Wham! - Two Rare Albums (CD Images) [RePoPo]

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Release Notes

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This release includes two rare official Wham! albums:



Wham! - Music From the Edge of Heaven



1. The Edge Of Heaven (4:31)

2. Battlestations (5:26)

3. I'm Your Man [Extended Simulation] (6:05)

4. Wham Rap '86 (6:38)

5. A Different Corner (4:33)

6. Blue (Live in China) (5:43)

7. Where Did Your Heart Go? (5:43)

8. Last Christmas [Pudding Mix] (6:44)



Wham! - Twelve Inch Mixes



1. Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do) [Unsocial Mix] (6:44)

2. Young Guns (Go For It) (5:12)

3. Freedom [Long Mix] (7:07)

4. Everything She Wants [Remix] (6:30)

5. I'm Your Man [Extended Simulation] (6:54)"Music From the Edge of Heaven" was released only in Japan (1985) and the US

(1986). In the rest of the world, the final Wham! album was titled "The Final".

It was the swansong for the duo's succesful career, which began in 1984. The

"Twelve Inch Mixes" was the first proper compilation without new tracks from the

band. Those two albums contain not only new tracks (for the era), but some live

tracks and remixes, not available either on Fantastic! or Make it Big.



I'd like to call your attention on "A Different Corner", which contains an

instrumental intro not found on the regular 3:57 version found on "The Final"

CD, which I never heard anywhere else but on the vinyl version of this album.



You'll probably notice there are two versions of "I'm Your Man [Extended

Simulation]", with different running times. On Wikipedia you can find some text

regarding this:



"An extended mix of the song was released on Wham!'s 1986 album Music from the

Edge of Heaven (the U.S. version of their final album The Final). Added to the

song are tape effects (including several repeating words and phrases), a bass

solo at the halfway mark, and a segment based on Andrew Ridgeley's race car

driving hobby: an announcer saying, "He's brave! He's tough! Mr. Ridgeley, do

your stuff!", racing cars zooming past, the sounds of a car crashing, maniacal

laughing from Ridgeley, and Ridgeley saying "Now where's the bar?" in a

high-pitched voice. Furthermore, the 12-inch version (see below) features even

more new material added, with dialogue between a man and a woman (really Michael

and Ridgeley with their voices altered), with the man trying to persuade the

woman in a "magic car", replacing an entire verse in the song."



In order to keep the very same structure than on the regular CDs, I've uploaded

them using a .bin/.cue Image profile. You can mount those images on Daemon

Tools, Alcohol 120%, PowerISO, Ultra ISO, and read it as a regular CD, or burn

them with your regular burning software (Nero, Alcohol 120%, good old CDRWin

should work fine).



Feel free to reencode and upload again using any codec you want, but credit

would be appreciated.



Greetings

RePoPo

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