Evolution: the Hits
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Evolution: The Hits is a compilation album from the British dance/pop band Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive (band)
Dead or Alive were a British New Wave band from Wirral, England, United Kingdom, Europe. The band rose to fame in the 1980s with their number one single on the UK Singles Chart, "You Spin Me Round ". They were the first group to have a number one single under the production team Stock Aitken Waterman...

, in 2003
2003 in music
-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...

.

Evolution: The Hits is the band's second "greatest hits" collection, after 1987
1987 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.See also:Record labels established in 1987-January-February:*January 3 – Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

's Rip It Up. This collection spans their musical history from their 1984
1984 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.-Janury-March:*January 21 – "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite being banned by the BBC; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.*January 27 – Michael Jackson's...

 debut album, Sophisticated Boom Boom
Sophisticated Boom Boom
Sophisticated Boom Boom is the debut album by the British pop group Dead or Alive, released in 1984. Containing mostly synth pop and dance elements, the record was a minor success in the UK where it peaked at #29 and contained the band's first UK Top 40 single, a remake of KC & the Sunshine Band's...

, to 2000
2000 in music
See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....

's Fragile
Fragile (Dead or Alive album)
Fragile is the seventh album released by British band Dead or Alive in 2000. Like their album Fan the Flame , this album has only seen a release in Japan from japanese big independent Record Company Avex Trax, where the band is very popular. Containing a total of thirteen tracks, the album...

, and contains all their single releases and several remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....

es.

The album was released in two editions - a single disc containing 18 tracks, and a double disc 'Collector's Edition', containing 28 tracks. The group's biggest hit, "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)", was re-released as a single to promote Evolution: The Hits. A video compilation was also released on DVD.

CD 1

  1. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    "You Spin Me Round " is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there...

    " (Performance Mix) - 7:27 **
  2. "My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)
    My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)
    "My Heart Goes Bang" is the fourth and final single from Dead or Alive's second studio album Youthquake. It charted at #23 in the United Kingdom, #41 in Australia and became a huge dance hit in the U.S.-Remixes:...

    " (12" US Wipe Out Mix) - 6:01 ***
  3. "Sex Drive" - 6:37
  4. "What I Want" - 5:49
  5. "Brand New Lover
    Brand New Lover
    "Brand New Lover" is the name of a song recorded by the British new wave band Dead or Alive. It was the first single to be released from the band's third album, Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. It achieved international success when released as a single in 1986. The song proved to be more...

    " - 4:48
  6. "Misty Circles
    Misty Circles
    "Misty Circles" is a song written and recorded by English New Wave/Dance band Dead or Alive. It was co-produced by the band and Zeus B. Held and released as the first single from Dead or Alive's album Sophisticated Boom Boom....

    " - 4:39
  7. "Lover Come Back to Me" - 4:57
  8. "I'll Save All My Kisses" - 3:36
  9. "I Don't Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - 4:43
  10. "Hooked on Love" - 5:15
  11. "I'm a Star" - 4:35
  12. "Something in My House" (2000 Remix) - 5:06
  13. "Isn't It a Pity" - 4:44
  14. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Alternative Metro 7" Edit) - 4:25

CD 2

  1. "I'd Do Anything
    I'd Do Anything (Dead or Alive song)
    "I'd Do Anything" is a song written and recorded by English New Wave/Dance band Dead or Alive. It was co-produced by the band and Zeus B. Held and released as the third single from Dead or Alive's album Sophisticated Boom Boom....

    " - 5:24
  2. "Come Home (With Me Baby)" - 3:58
  3. "That's the Way (I Like It)
    That's the Way (I Like It)
    "That's the Way " is a song written by H.W. Casey and Richard Finch, and recorded and released in 1975 by KC and the Sunshine Band for their eponymous second album...

    " - 3:05
  4. "International Thing" - 3:44
  5. "In Too Deep
    In Too Deep (Dead or Alive song)
    "In Too Deep" is a song by the British New Wave band Dead or Alive. It was included on their 1985 studio album Youthquake, and was remixed for release as the third single to be taken from the album in June 1985....

    " - 3:48
  6. "Unhappy Birthday" - 7:32
  7. "I Paralyze" - 5:57
  8. "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" - 6:15
  9. "Turn Around and Count 2 Ten" - 6:55
  10. "Your Sweetness Is Your Weakness" - 5:49
  11. "Nukleopatra" - 4:19
  12. "Rebel Rebel" - 4:04
  13. "Hit and Run Lover
    Hit and Run Lover
    "Hit and Run Lover" is the first song on Fragile, the seventh studio album from the dance music band Dead or Alive. Like the 1990 album Fan the Flame , it was released only in Japan, where the band is very popular...

    " - 4:40
  14. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    "You Spin Me Round " is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there...

    " (Mark Moore & Mr. Motion Remix) - 6:20

Standard version

  1. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    "You Spin Me Round " is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there...

    " - 3:16
  2. "That's the Way (I Like It)
    That's the Way (I Like It)
    "That's the Way " is a song written by H.W. Casey and Richard Finch, and recorded and released in 1975 by KC and the Sunshine Band for their eponymous second album...

