Month: January 2014

FIRST PICTURES: Small Faces / “Here Come The Nice” Immediate Years box

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Charly Records’ Small Faces box set Here Come The Nice is out at the end of this month and we can bring you some exclusive photos of the package.

Subtitled The Immediate Years Box Set 1967-1969, this lavish Small Faces box celebrates the band’s 1960s career on Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate Records label.

This set features every worldwide hit single, A & B side plus EPs and rare and previously unreleased material, unheard recording sessions from Olympic, IBC & Trident Studios, outtakes, early mixes, alternate versions and live material. It has been years in the making, and series producer Rob Caiger’s notes (in the book) on how they tracked the original tapes down is very much a roller coaster story featuring reels thrown in skips and a worldwide hunt from original UK masters!
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Out This Week / 20 January 2014

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: First Pictures / The Beatles U.S. Albums box

The Beatles / The US Albums

Exactly 50 years ago I Want To Hold Your Hand entered the Billboard Hot 100 in America. To celebrate this ‘British Invasion’ Apple and Universal Music this week release The U.S. Albums a Beatles box set that reproduces 13 Capitol Records’ albums on CDs with vinyl replica packaging . Read more

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Mogwai / Rave Tapes vinyl box set

The new album from Mogwai is available as this limited edition box set which features a heavyweight vinyl version of the record, a book, an exclusive twelve-inch, a seven-inch single and more. Read more

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Mike & The Mechanics  / The Singles 2CD set

A delay with this Mike & The Mechanics hits collection has seen the title change from ‘1985-2013’ to ‘1985-2014’.  A bonus CD of B-sides and a new track should keep fans happy. Read more
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Shelf Assessment: The Beatles

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Unlike MP3s which can float above your head in a ‘cloud’, or can be buried deep in the recesses of your computer’s hard drive, physical product needs a physical place to live. For most of us that means the humble shelf.

It’s certainly true that no one has really come up with a better idea than ‘shelves’ when it comes to CDs, but the music box set has sometimes proved a troublesome companion in terms of storage. Try putting your Complete Smiths box (the big one) on a shelf and you’ll see what we mean. The other things shelves do is expose inconsistency with presentation. The text on spines should read top down, not the other way around. Why is it so annoying in a series of CD reissues when something bucks the trend? A logo which sits five millimetres higher than all the other logos, a typeface that doesn’t conform. That kind of thing can drive you to distraction. Sure, there are more important things to worry about, but whoever said collecting special edition music releases and re-buying product you probably already own was a pastime governed by logic?
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WIN a 50 quid voucher to spend on deluxe editions and box sets

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Next month sees the launch of ShopSuperDeluxe, a new online shop from the team behind SuperDeluxeEdition.

ShopSuperDeluxe aims to offer you an interesting selection of music releases (both brand new and used) that will pique your interest. Some will be current releases, others may be out of print or rare sets that we’ve managed to secure. The selection will always include a healthy selection of Super Deluxe box sets, but things will go in and out of stock regularly, so it will be worth checking back often.

The new store won’t be competing with Amazon. The aim isn’t to bring you an endless choice of products, but rather to offer you a curated selection of releases that we know you will enjoy, namely music box sets, deluxe reissues, SACDs, blu-ray audio and vinyl LPs and collections. Stuff we know is pretty darn good. Chances are we’ve reviewed it here and have like what we’ve seen/heard. The store will also server our global audience, so worldwide shipping will be available.

Anyway, for the Facebook users amongst you, we’d love it if you could ‘like’ the new page we’ve set up. As an incentive you’ll be automatically entered into a draw to win a £50 voucher to spend in the forthcoming store. When it goes live we’ll announce the winner.

To make it really easy for you, all you need to do is click on the ‘like’ button right below this text, within the two horizontal lines – alternatively feel free to head over to Facebook.com/ShopSuperDeluxe.

Thanks! We look forward to going live, when you can ShopSuperDeluxe!

The Beatles / U.S. Albums box: Q&A

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Monday 20 January 2014 (21 Jan in North America) sees the release of The Beatles U.S. Albums box set.

We have been previewing the packaging for the last few weeks (from a pre-production sample), but SuperDeluxeEdition is now in possession of a sealed retail box. We’d like to offer all our readers the chance to ask any questions they may have about this set by leaving a comment. You might want to know details about the packaging, or clarify which versions of tracks exist on the mono and stereo editions of each album. Fire away! We might not know everything but we’ll do our best to answer all questions.

Little Feat / Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 71-90

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Rhino will issue a 13CD Little Feat box set on 23 February 2014.

Rad Gumbo The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 will feature 11 studio albums including the two-CD expanded edition of Waiting For Columbus. The set is finished off with a bonus disc of outtakes and alternates originally included in the Rhino box Hotcakes & Outtakes.
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Bruce Springsteen / High Hopes CD with limited edition DVD

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This isn’t a review of Springsteen‘s new album, rather a look at the packaging of the limited edition CD+DVD version and a little information on the bonus disc.

If you weren’t aware, early copies of High Hopes come with a bonus DVD of Bruce Springteen & The E Street Band performing Born In The USA in its entirety (and in order) in London in June 2013.
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FIRST PICTURES / The Beatles, Butchered! Yesterday And Today

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All is revealed! The new “US Albums” CD of “Yesterday and Today”

Following on from our exclusive photos of The Beatles US Albums box set, we are working our way through the individual albums to show you exclusive pictures of the real CD reissue packaging. Today, the one you’ve all been waiting for, Yesterday And Today (aka “Yesterday”…and Today).

