Frustrated David Bowie fans, who feel let down by the rather shambolic Brilliant Live Adventures campaign, were sent an apology today by the Bowie web team, acknowledging that many had suffered what they called a “poor shopping experience”.
Fans have been damning on social media about the way the sales of the six live albums, and the associated (empty) box sets, have been handled and many people have been left with half-collections due to later volumes (five and six, specifically) selling out in less than half an hour!
Month: March 2021
Garbage / No Gods No Masters
Garbage return with a new studio album, No Gods No Masters in June.
It’s the band’s seventh album and their first since 2016’s Strange Little Birds. According to Shirley Manson:
Matt Berry / The Blue Elephant
Matt Berry returns in May with The Blue Elephant, his ninth studio album.
A prompt follow up to last year’s Phantom Birds (one of SDE’s best of 2020), much of The Blue Elephant was actually recorded before its predecessor, and finds Matt in full-on psychedelic mode and showing off his impressive skills as a musician (he plays every instrument barring the drums) and well as his acumen as an arranger/producer.
The 15 tracks are actually woven into two long, gapless extended sequences of music (24 mins and 21 mins, respectively) which of course works perfectly for side A and side B of the vinyl. The label describe this as “a dizzying trip through an idiosyncratically British love of Psych, Freakbeat, Acid Rock and late ‘60s pop” and having heard a preview of the album, that’s probably spot on! It’s a real trip (man) and you can have a taster, below.
Level 42 / The Complete Polydor Years 1980-1984 unboxed
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SDE takes a look at the new Level 42 Complete Polydor Years 1980-1984 box set which contains five albums and bonus material across 10 CDs. Watch the video…
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Out This Week / on 2 April 2021
Travis / Good Feeling Vinyl
Travis‘ debut album Good Feeling is reissued on vinyl by Craft Recordings.
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Stone Temple Pilots / Tiny Music reissue
Stone Temple Pilots‘ third album, Tiny Music… Songs From The Vatican Giftshop will be reissued in the summer as a four-disc super deluxe edition box set.
Released 25 years ago TODAY the album features the singles ‘Big Bang Baby’, ‘Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart’ and ‘Lady Picture Show’. All three reached the top of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart (the band never really had any ‘proper’ hits in America, ‘Sour Girl’ from 2000 came closest, peaking at 78 in the Hot 100).
Future ‘Terence Trent D’Arby’ reissues to use Sananda Maitreya name
Terence Trent D’Arby, who for almost 20 years has been known as Sananda Maitreya, has confirmed that he has given his blessing to Sony Music to plan a reissue campaign after an agreement was reached around the use of the Sananda name on his CBS/Columbia albums.
Speaking to John Earls in this month’s Record Collector magazine, Sananda Maitreya confirms a long-running impasse, saying: “I’ve turned down entreaties from Sony for over 20 years. My office was adamant that, unless they converted everything to the name Sananda Maitreya, I’m not interested”, adding rather more bluntly, “My message was: ‘I want fuck all to do with any of this, until you’re willing to acknowledge who I am. I’m not willing to work for you, unless you’re willing to work for me. I’m not a child anymore.’”
Tom Petty’s Wildflowers & All The Rest 5CD super deluxe available in the UK
The special five-CD super deluxe edition of Tom Petty‘s Wildflowers & All The Rest – initially exclusive to Petty’s US store – can now be ordered via Amazon in the UK.
At the time, this set appealed to collectors thanks to the inclusion of an ‘exclusive’ fifth discs Finding Wildflowers which featured 16 alternate versions (it has since controversially been announced as a standalone release).
The super deluxe is much bigger and more lavish than its 4CD deluxe ‘cousin’. It includes an 80-page hardcover book, an exclusive lithograph, a replica of the 1995 “Dogs With Wings” tour program, the Wildflowers logo as a cloth patch and a sticker, reproductions of Tom’s handwritten lyrics of four songs, and a numbered certificate of authenticity.
The 5CD super deluxe edition of Wildflowers is a lavish, large format affair (click image to enlarge)
These were priced at $150 on Petty’s store (fans in the UK were frustrated that it wasn’t available over here) but are now no longer available. They did recently surface on Amazon in America and now via their ‘global stores’ initiative this can be ordered directly from the UK site for £115 which once converted is fairly close to that $150 price. To be clear, these will ship from the USA but you are ordering via the UK site with the big advantage of a guarantee of no import charges and low/no shipping!
