It's 2012, a new year full of new catalogue opportunities - and yet another batch of our favorite ridiculous, vaguely pointless series of compilations, UMe's ICON.
The generic collections pack nothing but hits into an 11-track set list, enabling the uninitiated to get a simple primer of their favorite artist for maybe $8 and change. This time around, the batch is very rock-oriented (mid-'80s Deep Purple, Anthrax, Cinderella, Uriah Heep) with some traces of late-'90s rap and R&B (Dru Hill, Ja Rule, BLACKstreet).
All the titles street next Tuesday, January 10 and can be pre-ordered on Amazon after the jump.
Deep Purple, ICON (Mercury/UMe B0016186-02, 2012)
- Smoke on the Water (Live)
- Hush (Live)
- Woman from Tokyo (Live)
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Call of the Wild
- Perfect Strangers
- Bad Attitude
- Nobody's Home
- Black Night (Live)
- Child in Time (Live)
- Strange Kind of Woman (Live)
Tracks 1-3 and 9-11 from Nobody's Perfect (Polydor, 1988)
Tracks 4, 6 and 8 from Perfect Strangers (Polydor, 1984)
Tracks 5 and 7 from The House of Blue Light (Polydor, 1987)
Dru Hill, ICON (Island/UMe B0016228-02, 2012)
- In My Bed
- Never Make a Promise
- How Deep is Your Love
- These Are the Times
- 5 Steps
- I Should Be
- You Are Everything
- No Doubt (Work It)
- I Love You
- Beauty
- Tell Me
Tracks 1-2, 5 and 11 from Dru Hill (Island, 1996)
Tracks 3-4, 7 and 10 from Enter the Dru (Island, 1998)
Tracks 6 and 8-9 from Dru World Order (Island, 2002)
Cinderella, ICON (Mercury/UMe B0016232-02, 2012)
- Shake Me
- Gypsy Road
- Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
- Shelter Me
- Nobody's Fool
- Somebody Save Me
- The Last Mile
- Heartbreak Station
- The More Things Change
- Bad Attitude Shuffle
- Coming Home
Tracks 1 and 5-6 from Night Songs (Mercury, 1986)
Tracks 2-3, 7 and 11 from Long Cold Winter (Mercury, 1988)
Tracks 4 and 8-9 from Heartbreak Station (Mercury, 1990)
Track 10 from Still Climbing (Mercury, 1994)
Anthrax, ICON (Island/UMe B0016242-02, 2012)
- Madhouse
- A.I.R.
- Armed and Dangerous
- I Am the Law
- Indians
- Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)
- Antisocial
- Got the Time
- Belly of the Beast
- Bring the Noise
- I'm the Man '91
Tracks 1-3 from Spreading the Disease (Megaforce/Island, 1985)
Tracks 4-6 from Among the Living (Megaforce/Island, 1987)
Track 7 from State of Euphoria (Megaforce/Island, 1988)
Tracks 8-9 from Persistence of Time (Megaforce/Island, 1990)
Tracks 10-11 from Attack of the Killer B's (Megaforce/Island, 1991)
Uriah Heep, ICON (Hip-O/UMe B0016274-02, 2012)
- Easy Livin'
- July Morning
- Free Me
- Gypsy
- Wonderworld
- Lady in Black
- Look at Yourself
- The Wizard
- Echoes in the Dark
- Paradise/The Spell
- Stealin'
Tracks 1, 8 and 10 from Demons and Wizards (Bronze, 1972)
Tracks 2 and 7 from Look at Yourself (Bronze, 1971)
Track 3 from Innocent Victim (Bronze, 1977)
Track 4 from Very 'eavy...Very 'umble (Vertigo, 1970)
Track 5 from Wonderworld (Bronze, 1974)
Track 6 from Salisbury (Vertigo, 1971)
Track 9 from The Magician's Birthday (Bronze, 1972)
Track 11 from Sweet Freedom (Bronze, 1973)
BLACKstreet, ICON (Island/UMe B0016296-02, 2012)
- No Diggity
- Booti Call
- Before I Let You Go
- Joy
- Tonight's the Night
- Never Gonna Let You Go
- Don't Leave Me
- I Can't Get You (Out of My Mind)
- Fix
- Coming Home to You
- The Lord is Real (Time Will Reveal)
Tracks 1, 6-9 and 11 from Another Level (Interscope, 1996)
Tracks 2-5 from BLACKstreet (Interscope, 1994)
Track 10 from Get on the Bus: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope, 1996)
Ja Rule, ICON (Def Jam/UMe B0016404-02, 2012)
- Livin' It Up (featuring Case)
- Put It on Me (featuring Lil' Mo & Vita)
- Wonderful (featuring R. Kelly & Ashanti)
- Mezmerize (featuring Ashanti)
- Holla Holla
- New York (featuring Fat Joe & Jadakiss)
- We Here Now
- Down Ass Bitch (featuring Charli Baltimore)
- Between Me and You (featuring Christina Milian)
- Thug Lovin' (featuring Bobby Brown)
- Always on Time (featuring Ashanti)
Tracks 1, 8 and 11 from Pain is Love (Murder Inc./Def Jam, 2001)
Tracks 2 and 9 from Rule 3:36 (Murder Inc./Def Jam, 2000)
Tracks 3 and 6 from R.U.L.E. (Murder Inc./Def Jam, 2004)
Tracks 4 and 10 from The Last Temptation (Murder Inc./Def Jam, 2002)
Tracks 5 and 7 from Venni Vetti Vicci (Murder Inc./Def Jam, 1999)
jEREMY pIRTLE says
I've got the Styx 2-cd ICON set. It was cheap at Wal-Mart. These are the replacements for the 20th Century Masters line from Universal it seems to me. Great site by the way!