands On Me
2.58 Future Days
4.58 Roll Over
4.05 Revolution
5.20 King for a Day
4.45 Love is the Law
4.44 Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
3.39 Tokyo
4.53 You Killed the Clown
3.32 Breakaway
[the US CD misspells Doctor Dream as "Docotor" on the CD
and lists Emperor's Clothes with no mention that it's Part 1.
The US 12" and CS say Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)]
SA CS Thomsun EN 500
A - Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
Lay Your Hands On Me
Future Days
You Killed The Clown
The Kiss
B - King for a Day
Love is the Law
Emperor's Clothes
Tokyo
Breakaway
GR CS ?? VG 60026
A - 4.24 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.21 Lay Your Hands On Me
2.58 Future Days
4.53 You Killed the Clown
4.05 Revolution
B - 5.20 King for a Day
4.45 Love is the Law
4.44 Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
3.39 Tokyo
3.32 Breakaway
Thompson Twins Live - (May 1986)
UK 12" Arista TTLP1
A - 4.32 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.38 Lay Your Hands On Me
5.53 Doctor! Doctor!
4.48 You Killed The Clown
B - 7.14 Love On Your Side
4.51 The Gap
7.31 Hold Me Now
[Produced for UK fans to make up for cancelled tour in 1985 - all are autographed (?)]
Thompson Twins : Interview Sampler [Close to the Bone] - (1987)
US 12" Arista ADP-9586
A - 23.15 Interview
B - 4.02 Twentieth Century
6.25 Get That Love (special extended remix)
4.22 Long Goodbye
4.10 Bush Baby
[comes in a plain record sleeve with a custom sticker:
"A candid conversation with Tom Bailey, Alannah Curie, and
Close to the Bone producer, Rupert Hine. Interview conducted
by Larry "The Duck" Dunn. Plus!! Four Songs from the Close
to the Bone album being released March 26, 1987."]
The First Session - (1987)
UK 12" Nighttracks/Strange Fruit Records SFNT 005
A - 3.55 A Product of...
4.00 the Price
B - 3.20 Could be her, could be you
2.10 Oumma Aularesso
[performance from BBC1 session 2/12/81]
Close To The Bone - (April 20, 1987)
UK 12" Arista 208 143
UK CD Arista 258 143
OZ 12" ?? SFLI 0155
GE 12" ARISTA/ARIOLA 258143
UK CS Arista 408 143
JP Arista/BMG BVCM 7309 [1997 re-issue]
OZ CS ?? SFKI 0155
US CS Arista AC-8449
US CS promo Arista AC-8449
A - 3.54 follow your heart
4.10 bush baby
4.00 get that love
4.02 twentieth century
4.22 long goodbye
B - 3.36 still waters
4.40 savage moon
4.02 gold fever
4.28 dancing in your shoes
4.26 perfect day
[US promo "Close To The Bone" box is black, has custom designed sticker
on front, measures 7" long, 3 1/2" wide and 1" deep. has MC and mini
history manual of group. MC cat # AC-8449]
US 12" Arista AL-8449
A - 3.54 follow your heart
4.10 bush baby
4.00 get that love
4.02 twentieth century
4.22 long goodbye
B - 3.36 still waters
4.40 savage moon
4.02 gold fever
4.28 dancing in your shoes
4.26 perfect day
US CD Arista ARCD 8449
3.54 follow your heart
4.10 bush baby
4.00 get that love
4.02 twentieth century
4.22 long goodbye
3.36 still waters
4.40 savage moon
4.02 gold fever
4.28 dancing in your shoes
4.26 perfect day
Greatest Hits - (1987)
TH CS ?? A.241
A - Follow Your Heart
Get That Love
Twentieth Century
Long Goodbye
Bushbaby
Savage Moon
Dancing In Your Shoes
B - Perfect Day
Still Waters
Gold Fever
Sister Of Mercy
Lay Your Hands On Me
Lies (Bigger And Better)
Lies (Instrumental)
The Best Of Thompson Twins : Greatest Mixes - (August 1988)
US 12" Arista AL 8542
US CS Arista AC-8542
A - 5.20 in the name of love '88 [new version]
5.20 lies [(Dub) Lies]
5.38 love on your side
5.12 lay your hands on me
8.33 the gap [Club Remix version]
B - 7.06 hold me now
5.47 doctor! doctor!
