This new box collects his six Charisma studio albums with Please Don’t Touch and Spectral Mornings utilising the recent Steven Wilson stereo remixes (via the original multi-track tapes). The remaining albums have been newly remastered from the original master tapes.
As well as this studio work, The Charisma Years 1975-1983 contains Live at The New Theatre, Oxford 1979, a newly mixed concert recorded on the Spectral Mornings tour and Live at Reading 1981 an LP of Steve’s appearance at the Reading Festival in August, 1981. Finally, a 12-inch live EP is included called I Know What I Like. This features Steve’s band performing the Genesis’ I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe) recorded in 1979 at Oxford New Theatre plus several tracks recorded live at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in November 1979.
LP1
Voyage Of The Acolyte
- Ace Of Wands
- Hands Of The Priestess – Pt. I
- A Tower Struck Down
- Hands Of The Priestess – Pt. II
- The Hermit
- Star Of Sirius
- The Lovers
- Shadow Of The Hierophant
LP2
Please Don’t Touch
- Narnia
- Carry On Up The Vicarage
- Racing In A
- Kim
- How Can I?
- Hoping Love Will Last
- Land Of A Thousand Autumns
- Please Don’t Touch
- The Voice Of Necam
- Icarus Ascending
LP3
Spectral Mornings
- Every Day
- The Virgin And The Gypsy
- The Red Flower Of
- Tachai Blooms Everywhere
- Clocks – The Angel Of Mons
- The Ballad Of
- The Decomposing Man
- Lost Time In Cordoba
- Tigermoth
- Spectral Mornings
LP4
Defector
- The Steppes
- Time To Get Out
- Slogans
- Leaving
- Two Vamps As Guests
- Jacuzzi
- Hammer In The Sand
- The Toast
- The Show
- Sentimental Institution
LP5
Cured
- Hope I Don’t Wake
- Picture Postcard
- Can’t Let Go
- The Air Conditioned Nightmare
- Funny Feeling
- A Cradle Of Swans
- Overnight Sleeper
- Turn Back Time
LP6
Highly Strung
- Camino Royale
- Cell 151
- Always Somewhere Else
- Walking Through Walls
- Give It Away
- Weightless
- Group Therapy
- India Rubber Man
- Hackett To Piece
LP7 (2LP set)
Live At Oxford (1979)
- Please Don’t Touch
- Tigermoth
- Every Day
- Narnia
- The Red Flower Of Tachai
- Blooms Everywhere
- Ace Of Wands
- Carry On Up The Vicarage
- Acoustic Medley:
- Etude In A Minor / Blood On
- The Rooftops / Horizons / Kim
- The Optigan
- Spectral Mornings
- Star Of Sirius
- Shadow Of The Hierophant
- Clocks
- Racing In A
LP8
Live At Reading (1981)
- The Air Conditioned Nightmare
- Every Day
- Ace Of Wands
- Funny Feeling
- The Steppes
- Overnight Sleeper
- Slogans
- A Tower Struck Down
- Spectral Mornings
- The Show
- Clocks – The Angel Of Mons
12” EP
Live 1979
- I Know What I Like
- (In Your Wardrobe)
- Ace Of Wands
- Sentimental Institution
- The Red Flower Of
- Tachai Blooms Everywhere