Of course, with Finding Wildflowers now available separately you might consider this set unnecessary, but I have a sneaky suspicion this collectible will go out-of-print in the not too distant future and it’s a tempting prospect.
The Wildflowers & All The Rest 5CD super deluxe is available now.
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CD1: Original Album
01 Wildflowers
02 You Don’t Know How It Feels
03 Time To Move On
04 You Wreck Me
05 It’s Good To Be King
06 Only A Broken Heart
07 Honey Bee
08 Don’t Fade On Me
09 Hard On Me
10 Cabin Down Below
11 To Find A Friend
12 A Higher Place
13 House In The Woods
14 Crawling Back To You
15 Wake Up Time
CD2: All The Rest (10 tracks 5 unreleased songs)
01 Something Could Happen
02 Leave Virginia Alone
03 Climb That Hill Blues
04 Confusion Wheel
05 California
06 Harry Green
07 Hope You Never
08 Somewhere Under Heaven
09 Climb That Hill
10 Hung Up And Overdue
CD3: Home Recordings (15 tracks – 3 unreleased songs; 12 unreleased versions)
01 There Goes Angela (Dream Away)
02 You Don’t Know How It Feels
03 California
04 A Feeling Of Peace
05 Leave Virginia Alone
06 Crawling Back To You
07 Don’t Fade On Me
08 Confusion Wheel
09 A Higher Place
10 There’s A Break In The Rain (Have Love Will Travel)
11 To Find A Friend
12 Only A Broken Heart
13 Wake Up Time
14 Hung Up And Overdue
15 Wildflowers
CD4: Wildflowers Live (14 tracks – 12 unreleased versions; 2 distributed to Fan Club only)
01 You Don’t Know How It Feels
02 Honey Bee
03 To Find A Friend
04 Walls
05 Crawling Back To You
06 Cabin Down Below
07 Drivin’ To Georgia
08 House In The Woods
09 Girl On LSD
10 Time To Move On
11 Wake Up Time
12 It’s Good To Be King
13 You Wreck Me
14 Wildflowers
CD5: Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)
01 A Higher Place
02 Hard on Me
03 Cabin Down Below
04 Crawling Back To You
05 Only a Broken Heart
06 Drivin’ Down To Georgia
07 You Wreck Me
08 It’s Good to Be King
09 House in The Woods
10 Honey Bee
11 Girl On LSD
12 Cabin Down Below (Acoustic Version)
13 Wildflowers
14 Don’t Fade on Me
15 Wake Up Time
16 You Saw Me Comin’
Mark King and Mike Lindup talk to SDE about the new Level 42 box set
John Earls puts the questions to Mark and Mike
Level 42’s new 10CD boxset The Polydor Years: Volume 1 (1980-84) is a sterling reminder of just how quick the band’s remarkable progression was. From an instrumental collective inspired by roots music to being adopted by the Britfunk scene and soon bothering the Top 10, across the band’s first five albums are live staples such as ‘Starchild’, ‘The Chinese Way’, ‘Hot Water’ and of course ‘The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)’.
With a wealth of B-sides, mixes and live tracks included among the boxset, SDE asked founder members Mark King and Mike Lindup to look back over their formative years. From sharing a bedsit in South London to hanging out in LA with Earth, Wind And Fire, Level 42’s singer/bassist and keyboardist/singer discuss their terrible dancing, the joy of B-sides and Prince’s unwitting influence on a classic…
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Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush 50th anniversary set unboxed
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SDEtv unboxes the 50th anniversary vinyl box set of Neil Young‘s 1970 album After The Gold Rush. This box has stoked some controversy due to its ludicrously high price.
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Nancy Sinatra / Start Walkin’ 1965-1976
The word ‘icon’ is overused, but, in the case of Nancy Sinatra, it’s perfectly acceptable. Daughter of legendary crooner Frank Sinatra, she scored her first hit in 1966, with the Lee Hazlewood-penned, girl-power-meets-kinky-domination anthem, ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, which went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks to its twangy, descending bass riff, it has arguably one of the greatest and most recognisable intros in pop.
When she first promoted the song on TV, wearing go-go boots and a mini-skirt, Sinatra unknowingly walked straight into history. Now, 55 years later, thanks to her distinctive style, she is as much a part of ‘60s iconography as Beatles mop top haircuts, Bob Dylan’s Ray-Ban sunglasses, Sean Connery playing James Bond, or Christine Keeler sitting naked the wrong way round on a chair.
This Weeks Box Set and Reissue Deals
U2 / All That You Can't Leave Behind 5CD super deluxe
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