Radio Musicola
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RADIO MUSICOLA is Nik Kershaw's third solo album. It was released in 1986.
Three singles were taken from this album and some featured exclusive tracks as B-sides.
A fourth single was released in Germany only.
Hereafter, you'll find a list of all songs from the RADIO MUSICOLA period, including their different known mixes, demos or official live versions.
Note that unofficial bootleg live versions or TV performances won't be mentioned in this list.
(*) More notes : Some songs appear on several collections CDs. Their sound quality may vary from one collection to another.
Some have very poor quality. Some have enhanced remastered versions. Even Bpm speed of a song may change on some collections.
Even more notes : Some songs have an important number of alternate versions (live, remixes, demos...).
Listing on these versions all together simply brings too much information on just one page.
Some songs (those having more than FIVE different versions) require to have their own specific pages to make every a lot clearer...
B03.01 Radio Musicola
This song requires to have its own page.
Click HERE to discover all the official different versions.
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321228
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
B03.02 Nobody Knows
This song requires to have its own page.
Click HERE to discover all the official different versions.
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321220
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
B03.03 L.A.B.A.T.Y.D.
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321223
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
Album version (4:12)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file) and on the B-side of NIK11, NIKP11 and NIKT11 "Radio Musicola" 7" and 12" records.
Also available as track 5 on the 1994 Wouldn't It Be Good collection.
B03.04 What The Papers Say
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321230
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
Album version (3:32)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file).
B03.05 Life Goes On
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321227
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
Album version (5:00)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file).
Also available (with a shorter fade-out - 4:53) as track 13 on disc 2 of the 2022 "Essential Nik Kershaw" collection.
B03.06 Running Scared
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321229
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
Album version (5:02)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file).
Also available as track 4 on the 1994 "Wouldn't It Be Good" collection.
B03.07 James Cagney
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321224
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
Album version (5:18) (= Extended version)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file) and on the 1987 German only "James Cagney" 12" record.
7" Edit version (3:58)
This edit version was released on the German only "James Cagney" 7" single.
It is NOT AVAILABLE on CD.
Also released as track 4 of the 2022 online only "Extended Versions" collection.
Also released as track 4 on the B side (first vinyl record) of the 2023 "Collected" vinyl collection.
Alternate 2022 Extended version (5:23)
Not much is known about this extended version released as track 25 of the 2022 online only "Extended Versions" collection.
Some claim it is an unreleased mix from 1987 while others claim that this remix was made to be an exclusive track to promote this 2022 collection.
A mystery to be solved.
B03.08 Don't Let Me Out Of My Cage
Written by Nik Kershaw
Album version (4:33)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file).
B03.09 When A Heart Beats
This song requires to have its own page.
Click HERE to discover all the official different versions.
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321222
Date of publication: November 18th 1985
B03.10 Violet To Blue
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321226
Date of publication: October 20th 1986
Album version (6:17)
Available on the 1986 "Radio Musicola" album (vinyl LP, tape, CD and online digital file).
Also available as track 7 on the 1994 "Wouldn't It Be Good" collection.
B03.11 One Of Our Fruit Machines Is Missing
Written by Nik Kershaw.
Registered on February 24th 1987
Registration Number: PA0000321221
Date of publication: October 13th 1986
B-Side of Nobody Knows Single (3:37)
Released as B-side of Both 1986 NIK10 and NIKT10 "Nobody Knows" 7" and 12"singles.
This version is also available on two CD collections.
bpm speed is slightly different on some collections.
1993 Best of NK (Track 17 - 3:37)
2022 Essential Nik Kershaw (Track 10 - Disc 2 - 3:35)
Also released as track 24 of the 2022 online only "Extended Versions" collection.