Release Date: 20 May 2016
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: Sony Music
£59.99 £49.99
Adam & The Ants Kings Of The Wild Frontier Limited Super Deluxe Gold LP/2CD/DVD Box Set
Overview:
The most comprehensive reissue of the 1980 classic to date, curated and remastered by Adam Ant, this new Legacy edition includes the original 12 track UK album, B sides, previously unreleased studio demos and rough cuts, a previously unissued live recording and rarities all fully remastered from original tape by Adam Ant.
The special super deluxe golden boxset edition also includes a DVD of promo videos, live performances, the first DVD release of Adam & The Ants Live In Tokyo 1981 in its entirety and a short promotional video ‘Ant Invasion’ a mini documentary of the first Adam & The Ants US tour in 1981. In addition, a 36 page 12X12” full colourbook including detailed liner notes and track annotations by Adam Ant, gold vinyl LP, gold CDs, replica original release Ant Catalogue, fan memorabilia, recreated artwork, poster, photos and much more.
In extensive liner notes Adam Ant tells us in his own words the story behind the record and the “band of brothers in musical arms, who came together in the studio in 1980 to create a bit of magic”.
The demise of the original Ants line up following the release of Dirk Wears White Soxin 1979 is well documented. What came next for Adam & The Ants Mark 2 was an altogether new approach that would result in one of the most important British records of all time.
Kings Of The Wild Frontierwas the result of a fierce, determined and ultimately realisedambition to turn the music scene on its head, in Adam’s own words, “to be the best, in tune with and in line with no one”.
By 1980, the aftermath of the glory days of punk loomed large and grey over Britain and popular culture. As Bowie and Bolan had done a decade earlier for the kids trying to shake off the disappointing hangover of their parents’ Swinging Sixties, Adam & The Ants threw off the old guard of black and grey and safety pins and sneer and remerged on to the music scene with an undefinable brand and sound all of their own. Ant music! ‘a new flavour’…‘a new royal family, a wild nobility’…’music for a future age’.
Featured Tracks:
Disc: 1
1. Dog Eat Dog
2. Antmusic
3. Feed Me to the Lions
4. Los Rancheros
5. Ants Invasion
6. Killer in the Home
7. Kings of the Wild Frontier
8. The Magnificent Five
9. Don't Be Square (Be There)
10. Jolly Roger
11. Making History
12. The Human Beings
13. Press Darlings
14. Physical (You're So)
15. Fall In
16. Don't Be Square (Be There)
17. The Human Beings
18. Los Rancheros
19. Making History
Disc: 2
1. The Human Beings
2. Dog Eat Dog
3. The Magnificent Five
4. Don't Be Square (Be There)
5. Los Rancheros
6. Ants Invasion
7. Killer in the Home
8. Cleopatra
9. Press Darlings
10. Kick!
11. Antmusic
12. Beat My Guest
13. Jolly Roger
14. Zerøx
15. Car Trouble
16. Kings of the Wild Frontier
17. Physical (You're So)
18. A.N.T.S.
19. Antmusic
20. Don't Be Square (Be There)
Disc: 3
1. Dog Eat Dog
2. Antmusic
3. Feed Me to the Lions
4. Los Rancheros
5. Ants Invasion
6. Killer in the Home
Disc: 4
1. Kings of the Wild Frontier
2. The Magnificent Five
3. Don't Be Square (Be There)
4. Jolly Roger
5. Making History
6. The Human Beings
Disc: 5
1. Kings of the Wild Frontier
2. Dog Eat Dog
3. Antmusic
4. Physical (You're So)
5. Dog Eat Dog
6. Dog Eat Dog
7. Ants Invasion
8. Killer in the Home
9. Dog Eat Dog
10. Antmusic
11. The Magnificent Five
12. Antmusic
13. Don't Be Square (Be There)
14. Ants Invasion
15. Killer in the Home
16. Never Trust a Man (With Egg on His Face)
17. Kick!
18. Press Darlings
19. Christian D'or
20. Car Trouble
21. Kings of the Wild Frontier
22. ANT INVASION: a documentary of the first Adam & The Ants US invasion in 1981
Release Date: 20 October 2023
Format: 7inch Vinyl Single
Label: Decca
£11.99
Release Date: 20 May 2016
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Sony Music
£27.99
