Month: October 2012

Manic Street Preachers / Box set affordably priced for fans

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Manic Street Preachers / Generation Terrorists collector's box set
Generation Terrorists Collector’s box (click to enlarge)

The Manic Street Preachers’ Generation Terrorists Collector’s box will be available for the relatively low price of £45 and is available exclusively through the band’s website.

This 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Boxset contains:

  • CD1: The Album
  • CD2: The Demos
  • CD3: B-sides & rarities
  • DVD: Includes 76 min film ‘Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair’, plus TV performances, home movies, and 11 promo videos
  • BOOK: 28 page booklet featuring new liner notes and previously unseen images from Nicky Wires personal archive
  • 10” Photographic Print: ‘You Love Us’ Collage by Richard Edwards
  • 10” LP: Rare BBC Rock show sessions from Jan 1992
  • VIP Lanyard Pass: replica of 1992 Generation Terrorists Tour pass

Fans will be delighted that this set is reasonably affordable, having been stung with some very expensive sets in the past, such as the National Treasures single box which originally retailed at £160.

Pre-order GENERATION TERRORISTS Collector’s box set

Full track listing:
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Karl Wallinger talks World Party and the Arkeology five-disc box

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World Party will be touring the UK very shortly including a date at the Royal Albert Hall on 1st November. Front man, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Karl Wallinger will be performing the hits and tracks from the excellent, career-spanning Arkeology, a five-CD set that was released in June (April in the US) and is being now being re-promoted to coincide with the gigs.

Here’s a reminder of who World Party are, and what Karl Wallinger himself had to say about Arkeology when we talked to him earlier in the year…
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T. Rex / “The Slider” anniversary box

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T. Rex / The Slider 40th Anniversary box set

Following on from last year’s Electric Warrior reissue, T. Rex’s seventh album, The Slider will be released on 26 November, to coincide with its 40th Anniversary.

The album is celebrated with The Slider 40th Anniversary Box Set, which will come full of audio, video, books and various memorabilia. Highlights include a new remaster by producer Toni Visconti, B-sides, outtakes and an unheard demo of the title track taken from Visconti’s private collection.

The set contains two CDs worth of content, and a 180g pressing of the newly remastered album. In addition the three singles also get vinyl pressings. A DVD will include a 105 minute interview with Toni Visconti, by Bolan expert Mark Paytress, along with archive interview clips and TV footage.

As well as the obligatory hard back book, this set also comes with a 40-page book of sheet music for every song on the record as well as a mass of reproduction memorabilia, which will either delight or disgust fans depending on whether you like fripperies in these box sets.

Contents

  • • 2CDS
  • • DVD
  • • 180g vinyl pressing of The Slider
  • • 180g vinyl 7″ pressings of Telegram Sam, Metal Guru and Chariot Choogle
  • • Hard back book
  • • Sheet music book
  • • A2 Poster
  • • Ad hoc memorabilia including sticker, plastic carrier bag, sew-on patch, facsimiles of Bolan fan club letter, membership card and concert ticket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMfz-tbBPag

 

The Rolling Stones release early demos on GRRR! super deluxe box

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The Rolling Stones / Grr! / New hits collectionThe Rolling Stones have announced the track listings to their forthcoming career-spanning ‘best of’, GRRR!. 

As previously reported, this release comes as a three-CD set (in standard and deluxe variants) with 50 tracks; a vinyl version with 50 tracks; and a super deluxe edition box set with 80 tracks, plus bonus audio. Apart from the two new tracks present on all formats (Doom And Gloom and One More Shot) there appear to be no real surprises as far as the hits go, but purchasers of the super deluxe box set do get a bonus CD with previously unreleased ‘first ever studio recordings’. These consist of five tracks (all covers) recorded at IBC studios in London on 11 March 1963.
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The Blue Nile deluxe reissues

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The Blue Nile / Hats and A Walk Across The Rooftops reissuesVirgin Records will reissue the first two critically albums from The Blue Nile on 19 November 2012.

