Maximum Joy (album)

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Maximum Joy
Maximum Joy cover
Greatest hits by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Released October 25, 2000 (2000-10-25)
Recorded 1983-1986
Genre New Wave
Length 72:00 (CD1)
60:00 (CD2)
Label ZTT - ZTT 165 CD
Producer Trevor Horn,
Stephen Lipson
Frankie Goes to Hollywood chronology
Reload - The Whole 12 Inches
(1994)
Maximum Joy
(2000)
The Club Mixes 2000
(2000)

Maximum Joy is a greatest hits album by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. It was released October 25, 2000 (2000-10-25) by ZTT Records. The album takes its name from a song title from the band's Liverpool album.

The track listing is in interesting amalgam of singles and album tracks. The band's seven singles are accounted for here, in their album versions. Also featured is the four cover versions the band committed to album.

Rounding out the collection is a bonus CD of newly commissioned remixes by people like Rob Searle and Peter Rauhofer.

To celebrate the release of Maximum Joy, ZTT re-issued the four Welcome To The Pleasuredome-era singles complete with more of the 2000 remixes.

Repertoire Records from Germany collected two discs worth of these mixes and issued them as The Club Mixes 2000.

[edit] Tracklisting

CD One

  1. "Relax" (Come Fighting) - 3:57
  2. "Two Tribes" (for the Victims of Ravishment) - 3:22
  3. "Ferry Cross The Mersey" - 4:03
  4. "The World Is My Oyster" - 1:58
  5. "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" - 13:39
  6. "Maximum Joy" - 5:30
  7. "San Jose" - 3:09
  8. "Warriors Of The Wasteland" - 5:00
  9. "Rage Hard" - 5:02
  10. "War" (...and hide) - 6:12
  11. "Watching The Wildlife" - 4:17
  12. "Born To Run" - 4:05
  13. "The Power Of Love" - 5:30

CD Two

  1. "The Power Of Love" (Rob Searle Club Mix) - 8:38
  2. "Relax" (Club 69 Future Anthem Part 1) - 11:27
  3. "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Remix) - 11:23
  4. "Maximum Joy" (DJ Rene Club Mix) - 9:45
  5. "Two Tribes" (Rob Searle Club Mix) - 9:18
  6. "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" (Sander's Coming Home Mix) - 10:18
  7. "Two Tribes" (Apollo Four Forty Remix) - 6:10