Album Of The Day: Cutting Edge by delirious?

Album Art of delirious?'s Cutting Edge album - The top and bottom and most of the background is white. Interlaced into the background are pictures of a scissors and a shaver in verital lines, somewhat blended into the white at the top. In the top middle, there's also a small photo of a scissors. There's print that says the album title in black, and then white slightly below and over it. In the top right of the middle section, there's an orange oval with the band name in them, except the 's' is replaced with a '5'. In the middle is a blue rectangle with the letters 'd:' cut out. And a small photo of 5 white men lit by light bulbs in front and behind, with a mirror behind them.

In the early 1990s, a worship band started leading youth-oriented prayer meetings on the small cities of England's southern coast. They were known as "Cutting Edge" and they wrote, recorded and released four EPs on cassette, creatively titled 1, 2, 3 and Fore. When I heard these songs in 1998, they were packaged into this two-CD, 25-song compilation of all four EPs. By that time, the band was known as delirious? and the compilation album was called Cutting Edge. Throughout this album, lead vocalist Martin Smith wrote and passionately sang about a relationship with God in a way to that was much more personal and compelling than most of the old hymns and hippie folk songs that their parents were singing in church. Over the last 30 years as the English-speaking world came to know this album, songs like "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever" and "Shout To The North" became songs commonly sung in churches with modern worship music. And songs like "Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble?" and "Obsession" showed that while they were definitely a worship band, they also had a rock band creativity and drive to go beyond what a church worship band might normally do. The band delirious? went on to create 7 more studio albums combining pop, rock and worship genres, get played the UK Top 40 pop radio, and tour around the world before saying farewell to their fans in 2009. And I've been enjoying these songs for nearly 27 years now.

Release Year: 1993-1995
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The original UK CD releases looked much like the original cassette covers:
Album Art of delirious?'s Cutting Edge 1 and 2 album - The left half is a bright yellow, with a very light scissors icon just a shade whiter in the background. There's a black circle in the top left that has the band name in it, and a black '1' in the bottom left corner. On the right half it's a somewhat pinkish-purple color, with a black '2' on the top right. Vertically in the middle it says 'cutting' from the top to bottom in white, with 'edge' just to the left of it bigger in gray. In smaller print, the song titles are printed on both the left and right side.
Album Art of delirious?'s Cutting Edge 3 and Fore album - The left half is an orange color, with some blocks of dark blue on the edges. There's a black circle in on the left that has the band name in it, and the words 'Three' written in white in a scripty font above that. Down the middle, in a dark blue box, it has 'Cutting Edge' in a font that looks like it's printed by a labeler machine. On the right, the color is mostly a light aqua blue with white spheres in it, plus a bunch more dark blue boxes. In the dark blue area there's a photo of a golf ball with a much smaller tee and flag photo towards the top. The golf ball has lines encircling it like it's a nucleus of an atom. At the bottom in a serif font in gray it says 'fore'.

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