Finally, the ACT is complete...
Now everyone is a winner....
The bigger and better
SUPER DELUXE EDITIONact 1 - the original 1988 cd
ztt zqcd1
released July 1988
produced by Stephen Lipson
except track 2 by Trevor Horn
track 3 by Greg Walsh
tracks 7 and 11 by Act
"lifestyles of the rich and famous..."
1 Absolutely Immune 4:38
2 Chance 4:22
3 Laughter 3:58
4 I Can't Escape From You 3:06
5 Poison 3:59
6 Under The Nights Of Germany 4:35
7 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 3:53
8 The 3rd Planet 4:26
9 Gestures 4:01
10 Bloodrush 4:12
11 A Friendly Warning 3:25
12 Certified 4:30
13 Where Love Lies Bleeding 3:20
14 Snobbery And Decay 5:06
act 2 - the 2003 remaster
ztt 185cd
released January 2004
produced by Stephen Lipson
except track 2 by Trevor Horn
tracks 3 and 15 by Greg Walsh
tracks 8 and 12 by Act
"caught in a cage between heaven and hell"
1 Absolutely Immune 4:37
2 Chance 4:22
3 Laughter 3:58
4 I Can't Escape From You 3:07
5 Short Story (Thinker) 0:32
6 Poison 3:58
7 Under The Nights Of Germany 4:35
8 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 3:53
9 The 3rd Planet 4:26
10 Gestures 4:00
11 Bloodrush 4:12
12 A Friendly Warning 3:25
13 Certified 4:31
14 Where Love Lies Bleeding 3:20
15 (Theme From) Laughter 1:02
16 Snobbery And Decay 5:06
17 Id Be Surprisingly Good For You 4:07
18 (Theme From) Snobbery And Decay 3:22
19 Absolutely Immune (7 Inch Mix) 3:21
20 White Rabbit 2:30
21 Dear Life 3:19
22 I Can't Escape From You (Theme) 3:04
SDE DISC 3: SINGLES ACT, PT.1 (SNOBBERY AND IMMUNITY)
an assortment of artefacts, part one
"watch them grow from rags to riches..."
1 (Theme From) Snobbery & Decay 0:54
2 Snobbery & Decay (7") 4:10
3 Snobbery & Decay (LP) 5:03
4 Snobbery And Decay (For Stephanie Beacham) 8:31
5 (The Naked Civil) Snobbery & Decay 8:53
6 Snobbery & Decay (That's Entertainment!) 9:49
7 (Theme From) Snobbery And Decay 3:22
8 Absolutely Immune (LP) 4:37
9 Absolutely Immune I 6:16
10 Absolutely Immune II 5:37
11 Absolutely Immune (Take 4) 4:02
12 Absolutely Immune (Seven Inch Mix) 3:21
13 Absolutely Immune (Instrumental) 3:27
SDE DISC 4: SINGLES ACT, PT. 2 (ESCAPE, CHANCERS, WINNERS & LAUGHTER)
an assortment of artefacts, part two
"you're my orchestra of one..."
1 (Theme From) I Can't Escape From You 3:05
2 I Can't Escape From You 3:06
3 I Can't Escape From You (Love & Hate) 7:22
4 Chance 4:08
5 Chance (Seven Inch Mix) 4:01
6 Chance (Whammy! Mix) 7:18
7 Chance (Full Whammy!) 8:01
8 Chance (Throbbin' Mix) 7.10
9 (We Give You Another) Chance 4:20
10 Winner '88 (7") 3:28
11 Winner 88 (Extended) 6:19
12 Winner 88 (Instrumental) 3:27
13 Laughter (Seven Inch Mix) 3:49
14 Laughter 3:58
15 Laughter (Instrumental Seven Inch Mix) 4:14
This is a bit different to my usual format. There are deliberate duplications of some songs on CD3 and CD4, simply as a means of gathering all versions of the same tracks/ideas together to create a musical suite of sorts. If I were able, I'd create a boxset of mini-CD EPs for each single, so that all the Snobbery mixes would be on a separate disc, all the Immune versions on another, and so on. But in the interests of space, I combined them all end-to-end to fit onto two discs.
Another option I toyed with was creating yet another "Directors Cut" style version of the main album. It already exists in three official versions (1988, 2003 and disc one on the 2015 compilation Love & Hate). Yet none of those really feel definitive enough for me. It would start with the orchestral Theme from Snobbery & Decay, contain the best mixes of the singles, leave off some of the iffy cover versions, and end with another of the piano/string Themes (probably Laughter).