The Communards - Communards [2CD]

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: LMS5521520
Barcode: 5060555215200
Release Date: 03 Dec 2021
Genre: Pop

 The Communards and London Records release a 35 year Anniversary edition of the debut album ‘Communards’, featuring their huge hit single ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’.
 Upon the album’s original release in 1986, ‘Don’t leave Me This Way’ enjoyed six weeks at Number One, and the album itself reached a chart peak of Number Seven, going on to spend a total of 45 weeks in the UK Albums Chart.
 Available as an expanded double CD version featuring rarities and new remix by 7th Heaven, and on gatefold double vinyl with new sleeve notes.
 The CD includes rarities, fan favourites and previously unreleased material, including ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ (Gotham City Mix Part Two) which Richard Coles of The Communards calls “my favourite thing that Jimmy and I did” and fan favourite ‘Disenchanted (Dance)’, remixed here by Mike Thorne. Also included is the only radio session the duo ever recorded with Janice Long in October 1985, on which
they debuted previously unpublished tracks and the demo version of ‘Summertime’, the only recording in existence of this collaboration with Sarah Jane Morris.
 To revisit the duo’s debut LP today is a wonderful reminder of just how special and transformative pop music can be. Take ‘Disenchanted’’s melancholic pulse; the delicate, moonlit
flourishes of ‘La Dolora’; the clear message in their reading of jazz standard ‘Loverman’ and of course, the soaring, evergreen rush of their cover of Gamble and Huff’s ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’, the biggest selling single of 1986 and still a song that can send joy pulsing through the veins of generations not even born when the pair first stormed the charts.
 Press - Reviews & features in Classic Pop, Mojo, The Guardian How We Made, Attitude, Electronic Sound, Uncut, The Quietus.

Tracklisting
2CD
Don’t Leave Me This Way
La Dolarosa
Disenchanted
Reprise
So Cold The Night
You Are My World
Lover Man
Don’t Slip Away
Heavens Above
Forbidden Love
Don’t Leave Me This Way (Gotham City Mix Part Two)
Disenchanted (Dance)
So Cold The Night (Remix)
So Cold The Night (Janice Long 13th October 1985)
Don’t Slip Away (Janice Long 13th October 1985)
America (Janice Long 13th October 1985)
Forbidden Love (Janice Long 13th October 1985)
La Dolorosa (Janice Long 13th October 1985)
You Are My World (12” Version)
Don´t Leave Me This Way (Ruff Mix)
Heavens Above (Ruff Mix)
Summertime
Lover Man (Alternative Mix)
Forbidden Love (Alternative Mix)
Breadline Britain
Never No More
Sentimental Journey
When The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Judgement Day
Don’t Leave Me This Way (7th Heaven Club Mix)