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Plenty of people know the Buzzcocks, Public Image Ltd., and Siouxsie and the Banshees, but Magazine is one of a large number of post-punk bands that have slipped between the cracks of history, despite boasting members from each of those three bands.

Magazine songwriter and frontman Howard Devoto left the Buzzcocks in 1977 to form the kind of band that would cover both Sly and the Family Stone and Captain Beefheart. Over the course of their four studio albums in as many years as a band, Magazine explored a weird, indirect kind of pop music, and they worked with producers Martin Hannett (Joy Division) and John Leckie (the Stone Roses) in the process.

On April 24, Virgin Records will reissue the band's four albums, Real Life (1978), Secondhand Daylight (1979), The Correct Use of Soap (1980), and Magic, Murder and the Weather (1981).

All four of the reissues come digitally remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, with the aforementioned Beefheart cover ("I Love You, You Big Dummy") featured on Secondhand Daylight. Together, these reissues form the band's complete recordings, a Magazine encyclopedia of sorts.

Real Life tracklist:

01 Definitive Gaze
02 My Tulpa
03 Shot by Both Sides
04 Recoil
05 Burst
06 Motorcade
07 The Great Beautician in the Sky
08 The Light Pours Out of Me
09 Parade
10 Shot by Both Sides (Original Single Version) [single, bonus track]
11 My Mind Ain't So Open ["Shot by Both Sides" B-side, bonus track]
12 Touch and Go [single, bonus track]
13 Goldfinger ["Touch and Go" B-side, bonus track]

Secondhand Daylight tracklist:

01 Feed the Enemy
02 Rhythm of Cruelty
03 Cut-Out Shapes
04 Talk to the Body
05 I Wanted Your Heart
06 The Thin Air
07 Back to Nature
08 Believe That I Understand
09 Permafrost
10 Give Me Everything [single, bonus track]
11 I Love You, You Big Dummy ["Give Me Everything" B-side, bonus track]
12 Rhythm of Cruelty (Original Single Version) [single, bonus track]
13 TV Baby ["Rhythm of Cruelty" B-side, bonus track]

The Correct Use of Soap tracklist:

01 Because You're Frightened
02 Model Worker
03 I'm a Party
04 You Never Knew Me
05 Philadelphia
06 I Want to Burn Again
07 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
08 Sweetheart Contract
09 Stuck
10 A Song From Under the Floorboards
11 Twenty Years Ago ["A Song From Under the Floorboards" B-side, bonus track]
12 The Book ["Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" B-side, bonus track]
13 Upside Down [single, bonus track]
14 The Light Pours Out of Me (Version) ["Upside Down" B-side, bonus track]

Magic, Murder and the Weather tracklist:

01 About the Weather
02 So Lucky
03 The Honeymoon Killers
04 Vigilance
05 Come Alive
06 The Great Man's Secrets
07 This Poison
08 Naked Eye
09 Suburban Rhonda
10 The Garden
11 In the Dark ["About the Weather" B-side, bonus track]
12 The Operative ["About the Weather" B-side, bonus track]