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As disappointing as Raise The Pressure was at the time of its release, I've come to realize that between the album tracks and B-sides there's a really good 9-track album in there. It should have been sequenced very differently, and they should have given Karl Bartos the same featured status that Pet Shop Boys had on the debut.
One thing is that I no longer have a copy of the Until The End Of Time CD. Would anyone who owns a physical copy please message me?
Thanks!
You can get the 4 track ep of 'Until The End Of Time' at Amazon.co.uk as a download for only £1.69.
I've got 320kbps EAC ripped MP3s but no FLACs unfortunately. My copy of the CD is in storage along with the rest of my collection. Depends what you're happy with quality-wise.
I agree RTP would have been a much better album resequenced slighty. The original running order is way too long and they consigned some great tracks to the CD singles which could have been utilised to make it more of a classic LP.
What is your running order out of interest? I assume you're putting Barney's Fluffy Dice mix of UTEOT in somewhere? I used that mix on my own custom Best Of a few years ago, before the official one came out.
The problem with the album is that it's a bit samey, whereas the b-sides ("A New religion", "Imitation of Life") cover some different ground, "I Feel Alright" is a great track but my guess is at the time they thoguht it's too much 80ies-New Order. What I liked about the album is that on tracks like "If you've got love" and "Dark angel" it sounded like a final statement on a dancefloor-era which already had passed at the time with a feeling of nostalgia. Of course you also can say that they lost the connection to Zeitgeist at that point, something they tried to rearrange with "Twisted Tenderness", a little bit too hard on some tracks. I also think that the tracklist on "The best of" is a disaster, nearly all tracks that made them special are missing.
The only thing good about the Best Of was the DVD (if you went for the 2-disc version ofcourse).
