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Universal Music have issued a deluxe CD+DVD edition of ABBA star Agnetha Fältskog‘s 2013 solo album A.
The record was originally released back in May and features a collaboration with Gary Barlow called I Should Have Followed You Home which the pair performed together on BBC TV’s Children In Need show last month.
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Alice Cooper‘s 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies will be issued as a hybrid SACD by US audiophile specialists Audio Fidelity, early next year.
The record was a transatlantic number one at the time of release and features the singles Elected, Hello Hooray, Billion Dollar Babies, and No More Mr. Nice Guy.
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The U2 Achtung Baby UBER deluxe box set came out in late 2011.
It took deluxe editions to a whole new level with an amazing array of content. It came in an enormous “magnetic puzzle tiled box” which contained the 10 discs found in the standard SUPER deluxe box (6 CDs and 4 DVDs). Unlike that box the discs come in special bespoke digipacks in the UBER deluxe set. The box actually has drawers, it’s so big and also contained the 2LP 180g vinyl version of the album (the only other place it was issued was in a vinyl box – it wasn’t released separately) as well as the five singles all pressed on transparent vinyl, contained in special oversized wallets.
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The previously announced ZTT 30th anniversary titles have now been made available for pre-order.
The Art of the 12″, Volume Three is probably the pick of the bunch, with two CDs packed with remix rarities, although the new deluxe edition of Frankie Said is sure to appeal to fans of Frankie Goes To Hollywood with what looks like a reasonably comprehensive collection of promos and TV appearances on the DVD element. Continue reading “ZTT / 30th Anniversary releases available for pre-order”
After something of a false start, Apple Corps/Universal have today issued 59 previously unreleased recordings by The Beatles consisting of studio outtakes and live material from 1963.
We should clarify straight off the bat, that this is not a deluxe box set; indeed, it’s not being released physically on any format. Bootleg Recordings 1963 (as this collection is dubbed) is a digital-only affair and can only be bought via iTunes. But hey, it is The Beatles, so coverage here is justified!
The Beatles’ Anthology albums (themselves nearly 20 years old) were the one and only time in the last 50 years that Fab Four studio outtakes have been officially released, so to see something akin to The Holy Grail almost casually uploaded onto (the other) Apple’s iTunes servers takes a while to get your head around.
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The recently announced 13CD box set of The Beatles Capitol albums is due for release on 20 January 2014.
Each CD in The U.S. Albums box set has mono and stereo versions of each album (with a couple of exceptions) and exquisite packaging with vinyl replica jackets, inner sleeves reproduced to exacting detail and with Yesterday And Today even being supplied with a sticker of the ‘trunk’ cover which you can paste over the infamous ‘butcher’ sleeve (or not!).
Anyway, the cheapest place to pick this up is Amazon Canada where it is currently only $135 Canadian, which is £78, or a little over HALF the cost of the set on Amazon UK (£145). Obviously, remember to factor in shipping fees and concerns about import duty (if applicable) but still worthy of ‘Deal of the Day’!
The Cheap Trick Complete Epic Albums Collection was released in June 2013
The 14-disc set includes the complete Budokan concert, all the band’s studio albums from 1977 to 1990 (many expanded, or newly remastered) along with the Found All The Parts E.P.
It is currently available for £27 on Amazon UK which is as cheap as we remember seeing it (normally over £40). At less than £2 per disc that makes this set outstanding value. More details and photos can be found here.
Sony/Legacy will release True To The Blues: The Johnny Winter Story in February 2014.
The four-disc set celebrates the long recording career of the American blues guitarist who celebrates his 70th birthday on February 23, 2014.
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Following on from their now sold out Suede vinyl box, Demon Music have created this 9LP limited edition vinyl box that collects the work of The Jesus And Mary Chain. We have a handful of 10% off discount codes left, if you thinking of making a purchase! 
An October 1980 performance on the German TV show from the Canvey Island band’s second line-up featuring Lee Brilleaux, John B.Sparkes and The Big Figure and John ‘Gypie’ Mayo. Restored and remastered – 18 tracks on CD and DVD.
A four-CD, 90-track Zombies compilation that explores the band’s stereo recordings during the 1964-66 Decca era. Features true stereo, ‘fake’ stereo and new stereo mixes.
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Rhino’s eight-CD Pogues box, 30 Years, is released today.
This set collects the seven studio albums from 1984’s Red Roses For Me to Pogue Mahone from 1996 and adds a previously unreleased live album The Pogues with Joe Strummer – Live In London (recorded in December 1991).
There have been Pogues reissues before of course, notably in 2004 when the albums were re-released on CD with bonus tracks. Rhino also issued an Original Album Series collection in 2009 that brought together the five Shane MacGowan albums in the usual card slipcase packaging.
