SDE Reissue Preview for 2020

For the sixth consecutive year, SDE takes the hand of the spirit of Reissues-Yet-To-Come for a peak into the future. We’ll examine what the next 12 months might offer for the discerning consumer we like to call ‘the SDE reader’. Album reissues, box sets, deluxe editions… you name it. 

What follows covers both confirmed releases for the early part of 2020 and then some good old fashioned speculation and conjecture – a look at what is likely to happen or what could happen later on. Enjoy!
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals

UK: Howard Jones / One to One 3CD+DVD – £22

Amazing price for this forthcoming Howard Jones set which contains an enormous amount of content. Remastered album, plus two CDs of remixes, B-sides, demos and rarities and a DVD of promos and TV appearances!


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The Police / Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings 6CD unboxing video

SDE’s Best Value For Money box set of 2019 was The Police Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings six-CD collection, which was released in November last year. Watch the SDE unboxing video, which not only highlights this new set but also compares it to a 2007 30th anniversary collection from Japan…
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Pet Shop Boys / New single ‘Monkey Business’ due in February


Despite limiting the physical edition of ‘Burning The Heather’ to just a vinyl seven-inch single, the Pet Shop Boys have announced that their next single, ‘Monkey Business’, from the forthcoming Hotspot, will be available both on CD and 12-inch vinyl.
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SDE’s Disappointments of 2019

SDE has explored the best reissues and favourite albums of 2019 but hey, what about the not-quite-so-good things that happened (or good things that didn’t happen) in 2019? The stuff that makes us, the fans, bang our head against the wall… like artists who think their 50+ demographic love streaming and have no interest in hearing ‘the old stuff’ remastered with bonus tracks on CD and vinyl. Broken promises, weird decisions, baffling omissions… here’s SDE’s ‘best’ disappointments of 2019:
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