ABOUT THIS ITEM

Spanning World Party's 25 year history, "Arkeology" is at once a new album - featuring over a dozen new songs completed as recently as January 2012 - and an unreleased, unheard history of rare studio gems, live sessions, concert recordings, radio interviews, covers, demos and B-sides. As much a throwback to the 60's rock that leader Karl Wallinger grew up loving as it s a reinvention of it, "Arkeology" showcases some of Wallinger's strongest work to date. The entire 5 CD / 70 song collection is packaged in the Any Year Diary, a 142 page, full colour day calendar for fans' personal use that features rare photos, clips of articles and World Party memorabilia from Wallinger's personal archives, as well as his notes and commentary about various shows and recordings. Dig it! Spanning the band’s 25-year history, “Arkeology” is at once a new album—with songs finished as recently as 2011—and an unreleased, unheard history of rare studio gems, live sessions, concert recordings, radio interviews, covers, demos and B-sides. As much a throwback to the 60’s rock that World Party leader Karl Wallinger grew up loving as it is a reinvention of it, “Arkeology” showcases some of Wallinger’s strongest work to date. New songs like “Waiting Such a Long Time” (2008), “Everybody’s Falling in Love” (2011), and “Photograph,”—a sprawling piano anthem recorded over a period of seventeen years (1994 to 2011)—are more evidence of Wallinger’s already-known talent for writing infectious pop hooks. The entire collection is packaged in the Any Year Diary, a 142-page, full-color day calendar for fans’ personal use that features rare photos, clips of articles, and World Party memorabilia from Wallinger’s personal archives, as well as his notes and commentary about various shows and recordings. “The reason it’s all inside an any-year diary,” Wallinger says, “is because I just got so sick of the CD packaging. I’m glad the whole CD format is dying, but I really didn’t want to put something out that was only digital.” “Arkeology” also provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Wallinger’s quirky humor and love of studio experimentation with several genre-bending demos, some recorded as early as 1985. A pitch-shifted, effects-heavy rendition of “What is Love All About” (from 1993’s Bang!) for instance, wouldn’t be out of place on a contemporary R&B record. And live versions of familiar hits—including an ascendant crowd sing-along of “Ship of Fools” from Boulder, CO in 1998, and fan favorites like “Love Street” from 2006’s Bonnaroo Festival—capture the band at some of its finest moments. Formed in 1986, as Wallinger’s solo project, (previously of cult heroes The Waterboys), World Party has amassed a collection of hit singles over its history, including "Ship of Fools", "Put the Message in the Box," "Is It Like Today?" and the chart-topping "Way Down Now," while contributing to movie soundtracks for Reality Bites and Clueless. In recent years, Wallinger has taken World Party to the stages of Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and elsewhere. Stay tuned for more and tour dates to be announced soon. Packaging: 7” x 10” Spiral Bound Diary / 142 pages.

Disc 1:
Waiting Such A Long
Nothing Lasts Forever
Everybody’s Falling In Love
Where Are You Going When You Go?
Photograph
Everybody Dance Now
Closer Still
I Want To Be Free
I’m Only Dozing
No More Crying
Interview/Sweet Soul Dream (live)..

Disc 2:
Lucille
The Good Old Human Race
Put The Message In The Box (live)
Trouble Down Here
Basically
Silly Song
Man We Was Lonely
She’s The One (live)
Ship Of Fools (live)
Mystery Girl
This Is Your World Speaking
All The Love That’s Wasted
Lost In Infinity
New Light…

Disc 3:
Words
Dear Prudence
Call Me Up (live)
Like A Rolling Stone (live)
Sooner Or Later
Love Street (live)
Time On My Hands
Who Are You (live)
Sweetheart Like You
Another World
You’re Beautiful
But Get Out Of My Life
Living Like The Animals
Stand (live)
Thank You World…

Disc 4:
Break Me Again
Baby
Ship Of Fools (live)
Put The Message (live)
When Did You Leave Heaven?
Nature Girl
It’s A Pity You Let Go
My Pretty One
De Ho De Hay
We Are The Ones
World Groove / Mind Guerilla
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Kuwait City
Do What I Want
All We Need Is Everything
Outro…

Disc 5:
Mystery Girl (early Version)
What Is Love All About (alternate Drum)
I Hope It All Works Out For You
And God Said (long Version)
It Ain’t Gonna Work
Another One
I Am Me
It’s Going To Be Alright
In Another World
Thank You World (live)
Cry Baby Cry
Temple Of Love
Fixing A Hole
Way Down Now (live)
Change The World (demo)