Features the original album alongside the three EPs that preceded its release – Body & Soul, Walk Away and No Time To Cry. Each EP features non-album bonus tracks.
1985’sFirst and Last and Alwaysremains unequalled in the genre Goth, permanently granted top place on a pedestal from which it cannot be toppled. From the opening claustrophobia ofBlack Planetto the melancholyNo Time to Cry,Eldritch continually assured listeners that “everything’s gonna be alright”. Continuing with the bass-driven guitar gemPossessionand the closingSome Kind of Stranger, an untouchable epic that, clocking in at over seven minutes, is the best of its kind.Some Kind of Strangerbecame a ‘love song’ for the dressed in black crowd. Copied to death, its brilliance has never been replicated.
