M People Album Collection

  Bizarre Fruit (Cassette) (1994) SIDE A 1) Sight For Sore Eyes 2) Search For The Hero 3) Open Your Heart 4) Love Rendezvous 5) Precious Pearl Inlay: Lyrics. "M People are Mike Pickering, Heather Small and Paul Heard." "Percussion - Shovell." "Saxophones + Flute - Chris 'Snake' Davis."

SIDE B 1) Sugar Town 2) Walk Away 3) Drive Time 4) Padlock 5) And Finally...

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  Bizarre Fruit II (Double Cassette) (1995) CASSETTE 1: SIDE A 1) Sight For Sore Eyes 2) Search For The Hero 3) Open Your Heart 4) Love Rendezvous 5) Itchycoo Park CASSETTE 2: SIDE C 1) Walk Away (Live Mix) 2) Search For The Hero (Live Mix) 3) Colour My Life (Live Mix) 4) Someday (Live Mix) 5) Moving On Up (Live Mix) 6) Itchycoo Park (Morales Classic Club Mix) Inlay: "M People are Mike Pickering, Heather Small, Paul Heard and Shovell." "Saxophones & Flute - Chris 'Snake' Davis." Cassette 2 'Live & Remixed': "All tracks recorded live at the GMEX, Manchester on December 16th 1994 except 'Search For The Hero' which was recorded live at Gross Freiheit, Hamburg on 26th February 1995."

CASSETTE 1: SIDE B 6) Precious Pearl 7) Sugar Town 8) Walk Away 9) Drive Time 10) Padlock 11) ...And Finally CASSETTE 2: SIDE D 7) Search For The Hero (US Remix By David 'Jam' Hall) 8) Open Your Heart (Brothers In Rhythm Soundtrack) 9) Love Rendezvous (K-Klass Klub Mix) 10) Padlock (Junior Vasquez Sound Factory Mix)

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  Bizarre Fruit II (Double CD) (1995) CD 1 1) Sight For Sore Eyes 2) Search For The Hero 3) Open Your Heart 4) Love Rendezvous 5) Itchycoo Park 6) Precious Pearl 7) Sugar Town 8) Walk Away 9) Drive Time 10) Padlock 11) ...And Finally Cardboard Sleeve With Paper Inlay: "M People are Mike Pickering, Heather Small, Paul Heard and Shovell." "Saxophones & Flute - Chris 'Snake' Davis." CD 2 'Live & Remixed': "All tracks recorded live at the GMEX, Manchester on December 16th 1994 except 'Search For The Hero' which was recorded live at Gross Freiheit, Hamburg on 26th February 1995." Orange Sticker On Cover: " M PEOPLE BIZARRE FRUIT II, Double Bonus CD now contains Itchycoo Park + bonus CD M People Live & Remixed, See back for track listing."

CD 2 1) Walk Away (Live Mix) 2) Search For The Hero (Live Mix) 3) Colour My Life (Live Mix) 4) Someday (Live Mix) 5) Moving On Up (Live Mix) 6) Itchycoo Park (Morales Classic Club Mix) 7) Search For The Hero (US Remix By David 'Jam' Hall) 8) Open Your Heart (Brothers In Rhythm Soundtrack) 9) Love Rendezvous (K-Klass Klub Mix) 10) Padlock (Junior Vasquez Sound Factory Mix)

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  Bizarre Fruit (Import From Canada) (1995) 1) Sight For Sore Eyes 2) Search For The Hero 3) Open Your Heart 4) Love Rendezvous 5) Precious Pearl 6) Sugar Town Inlay: Lyrics. "M People are Mike Pickering, Heather Small, Paul Heard and Shovell." "Saxophones and Flute - Chris 'Snake' Davis."

7) Walk Away 8) Drive Time 9) Padlock 10) And Finally... 11) Renaissance (I'm Coming Home)

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  Bizarre Fruit (Repackaged) (2005) 1) Sight For Sore Eyes 2) Search For The Hero 3) Open Your Heart 4) Love Rendezvous 5) Precious Pearl 6) Sugar Town 7) Walk Away Sticker: "Repackaged with bonus tracks, exclusive sleevenotes, rare artwork and photos."

8) Drive Time 9) Padlock 10) ...And Finally Bonus Tracks: 11) Itchycoo Park 12) Itchycoo Park (Morales Classic Club Mix)

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Inlay: Information by Paul Lester, Deputy Editor, Uncut: Despite the amazing success M People enjoyed on the back of second album 'Elegant Slumming', there was no sense of anti-climax when it came to the release of follow-up 'Bizarre Fruit' in November 1994. It peaked at Number 3, stayed on the charts for a massive 115 weeks and bequeathed an incredible five hit singles. Basically, on the British music scene in the mid-'90s, there was Britpop, there was trip hop (Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead) ...and there was M People. The later front cover of 'Bizarre Fruit' features singer Heather Small with attendant gravity-defying upturned black pineapple hair-do upfront in the frame while her bandmates - inspired amateur Mike Pickering, the more formally trained musician Paul Heard and percussionist Andrew Lovell alias Shovell - are further back, admiring a series of surreal paintings of pears (the bizarre fruit of the LP title and featured here-on the original sleeve) in some modern art gallery. There was no lyric sheet this time, although you didn't really need one, first because of Heather's crystal-clear intonation and second because daytime radio hammered the songs so relentlessly from day one that you soon knew every word of every track by heart. Those singles were all big hits, and they comprise virtually the whole of the first half of the album. 'Sight For Sore Eyes' (which reached Number 6 in November 1994), with its startling salsa break, opens proceedings in powerful style, and features a Heather Small co-writing credit, the first on any M People album. 'Search For The Hero' (Number 9 in June 1995) instantly became an awards ceremony, and sports event, perennial. 'Open Your Heart (also Number 9, in February 1995) is a typically M People-ish infectious burst of hands-in-the-air happy handbag house, complete with duelling saxophones. 'Love Rendezvous' (Number 32 in October 1995) was the first M People single not to reach the Top 30 since their cover of Marshall Jefferson's 'Someday' in April 1992, although the gospel-blues deconstruction of psychedelic mod classic 'Itchycoo Park' (Number 11 in November 1995) soon made ammends. Continued...