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'The Lot' is a career-spanning compilation of
Roger Taylor's solo work, both as an individual and as part of
The Cross.
The set comprises a 29.5cm x 24cm x 2.5cm outer box, 12 CD
albums, a DVD, and a 68 page book containing a biography, album
and single sleeves, handwritten lyrics and pictures. The book has
a number of extra thick pages at the end, with space to hold two
discs per page.
The set contains all seven studio albums from 1981 through to
1998 (four by Roger, three by The Cross), each one newly
remastered, with some changes. The eighth disc is the new album
'Fun On Earth' (released the same day) which has two bonus tracks
on the CD version. The remaining CD discs are four compilation
albums, containing non-album tracks, alternate versions and
demos, while the last disc is a DVD containing promo videos, live
footage and interviews.
The set was also released as a download, without the video
content, while each disc was also available separately.
The set was initially released on 11 November, however there were
a number of issues with the sets, containing incorrect mixes,
textual errors, and some sets having missing or duplicate discs.
As a result, the set was withdrawn and reissued on 9 December;
the initial pressing has catalogue number 3753714, while the
second pressing has 37568482. On the back of the box, the second
pressing states the DVD contains 'Blue Rock - EPK' whereas the
initial pressing just lists 'Blue Rock'.
Many of the tracks on the studio albums are slightly different to
the originals, mainly through earlier or longer fade-outs, while
the whole of the 'Fun In Space' album plays at a slightly slower
speed compared to the previous CD release. In the tracklistings
below, only significant differences are noted, but the exact
details of each track can be found on the individual album pages.
01. Fun In Space
(remastered studio album)
02. Strange Frontier (remastered
studio album)
03. Shove It (remastered studio album)
04. Mad, Bad And
Dangerous To Know (remastered studio album)
05. Blue Rock (remastered studio album)
06. Happiness? (remastered studio
album)
07. Electric Fire (remastered studio
album)
08. Fun On Earth (studio album) (the
CD version adds two bonus tracks)
09. Solo Singles 1 (compilation)
10. Solo Singles 2 (compilation)
11. The Cross Singles 1
(compilation)
12. The Cross Singles 2
(compilation)
13. DVD
List Of Missing Tracks
List Of
Previously Unreleased Tracks
List
Of Tracks Previously Unavailable In The UK
Selected images of the set are shown below, however, full scans
are available on the gallery
page.
Outer Box Sleeves.....
.....and Book Sleeves
Executive producer Roger Taylor
Produced by Joshua J. Macrae
PA to Roger Taylor and project coordinator: Justine Ellis
Video coordinator and editor: Wills Spencer
Sleeve notes and archive consultants: Greg Brooks and Gary Taylor
Management: Jim Beach
PR: Dawbell and Phil Symes
Foreword: Rhys Thomas
Website: Emma Donoghue
Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe at The Sound Masters
Artwork conception by Roger Taylor and Richard Gray
Front cover photograph by Neal Preston
Additional photography by Richard Gray and Sabrina Potgieter
Disc One - Fun In
Space
(All of the tracks on this disc run at a slower speed than the
1996 remaster)
1. No Violins
2. Laugh Or Cry
3. Future
Management (You Don't Need Nobody Else)
4. Let's Get
Crazy
5. My
Country Parts I & II
6. Good
Times Are Now
7. Magic Is
Loose
8. Interlude
In Constantinople
9. Airheads
10. Fun In Space
Disc Two - Strange Frontier
1. Strange
Frontier
2. Beautiful
Dreams
3. Man On
Fire
4. Racing
In The Street
5. Masters
Of War
6. Killing
Time
7. Abandonfire
8. Young Love
9. It's
An Illusion
10. I
Cry For You (Love, Hope And Confusion)
Disc Three - Shove It
1. Shove It
2. Cowboys
And Indians
3. Contact
4. Heaven
For Everyone (Freddie vocal) (also on disc 11)
5. Stand
Up For Love
6. Love
On A Tightrope (Like An Animal)
7. Love
Lies Bleeding (She Was A Wicked, Wily Waitress)
8. Rough
Justice
9. The
Second Shelf Mix
Disc Four - Mad,
Bad And Dangerous To Know
1. Top
Of The World Ma
2. Liar
3. Closer
To You
4. Breakdown
5. Penetration
Guru
6. Power
To Love
7. Sister
Blue
8. Foxy
Lady
9. Better
Things
10. Passion
For Trash
11. Old
Men (Lay Down)
12. Final
Destination
Disc Five - Blue Rock
1. Bad
Attitude
2. New
Dark Ages
3. Dirty
Mind
4. Baby
It's Alright
5. Ain't
Put Nothin' Down
6. The
Also Rans
7. Millionaire
8. Put
It All Down To Love
9. Hand
Of Fools
10. Life
Changes (the first pressing had an error)
Disc Six - Happiness?