8.27 you take me up [High Plains Mixer]
5.57 king for a day
4.56 get that love
[the Gap and You Take Me Up are not on the 12" according to the CS and CD]
US CD Arista ARCD-8542
JP CD Arista BVCA-173
JP CD Arista/BMG A32D-32 (1989)
[w/ 12-page lyric booklet featuring cartoon sketch of the Twins]
5.20 in the name of love '88 [new version]
5.20 lies [(Dub) Lies]
5.38 love on your side
5.12 lay your hands on me
8.33 the gap [Club Remix version]
7.06 hold me now
5.47 doctor! doctor!
8.27 you take me up [High Plains Mixer]
5.57 king for a day
4.56 get that love
[the Gap and You Take Me Up are not on the 12" according to the CS and CD]
GE CD Arista ARCD-8542
[same cover as US version]
GE CD Arista 261 220 (1990)[different cover than US version]
A - 5.20 in the name of love '88 [new version]
5.20 lies [(Dub) Lies]
5.38 love on your side
5.12 lay your hands on me
8.33 the gap [Club Remix version]
B - 7.06 hold me now
5.47 doctor! doctor!
8.27 you take me up [High Plains Mixer]
5.57 king for a day
4.56 get that love
HO CD Arista ??
HO CD Rigu ??
Big Trash
- (October 1989)
UK 12" Warner Bros./WEA WX 284
UK CS Warner Bros./WEA WX 284C
OZ 12" ?? 259211
US CS Warner Bros. 25921-4
US CS Warner Bros. W4 25921 [Columbia House Edition]
UK/GE CD Warner Bros./WEA 25921-2
A - 3.32 Sugar Daddy
3.45 Queen of the U.S.A.
3.57 Bombers in the Sky
3.11 This Girl's on Fire
3.27 T.V. On
3.10 Big Trash
B - 4.22 Salvador Dali's Car
3.07 Rock This Boat
4.29 Dirty Summer's Day
4.11 Love Jungle
3.59 Wild
TH CS Peachy 521
A - 3.32 Sugar Daddy
3.45 Queen of the U.S.A.
3.57 Bombers in the Sky
3.11 This Girl's on Fire
3.27 T.V. On
3.10 Big Trash
B - 4.22 Salvador Dali's Car
3.07 Rock This Boat
4.29 Dirty Summer's Day
4.11 Love Jungle
3.59 Wild
US CD Warner Bros. 25921-2 [also a gold stamped promo]
US CD Warner Bros. W2 25921 [Columbia House Edition]
A - 3.32 Sugar Daddy
3.45 Queen of the U.S.A.
3.57 Bombers in the Sky
3.11 This Girl's on Fire
3.27 T.V. On
3.10 Big Trash
B - 4.22 Salvador Dali's Car
3.07 Rock This Boat
4.29 Dirty Summer's Day
4.11 Love Jungle
3.59 Wild
JP CD Warner Bros./WEA W2 22P2-2952
US 12" Warner Bros. 25921-1 [also a gold stamped promo]
A - 3.32 Sugar Daddy
3.45 Queen of the U.S.A.
3.57 Bombers in the Sky
3.11 This Girl's on Fire
3.27 T.V. On
3.10 Big Trash
B - 4.22 Salvador Dali's Car
3.07 Rock This Boat
4.29 Dirty Summer's Day
4.11 Love Jungle
3.59 Wild
The Greatest Hits - (1990)
UK 2x12" Stylus Music SMR 092-1 DMD 2946 and 092-2 DMD 2946
UK double CS Stylus Music SMC 092
UK CD Stylus Music SMD 092
(SMR 092-1 DMD 2946):
