Phil Collins was a busy musician between 1975 and 1982. In between Genesis tours (and recording sessions), he did quite a lot with his fusion band Brand X. The band mainly played instrumental stuff, which was a mixture between jazz and rock music. Collins himself once described Brand X as a band "with a groove, something I couldn't do with Genesis". The most popular tracks by Brand X include ... And So To F, that was also part of the first Phil Collins solo live-set (and a b-side to his single Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away). Sometimes, Phil also took over the singing duties, as he did on Soho and Don't Make Waves from the Product album and Sun In The Night on Morrocan Roll. During that period, other musicians besides Collins include John Goodsall, Percy Jones, John Giblin, Kenwood Dennard, Chuck Bürgi, Mike Clark, Morris Pert, Robert Lumley, Peter Robinson and Danny Wilding. John Goodsall is still part of the band, which still exists today.
Universal Music will release a boxset named Nuclear Burn which contains the first five albums from the band.
Unorthodox Behaviour (1975)
Morrocan Roll (1977)
Masques (1978)
Product (1979)
Do They Hurt? (1980)
Phil Collins did not play on Masques. The compilation is in chronological order, but the tracks are split between CDs, so you have five albums on 4 CDs. There are also some bonus tracks, some of them are taken from unreleased BBC sessions. The Live-album Livestock is not part of the set.
UPDATE: Despite earlier announcements, the album Livestock is actually part of the set. This has now been verified with the product at hand. The announcements were wrong, they were also stating it contains "4 studio albums", which proved to be wrong also. It contains the five studio albums and Livestock.
The complete tracklist (in brackets the original album)
CD1:
Nuclear Burn (UB)
Euthanasia Waltz (UB)
Born Ugly (UB)
Smacks Of Euphoric Hysteria (UB)
Unorthodox Behaviour (UB)
Running On Three (UB)
Touch Wood (UB)
The Ancient Mysteries (BBC Session (08/03/1976)
Born Ugly (BBC Session (08/03/1976)
Kugelblitz (BBC Session (08/03/1976)
Nightmare Patrol (Livestock)
CD 2:
-ish (Livestock)
Euthanasia Waltz (Livestock)
Isis Mourning (Part 1 and 2) (Livestock)
Malaga Virgin (Livestock)
Sun in the Night (MR)
Why Should I Lend You Mine (When You've Broken Yours Off Already)... (MR)
...Maybe I'll Lend You Mine after All (MR)
Hate Zone (MR)
Collapsar (MR)
Disco Suicide (MR)
Orbits (MR)
Malaga Virgen (MR)
CD 3:
Macrocosm (MR)
Malaga Virgin (BBC Session (15/07/1976)
The Poke (MQ)
Masques (MQ)
Black Moon (MQ)
Deadly Nightshade (MQ)
Earth Dance (MQ)
Access to Data (MQ)
The Ghost of Mayfield Lodge (MQ)
Don't Make Waves (P)
Dance Of The Illegal Aliens (P)
CD 4:
Soho (P)
Not Good Enough - See Me! (P)
Algon (Where An Ordinary Cup Of Drinking Chocolate Costs £8,000,000,000) (P)
Rhesus Perplexus (P)
Wal To Wal (P)
...And So To F... (P)
April (P)
Noddy Goes to Sweden (DTH)
Voidarama (DTH)
Act of Will (DTH)
Fragile (DTH)
Cambodia (DTH)
Triumphant Limp (DTH)
D.M.Z (DTH)
All songs are digital remastered. The set will be released on 3rd November 2014.
Brand X - Nuclear Burn is available at amazon-uk and burningshed. There is no North American release date confirmed at the moment.
Phil Collins Debutalbum became a classic of the 80ies and is probably his best album to date.
Review available
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