Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)

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Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) (2001) was Dead Can Dance's four disc box set, containing three CDs of music spanning their career and the DVD of Toward the Within.

While most of the tracks are taken from previously released albums, this set contains a large amount of rarities as well. "Frontier (Demo)" and "The Protagonist" were originally released on the 1987 4AD compilation Lonely Is an Eyesore. "Labour of Love," "Ocean," "Orion," and "Threshold" were recorded for the John Peel Show in 1983. In 1984, a follow-up Peel Session produced the version of "Carnival of Light" contained in this set. "Sloth (Radio)" was recorded for radio and a studio version was later released on Brendan Perry's solo album, Eye of the Hunter.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Frontier (Demo)" – 1981
2. "Labour of Love (Radio)" – 1983
3. "Ocean (Radio)" – 1983
4. "Orion (Radio)" – 1983
5. "Threshold (Radio)" – 1983
6. "Carnival of Light" – 1984
7. "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated" – 1984
8. "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)" – 1985
9. "Avatar" – 1985
10. "Enigma of the Absolute" – 1985
11. "Summoning of the Muse" – 1987
12. "Anywhere out of the World" – 1987
13. "Windfall" – 1987
14. "Cantara" – 1987
15. "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-eyed Are Kings" – 1988
16. "Bird" – 1991
17. "The Protagonist" – 1984

Disc 2

1. "Severance" – 1988
2. "The Host of Seraphim" – 1988
3. "Song of Sophia" – 1988
4. "The Arrival and the Reunion" – 1990
5. "Black Sun" – 1990
6. "The Promised Womb" – 1990
7. "Saltarello" – 1990
8. "The Song of the Sibyl" – 1990
9. "Spirit" – 1991
10. "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" – 1993
11. "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" – 1993
12. "Sloth (Radio)" – 1993
13. "Bylar" – 1996
14. "The Carnival Is Over" – 1993
15. "The Spider's Stratagem" – 1993
16. "The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Radio)" – 1993
17. "How Fortunate the Man with None" – 1993

Disc 3

1. "I Can See Now" – 1994
2. "American Dreaming" – 1994
3. "Tristan" – 1994
4. "Sanvean" – 1994
5. "Rakim" – 1994
6. "Gloridean" – 1994
7. "Don't Fade Away" – 1994
8. "Nierika" – 1996
9. "Song of the Nile" – 1996
10. "Sambatiki" – 1996
11. "Indus" – 1996
12. "The Snake and the Moon (Edit)" – 1996
13. "The Lotus Eaters" – 1998

Disc 4

• Toward the Within DVD