Dusty Springfield - Reputation, Rarities & Remixes [1987-90, 44 trks] torrent download



Dusty Springfield - Reputation, Rarities & Remixes (1987-90)





Codec: mp3.


Description: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.


Bit rate: VBR 192-320 kbps.


Sample rate: 44100 Hz joint stereo.


Tag types: ID3V1 & ID3V2.


Source formats: CD, 3 trks vinyl (unreleased on CD)*


Total number of tracks: 44.


Playlists: original studio album, compilation "Reputation & Rarities" (1997), singles "What Have I Done To Deserve This?", "Nothing Has Been Proved", "In Private", "Reputation" & "Arrested By You".


Cover art: original album, compilation "Reputation & Rarities" (1997 + 1999) + singles 1987-1990.





Dusty Springfield's now classic comeback album from 1990, mainly recorded in the United Kingdom and produced by the Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn, plus the singles and collaborations that led up to it; "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" (1987, the duet that EMI tried to persuade the Pet Shop Boys to do with Tina Turner instead. Luckily Tennant and Lowe stood their ground.), "Something In Your Eyes" (1987, with Richard Carpenter), "As Long As We Got Each Other" (1988, with B.J. Thomas) and "Getting It Right" (1989, from the movie of the same name).





EMI re-released the "Reputation" album in 1997 and again in 1999 under the title "Reputation and Rarities", both times with just four bonus tracks. The hit singles "What Have I Done To Deserve This?", "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private" frequently feature on Universal Music's numerous greatest hits compilations, but then as mere footnotes. But; the "Reputation" album isn't just a significant part in Pet Shop Boys' career, or even Dusty Springfield's. This is an important chapter in the history of popular music full stop. After a string of commercially overlooked albums through the late 1970s and early 1980s this is the album and these are all the songs that finally managed to resurrect Springfield's career and belatedly resulted in her being re-discovered, re-evaluated and recognised by both music critics, her peers and the general public as Britain's foremost 'blue-eyed soul' singer and arguably one of the most talented and influential artists of our time. The long overdue recognition and the accolades that Dusty received during that final decade of her life, including an O.B.E. and being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame, was in no small part thanks to the Pet Shop Boys and this album, something she herself publicly acknowledged: " - Being grateful is something that doesn't come easy to me. But I can honestly say that I'm deeply grateful to The Pet Shop Boys. They had the faith in me that I didn't have. They saw something in me that I was about to lose." 





The "Reputation" album therefore deserves to be heard and enjoyed in its entirety, including all those brilliantly produced but long out of print and consequently rare dance mixes by among others Shep Pettibone and PWL's Ian Curnow. "What Have I Done Deserve This", "In Private" and "Reputation" not only marked Dusty's return to the charts but just as importantly to the dancefloor; the material re-connected her with her large gay following (just listen to the lyrics to "Born This Way") and also introduced her to a whole new generation of fans, some of us - yours truly included - not even born when she had her first solo hit with "I Only Want To Be With You" back in 1963. Today she has fans who weren't even born when she made that triumphant comeback with the Pet Shop Boys in 1987. A generation that missed the opportunity to dance themselves absolutely silly to the relentlessly pounding beat of Shep Pettibone's anthemic, nine minute house remix of "In Private", which us "old folks" did. And that proves another important point about the "Reputation" project; Dusty wasn't just that 60's icon, forever transfixed in time with her beehive and black panda eye make-up and forever singing "Wishin' And Hopin'" and "Son Of A Preacher Man". Her career did not start and end with "Dusty In Memphis". Time and music had moved on and so had most definitely Dusty Springfield. As Neil Tennant later put it: " - She never wanted to look back. She was in fact usually two steps ahead of colleagues half her age". When the Pet Shop Boys suggested covering the Gerry Goffin/Carole King classic "I Want To Stay Here", originally recorded by Eydie Gormé and Steve Lawrence in 1963, she wasn't all that keen at first. Been there, done that. To perfection, one might add too. But the idea of closing the album with that simplistic seven minute techno opus "Occupy Your Mind" or her making her debut as a rapper at the age of fifty-one on "Daydreaming"? Absolutely! " - These are the sounds I dreamed about back in the 60's. This is what I always wanted. I was so delighted to finally hear my musical dreams come true, so working with people like the Pet Shop Boys is heaven for me." This was after all the lady who when she for the first time heard "West End Girls" being played on her car radio back in California famously "nearly had a car crash on the highway. Good music has that effect on me." High praise indeed. So here it is, Dusty Springfield, the Pet Shop Boys, the "Reputation" era - and this time the full experience. Or the box set that EMI could - but very unlikely ever will - release.