    " - 3:05
  3. "In Too Deep
    In Too Deep (Dead or Alive song)
    "In Too Deep" is a song by the British New Wave band Dead or Alive. It was included on their 1985 studio album Youthquake, and was remixed for release as the third single to be taken from the album in June 1985....

    " - 3:48
  4. "What I Want" - 5:49
  5. "Misty Circles
    Misty Circles
    "Misty Circles" is a song written and recorded by English New Wave/Dance band Dead or Alive. It was co-produced by the band and Zeus B. Held and released as the first single from Dead or Alive's album Sophisticated Boom Boom....

    " - 4:39
  6. "I'd Do Anything
    I'd Do Anything (Dead or Alive song)
    "I'd Do Anything" is a song written and recorded by English New Wave/Dance band Dead or Alive. It was co-produced by the band and Zeus B. Held and released as the third single from Dead or Alive's album Sophisticated Boom Boom....

    " - 4:00
  7. "Lover Come Back to Me" (2003 Remix) - 5:37 *
  8. "I'll Save You All My Kisses" - 3:36
  9. "Hooked on Love" - 5:15
  10. "Come Home with Me Baby" - 3:58
  11. "My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)
    My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)
    "My Heart Goes Bang" is the fourth and final single from Dead or Alive's second studio album Youthquake. It charted at #23 in the United Kingdom, #41 in Australia and became a huge dance hit in the U.S.-Remixes:...

    " (7" US Wipe Out Mix) - 3:56
  12. "Sex Drive" - 5:42
  13. "Turn Around and Count 2 Ten" (2003 Remix) - 5:16 *
  14. "Hit and Run Lover
    Hit and Run Lover
    "Hit and Run Lover" is the first song on Fragile, the seventh studio album from the dance music band Dead or Alive. Like the 1990 album Fan the Flame , it was released only in Japan, where the band is very popular...

    " - 4:40
  15. "Isn't It a Pity" - 4:44
  16. "Brand New Lover
    Brand New Lover
    "Brand New Lover" is the name of a song recorded by the British new wave band Dead or Alive. It was the first single to be released from the band's third album, Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. It achieved international success when released as a single in 1986. The song proved to be more...

    " - 4:07
  17. "Something in My House" - 3:49
  18. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
    "You Spin Me Round " is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there...

    " (Metro 7" Edit) - 3:47


(*) These versions are incorrectly titled. They are actually the 2000 remixes from the Fragile album.

(**) Incorrectly listed as the Murder Mix.

(***) Slightly edited from the original 6:19 12" version.

Credits

  • Dead or Alive
    Dead or Alive (band)
    Dead or Alive were a British New Wave band from Wirral, England, United Kingdom, Europe. The band rose to fame in the 1980s with their number one single on the UK Singles Chart, "You Spin Me Round ". They were the first group to have a number one single under the production team Stock Aitken Waterman...

    , Zeus B. Held, Stock, Aitken & Waterman, Phil Harding
    Phil Harding (producer)
    Phil Harding is an English audio engineer, producer and remixer, best known for his extended collaboration with keyboardist and programmer Ian Curnow....

     (The Mixmaster), Mark McGuire, Jay Burnett, Tim Weidner, Barry Stone, Les Sharma, Simon Barnecott, Graham Stack
    Graham Stack (producer/writer)
    Graham Stack is an English born record producer and songwriter who has written and produced hit records for many artists including Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Take That, Rod Stewart and Steps....

    , Princess Julia
    Princess Julia
    Princess Julia is a British DJ and music writer. She first came to notice in the very early 1980s as part of the short-lived Blitz Kids club scene with the likes of Marc Almond and Boy George...

    , John Taylor, Punx Soundcheck, Mark Moore
    Mark Moore
    Mark Moore is a British dance music record producer and DJ. He was founder of the pop/sampling pioneers S'Express, and runs the London nightclubs, 'Electrogogo' and 'Can Can'.-Biography:...

     & David Motion: production
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

  • Tim Pope
    Tim Pope
    Timothy Michael Pope is a film director most famous for his music videos, having directed feature films, and for a brief pop career.-Early life and career:...

    , Vaughan Arnell, Anthea Benton, Tony Vanden Ende, Zanna: video
    Video
    Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

     editors
  • Linda Fletcher: management
    Management
    Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

  • James & James: photography
    Photography
    Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

  • Julian Gozra Lozano: art direction, digital
    Digital
    A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...

     manipulation, artwork
    Visual arts
    The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

  • Simon Catwell: design
    Design
    Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

  • Andie Airfix & Satori
    Satori
    is a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment that literally means "understanding". In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a flash of sudden awareness, or individual enlightenment, and is considered a "first step" or embarkation toward nirvana....

    , Lynn Burns
    Pete Burns
    Pete Burns is an English singer-songwriter, author and television personality who founded the band Dead or Alive in 1980, for which he acted as the vocalist and songwriter, and which rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single "You Spin Me Round "...

    : artwork

Album

Chart (2003) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart 111
Japanese Oricon International Albums 47
Germany (Media Control Charts) 42

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
UK
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

US Dance GER
Media Control Charts
The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...

AUS
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

2003 "You Spin Me Round 2003" 23 21 96 62

External links

  • Amazon.com: customer reviews and audio samples of all 18 tracks on single disc version.
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