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Rhino will release Song Book 1985-2010 in November, a four-disc set that celebrates 25 years of Simply Red. Each of the first three CDs represents a decade: the 80’s 90’s and 00’s, with the fourth disc being re-recordings of some previous hits, oddities and rarities.
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Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will issue John Mellencamp 1978-2012, a 19 disc box set in December 2013.
This is effectively the entire studio catalogue, and includes all the American singer-songwriter’s albums recorded as John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp and John Mellencamp for various record labels.
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We’re liking this round packaging for the forthcoming Fleetwood Mac Boston release. All the details and track listings can be found at this post, but in short it’s a 3CD set capturing all three nights in February 1970 when the then blues band played the Boston Tea Party venue.
Boston is out on 11 November 2013.
Eighties era boy band Bros have their 1988 debut album Push reissued by Cherry Pop on Monday 4 November.
Here we bring you exclusive photos of the new generous 3CD set, which comes packaged in an eight-panel card wallet. A massive 25 bonus tracks (largely remixes) are added to the original 10 track album, including four seven-inch single edits.
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Demon Music will issue a 12LP Jesus and Mary Chain Vinyl Box Set on 16 December 2013.
The box will contain all of their original studio albums – Psychocandy (1985), Darklands (1987), Automatic (1989), Honey’s Dead (1992) Stoned & Dethroned (1994) and Munki (1998) – pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl.
Additionally, this vinyl box – issued in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the formation of the band – comes with a Live In Concert 2LP set that features eight tracks from a 1992 Sheffield Arena gig and 12 more from a concert at the Trinity Centre in Bristol in 1995. Another double LP, The BBC Sessions, collects 32 tracks recorded across the decades for BBC radio.
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British singer songwriter Leo Sayer has worked with some fine musical talent during his career. In the 1970s in particular, his albums featured contributions from the likes of Steve Gadd, Ry Cooder, Jeff Porcaro, Lindsey Buckingham, Greg Phillinganes, Waddy Watchel, Ray Parker Jnr, Steve Cropper, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and Steve Lukather and Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, to name but a few.
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Kickback City is a new compilation of crime noir inspired music from Rory Gallagher that is a perfect marriage of content and presentation.
Three CDs come packaged in a glossy bookset, featuring The Lie Factory, an exclusive new ‘novella’ by Ian Rankin. The story comes stunningly illustrated in full graphic novel style by Timothy Truman. The first disc here features a selection of 14 studio recordings from the late rock-blues guitarist (see track listing below), with a second CD offering a selection of live performances. The third disc has actor Aidan Quinn narrating Ian Rankin’s story. The set also includes four glossy Lie Factory postcards.
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Rhino will issue a new Yes box set on 11 November 2013.
The Studio Albums 1969-1987 includes expanded and remastered versions all 12 studio albums released by the prog rock band during this period. They are Yes (1969), Time and a Word (1970), The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close to the Edge (1972), Tale from Topographic Oceans (1973), Relayer (1974), Going for the One (1977), Tormato (1978), Drama (1980), 90125 (1983) and Big Generator (1987).
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Mute Records are to issue an enormous 17 LP Can box set in December 2013.
All records will be pressed on 180g vinyl, and come housed in a linen wrapped box. The set features 13 of the band’s classic albums, alongside Out Of Reach, which has been unavailable in any official format since its original release in 1978, plus Can Live, a bonus live disc featuring the classic Can line up of Holger Czukay (bass), Michael Karoli (guitar), Jaki Liebezeit (drums) and Irmin Schmidt (keyboards). The live album was recorded at Sussex University in 1975 and will be unavailable in any format outside of the Can Vinyl Box.
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Island/Universal Music will release a five CD, limited edition collection of the complete Nick Drake catalogue called Tuck Box in December 2013.
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Above is a photo mock-up of the #8385 Collected Works 1983-1985 Cabaret Voltaire box set.
This package comes as an 8-disc set (6CDs+2DVD) or a 12-disc collection which adds four vinyl records. Albums, twelve-inch remix compilations and unreleased material all feature. Full details and track listings here.