1. Nazis 1994
2. Happiness
(longer outro)
3. Revelations
(longer intro)
4. Touch The Sky
5. Foreign Sand
6. Freedom Train
7. 'You
Had To Be There'
8. The Key
9. Everybody
Hurts Sometime (longer outro)
10. Loneliness...
11. Dear Mr
Murdoch (longer outro)
12. Old Friends
Disc Seven - Electric Fire
(Most of the tracks on this disc have different outros, as the
tracks originally ran into each other but they now fade out
fully. Only the major changes are listed here)
1. Pressure On
(the first pressing had a slightly different version)
2. A
Nation Of Haircuts
3. Believe
In Yourself (longer outro)
4. Surrender
5. People
On Streets
6. The
Whisperers
7. Is It Me?
8. No More Fun
(longer outro)
9. Tonight
10. Where
Are You Now?
11. Working
Class Hero
12. London
Town - C'mon Down
Disc Eight - Fun On Earth
1. One Night
Stand
2. Fight Club
3. Be With You
4. Quality
Street
5. I Don’t
Care
6. Sunny Day
7. Be
My Gal (My Brightest Spark)
8. I
Am The Drummer (In A Rock 'n' Roll Band)
9. Small
10. Say
It’s Not True
11. The
Unblinking Eye
12. Up
13. Smile
CD Bonus Tracks:
14. Whole
House Rockin' (new track)
15. Dear Mr
Murdoch (Nude Mix) (also on disc 10 as the 2011 version)
Disc Nine - Solo Singles 1
1. I
Wanna Testify (non-album track)
2. Turn
On The TV (non-album track)
3. My
Country (single version)
4. Man On
Fire (extended version)
5. I
Cry For You (Love, Hope And Confusion) (single version)
6. Strange
Frontier (extended version)
7. I
Cry For You (Love, Hope And Confusion) (extended version)
8. Two
Sharp Pencils (Get Bad) (non-album track)
9. Nazis 1994
(radio mix)
10. Nazis 1994
(Kick mix)
11. Nazis
1994 (Schindler's mix extended)
12. Nazis
1994 (Makita mix extended)
13. Nazis
1994 (Big Science mix)
14. Foreign Sand
(single version)
15. Final
Destination (non-album track)
16. Everybody
Hurts Sometime (live at Shepherd's Bush 1994)
17. Old
Friends (live at Shepherd's Bush 1994)
Disc Ten - Solo Singles 2
1. Pressure On
(single version)
2. People
On Streets (Mashed)
3. Tonight (Dub
Sangria)
4. Keep A
Knockin' (non-album track)
5. Surrender
(Radio mix)
6. A
Nation Of Haircuts (Club Cut)
7. London
Town - C'mon Down (single version)
8. Surrender
(live at the Cyberbarn)
9. No
More Fun (live at the Cyberbarn)
10. Tonight
(live at the Cyberbarn)
11. One Night
Stand (download track)
12. Woman,
You're So Beautiful (But Still A Pain In The Ass) (Main Mix)
13. Woman,
You're So Beautiful (But Still A Pain In The Ass) (Mad Mix)
14. Woman,
You're So Beautiful (But Still A Pain In The Ass) (Dance Hall
Mix)
15. The
Unblinking Eye (single version)
16. The
Unblinking Eye (Almost Nude mix)
17. Dear Mr
Murdoch (2011 version) (also on disc 8 as the 'Nude Mix')
Disc Eleven - The Cross
Singles 1
1. Cowboys
And Indians (single version)
2. Love
Lies Bleeding (She Was A Wicked, Wily Waitress) (single
version)
3. Feel
The Force (US only track)
4. The
Second Shelf Mix (it should be the extended version of 'Shove
It')
5. Shove It
(Metropolix mix)
6. Shove It
(Denniz Pop Remix)
7. Heaven
For Everyone (Roger vocal)
8. Heaven
For Everyone (Freddie vocal) (also on disc 3)
9. Manipulator
(extended version)
10. Manipulator
(single version)
11. Power
To Love (extended version)
12. Power
To Love (single version)
13. In
Charge Of My Heart (single version)
14. Liar
(extended version)
15. In
Charge Of My Heart (extended version)
16. Liar
(single version)
