Howard Jones – Hide & Seek (UK 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984

REQUEST

“Hide and Seek” was the third single by musician Howard Jones. It was released in February 1984, and reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart. It appears on Jones’ album Human’s Lib.

The B-sides, “Tao Te Ching” and “China Dance”, are both instrumentals. All tracks were written by Jones.

Jones performed a solo acoustic version of the song at the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert.

SIDE A
Hide And Seek (Long Version) 8:35
Engineer – Stephen W. Tayler
Music By, Lyrics By – Howard Jones
Producer – Rupert Hine

SIDE B
Tao Te Ching 3:48
Engineer – Ben Rogan
Producer – Howard Jones
Written-By – Howard Jones

China Dance 3:58
Engineer – Ben Rogan
Producer – Howard Jones
Written-By – Howard Jones

RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Label: WEA Records Ltd., WEA
Catalog#: HOW 3T, 249480-0
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 18 Feb 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

NOTES
Track A taken from the LP “Humans Lib”

DISCOGS

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 20
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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Jeff
Jeff
September 25, 2010 12:09 am

Beautiful rip. I’ve got four or five copies of this — including my own originals from ‘back when,’ and this song is extremely difficult to get a clean copy of — very quiet. Thanks!

Sebastian
Sebastian
September 20, 2010 5:20 pm

Many many thanks for your post !!
I grew up listening all this musicians, and I still believe they made better music than we have to listen today…

Michael
Michael
September 20, 2010 12:22 pm

Hi Paul!
Thanks a lot for your posts. You keep on sending us back to the great music era from our youth 🙂

Sypersizeme
Sypersizeme
September 19, 2010 2:54 am

Fabulous post! Loved his 12”ers in the 80’s and so good to see great quality rips on here. I’d love to get my hands on your collection lol x

Massi
Massi
September 18, 2010 12:13 pm

many thanks. looking forward to your ‘no one is to blame’ post

Bellenger1981
Bellenger1981
September 17, 2010 5:00 pm

Thank you!!! Apparently, Jones’ back catalogue is getting a reissue treatment later this year. Rumour has it that the bonus cuts will include 12″ versions such as the one that you’ve posted.

Jermajesty
Jermajesty
Reply to  Bellenger1981
October 11, 2011 5:49 pm

All the reissues are out, and surprisingly no extra tracks.

In one way I love Howard for sticking up for them as untouchable masterpieces.

So thanks DjPaulT for saving our bacon with your perfect vinyl. 🙂

80smusic
80smusic
September 17, 2010 8:26 am

Thanks for this post! One of my favourite Songs from Howard and of the 80s!
Thanks for your great work!