Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones' 'Live in Japan' Video Gets Wider DVD/CD Release

Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones’ ‘Live in Japan’ Video Gets Wider DVD/CD Release

Howard Jones and Cherry Red are diving into the vault for another live release – a wider audiovisual issue of a 1984 concert recorded by the synthpop icon in Japan.

Live at The NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan – 1984 depicts Jones a year into his major-label career, having already seen debut singles “New Song” and “What is Love?” sail to Nos. 3 and 2 on the U.K. charts a year earlier. The 15-song set features nearly every song from debut album Human’s Lib, released that same year – including favorites “Hide and Seek” and “Like to Get to Know You Well” along with non-LP tracks like “Always Asking Questions” and “Bounce Right Back.”

The CD, remastered from the original concert multi-tracks, also re-orders the concert in proper sequence – slightly different accompanying original video release (issued on VHS and reissued here on a region-free DVD after being part of a deluxe Human’s Lib box issued by Cherry Red) – and includes a song that did not feature on that video: a cover of The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” An eight-page booklet of period live shots of Howard is included in this digipak release, in line with the generous sets Cherry Red has put together for his Warner-era ’80s and early ’90s material.

The set is available October 21 and can be pre-ordered below. Jones’ newest album, Dialogue, is also due later this year.

Live at The NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan – 1984 (Cherry Red PCDVBRED860 (U.K.), 2022) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD (* previously unreleased)

Intro – Tao Te Ching
Hunt the Self
Pearl in the Shell
Bounce Right Back
Hide and Seek
Always Asking Questions
Dreams of a Better Place
Like to Get to Know You Well.
Equality
Natural
Hey Jude *
Conditioning
What is Love?
Don’t Always Look At the Rain
New Song

DVD (originally released as Warner Home Video (U.K.) 12WV32, 1984)

New Song
Tao Te Ching
Hunt the Self
Pearl in the Shell
Bounce Right Back
Hide and Seek
Always Asking Questions
Dreams of a Better Place
Like to Get to Know You Well.
Equality
Natural
Conditioning
What is Love?
Don’t Always Look At the Rain

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1 thought on “Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones’ ‘Live in Japan’ Video Gets Wider DVD/CD Release”

Stephen
September 8, 2022 at 6:02 pm

So,why on earth is Hey Jude,not been included on the dvd disc,yet it was obviously in the set?

What’s the reason for not inclusion on the dvd?
This ruins the ‘incomplete’ dvd,why release something incomplete?

And still expect ppl to pay for an inferior product?

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