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Perfect Child

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(05/10/2011 01:56)

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to get this straight p=a is out again on 2 nd motion.> correct?
also unlike the dbl cd version a few years ago, the latest rerelease only has` 2 extra` traks apart from the actual album is that also correct?

jmb066

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Perfect Child

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(05/12/2011 04:38)

That is correct, single disc, no notes from MWP just the lyrics. Now it could have been just for the tour since it was one of the featured albums and could be updated soon for the next set of re-relaeses.

davem2

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Snowfaller

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(05/12/2011 11:26)

That's a shame. Marty's notes have been super, although I've only bought OSAH and Seance so far.

rhkbco

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Glow Worm

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(05/13/2011 19:22)

I asked Stephen Judge about this when I bought P=A on the tour and I think he said something like they couldn't quite get Marty's notes done on time, so the tour version had the lyrics instead.

chrome3D

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(05/22/2011 06:42)

Faith Healer

Second Motion has some new news but nothing very definite:

Then the long awaited reissues from our brothers in arms, The Church will come out sometime before the end of the year. Those will be: Starfish (2xCD), Gold Afternoon Fix (2xCD), Sometime Anywhere (2xCD) and a limited edition EP Box Set. We do not know the streetdates just yet as we have simply been busy with the past US tour in Feb and recent Sydney Opera House show last month. Now that the dust is settling from a very busy and hectic first quarter of the year, the next priority is to get the liner notes done and one by one release the albums back out there. Goal is by year-end. Starfish will be next and preorders will be up really soon. The next plan is to release Priest=Aura first in 180-gram Vinyl and we may do it to retail for Black Friday in November. It will be limited on Vinyl, eventually we will release the back catalog on vinyl in full. More on this soon. The band is working on a new studio album too, no plans yet on a release date but we hope sometime in 2012.

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davem2

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Snowfaller

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(05/23/2011 10:35)

"The band is working on a new studio album too, no plans yet on a release date but we hope sometime in 2012. "

Now that's the best news I've heard in ages. Like many thousands of folk residing in south Birmingham/Solihull and the surrounds I've had a terrible weekend! Keep Right On.

jmb066

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Perfect Child

Posts: 209

(05/23/2011 12:05)

Plus David Neil, Isi 2 Nocky 3 and Live Opera House DVD. Makes every month something to look forward to. Hell maybe we will get another tour by the end of the year as well.

Its good to be a fan of The Church.

Wayne

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(05/29/2011 00:09)

Faith Healer

Here is a review on the reissue of Starfish, lifted from the local Brisbane Street Mag 'RAVE"

PS: I don't agree with the magnum hopeless comment at the end about P=A

THE CHURCH – Starfish (Reissue)

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

(EMI)

AKA the big one with Under The Milky Way on it

The Church’s 1988 US breakthrough, Starfish captured the Sydney janglesmiths at the apex of their powers. Co-produced by the band and veteran Californian hitmakers Waddy Wachtel and Greg Ladanyi, the album remains a sheer sonic marvel 23 years on – all the way from Destination’s haunting intro to Hotel Womb’s last heart-tugging notes. It was here that Steve Kilbey married his alternately mysterious and emotive lyrics with concise, stripped-down melodies – pinpointed by Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes’ (who respectively take excellent solo turns on Spark and A New Season) intertwining, snaky guitars. Classics like North, South, East and West, Antenna and Reptile anxiously seek, waltz and slither away, while it’s now hard to imagine that the still-captivating calling card Under The Milky Way (co-authored by Kilbey and then-girlfriend Karin Jansson) was considered “filler” by engineers. The extra CD compiles choice rarities like Texas Moon, Anna Miranda and Frozen And Distant – plucked from the initial LP release’s accompanying 12-inch EP and 1991’s odds-and-sods collection A Quick Smoke At Spot’s – and acoustic demos of Spark, Antenna and UTMW. Following Starfish’s success, the combination of label pressure for another chart single and growing internal conflict resulted in 1990’s commercially underperforming Gold Afternoon Fix and the departure of drummer Richard Ploog, yet the subsequent chaos begat 1992’s 24-carat “magnum hopeless” Priest=Aura.

*****

DENIS SEMCHENKO

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Marcelo

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Snowfaller

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(06/03/2011 06:35)

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More updates on Starfish and P=A from Second Motion:

FINALLY we are back on to the next round of Church reissues. We apologize for the delay but the band has been incredibly busy over the last few months with the US Album tour (playing Untitled #23, Priest=Aura and Starfish in their entirety) and then also their legendary show celebrating their 30th Anniversary at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia with a 67-piece orchestra! We did film the event and it is yet undecided on what will happen but once we know we will let you know immediately.

Due to the band's schedule, guitarist Marty Willson-Piper has been too busy to write the liner notes for the reissues therefore we have continued to put them on hold until we can get things back in line. Marty is going to get started again this summer and the hopes are to have the remaining releases out by the end of the year. Stay tuned.

In the meantime we are catching up on the reissues. You can now pre-order the band's legendary album "Starfish" remastered with bonus tracks.. in its double-CD format with full 16-page liner notes from MWP himself! it doesnt get much better than this!

The Tracklisting is as follows:

CD1

Destination

Under The Milky Way

Blood Money

Lost

North, South, East and West

Spark

Antenna

Reptile

A New Season

Hotel Womb

CD2

Texas Moon

Perfect Child

We Both Know Why You're Here

Frozen and Distant

Anna Miranda

Nose Dive

Afterlife

Under The Milky Way (Acoustic)

Antenna (Acoustic)

Spark (Acoustic)

Warm Spell

Musk

and we have a very special limited offer if you pre-order Starfish now. A LIMITED EDITION version of the band's 1992 masterpiece PRIEST=AURA. This is NOT the version that will be in stores, it is a limited edition 1,000 only release, remastered with bonus tracks! We have constantly been asked for lyrics to P=A and you can get them here. This is only available one time and when they are gone, they are gone. The liner notes version will be released later this year. These will be long gone by then.

