Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Superdeluxeedition were treated to an exclusive preview of Pink Floyd’s forthcoming Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall Immersion box sets last week.
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Roseanne ‘Rosie’ Vela’s 1986 album Zazu famously features the talents of Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Steely Dan had spilt up only six years earlier, so for the two men to record together again was extraordinary, but even more extraordinary was how Vela had gone from music-obsessed teenager in Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 1970s, to major-label recording artist, working with ‘The Dan’ in the mid-1980s.
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Coming Up. The perfect title for the follow-up to the dark and brooding Dog Man Star, since the commercial fortunes of Suede were about to be dramatically revived. This was no ironic title. The band had recorded a hit album and it would be named appropriately.
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When EMI reissued David Bowie’s classic Station to Station album back in the autumn of 2010, as an act of celebration Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW took up the challenge of remixing the album’s lead single Golden Years. Four DJs from KCRW were let loose on the multi-tracks with very different results. EMI has now officially released the remixes – approved by Bowie himself – on CD, 12″ vinyl and download.
Here is our verdict on this release:
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We continue with our Suede Singles Artwork Gallery celebrating the singles released from each forthcoming deluxe edition.
Suede’s fourth album, Head Music is due for release as a 2CD+DVD deluxe edition in one week, on Monday 20th June.
This week we take a look back at the singles from that album. As a bonus, the gallery finishes with some new pictures of the deluxe edition.
The best way to view these galleries is simply to click on a thumbnail image and then click again on the arrow at the bottom right of the image to toggle through all the images. We hope you enjoy!
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Dog Man Star was the album that changed Suede. It broke Suede. It also made Suede. It proved to the world that they could push their art to a new level. If you could take any Suede album with you to your desert island, Dog Man Star would be the one.
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“Holes, dug by little moles”. So sings guitarist Jonathan Donahue, in his slightly straining Neil Young-esque vocal style. Not the kind of lyric you’d expect from an NME album of the year (1998) but that just goes to underline what a persuasive and powerful piece of work Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs really is.
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Radiohead will release a series of limited edition 12” vinyl records, featuring remixes of tracks from their current album The King Of Limbs, this summer on XL/Ticker Tape.
The first release, on July 4, comprises remixes of Little By Little by Caribou, and Lotus Flower by Jacques Greene.
The 12” will be available at selected independent record stores, and from www.radiohead.com. There will also be a WAV format available through independent music specialist Boomkat, and Radiohead’s site.
We continue with our Suede Singles Artwork Gallery celebrating the singles released from each forthcoming deluxe edition.
Suede’s third album, Coming Up is due for release as a 2CD+DVD deluxe edition in one week, on Monday 13th June.
This week we take a look back at the singles from that album. As a bonus, the gallery finishes with some new pictures of the deluxe edition.
The best way to view these galleries is simply to click on a thumbnail image and then click again on the arrow at the bottom right of the image to toggle through all the images. We hope you enjoy!
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The fourth instalment of Mike Oldfield’s catalogue reissues, Incantations, is released on July 25th. Incantations, originally released in November 1978, was Oldfield’s first and only studio double album. Comprising of four parts of the title track, it was a masterpiece of minimalism, with Oldfield again playing many of the instruments, with old friends including David Bedford conducting the choir and orchestra, Pierre Moerlen on drums and Mike’s sister Sally on vocals.
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