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Cherry Red is launching the debut album by Sigue Sigue Sputnik back into orbit with a greatly-expanded 4CD set.

Flaunt It, the group’s 1986 album introduction after several years of hype and a pair of Top 20 hits in the U.K., will be expanded to feature two discs of B-sides and remixes and a previously unreleased live-in-studio set at Abbey Road Studios. All the material is remastered from the original tapes and assembled with input by original group bassist Tony James and guitarist Neal X.

Following the dissolution of his punk band Generation X (which featured Billy Idol as lead singer), Tony James assembled Sigue Sigue Sputnik with Neal X and singer/designer Martin Degville. Their stylish New Wave sound, sharp looks and taste for theatricality made them darlings of the British music press before they’d even issued a single; when their first work, the Giorgio Moroder-produced “Love Missile F1-11,” was released in 1986, it soared to No. 3 in England. (It also placed on Billboard‘s dance chart in America, thanks in no small part to it scoring the opening scenes of the John Hughes blockbuster Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.)

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Beyond its catchy, Moroder-assisted grooves (“21st Century Boy,” “Sex Bomb Boogie”), Flaunt It was unique in that the band and EMI offered paid advertising space on the album. “Commercialism is rampant in society,” James explained at the time. “Maybe we’re a little more honest than some groups I could mention.” (A few of the ads were tongue-in-cheek, such as the ones for “The Sputnik Corporation” and an unreleased computer game.)

This ultimate edition of “the ultimate product from the ultimate group” is available October 9. Pre-order your copy below.

Flaunt It: Deluxe Edition (Cherry Red CDXRED821 (U.K.), 2020)

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Disc 1: Original album (1-11, released as Parlophone PCS 7305, 1986) and bonus track (12, from Rock N Roll Mixes – Sputnikworld SSW 002, 2000)

1. Love Missile F1-11 (Re-Recording Part II)
2. Atari Baby
3. Sex-Bomb-Boogie
4. Rockit Miss U.S.A.
5. Advertisement: The Sputnik Corporation
6. 21st Century Boy
7. Massive Retaliation
8. Advertisement: The Sigue Sigue Sputnik Computer Game
9. Teenage Thunder
10. She’s My Man
11. Advertisement: EMI Records
12. From The Gutter To The Stars

Disc 2: Remixes

1. Trailer Mix
2. Love Missile F1-11 (7″ Single Mix)
3. Love Missile F1-11 (The Bangkok Remix)
4. Love Missile F1-11 (Dance Mix)
5. Love Missile F1-11 (Extended Ultra Violence Version)
6. Love Missile F1-11 (Video Mix)
7. Love Missile F1-11 (Japanese Remix)
8. Love Missile F1-11 (Westbam Remix Short Version)
9. Massive Retaliation (The Super Massive U.K. Remix)
10. Massive Retaliation (Shut Up Dub Remix)
11. Sex Bomb Boogie (Magic Flute)
12. Sex Bomb Dance

Tracks 1 and 6 released on Parlophone limited 12″ 12-SSSX-1, 1986
Track 2 released on Parlophone single SSS 1, 1986
Track 3 released on Parlophone 12″ 1C K 060 20 1110 6, 1986
Tracks 4-5 released on Parlophone 12″ 1C K 060 20 1088 6, 1986
Track 8 released on EMI CD single 72438 88496 2 3, 2000
Tracks 9-10 released on Manhattan U.S. 12″ V-56037, 1986
Tracks 11-12 released as Parlophone 12″ 1C K 060-20 1565 6, 1986

Disc 3: Remixes, Rarities & B-Sides

1. Hack Attack
2. Buy EMI
3. Dancerama (1986 Version)
4. Suicide (Live In London Sept. ’86)
5. 21st Century Boy (Extended T.V. Mix)
6. 21st Century Boy (German Remix)
7. 21st Century Boy (Dance Mix)
8. Buy EMI (£4,000,000 Mix)
9. She’s My Man (Remix)

Track 1 released on “Love Missile F1-11” single – Parlophone SSS 1, 1986
Track 2 released on “21st Century Boy” single – Parlophone SSS 2, 1986
Track 3 released on “Sex Bomb Boogie” single – Parlophone 1C 006-20 1564 7, 1986
Track 4 released on Who M I? 12″ WM 1001, 1986
Tracks 6-7 released as Parlophone 12″ 1C K 060-20 1361 6, 1986
Tracks 5 and 8 released as Parlophone 12″ 1C K 060 20 1259 6, 1986
Track 9 released on Parlophone 12″ promo PSLP 342, 1986

Disc 4: Live At Abbey Road (previously unreleased)

1. Sex Bomb Boogie
2. 21st Century Boy
3. Twist & Shout
4. She’s My Man
5. Shoot It Up
6. Jayne Mansfield
7. Rockit Miss U.S.A.