Dead Pop Stars - EPC A 1023 (UK chart 67 - March 1981)
A Days Wait - EPC A 1167 (UK chart n/a - 1981)
Happy Birthday - EPC A 131522 (UK chart 2 - September 1981)
I Could Be Happy - EPC A 131834 (UK chart 7 - December 1981)
See Those Eyes - EPC A 2198 (UK chart 11 - March 1982)
Pinky Blue - EPC A 132426 (UK chart 35 - 1982)
Don't Talk To Me About Love - EPC A 3083 (UK chart 7 - March 1983)
Bring Me Closer - EPC A 3398 (UK chart 29 - May 1983)
Love To Stay - EPC A 3582 (UK chart 46 - July 1983)
Change Of Heart - EPC A 3735 (UK chart n/a - 1983)
Also a 4 track EP called 'Greatest Original Hits' was released:
Happy Birthday-I Could Be Happy-Dead Pop Stars-A Days Wait - Epic A2617
Plus a flexidisc which came with a short lived magazine 'Flexipop'
Happy Birthday-Real Toys..New Version-Leave Me Alone
Thanks to Warren for this information.
And yes I do know about Clare's solo released single 'Love Bomb', hopefully I will have more info and a sample on this site soon!
Happy Birthday - (UK Chart 26)
Tracks:
1. Intro Happy Birthday
2. Love and Kisses
3. Real Toys
4. Idols
5. Legionaire
6. Faithless
7. Beckoning Strings
8. Happy Birthday
9. Midnight
10. A Days Wait
11. Leave Me Alone
12. Insects
13. Outro Happy Birthday
Short Review:
'Happy Birthday' is usually credited as Altered Images best album, this I will have to disagree with. The reason this album it rated so highly I believe is due on the popularity of the title track, but little is made of the fact all the other tracks on the album are recorded with Steve Severin from Siouxsie and the Banshees fame as producer, which tends to give the album a more gloomy/gothic sound that people would expect from the Martin Rushent (also producer of Human League 'Dare') produced 'Happy Birthday' single. The Steve Severin produced tracks are a bit lighter then the first two singles 'Dead Pop Stars' and 'A Days Wait' making this album a more transitional recorded, this is the problem, its an album if recorded six month earlier or later, may have been more settled. Also something has to be said about the album lyriclly, 'Dead Pop Stars' was a great song, lyriclly superb, but some of the lines that come out of this record 'Dark cupboard with my great big cake' or the uncomforting 'Rape on sunday is a terrible thing', sorry but are really useless. 7/10
Pinky Blue - EPC 85665 (UK chart 12)
Tracks:
1. Pinky Blue
2. See Those Eyes
3. Forgotten
4. Little Brown Head
5. See You Later
6. Song Sung Blue
7. Funny Funny Me
8. Think That It Might
9. I Could Be Happy
10. Jump Jump
11. Goodnight And I Wish
Short Review:
'Pinky Blue' in my view, is the best Altered Images album, not only that, but one of the best pop albums I've heard. The album seems to be able to mix power pop tunes with Clare Grogan best singing performance to form a more mature pop sound. I would like to state from the start that the cover of Neil Diamond's 'Song Sung Blue' is a mistake, but apart from that one track, each song seems to be a single within it self, each one you can find something exciting about. The two songs I will pick out are 'Forgotten', which features a wonderful energetic verse, which then breaks in to a chorus which seems to be a battle between Clares singing and the backing music. The other song 'Think that it might', possible Clares greatest vocal on the album, a superb dreamy landscape of a song. 'Pinky Blue' was produced by Martin Rushent, and only by Martin Rushent, which makes this the only constant Altered Images album, if only 'Bite' and 'Happy Birthday' was produced by him, or at least could they have been produced by an alone producer. And last but not least harmless lyrics, hoo-ray.10/10
Bite - EPC 25413 (UK chart 12)
Tracks:
1. Bring Me Closer
2. Another Lost Look
3. Love To Stay
4. Now That You're Here
5. Don't Talk To Me About Love
6. Stand So Quiet
7. Change Of Heart
8. Thinking About You
Short Review:
Getting Mike Chapman to produce 'Bite' was a sound idea, hoping that it could give a more mature disco sound. The only thing is he only produces four of the eight tracks on the album, all of which was released as singles. The other four tracks where produced by Tony Visconti, making the album sound more like two different E.Ps then one album. The Mike Chapman tracks are great, managing to mix a Blondie-disco style to Altered Images sound, the Tony Visconti tracks are not as good, apart from 'Now that you're here' which seems to sound like Bjork, tens years early. 7/10
Collected Images
Tracks:
Side 1
1. Happy Birthday
2. Insects
3. See those eyes
4. A Day's wait
5. I could be happy (Dance Mix)
6. Song Sung blue
Side 2.
