(4) Includes two unreleased live songs done from 1984, the only songs on which bassist Michael Steele plays, a cover of Love's '7 and 7 Is', and 'Tell Me', included on their debut album All Over The Place.

The Bangles The Bangles is an all-female band that originated from Los Angeles, California in 1980. Original members were singer and rhythm guitarist Susanna Hoffs, lead guitarist and vocalist Vicki Peterson, drummer and vocalist Debbi Peterson and bassist. As a trio the band was named The Colours, then The Supersonic Bangs and later on just as The Bangs. The band was part of the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene, which featured groups that played a mixture of 1960s-influenced folk-rock and jangle pop with a more modern punk–ish/ garage band undertone.

In 1981, the threesome recorded and released a single ('Getting Out Of Hand' b/w 'Call on Me') on DownKiddie Records (their own label). In 1982, Susanna Hoffs asked long time friend Patrick Hirtz to manage the new band until his departure in 1986 to pursue a career in the culinary arts. The trio was signed to Faulty Products, a label formed by Miles Copeland. Later the vocalist Annette Zilinskas joined the group, who was later replaced by Michael Steele (from The Runaways fame). A legal issue forced the band to change their name at the last minute so they dropped 'The' and added the letters 'les' to the end to become Bangles. Then in 1984 the band released their first album, All Over the Place in 1984 and they received more notoriety due to the fact that they were opening acts for for her Fun Tour and also for Huey Lewis & The News.

This helped attracting Prince, who wrote their first hit, Manic Monday. When they released their second album, Different Light, friction arose within the band after the music media industry began to single out Susanna Hoffs as the lead singer of the group, a result of Columbia Records releasing mostly singles on which Hoffs sang lead vocal. In fact, singing duties on the group's albums were evenly divided among all of the band's members, all of who wrote or co-wrote their songs.

After the release of their third album, Everything, each of the band members went on separate ways causing the band to break up. Susanna Hoffs started her solo career. Vicki Peterson joined and contributed songs to the New Orleans band the Continental Drifters, which received rave reviews. Debbie Peterson had a short-lived career with Siobhan Maher under the name of Kindred Spirit, while Steele lived in semi-retirement in California. The band started their reunion in 1998 and officially re-formed to record a song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, at the behest of the film's director (and Hoffs' husband) Jay Roach. The song chosen for the album was 'Get The Girl' and was released in 1999. In 2003, they released their long-awaited fourth album, Doll Revolution and in 2005 the Bangles announced the departure of Michael Steele.

Steele was replaced by Abby Travis for live appearances, but Travis is not an official member of the group. In the spring of 2009, the Bangles returned to the studio to begin work on a new album.