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Blacker Than Black

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Released
  
June 4, 1990

Writer(s)
  
Metcalfe and Kelly

Format
  
7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD single, Cassette single

Recorded
  
Hansa Studios, Berlin, West Germany

Genre
  
Alternative rock, new wave

Label
  
Parlophone Radioactive Records (worldwide)

"Blacker Than Black" is a 1990 single by Scottish alternative rock group Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie. It was their second single release for EMI's Parlophone record label. "Blacker Than Black" was taken from the band's second studio album Hammer and Tongs which was released the following year.

In 1991, after Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie had signed to Gary Kurfirst's Radioactive Records, "Blacker Than Black" was remixed, released as an international single and featured on their debut international album release, also titled Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.

Track listings

  • UK 7" single Parlophone R6257
  • UK Cassette single Parlophone TCR 6257
    1. "Blacker Than Black"
    2. "Green, Green Grass of Home"
  • UK 12" single Parlophone 12R 6257
    1. "Blacker Than Black - 12" extended version"
    2. "Green, Green Grass of Home"
    3. "His Master's Voice - 12" remix"
  • UK 12" single Parlophone 12RPD 6257 (Plastic sleeve ltd edition)
  • UK CD single Parlophone CDR 6257
    1. "Blacker Than Black"
    2. "Green, Green Grass of Home"
    3. "His Master's Voice - 12" remix"
    4. "Mad Cow Disease"
  • European 7" single Radioactive Records MCS17794
    1. "Blacker Than Black"
    2. "Bold John Barleycorn"
  • European CD single Radioactive Records MCD 17795
    1. "Blacker Than Black"
    2. "Bold John Barleycorn"
    3. "Candy Says"

    References

    Blacker Than Black Wikipedia
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