From Billboard.com:

Sire Celebrates 30th With Four-Disc Set

By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

With its 30th anniversary looming in 2006, Sire Records will be celebrated this fall with a four-disc boxed set. Due Sept. 13 via Sire/Rhino, "Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story" rounds up 61 tracks on three audio CDs and another 20 music videos on a DVD.

Sire was founded in 1966 by former Billboard staffer Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. The label is perhaps best known for revealing the New York underground rock scene (the Ramones, Television, the Talking Heads) to a worldwide audience in the mid and late 1970s and, years later, rearing the careers of such acts Madonna, the Pretenders and the Smiths.

All of those acts are represented on "Just Say Sire," as are Morrissey, Erasure, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, the Tom Tom Club, Seal, the Cult, Ice-T, k.d. lang, Primal Scream, the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, My Bloody Valentine, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr. and Wilco. 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stein served as the co-producer for the box, overseeing remastering of all the tracks.

The DVD features such clips as Madonna's "Like a Prayer," the Ramones' "Rock'n'Roll High School," the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Cutter" and the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime."

Here is the track list for "Just Say Sire":

DISC ONE:

"Everybody," Madonna
"Mirror in the Bathroom," English Beat
"Kiss Me," Tin
"Oh L'Amour," Erasure
"Tainted Love," Soft Cell
"Situation (Remix)," Yaz
"People Are People," Depeche Mode
"Living on the Ceiling," Blancmange
"That Summer Feeling," Jonathan Richman
"Young at Heart," the Bluebells
"One Step Beyond," Madness
"Genius of Love," Tom Tom Club
"Im Nin'alu," Ofra Haza
"Endicott," Kid Creole & the Coconuts
"Love and Mercy," Brian Wilson
"Each and Every One," Everything But The Girl
"All the Way," Little Jimmy Scott
"Crazy," Seal
"Fire Woman," the Cult
"Constant Craving," k.d. lang

DiISC TWO:

"Teenage Kicks," the Undertones
"This Charming Man," the Smiths
"I Melt With You," Modern English
"Moskow Diskow," Telex
"(I'm) Stranded," the Saints
"Ca Plan Pour Moi," Plastic Bertrand
"Top of the Pops," the Rezillos
"Nowhere Girl," B-Movie
"Part of the Process," Morcheeba
"Come Together (7" Version)," Primal Scream
"Beat Dis," Bomb The Bass
"The Love Cats," the Cure
"The Killing Moon," Echo & the Bunneymen
"Warm Leatherette," the Normal
"Everyday Is Like Sunday," Morrissey
"Never Never," the Assembly
"Oblivious," Aztec Camera
"Inside Out," The Mighty Lemon Drops
"Soon," My Bloody Valentine
"Leave Them All Behind," Ride

DISC THREE:

"Blitzkrieg Bop," the Ramones
"Alex Chilton," the Replacements
"Come on Let's Go," Paley Brothers and Ramones
"Aloha Steve & Danno / Theme From Hawaii Five-O," Radio Birdman
"The Wagon," Dinosaur Jr.
"Sonic Reducer," Dead Boys
"White Horse," Laid Back
"Blank Generation," Richard Hell and the Voidoids
"I Want That Man," Deborah Harry
"I'll Be Your Everything," Tommy Page
"Summer Teeth," Wilco
"World Class Fad," Paul Westerberg
"Back on the Chain Gang," the Pretenders
"Give Back the Key to My Heart," Uncle Tupelo
"Shake Some Action," Flamin' Groovies
"Counting Backwards," Throwing Muses
"Boy," Book Of Love
"Romeo Had Juliette," Lou Reed
"O.G. Original Gangster," Ice-T
"Jesus Built My Hotrod," Ministry
"Burning Down the House," Talking Heads

DVD:

"Pop Muzik," M
"Rock'n'Roll High School," the Ramones
"Let's Go to Bed," the Cure
"A Little Respect," Erasure
"Brass in Pocket," the Pretenders
"The Cutter," Echo & the Bunnymen
"Bastards of Young," the Replacements
"She Sells Sanctuary," the Cult
"Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads
"Like a Prayer," Madonna
"Enjoy the Silence," Depeche Mode
"Feed the Tree," Belly
"Drifting, Falling," the Ocean Blue
"Reach," Martini Ranch
"Groovy Train," the Farm
"Things Can Only Get Better," D:Ream
"New York City Boy," Pet Shop Boys
"In the Meantime," Spacehog
"One Week," Barenaked Ladies
"Come to Daddy," Aphex Twin

http://www.billboard.com/...1001011597

sextonseven said:

Oh, and great track list

PANDURITO said:

I guess it's supposed to be Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy, ha ha.

PANDURITO said:

The more I look at it, the more I like it. Even The Cure is represented when they were signed to Sire for like, two minutes.

that's a really good collection of tracks. I guess I never stopped to realize how much good music Sire brought our way...

I've always been in love with Sire. This set makes me so happy! No Chris Isaak? Maybe he was Reprise, not Sire. Anyway...

purchased

I'm surprised that Seymore didn't put another track on there for the biggest act he signed.

I wonder if she or WB stood in the way.
[Edited 8/9/05 12:47pm]

Looks good! I do have alot of those songs already.

ehuffnsd said:

sire was dist by wb

just like stiff was dist by epic

TheRealFiness said:

right but her contract was bought out from Sire in 86 or 87 even though Sire remained on her albums until 94.

ehuffnsd said:

It seems like every artist is limited to one track only. I think that's fair.

sextonseven said:

you're right i missed read the The Replacements as the Remones. pardon my afore mentioned thread jackin

ehuffnsd said:

its called a "P & D" deal Product and dist deal

TheRealFiness said:

i understand. But her contract was bought from Sire in 86 or 87. WB realized Sire had a better deal when it came to making money off of her. When she resigned her contract in 91, which spawned Maverick, she sign her record deal with WB with a distbution deal for Maverick, she kept Sire on her albums as an ode to Seymore, but when he left WB to go after the London undergroud scene Sire was dropped from her albums.

ehuffnsd said:

right but the P&D money continued just because u drop a logo dont mean u still arent with em' dig?.. take this from a ex WMG employee

endorphin74 said:

Sire was a good label. Connected to Mute records.

Lots of good choices and a fewe interesting ones like Minisrty, Deborah Harry and Pet Shop Boys. I would have made better choices than those songs...but hey that's only 3 out of well a bunch of good songs.

superspaceboy said:

debbie harry was on Chrysalis..

TheRealFiness said:

Blondie definitely were on Chrysalis back in the day. I don't know about Deborah Harry solo.

sextonseven said:

Solo Debbie Harry was indeed on Sire.

RipHer2Shreds said:

That is correct. I have the 12" of Sweet and Low and it has the old Yellow Sire label.

superspaceboy said:

I love that single! Great remixes.

nice collection!! some good nuggets on there, like the B-Movie track.

I understand only one Madonna track....but "Everybody". Yes, it was her first single but she was on the label for years! I would have made more sense to put "Like A Prayer". Not that the Madonna track makes or breaks it. A really good tracklisting.

VinnyM27 said:

I think "Everybody" sounds better in the context of the box set. Something really poppy and frothy like for example "Cherish", would stick out like a sore thumb.

sextonseven said:

It makes sense - it was her first single and it leads off the set.

They left out tommy page

Losers

thesexofit said:

Seriously, they can't include everyone that was ever signed to Sire. I would have loved if Specimen and The Distillers were represented also, but they aren't.

sextonseven said:

I (and anyone who remembers tommy) will know why they left him off. Shame. I think most pop fans could swallow a song as deliberately cheesy as "i'll be your everything".