Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Steven Wilson Version) - 2025 EU Universal label 18-track 2LP Reissue

This 2LP version features a new stereo mix by Steven Wilson housed in a newly designed gatefold sleeve with printed inners and pressed on 140gm vinyl.

The BMG label wrote:

If 1984 was the most ‘eighties’ year of that decade, then Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH or Frankie) were the most ‘eighties’ of bands. The year and band collided dramatically, resulting in an explosion of 12inch vinyl, remixes, cassette singles and 15 weeks at number one in the UK chart. Resistance was futile – they would get you in the end. No teenager was without a Frankie 12inch come December 1984 and it’s hard to convey the fun, danger and excitement of FGTH in the cold light of 2017. Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford with Peter Gill, Mark O’Toole and Brian Nash (“The Lads”) created something visceral, real and far removed from the sanitised pop that dominates the charts today. ‘Relax’ and ‘Two Tribes’ have secured their place in pop history. Instantly recognisable, and instantly capable of transporting any listener a few years either side of forty back to the heady days of 1984,Top of the Pops and Our Price record shops. Their debut full length album ‘Welcome to the Pleasuredome’ was released in late October 1984, just over a whole year since the original release of Relax. This in part can be put down to the extraordinary lifespan of both Relax and Two Tribes in the UK charts, and record label ZTT’s decision to release multiple formats and remixes of each single. Originally released as a double vinyl LP, on cassette and CD, the album hit number one in the album charts. It did of course contain all the big hits, as well as some well-known cover songs such as ‘Born to Run’ and’ Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ Many of the single B-sides were also on the album (albeit in remixed form). These include ‘War’ (Two Tribes 12″), ‘Ferry Cross The Mersey’ (Relax 12″) and ‘The World is My Oyster’, the B-side to ‘The Power of Love’ which was released only a week after the album came out. There was the addition of short instrumental/oddities (e.g. ‘Snatch of Fury (Stay)’) and other single worthy tracks like ‘Black Night White Light’. Welcome to the Pleasuredome was another Frankie event. It was lavishly packaged, contained all the records people wanted to hear and in ‘The Power of Love’ and ‘Welcome to the Pleasuredome’, two more enormous future hits. Its legacy is undeniable.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Well...
2. The World Is My Oyster
3. Snatch Of Fury (Stay)
4. Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

Side 2:
1. Relax (Come Fighting)
2. War (...And Hide)
3. Two Tribes (For The Victims Of Ravishment)

Side 3:
1. (Tag)
2. Ferry (Go)
3. Born To Run
4. San Jose (The Way)
5. Wish (The Lads Were Here)
6. Including The Ballad Of 32

Side 4:
1. Krisco Kisses
2. Black Night White Light
3. The Only Star In Heaven
4. The Power Of Love
5. Bang...