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Although Kate Bush‘s third album Never For Ever didn’t sell quite as well as her 1978 debut The Kick Inside, it did reach number one on the UK album charts in September 1980, something both of her first two records failed to do (Lionheart was issued in late 1978).
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You can’t accuse Sony/Legacy of not hedging their bets.
In October, as previously reported, they will release a 15-disc Complete Albums Collection box set that gathers together all of Paul Simon‘s solo long-players. Good as that set looks, it could simply be too much Paul Simon for you to handle, and Sony want to offer you a bite-sized portion. So on the same day they will also release a one-CD hits package (or a ‘retrospective’, to give it the appropriate gravitas) that includes some of his best known songs from Simon and Garfunkel AND his solo output.
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Demon Records will reissue Sugar‘s 1995 flipside compilation Besides on vinyl on 7 November 2013.
For the first time the album’s 17-tracks will be spread across two LPs, and as usual this will come with a free download card, providing access to MP3 files.
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Arcade Fire will release Reflektor on 28 October 2013, their first studio album since 2010’s The Suburbs.
Reflektor is a double album and is being issued physically as a two-CD package and a double gatefold vinyl LP. The Anton Corbijn directed video for the song Reflektor can be viewed below.
Reflektor 2CD
Reflektor Double Gatefold Vinyl
The Rolling Stones are to release Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live on 11 November 2013, an audio-video celebration of their two gigs in the London park this summer.
It will be available in a five different formats including a deluxe edition which features a Blu-ray, 2CDs, DVD and a 60-page book.
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The Pet Shop Boys release a second single from their well-received album Electric on 30 September 2013.
Love Is A Bourgeois Construct is being issued as a limited edition 9-track CD single, as Vocal was back in July. That CD is already hard to get hold, so these do seem to be genuinely limited.
Unlike Vocal, the Love Is A Bourgeois Construct CD single has a couple of new tracks – namely Entschuldigung! and Get It Online – to go with all the remixes. This comes in a gatefold CD wallet, and is likely to be consistent with Vocal and have an inner wallet too. The packaging is relatively lavish compared to the recent EMI releases.
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Paul McCartney fansite The Macca Report has revealed the track listing to his forthcoming album New, including the two bonus tracks included with the deluxe edition. The album is released on the 14 October 2013.
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In June we told you about the Super Deluxe Edition box set of Elton John‘s new album The Diving Board (released next week).
This set was retailing for £115 at that time (it later dropped) and that seemed like incredibly poor value, since it contains the same extended 19-track version of the album available on the deluxe CD, a 15-track 2LP gatefold vinyl version of the album, a DVD (content unknown) and a book.
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In anticipation of the forthcoming Hurting box set, Tears For Fears have released a stream via SoundCloud of the very original 12-inch version of their 1982 single Pale Shelter.
Actually titled Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love), this was the band’s second single after debut Suffer The Children was issued in November 1981. Neither 45 charted, and Roland Orzabal revealed his feelings about these early disappointments to SuperDeluxeEdition editor Paul Sinclair, when interviewed for the sleeve notes of the forthcoming reissue:
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ZTT records will release a new compilation The Organization of Pop: Music From The First Thirty Years of ZTT Records in the US on 15 October 2013, via Stateside partners Razor & Tie.
The track listing for the two CD set – first revealed by our friends at Slicing Up Eyeballs – is made up largely of previously released mixes with just three unheard variants included.
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A 12-disc box set, a two-disc hits collection (on vinyl and CD) and a Studio Albums box set (also on vinyl and CD) mean that this is an expensive day for the ‘must have everything’ Clash fan. 
The material girl’s high-grossing world tour from last year is issued on a variety of formats, including a 2CD+DVD set.
A new 24-track, two-CD collection of Rod Stewart rarities from his Mercury Records era (1969 to 1974).
This reissued and repackaged 6CD set, celebrating the most famous music festival of them all, is incredible value at less than £20.
