Source:
NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
Author: Fred Dellar
Photo: Tim Jarvis
19th November 1988
 
DISCOGRAPHY
ART OF NOISE
 
The Art Of Noise, back-up band to the greats - Duane Eddy, Tom Jones, Max Headroom. Could be, one day, they'll even work with Frank Sidebottom. Certainly, their ambition seems limitless.
 
Discography-wise, however, they've left a trail of confusion behind them, at least during their ZTT era. Singles featuring different mixes often bore the same catalogue numbers, the same songs were given different titles. Additionally, catalogue numbers weren't always handled sequentially. Even though I've spent time sitting on the floor at their record company's production department, surrounded by sheets of original label copy, I admit I've failed to sort out the mess. I doubt if even AON or even one-time head Svengaii Paul Morley himself could make complete sense of it all. But here's what I came up with. Your comments are awaited.
 
SINGLES & EPs
Aug
1983
Into Battle With The Art Of Noise EP: Battle/The Army Now/Donna/Bright Noise/Flesh In Armour/Comes And Goes/
Moments In Love also cassingle ZTT CTIS 100...........................................................................12" ZTT ZTIS 100
March
1984
Beatbox (Diversions 1)/Beatbox (Diversion 2).............................................................................12" ZTT ZTIS 108
March
1984
Beatbox/Moments In Love also on 12" ZTT ZTIS 108.........................................................................ZTT ZTIS 103
Oct
1984
Close (To The Edit)/A Time To Hear (Who's Listening)
also issued on picture disc Feb 1985...............................................................................................ZTT ZTPS 01
Oct
1984
Edited/A Time To Clear (It Up) 12" picture disc....................................................................12" ZTT 12P ZTPS 01
Oct
1984
Close Up/Close Up (Up).......................................................................................................12" ZTT 12 ZTPS 01
Oct
1984
Close Up/Close Up (Hop)/Close (To The Edit)..........................................................................12" ZTT 12ZIPS 01
Oct
1984
Closely Closely (Enough's Enough)/Moments In Love/A Time To Hear (You're listening).............12" ZTT 12 ZTPS 01
Jan
1985
Close (To The Edit) cassingle featuring various mixes......................................................................ZTT CTIS 106
Jan
1985
Closely Closely (Enough's Enugh)/ Close Up (Hop)/A Time To Hear (Who's Listening)...............12" ZTT 12 ZTPS 01
Mar
1985
Moments In Love (Beaten/Moments In Love/Beatbox Diversion 10/Love Beat.....................................12" ZTT ZTPS
Mar
1985
Moments In Love/Beatbox................................................................................................................ZTT ZTPS 2
also issued as a tortoise shaped picture disc on ZTT P ZTPS 02 (Apl 1985)
Apl
1985
Moments In Love -cassingle of various mixes..................................................................................ZTT CTIS 109
July
1985
Moments In Love/Love Beat reissued in June 1987............................................................................ZTT WEEP 1
July
1985
Moments In Love (Beaten)/Moments In Love/Love Beat reissued in June 1987...................................ZTT WEEPS 1
Oct
1985
Legs/Hoops And Mallets...............................................................................................................China WOK 5
Oct
1985
Legs/Hoops And Mallets/Legs (Inside leg Mix)........................................................................12" China WOKX 5
Mar
1986
Peter Gunn (featuring Duane Eddy)/Something Always Happens......................................................China WOK 6
Mar
1986
Peter Gunn/Something Always Happens/Peter Gunn (Extended Mix)/Peter Gunn (featuring Duane Eddy)
..........................................................................................................................................12" China WOKX 6
May
1986
 Paranoimia/Why Me.....................................................................................................................China WOK 9
May
1986
 Paranoimia/Paranoimia (7" Version)/Why Me?/A Nation Rejects..............................................12" China WOKX 9
Oct
1986
Legacy/Opus III..........................................................................................................................China WOK 11
Oct
 1986
Legacy (Extended)/Legs/Opus III/Legacy (7" Version).....................................................12" China WOKX 11 422
July
1987
Dragnet (Art Of Noise 88 7" Mix)/Acton Art...................................................................................China WOK 14
July
1987
Dragnet (Art Of Noise 88 Mix)/Dragnet (Arthur Baker Mix)/Acton Art (also on CD single CHICD 4)
........................................................................................................................................12" China WOKX 14
Feb
1988
Dragnet/Dragnet (AON Mix).........................................................................................................China CHINA 4
Feb
 1988 Dragnet/Dragnet (12" Mix)/Dragnet (Arthur Baker House Mix)                                                 12" China CHINAX 4
Nov
1988
Kiss/EFL............................................................................................................................................China 11
Nov
1988
Kiss (The Art Of Noise Remix)/Ode to Don Jose....................................................................12" China CHIXR 11
Nov
1988
Kiss (7" Version)/EFL/Kiss (The Battery Mix) CD single                                                                 China CHID 11
 
ALBUMS
Oct
1984
 Who's Afraid Of The Art of Noise issued in three different sleeves and in cassette form                           ZTT ZTIQ 2
Apl
1986
In Visible Silence (also on CD CCD 1528).......................................................................................China WOL 2
Decch
1986
Daft CD only compilation. Horizons - 16 Innovative Instrumentals various artist compilation that contains a different
version of Moments In Love...........................................................................................................K-Tel NE 1360
Aug
1987
In No Sense? Nonsense!............................................................................................................China 837367-1
Nov
1988
The Best Of The Art Of Noise CD version on 837367-2 contains several extended mixes..................China 837367-1

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