Greetings,
VRIDD wrote: Sat 24 Jan 2026, 7:52 am
I would avoid WEST END SUNGLASSES and WEST END GIRLS MIXES, that I do not consider official. Are they?
They're released by ZYX who have the rights to them, so they're definitely "legal".
The biggest problem with their inclusion is the timing. For example, "West End Girls - Mixes" wasn't released until 1992, and contains mixes that had not been released prior.
Personally, I'd be inclined to leave out any Bobby O era stuff (or subsequent remixes) that come out after they moved to Parlophone. Once the 1985 version of West-End Girls was released, any re-release or re-hash of the older material are just tacky cash-ins.
Retro.

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