Disc Twelve - The Cross
Singles 2
1. New
Dark Ages (single version)
2. Ain't
Put Nothin' Down (long version edit)
3. Man
On Fire (live version)
4. Life
Changes (single version)
5. Heartland
(non-album track)
6. Celebration
(Jam Studios Session demo)
7. I
Can Take You Higher (Jam Studios Session demo)
8. I
Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Jam Studios Session demo)
9. Passion
for Trash (Jam Studios Session demo)
10. Top
Of The World Ma (extended version)
11. Shove
It (US single version)
DVD
1. Strange
Frontier
2. Man On
Fire
3. Happiness
4. Foreign Sand
5. Surrender
6. Nazis 1994
7. The
Unblinking Eye
8. Dear Mr
Murdoch (2011)
9. Old
Friends (live at the Gosport Festival, 1994)
10. Man
On Fire (live at Truro City Hall, 1994)
11. Happiness
(live at Truro City Hall, 1994)
12. Everybody
Hurts Sometime (live at Truro City Hall, 1994)
13. Cowboys
And Indians
14. Cowboys
And Indians (2 drummers)
15. Shove
It
16. Heaven
For Everyone
17. Power
To Love
18. Liar
19. New
Dark Ages
20. Blue Rock EPK
21. Happiness? EPK
22. Electric Fire EPK
23. Interview for Parlophone
Full details of the DVD can be found here.
List Of Missing Tracks
Actual songs:
I
Wanna Take You Higher (Roger demo)
Keep
On Running (demo)
Olympic
Theme
The
Shores Of Formentera
When
We Were Young
Versions of songs:
All fifteen tracks on the 'Bootleg'
semi-official fan-club album
All ten tracks on the 'Live In Germany'
semi-official fan-club album
Cowboys
And Indians (the 7" single has a slightly different
single version, which runs faster than the included version)
Happiness (single
version; a straight edit of the album version)
Is It Me?
(original acetate version)
Man
On Fire (The Cross live version; a straight edit of the
included version)
Nazis
1994 (banned version)
Put
It All Down To Love (single version; a straight edit of the
album version)
Rough
Justice (US album version; includes a reprise of 'Shove It',
which is included but as part of 'The Second Shelf Mix')
Shove It
(extended version; not included as such, but it does form part of
'The Second Shelf Mix')
Surrender
(original acetate version)
(Live versions of 'I
Want To Break Free' and 'Ride
The Wild Wind' from Shepherd's Bush 1994 are also missing,
but this was deliberate as the boxed set focuses on Roger's solo
work, so intentionally excludes Queen material)
Videos:
Future
Management ('Top Of The Pops' performance)
I
Wanna Testify ('Marc' TV show performance)
Liar
(single version video)
Man On Fire
(alternate video)
Nazis 1994
(original video)
Power
To Love (alternate video)
Sunny Day
Surrender
(live video from the CD single)
List Of
Previously Unreleased Tracks
Celebration
(Jam Studios Session demo)
I
Can Take You Higher (Jam Studios Session demo)
I
Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Jam Studios Session demo)
Passion
for Trash (Jam Studios Session demo)
Top
Of The World Ma (extended version)
Whole
House Rockin' (new track on the CD version only)
List
Of Tracks Previously Unavailable In The UK
All ten tracks on the Blue Rock album
and their alternate versions.
All DVD content except 'The
Unblinking Eye'.
Feel
The Force
Heartland
In
Charge Of My Heart (single and extended versions)
Liar (single
and extended versions)
Man
On Fire (live version)
Shove It
(Denniz Pop Remix and US single version)
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