A Walk Across The Rooftops (1984) and Hats (1989) have both been remastered by band members Paul Buchanan and Robert Bell, alongside the original engineer Calum Malcolm.

They will be released as two-CD sets with bonus discs containing rarities, live recordings, previously unreleased tracks and B-sides. See below for full track listings.
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The Who / Live at Hull 1970

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The Who / Live at Hull 1970 2CD standalone release

The Who‘s Live at Hull set – previously only available as part of the expensive 2010 Live At Leeds super deluxe edition box – is to be released as a standalone two-CD set on 19 November 2012.

The gig was originally recorded on 15 February 1970, the very next night after the celebrated Leeds performance. Apart from Magic Bus which wasn’t played in Hull, the set lists are identical.

Track listing

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FIRST PICTURES: The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour Deluxe box

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The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour box set
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The Beatles‘ Magical Mystery Tour box set is out today! (tomorrow if you’re in the US). It contains the film on Blu-ray and DVD; a book; and a reproduction of the original UK EP complete with booklet and double 7″ vinyl. See our exclusive photos below, including comparison pictures of the original EP versus the 2012 repro version!

The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour box set
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The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour box set
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The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour box set
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The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour box set
The box contains an reproduction of the original UK EP. See more comparison pictures in the gallery below…

Click on images below to look through further photos!

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Sony Legacy suggestion box

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Sony Legacy RecordingsSony’s reissue imprint Legacy Recordings have launched a new website to encourage fans to tell them what they want to see released.

Visit the website and leave a comment about what you’d like to see issued on CD or vinyl – you might have an influence on future release schedules.

You can create your own suggestion, leave comments for others and also ‘vote’ for ideas fellow music enthusiastics put forward. In some cases the Legacy ‘webmaster’ will leave additional notes telling you if your suggestion is ‘under review’ or ‘planned’.

Legacy Recordings website

Manic Street Preachers / Generation Terrorists bonus disc

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Manic Street Preachers / Generation Terrorists 20th Anniversary bonus disc

The Manic Street Preachers will release a 20th Anniversary edition of their debut Generation Terrorists on 5 November.

We have already revealed the track listing for the 2CD+DVD ‘Legacy Edition’ but the Limited Edition Collector’s Edition adds an extra CD to that content, which is exclusive to that set. Below is the track listing:

Remastered B-sides & Rarities (CD3 – only available with the Collector’s Edition)

  1. Motorcycle Emptiness (South Wales Demo) 3.15
  2. Generation Terrorists (South Wales Demo) 2/58
  3. Poleaxed (South Wales Demo) 2.49
  4. Faceless Sense Of Void (London demo) 3.27
  5. UK Channel Boredom (Flexi Disc) 3.29
  6. Colt 45 (South Wales Demo) 4.37
  7. Crucifix Kiss (House In The Woods demo) 4.27
  8. Natwest-Barclays-Midlands (House In The Woods demo) 4.36
  9. Spent All Summer (South Wales demo remastered) 3.15
  10. Behave Yourself Baby (Home demo remastered) 2.34
  11. Sorrow Sixteen 4.02
  12. We Her Majesty’s Prisoners 5.16
  13. Spectators Of Suicide 5.05
  14. Starlover 2.39
  15. R.P. Murphy 4.04
  16. Soul Contamination 2.47
  17. A Vision Of Dead Desire 3.15
  18. Ain’t Going Down 3.07
  19. Bored Out Of My Mind 2.54
  20. Never Want Again 3.35
  21. Dead Yankee Drawl 3.44
  22. Democracy Coma 3.47

This track listing is confirmed. The Limited Edition Collector’s Edition is only available via the Manic Street Preachers webstore, although it is not available there at the moment. There is also a 10-inch vinyl with this set, but at the time of writing it is not clear what tracks are on this.

2CD+DVD Legacy Edition is available from amazon:

 

Photo gallery / Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow box set

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The Definitive DJ Shadow box set
Box with glow in the dark graphic

Some more photos of the previously announced DJ Shadow box set.

