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George Michael - Older (Tracklisting, and more) EDIT OF ORIGINAL ENTRY: Here's the unboxing video from GM's YT page. Available July 8, 2022. This limited super deluxe edition celebrates George Michael’s iconic album, Older. Written, arranged and produced by George, it sees him exploring new genres as he reflected on life, loss, love and healing. Originally released in 1996, Older spent three weeks at Number 1 in the UK and spawned 6 singles including "Fastlove" and "Jesus To A Child." This stunning deluxe set features Older on double 180g vinyl remastered from original tapes plus Upper, available on vinyl for the first time. It also includes 5 CDs, 3 x 12”x12” art prints and a 12”x12” 48 page book The Story of Older with contributions from key people who helped make the album plus rare and previously unseen photos. The special fan edition, available exclusively from the official George Michael store, also contains 3 replica tour laminates. Super Deluxe Box Set Track Listing: OLDER VINYL SIDE A
SIDE B
SIDE C
SIDE D
UPPER VINYL SIDE A
SIDE B
CD1 – OLDER
CD2 – UPPER
CD3 – MIXES ONE
CD4 – MIXES TWO
CD5 – MIXES THREE
* previously commercially unavailable ** previously unreleased [Edited 4/6/22 9:05am] Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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That´s cool. Older is my fave GM album | |
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My favourite George Michael album and one of my favourite albums by ANY artist. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Which, when I think about it, is kind of weird for me. I'm pretty sure there won't be any unreleased music included that I don't already have. And yet, I can't wait. | |
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. - How many unreleased songs it´s believed this album had? | |
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GustavoRibas said:
. - How many unreleased songs it´s believed this album had? No idea. I just have a feeling that I already have them all. I hope I'm wrong though | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
Star People is a great song in its own right but you're right, Star People '97 blows it away and almost makes it seem bad in comparison. Wouldn't it be great if we got a few similar alternate versions of other songs from the album. I don't think we should completely discount the possibility of them including something that you wouldn't normally associate with Older. For example, they included the George Michael Unplugged show with the special edition of Listen Without Prejudice and that show would have fit better as a part of the Older deluxe edition seeing as it was from that period. | |
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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EmmaMcG said: GustavoRibas said:
. - How many unreleased songs it´s believed this album had? No idea. I just have a feeling that I already have them all. I hope I'm wrong though I wasn't wrong | |
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Expensive as fuck and doesn't include anything I don't already have. And I'm still buying it | |
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I would've whacked the pre-order button so darned hard on a 3-LP Older & Upper set with nothing else added, for £40-£50-ish. Even if it had the deluxe-set extras but was priced anything up to about £70, I might've been like, "oh go on, I'll take the fluff then."
£140, though... obscene. Even in today's world.
It's amusing what contortions artists' estates seem to get into sometimes, with such weird combinations for 'deluxe'/reissue sets like this. The lack of a CD-only set seems really glaring as well.
Still glad for the 2-LP reissue, though. | |
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Pointless | |
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Rimshottbob said:
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I already (still) have the "Fastlove" maxi CD single. The FAITH deluxe was beautiful though. It would be lovely to have Older on vinyl. | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
He didn't seem to like "I Want Your Sex" for some reason. Rarely played it live and it doesn't even feature on his Twenty Five greatest hits package. I love that song but it appears, to me anyway, that it may not have been amongst his favourites. Have you ever heard as anything about that or any reason why he kind of ignored it in live shows? | |
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I hadn't originally, but I also expect a star to distance themselves from the thing that made them the most famous. Even Depeche Mode has never sang "People are People" live. Twats. "In an interview with Mark Goodier, included in the large-format book released with the 2011 remaster, Michael said that he still likes the second "Rhythm" but not the first, and that he distanced himself from the song because its production sounded too much like Prince; indeed, "Rhythm 1", as well as a few other tracks on the Faith album (such as "Hard Day"), features Michael simulating female vocals by artificially pitching up and altering his own voice, much the same way as Prince was doing at the time with his pseudo-female alter ego Camille. In the interview, Michael admits that he was "deeply enamoured" with Prince, and adds that he thought it was very bad for him to be infatuated with a colleague of his. Rolling Stone editor David Fricke described this song as 'a new bump-and-grind original that sounds more like Prince's stark, sexy “Kiss” than anything in the Wham! catalog'."
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I hadn't originally, but I also expect a star to distance themselves from the thing that made them the most famous. Even Depeche Mode has never sang "People are People" live. Twats. "In an interview with Mark Goodier, included in the large-format book released with the 2011 remaster, Michael said that he still likes the second "Rhythm" but not the first, and that he distanced himself from the song because its production sounded too much like Prince; indeed, "Rhythm 1", as well as a few other tracks on the Faith album (such as "Hard Day"), features Michael simulating female vocals by artificially pitching up and altering his own voice, much the same way as Prince was doing at the time with his pseudo-female alter ego Camille. In the interview, Michael admits that he was "deeply enamoured" with Prince, and adds that he thought it was very bad for him to be infatuated with a colleague of his. Rolling Stone editor David Fricke described this song as 'a new bump-and-grind original that sounds more like Prince's stark, sexy “Kiss” than anything in the Wham! catalog'."
Interesting. It is a shame that they never worked together. My memory isn't great at the best of times and it's even worse when it comes to things I'm not particularly interested in, such as drama between pop stars, but I remember watching a show on TV about all the big stars who died in 2016. Naturally, both Prince and George Michael were talked about on the show and it was mentioned that during George Michael's troubles with Sony that Prince had reached out to him over some type of collaboration or something but George essentially told him to fuck off, perhaps sensing that Prince was only interested in the publicity. Now, I may be misremembering parts of that but I'm pretty confident that that was the overall gist of it. There was also a story about how when Prince heard "Too Funky" he said "George Michael ain't shit". So I don't think they were on the best of terms. | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
Yeah that's kind of how I see it too, to be honest. It's easy to make up stories about these kinds of things when both parties are deceased. George Michael was clearly a fan of Prince. He'd said as much himself. And I can only assume that Prince would have at least had a professional respect for George Michael based on GM ticking a lot of boxes in terms of things Prince would praise other artists for (writing his own songs, taking control of his art etc). So yeah, I don't believe a lot of these stories and what little truth there may be in them I think is being exaggerated to make a better story. | |
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what I remember of that whole thing is that prince commented on GM's situation at sony and somehow said he would offered advise or help, if needed. | |
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also: i'm sad that there won't be any extra goodies on the Older reissue. but maybe if the estate of GM gets the feedback that there seems to be online (people wanting unreleased material) they will | |
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