In Case You Missed It: A Full Spectrum of U.K. Compilations in May

The Spectrum family of labels in the U.K., which includes the catalogues of what Americans count toward Universal Music Group, have a few affordable compilations on the market in the coming month from a diverse crop of artists.

On May 23, the label will release compilations from Styx as well as both Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart. (The latter two artists, whose catalogues reside with Warner Music Group in the U.S., will focus on each act’s “early years.”) It’s also worth noting that Spectrum has released a few other similar compilations in recent months, including sets for Big Country, Stevie Wonder, Thin Lizzy and Shalamar (the last of which came with a bonus disc of 12″ remixes).

For completeness’ sake, we’ve provided track lists and order pages for all six of these sets, in case anyone wants to grab some copies. Read on after the jump!

Stevie Wonder, I Was Made to Love Her: The Collection (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

1. I Was Made to Love Her
2. My Cherie Amour
3. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)
4. For Once in My Life
5. Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
6. If You Really Love Me
7. Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
8. Heaven Help Us All
9. Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
10. Fingertips (Part 2)
11. Blowin’ in the Wind
12. A Place in the Sun

Track 1 from I Was Made to Love Her (Tamla, 1967)
Tracks 2 and 7 from My Cherie Amour (Tamla, 1969)
Tracks 3 and 8 from Signed, Sealed & Delivered (Tamla, 1970)
Tracks 4-5 from For Once in My Life (Tamla, 1968)
Track 6 from Where I’m Coming From (Tamla, 1971)
Tracks 9 and 11 from Up-Tight (Tamla, 1966)
Original version of Track 10 from Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius (Tamla, 1963)
Track 12 from Down to Earth (Tamla, 1966)

Shalamar, The Ultimate Best Of (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

Disc 1

1. A Night to Remember (7″ Edit)
2. I Can Make You Feel Good (7″ Edit)
3. Take That to the Bank (7″ Edit)
4. Uptown Festival (Part 1)
5. Ooh Baby Baby
6. Right in the Socket (7″ Edit)
7. The Second Time Around (7″ Edit)
8. Full of Fire (7″ Edit)
9. Make That Move (7″ Edit)
10. This is for the Lover in You
11. Sweeter As the Days Go By
12. I Owe You One (7″ Edit)
13. There It Is
14. Friends (7″ Edit)
15. Over and Over (7″ Edit)
16. My Girl Loves Me (7″ Edit)
17. Dead Giveaway (7″ Edit)
18. Disappearing Act (7″ Edit)
19. Games (7″ Edit)

Original versions of Tracks 1-2 and 14 and Track 13 from Friends (SOLAR, 1982)
Original version of Track 3 from Disco Gardens (SOLAR, 1978)
Original version of Track 4 and Track 5 from Uptown Festival (Soul Train, 1977)
Tracks 6 and original versions of Tracks 7 and 12 from Big Fun (SOLAR, 1979)
Original versions of Tracks 8-9 and Track 10 from Three for Love (SOLAR, 1980)
Track 11 from Go for It (SOLAR, 1981)
Original versions of Tracks 15 and 17-18 from The Look (SOLAR, 1983)
Original version of Track 16 from Heartbreak (SOLAR, 1984)
Original version of Track 19 from Circumstantial Evidence (SOLAR, 1987)

Disc 2: Remixes

1. Uptown Festival
2. Take That to the Bank
3. The Second Time Around (12″ Version)
4. Right in the Socket
5. I Owe You One
6. Make That Move
7. I Can Make You Feel Good
8. A Night to Remember (12″ Version)
9. There It Is (12″ Version)
10. Friends
11. Dead Giveaway
12. Disappearing Act
13. Over and Over

Track 1 from Uptown Festival (Soul Train, 1977)
Track 2 from Disco Garden (SOLAR, 1978)
Track 3 from SOLAR 12″ single YD-11733 (U.S.)/FC-1709 (U.K.), 1979
Tracks 4-5 from Big Fun (SOLAR, 1979)
Track 6 from Three for Love (SOLAR, 1980)
Tracks 7 and 10 from Friends (SOLAR, 1982)
Track 8 from SOLAR 12″ single K 13162 T, 1982
Track 9 from SOLAR 12″ single K 13194 T, 1981
Tracks 11-13 from The Look (SOLAR, 1983)

