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DISCOGRAPHY
This page lists all known Various Artists compilation records or CDs in existence. No doubt there are some more we don't know about!
Based on the sightings listed on this page the most popular Kirsty songs to slap on a compilation are as follows:
1. New England 33
2. Fairytale 21
3. Days 18
4. Chip Shop 12
5. Shoes 9
6. Madison 6
7. They Don't Know 4
A NEW ENGLAND appeared on a Rhino Records 1992 compilation called Stiff Box which fills up 4 discs with the best of the Stiff recordings (including Tracey Ullman's You broke my heart in 17 Places), A Hard Night's Day (A History of Stiff Records) and also Stiff, Stiffer, Stiffest: A Stiff Records Collection. The track also appears on the compilation album Diving for Pearls which also features Paul Quinn, Stone Roses, Mari Wilson, Sugarcubes& Department S. Sound of the Suburbs (Crimson 1998 with Lou Reed, XTC, The Jam, Bow Wow Wow).
It also featured on Hits Album 2 (1985), and on Now That's What I Call Music 1985 (Queen, Kate Bush, Go West, Feargal Sharkey). It has also turned up on assorted 80s nostalgia trips: double CD set Alternative Eighties, Hardest Hits Volume 1 (1991, SPG Music SPG 002) along with acts such as The Puppets, Scary Thieves, Jon Saint James, and The Mood, Into the Eighties (1995) and on a Union Square set, Essential 80s (2002) - both also include Tracey's They don't know, Alternative 80's (Sony 2002), an MCI collection called Back to the Eighties, Best of the Eighties Volume II, as well as a 6 cd box called Best of the Eighties, Greaest Ever 80s, More 80s box set and a nine CD boxed set called 20th Century Hits for a New Millenium (170 hits 1950-1999), Cult Classics of the 80s (XTC, Talk Talk, A Flock of Seagulls, Spandau Ballet), Cool Britannia 3 CD Set ("Britain's best songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s"), London Legends - issued free with the London Standard in 2004 - and Only Fools and Horses - the album. Latest sightings on a double CD on V2 called Inspired - the World's Greatest Covers, and the BBC Radio 2 Playlist triple set from 2006.
It is on Guitar Club Classics (SPV 2000 with the Pixies, Primitives, Joy Division, Dead Kennedys!) and Modern Madonnas (2000, Sheena Easton, Belle Stars, Wilson Phillips, Deborah Harry), plus the thrillingly named Rock Ballads on Disky 873662 along with Baker Street, Bette Davis eyes, Love is a battlefield, Missing you, The man who sold the world (?) and 2-4-6-8 motorway (ballads??)., The Very Best Love Ballads vol.1 with Gerry Rafferty, T'Pau, George McCrae and Peter Sarstedt, and a pretty decent Grapevine double CD set called Storytellers: an album of classic folk and roots (???) which opens predictable enough with faves of the moment David Gray and Eva Cassidy before heading for Mary Chapin Carpenter, Janis Ian, Bragg, Sharon Shannon, John Prine, Paul Brady and Emmylou Harris. Inspired, "The World's Greatest Covers", has New England alongside Jamie Cullum, Feeder, Lulu, saint etienne and Manfred Mann. The video appeared on Video Hits 1 (1987) VC4004, the Decade of Music Video 1985 and on Video Stars of 1985 (WNR1085).
ANGEL appeared on an interesting collection called The J.Jill Songbook alongside Natalie Merchant, Carole King, Aimee Mann, Martina Sorbara, Eric McKeown and Lucinda Williams.
CAN'T STOP KILLING YOU appeared on a collection called The Album Network: Tune Up No. 23 alongside Jackson Browne and a host of others.
CAROLINE appeared on a sampler CD called The Cities '97 New Music Sampler put together by Southern California 101.9 Album Alternative "featuring some of the best of the Alternative rockers." There are 18 tracks on this full length CD from The Cranberries, The Freddy Jones Band, Ivan Neville, Loaded, Hindu Rodeo, Keb 'Mo, Carly Simon, Kashtin, Thrillcat, Dionne Ferris, Sonny Landreth, Walter Becker, Pete & Maura Kennedy, Timbuk 3, Matt Keating, Loose Diamonds, and Sarah Mclachlan.
