Maximum Joy (album) explained

Maximum Joy
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Cover:	FGTH_maximumjoy.jpg
Recorded:	1983–1986
Genre:	New wave EDM
Length:	72:00 (CD 1) 60:00 (CD 2)
Label:	ZTT –
Producer:	Trevor Horn Stephen Lipson
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	The Club Mixes 2000
Next Year:	2000

Maximum Joy is a greatest hits album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released on by ZTT Records.

Background

The album takes its name from a song title from the band's Liverpool album.

The track listing is a mixture of singles and album tracks. The band's seven singles are accounted for here, in their album versions. Also featured are the four cover versions the band committed to album.

Rounding out the collection is a bonus CD of newly commissioned remixes by people like Rob Searle and Peter Rauhofer.

To celebrate the release of Maximum Joy, ZTT re-issued four of the Welcome to the Pleasuredome–era singles complete with more of the 2000 remixes.

Repertoire Records from Germany collected two discs worth of these mixes and issued them as The Club Mixes 2000.

Design and art direction were by Simon Griffin & Ed Sullivan at Dolphin Studio.

Track listing

CD One

1. "Relax" – 3:57
2. "Two Tribes" – 3:22
3. "Ferry Cross the Mersey" – 4:03
4. "The World Is My Oyster" – 1:58
5. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" – 13:39
6. "Maximum Joy" – 5:30
7. "San Jose" – 3:09
8. "Warriors of the Wasteland" – 5:00
9. "Rage Hard" – 5:02
10. "War" – 6:12
11. "Watching the Wildlife" – 4:17
12. "Born to Run" – 4:05
13. "The Power of Love" – 5:30

CD Two

1. "The Power of Love" (Rob Searle Club Mix) – 8:38
2. "Relax" (Club 69 Future Anthem Part 1) – 11:27
3. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Remix) – 11:23
4. "Maximum Joy" (DJ Rene Club Mix) – 9:45
5. "Two Tribes" (Rob Searle Club Mix) – 9:18
6. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sander's Coming Home Mix) – 10:18
7. "Two Tribes" (Apollo Four Forty Remix) – 6:10