Thin Lizzy, Waiting for an Alibi: The Collection (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

1. The Boys Are Back in Town
2. The Rocker (Single Version)
3. Waiting for an Alibi
4. Whiskey in the Jar
5. Emerald
6. Don’t Believe a Word
7. King’s Vengeance
8. Wild One
9. Philomena
10. Still in Love with You
11. Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)
12. Soldier of Fortune
13. Opium Trail
14. Massacre
15. Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed
16. Killer on the Loose
17. Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)
18. Bad Reputation
19. Jailbreak
20. Thunder and Lightning

Tracks 1, 5 and 19 from Jailbreak (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1974) 
Original version of Track 2 from Vagabonds of the Western World (Decca (U.K.)/London (U.S.), 1973)
Track 3 from Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Vertigo (U.K.)/Warner Bros. (U.S.), 1979)
Track 4 from Decca single F 13355 (U.K.), 1972
Tracks 6 and 14-15 from Johnny the Fox (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1976)
Tracks 7-8 from Fighting (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1975)
Tracks 9-10 from Nightlife (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1974)
Tracks 11-13 and 18 from Bad Reputation (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1977)
Track 16 from Chinatown (Vertigo (U.K.)/Warner Bros. (U.S.), 1980)
Track 17 from Renegade (Vertigo (U.K.)/Warner Bros. (U.S.), 1981)

Big Country, Fields of Fire: The Ultimate Collection (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

Disc 1

1. Fields of Fire
2. Wonderland
3. In a Big Country (7″ Edit)
4. Peace in Our Time
5. Harvest Home
6. You Dreamer
7. Tall Ships Go
8. Beautiful People
9. Save Me
10. King of Emotion
11. Driving to Damascus
12. Chance (Single Version)
13. Come Back to Me
14. Eiledon
15. Restless Natives
16. Ships
17. Angle Park
18. Fragile Thing

Disc 2

1. East of Eden
2. Steeltown
3. Look Away
4. Republican Party Reptile
5. I’m Not Ashamed
6. One Great Thing
7. Where the Rose is Sown (7″ Edit)
8. Heart of the World
9. 1000 Stars
10. The Seer
11. The Teacher
12. God’s Great Mistake
13. Never Take Your Place
14. Mary
15. Porrohman
16. Dive In to Me
17. Fields of Fire (Live @ Hammersmith Odeon)

Disc 1, Tracks 1 and 5, original versions of Disc 1, Tracks 3 and 12 and Disc 2, Tracks 9 and 15 from The Crossing (Mercury, 1983)
Disc 1, Tracks 2 and 17 from Wonderland (Mercury (U.S.), 1983)
Disc 1, Tracks 4 and 10 from Peace in Our Time (Mercury (U.K.)/Reprise (U.S.), 1988)
Disc 1, Track 6 and Disc 2, Tracks 5 and 12 from Why the Long Face? (Transatlantic (U.K.)/Pure (U.S.), 1995)
Disc 1, Tracks 7 and 13 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-2 and original version of Track 7 from Steeltown (Mercury, 1984)
Disc 1, Tracks 8 and 16 and Disc 2, Tracks 4 and 8 from No Place Like Home (Vertigo (U.K.), 1991)
Disc 1, Track 9 from Through a Big Country: Greatest Hits (Mercury (U.K.), 1990)
Disc 1, Tracks 11 and 18  and Disc 2, Track 16 from Driving to Damascus (Track Record (U.K.), 1999)
Disc 1, Track 14 and Disc 2, Tracks 3, 6 and 10-11 from The Seer (Mercury, 1986)
Disc 1, Track 15 from “Look Away” single – Mercury BIGC 1 (U.K.)/844 645-7 (U.S.), 1986
Disc 2, Track 13 from “Alone” single – Compulsion CDPULS 4, 1993
Disc 2, Track 14 from Rarities III (Track Record, 2002)
Disc 2, Track 17 from BBC Live in Concert (Windsong, 1995)

Styx, Babe: The Collection (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

