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Hi all

Trojan are going to re-release Super Eight / To Be a Lover - George Faith

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/rest ... 475-208321

Personally looking forward to this, I only have it on a really badly deterieted casette tape.

I've always felt it was something of a Psychedelic effort on Perry’s behalf, it’s like he’s pushed his rhythm’s to their furthest limits of swirling borderless sound.

The horns, the disco/pop edge, the mellow vocals from Faith and the whole thing dripping in too much reverb, I love it, looking forward to hearing it in good quality sound.

Great album - sounds like musical soup on the Black Swan/Island release. Play it back to back with "One and Only" (as Earl George) for a complete contrast in production styles!

How nasty that it comes with exactly the same artwork. People try to re-sell those things as being original. Seen that many time.

Trojan should have released few extra tracks along. Like for example 12" mix of "To Be a Lover" with Scratch toast in the end. Also 7" mix of "Diana" & "Don't Be Afraid" totally missing delay treatment as heard on the album.

Agree with Sammy; should really be some bonus tracks on this one. Plenty of alternate versions of To be a lover, etc that would have made this release a must-have.

I assume most Perry fans have this already, so Trojan must think the sound quality alone will sell it. I'll probably get it, but i'm not excited.

Yeah I thought it was intresting that there are no bonus tracks, on the other hand though the album is less than £5 to buy so I guess it's hard to be angry about that.

I also put all my music onto itunes and strip all the bonus material out into sperate albums as I find it hard to listen to more than 1/2 an hour of one artist in a go so in that respect it doesn't bother me

Weren't they supposed to be in the middle of another album when Perry torched the Ark? Is that where 'there's a train' and 'guideline' came from. I wonder if any of those tapes made it through.....

So is there any difference in mix between this CD and the Hip-o-select CD? Or are they exact same with just different play order

@Congo Bunny:

You do know that 'Theres A Train' is actually aka 'All The LoveIve Got' ?!

Roots Archives wrote:@Congo Bunny:

You do know that 'Theres A Train' is actually aka 'All The LoveIve Got' ?!

So it is, I hadn't really ever paid attention to that.

Thanks for pointing it out, I can delete that duplicate track from my pc now

I did think there was another George faith/lee perry song that Katz mentioned along with guide line, or am I imagining things? No where near my books so I can't look it up.

Katz mentioned "Don't Be Afraid" being the other track from the second album, but actually "Don't Be Afraid" was released as B-side of "Diana" (Upstters 7").

Bottom line is, "Don't Be Afraid" is a leftover track from "Super Eight" album. "Don't Be Afraid" wasn't released on the album cause then it would've been called "Super Nine", and nine doesn't rhyme with the word "Faith" like "eight" does. That is my theory.