New Wave hitmaker Howard Jones did a fantastic job remastering his catalogue through his own Dtox label with the help of Rhino U.K., releasing three great waves of remastered albums from his years on WEA/Elektra over the past three years. Now, he's got one more package up his sleeve: a new anthology of music videos.
The Video Collection will nicely collate not only all of Jones' videos from his MTV years (with all the audio newly remastered), but four recent videos, taken mostly from the albums People (1998) and Ordinary Heroes (2009). ("Building Our Own Future," the last video on the standard program, was a non-album song from 2006.) Three bonus videos will be included as well: the "London version" of U.K. Top 5 hit "Like to Get to Know You Well," an alternate version of "Everlasting Love" (one version swapped out vintage romantic film clips for the humorous side narrative of two mummies on a date) and a version of "Tears to Tell" tinted in blue.
Jones is on tour in America this summer as part of the "ReGeneration" '80s-themed package alongside Andy Bell of Erasure, A Flock of Seagulls and others. At the end of the year, he will perform two special U.K. shows in honor of the 30th anniversary of his debut single "New Song," featuring hits and a new multimedia composition as part of the set.
Order your copy from the Dtox web store (the disc is not only hand-numbered but region-free, meaning anyone can enjoy it on any DVD player!) and check out the track list below.
The Video Collection (Dtox, 2013)
- New Song
- What is Love
- Hide & Seek
- Pearl in the Shell
- Like to Get to Know You Well
- Things Can Only Get Better
- Look Mama
- Life in One Day
- No One is to Blame
- All I Want
- You Know I Love You...Don't You?
- Everlasting Love
- The Prisoner
- Lift Me Up
- Tears to Tell
- I.G.Y.
- Tomorrow is Now
- Let The People Have Their Say
- Soon You'll Go
- Building Our Own Future
- Like to Get to Know You Well (London Version) (bonus video)
- Everlasting Love (Alternative Version) (bonus video)
- Tears to Tell (Blue Tint Version) (bonus video)
Tracks 1-4 from Human's Lib (WEA/Elektra, 1983)
Tracks 5 and 21 from The 12" Album (WEA/Elektra, 1984)
Track 6-8 from Dream Into Action (WEA/Elektra, 1985)
Track 9 from Action Replay (Elektra, 1986)
Tracks 10-11 from One to One (WEA/Elektra, 1986)
Tracks 12-13 and 22 from Cross That Line (WEA/Elektra, 1989)
Tracks 14-15 and 23 from In the Running (WEA/Elektra, 1992)
Track 16 from The Best of Howard Jones (WEA/Elektra, 1993)
Tracks 17-18 from People (Dtox, 1998)
Track 19 from Ordinary Heroes (Dtox, 2009)
Track 20 from non-LP single (Dtox, 2006)
Tom says
Wow. This looks great. Another reason why I love this site - I would never have known about this until reading TSD.
The remastered CD sets were outstanding, so I'm sure these will be of the same high standard set by the audio discs.
Marko says
Already pre-order from HOJO site. Can't wait. Unfortunatelly, there is no videos from very good album 'Revolution Of The Heart'.All other 80's hits are here. Maybe it's time for video collection for another 80's great band - Thompson Twins.