Tracklisting for Priest=Aura (limited edition with lyrics)

Aura

Ripple

Paradox

Lustre

Swan Lake

Feel

Mistress

Kings

Dome

Witch Hunt

The Dillusionist

Old Flame

Chaos

Film

Nightmare (bonus track)

Fog (bonus track)

I checked with Stephen at Second Motion: there is only one version of the Starfish reissue. The version now available for pre-order is exactly the same as the version sold on tour, and the same that is available in some retail stores right now. Two discs, MWP liner notes, no lyrics.

The limited edition P=A with lyrics but no liner notes is the same version that was sold on the tour. The "standard" version to be sold later this year will have liner notes, but no lyrics. Both P=A reissues are only one disc, with Nightmare and Fog as the only bonus tracks.

So in essence, Second Motion is clearing out the inventory of P=A discs with lyrics that the company pressed in a hurry for the tour. Personally, I'm going to wait for the version with liner notes later this year. Great info from MWP - I second the notion that his notes are an excellent supplement to No Certainty Attached.

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eyestothesky

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Glow Worm

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(10/11/2011 20:55)

I finally bit the bullet and bought the new reissues from Second Motion, and I have to say that I'm extremely happy with them. They sound great, they look great, and the liner notes by Marty really are worth the price of admission. He really goes into some depth describing not just the songs themselves, but the state of the band during the recording of each of the albums as well. Dare Mason edited the notes, and he seems to have done a really nice job too - the notes are well organized, grammatically correct (not always the case when our beloved rock'n'rollers try putting pen to paper) and as a result are eminently readable.
These really are the versions to have.

b

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Snowfaller

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(10/28/2011 16:08)

Glow Worm

I'm thinking about going this direction since the Merch is down and I got a little extra cashola. But I've had 3-4 versions of P=A and Starfish including LPs and tapes since '88. Are marty's notes really worth it, or is there something more to this? I'm thinking I should just spend on up coming new stuff. Thoughts?

b

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Glow Worm

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(12/03/2011 01:48)

The Gold Afternoon Fix and Priest=Aura reissues with the liner notes are available here in Australia now.

Song wise they are much the same as the 2005 2CD releases, except P=A only retains Nightmare and Fog, and is only one disc.
Though the liner notes should be good as usual.

I haven't seen the Sometime Anywhere and the EP box set releases yet, but hopefully they will be released soon.

Peter

chrome3D

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(12/03/2011 10:00)

Faith Healer

b wrote:
I'm thinking about going this direction since the Merch is down and I got a little extra cashola. But I've had 3-4 versions of P=A and Starfish including LPs and tapes since '88. Are marty's notes really worth it, or is there something more to this? I'm thinking I should just spend on up coming new stuff. Thoughts?

b

Thoughts?...Yes, the notes are worth it, because it's nice to read something while listening to the album and the notes take about the same time as it takes to listen the album. Is there something more in the reissues? Not really. If you have all the b-sides and bonus songs multiple times then that's it. Do you have the 2005 remastered issues? Remastering might be worth something.

There is always new solo and sideprojects coming, like Isidore, Noctorum and OperaHouse live DVD, and if you feel that you have to choose either reissues or new stuff, then do you feel that the new stuff is a better choice? At least I would take the new Isidore instead of 5th issue of Starfish if I had to choose one. In the end I probably get both.

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chrome3D

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(01/16/2012 04:00)

Faith Healer

So, any news how long this reissue program will continue? Starfish, GAF and P=A are available now, not from Second Motion though. Will there be Sometime Anywhere? MATS? HOB? all of them with liner notes and stuff.

Marcelo

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Snowfaller

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(01/31/2012 13:49)

According to Stephen at Second Motion, the label won't release GAF and P=A w/ liner notes in the USA until The Church tours the country again. Don't know when that's going to happen. So for now, Church Merch is the only source to buy these discs (that I know of).

Also, Marty hasn't finished the notes for Sometime Anywhere. No news on that front either.

I don't think MATS, HOB, and the 21st century albums need any sort of sonic upgrade. New editions with liner notes would be nice, if the band has ownership of the master tapes. But I'm guessing that reissues of these albums in the USA are a low priority in the near future. The albums probably didn't sell well enough the first time around to justify a reissue campaign.

chrome3D

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(02/01/2012 01:30)

Faith Healer

I don't think that the later albums need any upgrade and they wouldn't be bestsellers anyway. Still I have enjoyed Marty's notes quite a lot and I wouldn't mind if he wrote something about the later albums as well. I have found the liner notes to be much more enjoyable and rereadable than No Certainty Attached, which had far too much unnecessary drama attached to it. If Marty released just the liner notes from SA to U#23 in booklets that I could attach to the existing CD's, then I would buy them. Or if there was just the same old CD's without any enhancements and a new booklet that would be cool too. I might be in a minority here but I can dream about it.

DogWater

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Maven

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(04/17/2012 09:37)

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Took delivery of the latest GAF and Priest=Aura reissues from Church merch today. Gatefold card sleeves & MWP liner notes as expected, but they're on EMI, not Second Motion. That was a surprise. Given that the next batch from SM didn't appear by the end of last year as planned, and there's still no sign, I wonder if SM have quietly dropped the project.

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