1. The Best of Times
2. Too Much Time on My Hands
3. Babe
4. Boat on the River
5. Come Sail Away
6. Mr. Roboto
7. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
8. Lady ’95
9. Crystal Ball
10. Renegade
11. Lorelei
12. Mademoiselle
13. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
14. Heavy Metal Poisoning
15. Shooz
16. Snowblind
17. Show Me the Way
18. A.D. 1928
19. Rockin’ the Paradise

Tracks 1-2, 16 and 18-19 from Paradise Theatre (A&M, 1981)
Tracks 3-4 from Cornerstone (A&M, 1979)
Tracks 5 and 7 from The Grand Illusion (A&M, 1977)
Tracks 6 and 14 from Kilroy Was Here (A&M, 1983)
Track 8 from Styx Greatest Hits (A&M, 1995)
Tracks 9, 12 and 15 from Crystal Ball (A&M, 1976)
Tracks 10 and 13 from Pieces of Eight (A&M, 1978)
Track 11 from Equinox (A&M, 1975)
Track 17 from Edge of the Century (A&M, 1990)

Fleetwood Mac, Black Magic: The Best of the Early Years (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

1. The Green Manalishi (with the Two Pronged Crown)
2. Black Magic Woman
3. Man of the World
4. Oh Well
5. Blues in B Flat Minor
6. Do You Give a Damn for Me
7. Buzz Me Baby
8. Like It This Way
9. Leaving Town Blues
10. World in Harmony
11. Someone’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite
12. Everyday I Have the Blues
13. Tell Me from the Start
14. Stranger Blues
15. Jumping at Shadows
16. The Madge Sessions No. 2
17. My Baby’s Sweeter
18. Coming Your Way
19. I Have to Laugh
20. Farewell

Tracks 1 and 10 from Reprise single RS-27007 (U.K.), 1970
Track 2 from English Rose (Epic (U.S.), 1969) / The Pious Bird of Good Omen (Blue Horizon (U.K.), 1969)
Tracks 3 and 11 from Immediate single IM 080 (U.K.), 1969
Tracks 4 and 18 from Then Play On (Reprise, 1969)
Tracks 5, 12-14, 16-17 and 20 from The Vaudeville Years of Fleetwood Mac 1968-1970 (Receiver (U.K.), 1998)
Tracks 6-7 and 19 from Show-Biz Blues: Fleetwood Mac 1968-1970 (Receiver (U.K.), 1998)
Track 8 from Man of the World (CBS (U.K.), 1978)
Track 9 from The Original Fleetwood Mac (Epic (U.S.)/CBS (U.K.), 1971)
Track 15 from 2000 reissue of The Original Fleetwood Mac (Epic (U.S.)/CBS (U.K.), 1971 – reissued Snapper, 2000)

Rod Stewart, You Wear It Well: The Collection (Spectrum Music (U.K.), 2011)

1. Maggie May
2. You Wear It Well
3. Farewell
4. Oh! No Not My Baby
5. Reason to Believe
6. Handbags & Gladrags
7. Dirty Old Town
8. Man of Constant Sorrow
9. Gasoline Alley
10. Only a Hobo
11. Country Comfort
12. Mandolin Wind
13. I’d Rather Go Blind
14. Mama You Been on My Mind
15. What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
16. Girl from the North Country
17. You Put Something Better Inside Me
18. Every Time We Say Goodbye

Tracks 1, 5 and 12 from Every Picture Tells a Story (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1971)
Tracks 2 and 13-14 from Never a Dull Moment (Mercury (U.K.)/(U.S.), 1972)
Tracks 3 and 16 from Smiler (Mercury (U.K.)/(U.S.), 1974)
Track 4 from Mercury single 6052.371 (U.K.), 1973 – later released on The Best of Rod Stewart (Mercury (U.K.)/(U.S.), 1976)
Tracks 6-8 from The Rod Stewart Album (Mercury (U.S.), 1969) / An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down (Vertigo (U.K.), 1970)
Tracks 9-11 from Gasoline Alley (Vertigo (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.), 1970)
Track 15 from Mercury single 6052.198 (U.S.), 1972 – later released on The Best of Rod Stewart (Mercury (U.K.)/(U.S.), 1976)
Tracks 17-18 from Handbags & Gladrags (Mercury (U.K.), 1995)