DAYS appeared on Now That's What I Call Music Volume 31 (and NTWICM 1989 on EMI with Roxette, Phil Collins, Electronic, Tears for Fears), The Best Summer Album in the World ... Ever! (Virgin 1997 with Rosie Gaines, Ocean Colour Scene, Crowded House, R Kelly), The Best Rock Ballads in the World ... Ever! and The Best Virgin Album ... Ever!. It is on a double CD set from 2003 called Good Vibes (The Jingly Jangly sound of Summer) on the Muze label, and on L'amour: 128 Classic Love Songs on Disky. Woman Volume 1 (Universal), Natural Woman (BMG) and New Woman (2001 EMI with Natalie Imbruglia, All Saints, Coldplay, David Gray!). Oddly, we have also seen it on New Woman * Love Songs, minus David Gray but with added Bill Withers, also in 2001! Latest sightings on a 2002 Radio 2 double CD called Sold on Song (Travis, Mott the Hoople, David Gray, LeAnn Rimes), Easy Like Sunday Morning with Dusty, the Beach Boys, Elton and Dr Hook, Capitol Gold: Platium Legends triple set and a double CD issued with The Independent in 2004 called rather dubiously named Dead Cool alongside T.Rex, Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious and the Small Faces. The video appeared on Now That's What I Call Music Video 15 (1989). There is even a Karaoke version on Sunfly CDG Karaoke Volume 27!
DON'T COME THE COWBOY and DAYS also appeared on a Charisma promo box (CHR PRCD002) in 1990 along with Brent Bourgeois, Something Happens, Propaganda, Maxi Priest and Age of Chance. The promo blurb read Charisma Records is a music company founded on the belief that the proper environment for music to flourish is one of integrity, creative freedom, without moral compromise ... A company for the artist. We dedicate our first sampler to the musician's craft. The compilation Girls are doin' it (CTVCD212 1993 Castle Communications) features 16 tracks including Cowboy alongside Sisters are doin' it ... by Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin and I will survive by Gloria Gaynor.
FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK is obviously enough on Essential Pogues (1991) and The Very Best of the Pogues (WEA 2001), and also appears on the CD soundtrack from the TV show Ghosts of Oxford Street (1991) on RCA, PD75233. Tom Dunne's 30 Best Irish Hits (2001 Lunar with Phil Lynott, Undertones, Ash, Horslips). Celtic Inspiration Volume 2 (Nectar, Eddi Reader, Capercaillie, Van Morrison, Bob Geldof!). Greatest Irish Bands (U2, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, Clannad), A Hard Night's Day (A History of Stiff Records), an anonymous looking Essential Hits set from 2005. Celtica volume 4 appears to be a French compilation including Dar Ar Braz, Maire Brennan, La Lugh and the Gordon Highlanders!
It has also appeared on Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 10 (1987) and This is the 80s, one of a recent glut of 80s nostalgia collections which are springing up everywhere. One of those lovely duets albums: Together: 38 Classic All Time Duets & Collaborations (2002 Universal, George Michael & Elton John, Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes, Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston, Clannad & Bono). Peculiarly it also appears in karaoke form on Italian Love Songs!
Christmas moments on Number One Christmas Album (Global TV 1999), the No.1 Christmas Album (1998 Polygram), Christmas Hits (50 Festive Favourites) (2003), The Edge of Christmas (Oglio 1998), Just Can't Get Enough (New Wave Xmas) on Rhino from 1996, The Ultimate Christmas Collection (Polygram 1998), 100% Christmas and New Year Party, That's Christmas (1994) and The Christmas Album (BMG RADCD152X) complete with a snow shaker cover! Finally, the DJ's Guide to Christmas & New Year's Eve ...
The video appeared on Video Stars of 1987 (WNR1087) as well as the Pogues video collection, Poguevision.
FREE WORLD has only appeared to our knowledge on a CND sponsored NME compilation video called Carry On Disarming.
HEAD makes a welcome appearance on a chillout compilation called Bambuddah Grove: the arrival.
