Soft Cell announced a massive career-spanning anthology. Keychains And Snowstorms - The Soft Cell Story features 130 tracks and 12 hours of music spread across 9 discs. The collection covers their history from 1978 - 1984 as well as their reunion in 2003 and includes hits, live cuts, 12" mixes, demos, covers, and a complete concert captured in 1981.
Keychains And Snowstorms - The Soft Cell Story will be released September 7th in the U.K. and is available to pre-order here. View the tracklisting below.
In February Soft Cell announced they'd reform to perform one final show to say goodbye to fans. The show takes place September 30th at the O2 Arena in London.
Disc: 1
01. Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?
02. Bedsitter
03. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
04. Torch
05. What
06. Where The Heart Is
07. Numbers
08. Soul Inside
09. Down In The Subway
Disc: 2
01. Tainted Dub/Where Did Our Love Go?
02. Facility Girls (12" Version)
03. Fun City
04. Insecure Me (12" Version)
05. So (12" Version)
06. It's A Mug's Game (12" Version)
07. Barriers (12" Version)
08. You Only Live Twice (12" Version)
09. Her Imagination
10. 007 Theme
11. Disease & Desire
12. Born To Lose
Disc: 3
01. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Dave Ball Lateral Mix)
02. Youth (Dave Ball Wasted On The Young Mix)
03. Secret Life (Extended Mix)
04. Chips On My Shoulder (Extended Mix)
05. Facility Girls (2018 Mix)
06. Heat (Alternative Version)
07. Kitchen Sink Drama (Extended Mix)
08. The Art Of Falling Apart (Extended Mix)
09. Martin (Dave Ball Hallowe'en Mix)
10. Barriers (Dave Ball Broken Down Angels Mix)
11. Meet Murder, My Angel (Extended Mix)
12. Slave To This (Life Of Existence Mix)
Disc: 4
01. The Girl With The Patent Leather Face (Original Version)
02. A Man Could Get Lost (Daniel Miller Vocal Edit)
03. Memorabilia (Non - Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version)
04. Forever The Same (Unreleased Extended Version)
05. Heat (US 7" Version)
06. Loving You, Hating Me (Special USA Mix)
07. Martin
08. Hendrix Medley (Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Voodoo Chile)
09. Numbers (7" DJ Version)
10. Down In The Subway (7" Remix Version)
11. L'Esqualita (7" Version)
12. Soul Inside (Demo)
13. So (Dave Ball Demo Outtake)
Disc: 5
01. Memorabilia (Original Daniel Miller Mix)
02. Persuasion (Original Daniel Miller Mix)
03. Metro MRX (Flexipop Version)
04. A Man Could Get Lost (Daniel Miller Demo)
05. The Girl With The Patent Leather Face (Demo)
06. Tainted Love (Demo)
07. Bedsitter (Demo)
08. Potential (From Mutant Moments EP)
09. L.O.V.E Feelings (From Mutant Moments EP)
10. Metro MRX (From Mutant Moments EP)
11. Frustration (From Mutant Moments EP)
12. Red Tape, Sticky Tape (Demo - Previously Unreleased)
13. Martin (Original 1980 Demo)
14. Paranoid (Black Sabbath Cover)
15. Science Fiction Stories (Demo)
16. Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché (Demo)
17. Cleaning Fanatic (Demo)
18. Mix (Demo)
19. A Man Could Get Lost (Early Version)
20. Walking Make Up Counter (Live at Leeds Polytechnic, December 1979)
21. Occupational Hazard (Live at Leeds Polytechnic, December 1979)
22. Persuasion (Live at Leeds Polytechnic, December 1979)
23. Dave's Theme (Previously Unreleased Demo)
Disc: 6
01. Entertain Me (Richard Skinner Radio 1 Session)
02. Seedy Films (Richard Skinner Radio 1 Session)
03. Chips On My Shoulder (Richard Skinner BBC Radio 1 Session)
04. Youth (BBC Whistle Test)
05. Sex Dwarf (BBC Whistle Test)
06. Soul Inside (David Jensen BBC Radio 1 Session)
07. Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most)? (David Jensen BBC Radio 1 Session)
08. God Shaped Hole (Remix)
09. Divided Soul (Hooker Mix)
10. Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime
11. Monoculture (Dave Ball Extended Version)
12. The Night
13. Darker Times
14. Last Chance
15. Together Alone
16. Caligula Syndrome
17. Desperate
Disc: 7
01. Non - Stop Euphoric Dubbing (Continuous Mix)
02. Bedsitter (Erasure Remix)
03. Where The Heart Is (The Grid Remix : 2018 Re - Edit)
04. So (The Grid Remix)
Disc: 8
01. Mr Self Destruct
02. Soul Inside
03. Forever The Same
04. Insecure Me
05. L'Esqualita
06. Loving You, Hating Me
07. Torch
08. Youth
09. Disease & Desire
10. Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most)?
11. Baby Doll
12. Martin
13. The Art Of Falling Apart
Disc: 9
01. Hey Joe/Purple Haze
02. Memorabilia
03. Heat
04. Ghost Rider (with Clint Ruin)
05. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
06. Numbers (Live)
07. It's A Mug's Game (Live)
08. The Best Way To Kill (Live)
09. Down In The Subway (Live)
10. Barriers (Live)
11. Tainted Love Where Did Our Love Go? (Live)
12. Sex Dwarf (Live)
13. Surrender (To A Stranger) (Live)
Published July 15th, 2018