Thompson Twins - Into The Gap 2LP (180g REMASTERED VINYL 104)

Sold Date: November 3, 2018
Start Date: October 4, 2018
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Tracklisting -
Side 1 - 1. Doctor Doctor 2. You Take Me Up 3. Day After Day 4. Sister of Mercy 5. No Peace For The Wicked
Side 2 -  6. The Gap 7. Hold Me Now 8. Storm On The Sea 9. Who Can Stop The Rain
Side 3 - 10. Leopard Ray (inst), 11. Doctor Doctor (ext mix), 12. Panic Station (remix Day After Day), 13. Down Tools (remix You Take Me Up)
Side 4 14. Hold Me Now (ext mix) 15. Sister Of Mercy (ext mix)

Remastered Double 180g vinyl album set featuring the original album plus a bonus disc of 6 tracks originally only available on the 1984 Cas- sette Edition of the album.
Tom Bailey has provided exclusive sleeve notes for this Limited Edition two album set.
This is the fourth studio album by the band and originally released in February 1984. This remastered edition comes with heavyweight wide
spined sleeve and newly designed inner bags.
The second disc contain the 12inch Extended Versions of “Doctor Doctor’, ‘Hold Me Now’ and ‘Sister Of Mercy’ and remixes of ‘Day After Day’ and ‘You Take Me Up’ under the guise of ‘Panic Station’ and ‘Down Tools’ respectively. There is also the intrumental ‘Leopard Ray’.
Produced by Alex Sadkin and Tom Bailey, this set of recordings really shows the band progression into one of the big pop acts of the 80’s. Tom Bailey’s dynamic writing and use of the synthesizer heralded massive success Worldwide, cementing the bands mass appeal both here and in the United States where the album proved to be the break- through they wanted, reaching no10 in USA Billboard 200.
Far more than an outpouring of commercially driven material, there was huge diversity in its content; much to Tom Baileys credit, and the album was was littered with singles too. From the more simplistic ‘You Take Me Up’ and the more intricate ‘Doctor Doctor’ through to the an- themic ‘Hold Me Now’ and the moving intensity of ‘Sister Of Mercy’.
The band had truly made their mark on the scene, the album becoming one of the biggest sellers of 1984.With a fluid line up which at times reached upto 7 members on stage, a change in musical direction took Tom Bailey, Alannah Curry and Joe Leway in a more mainstream direc- tion than those of the early days of the first two albums; A Product of...(Participation) and Set which where were far more experimental, than Quick Step or anything that followed.