#8385 Collected Works 1983-1985 is out on 11 November 2013
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When Edsel Records reissued Robert Palmer‘s Island era albums on CD, we were delighted. Regular SDE readers will know, we rate the Yorkshireman’s diverse ’70s output highly and like many fans were frustrated with the lack of activity around his catalogue.
Although the reissues that came out at the end of August were budget conscious combo-packs, with two albums in each set (three, in one case), the packaging itself was excellent, with slipcases, thick booklets, essays, lyrics and some great archive photography and scans of sleeves and record labels. Most of the albums also came with bonus tracks.
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40th Anniversary collection – curated by Leo Sayer himself – features all of his original studio albums (across 12 CDs) in mini-vinyl replica wallets and two bonus discs gather non-album tracks. 
This new box set looks beyond the normal boundaries of Glam Rock to examine its roots and its influences across the decades. 91 tracks across five discs.
Roger Taylor will issue a massive 13-disc box set in November that celebrates his 35 years of activity outside of his ‘day job’ in Queen.
The Lot features all Taylor’s solo albums and his material as front man for the group The Cross. Four bonus CDs of solo / The Cross single remixes, edits and B-sides are included, as is an exclusive box set version of his new album Fun On Earth. A DVD of videos completes the set, which comes packaged in a hard case slipcase with a book which holds all the discs.
The Lot is released on 11 November 2013.
Neil Young will release Live At The Cellar Door, an album of unreleased live performances from late 1970, this December.
The album is the latest in Young’s ongoing Archives Performance Series, and it collects recordings made during the Canadian singer songwriter’s intimate six-show solo stand at The Cellar Door – a venue in Washington D.C. – between November 30th and December 2nd, 1970.
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The Beatles’ forthcoming On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 – due for release on 11 November 2013 – is available packaged with the remastered Live at the BBC set.
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Demon Music will release an album collection box set from Alexander O’Neal in November 2013. This is the first of two artist specific Anthology box sets (The S.O.S. Band is due in March next year) with a multi-artist larger Tabu box also due in Spring 2013.
Since the Anthology boxes were first announced way back in February, there has been some confusion over the content. Would the boxes simply hold a set of the expanded reissues that were released individually during the year, or could we expect a straightforward set of album-only reissues in card sleeves (like those Original Album Series collections)?
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Columbia Records will release a luxury deluxe box set edition of Daft Punk‘s acclaimed 2013 album Random Access Memories in early December.
The box set is a real multi-media offering featuring vinyl records, a book, robot design schematic posters, and two USB sticks with hi-res audio and high definition video.
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Tears For Fears 1983 debut album The Hurting is reissued this week as a two-CD deluxe edition and a 4-disc box set. Earlier this year we put some questions to Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith about the making of the album. Here’s what they had to say…
SuperDeluxeEdition: Graduate had a very different sound to Tears For Fears and The Hurting – were you keen to move on and doing something more ‘new wave’?
Curt Smith: We knew we didn’t want to be in a band anymore.
Roland Orzabal: Yes. We were acutely aware of the new electronic movement. I remember listening to the Radio One chart run down with Curt, and when they announced that Tubeway Army was number one with Are Friends Electric?, we both looked at each other and knew we had to change. That change didn’t really occur until a lot later: once we’d left Graduate and became a duo; the new direction was obvious.
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Next week sees the long anticipated deluxe reissues of Bananarama‘s first six albums. The British girl band has most of their success in the 1980s, and four out of the six reissues were released in that decade. Each album is being released as a 2CD+DVD set and full track listings and details can be found here.
Last month we spoke with Tom Parker who produced this reissue series from Edsel Records, to find out more about the challenges of putting these releases together.
SuperDeluxeEdition: How did the project come about?
Tom Parker: My background with reissues if you like, is that I was a fan of, and grew up with, PWL and wider pop music generally. The first thing I ever did was I got in touch with PWL in the mid-nineties. I’ve always been interested in the visual side of things and I remember sending off ideas for sleeve designs. I got in touch with Pete [Waterman] and interviewed him for a long lost Kylie fanzine, and we’ve stayed in touch ever since.
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