NEWMAN – Decade 1 [2-CD Re-recorded Hits + Unreleased] (2008)

British act NEWMAN is one of the most productive bands out there when it comes to melodic rock / AOR. Their latest studio effort ‘Colour in Sound’ was featured here some days ago, and some of you asked for this stupendous 2xCD pack titled “Decade“, released in 2008.
The concept of “Decade” was to bring to you re-performed and re-recorded from the first 10 years of Newman. This is some kind of expanded ‘best-of’ containing a 2-disc set – there’s no less then 17 tracks on each CD, 34 track in total.
However, this is not just a ‘compilation’. Steve Newman and his band has re-recorded all tracks especially for this release, songs selected from the first five Newman albums from the 1997 to 2007 decade. All these new versions – very good by the way – are packed on CD1.
But the other 17 tracks on CD2 are unreleased, or at least quite rare songs (e.g. Japanese bonus tracks) taken from that very period. This disc also features some songs which were ‘works in progress’ but were never completed.

”Decade” is the best of both worlds: the 17 ‘best of’ songs have been re-recorded with a crisp production (Newman has been faithful to the original versions, so he have here a varied material ranging from Melodic Hard Rock to AOR) while the other 17 songs are like a new album, because all are unreleased yet really good.
Great release, HIGHLY Recommended

CD 1: Re-Recorded Versions
01 – One Step Closer
02 – Heaven Knows
03 – Every Moment
04 – Last Known Survivors
05 – If It’s Love
06 – Ain’t Gonna Cry Forever
07 – You Should Be Gone
08 – Pray For The Day
09 – Taboo
10 – Save Me Tonight
11 – The Call
12 – Dangerous
13 – The Way You Love Me
14 – Judgement Day
15 – Burned
16 – I Know You
17 – Watching You

CD 2: Unreleased
1 – Coming Home Tonight (Unreleased 2000)
2 – Life After Love (Unreleased 2005)
3 – Tell It To My Heart (Unreleased 1999)
4 – Change (Unreleased 2001)
5 – Can You Hear Me Now (Unreleased 2002)
6 – Hands Around My Heart (Unreleased 2000)
7 – All She Wants (Unreleased 2005)
8 – Don’t Ever Say Forever (Unreleased 2000)
9 – Love Never Dies (Unreleased 2001)
10 – Can’t Stop Falling (Unreleased 2002)
11 – All Of Me (Unreleased 1999)
12 – Emotions Into Motion (Unreleased 1999)
13 – World Comes Down (Unreleased 2005)
14 – When I Look In Your Eyes (Unreleased 2000)
15 – 15 Minute Revolution (Alternative Version 2007)
16 – Primitive Soul (Acoustic Version 2007)
17 – One Step Closer (Alternative Version 1999)

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www.amazon.co.uk/Decade-Newman/dp/B001DLUAX2