Name: Just a Box: The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2006 *
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Album: Just a Box: The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2006 *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Innocent Bystander
2)	Goodnight Old Friend
3)	Drop Back
4)	Silver Bird
5)	Show Must Go On, The
6)	Dancer, The
7)	Tomorrow
8)	Don't Say It's Over
9)	Slow Motion
10)	Oh Wot a Life
11)	Why Is Everybody Going Home
1)	Telepath
2)	Train
3)	Bells of St. Marys, The
4)	One Man Band
5)	In My Life
6)	When I Came Home This Morning
7)	Long Tall Glasses
8)	Another Time
9)	Solo
10)	Giving It All Away
1)	Bedsitter Land
2)	Unlucky in Love
3)	Last Gig of Johnny B. Goode, The
4)	On the Old Dirt Road
5)	I Will Not Stop Fighting
6)	Moonlighting
7)	Streets of Your Town
8)	Kid's Grown Up, The
9)	Only Dreaming
10)	Another Year
1)	Hold on to My Love
2)	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
3)	Reflections
4)	When I Need You
5)	No Business Like Love Business
6)	I Hear the Laughter
7)	Magdalena
8)	How Much Love
9)	I Think We Fell in Love Too Fast
10)	Endless Flight
1)	Thunder in My Heart
2)	Easy to Love
3)	Leave Well Enough Alone
4)	I Want You Back
5)	It's Over
6)	Fool for Your Love
7)	World Keeps on Turning
8)	There Isn't Anything I Wouldn't Do
9)	Everything I've Got
10)	We Can Start All Over Again
1)	Stormy Weather
2)	Dancing the Night Away
3)	I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)
4)	Booga Rooga, La
5)	Raining in My Heart
6)	Something Fine
7)	Running to My Freedom
8)	Frankie Lee
9)	Don't Look Away
10)	No Looking Back
1)	World Has Changed, The
2)	When the Money Runs Out
3)	End, The
4)	Lost Control
5)	Englishman in the USA, An
6)	Who Will the Next Fool Be
7)	Work
8)	Oh Girl
9)	Ghosts
10)	Takin' the Easy Way Out
1)	Time Ran Out on You
2)	Where Did We Go Wrong
3)	You Win, I Lose
4)	More Than I Can Say
5)	Millionaire
6)	Once in a While
7)	Living in a Fantasy
8)	She's Not Coming Back
9)	Let Me Know
10)	Only Foolin'
1)	Heart (Stop Beating in Time)
2)	Paris Dies in the Morning
3)	Have You Ever Been in Love
4)	Rumours
5)	Heroes
6)	'Til You Let Your Heart Win
7)	End of the Game, The
8)	Wondering Where the Lions Are
9)	We've Got Ourselves in Love
10)	World Radio
1)	'Til You Come Back to Me
2)	Sea of Heartbreak
3)	More Than I Can Say
4)	Darlin'
5)	Don't Wait Until Tomorrow
6)	How Beautiful You Are
7)	Orchard Road
8)	Aviation
9)	Heart (Stop Beating in Time)
10)	Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees
11)	Have You Ever Been in Love
12)	Wounded Heart
13)	Love Games
14)	Never Had a Dream Come True
1)	Cool Touch
2)	Rely on Me
3)	Young and in Love
4)	Paper Back Town
5)	Going Home
6)	My Favourite
7)	I Can't Stop
8)	Heaven Knows
9)	Agents of the Heart
10)	Suki's Missing
1)	Everyone
2)	Pop Life
3)	Saturday Girl
4)	You Thrill Me
5)	We Got Away with It
6)	I Never Knew
7)	Please Don't Walk Away
8)	Don`t Look Back
9)	Voice in My Head
10)	Candygram
11)	Almost Blue
12)	Running Man
13)	There and Back Again
14)	Becalmed
15)	Maybe
1)	Living in America [1972]
2)	Praise the Land [1971 Session Recording]
3)	Reasons [1971 Session Outtake] - (alternate take)
4)	Quicksand
5)	Show Must Go On [7' Single], The
6)	Let It Be
7)	Standing in the Rain [1975 Session Recording]
8)	Tears of a Clown [Session Recording]
9)	Milky White Way [Session Recording]
10)	King's Avenue [1977 Studio Outtake] - (alternate take)
11)	Tell Me Just One More Time [Session Recording]
12)	Thunder in My Heart [Disco Version]
13)	I've Been Lonely for So Long [1978 Session Recording]
14)	New Orleans [1978 Session Recording]