Released in 1966, The Beatles’ Capitol album Yesterday and Today is remembered primarily due to the controversy over the infamous ‘butcher’ cover. 750,000 copies with the Robert Whitaker photographed cover were pressed and then recalled after widespread offence was caused. A rather anodyne photo of the band next to a large trunk was the replacement.
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Mike Oldfield / “Man On The Rocks” deluxe edition and box set

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Mike Oldfield has revealed that in addition to the previously announced CD and double vinyl versions of his forthcoming album Man On The Rocks, a two-CD deluxe edition and a three-CD box set will also be available.
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Deep Purple / “Made In Japan” 40th Anniversary reissue box sets

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Universal Music are prepping a 40th Anniversary reissue of Deep Purple‘s 1972 live tour-de-force Made In Japan.

Expected at the end of March 2014, this set will feature all three nights (Osaka 15th/16th August and Tokyo 17th August 1972) across three CDs and all the encores collected on a fourth disc (six tracks, including three Black Nights!). A fifth disc comes in the form of a DVD which contains a new documentary and some hi-res content.
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FIRST PICTURES / The Beatles / The US Albums box: The Early Beatles

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Following on from our exclusive photos of The Beatles US Albums box set, we are working our way through the individual albums to show you exclusive pictures of the real CD reissue packaging. Today we present the US Album The Early Years.
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T Rex / “Tanx” and “Zinc Alloy” deluxe track listings confirmed

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T Rex / Tanx and Zinc Alloy 4CD+DVD deluxe

The track listings for the previously announced T Rex Tanx and Zinc Alloy deluxe box set have been announced (see below).

The set contains four CDs full of bonus content including A-sides, B-sides and demos. Additionally, a DVD is included containing a (small) selection of Top Of The Pops appearances and other promo films. Tony Visconti and Ted Jensen have created new 2014 remasters for both albums and bonus tracks which – for the time being – are exclusive to this set.

Tanx and Zinc Alloy Deluxe Sets will ship on 3 March 2014.

Track listing:

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TO ARTISTS & INDIE LABELS: Sell your deluxe music releases via SDE

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SuperDeluxeEdition will soon be launching a companion online shop where our music-loving readers will be able to browse and purchase from from a specially curated selection of music box sets and deluxe editions.

If you run an independent record label or are an artist that produces limited edition music releases with special high quality packaging and you wish to offer your products direct to consumers, we’d like to invite you to sell your deluxe editions via our new shop.
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ABBA / Waterloo deluxe edition

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ABBA‘s deluxe edition reissue series continues with a CD+DVD 40th Anniversary Edition of 1974’s Waterloo.

The format will be very familiar to fans who have bought previous deluxe editions. The eight bonus tracks on the CD include the usual foreign language versions of singles and this Waterloo deluxe adds a few single remixes.
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Out This Week / 13 January 2014

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Bruce Springsteen High Hopes deluxe gets UK release

Bruce Springsteen / High Hopes

The new Bruce Springsteen album doesn’t come as any kind of limited edition box set, but the two-disc deluxe edition looks a cut above the average with a bonus live DVD of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing the entire Born in the USA album at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London on June 30, 2013 during the historic Wrecking Ball tour. The vinyl version also comes with the CD (but no DVD) which is another option for fans. Read more

Mark Lanegan / "Has God Seen My Shadow: An Anthology 1989-2011"

Mark Lanegan / Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011

US label Light In The Attic issue highlights from two decades of Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) solo material on a triple LP box set and a two-CD collection. Read more
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DEAL OF THE DAY (again!): The Beatles / “The US Albums” box set

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With just over a week to go until the release date, Amazon UK have reduced The Beatles US Albums box set from £149.99 to £106 (correct at the time of writing).

If you were wavering over placing an order, will this near £50 reduction tempt you to pull the trigger, and place and order? If you do consider doing this, we’d recommend not hesitating for too long, because we can’t see it staying at this price for too long.

Marc Bolan and T Rex / “T Rex” and “A Beard Of Stars” deluxe editions

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Universal Music are putting out two T Rex deluxe editions in March as companion releases to Demon Music’s Tanx and Zinc Alloy deluxe set.

A Beard Of Stars (1970) is the last album issued under the Tyrannosaurus Rex moniker and the new two-CD reissue features an enormous amount of additional material, including 16 previously unreleased demos and alternates on disc two. In total the original 14-track album is transformed into a mammoth 47 track exploration of the original material with John Peel sessions appended to the first disc.
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Belinda Carlisle / The Anthology 3CD+2DVD deluxe book set

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If the forthcoming CD+DVD Belinda Carlisle Collection isn’t enough for you, Demon Music have today announced a limited edition five disc release titled The Anthology.

This 3CD+2DVD set will be altogether a more comprehensive affair, with a greatest hits selection spanning the first two CDs and the third containing rarities (we are assured these selections won’t repeat what was on the Edsel reissues) and a brand new Live in Tokyo 2013 performance. The two DVDs will cover all the promo videos and many BBC TV performances.
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Eurythmics “Come Together” for Beatles anniversary US special

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Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox will reunite for one night only

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart will perform together later this month to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles landing in America.

This unexpected Eurythmics reunion forms part of a US TV special called The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles, which will be broadcast on 9 February, 50 years to the day that the Fab Four performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Elvis Presley / Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis legacy edition

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Sony’s RCA/Legacy Recordings will reissue Elvis Presley‘s 1974 ‘homecoming’ live album Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis as an expanded two-CD Legacy Edition on 17 March 2014.

This 40th Anniversary release will feature tracks left off the original vinyl record, as well as a significant amount of previously unreleased material. The unissued work is largely made up of a complete “test run” of the live performance held two days before the actual concert. According to Sony this was recorded in mono and “drenched in the reverb Elvis preferred”!
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