Joboxers: Just Got Lucky - The Complete Works 1983-1986, 3CD Digipak

• 3CD collection of cult pop stars Joboxers’ entire recordings.

• Includes the hit singles ‘Boxerbeat’ (UK #3), ‘Just Got Lucky’ (UK #7, US #36, Australia #25) and ‘Johnny Friendly’ (UK #31) plus the hit album ‘Like Gangbusters’ (UK #18) in full.

• Features 28 previously unreleased tracks including 12 studio cuts and 16 live recordings.

• With comprehensive notes by MOJO Magazine’s Lois Wilson, including interviews with all five band members.

Formed in 1982 when former members of The Subway Sect teamed up with charismatic US singer Dig Wayne, JoBoxers stormed the UK chart the following year with their anthem ‘Boxerbeat’ while on tour with Madness. Their music was an explosive mix of northern soul, swing, rockabilly, punk and new wave and they seemed set to take over the world but inexplicably their 1985 second album ‘Skin & Bone’ wasn’t released and their third ‘Missing Link’, begun straight after, also failed to appear. Now for the first time this box compiled by JoBoxers bassist Chris Bostock collects all the recordings for their three albums.

CD 1 contains JoBoxers’ classic debut album ‘Like Gangbusters’ plus the never released on CD, cassette edition bonus track ‘Between The Scenes’, B-sides, single versions, extended 12” mixes and the excellent non-album single ‘Jealous Love’.

CD 2 comprises recordings for their originally unissued second and third albums ‘Skin & Bone’ and ‘Missing Link’ including 12 previously unissued recordings tracked down by JoBoxers’ bassist Chris Bostock in Sony’s vaults and Hansa Studios in Berlin. Includes the single ‘Is This Really The First Time You Fell In Love?’ and its B-sides plus more extended mixes.

CD3 shows the band at the height of their powers with a full set recorded live at The Phoenix Theatre in London on 25 June 1983 featuring powerful live versions of ‘Boxerbeat’, ‘Just Got Lucky’, ‘Johnny Friendly’ and ‘She’s Got Sex’ plus brilliant covers of Georgie Fame’s ‘Fully Booked’, Kansas Joe McCoy’s ‘Why Don’t You Do Right?’ and the Bobby Womack and King Curtis penned ‘Jealous Love’, first recorded by Wilson Pickett.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

Like Gangbusters

1  Boxerbeat (Album Version)

2  Crosstown Walk Up

3  Fully Booked

4  Not My Night

5  Just Got Lucky (Album Version)

6  She’s Got Sex (Album Version)

7  Curious George (Album Version)

8  Hide Nor Hair

9  Crime Of Passion

10  Johnny Friendly (Album Version)

PLUS

11  Between The Scenes

12  Forget Me Love

13  Let’s Talk About Love

14  Jealous Love

15  Boxerbeat (Single Version)

16  Just Got Lucky (Single Version)

17  Johnny Friendly (Single Version)

18  She’s Got Sex (12” Remix)

19  Just Got Lucky (12” Remix)

20  Johnny Friendly (12” Remix)

DISC TWO

The Skin & Bone and Missing Link Recordings

1  Missing Link *

2  A Thorn In My Side *

3  I Confess (Guilty As Charged) *

4  Don’t Drop My Name *

5  Talking To Joe *

6  Lon Chaney Jr. *

7  One In A Million (Single Version) *

8  For The Love Of Leo *

9  Two Weeks Notice

10  My Best Friend *

11  Cry Uncle *

12  Skin And Bone *

13  Is This Really The First Time (You’ve Been In Love)

14  Some Kind Of Heart

15  Don’t Add Up

16  Don’t Keep The Ladies Waiting

17  Dead End Streets

18  Strictly Business

19  One In A Million (Album Version)

EXTENDED VERSIONS

20  Missing Link (Extended Version)*

21  Johnny Friendly (Dub Version)

22  Curious George (12” Version)

*Tracks 1-8, 10-12 & 20 are previously unreleased.

DISC THREE

Live At The Phoenix Theatre, 25 June 1983 *

1  Crosstown Walk Up

2  Cry Uncle

3  Why Don’t You Do Right (Give Me Some Money Too)

4  Let’s Talk About Love

5  Fully Booked

6  She’s Got Sex

7  Curious George

8  Forget Me Love

9  Crime Of Passion

10  Just Got Lucky

11  Johnny Friendly

12  Not My Night

13  Hide Nor Hair

14  Boxerbeat

15  Talking To Joe

16  Jealous Love

*Tracks 1-16 are previously unreleased.