I'M GOING OUT WITH AN 80 YEAR OLD MILLIONAIRE appeared on a free disc supplied with an issue of DEBUT magazine in 1984. (RR)
IN THESE SHOES? appears on two compilation CDs of "girl singers" called Girls 2K and New Woman. Both were released in Spring of 2000. It also features on The Best TV Ads Album in the World Ever!, and on a CD made for the Blue Rose strip club in Ibiza - Kirsty appears just after the Havanna Boys' You're my honey, which seems appropriate. Festival 2000: Compilation Rossa is a 2CD Italian compilation (2000 EMI with Luna Pop, Tom Jones, Litfiba, Bon Jovi); Hit Mania Dance 2001 is another Italian set, this features an unspecified remix. Fernanda on the Beach looks great - Mambo Kings, Las Ketchup, Tom Jones, Paola e Chiara, even La Macarena! The final Italian CD for now is Hitstory, more pop hits in the Paola & Chiara mould. The video for SHOES video was issued with MAMBO DE LA LUNA and Purr La Perla by Violet Indiana (Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins and and Siobhan de Maré of Mono) on a curious NTSC three video promo. SHOES is also on the OST for the 2005 Julian Jarrold film about trannie footwear Kinky Boots, and appears once sung by Kirsty and again as part of a "Boots" medley by Chiwetel Ejiofor comprising These Boots Are Made For Walking / Cha Cha Heels/ In These Shoes / Going Back To My Roots. Sounds great.
LIBERTANGO (I'VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE) appears on the 1997 Grapevine compilation album Intuition (GRACD224). This is an excellent "all female", mostly Irish collection of Grapevine artists such as Janis Ian, Mary Black, Dar Williams, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Sinead Lohan, Eleanor Shanley, Tamalin, the Rankin Family and Leslie Dowdall. It also appears on a pretty good 2002 double CD on Union Square (MANTDCD206) called Songbirds - sort of a folkie slant with the likes of Kate Rusby, June Tabor, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rory Block, Mary Gauthier and the ubiquitous Eva Cassidy. Finally, in 2003 it appears again on a Sharon Shannon compilation billed as Sharon Shannon & Friends, Libertango on Independent Records IRL001 alongside Sinéad O'Connor, Pauline Scanlon, Marvel & Lady K and some others.
MAYBE IT'S IMAGINARY appeared on the 2004 double CD The Best Folk Album in the World ... Ever! alongside Al Stewart, Jethro Tull, Barclay James Harvest, Peter Sarstedt, and (finally some folk!) the Albion Band (David Gray makes an appearance with Folk Song!).
MISS OTIS REGRETS appeared on the 2003 DVD release Later ... with Jools Holland: Hootenanny alongside Paul Weller, Solomon Burke, Sam Brown, and a cast of thousands. In North America it is titled Later ... with Jools Holland: Party.
PERFECT DAY is on Dutch compilation of "the most beautiful songs ever" called Two Hearts, on Arcade/EMI/Virgin. So is a song by Eros Ramazzotti & Patsy Kensit. It's a duet thing you know.
SOHO SQUARE made its debut compilation appearance in 2005, on a cover CD issued free with Word magazine, June 2005 issue.
TERRY - appears on the Stiff compilation If It Ain't Stiff... alongside Tenpole Tudor, Larry Wallis, the Yachts, Rachel Sweet, Wreckless Eric, Lene Lovich, Dr Feelgood, .... . The 12" version crops up on Essential Songwriters Volume 2, which is a Union Square release. (BP) It also appears on another Union Square release, Songbirds Vol.2 (2002) in the company of a generally fine collection of naturally female singers. Alongside obvious choices like Eva Cassidy and Joan Armatrading, you get more leftfield and underrated performers such as Abraham, Tish Hinojosa, Beth Hirsch, Linda Thompson, Aimee Mann and Mary Ann Redmond. (FM)
THERE'S A GUY WORKS DOWN THE CHIP SHOP SWEARS HE'S ELVIS appeared on Greatest Hits of 1981 (CDGH), and also strangely on a 7" single issued by Littlewoods Stores (PSP002) in 1982 called either Chart Rockets (on the sleeve) or Chart Rockers (on the label). The A-side featured Yellow Pearl by Phil Lynott and the utterly dreadful Do the Hucklebuck by ... remember Coast to Coast? The B-side featured Chip Shop along with Young Parisians by Adam and the Ants. The sleeve was a hideous drawing of a rocket taking off. Source - TH. Another sighting on Monster Tracks released by Polystar (HOPTV 2) in 1981 beside Soft Cell, Genesis, Roxy Music, Status Quo, Adam and the Ants, dire Straits, Who, Rainbow, Graham Bonnet, Visage, Passions, Polecats, Coast to Coast and Dexys Midnight Runners. Girls (3 CD box set on Spectrum in 2002 with Sam Brown, Dina Carroll, Joan OSborne, Charlene!).