The Band‘s memorable 1976 thanksgiving concert featured a galaxy of rock stars including Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young. This is a repackaged and great value 4CD version.
Sheryl Crow follows up her 2010 covers album 100 Miles From Memphis, with this new country offering (recorded in Memphis) featuring songwriting collaborations across all 12 tracks on the record.
Nick Drake‘s 1968 debut gets the vinyl box set treatment and is finally out today after the proposed summer release date came and went.
Mott The Hoople‘s 1972 album was their fifth. Luckily for them, David Bowie gifted them the well-known title track, and stepped in to produce the record too. This is a heavyweight, Music On Vinyl reissue.
Mick Jones has told Rolling Stone that there will be no more archival Clash reissues after the Sound System box set.
When asked about specifically about the lack of live recordings on the new box he responds by saying they’re “already out there” (i.e. bootlegs) and then goes on to say “I’m not even thinking about any more Clash releases. This is it for me, and I say that with an exclamation mark.”
In a fascinating interview he says there are “not really” any outtakes left in the vault and acknowledges that the band should have probably taken a break, rather then splitting up.
Read the full Rolling Stone interview here.
Sound System is out tomorrow, as well as the 5 Studio Albums box sets and the Clash Hits Back compilation.
Sound System box
5 Studio Albums CD box
5 Studio Albums Vinyl box
The Clash Hits Back 2CD
The Clash Hits Back 3LP Vinyl
The Atomhenge / Cherry Red Super Deluxe Edition box set of Hawkwind‘s Warrior On The Edge Of Time, was recently nominated for a Progressive Music Storm Thorgerson Grand Design award.
This 2CD+DVD+LP box set, which was released back in May, features original stereo mixes, new Steven Wilson stereo mixes and new surround sound mixes of the 1975 album, as well as plenty of bonus tracks.
Although it didn’t win the award, this seemed like a good time to show you exactly what the set looks like. Enjoy the photo gallery below!
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Eric Clapton’s massively successful Unplugged album from 1992, is to be reissued next month as a 2CD+DVD expanded and remastered edition.
In addition to the original 14-track album (remastered), this new set will include a bonus CD featuring six outtakes and alternate versions, and a DVD that features a newly restored version of the original broadcast as well as more than an hour of previously unseen pre-show rehearsal.
Unplugged Expanded and Remastered is released on 14 October 2013.
CD & DVD Track Listing:
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Cherry Pop will reissue eighties boy band Bros‘ debut album Push as a three-CD 25th anniversary deluxe edition on 28 October 2013.
The 1988 album, which sold 1.2 million copies in the first year of release in Britain alone, contains five top 5 UK singles, including the number one I Owe You Nothing. It would be the band’s only album as a trio, before the acrimonious departure of bassist Craig Logan.
This three CD set contains a wealth of remixes that kept Shep Pettibone (and other remixers) very busy at the time, including the 18-minute “Over 18 Mix” of I Owe You Nothing, six versions of When Will I Be Famous? including the sample heavy “Contender Dub Mix” and the various B-side tracks, such as The Boy Is Dropped, Silent Night (technically an ‘A’ side), and The Big Push Overture.
In total, 21 bonus tracks in this remastered Bros-fest.
Push 3CD Deluxe track listing:
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The Waterboys‘ are marking the 25th Anniversary of their Fisherman’s Blues album, with the forthcoming Fisherman’s Box. This epic box set will be available as a compact six-CD clamshell package, and a deluxe 7CD set with a vinyl LP.
Both sets comprise the complete Fisherman’s Blues sessions 23rd January 1986 to 2nd June 1988 (121 tracks in total) with the latter adding a bonus 17-track CD from artists that influenced the making of the record. The deluxe 12″ x 12″ box also features three exclusive art prints, large 32-page booklet featuring many previously unseen photos, as well as the original album remastered and pressed on 180gm heavyweight vinyl.
