The Berlin Tapes (album)

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The Berlin Tapes
Studio album by Icehouse
Released AUS: October 1995
JAP: 1996
Recorded DIVA Studios, Whale Beach, Australia
Genre Rock
Label dIVA/Massive/For Life
Producer Iva Davies
Icehouse chronology
Big Wheel
(1993)
The Berlin Tapes Bi-polar Poems
(TBA)

The Berlin Tapes is a covers album by Australian rock band, Icehouse. The record was a collaboration between Iva Davies and classical music composer Max Lambert to accompany the Sydney Dance Company's production of "Berlin", in which Icehouse performed live on stage. The covers are mostly acoustic, with piano, strings and subtle electronica incorporated into most songs. The record was initially released as a single or double disc set, with the second disc consisting of instrumental Icehouse tracks performed with the ballet. A Japanese re-release included three bonus tracks, and it was also re-released in 2000 as "Heroes", coinciding with Davies' performance at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Australian Release

  1. Loving The Alien (David Bowie)
  2. Sister Europe (The Psychedelic Furs)
  3. Heaven (Talking Heads)
  4. Complicated Game (XTC)
  5. Berlin (Lou Reed)
  6. All The Way (Frank Sinatra)
  7. All Tomorrow's Parties (The Velvet Underground)
  8. Let There Be Love (Simple Minds)
  9. Disappointed (Public Image Ltd)
  10. Really Good Time (Roxy Music)
  11. At Night (The Cure)
  12. Love Like Blood (Killing Joke)
  13. Heroes (David Bowie)

[edit] Australian 2CD Release

Disc One

  1. Loving The Alien (David Bowie)
  2. Sister Europe (The Psychedelic Furs)
  3. Heaven (Talking Heads)
  4. Complicated Game (XTC)
  5. Berlin (Lou Reed)
  6. All The Way (Frank Sinatra)
  7. All Tomorrow's Parties (The Velvet Underground)
  8. Let There Be Love (Simple Minds)
  9. Disappointed (Public Image Ltd)
  10. Really Good Time (Roxy Music)
  11. At Night (The Cure)
  12. Love Like Blood (Killing Joke)
  13. Heroes (David Bowie)

Disc Two

  1. Dedicated To Glam
  2. Melt Steel Part 1
  3. Orbital Line
  4. Melt Steel Part 2
  5. Pas De Trois
  6. Giant and Child Fuguge
  7. Melt Steel Part 3
  8. Crazy (Midnight Mix)

(*)Disc Two are not cover songs.

[edit] Japanese Release

Released in 1996.

  1. Loving The Alien (David Bowie)
  2. Sister Europe (The Psychedelic Furs)
  3. Heaven (Talking Heads)
  4. Complicated Game (XTC)
  5. Berlin (Lou Reed)
  6. All The Way (Frank Sinatra)
  7. All Tomorrow's Parties (The Velvet Underground)
  8. Let There Be Love (Simple Minds)
  9. Disappointed (Public Image Ltd)
  10. Really Good Time (Roxy Music)
  11. At Night (The Cure)
  12. Love Like Blood (Killing Joke)
  13. Heroes (David Bowie)
  14. Be My Friend (Free)
  15. Being Boiled (The Human League)
  16. Blank Frank (Brian Eno)
  17. How Do You Sleep (John Lennon)