Also Drivin' with Johnnie Walker vol. 1 (Corrs, Chris Rea, Fleetwood Mac, Otis Redding), an Australian release called Atomic 80s (Universal 585967-2) and Volume 4 of Hard to Find Hits alongside the Only Ones, Rachel Sweet, Bram Tchaikovxky, the Records, the Plimsouls etc. Decent enough collection actually. And Girls, a Japanese release featuring Gaynor, Paris, Elliman, Wilde, Faithfull, Brooks.....(UICY-90140), also Young at Heart - Classic Hits of the Early 80s (5 discs!), And I Write the Songs ("34 singer/songwriter classics"...) - a slightly more eclectic set (Billy Ray Cyrus, Paul Brady, Nick Drake, Murray Head,...). A 1981 vinyl release called Monster Tracks pits Kirsty against the Polecats, Genesis, Rainbow and Status Quo - credit due to Polystar for compiling Kirsty back in '81.
An unusual compilation, Copyright Gap, released in 2007 and featuring Chip Shop was designed to highlight the 50 year copyright term applied to popular music (triggered by Lonnie Donegan's Cumberland Gap coming out of copyright). I bet they amend this before the Beatles catalog enters the public domain!
There is also a DVD compilation called 80s DVD Jukebox which is a compilation of performances from German TV shows (Musik Laden is definitely one of the programs featured, though there may well be others involved). A ridiculously young-looking Kirsty is featured miming 'Chip Shop'. There's also a brief (one-screen) text biography of her included, though this says absolutely nothing new and doesn't even date the performance. Source: AK
TITANIC DAYS makes a rare appearance on It's Not the Size that Counts, a 1994 IRS compilation ranging from alternative rock to reggae via atmospheric dance grooves.
THEY DON'T KNOW shows up on a Rhino Records 1992 compilation called Stiff Box which fills up 4 discs with the best of the Stiff recordings (including Tracey Ullman's 17 PLACES). They Don't Know was also on Indie Scene 1979 (IBMLP79) with the Damned, Lene Lovich, the Monochrome Set and Big in Japan, A Hard Night's Day (A History of Stiff Records), and on the Union Square 2002 release Songbirds (see Libertango for details), where it is the final track on CD2 - therefore the most likely to stick around in the memory!
YOU JUST HAVEN'T EARNED IT YET, BABY appears on the soundtrack to She's Having a Baby in a slightly extended form, but otherwise of no great significance. This was issued in 1988 and features Kate Bush, Dave Wakeling, XTC and Bryan Ferry amongst others.
WALKING DOWN MADISON appears on a CD of favourites (Personal Effects) by novelist Iain Banks. He set out to compile an ideal driving tape and was thrilled to be paid for doing something he's always done for fun. It also appears on Woman II, and Rock the First volume 10, alongside some tasty cuts like I Touch Myself (Divinyls) and Birdhouse In Your Soul (They Might Be Giants). The lovely Ladykillers 2 from 1997 (sounds like a Tarantino flick but it's really a compilation featuring saint etienne, Kylie, Republica and Sheryl Crow. Some decents songs actually). Somewhat tediously, the song also features on 1997's A Woman's Touch, alongside Wilson Phillips, Kim Wilde, Gwen Guthrie, Lisa Stansfield and Eternal. Where the Hell are A Man's Touch, Ultimate Songs by Men, Go On You Know You Want To .... Listen To Songs By Men volume 13? Oh, but here comes The Best of Woman to Woman to make up for it!
Unidentified Kirsty material also appears in the company of Eno, John Cale, Falling Joys, Maggie's Dream and the Connells on the 1990 promo sampler The Album Network : Expand-O CD Tune Up 7, and with the Ramones, Luscious Jackson, the Pogues and Concrete Blonde on The Album Network : Expand-O CD Tune Up 39 (1993). Also, there are a couple of 1997 "summer compilations" which feature Kirsty ... but I mislaid the paper I noted them down on. Certain Damage! volume 51 from 1993 contains unsepcified Kirsty too!
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