Album CD Promos

A Conversation with Karen and Shellie Poole

Promo interview disc in slimline jewel case. Karen and Shellie answer 16 questions about themselves and the making of the album.

The questions are listed on the inner sleeve, and the answers are given on the disc.

This style of promo is used by radio DJs who "ask" the questions then Karen and Shellie "answer" them, giving the illusion of a live radio interview.

Alisha Rules The World (USA)

314 534 027 2AD

Full length promo CD with the same 13 tracks as the UK release.

Back inlay has a mini-biography, and the only sleeve difference from the commercial release is that the cover shot is slightly zoomed in.

Illumina - The Album Sampler

ATTIC 2

The Incidentals
Going Down
Wish I Were You
Are You Jealous?
Barbarella
Resistor

6 track promo sampler in card sleeve.

Illumina

ADV 1998

Full 15 track advance CD in generic Mercury card sleeve.

Mercury circulated an awful lot of promo copies of this album; this is only one of at least four.

Full tracklisting same as item below.

The House We Built Sampler

ATT1CD

A Pretender Got My Heart
The House That We Built
Push It All Aside
Can't Say Sorry
Sex Is On Everyone's Tongue

Promo sampler in full colour outer and inner sleeve. This CD was later withdrawn as the girls decided the tracks needed remastering. Many of these made it into circulation before this, so there's a lot of them around.

The House We Built Sampler (Withdrawn Sleeve)

ATT1CD

A Pretender Got My Heart
The House That We Built
Push It All Aside
Can't Say Sorry
Sex Is On Everyone's Tongue

Promo sampler in full colour outer and inner sleeve. Different sleeve from the version shown above - so in the end both versions were withdrawn, but this one is extremely rare. Click on the sleeve for a full size version.

This card inlay was included in the withdrawn sampler. Click on the small version to read in full.

The inner sleeve and disc was the same as the other version, and only one slight difference on the back cover (it's matted green instead of the natural background).

This version of the first sampler didn't surface until 2004, which is a long time since the album came out in 2001! The girls' Mum was hoarding copies which she only released this year. No difference in the songs, just the sleeve.

The House We Built Sampler

HOUSE 2

Pretender Got My Heart
The House That We Built
Push It All Aside
Can't Say Sorry
Sex Is On Everyone's Tongue

5 track album sampler of the final remastered versions, in plain black card sleeve.

The House We Built

HOUSE 1

Sex Is On Everyone's Tongue
Can't Say Sorry
Push It All Aside
Pilot
The House That We Built
Pretender Got My Heart
That Other Girl
Perfectly Happy
She Ain't Missing You
If You Want Me Back
Devil You Call Love
Dreaming

Album CD-R Promos

Alisha Rules The World

Irresistible U R
Intense
I Am, I Feel
Alisha Rules The World
White Room
Stone In My Shoe
Personality Lines
Indestructible
I Won't Miss You
The Golden Rule
Just The Way You Like It
Air We Breathe
Adore U

Promo CD-R in jewel box. The CD-Ris plain, not printed, hence no disc scan.

Illumina CD-R

The Incidentals
Going Down
Shameless
Resistor
Air & Angels
Wish I Were You
Me & The Dolphins
Barbarella
Are You Jealous?
Lazy Head
Do I Lie?
Karmically Close
Dive In
Lay Low
Outta These Clouds

Karmically Close EP

Karmically Close
Lay Low
Indestructable
Incidentals
Going Down
Barbarella

Six track acoustic CD in the "unplugged" style. Comes in slimline jewel case with card inlay.

Want to listen to this? Go to the Attic Jukebox page!

The House We Built CD-R 1

Full 12 track promo CD-R that apparently also escaped from the Mercury vaults before the remastering. There are very subtle differences in the sound of some of the tracks on this promo to the cuts on the final release.

One amusing fact, at the end of "Push It All Aside", after the laugh Karen is very clearly heard to say "oh, ****ed up!". Of course that was edited out for the commercial release!

This CD was out a good 9 months before the eventual release. Slimline jewel case with insert.

The House We Built CD-R 2

Second full length 12 track promo CD-R, featuring the "remastered" versions.

Note the difference in track timings from the previous unmastered CD-R. These versions are all shorter and some of the instrumental bits sound quite different from the previous one.

These are the versions that turned up on the eventual commercial release.

This CD-R comes in an album style jewel box.

Album Cassette Promos

It's A Listening Cassette

Irresistible U Are
Adore You
I Am, I Feel
I Won't Miss You

4 track album sampler cassette in a funky fuzzy red miniature "pencil case" style zip up pouch.

Mini biography featured on the inner sleeve. A really cute promo, one of the nicest I've seen.

Alisha Rules The World (USA)

Full length promo cassette, same tracklisting as the eventual commercial release.

Alisha Rules The World is the only Aa album to receive a Stateside release.

A full length promo CD and a 1-track "I Am I Feel" CD single promo were also released in the US. Despite their Lilith Fair tour, these are the only US promos I'm aware of.

Illumina

Full 15 track promo cassette, same tracklisting as given above for the CD-R.

It's surprising that this item exists at all, given that CD-Rs were starting to replace cassettes at this time, and Mercury already issued 2 CD-Rs for this album. Just about the only good use I found for promo cassettes at the time was that you could play them in the car!