Vapors - Waiting For The Weekend: The United Artists & Liberty Recordings (CD)

Four CD set containing the original albums New Clear Days and Magnets plus b-sides and single edits plus two CDs of previously unreleased demos, rough mixes, alternative and live versions featuring their performance from The Rainbow on 3rd December 1979. Includes three songs - 'Move', 'Secret Noise' and 'Caroline' - that have never officially previously been released. With a fully illustrated 24-page booklet containing rare and previously unseen photos with a new annotation by Ed Piller. Formed in 1978 and "discovered" by The Jam's Bruce Foxton and managed by Paul Weller's Dad John they signed to United Artists in 1979, their second single 'Turning Japanese' becoming an enormous international hit reaching #3 in the UK and #1 in Australia. It was also a major hit in New Zealand, Canada and reached #36 in the US single charts. Their debut LP New Clear Days was released in 1979 and their second album Magnets in early 1981. The band never repeated the same degree of commercial success as 'Turning Japanese' but developed a global following prior to their split in the early '80s.

Disc 1 - New Clear Days
1 Spring Collection
2 Turning Japanese
3 Cold War
4 America
5 Trains
6 Bunkers
7 News at Ten
8 Somehow
9 Sixty Second Interval
10 Waiting for the Weekend
11 Letter from Hiro
12 Prisoners 
13 Sunstroke
14 Here Comes the Judge (Live)
15 News at Ten (Single Version)
16 Wasted
17 Talk Talk
18 Waiting for the Weekend (Single Version)
19 Billy 
20 Turning Japanese (Edit)
21 Move (Demo)

Disc 2 - Magnets
1 Jimmie Jones
2 Spiders
3 Isolated Case 
4 Civic Hall 
5 Live at the Marquee 
6 Daylight Titans
7 Johnny's in Love (Again)
8 Can't Talk Anymore
9 Lenina
10 Silver Machines 
11 Magnets
12 Galleries For Guns
13 Jimmie Jones (Single Version)
14 Daylight Titans (Single Version)
15 Spiders (Single Version)
16 Interview with Dave Fenton

Disc 3 - New Clear Day (Alternate Versions)
1 Spring Collection (Demo)
2 Turning Japanese (Alternative Version)
3 Cold War (Rough Mix)
4 America (Demo)
5 Trains (Rough Mix)
6 Bunkers (Demo)
7 News at Ten (Alternative Version)
8 Somehow (Instrumental)
9 Sixty Second Interval (Demo)
10 Waiting for the Weekend (Demo)
11 Letter from Hiro (Rough Mix)
12 Turning Japanese (Edit) (Demo)
13 Prisoners (Demo)
14 Wasted (Rough Mix)
15 Spring Collection (Rough Mix)
16 Turning Japanese (Alternative Extended Mix)
17 Cold War (Rough Mix Edit)
18 America (Instrumental)
19 Waiting for the Weekend (Rough Mix)
20 Cold War (Alternative Rough Mix)
21 Turning Japanese (Instrumental)

Disc 4 - Magnets (Alternative Versions)
1 Jimmie Jones (Rough Mix)
2 Civic Hall (Rough Mix)
3 Live at the Marquee (Rough Mix)
4 Johnny's in Love (Again) (Rough Mix)
5 Galleries for Guns (Rough Mix)
6 Secret Noise
7 Galleries for Guns (Alternative Rough Mix)
Live at The Rainbow (03/12/1979)
8 Caroline
9 Somehow
10 Bunkers
11 Sunstroke
12 Cold War
13 Waiting for the Weekend
14 Sixty Second Interval
15 Spring Collection
16 Turning Japanese
17 America
18 Prisoners