Bananarama have dropped a pair of new remixes set to feature on ‘Glorious: The Ultimate Collection’.
Robert De Niro’s Waiting (The Reflex Revision) and Velvet Lies (Luke Million Remix) revisit the tracks from 1984’s ‘Bananarama’ and 2022 album ‘Masquerade’, respectively, with the former reimagined as a retro disco romp.
Meanwhile, Velvet Lies leans into the pulsing synths of the original with otherworldly electronics and a Hi-NRG beat not dissimilar to Donna Summer’s I Feel Love.
Both songs will appear on deluxe editions of the duo’s 40th anniversary release, out March 8.
Listen to both below.
“We wanted this to be a unique collection, a celebration of all the twists and turns in our career,” says Sara Dallin of the set, which also includes new track, Feel The Love. “We compiled endless lists of songs, album tracks and hit singles and whittled it down to forty: our favourite tracks from the past four decades.
“Leafing through my early lyric books transported me back to that teenage girl writing poems and scribbles that would eventually be turned into songs. Each track … is a piece of the jigsaw and a connection to me. Together they create the bigger picture, the story of us as artists. It has been one almighty journey.”
Keren Woodward adds: “At times we have maybe felt that we haven’t received the credit, respect, and recognition we deserve, certainly sometimes purely down to the fact we were born female.
“I feel the collection of songs we have amassed over the last four decades hopefully speak for themselves, so I don’t have to. Putting the music together for this project… made me realise how much we have achieved and how determined, tenacious, and hardworking we are.”
In addition, they’ll play a pair of special London Palladium shows to mark the release on April 3 and 4, 2024.
‘Glorious – The Ultimate Collection’ is available to pre-order now. Tickets for the Palladium gig go on sale Wednesday (October 25).
Tracklist: Bananarama – Glorious: The Ultimate Collection
CD 1
1. Really Saying Something
2. Cruel Summer
3. Robert De Niro’s Waiting
4. Venus
5. More Than Physical
6. A Trick Of The Night
7. I Heard A Rumour
8. Love In The First Degree
9. Only Your Love
10. Preacher Man
11. I Could Be Persuaded
12. Movin’ On (Disco Chic)
13. Last Thing On My Mind (Electrified)
14. Every Shade Of Blue
15. Take Me To Your Heart
16. Prove Your Love
17. If
18. Crazy
19. Move In My Direction
20. Look On The Floor (Hypnotic Tango)
CD 2
1. Feel For You
2. Lovebite
3. Love Comes
4. Love Don’t Live Here
5. Seventeen
6. Extraordinary
7. Baby It’s Christmas
8. Now Or Never
9. La La Love
10, Stuff Like That
11. Looking For Someone
12. I’m On Fire
13, It’s Gonna Be Alright
14, Favourite
15, Masquerade
16, Forever Young
17, Running With The Night
18, Cruel Summer (3am Mix)
19, Feel The Love
20. Supernova