Fisherman’s Box is released on 14 October 2013 on Parlophone.
7CDs + LPs Deluxe box
6CD Clamshell box set
Fisherman’s Box Set track listing:
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While we wait patiently for The Hurting deluxe box set, for our rather irregular ‘Japanese CD of the Day’ feature we thought we’d look at the 2010 Japanese Paper Sleeve (mini-LP CD) reissue of Tears For Fears 1985 album Songs From The Big Chair.
This replicated the audio from the 2005 two-disc deluxe edition, but presented it with the usual Japanese panache. Each disc in this set was housed in its own wallet, with the sleeve for disc one replicating the original UK vinyl and the second disc in a wallet that used photographs from the era. The inner sleeve design was recreated and shrunk down to CD size, while this set even came with a two-sided, numbered card which reprinted the original vinyl label designs.
A larger-than-normal booklet contained Paul Lester’s essay about the album, and although largely in Japanese, the folded paper poster contained lyrics in English (even for the bonus tracks).
Catalogue number for this release was UICY-94430 and as stated on the OBI strip this was part of a “Golden ’80s Paper Sleeve Collection” (The Seeds Of Love was also issued at the same time). This is an “SHM-CD”. The SHM stands for Super High Material and it is suppposed to provide “enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic”. Although playable on all CD players, many remain unconvinced by the merits of SHM-CDs.
Demon Records continue to release some superb limited vinyl sets, including this edition of Deacon Blue‘s classic 1987 album Raintown, which has been specially pressed on 180gram blue vinyl and is limited to only 1000 copies worldwide.
We have one of these numbered editions to give away to a SuperDeluxeEdition reader, and to make the prize even more special, this copy has been SIGNED by frontman Ricky Ross!
This competition is open to all and to be in with a chance of winning this limited vinyl copy of Raintown, simply:
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Nirvana‘s Nevermind and In Utero are two of the titles being reissued this month on the Universal’s ‘High Fidelity – Pure Audio’ branded blu-ray audio discs.
Other albums issued include The Rolling Stones‘ classic Exile On Main Street, Queen‘s A Night At The Opera, Crime Of The Century by Supertramp and Beck’s Sea Change.
Like the first batch – that have had a rather staggered release around Europe these past few months – these forthcoming blu-ray audio reissues will offer no video content, just three hi-res stereo audio options: Full DTS Master Audio, PCM (Pulse Control Modulation uncompressed Sound) or Dolby True HD.
A big discussion point will be whether we get offered a 5.1 surround sound option to sit alongside the stereo audio, on any of these titles. In the booklets supplied with the first releases Universal state: “Where possible tracks will be available in 5.1 surround, but in order to pay respect to the original material this is not possible for every release”. Certainly the Queen title has been available in 5.1 on various other formats, so one would expect to see them include that.
Presumably, In Utero will be the new Steve Albini remaster, but it is curious that this blu-ray audio wasn’t mentioned in the press release for that reissue, and will it come with the 32 bonus tracks you get on the similarly priced 2CD deluxe edition?
At the moment these are only available from Amazon Germany, with a release date of 20 September. We will update this page if and when other territories get these releases!
Nevermind / Nirvana
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In Utero / Nirvana
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Exile On Main Street / The Rolling Stones
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Crime Of The Century / Supertramp
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Sea Change / Beck
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Back To Black / Amy Winehouse
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Five Leaves Left / Nick Drake
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A Night At The Opera / Queen
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Viva! Hysteria is a 2CD+DVD deluxe live set from Def Leppard recorded earlier this year as part of the rock band’s Las Vegas residency.
The calling card for this performance was the fact that they played their mega-selling 1987 album Hysteria in full, as well as other highlights from their career.
As well as the deluxe 2CD+DVD, Viva! Hysteria is available on Blu-ray and DVD, and is released on 21 October 2013.
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