Artist: MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP
Album: IS IT LOUD ENOUGH? M.SCHENKER 1980-1983 (6CD BOX)

Release date: 29.03.2024
EAN/UPS: 0840401700259
Media type: CD

This newly remastered 6CD, 66 track collection brings together a collection of Michael Schenker material, recorded from 1979 - 1983. A turbulent time for Michael, following his exit from UFO via Scorpions. Featuring the studio albums Michael Schenker Group, MSG, Assault Attack, Built to Destroy (both UK and US versions) as well as a disc of Demos & Alternative Versions featuring the entire 1979 demo tape, rare monitor mixes and single versions and a disc of completely unreleased material, with early studio takes and rough monitor mixes. At the centre of this package is a 52-page booklet which includes newly conducted interviews with Michael Schenker, Gary Barden and Graham Bonnet, with extensive liner notes by Jerry Ewing of Classic Rock, neatly annotated with rare photographs and imagery. This stylish set comes housed in a two-piece slipcase box with all original album art reproduced as mini-LP sleeves with inner sleeves.


Disc 1 - Michael Schenker Group:
 1. Armed and Ready 2. Cry for the Nations 3. Victim of Illusion 4. Bijou Pleasurette 5. Feels Like a Good Thing 6. Into the Arena 7. Looking Out from Nowhere 8. Tales of Mystery 9. Lost Horizons

Disc 2 - MSG:
1. Ready to Rock 2. Attack of the Mad Axeman 3. on and on 4. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 5. But I Want More 6. Never Trust a Stranger 7. Looking for Love 8. Secondary Motion

Disc 3 - Assault Attack:
1. Assault Attack 2. Rock You to the Ground 3. Dancer 4. Samurai 5. Desert Song 6. Broken Promises 7. Searching for a Reason 8. Ulcer

Disc 4 - Built to Destroy:
Original Mix:
1. Rock My Nights Away 2. I'm Gonna Make You Mine 3. the Dogs of War 4. Systems Failing 5. Captain Nemo 6. Still Love That Little Devil 7. Red Sky 8. Time Waits (For No One) 9. Walk the Stage
U.S. Mix:
10. I'm Gonna Make You Mine 11. Time Waits (For No One) 12. Systems Failing 13. Rock Will Never Die 14. Red Sky 15. Rock My Nights Away 16. Captain Nemo 17. the Dogs of War 18. Still Love That Little Devil

Disc 5 - Demos & Alt. Versions:
1. Just a Lover (1979 Demo) 2. Looking Out from Nowhere (1979 Demo) 3. Get Up and Get Down (1979 Demo) 4. After Midnight (1979 Demo) 5. Breakout (1979 Demo) 6. Cry for the Nations (Radio Edit) 7. Armed and Ready (Guitar Hero: Metallica) 8. Dogs of War (Edit) 9. Never Trust a Stranger (Monitor Mix) 10. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Sounds Flexi Edit) 11. Girl from Uptown (Single Version) 12. Dancer (DJ 7" Edit) 13. Don't Take It Out on Me (Non-Album Track)

Disc 6 - Unreleased:
1. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Rough Monitor Mix) 2. Attack of the Mad Axeman (Alt. Version - Monitor Mix) 3. Never Say Die (Live Rehearsal Take) 4. on and on (Rough Monitor Mix) 5. Looking for Love (Monitor Mix) 6. But I Want More (Rough Monitor Mix) 7. Girl from Uptown (Alternate Version) 8. Rock You to the Ground (Rough Alt. Mix) 9. Ulcer (Early Studio Take) 10. Captain Nemo (Early Studio Take)