WHITESNAKE Into The Light: The Solo Albums – Super Deluxe CD Review
9th October 2024This box set is massive. A 60 page hardback book, poster, along with 6 CDs containing remixes, demos, and original mixes. The majority of which have never been released.
It’s kind of odd that Lord Coverdale solo albums are now considered to be Whitesnake albums. Listening to the 2024 remixes of Into The Light, Northwest and WhiteSnake MCMLXXVII, not only have they been given a whole new lease of life but they’re also so much closer to what Dave could hear in his head.
Alot of tech has gone into these remixes, such as a complete breakdown to isolate vocals, guitars, drums, bass etc and build it back from the ground up. There’s often subtle sections that you can now hear for the first time which gives the listener a fresh new perspective.
Writing of a new perspective, the inclusion of the 1968 Home Demos is superb as it’s an interesting look into the mind of a teenage David Coverdale and what he was music he was absorbing at that time.
Of course the original mixes of Into The Light, Northwest and WhiteSnake MCMLXXVII have been given a 2024 remaster making them sound as good as they’re ever going to get. But it’s the remixes and the recordings with Tony Franklin that makes this boxset so worth a purchase that I don’t think you’ll listen to the original mixes again. They are that good.
Score 9/10
Into The Light: The Solo Albums
CD Track Listing
Disc One: Into The Light (2024 Remix)
“She Give Me” *
“River Song” *
“Don’t You Cry” *
“Love Is Blind” *
“Slave” *
“Cry For Love” *
“Living On Love” *
“Midnight Blue” *
“Too Many Tears” *
“Don’t Lie To Me” *
“All The Time In The World” *
“Wherever You May Go” *
“Yours For The Asking” *
“Let’s Talk It Over” *
Disc Two: Into The Light (Additional Remixes)
“Love Is Blind” (Band Version) *
“As Long As I Have You” *
“With All Of My Heart” *
“Wherever You May Go” (Strings Version) *
“Love Is Blind” (Strings Version) *
Demos & Unfinished Symphonies
“Lust” *
“Oh No! Not The Blues Again” *
“Into the Light Intro”
“Into The Light” *
“You Make It Hard On Me” *
“Would You Be Happy” *
“Fooling Yourself” *
“Make The Best Of It” *
“Veda of Cassandra Blues” *
“I Can See The Light” *
“Another Fallen Angel” *
“Itchy Finger” *
Original Demos 1997
“Crazy’ Bout Cha” (Original Version of “Whipping Boy Blues”) *
“If You Want Me” *
“Lay Your Love On Me” (Original Version of “Lay Down Your Love”) *
Disc Three: NorthWinds (2024 Remix)
“Keep On Giving Me Love” *
“Sweet Mistreater” *
“NorthWinds” *
“Give Me Kindness” *
“Queen Of Hearts” *
“Only My Soul” *
“Time & Again” (String Version) *
“Say You Love Me” *
“Shame The Devil, Tell The Truth” *
“Breakdown” *
“Time & Again” (Piano Version) *
“Time & Again” (Strings Only) *
Disc Four: WhiteSnake MCMLXXVII (2024 Remix)
“Lady” *
“Blindman” *
“Goldies Place” *
“Time On My Side” *
“Peace Lovin’ Man” *
“Sunny Days” *
“Hole In The Sky” *
“WhiteSnake” *
“Celebration” *
Young Lad’s Blues (1968 Home Demos)
“Sunny Days” (Original) *
“Love Me In The Morning” *
“I Will Love You” *
“Moment In Time” *
“It Would Be Nice” *
“There Was A Time” *
“Why?” *
“I Still Love You” *
Disc Five: Into The Light (Original Mix 2024 Remaster)
“She Give Me”
“River Song”
“Don’t You Cry”
“Love Is Blind”
“Slave”
“Cry for Love”
“Living On Love”
“Midnight Blue”
“Too Many Tears”
“Don’t Lie To Me”
“Wherever You May Go”
Disc Six: WhiteSnake (Original Mix 2024 Remaster)
“Lady”
“Blindman”
“Goldies Place”
“Time On My Side”
“Peace Lovin’ Man”
“Sunny Days”
“Hole In The Sky”
“Celebration”
“WhiteSnake”
NorthWinds (Original Mix 2024 Remaster)
“Keep On Giving Me Love”
“NorthWinds”
“Give Me Kindness”
“Time & Again”
“Queen Of Hearts”
“Only My Soul”
“Say You Love Me”
“Breakdown”
Label – Rhino
Release –25th October 2024
