Dusty Springfield - Reputation, Rarities & Remixes [1987-90]

Dusty Springfield - Reputation, Rarities & Remixes (1987-90)

Codec: mp3.
Description: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.
Bit rate: VBR 192-320 kbps.
Sample rate: 44100 Hz joint stereo.
Tag types: ID3V1 & ID3V2.
Source formats: CD, 3 trks vinyl (unreleased on CD)*
Total number of tracks: 44.
Playlists: original studio album, compilation "Reputation & Rarities" (1997), singles "What Have I Done To Deserve This?", "Nothing Has Been Proved", "In Private", "Reputation" & "Arrested By You".
Cover art: original album, compilation "Reputation & Rarities" (1997 + 1999) + singles 1987-1990.

Wikipedia bio:
"Reputation is the fourteenth studio album by British singer Dusty Springfield, and twelfth released. Issued on the Parlophone Records label in the UK and the rest of Europe in June 1990, Reputation was not only Springfield's first studio album in eight years at the time but in fact also the first album to be released in her native country since 1979's Living Without Your Love. After a string of commercially overlooked albums through the late 1970s and early 1980s Reputation finally managed to resurrect Springfield's career and belatedly resulted in her being re-evaluated and recognised by both music critics and the general public as Britain's foremost 'blue-eyed soul' singer. Mainly produced by Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn and recorded in the UK over a period of some eighteen months, Reputation became her highest charting and best-selling album in Britain since 1970's From Dusty with Love, peaking at #18 and selling 60.000 copies within two weeks of its release.

In 1987, Springfield was beginning to look back towards the UK as a source of recording work, due in large part to her collaboration with Pet Shop Boys on their single "What Have I Done To Deserve This?". Pet Shop Boys had contacted Springfield's manager to ask if Springfield would perform guest vocals on the duet. Being a fan of their work, Springfield accepted the offer and the song became a massive hit all over the world, peaking at #2 in both the UK and the United States, which proved to be the biggest hit of her career in the US. This renewed Springfield's confidence in recording, as well as interest in her work from the general public, and led to another hit single "Nothing Has Been Proved", also written by Pet Shop Boys with Springfield in mind. The song was written for the movie Scandal, an account of the so called Profumo Affair of 1963, starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt. "Nothing Has Been Proved" made the Top 20 in Britain, and led to yet another hit single, "In Private", which peaked at #14 on the British charts. Despite the fact that "In Private" never was commercially released in the US it managed to become a massive dance-floor hit in the States as well, peaking at #14 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart in early 1990. Both singles were included on Reputation, and Pet Shop Boys collaborated with Springfield on half the album's tracks, which made up side B of the original vinyl edition. Side A included tracks produced by the Pet Shop Boys' longtime collaborator Andy Richards, Swing Out Sister producer Paul Staveley O'Duffy and the late Dan Hartman. Three of these titles were also mixed by the Pet Shop Boys' co-producer Julian Mendelsohn. Critics gave Reputation very favorable reviews, saying it was a long overdue return to form for Springfield, and the album spawned two further single releases, the title track "Reputation" and the ballad "Arrested By You", written by Rupert Hine and Jeanette Obstoj.

The Reputation album was in late 1990 followed by the video collection Reputation - The Videos, released on VHS in the UK and Europe by EMI's subsidiary Picture Music International, including the promo videos for "Nothing Has Been Proved", "In Private", "Reputation", "Arrested By You", interviews with Springfield, as well as a fifth animated promo video for the album track "I Want to Stay Here". Reputation - The Videos remains unreleased on DVD.

The Reputation album was first released in the US in 1997, then under the title "Reputation and Rarities"."

Allmusic.com review:

"In 1990, after almost a decade's absence from the new-release lists and an even longer time away from the charts, Dusty Springfield re-emerged with Reputation. A partial collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, it proved to be her most satisfying record in 15 years and sold better than anything that she'd released since the '60s. The late-'80s synth pop sound melded perfectly with Springfield's still very expressive, powerful, and soulful singing — Dan Hartman handled the producing chores on four of the cuts, Andy Richards on one, and the album has a unified sound, at once airy and dense, soaring and deep. The best cuts, however, are the five produced (and, in all but one case, written) by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys. Much as Robert Fripp may have been put on this earth first and foremost to produce the Roches, Tennant and Lowe's collaborations with Springfield are as satisfying and unified and whole as she ever achieved working with Jerry Wexler, Thom Bell, and Roland Chambers 20 years earlier. She seems to reach that much higher and also that much deeper inside of herself on "In Private" and "Daydreaming" to much subtler effect; those cuts are very much of a piece with her best work on the Dusty in Memphis, A Brand New Me, and Cameo albums, just later links in the same chain, and their effect is to leave the listener breathless and delighted with their sheer beauty as recordings, as well with as her performance."


TRACK LIST:

"Reputation" (original album, 1990)
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01. Reputation
02. Send It To Me
03. Arrested By You
04. Time Waits For No One
05. Born This Way
06. In Private
07. Daydreaming
08. Nothing Has Been Proved
09. I Want To Stay Here
10. Occupy Your Mind
Produced by Pet Shop Boys, Julian Mendelsohn, Andy Richards, Rupert Hine, Paul Staveley O'Duffy & Dan Hartman.

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"Reputation - The Rarities" (1987-1990)
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11. What Have I Done To Deserve This? - duet with Pet Shop Boys, 1987
12. Something In Your Eyes - duet with Richard Carpenter, 1987
13. As Long As We Got Each Other - Stephen Dorff featuring Dusty Springfield & B.J. Thomas, from US TV series "Growing Pains", 1988
14. Getting It Right - from UK movie "Getting It Right", 1989
15. Any Other Fool - outtake from the "Reputation" sessions, 1990
16. When Love Turns To Blue - outtake from the "Reputation" sessions, 1990

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"Reputation - The Remixes" (1987-1990)
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17. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Extended Mix)
18. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Disco Mix)
19. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Remix)*
20. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Dub)*
21. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Reprise)
22. Nothing Has Been Proved (7" Mix)
23. Nothing Has Been Proved (7" Instrumental)
24. Nothing Has Been Proved (Dance Mix)
25. Nothing Has Been Proved (12" Mix)
26. Nothing Has Been Proved (12" Instrumental)
27. Getting It Right (Alternate Mix)
28. In Private (12" Version)
29. In Private (7" Instrumental)
30. In Private (Shep Pettibone Remix)
31. In Private (Dub)
32. In Private (Bonus Beats)
33. Reputation (Lots Of Fun 12" Mix)
34. Reputation (Rep U Dub 1)*
35. Reputation (Rep U Dub 2)
36. Reputation (Lots Of Fun Single Mix)
37. Reputation (The Alternative Mix)
38. Arrested By You (7" Mix)
39. Arrested By You (12" Mix)
40. Born This Way (12" Mix)
41. Born This Way (Extended 12" Mix)
42. Daydreaming (Edited 12" Master)
43. Nothing Has Been Proved (Pet Shop Boys demo, 1989)
44. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Pet Shop Boys live 2000)

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