(2021) Howard Jones - In the Running [Expanded Deluxe Edition]
Review:
…In the Running, Howard Jones’ fifth album and final release for a major label, continued the artistic and commercial trends that had been a part of Jones’ career since 1989’s Cross That Line sold modestly outside of the U.S. Top 20 hit “Everlasting Love.” With a new decade in full bloom, Jones consciously moved away from the densest electronics of his ’80s work into more “organic” sounding soft-rock. Along for the ride were a host of killer session players and guest musicians, including producer Ross Cullum, keyboardist Ian Stanley and drummer Chris Hughes (all former Tears for Fears collaborators who’d also worked on Cross That Line); guitars by Midge Ure, Robbie McIntosh (Pretenders, Paul McCartney) and Neil Taylor (Tears for Fears, Robbie Williams); percussion by Big Country’s Mark Brzezicki and even some arrangements by Clare Fischer, known for his orchestral charts through Prince’s discography. Unfortunately, In the Running failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic, with lead single “Lift Me Up” becoming only a modest Top 40 hit in America. A year later, he wrapped up his career with Elektra/WEA with a best-of that featured a newly-recorded cover of Donald Fagen’s “I.G.Y.”; from there, Jones founded his own label, Dtox, and began releasing music independently. Cherry Red’s expansion of In the Running casts considerable light on the album, offering 34 bonus tracks across three CDs. The original album is expanded with a host of B-sides (including “I.G.Y.”) and an unreleased single edit of “One Last Try.” Disc 2 includes an instrumental version of the record (with some TV mixes of extra tracks), while the third disc features a host of extremely rare and unreleased tracks from the In the Running era. This includes the Umberto Tozzi-penned “Other People Are Us” and its original B-side “Don’t Be Part of It,” released as a single in Italy in 1991; a cover of David Ackles’ “Road to Cairo,” issued on a tribute album to the Elektra label in 1990; and rare and unreleased remixes, including a new version of Jones’ 1983 smash “What is Love?” that was prepared (but not used) for his greatest hits album.
Track Listing:
Disc 1
1. Lift Me Up
2. Fallin’ Away
3. Show Me
4. The Voices Are Back
5. Exodus
6. Tears To Tell
7. Two Souls
8. Gun Turned On The World
9. One Last Try
10. City Song
11. I. G. Y. (What A Beautiful World) (Single Mix)
12. New Man
13. Takin’ The Time
14. You Say
15. One Last Try (Edit)*
* Previously Unreleased
Disc 2
1. Lift Me Up (Instrumental)*
2. Fallin’ Away (Instrumental)*
3. Show Me (Instrumental)*
4. The Voices Are Back (Instrumental)*
5. Exodus (Instrumental)*
6. Tears To Tell (Instrumental)*
7. Two Souls(Instrumental)*
8. Gun Turned On The World (Instrumental) (Extended Version)*
9. One Last Try (Instrumental) (Extended Version)*
10. City Song (Instrumental)*
11. I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) (Instrumental)*
12. Road To Cairo (Tv Mix)*
13. Other People Are Us (Tv Mix)*
14. What Is Love? (’93 Remix) (Instrumental)*
* Previously Unreleased
Disc 3
1. What Is Love? (’93 12″ Remix Part 1)*
2. What Is Love? (’93 12″ Remix Part 2)*
3. Tears To Tell (7″ Edit)**
4. Don’t Be Part Of It
5. Road To Cairo (Andy Scarth Mix)**
6. I. G. Y. (What A Beautiful World) (Special Dj Edit)**
7. Other People Are Us
8. What Is Love? (’93 Remix)*
9. Two Souls (Early Extended Mix)*
10. Don’t Be Part Of It (Moo Mix)**
11. I. G. Y. (What A Beautiful World) (Live At The Spectrum Theatre, Philadelphia 1987)**
12. Road To Cairo**
13. Tears To Tell (Early Mix)*
14. One Last Try (Extended Version)*
15. Don’t Be Part Of It (Dance Mix Aka Dub Mix)**
* Previously Unreleased
** Previously Unreleased Remastered
Media Report:
Genre: pop, soft rock
Country: UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
