The Pet Shop Boys‘ new album will be called Hotspot and is due at the end of January next year.
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Month: November 2019
This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
The Moody Blues / In Search of the Lost Chord 5-disc box – £22 £39
a-ha / Take On Me blue vinyl 7″
a-ha‘s debut single ‘Take On Me’ has been reissued as a limited edition blue vinyl seven-inch single to coincide with the band’s Hunting High and Low tour and to tie in with the launch of a new documentary The Making Of… Take On Me.
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Andy MacKay & Phil Manzanera / Roxymphony CD+DVD deluxe edition
This December Roxy Music legends Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera will release Roxymphony, a special CD+DVD deluxe bookset that features live recordings (and video) from a one-of concert on London’s Southbank in November 2018.
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Supergrass / The Strange Ones 1994-2008 career-spanning super deluxe box
12″ box set containing vinyl records & CDs • Six hours of unreleased audio
Supergrass‘ career-spanning box set The Strange Ones 1994-2008 is now more widely available for pre-order.
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Goldfrapp’s Felt Mountain to be toured and reissued in 2020
English electronic music duo Goldfrapp‘s debut album Felt Mountain will be reissued late next year, after the album is toured in the spring of 2020.
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Out This Week / on 15 November 2019
David Bowie / Conversation Piece CD
There’s been a fair bit of Bowie grumbling this year – some of it legitimate – about the plethora of expensive vinyl sets, like The Mercury Demos. Further dismay ensued when it was clear that Parlophone has taken a break from the ‘era’ box sets, but actually the five-CD Conversation Piece, out on Friday, looks pretty good when examined in isolation. It’s effectively a super deluxe of the Space Oddity album.
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Saturday Deluxe / 9 November 2019
New George Michael song released
With much fanfare (cue an oh-so-predictable premiere on the Zoe Ball breakfast show) a new George Michael song was unveiled on Thursday. ‘This Is How (We Want You To Get High)’ features on the soundtrack to the new Emma Thompson-penned romantic comedy Last Christmas. The film features a character obsessed with George’s music (Emilia Clarke’s Kate) and features Wham! and GM songs throughout.
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Pop Group / ‘y’ definitive edition
Bristol band The Pop Group‘s 1979 debut album ‘y’ is being reissued as a multi-disc deluxe vinyl and CD packages.
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The Hits Album versus Now 4
In celebration of ‘Now 4’ arriving in full on CD, SDE explores the pop compilation battle to rule them all. It’s late ’84 and that pocket money isn’t going to spend itself – but which to choose? In the red corner, new kid on the block ‘The Hits Album’ and in the blue corner, the reigning champion ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ (#4). Ian Wade is your guide….
November 1984, and one of pop’s most extraordinary years was drawing to a close, ending as spectacularly when every pop star imaginable ended up on the Christmas No.1. Duran Duran were in their pomp, Wham! had embarked on a gold run, the biggest new group in the country, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, had spent a quarter of the year at the top spot and while Michael Jackson was still everywhere, Prince and Madonna’s threat level to his crown had upgraded.
All while that was going on, there was another battle brewing…
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Review: a-ha live at the Royal Albert Hall
In 2006 a-ha played in a back lot of London’s ExCel centre as part of the British International Motor Show. I was there, and while the band were excellent (they are rarely less than that), as fans congregated in this rather grim, tarmac setting, it was apparent that the show wasn’t a sell out and there was a good third of the capacity free. They may have been enjoying a mini-revival at that time – thanks to the UK top ten hit ‘Analogue’ (the title track from their 2005 album) – but the appeal of seeing a-ha play live didn’t stretch much beyond the diehard fans, it seemed.
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
UK: Julian Cope / Autogeddon vinyl box set £35
Mega-deal over at the SDE shop for the vinyl box of Julian Cope‘s Autogeddon album. This 25th anniversary package contains the remastered album on black vinyl, the remastered ‘Paranormal In The West Country’ 12” EP, an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch featuring ‘Conspiracy Blues’ & ‘Highway Blues’, large format book and postcards all set in a stunning cloth box with foil-blocked gold lettering! These normally go for £60+ so this is a complete bargain.
Mick Jagger’s solo albums to be reissued on half-speed mastered vinyl
Universal Music are to reissue all four of Mick Jagger‘s solo albums on vinyl, in December.
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SDEtv: R.E.M. / Monster unboxed
SDE takes a close look at the new R.E.M. Monster 25th anniversary super deluxe with this new unboxing video, and takes the opportunity to compare it to previous R.E.M. anniversary editions.
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M People / Renaissance 11-disc box set
9CD+2DVD box set • Albums, remixes & rarities
Demon Music will release Renaissance, an 11-disc M People career-spanning box set in February that features albums, remixes, rarities and two DVDs.
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Out This Week / on 8 November 2019
Gene Clark / No Other box set CD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
American singer-songwriter and Byrds founding member Gene Clark’s 1974 solo album No Other is reissued by 4AD as a lavish box set which features no fewer than three SACDs, a blu-ray and an 80-page hardcover book!
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Pre-order a signed CD of Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbot’s new album
Former Housemartin and The Beautiful South member Paul Heaton will issue a another album with Jacqui Abbott next year, and you can pre-order a signed CD now.
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
UK: Sparks / Past Tense: The Best Of 3CD set – £9.99 £18
Fantastic pre-order price for the three-CD set which is due out on 8 November.
G Stands for Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology volume 2 box set
This December, Domino follow up G-Stands for Go-Betweens – their 2015 box set devoted to Australian indie band The Go-Betweens – with a second box, G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology Volume 2.
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Pink Floyd’s Later Years box delayed
The ‘running a wee bit late’, years…
Pink Floyd‘s 18-disc Later Years box set has been delayed and will now be issued two weeks late, on 13 December 2019.
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