15)	When the Money Runs Out [1979 Demo]
16)	Work Work Work [1979 Demo]
17)	Train
18)	I Don't Need Dreaming Anymore
1)	Bye Bye Now My Sweet Love
2)	Unchained Melody [1982 Demo]
3)	Gone Solo
4)	Girl Is with Me, The
5)	Easy to Love [1984 Recording]
6)	Passion
7)	Real Life
8)	Solo
9)	Unchained Melody
10)	Love Hurts
11)	Heart for Sale
12)	Haunting Me
13)	Moth and the Flame, The
14)	Only One, The
15)	Too Many Hearts
16)	Blame It on the Night
17)	Gun
18)	Loading Zone, The

Album: Just a Box: The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2006 *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Innocent Bystander
2)	Goodnight Old Friend
3)	Drop Back
4)	Silver Bird
5)	Show Must Go On, The
6)	Dancer, The
7)	Tomorrow
8)	Don't Say It's Over
9)	Slow Motion
10)	Oh Wot a Life
11)	Why Is Everybody Going Home
1)	Telepath
2)	Train
3)	Bells of St. Marys, The
4)	One Man Band
5)	In My Life
6)	When I Came Home This Morning
7)	Long Tall Glasses
8)	Another Time
9)	Solo
10)	Giving It All Away
1)	Bedsitter Land
2)	Unlucky in Love
3)	Last Gig of Johnny B. Goode, The
4)	On the Old Dirt Road
5)	I Will Not Stop Fighting
6)	Moonlighting
7)	Streets of Your Town
8)	Kid's Grown Up, The
9)	Only Dreaming
10)	Another Year
1)	Hold on to My Love
2)	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
3)	Reflections
4)	When I Need You
5)	No Business Like Love Business
6)	I Hear the Laughter
7)	Magdalena
8)	How Much Love
9)	I Think We Fell in Love Too Fast
10)	Endless Flight
1)	Thunder in My Heart
2)	Easy to Love
3)	Leave Well Enough Alone
4)	I Want You Back
5)	It's Over
6)	Fool for Your Love
7)	World Keeps on Turning
8)	There Isn't Anything I Wouldn't Do
9)	Everything I've Got
10)	We Can Start All Over Again
1)	Stormy Weather
2)	Dancing the Night Away
3)	I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)
4)	Booga Rooga, La
5)	Raining in My Heart
6)	Something Fine
7)	Running to My Freedom
8)	Frankie Lee
9)	Don't Look Away
10)	No Looking Back
1)	World Has Changed, The
2)	When the Money Runs Out
3)	End, The
4)	Lost Control
5)	Englishman in the USA, An
6)	Who Will the Next Fool Be
7)	Work
8)	Oh Girl
9)	Ghosts
10)	Takin' the Easy Way Out
1)	Time Ran Out on You
2)	Where Did We Go Wrong
3)	You Win, I Lose
4)	More Than I Can Say
5)	Millionaire
6)	Once in a While
7)	Living in a Fantasy
8)	She's Not Coming Back
9)	Let Me Know
10)	Only Foolin'
1)	Heart (Stop Beating in Time)
2)	Paris Dies in the Morning
3)	Have You Ever Been in Love
4)	Rumours
5)	Heroes
6)	'Til You Let Your Heart Win
7)	End of the Game, The
8)	Wondering Where the Lions Are
9)	We've Got Ourselves in Love
10)	World Radio
1)	'Til You Come Back to Me
2)	Sea of Heartbreak
3)	More Than I Can Say
4)	Darlin'
5)	Don't Wait Until Tomorrow
6)	How Beautiful You Are
7)	Orchard Road
8)	Aviation
9)	Heart (Stop Beating in Time)
10)	Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees
11)	Have You Ever Been in Love
12)	Wounded Heart
13)	Love Games
14)	Never Had a Dream Come True
1)	Cool Touch
2)	Rely on Me
3)	Young and in Love
4)	Paper Back Town
5)	Going Home
6)	My Favourite
7)	I Can't Stop
8)	Heaven Knows
9)	Agents of the Heart
10)	Suki's Missing
1)	Everyone
2)	Pop Life
3)	Saturday Girl
4)	You Thrill Me
5)	We Got Away with It
6)	I Never Knew
7)	Please Don't Walk Away
8)	Don`t Look Back
9)	Voice in My Head
10)	Candygram
11)	Almost Blue
12)	Running Man
13)	There and Back Again
14)	Becalmed
15)	Maybe
1)	Living in America [1972]
2)	Praise the Land [1971 Session Recording]
3)	Reasons [1971 Session Outtake] - (alternate take)
4)	Quicksand
5)	Show Must Go On [7' Single], The
6)	Let It Be
