Opus Dei (Remastered)

CD1

1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei)
2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision)
3. Leben-Tod
4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be)
5. Transnational
6. How The West Was Won
7. Opus Dei (Life Is Life)
8. The Great Seal
9. Geburt Einer Nation (Eine Richtung Und Ein Volk Version) (Bonus Track)
10. Leben Heißt Leben (Marche Funèbre Version) (Bonus Track)
11. Geburt Einer Nation (3. Oktober - Kraftbach - Version) (Bonus Track)

CD2 OPUS DEI LIVE

1. Leben Heißt Leben (London, Queen Elisabeth Hall, 1987)
2. Geburt Einer Nation (Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
3. Leben-Tod (Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
4. F.I.A.T. (Paris, Espace Ornano, 1992)
5. Transnational (Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
6. How The West Was Won (Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
7. Opus Dei (Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
8. Leben Heißt Leben (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
9. Geburt Einer Nation (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
10. Leben-Tod (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
11. How The West Was Won (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
12. Geburt Einer Nation (Vienna, Messepalast, Kaiser Franz Josef Reitschule, 1988)
13. Leben-Tod (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
14. Transnational (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
15. How The West Was Won (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
16. Opus Dei (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)

Opus Dei, the band’s first album for Mute, was mixed by Rico Conning (Wire, Pere Ubu, Swans, William Orbit). The band’s Laibachian interpretations of Opus’ ‘Live Is Life’ (here presented in English as ‘Opus Dei’ and in German as ‘Leben heisst Leben’) and Queen’s ‘One Vision’ (reworked as ‘Geburt Einer Nation’) soon saw them garner support from the likes of MTV and ITV’s The Chart Show. This mainstream spotlight, coupled with memorable features in the music press, opened up opportunities for the Slovenian collective that included their first world tour. Performances from the tour from London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and “somewhere in Europe” make up the second CD of the expanded remastered edition.

A redesigned cover (further refining the original’s artwork), plus an extensive booklet with photographs, artwork inspired by the German anti-fascist visual artist John Heartfield, and new sleeve notes by the cultural theorist and author Alexei Monroe make this an essential edition of the band’s third studio album.