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New Bubbatunes

You all know how much I love my compilations, which is how the whole Bubbatunes collections got started. Taking my favorite artists and putting together the songs I think should be on CD together, is fun! Then as I started getting more serious and making full booklets for the CDs including artwork, credits and chart information I thought I should start giving them catalog numbers. Now with the onset of being able to transfer vinyl to CD, I've even been able to make CDR issues of albums that have never or may never see the light of day on CD.

So with the bubbatunes back story upon us, I thought I'd announce this week's latest bubbatunes releases. We have three exciting new compilations, I have been listening to and yes, they all have artwork and credits.


bub 57 LAURA BRANIGAN - Help You Say Goodbye
It's so sad that this woman with the enormous pipes is gone, but her music will last forever and now it will be forever immortalized in a bubbatunes collection. Titled after the set's closing track "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye", the song is very touching and very sweet, and in fact with all three verses dealing with saying goodbye and its inclusion of a death, I'm surprised it hasn't been a country song yet. The highlight of this comp to me isn't the singles, though they're here ("Gloria", "Solitaire", "Self Control") but a little ditty from her Branigan 2 album called "Deep In The Dark." The song is actually set to the music of "Der Kommisar" with English lyrics, but it was hard to find (thank you all the Branigan fans on the yahoo groups) and it's something everyone should hear. The set also includes Laura's much better versions of Alphaville's "Forever Young", Michael Bolton's "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" and Celine Dion's "Power Of Love" - and actually Laura recorded the latter two before the more famous counterparts.

Track list:
01 Gloria
02 The Lucky One
03 Maybe Tonight
04 Imagination
05 Solitaire
06 Shattered Glass
07 Forever Young
08 Deep In The Dark
09 How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
10 Self Control
11 Hold Me
12 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
13 Spanish Eddie
14 Power Of Love
15 Dim All The Lights
16 Foolish Lullabye
17 Moonlight On Water
18 How Can I Help You Say Goodbye


bub 58 BLONDIE - On The Balcony
I know I make far too many Blondie & Benatar compilations but is it my fault they have so many great songs? This collection was inspired by my pal Amy Cissell who said she would like to have Blondie songs that weren't hits, just to hear some of the more classic sounds Debbie & The Boys had to offer (and thus running out to buy Blondie for herself of course), so after many months of planning I came up with On The Balcony, the Blondie album cuts. Using songs from all eight of their albums, I think I've done a pretty good job to represent Blondie to the ones unfamiliar, but more importantly I made a really great Blondie collection of MY favorite album cuts.

Track list:
01 Angels On The Balcony
02 Will Anything Happen
03 Accidents Never Happen
04 I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
05 Little Girl Lies
06 Go Through It
07 Pretty Baby
08 Detroit 442
09 Shayla
10 Walk Like Me
11 The Dream's Lost On Me
12 Living In The Real World
13 Kung Fu Girls
14 Danceway
15 I'm On E
16 Rules For Living
17 Do The Dark
18 I Know But I Don't Know
19 A Shark In Jets Clothing
20 Die Young Stay Pretty
21 11:59
22 For Your Eyes Only
23 Look Good In Blue
24 Just Go Away


bub 59 SWIVEK - Blanche & Wither
The highlight of the bunch, a Swivek compilation! Yes, that's right for the first time in history, Bubbatunes is releasing a Swivek comp not available by any other means. Actually, the reason this isn't an actual Swivek release on our regular label is the fact there are some of these songs that just can't be released, legal reasons, people saying "No" etc. but that shouldn't stop the regular fan from having them now should it? So with Blanche & Wither, I give you a bunch of b-sides, rare songs never released (some not really complete or just left for dead), some never before heard and some that should be known. The track list is done in chronological order from when they were recorded starting in 1999 and going through last October.

Track list:
01 Blanche & Wither (a rare song from 1999 but was released on an EP)
02 Allright Now (bside to Cherry Go Go)
03 We Live For Love (a bad, bad Benatar cover)
04 Zombie Dance (Come For You) (never released)
05 Thoughts Of You (Fly) (bside to Wish)
06 Just Go (bside to Spastic Valentino but written for Bruised album)
07 Teenage Dream (Cool Kids) (bside to Who We Are)
08 Boyfriend (bside to Spastic Valentino)
09 You Don't Know (never released)
10 The End Of The World (demo) (never released and not really finished)
11 Bee Boo (not released)
12 Make A Level Sunrise (original version) (different from album version)
13 California Boy (never released)
14 Ecstasy (never released)
15 Seafish (never released)
16 Island Of Lost Souls (Blondie cover never released)
17 In The Flesh (another Blondie cover never released)
18 The One To Fall (bside to Where The Boys Are)
19 Help Her (never released)
20 Crypt Keeper (from Halloween Compilation last year)

posted by swivek @ 3:08 PM