A - 4.45 Hold Me Now
4.38 Doctor! Doctor!
4.23 Lay Your Hands On Me
4.26 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.14 King For A Day
4.43 the Gap
3.06 We Are Detective
B - 4.27 You Take Me Up
5.00 Sister Of Mercy
3.32 Love On Your Side
3.14 Lies
3.54 Get That Love
4.14 the Long Goodbye
4.07 Revolution
(SMR 092-2 DMD 2946)
A - 7.28 Love On Your Side (Megamix)
B - 5.55 In the Name Of Love (Tom's Full House Mix)
4.20 In the Name Of Love (Good Karma Mix)
[track times from CD; CD has all of the tracks on one disc;
1st track is not a megamix, 2nd track is probably meant to
be titled the good karma mix, and 3rd track is in fact a
Megamix which is probably meant to be titled Tom's Full
House mix (or Tom's full house megamix)]
[King For A Day - is a pre-Nile Rogers mix (with bells and no lead
guitar)- edited version of the version on Greatest Mixes - was
this an original 'Fools In Paradise' intended 7" single version,
before Nile Rogers got involved after Tom's illness ? - also found
on The Best Of Thompson Twins (1991)]
The Best Of Thompson Twins - (1991)
UK CS Gold/Perspective OG 2302
UK CD Old Gold/Perspective OG 3302
UK CD Old Gold/Elite OG 3302 ELITE 023CD
[same sleeve, different disc label]
9.47 Hold Me Now
3.58 Watching
5.08 Sister of Mercy
3.11 Lies
3.56 Get That Love
3.22 Make Believe (Let's Pretend)
3.59 Love on Your Side
4.26 You Take Me Up
3.04 We Are Detective
4.22 Lay Your Hands on Me
4.14 King for a Day
3.48 In the Name of Love
4.25 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4.05 Revolution
4.38 Doctor! Doctor!
[In The Name Of Love - This recording is different to most other
releases, sounds like a Studio recording of the way it was
performed 'live' and is also found on The Collection (1993).
King For A Day - pre Nile Rogers version, also found on
The Greatest Hits (1990)]
Queer - (September 1991)
US CD Warner Bros. 26631-2 (also W2 26631)
US CD Warner Bros. 26631-2-DJ [only says so on the CD itself]
US CD Warner Bros. W2 26631 [Columbia House Edition]
A - 3.58 come inside
4.16 flower girl
3.23 my funky valentine
3.19 queer
3.55 groove on
4.00 strange jane
3.32 shake it down
4.17 wind it up
3.47 flesh and blood
2.34 the invisible man
4.33 the saint
6.27 come inside (feedback max remix)
[the US CD's have 'the saint' in between 'the invisible man' and 'come inside (remix)']
JP CD Warner Bros./WEA WPCP-4426 [also a promo]
GE 12" Warner Bros. 26631-1
US CS Warner Bros. 26631-4
US CS Warner Bros. W4 26631 [Columbia House Edition]
GE CD Warner Bros. 26631-2
OZ CS promo? ?? 7599 26631 4
A - 3.58 come inside
4.16 flower girl
3.23 my funky valentine
3.19 queer
3.55 groove on
4.33 the saint
B - 4.00 strange jane
3.32 shake it down
4.17 wind it up
3.47 flesh and blood
2.34 the invisible man
6.27 come inside (feedback max remix)
[the CD has the saint in between the invisible man and come inside
(remix)]
[the DJ CD is a picture disc]
Twins Peak - (1992 Bootleg)
IT CD BEECHMASTER BM 095
4.04 Kamikaze
4.05 Love Lies Bleeding
3.31 We Are Detective
3.47 Lies
3.04 If You Were Here
6.06 All Fall Out
5.12 In The Name Of Love
4.01 Watching We Watching You
6.06 Love On Your Side
4.53 Beach Culture
4.14 Judy Do
[recorded live at the Regal Theatre, London from 1983
Manufactured by Phonocomp]
Thompson Twins : The Collection - (1993)
GE CD Ariola Express BMG 115 221-2 [also 74321152212 / 8637]
4:48 Hold me Now
5:10 Sister of Mercy
3:26 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
5:46 Who Can Stop the Rain
4:25 Perfect Day
3:52 Day After Day
4:41 Doctor!Doctor!
