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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We continue with our Suede Singles Artwork Gallery celebrating the singles released from each forthcoming deluxe edition.
Suede’s second album, Dog Man Star is due for release as a 2CD+DVD deluxe edition in one week, on Monday 6th 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 and some other Dog Man Star related items.
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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As Suede practised in rehearsal rooms in East London in late 1991 all the pieces of the jigsaw were about to fall into place. Justine Frischman had broken up with lead singer Brett Anderson and started dating Damon Albarn of Blur. Shortly after this, she left the band and things started to happen…
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Sony are set to reissue four classic Paul Simon albums on June 13th. Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin’ and Still Crazy After All These Years mark the start of a major reissue campaign and these editions will see the bonus tracks that were available on previous CD issues of the albums reinstated. The albums will also be remastered, although it is not clear at this stage which mastering will be used.
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This week sees the release of a fascinating early chapter in the career of Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter Neil Diamond.
Neil Diamond The Bang Years 1966-1968, charts the beginnings of the career of Diamond in the 1960s, when he was a young (and married) struggling songwriter, desperately trying to make a living from his art and avoid a “real job”.
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In late 1975, Thin Lizzy’s record label Vertigo were starting to wonder if their investment in the band was going to pay off. Two albums in, and the band still had nothing approaching a big hit single and the record label were keen for some commercial success. Nigel Grainge, the A&R man at Vertigo, had to be reassured by the band’s managers Chris Morrison and Chris O’Donnell, that Thin Lizzy could deliver. One of the first things they did was to set about finding someone appropriate to produce what would become Jailbreak, to take some pressure off singer, songwriter and bass player Phil Lynott’s shoulders. The previous album Fighting, had been self-produced and the management felt that this was a burden that should be lifted for the follow-up.
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For the next five weeks we will be celebrating Suede and will be starting each week with a Suede Singles Artwork Gallery celebrating the singles released from the deluxe edition due out a week later.
Since Suede’s debut is due for release in deluxe form on May 30th, 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 to toggle through all the images. We hope you enjoy!
To be in with a chance of winning a SIGNED COPY of the deluxe edition of this album (signed by Mat, Simon, Brett, and Bernard Butler) simply ‘like’ our facebook page. See the competition graphic on the right or click ‘competitions’ above for more details.
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Erasure will be reissuing their first two albums – Wonderland and The Circus – in special expanded 3-disc editions, each featuring two CDs and an all-regions NTSC DVD. The release date is set for July 4th on EMI.
Both releases will feature remastered versions of the original albums, with bonus CDs full of single remixes, b-sides and radio session tracks. The DVDs will contain the promotional videos for the singles from each album, plus a live concert. For ‘Wonderland’ the previously unreleased concert footage was recorded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1986 while the DVD for the ‘The Circus’ release will feature Top of The Pops performances plus the 1987 ‘Live At The Seaside’ concert recorded in Brighton, originally released on VHS, now available on DVD for the first time.
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This week sees the release of Kate Bush’s new album Director’s Cut. Six years on from 2005’s Aerial, this album revisits tracks from 1989’s The Sensual World and 1993’s The Red Shoes.
Kate – seemingly unhappy with the ‘sound’ of some of these original tracks – has gone back to the multi-tracks and removed certain elements and augmented the original performance with new instrumentation. Drums and Bass are the most prominent changes, with legendary session drummer Steve Gadd behind the kit for most tracks, and the songs all have a new vocal performance, with Kate changing the key to many of them to suit her vocal range of 2011. A few tracks have been re-recorded completely, including the much-loved This Woman’s Work.
Black Tie White Noise was released in 1993 – a tricky year for David Bowie and something of a new beginning. To make sense of it, we need to take a brief look back at the preceding five year period.
His last solo album had been the critically-mauled Never Let Me Down from 1987. The at-the-time heavily-mulleted ‘London Boy’ then unwisely decided to tour the album, and to make things worse this involved dragging a massive glass spider around the world, under which he would perform. By the time all this was over his reputation had taken a bit of a battering and he knew it. Bowie temporarily called time on his solo career, grew a beard and formed Tin Machine, a ‘no-bullshit’ rock outfit with his mates from the ’70s (Tony and Hunt Sales) and unknown guitar guru Reeves Gabrels.
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A-ha fans gathered at the Nordic Bar in London’s West End on Saturday 14th May to say a final farewell to the Norwegian pop trio.
Superdeluxeediton went along to the exclusive event with around 200 other fans for a special screening of the band’s new DVD Ending on a High Note – The Final Concert. To keep everyone in the party mood, a-ha themed cocktails were on offer including a ‘Manhattan Skyline’ and a ‘Mortini’.
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