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Background

The album takes its name from a song title from the band's ''

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'' album. The track listing is a mixture of singles and album tracks. The band's seven singles are accounted for here, in their album versions. Also featured are the four cover versions the band committed to album. Rounding out the collection is a bonus CD of newly commissioned remixes by people like Rob Searle and

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. To celebrate the release of ''Maximum Joy'', ZTT re-issued four of the ''

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''-era singles complete with more of the 2000 remixes.

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from Germany collected two discs worth of these mixes and issued them as '' The Club Mixes 2000''. Design and art direction were by Simon Griffin & Ed Sullivan at Dolphin Studio.

Track listing

CD One # " Relax" – 3:57 # " Two Tribes" – 3:22 # "Ferry Cross the Mersey" – 4:03 # "The World Is My Oyster" – 1:58 # "

" – 13:39 # "Maximum Joy" – 5:30 # "San Jose" – 3:09 # "

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" – 5:00 # "

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" – 5:02 # "War" – 6:12 # " Watching the Wildlife" – 4:17 # "Born to Run" – 4:05 # " The Power of Love" – 5:30 CD Two # "The Power of Love" (Rob Searle Club Mix) – 8:38 # "Relax" (Club 69 Future Anthem Part 1) – 11:27 # "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Remix) – 11:23 # "Maximum Joy" (DJ Rene Club Mix) – 9:45 # "Two Tribes" (Rob Searle Club Mix) – 9:18 # "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sander's Coming Home Mix) – 10:18 # "Two Tribes" (Apollo Four Forty Remix) – 6:10

References

External links

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