Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection (Remastered 2025) Thompson Twins

• 1 Hold Me Now (2025 Remaster) 04:47
• 2 If You Were Here (2025 Remaster) 02:55
• 3 Doctor! Doctor! (Remastered 2024) 04:38
• 4 Lies (2025 Remaster) 03:11
• 5 Lay Your Hands on Me (7" Version) (2025 Remaster) 04:09
• 6 King for a Day (2025 Remaster) 04:12
• 7 You Take Me Up (Remastered 2024) 04:26
• 8 Love on Your Side (2025 Remaster) 03:59
• 9 Sister of Mercy (Remastered 2024) 05:10
• 10 The Gap (Remastered 2024) 04:43
• 11 We Are Detective (2025 Remaster) 03:05
• 12 In the Name of Love (2025 Remaster) 03:52
• 13 Future Days (2025 Remaster) 03:00
• 14 No Peace for the Wicked (Remastered 2024) 04:04
• 15 Roll Over (2025 Remaster) 05:00
• 16 Kamikaze (2025 Remaster) 03:55
• 17 Don't Mess with Doctor Dream (7" Version) (2025 Remaster) 03:36
• 18 Revolution (7" Version) (2025 Remaster) 03:23
• 19 Nothing in Common (7" Version) (2025 Remaster) 03:34
• 20 Breakaway (2025 Remaster) 03:32
• Total Runtime 01:19:11

Info for Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection (Remastered 2025)

Industry & Seduction is the definitive career-spanning collection from Thompson Twins.Charting their journey from post-punk outsiders to global synth-pop icons, and into the experimental electronic world of Babble.

Over the course of their career, the Thompson Twins scored seven US Top 40 hits and were at the forefront of the ‘Second US invasion’ of British artists in the US, which also included The Police, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Culture Club, and Eurythmics. The band also had 10 UK Top 40 singles, making them one of the few British acts of the era to consistently have hits on both sides of the Atlantic.

Initially formed in Sheffield in 1977 and shaped by the South London squat scene, Thompson Twins were always more eclectic than their “new wave” label suggested, and their black/white, male/female line-up was closer in spirit to Prince & The Revolution or Sly & The Family Stone than to their peers.

The world knows their hits, Hold Me Now, Doctor! Doctor!, Love On Your Side, Lay Your Hands On Me, but fewer know the range of their catalogue, from early albums A Product of… Participation and Set to later lost classics like Come Inside and Strange Jane. Across three distinct line-ups, they shifted from eccentric art-pop to streamlined chart-toppers and finally to Babble’s mystical electronica.

Industry & Seduction is the first Thompson Twins compilation curated by the band themselves. It unites every era of Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie’s music, the hits, key album tracks, rare B-sides, and the first official CD release of their Into The Gap tour recording, when the trio pioneered the theatrical pop spectacle before 20,000 fans in California.

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By appealing to fans of '80s dance-pop as well as post-punk and new wave, the Thompson Twins were one of the more popular synth pop groups of the early MTV era, scoring a handful of hits in the early to mid-'80s. Neither a duo nor related, but rather named after characters in the Tintin cartoon, the band enjoyed international success with songs like ‘Hold Me Now,’ ‘Lay Your Hands on Me’ and ‘King for a Day’ - all US Top Ten hits.

In their original incarnation, which featured Bailey (vocals, keyboards), guitarist Pete Dodd, guitarist John Roog, and drummer Chris Bell, Thompson Twins released a handful of independent singles and became fixtures on the burgeoning New Romantic scene in London. In 1981 they released their debut album, ‘A Product Of...’. Not long after its arrival, Bailey added his girlfriend Alannah Currie (percussion, saxophone, vocals), Joe Leeway (percussion, vocal), and former Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman to the group. Thompson Twins recorded one album in this seven-piece incarnation, 1982's ‘Set’, which was issued in America as ‘In the Name of Love’. Following its release, the group was trimmed to a trio - Bailey, Currie, and Leeway. They released ‘Quick Step & Side Kick’ in 1983, and the album became a major hit in the UK, climbing all the way to number two, as the singles ‘Love on Your Side’ and ‘We Are Detective’ reached the Top Ten. In America, the record was released under the truncated title ‘Side Kicks’ and earned a cult following.

The Thompson Twins had their American commercial breakthrough in 1984 with ‘Into the Gap.’ Single ‘Hold Me Now’ peaked at number three in the US.

Leeway left the group in 1986, and the Thompson Twins remained a duo, releasing ‘Close to the Bone’ the following year, which charted in a handful of countries including Canada and Norway. In 1988 they released the remix album ‘The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes’. ‘Big Trash’, the band's 1989 album, produced the minor UK hit ‘Sugar Daddy.’ They released their final LP, the club-inspired ‘Queer’, in 1991. The single ‘Come Inside’ hit the Top Ten of the UK dance chart and topped the dance chart in the UK.

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