The Dogs D'Amour - Dynamite China Years: Complete Recordings 1988-1993 Box Set

[heavyharmonies]

Releases July 26.

$47.08 at ImportCDs:

https://www.importcds.com/dynamite-china-years-complete-recordings-1988-1993/5013929929920

8CD complete collection of recordings released by China Records. Featuring what most consider to be the classic line-up of The Dogs D'Amour; Jo 'Dog' Almeida on guitar, Steve James on bass, the onomatopoeic Bam on drums, and of course fronted by songwriter and singer, the inimitable Tyla. Propelled by the albums' three singles 'The Kid from Kensington', 'I Don't Want You to Go' and 'How Come It Never Rains' edging their way up the charts, when The Dogs D'Amour's genre-defining 1988 "debut" 'In The Dynamite Jet Saloon' (CD2) was released in 1988, it must have looked like the band was an overnight sensation. But this couldn't have been further from the truth. The Dogs D'Amour originally formed in 1983, and had already recorded two previous "debut" albums. First was 1984's now highly collectable 'The State We're In', for Finnish label Kumibeat. Further recordings were made in 1985 and 1986 for Watanabe Records in Japan, and it's the latter where this collection kicks off. 'The (Un)Authorised Bootleg Album' (CD1) was the record originally intended for Japan. The second set in this collection is the aforementioned In 'The Dynamite Jet Saloon' (CD2), bursting with classics. A highly prolific band in their earliest days, 'Errol Flynn' (re-titled 'King Of The Thieves' in the States) (CD3) was released in 1989 as was the extended mini-album, 'A Graveyard Of Empty Bottles Vol. 1' (CD4), a collection of acoustic songs that reached the UK Top 20. 1990 saw the release of '... Straight?!!' (CD5) featuring the singles 'Victims of Success', 'Empty World' and 'Back On The Juice'. Unfortunately, and in true rock 'n' roll tradition, the band split up on stage in Los Angeles in 1991. Thankfully the band regrouped for the self-explanatory '... More Unchartered Heights Of Disgrace' (CD6) in 1993. This eight CD collection is completed with no less than two discs of rarities, live tracks and B-sides with 'Singles, B-Sides & Rarities' (CD7) and 'Even More Singles, B-Sides & Rarities' (CD8), making this the most complete and comprehensive collection of the band's recordings for China.

 

- Disc 1 -
1 Firework Girl
2 Chains
3 Gold
4 Pourin' Out My Heart
5 Wait Until I'm Dead
6 How Do You Fall in Love Again?
7 Kiss This Joint
8 Heroine
9 Tales of Destruction
10 Dynamite Jet Saloon
11 Swingin' the Bottle

- Disc 2 -
1 Debauchery
2 I Don't Want You to Go
3 How Come It Never Rains
4 Last Bandit
5 Medicine Man
6 Gonna Get It Right
7 Everything I Want
8 Heartbreak
9 Billy Two Rivers
10 Wait Until I'm Dead
11 Sometimes
12 The Kid from Kensington
13 The State I'm in

- Disc 3 -
1 Drunk Like Me
2 Goddess from the Gutter
3 Hurricane
4 Satellite Kid
5 Errol Flynn
6 Planetary Pied Piper
7 Princess Valium
8 Dogs Hair
9 Trail of Tears
10 Ballad of Jack
11 The Prettiest Girl in the World
12 The Girl Behind the Glass
13 Things Seem to Go Wrong
14 Oooh! Baby Glass

- Disc 4 -
1 I Think It's (Love Again)
2 So Once Was I
3 Comfort of the Devil
4 Saviour
5 Errol Flynn
6 The Bullet Proof Poet
7 When the Dream Has Gone
8 Angel
9 Cardboard Town
10 Kiss My Heart Goodbye
11 Lie in This Land
12 You Can't Burn the Devil
13 Gypsy Blood
14 Empty World
15 Back on the Juice
16 Evil
17 Victims of Success
18 Flyin' Solo
19 Heroine
20 Chiva
21 Lady Nicotine

- Disc 5 -
1 What's Happening Here?
2 What You Do
3 Pretty, Pretty Once
4 World's Different Now (Ode to Drug Hill)
5 Mr Addiction
6 Johnny Silvers
7 Cath
8 More Unchartered Heights of Disgrace
9 Scared of Dying
10 Mr Barfly
11 Put It in Her Arms
12 All or Nothing
13 English Outlaw
14 No Gypsy Blood '93
15 Hard to Leave This World
16 When Nobody Loves You

- Disc 6 -
1 King of the Thieves
2 Ugly
3 Billy Two Rivers (Live)
4 Victims of Success (Live)
5 I Don't Want You to Go (Live)
6 Ballad of Jack (Live)
7 Last Bandit (Live)
8 How Come It Never Rains (Live)
9 Baby Glass (Live)
10 Kirsten Jet (Live)
11 Everything I Want (Live)
12 Heartbreak (Live)
13 Trail of Tears (Live)
14 Medicine Man (Live)
15 Drunk Like Me (Live)
16 I Don't Want You to Go (Live)

- Disc 7 -
1 I Don't Want You to Go (12" Version)
2 Trail of Tears (7" Version)
3 How Come It Never Rains (7" Radio Edit)
4 Satellite Kid (Single Edit)
5 She Thinks Too Much of Me (Acoustic Version)
6 Drunk Like Me (Acoustic Version)
7 As the Poppies Fall (Acoustic Version)
8 Things He'd Do (Acoustic Version)
9 Never Had a Girl Who Would Die for Me (Acoustic Version)
10 What's Happening Here? (Acoustic)
11 Heading for the Target of Insanity

[Doggy]

[Captain Howdy]

Look at that boxset and the price, and then compare that to the Sabbath boxsets. Twice as many discs, a whole buncha rarities and half the price.

[heavyharmonies]

52 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Look at that boxset and the price, and then compare that to the Sabbath boxsets. Twice as many discs, a whole buncha rarities and half the price.

Yep. It's not my thing stylistically, but it seemed to be a fairly impressive deal at the price.

There are some pretty decent box set deals coming out, even if not in my wheelhouse per se. For example, this 14-disc 10CC box set for US$76.91

https://www.importcds.com/20-years-1972-1992-14cd-boxset/740155736330

 

A 10-CD + DVD Nik Kershaw set for US$59.11

https://www.importcds.com/mca-years-the-box-set-10cd-dvd/5013929446809

 

[Whatever Happened To Fun?]

Great price but I already have all the albums and the rarities are mostly just live or acoustic. I stopped trying to collect everything by Tyla/Dogs years ago so it is a pass for me!

[Captain Howdy]

1 hour ago, heavyharmonies said:

Yep. It's not my thing stylistically, but it seemed to be a fairly impressive deal at the price.

There are some pretty decent box set deals coming out, even if not in my wheelhouse per se. For example, this 14-disc 10CC box set for US$76.91

https://www.importcds.com/20-years-1972-1992-14cd-boxset/740155736330

 

A 10-CD + DVD Nik Kershaw set for US$59.11

https://www.importcds.com/mca-years-the-box-set-10cd-dvd/5013929446809

 

Just looked it up on Amazon UK and it's £55 which is still a bargain.

A while back their albums were going for silly money on CD, but I think reissues brought those values down massively. For anyone who does not already have the albums on CD, this is a must purchase I am sure.