Albums
Track Listing
Wasteland
Bridges Burning
Garden Of Delight (Hereafter)
Stay With Me
Let Sleeping Dogs Die
Sacrilege
Dance On Glass
And The Dance Goes On
Severina
Love Me To Death
Extra Tracks:
Blood Brother
Island In A Stream
God's Own Medicine
Released: November 1986
Format: CD / LP / MC
Label: Mercury Records
Producer: Tim Palmer & The Mission
Chart position: UK: #14
Certification: UK: Gold
Singles: Stay With Me, Wasteland, Severina
Wayne: Like sex, your first gig, your first time in an aeroplane, you always remember your first. GOM still holds a very special place in my affections. Everything was wide-eyed, exciting and new.
Simon: Being the first album, many of the songs are the ones we were playing live on those early tours before being signed and recording them. The studio work that went into GOM defined the band's sound and demanded not to be ignored. Probably my favourite if I was forced to choose just one.
Craig: It was a glorious summer and we made a glorious record. We were all very excited, we had just come back from some European shows and the tour bus dropped us at the studio. So from live 24 hours earlier to recording...We were ready.
Track Listing
Like A Hurricane
Over The Hills And Far Away
Naked And Savage
Serpents Kiss
Dancing Barefoot
The Crystal Ocean (extended version)
Garden Of Delight (extended version)
Wake (RSV)
Like A Hurricane (extended)
Extra track on the US version:
Tomorrow Never Knows (Amphetamix)
The First Chapter
Released: January 1987
Label: Mercury Records
Producer: The Mission
Chart position: UK: #35
Singles: Serpents Kiss, Garden Of Delight/Like a Hurricane
Wayne: The First Chapter captures the unbridled joy of escape from creative incarceration. This is the sound of a band finding its métier. Still sounds fresh to my tired old ears.
Simon: Much more the sound of the band as we were from the outset. A far less augmented production than GOM and so retaining the sense of four lads banging it out.
Track Listing
Beyond The Pale
A Wing And A Prayer
Heaven On Earth
Tower Of Strength
Kingdom Come
Breathe
Child's Play
Shamera Kye (J. S. Webb)
Black Mountain Mist
Heat
Hymn (For America)
Extra tracks:
Fabienne
Dream On
Children
Released: 1988
Format: CD / LP / MC
Label: Mercury Records
Producer: John Paul Jones
Chart position: UK: #2
Singles: Tower Of Strength, Beyond The Pale, Kingdom Come (USA only)
Wayne: The Mission at their commercial peak and most bombastic, melodramatic, & grandiloquent with Tower Of Strength proving to be the band's evergreen anthem for the ages. Other highlights for me are Beyond The Pale & Heaven On Earth. A flawed work but beautifully so....
Simon: By now, the band is in full swing, to the point of having a 15 week residential studio budget and rock legend producer. There were times it felt like we didn't need to be spending all that time, but it's still great. The album has both Tower of Strength and Beyond The Pale, so I mean...
Craig: Listening today I feel we occasionally got a bit too clever for our boots with the arrangements. The obvious hit was Shamera Kye. The record company could not see it so they went with those other songs. Totally Rocktastic.
