Blue Nile 2-disc reissues

I first became aware of The Blue Nile in the early-to-mid 80s when I was at uni and one of the guys (whom I met at the residence I lived in first year) in our loose friendship group at the time, had the debut LP, A Walk Across the Rooftops.

Although I really enjoyed the, what I thought of at the time as, sparse/minimalist sound (I now hear multiple layers that make the music rather complex), I never picked a physical copy of this album.  I know I had some tracks digitally from some questionable sources at one point in time, as I remember some songs that I currently don't have.

They eventually released four albums: Walk Across the Rooftops, Hats, Peace at Last, and High.  Paul Buchanan also released a solo album entitled Mid Air.

For many years now, I have been frequently visiting an online blog/site that specialises in reissues of old albums, many in a deluxe or super deluxe format and many artists that I am interested in (see the links from the menu).  Earlier this year their fourth album was reissued as a 2-CD set and the release was featured on this site.  In going through the archives on the site I came across an announcement of 2-CD reissues from 2012 of their first two albums.  From the comments on the website I learned that the third album had been reissued somewhere between these two announcements.

In August, I discovered that a local chain, JBHifi, had the first three in stock, so I ordered them.  Later, I found an online retailer that stocked the fourth and provided shipping to NZ, so ordered it.

Each of the reissues contain the original album, remastered, on the first disc, and approximately 30 minutes of an additional 6 or 7 tracks on the second disc.

Some critics complained about the small amount of additional music on the second discs.  According to comments online by many fans, there are quite a few b-sides, live tracks, extended mixes, and unreleased songs that are not included in these releases.  Some people have speculated that an additional release that mops up all of these might be seen in the near future (and I hope they are right).  However, I do think that each of these second discs are curated to be a mini-album in their own right, with a sequence that flows (I think they are great, by the way).

Here is a list of songs I have read about online that are not included in these reissues (but I feel I also had digital copies of other songs not listed here way back in the day).  Please leave a comment if I've made any errors/omissions:

Broadway in the Snow

Broken Loves [Remix] *

Days of Our Lives [London Mix] *

Downtown Lights edit

Halfway to Paradise (b-side) 

Headlights on the Parade (Clearmountain Mix)

Headlights on the Parade (with Rickie Lee Jones)

Heatwave (Instrumental version) from the original single release

Meanwhile live (Paul Buchanan solo) 

New York Man (b-side)

O Lolita (b-side)

Our Lives (b-side) 

Runaround Girl live (Paul Buchanan solo)

Saddle the Horses (instrumental of Automobile Noise)

Saddle the Horses (extended)

Seven A.M. live (b-side) 

She Saw the World [Remix] *

Start Again live (Paul Buchanan solo)

Stay remix

Stay extended remix

Stay Close instrumental

Soul Boy remix

Sunday at the Beach *

War is Love (A Different Day) (b-side)

Wish Me Well (b-side)

Young Club

You Make it Right *

* - according to one online source, these tracks were listed online as being included on the High bonus disc, which they clearly aren't (but might have originally been planned to have been).