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You know some care and attention has gone into this Lee Hazlewood Industries (LHI) deluxe set when you open the front cover (complete with gold foil blocking) and find a replica business card printed on textured paper with an embossed logo, mounted within a die-cut page! No corners appear to have been cut with the presentation of There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving 1966-1971 – an anthology that, according to indie label Light In The Attic, has been seven years in the making.
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Update 16/12/13: Deal is now over. Back to €199!
This John Martyn Island Years box set is epic. It contains 17 CDs featuring the 12 key studio albums (recorded for Island between 1967 and 1987) with previously unreleased mixes, outtakes, unheard songs and two complete, previously unreleased live solo concerts from 1972 and 1977 and the complete demos for The Apprentice, the last album Martyn delivered to Island. Add to that a DVD with loads of TV performances, a large hardback book and you have an amazing set.
This has to be our BEST EVER deal of the day, because you can pick this up now from Amazon Germany at the time of writing for just €39! That’s £33! It’s £154 on Amazon UK. Don’t hesitate because this will surely be gone before the day is out!
LA based Cleopatra Records will issue a Bob Marley & The Wailers vinyl box set just before Christmas.
The Best Of The Upsetter Singles 1970-1972 contains seven 45 RPM singles produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers with Lee Scratch Perry.
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Released back in the late summer of 2013, this four-CD set of classic and rare Sly & The Family Stone tracks really delivered. Mono single mixes, studio outtakes, live recordings, rare instrumentals – it has the lot and 17 of these tracks are previously unreleased.
Great though the music is, what really lifts this set is the packaging. The discs are held firmly within a 10-inch six panel folding wallet, in the middle of which you will find a 104-page softcover book, which is truly exceptional.
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Universal Music continue to exploit their newly acquired Beatles catalogue, with a comprehensive reissue of the band’s output as released in North America via a 13CD ‘The U.S. Albums’ box set as well as limited individual CD reissues of 12 of those Capitol Records’ titles.
The reissues span 1964’s Meet The Beatles! to 1970’s Hey Jude and are released in January 2014, exactly 50 years after the mop tops celebrated I Want To Hold Your Hand becoming their first American number one.
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On 20 January Universal Music celebrate 50 years since Meet The Beatles and I Wanna Hold Your Hand went to number one in America by reissuing 12 Capitol titles on CD and a special The US Albums box set.
To help you understand how these releases differed from the UK albums we give you the SuperDeluxeEdition guide to the US Albums. Pre-order links for the new CDs are included although at the time of writing the UK links aren’t live yet, but the others do work!
Please be aware that Apple are using the global 2009 remasters for their reissue of the U.S. Albums, so all references below to added reverb, or fake or ‘duophonic’ stereo will not apply to the reissues. However unique edits and mixes are thought to have been maintained by use of the original 1960s Capitol analogue master tapes.
Meet the Beatles! (1964)
The first Capitol long player contains nine tracks from With The Beatles (omitting five) and adds I Wanna Hold Your Hand, its US B-side This Boy, and I Saw Her Standing There (from Please Please Me) which was a unique mono mix for the US.
The Beatles’ Second Album (1964)
This one’s a real mish-mash. The five tracks from With The Beatles not featured on Meet The Beatles are included, along with She Loves You/I’ll Get You from the 45, Thank You Girl (B-side to From Me To You in the UK) and You Can’t Do That from the UK version of A Hard Day’s Night. Long Tall Sally and I Call Your Name also get a global debut on this album, a month before the Long Tall Sally EP hit the shops in the UK. Thank You Girl was a unique stereo mix with some additional harmonica riffs.
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Amazon Canada is the place to shop for today’s Deal of the Day.
They currently have the forthcoming limited edition John Mellencamp 1978-2012 19CD box set for $77 CA. That’s just over £44! In Europe you can expect to pay around £120 for this set, so with a potential saving over over £75 that’s more than enough to offset shipping costs.
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Parlophone Label Group will issue a Kajagoogoo and Limahl five-CD Original Album Series set in January 2014.
This collection will contain the three eighties-era Kajagoogoo albums (Crazy Peoples Right to Speak was credited to Kaja) without bonus tracks and the two Limahl efforts from the same era, including the full CD debut of Giorgio Moroder collaboration 1986’s Colour All My Days.
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Analogue Productions’ much anticipated reissue of Roger Waters‘ 1992 album Amused To Death will not now be released until April 2014.
The stereo hybrid SACD and double LP 200g vinyl reissue were announced way back in January 2013, with a suggested October release date. Then Amazon started taking pre-orders for a November release, but that came and went with no official word.
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Bruce Springsteen‘s forthcoming new album High Hopes will be available in the UK and Europe as the same two-disc deluxe set that first appeared on Amazon in the US.
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