4:28 You Take Me Up
3:15 Lies
3:56 Follow Your Heart
3:37 Still Waters
4:49 Emperors Clothes
4:07 Revolution
3:45 In the Name of Love
[Dont Mess With Doctor Dream is a single edit.
In The Name Of Love - This recording is different to most other
releases, sounds like a Studio recording of the way it was
performed 'live' and is also found on The Best of Thompson Twins (1991).
Who Can Stop the Rain is longer (5:43) than the US LP version]
Thompson Twins: Hold
me now (1993)
GE CD ARIOLA/BMG
291029-200
3.50 In the name of love
5.20 Lies
5.38 Love on your side
5.12 Lay your hands on me
8.33 The gap
7.06 Hold me now
5.47 Doctor!Doctor!
8.27 You take me up
5.57 King for a day
4.56 Get that love
4.04 Revolution
3.01 Future days
Best Selection - (1994)
JP CD Arista/BMG-Victor BVCA-2601
3:14 Lies
3:06 We Are Detective
3:58 Watching
4:01 Love on Your Side
5:22 In the Name of Love '88
4:46 Hold Me Now
4:40 Doctor! Doctor!
4:28 You Take Me Up
5:10 Sister of Mercy
4:24 Lay Your Hands on Me
4:26 Don't Mess with Doctor Dream
5:23 King for a Day
4:06 Revolution
3:57 Follow Your Heart
4:01 Get that Love
3:29 Nothing in Common
Thompson Twins Singles Collection - (1996)
UK CS Camden/BMG ?? [does this exist?]
UK CD Camden/BMG 74321 393352
?:?? Perfect Game
3:40 Perfect Game
5:22 Lies (remix)
5:40 Love On Your Side (remix)
3:05 We Are Detective
3:56 Watching
7:07 Hold Me Now (remix)
5:47 Doctor Doctor (remix)
5:59 King For A Day (remix)
4:27 You Take Me Up
5:09 Sister Of Mercy
3:26 Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
4:57 Get That Love (remix)
4:05 Revolution
6:22 Lay Your Hands On Me (U.S. Remix)
5:17 In The Name Of Love (88 Remix)
[Lay Your Hands On Me is a previously unreleased - 1984 version]
Thompson Twins Greatest Hits - (1996)
Love, Lies, and Other Strange Things
US CD Arista 07822-18940-2
US CS Arista 07822-18940-4
3:55 In The Name Of Love
3:13 Lies
3:07 We Are Detective
2:58 If You Were Here
4:01 Love On Your Side
4:47 Hold Me Now
4:39 Doctor! Doctor!
4:26 You Take Me Up
4:45 The Gap
5:09 Sister Of Mercy
4:42 Don't Mess with Doctor Dream
4:04 Lay Your Hands On Me
5:21 King For A Day
3:31 Nothing In Common
3:56 Get that Love
4:33 Long Goodbye
The Best of Thompson Twins - (11-21-98)
(a.k.a. Best 21)
JP CD BMG-Arista BVCM 37029
?:?? Love On Your Side
?:?? Lies
?:?? We Are Detective
?:?? Watching
?:?? The Gap
?:?? Hold Me Now
?:?? Doctor! Doctor!
?:?? King For A Day
?:?? You Take Me Up
?:?? Sister Of Mercy
?:?? Don't Mess with Doctor Dream
?:?? Lay Your Hands On Me
?:?? Get that Love
?:?? Nothing In Common
?:?? Follow Your Heart
?:?? Revolution
?:?? Lay Your Hands On Me (US Remix)
Thompson Twins - Master Hits - (7-26-99)
US CD Arista 07822-14603-2
3:53 In The Name Of Love (UK album version)
2:33 Bouncing
3:11 Lies
4:45 Hold Me Now
3:49 Day After Day
5:43 Who Can Stop The Rain
4:21 Lay Your Hands On Me
5:20 King For A Day
4:45 Emporor's Clothes (Part 1)
3:50 Follow Your Heart
4:21 Perfect Day