Name of a mini-album containing six remixes from 1984-1987. It was released in Japan only.
The album contains the tracks You Keep Me Hangin’ On (WCH mix), Another Step (Closer to You) (extended mix), Rage to Love (extended version), Say You Really Want Me (extended version), The Second Time (extended version), The Touch (extended version).
‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’ was released on CD, LP and tape.
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Name of a compilation album containing 14 tracks originally released between 1984 and 1995. It was released in 2001 by Polydor, in Germany only. Remarkably, the sleeve contains a picture of Kim from 1981.
The album contains the tracks Never Trust a Stranger, The Second Time, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, You Came, Rage to Love, If I Can’t Have You, Another Step (Closer to You), Hey Mister Heartache, Schoolgirl, Is It Over, Can’t Get Enough (Of Your Love), Heaven, The Touch and Who Do You Think You Are?
‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’ was released on CD only.
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Another compilation album released by Disky. It is a repackaging of the 1996 compilation The Best of Kim Wilde, containing almost all tracks from Kim Wilde and Select.
This album contains the tracks Kids in America, Chequered Love, Water on Glass, Everything We Know, Young Heroes, 2 6 5 8 0, You’ll Never Be So Wrong, Falling Out, Tuning in Tuning on, Ego, View From a Bridge, Words Fell Down, Action City, Just a Feeling, Chaos at the Airport, Take Me Tonight, Can You Come Over, Wendy Sadd, Our Town and Cambodia Reprise.
‘Ultra selection’ was released on CD only.
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A series of boxed sets of 3 CD’s, released by Warner Music on the Parlophone label in 2015. There are many of these box sets available by artists and groups such as A-ha, Foreigner, Jethro Tull, Nena, Suzi Quatro and Talk Talk. There’s also one of Kim Wilde.
It’s a boxed set of the albums Kim Wilde, Select, Catch as Catch Can, released in 2015. The CD’s were each packaged in 5″ cardboard sleeves with the original sleeve on the front but simplified back covers. The inner sleeves of the original LP’s were not replicated, as they were in an earlier box set, The Originals.
‘Triple Album Collection’ was released as a 3 CD box set only.
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Released in France in 1985 on RAK Records, this album was the only European compilation to include Bitter Is Better, and can thus be considered a rarity.
The compilation was quite different from The Very Best of Kim Wilde and was perhaps a better introduction to Kim Wilde’s EMI period as it was more balanced than that compilation.
This album contains the tracks Cambodia, 2 6 5 8 0, Bitter Is Better, Back Street Joe, Stay Awhile, Just a Feeling, Chaos at the Airport, Tuning in Tuning On, Love Blonde, Water on Glass, Young Heroes, Boys, Words Fell Down, Ego, You’ll Never Be So Wrong and Kids in America.
‘Top 16’ was released on LP and tape.
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Another compilation album released by EMI Records, this time on the EMI Plus label. It contains all the singles released between 1981 and 1983, with the exception of Child come away. The 14 tracks are taken from all three of Kim’s albums which she recorded for RAK Records in 1981, 1982 and 1983.
The album contains the tracks Love Blonde, Dancing in the Dark, Kids in America, Chequered Love, Cambodia, Water on Glass, Our Town, Boys, Everything We Know, Sing It Out For Love, View From a Bridge, Sparks, 2 6 5 8 0 and Young Heroes.
‘The Divine’ was released on CD only.
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The double CD set ‘The Collection’ was released in 2012 by EMI in the UK. It is the first EMI compilation album to include not just tracks from between 1981 and 1983, but from 2006 as well. The compilation features seven tracks from Kim Wilde, seven tracks from Select, all ten tracks from Catch as Catch Can, four from Never Say Never, three B-sides plus two non-album singles.
The full track listing is as follows:
CD1: Kids in America, Chequered Love, Water on Glass, Boys, Our Town, House of Salome, Love Blonde, Take Me Tonight, Action City, Sing It out for Love, Shoot to Disable, Watching for Shapes, Ego, Young Heroes, Dream Sequence, Back Street Joe, You Came (2006).
CD2: Cambodia, View From a Bridge, Child Come Away, Stay Awhile, Dancing in the Dark, Sparks, Can You Come Over, Chaos at the Airport, Bitter Is Better, Shane, 2 6 5 8 0, Everything We Know, Baby Obey Me (feat. Ill Inspecta), Can You Hear It, Together We Belong and You Keep Me Hangin’ On (2006) (feat. Nena).
‘The Collection’ was released on double CD only.
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Released in November and December 2001 in most territories, this is the first Kim Wilde-approved compilation released by EMI Records. The previous incarnation of The Very Best of Kim Wilde (released in 1984) contained material recorded between 1981 and 1983, while Kim was under contract with EMI, only.