In late 1990 the album was followed by the release of the video compilation "Reputation - The Videos", featuring interviews with Springfield herself as bonus material. A confident, relaxed and giggly Dusty, finally back on track professionally and after fifteen years in the States finally back in Britain, told the interviewer: " - Musically I'm having one heck of a good time!". (Which she most definitely wasn't when recording "Dusty In Memphis". Clue: Jerry Wexler ducking flying ashtrays.) But listening to this album and all these recordings some twenty years after their original release you can still tell; this really is Dusty Springfield having one heck of a good time, and well deservedly so.





Enjoy - and thanks in advance for seeding.











TRACK LIST:


 


"Reputation" (original album, 1990)


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01. Reputation


02. Send It To Me


03. Arrested By You


04. Time Waits For No One


05. Born This Way


06. In Private


07. Daydreaming


08. Nothing Has Been Proved


09. I Want To Stay Here


10. Occupy Your Mind


Produced by Pet Shop Boys, Julian Mendelsohn, Andy Richards, Rupert Hine, Paul Staveley O'Duffy & Dan Hartman.





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"Reputation - The Rarities" (1987-1990)


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11. What Have I Done To Deserve This? - duet with Pet Shop Boys, 1987


12. Something In Your Eyes - duet with Richard Carpenter, 1987


13. As Long As We Got Each Other - Stephen Dorff featuring Dusty Springfield & B.J. Thomas, from US TV series "Growing Pains", 1988


14. Getting It Right - from UK movie "Getting It Right", 1989


15. Any Other Fool - outtake from the "Reputation" sessions, 1990


16. When Love Turns To Blue - outtake from the "Reputation" sessions, 1990





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"Reputation - The Remixes" (1987-1990)


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17. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Extended Mix)


18. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Disco Mix)


19. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Remix)*


20. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Dub)*


21. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Reprise)


22. Nothing Has Been Proved (7" Mix)


23. Nothing Has Been Proved (7" Instrumental)


24. Nothing Has Been Proved (Dance Mix)


25. Nothing Has Been Proved (12" Mix)


26. Nothing Has Been Proved (12" Instrumental)


27. Getting It Right (Alternate Mix)


28. In Private (12" Version)


29. In Private (7" Instrumental)


30. In Private (Shep Pettibone Remix)


31. In Private (Dub)


32. In Private (Bonus Beats)


33. Reputation (Lots Of Fun 12" Mix)


34. Reputation (Rep U Dub 1)*


35. Reputation (Rep U Dub 2)


36. Reputation (Lots Of Fun Single Mix)


37. Reputation (The Alternative Mix)


38. Arrested By You (7" Mix)


39. Arrested By You (12" Mix)


40. Born This Way (12" Mix)


41. Born This Way (Extended 12" Mix)


42. Daydreaming (Edited 12" Master)


43. Nothing Has Been Proved (Pet Shop Boys demo, 1989)


44. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Pet Shop Boys live 2000)





Quotes from "Dusty Springfield - The Videos" (EMI, 1990), "Dancing With Demons" (Penny Valentine & Vicki Wickham, 2000) & "A Girl Called Dusty" (Sharon Davis, 2008)
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