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Această compilație Extended Big Hits And Surprises Vols. 1 & 2 a apărut în 2023 la casa de discuri BMG și oferă pe trei CD-uri 24 de versiuni extinse ale hiturilor din producția PWL (Pete Waterman Limited), studioul cult londonez care a modelat muzica pop europeană în a doua jumătate a anilor '80. Printre numele consacrate se numără Rick Astley cu Never Gonna Give You Up (Cake Mix), Kylie Minogue cu I Should Be So Lucky și Better The Devil You Know, Bananarama cu I Heard A Rumour, Sonia cu You'll Never Stop Me Loving You sau Sinitta cu Toy Boy. Colecția cuprinde versiuni remix originale și piese prelungite care evidențiază semnătura sonoră PWL — sonorități de sintetizator caracteristice, ritmuri energice și producții atent lustruite de echipa Stock Aitken Waterman.
Melodii
CD1
1. Agent's Aren't Aeroplanes - The Upstroke (Extended Version)
2. The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene (Phil Harding Remix)
3. Princess - In the Heat of a Passionate Moment (The Final Frontier Mix)
4. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Cake Mix)
5. Stock Aitken Waterman - Roadblock (Extended Version)
6. Samantha Fox - Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now (Extended Version)
7. Rick Astley - She Wants to Dance With Me (Extended R'n'B Version)
8. Shooting Party - Safe in the Arms of Love (Phil's Extra Beat Update)
CD2
1. Carol Hitchcock - Get Ready (Original 12" Remix)
2. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be so Lucky (Extended Mix)
3. Jason Donovan - Nothing Can Divide Us (Great Scott, It's the Remix)
4. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Success (Balaeracidic 12'' Mix)
5. Kylie Minogue - Hand on Your Heart (The Great Aorta Mix)
6. Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts (Extended Version)
7. Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me Loving You (Extended Version)
8. Kylie Minogue - Better the Devil You Know (The Mad March Hare Mix)
CD3
1. Lonnie Gordon - Happenin' All Over Again (Hip House Mix)
2. Princess - Say I'm Your Number One (Tony King's 5 Years on 12" Mix)
3. Hazell Dean - Better Off Without You (A Touch of Leather Mix)
4. Paul Varney - If Only I Knew (Hurley's House Mix)
5. The Twins - All Mixed Up (12" Mix)
6. Kylie Minogue - What Kind of Fool? (Heard All That Before) (12" Master Mix)
7. West End - The Love I Lost (feat. Sybil) (Unrequited Mix)
8. Boy Krazy - That's What Love Can Do (Club Mix)
