The First Chapter

The First Chapter is a compilation album by gothic rock band The Mission. It gathered the material released on the first two EPs released through the Chapter 22 label. Titled I and II the album was released on Mercury Records in June 1987. It includes all the songs from the first EP in its entirety, but omits the original versions of "The Crystal Ocean" and "Garden of Delight" from the second. The US release was augmented with the B-sides of the V EP. The tracks that were originally left off this compilation were included on the expanded and remastered edition. This restored both the short intermissions and 'swan song' from the II EP. Christ True of allmusic.com called the album 'an interesting piece of history of an oft-forgotten era of English rock'. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fir...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)