This 5CD box set covers the 4 albums John Foxx released between 1980 - 1985 - Metamatic, The Garden, The Golden Section & In Mysterious Ways - plus B-sides and out-takes from the sessions which have been added as bonus tracks after each original album, and on a fifth CD, Fusion/Fission.
The Virgin Years includes a new analogue master of Metamatic , along with re-masters of the B-sides - 'This City', 'Film One' etc.
The black box also houses five postcards with the artwork for the singles 'Underpass', 'No-One Driving', 'Europe After The Rain', 'Endlessly' and 'Stars On Fire'.
Disc One : Metamatic
1. Plaza
2. He's A Liquid
3. Underpass
4. Metal Beat
5. No-One Driving
6. A New Kind Of Man
7. Blurred Girl
8. 030
9. Tidal Wave
10. Touch And Go
Extra Tracks:
11. Film One
12. This City
13. Burning Car
14. Glimmer
15. Mr No
16. Young Love
17. 20th Century
18. My Face
19. A New Kind Of Man (Alternative Version)
20. He's A Liquid (Alternative Version)
Disc Two : The Garden
1. Europe After The Rain
2. Systems Of Romance
3. When I Was A Man And You Were A Woman
4. Dancing Like A Gun
5. Pater Noster
6. Night Suit
7. You Were There
8. Fusion / Fission
9. Walk Away
10. The Garden.
Extra Tracks:
11. Swimmer Ii
12. This Jungle
13. Miles Away
14. A Long Time
15. Swimmer I
16. Swimmer Iii
17. Swimmer Iv
Disc Three : The Golden Section
1. My Wild Love
2. Someone
3. Your Dress
4. Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers
5. Sitting At The Edge Of The World
6. Endlessly
7. Ghosts On Water
8. Like A Miracle
9. The Hidden Man
10. Twilight's Last Gleaming.
Extra Tracks:
11. Annexe
12. A Kind Of Wave
13. A Woman On A Stairway
14. The Lifting Sky
15. Shine On Me
16. Wings And A Wind
17. Dance With Me
Disc Four : In Mysterious Ways
1. Stars On Fire
2. Lose All Sense Of Time
3. Spin Away
4. Enter The Angel Ii
5. Enter The Angel
6. In Mysterious Ways
7. What Kind Of Girl
8. Shine On
9. Stepping Softly
10. Morning Glory.
Extra Tracks:
11. Lumen De Lumine
12. To Be With You (Alternative Version)
13. And The Sky
14. This Side Of Paradise
15. Hiding In Plain Sight
16. City Of Light
Disc Five : Fusion / Fission
1. Cinemascope
2. To Be With You
3. Like A Miracle (Alternative Version)
4. Fog
5. Fusion / Fission (Early Version)
6. Dance With Me (Early Version)
7. A Woman On A Stairway (Early Version)
8. Endlessly (Single Version)
9. My Wild Love (Early Version)
10. A Long Time (Alternative Version)
11. Sitting At The Edge Of The World (Alternative Version)
12. Twilight's Last Gleaming (Early Version)
13. Young Man
14. The Hidden Man (Alternative Version)
15. Enter The Angel (Alternative Version)
16. Magic
17. Shine On (Alternative Version)