7)	Standing in the Rain [1975 Session Recording]
8)	Tears of a Clown [Session Recording]
9)	Milky White Way [Session Recording]
10)	King's Avenue [1977 Studio Outtake] - (alternate take)
11)	Tell Me Just One More Time [Session Recording]
12)	Thunder in My Heart [Disco Version]
13)	I've Been Lonely for So Long [1978 Session Recording]
14)	New Orleans [1978 Session Recording]
15)	When the Money Runs Out [1979 Demo]
16)	Work Work Work [1979 Demo]
17)	Train
18)	I Don't Need Dreaming Anymore
1)	Bye Bye Now My Sweet Love
2)	Unchained Melody [1982 Demo]
3)	Gone Solo
4)	Girl Is with Me, The
5)	Easy to Love [1984 Recording]
6)	Passion
7)	Real Life
8)	Solo
9)	Unchained Melody
10)	Love Hurts
11)	Heart for Sale
12)	Haunting Me
13)	Moth and the Flame, The
14)	Only One, The
15)	Too Many Hearts
16)	Blame It on the Night
17)	Gun
18)	Loading Zone, The

Performer Notes

Fourteen discs is a commitment. No matter how affordable it is -- and Just a Box: The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2006 is affordable, averaging about two pounds a disc upon its initial release -- 14 discs takes time and devotion. The latter is a word not often associated with Leo Sayer, who had four major cross-continental hits in the late '70s -- "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)," "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "When I Need You," "More Than I Can Say" -- before fading into a place of permanent celebrity in his native U.K. and, later, his adopted home of Australia. That constant presence, assisted by appearances on television including U.K.'s Celebrity Big Brother, overshadows both how he hasn't had a hit record since 1983 and how he's never really abandoned his recording career, either. All these highs and lows are tracked in Just a Box, which contains all 12 of his studio albums between 1971 and 2006, then rounds up the oddities, demos, and non-LP tracks over the course of two discs. Taken as a whole, this is a pretty fascinating aural history of state-of-the-art pop production of the last third of the 20th century. Sayer started out as post-McCartney singer/songwriter unabashedly in the vein of Elton John and he never veered too far from the trail John blazed, not even when he adopted a bit of Bowie's theatrics at first or when Richard Perry streamlined and slickened his sounds on Endless Flight was Elton far from view. Once Sayer was an international hitmaker in his own right, he slowly, surely turned toward straight adult contemporary, which also meant that he adapted to trends. He happily adopted disco on 1979's Here and that turned into yacht rock on 1980's Living in a Fantasy. He gave those soft sounds the slightest of a new wave dressing in the early '80s (World Radio, Have You Ever Been in Love), before coming back with the gaudy, clattering synthesizers of Cool Touch, an album that sounds like 1990 without ever belonging to it. More silence followed, before he did a comeback with a classy dose of nostalgia on 2005's Voice in My Head, a canny and often silly bit of commercial pop designed to appeal to those who care. Each phase is slightly more interesting than expected: Silverbird, Just a Boy, and Another Year are artier, quirkier than the Perry productions would suggest, while the Perry-driven Endless Flight, Thunder in My Heart, and Leo Sayer are examples of a how a producer can carve a piece of sharp pop product. The rest are period pieces and are fascinating because they are: it's a musical travelogue through bad fashion, questionable taste, and catchy melodies. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine