PLAY DEAD - Complete Works [5CD Boxset]

Format: 5xCD BOX SET
Catalogue No.: FREUDCD139 
Barcode: 5013145213926
Release Date: 16 Oct 2026
Genre: Post-Punk

A 5xCD box set – documenting their entire career 1980-1985. 79 tracks in total.

Includes a 36 page booklet with notes by Adi Vine and unseen photos in a clamshell box.

Five albums: The First Flower, From the Promised Land, John Peel Sessions, Into the Fire and Company of Justice, expanded with extra singles, remixes & related tracks .   

PLAY DEAD release a career-spanning 5xCD box set with 79 tracks. Between 1980-1985 they grew into one of the UK’s leading post-punk bands with regular indie chart hits and a large loyal live following, through exposure from three John Peel sessions and extensive gigging (with UK Decay, Sex Gang Children, Killing Joke, The Cult and more). 

They headlined UK and EU tours in their own right and landed a live spot on the UK’s top music TV programme, The Tube. On various labels they issued a series of singles and three studio albums: The First Flower, From the Promised Land and Company of Justice, the latter produced by Conny Plank. These three albums, plus John Peel Sessions and the live album Into the Fire (extended and remixed) are the basics of the box; added to with numerous singles, remixes, obscurities etc – all remastered.

Disc #1: Time, The Tenant, Propaganda, Sin of Sins, In Silence, Don’t Leave Without Me, Shine, Gaze, Promise,Propaganda (mix), Blood Stains Pleasure, Poison Takes A Hold, Introduction, TV Eye, Final Epitaph, Propaganda (1984 mix), Sin Of Sins (1984 Mix). #2: Isabel, Torn on Desire, Walk Away, Pleasureland, Return to the East, No Motive, Holy Holy, Weeping Blood, Break, Blood Stains, Solace, Conspiracy, Sacrosanct, Pale Fire. #3: Effigy, Pray to Mecca, Metallic Smile, Propaganda, Gaze, The Tenant, Total Decline, Break, No Motive, Return to the East, The Tenant, No Motive, Propaganda, Blood Stains Pleasure, Holy Holy (Catholic mix), Solace (Ext version), Conspiracy (Saigon Mix), Sacrosanct (Heretic Mix). #4: Walk Away, Return to the East, Break, Torn on Desire, Shine, Solace, This Side of Heaven, Sin of Sins, Last Degree, Sacrosanct, The Tenant, No Motive, Propaganda, Sunfeast, Craving. #5:
Witnesses, Caught on the Thorns, Company of Justice, This Side of Heaven, Judgement, Chains, Celebration, Sacrosanct, Treason, Reward, Burning Down, Last Degree. This Side of Heaven (ext), Still In Chains, Burning Down (Mezcal Mix).