The white ‘face’ graphic turns green in low light thanks to glow-in-the-dark pigment, as does the entire cover of the white slipcase (below) which contains the discs.

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ABBA / “The Essential Collection” three-disc deluxe box review

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ABBA / The Essential Collection 2CD+DVDThe whole point of ABBA Gold, when it was released in 1992, was to replace all those ‘bargain bin’ licensed compilations that were prevalent during the 1980s with something definitive, something that exuded quality. This was clearly very successful, because the hits collection has sold over five million copies in the UK alone.

Since that time there has been a spate of further compilations with More Gold (1993), The Definitive Collection (2001), 18 Hits (2005) and Number Ones (2006). If you add to the mix box sets such as The Complete Studio Recordings from 2005 it is clear that there have been quite a few options for collectors and casual fans alike over the years.
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The Velvet Underground / Verve/MGM 5LP Vinyl box set

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The Velvet Underground / Verve/MGM vinyl box set

While we wait for the Super Deluxe Edition box set of The Velvet Underground & Nico album, Sundazed Music have announced the release of The Velvet Underground: The MGM/Verve Albums, a five-LP vinyl box set due out on 30 October 2012.
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Tori Amos / Gold Dust review

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Tori Amos / Gold Dust review

It’s been 20 years since Tori Amos‘ incredible debut Little Earthquakes. There is no sign of any anniversary or deluxe reissues of that album (although alternate takes of some tracks were issued on the recommended Piano box set), but what we do have is a new record – a collection of re-recordings with lush string arrangements – Tori’s personal selections from two decades of output.
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FIRST LISTEN: Peter Gabriel / “So” demos from the super deluxe box

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Peter Gabriel / "So" demos first listen

In his letter to me in response to criticisms about the forthcoming So super deluxe edition box set, Peter Gabriel stated that the demo disc in the box – referred to as “So DNA” – was where he did most of his work. He trawled through “thousands of hours of demos” mostly on cassette tape “looking for the pieces that would tell the story of how the songs evolved”. With editor Dickie Chappell, Peter Gabriel has created unique versions of all the album tracks by piecing together different demos and creating an audio patchwork that, for the most part, takes you from Gabriel working alone at a piano to almost complete finished productions.
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Aztec Camera / Competition winner!

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Aztec Camera reissues

Congratulations to SuperDeluxeEdition reader “Roelant” who has won the set of six Aztec Camera reissues, kindly provided to us by Edsel Records. We will be in touch with “Roelant” via email very shortly.

Many thanks to everyone who entered, and do stay tuned because the next two weeks are going to be full of prizes including Michael Jackson rarities, a 20CD Atlantic Soul Legend box set and some Ian McCulloch reissues.

Steve Miller Band / album reissues

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Steve Miller Band reissues

The Steve Miller Band have had their first five albums reissued recently by Edsel records. Children of the Future, Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace and Number 5 have all been remastered with the 1968 debut (Children of the Future) containing a bonus track in the form of Sittin’ In Circles.

Apart from this, everything else is a straight one-disc reissue with no bonus material, although the albums are very well presented in six panel card digi-paks utilising original artwork, and booklets with informative notes, complete with recollections of Steve Miller himself.

Steve Miller Band / Children of the Future new reissue
Six panel digi-paks are excellent (click to enlarge)

These albums were all reasonably successful in the US in particular, and Brave New World is known for Paul McCartney contributing bass, drums and vocals to closer, My Dark Hour (under the pseudonym Paul Ramon).

Number 5, the appropriately titled fifth album, was released in 1970 but the Steve Miller Band would find worldwide success a few years later with The Joker and then Fly Like An Eagle, as well as enjoying a massive hit single in the early eighties with Abracadabra.

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Smashing Pumpkins / Mellon Collie six-disc deluxe set on the way

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Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness 2012 six disc reissue
New cover art for the reissue

The Smashing Pumpkins are set to reissue their 1995 opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on 3 December as a six disc box set (5CD+DVD) and a four LP vinyl set.
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