December - All about Eve

Together with the previous entry, 'Road to your soul' by All about Eve, this CD-single arrived in my mailbox after calling Tower Records in London. This CD-single was far more interesting, because it contained two non-album tracks, of which 'Drowning' probably should have been on the album, 'Scarlet and other stories' because it's a really good track.'The witch's promise' was originally performed by Jethro Tull.

'December' appears here in a horribly edited single version, which is a shame because the record company could have chosen to include the album version or the equally beautiful Narnia remix, which never appeared on CD at all...

1. December [edit]
2. Drowning
3. The witch's promise

Mercury EVNCD 11
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Road to your soul - All about Eve

With no World Wide Web to come to my aid, I had to rely to international phone connections to mail order from the UK. It's something I regularly did in the Nineties. This CD-single of 'Road to your soul' was the first to come to me this way, after phoning to Tower Records in London. (That's when Tower Records still existed over there!)

I ordered it because I bought the 7" single during a holiday in London a few months before and I really wanted this track on CD-single as well. I didn't know the other tracks on it (there was no World Wide Web, remember?) so I just took the gamble and bought it. Unfortunately, this little bugger only contained three album tracks...

1. Road to your soul
2. Pieces of our heart
3. Hard Spaniard

Mercury EVNCD10
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What kind of fool - All about Eve

The second and last All about Eve CD Video ever released was also the last single taken from the band's debut album. I didn't know at the time of buying that there were also CD-singles of these CD Videos. Oddly enough, the CD Videos were available in Europe, whereas the CD-singles, made in the UK, couldn't be found overseas at all.

Besides the beautiful video for this track, the audio portion of this disc consisted of three non-album tracks. The title track appears here in a remix.

1. What kind of fool (Autumn rhapsody)
2. Gold and silver [acoustic version]
3. The garden of Jane Delawney

Mercury 080 618-2
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Martha's harbour - All about Eve

I discovered the band All about Eve in 1988, when a satellite channel on TV broadcast a special on the band, featuring two or three videos. I'm sure 'Every angel' was one of them, but I'm not sure 'Martha's harbour' was included. Still, I was inspired to buy a single by them later that week in the record shop (yes, that's vinyl guys). A few weeks later, I had their debut album, and a few weeks after that I had a whole stack of vinyl singles.

My first CD-single followed in 1989 in the shape of this CD Video. The best treat on this was the B-side 'Another door', which unlike the other tracks didn't appear on the album.

1. Martha's harbour
2. Like Emily
3. Another door
4. She moves through the fair

Mercury 080 522-2
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