This album contains the greatest hits as recorded between 1981 and 1993, as well as one new track (Loved) and two new remixes.
It was released to coincide with the Here & Now Tour 2001 that took Kim and six other artists all around the UK in November 2001.
The sleeve photograph, which was taken in 1995, was chosen by Kim. The sleeve was designed by the team at EMI. The compilation took about three months to put together.
The album contains the tracks Kids in America, Chequered love, Water on Glass, Cambodia, View From a Bridge, Child Come Away, Love Blonde, Rage to Love, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, Another Step (Closer to You), You Came, Never Trust a Stranger, Four Letter Word, Love Is Holy, If I Can’t Have You, Loved, View From a Bridge (RAW remix edit) and Kids in America (D-Bop’s Bright Lights remix edit)
‘The Very Best of Kim Wilde’ was released on CD and tape.
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Finland: 23
Sweden: 20
This very first compilation album of Kim Wilde tracks was released by EMI Records in 1984, near to the release date of the album Teases & dares, which Kim recorded for MCA Records. It was a strategy EMI Records would use many times, years later.
For more than 15 years, the Japanese CD of this compilation was the only CD to contain the elusive track Bitter Is Better.
Apparently Kim was not too happy with the release of this album, because it incorporated many album tracks and because she was not involved in the making of it.
This album contains the tracks Kids in America, Chequered Love, Water on Glass, 2 6 5 8 0, Boys, Our Town, Everything We Know, You’ll Never Be So Wrong, Cambodia, View From a Bridge, Love Blonde, House of Salome, Dancing in the Dark, Child Come Away, Take Me tonight, Stay Awhile.
Bitter Is Better is included as track 1 on the Japanese LP and as track 17 on the Japanese CD.
‘The Very Best of Kim Wilde’ was released on LP, CD and tape.
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I really hated the picture on the cover, the lack of thought behind it, that it actually contained several LP tracks, and I’ve never really forgiven EMI for it. (1)
Germany: 61 (1 week)
Switzerland: 25 (3 weeks)
United Kingdom: 78 (4 weeks)
(1) Kim Wilde, Record Collector (UK), September 1993
Indonesian cassette featuring 21 tracks, ranging from ‘Kids in America’ to ‘Say you really want me’. It contains four 12″ remixes and some album tracks. Not released officially.
The album contains the tracks You Keep Me Hangin’ On (12″ extended mix), Schoolgirl (Head-mastermix), The Second Time (Extended version), Cambodia, View From a Bridge, Love Blonde, Kids in America, Chequered Love, Can You Hear It, House of Salome, Dancing in the Dark, Water on Glass, Everything We Know, Janine, Stay Awhile, The Touch, Bladerunner, 2 6 5 8 0, You’ll Never Be So Wrong, Dancing in the Dark (Nile Rodgers 12″ version), Young Heroes and Say You Really Want Me.
‘The Very Best of Kim Wilde’ was released on tape only.
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MCA‘s first compilation album of Kim Wilde’s greatest hits, which was made in collaboration with EMI to include all the hits which Kim released since the start of her career. Originally slated for release in April 1993, it was pushed back when EMI France decided to release a re-packaged version of The Very Best of Kim Wilde called Love Blonde: The Best of Kim Wilde, ‘The Singles Collection 1981-1993’ went platinum in various countries. It paved the way for the Hits Tour.
The compilation album featured 16 of Kim’s biggest hits, plus two new tracks: If I Can’t Have You (which by the time of release of the album already landed in the singles chart) and In My Life (which was released as a single later on).
This album contains the tracks Kids in America, Chequered Love, Water on Glass, Cambodia, View From a Bridge, Child Come Away, Love Blonde, The Second Time, Rage to Love, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, Another Step (Closer to You), You Came, Never Trust a Stranger, Four Letter Word, Love Is Holy, If I Can’t Have You and In My Life.
An updated version, The Singles Collection was released in France in June 1996.
The inner sleeve of the album features a selection of Kim Wilde photos through the years, from a.o. her second tour, a portrait with her brother Ricky and publicity shots from 1987, 1990 and 1992. The four photographs used on the front sleeve are uncredited.
‘The singles collection 1981-1993’ was originally released on LP, cd, tape and the short-lived DCC format.
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Australia: 6
Austria: 26 (4 weeks)
Belgium: 29
Denmark: 1
Finland: 5
Germany: 21 (13 weeks)
Netherlands: 5 (15 weeks)
Sweden: 19
Switzerland: 18 (10 weeks)
United Kingdom: 11 (7 weeks)
