Once in your life - Sam Brown

Another example of 'different CD-singles for different territories' was this third single from Sam Brown's second album 'April moon'. The record company released 'Once in your life' in Europe, but fortunately for fans this CD-single came with two new B-sides. 'Tender hearts' had been released as a bonus track on Sam Brown's debut single, but the other two tracks had never been released anywhere.

1. Once in your life
2. Hold me
3. Tender hearts
4. So far so good

A&M 390539-2

Can't get enough (of your love) - Kim Wilde

A new phenomenon appeared in 1990: different CD-single releases for different countries. Obviously different single choices was something that had happened throughout the previous decades, but with the new format, record companies rarely made different choices internationally because the CD was more expensive to make - or so they would have it appear to consumers.

'Can't get enough (of your love)' was the second single from Kim Wilde's 1990 album 'Love moves' in Europe and Australia, although it had already been released as the first single from the album in France. In the UK, the record company went for 'Time', which I bought a few weeks later.

1. Can't get enough (of your love) (extended)
2. Can't get enough (of your love) (7" version)
3. Someday

MCA 2292-57245-2
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Jealous of youth - The The

After the excellent album 'Mind bomb', The The released this CD-single. Although there are European and UK releases of this track, I never saw anything except this American CD-single at the time. It's the only thing I needed though: it wasn't horribly expensive (like some imports) and it contained one track from the album plus the new track 'Jealous of youth', which surprised me in a good way. I would go on to buy much more releases by the band, but this was a good first one.

1. Jealous of youth (7" version)
2. Beyond love
3. Jealous of youth (12" version)

Epic 49K 73151
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A gentleman's excuse me - Fish

Ex-Marillion frontman Fish released this single in 1990 from his debut solo album 'Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors', and it was released in many different formats. I bought most of them because I really liked this track (as opposed to the rest of his output at the time).

This CD-single, like the 12" single, features but the album version and a demo version of the title track. Obviously the album version was not to be surpassed, although the demo outlined quite well how the eventual track would sound.

1.  A gentleman's excuse me
2. Whiplash
3. A gentleman's excuse me (demo version)

EMI 560-20 3755 2
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It's here - Kim Wilde

I don't remember clearly but this may have been the first time I ever bought a CD-single together with the other formats (7" and 12") of one title. Kim Wilde's new album 'Love moves' was announced and this was the first single taken from that album.

The title track appears here as single edit and extended version, but the B-side appears only as an extended version on this disc. I found out some time later that the original version of 'Virtual world' (which did appear on the 7") was released on the Japanese CD-single only.

1. It's here (7" version)
2. It's here (extended version)
3. Virtual world (extended version)

MCA 2292-57274-2
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Advice for the young at heart - Tears for fears

When the record company decided to release 'Advice for the young at heart' as the third single from Tears for fears' third album, I wasn't at all surprised. It was the most easily accessible, if slightly forgettable, track of the album, which was full of intricate arrangements and lengthy songs. It wasn't a big hit, which wasn't any surprise either.

The B-side, 'Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams', was a version of the earlier single 'Sowing the seeds of love', which was released as a single in its own right just months earlier.

Fontana 876 895-2
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To know someone deeply is to know someone softly - Terence Trent d'Arby

After selling millions with his debut album, Terence Trent d'Arby decided to burn his bridges and release 'Neither fish nor flesh', which was a pretty apt description of what the press thought of this album. 'To know someone deeply is to know someone softly' was the second single off the album, bravely released on two different CD-singles by the record company.

This was version no. 1: a replica of the 7" single with two tracks. The title track is pretty brilliant in all its madness, the other track is, er, neither fish nor flesh.

1. To know someone deeply is to know someone softly
2. Loose variations on a dead man's vibe in C#M

CBS 655588 1 
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Nothing compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor

I bought this CD-single when it was released, long before I ever saw the video and long before it shot to number 1 and stayed up there for ages. I only played it during the first few weeks and then didn't play it for twenty-three years (and counting). This Prince composition has won the hearts of many millions of people, but the overexposure has killed the song a bit. Which is a shame because I really liked it at first.

Chrysalis 663 006
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