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Universal Music will reissue a 30th anniversary super deluxe edition of Wet Wet Wet‘s 1987 debut Popped In Souled Out in September.
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Paul Weller will release his 13th studio album, A Kind Revolution, in May and there’s some great formats at various price points…
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Amazon France have an impressive vinyl promotion right now with dozens of classic and critically acclaimed albums on vinyl for €10 (or less). That’s about £8.50 or a little over $10 per item. The other good thing about the French site is that international shipping is normally very reasonable. SDE picks out 20 of best albums in this deal…
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Amazing price for the recently reissued 2LP coloured vinyl version of the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack on Amazon Italy right now.
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Paul McCartney’s new deluxe edition of his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt is a set full of contradictions…
While the four-disc deluxe set purports to celebrate the 1989 album, in reality its focus is much narrower than that, with a gaze firmly set on McCartney’s songwriting partnership with Elvis Costello. That pairing came to light when Back On My Feet, the first McCartney / McManus composition, graced the B-side of the 1987 non-album single Once Upon A Long Ago (Paul’s last top ten hit in the UK, fact fans).
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As revealed by Gary Langan on SDE last month, the Art of Noise‘s 1986 album In Visible Silence is soon to be reissued as a deluxe edition and we now have both the date of release and the full track listing…
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Four years after the concert at the French Capital that formed part of German hard rock band Rammstein‘s Made in Germany 1995–2011 tour, and after a successful theatrical run, director Jonas Åkerlund’s concert film Paris is being released across a number of formats, including this impressively designed deluxe box set.
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Sparks will release a new album, Hippopotamus, in September.
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Elton John announced a partnership with Burberry last October and an expensive vinyl box was duly issued, sold exclusively in-store and online by the luxury brand.
The one real ‘carrot’ for fans – who otherwise rolled their eyes at the £225 box set, which was “flecked with gold glitter” – was the inclusion of a two-LP vinyl edition of John’s 2001 album Songs From The West Coast. The reason was simple, it was the only place to find this album on vinyl, until now…
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The very long-awaited reissue of Fleetwood Mac‘s Tango in the Night is finally released this week. The super deluxe adds remixes, hi-res DVD and vinyl to the remastered CD and disc of unreleased demos and outtakes. 
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Last year’s Erasure career-spanning box set, From Moscow to Mars was exclusive to PledgeMusic and the band’s Lexer Music store. It sold out on both and hasn’t resurfaced at a sensible price, until now…
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Best price to date right now for the Temple Of The Dog super deluxe edition in the UK.
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Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett return as Gorillaz next month, with a new album Humanz.
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Six months on from Sting‘s Studio Collection vinyl box set comes The Complete Studio Collection, an expanded edition which adds four further albums…
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Universal aren’t hanging around with the scheduling of their Status Quo seven-inch box sets. The 1970s box has only just been issued and the second in the series of The Vinyl Singles Collection, which covers the first part of the eighties (1980-1984) has been announced for release in June.
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TREVOR HORN was best known for his work with Frankie Goes To Hollywood and was one of the hottest producers on the planet in 1987, when he and his partner STEPHEN LIPSON drove down to Paul’s studio to work with the ex-Beatle. MITCHELL FROOM was a new producer at the time, who was basking in the success of delivering a US #2 hit for Crowded House (Don’t Dream It’s Over) and CHRIS HUGHES was an experienced and highly respected talent who’d produced (and played drums) on all the Adam and The Ants albums before playing a key role in Tears For Fears‘ mega-selling Songs From The Big Chair (he also co-wrote Everybody Wants To Rule The World).
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Amazing prices right now on virtually all of last year’s Crowded House two-CD deluxe editions…
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Amazon in the UK have gone ‘deal’ crazy, price matching a local competitor (HMV). Didn’t want to post *another* deal alert today, but felt obliged given that the notoriously expensive Human League anthology A Very British Synthesizer Group is less than £40 right now!
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Are You Ready – The RCA Era is a new seven-LP vinyl box set that collects the RCA studio albums of British Glam Rock band Sweet along with bonus tracks and an unreleased live album.
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Cheapest price to date for the Bowie at the Beeb 4LP vinyl box set, this morning.
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