1. Bring me closer (Dance mix)
2. Change of heart
3. Love to stay
4. Pinky Blue
5. Don't talk to me about love
6. Dead Pop stars.
Thanks to Nick Barber for supplying the track listing.
Best of Altered Images - CD: VSOP CD 177 - Tape: VSOP MC 177
1. Dead Pop Stars
2. Sentimental
3. Leave Me Alone
4. A Day's Wait
5. Happy Birthday - 12" version
6. Jeepster
7. I Could Be Happy - 12" version
8. Disco Pop Stars
9. Legionaire
10. See Those Eyes
11. Pinky Blue
12. Little Brown Head
13. Don't Talk to me About Love
14. Bring Me Closer
15. Surprise Me
16. Love to Stay
17. Change of Heart
Reflected Images - 484339 2
1. Intro - Happy Birthday
2. Dead Pop Stars
3. Happy Birthday
4. Love & Kisses
5. Real Toys
6. I Could Be Happy
7. See Those Eyes
8. Pinky Blue
9. Forgotten
10. See You Later
11. Don't Talk To Me About Love
12. Bring Me Closer
13. Love To Stay
14. Change Of Heart
15. Thinking About You
16. Happy Birthday - 12" mix
17. Don't Talk To Me About Love - 12" remix
18. Love To Stay - 12" remix
19. Bring Me Closer - 12" remix
20. Last Goodbye
21. Outro - Happy Birthday
I Could Be Happy - The Best of Altered Images (US) - 7464 65182 2
1. Happy Birthday
2. Real Toys
3. Love and Kisses
4. Beckoning Strings
5. Leave Me Alone
6. Dead Pop Stars
7. Sentimental
8. I Could Be Happy (Single Version)
9. See Those Eyes
10. Pinky Blue
11. Funny Funny Me
12. Forgotten
13. Bring Me Closer
14. Love to Stay
15. Don't Talk to Me About Love
16. Thinking About You
Thanks to William Starnes,Jeffrey Durbin and Peter Lyell for the above info.
7" Picture discs:
I could be happy
Bring me closer
Don't talk to me about love
12" Picture discs:
Bring me closer
Live bootlegs:
Liverpool Warehouse: 30th June 1981
Tracks include:
A Days Wait, Sentimental, Real Toys, Love and Kisses, Think that it might, Legionaire, Happy Birthday, Idols, Faithless, Pinky Blue, Insects
Glasgow: 22nd December 1981
A Days Wait, Little Brown Head, Sentimental, Think That it Might, Faithless, I Could be Happy, Love and Kisses, Pinky Blue, See Those Eyes, Happy Birthday, Funny Funny Me, Beckoning Strings, Insects, Dead Pop Stars, Song Sung Blue, Happy Christmas, Jeepster
Leeds Tiffany's: 9th May 1982
A Day's Wait, Forgotten, Dead Pop Stars, Faithless, Think That it Might, See Those Eyes, Funny Funny Me, Idols, Goodnight and I Wish, Happy Birthday, Pinky Blue, Insects, Jump Jump, See you Later, I could be Happy, Love and Kisses, Pinky Blue
Chichester Festival Theatre: 1982
Speak to me, I Could be Happy, See Those Eyes, Happy Birthday, Puppets, Insects
Hammersmith Palais: 24th July 1983
Another Lost Look, See Those Eyes, Think That it Might, See You Later, Now That You're Here, Change of Heart, Love to Stay, Stand so Quiet, I Could be Happy, Insects, Bring me Closer, Don't Talk to me About Love, See Those Eyes(version 2), Beckoning Strings, See You Later
Other Stuff:
People have been E-mailing me details about over rare stuff, which I will get round to compiling, hopefully some time soon.
