Bryan Ferry’s 1987 album Bête Noire will be reissued next month, alongside a release of his 2007 album Dylanesque.
Bête Noire was the follow up to 1985’s Boys and Girls and was co-produced with Patrick Leonard (who had worked with Madonna on her True Blue album and would later co-produce 1989’s Like A Prayer). Johnny Marr was amongst the contributors to Bête Noire, whose singles were ‘The Right Stuff’, ‘Kiss and Tell’ and ‘Limbo’. Only ‘The Right Stuff’ troubled the UK top 40, peaking at No 37.
For the 2025 reissue Bête Noire is released as a 2CD deluxe edition and on purple vinyl. The second disc of the 2CD set offers remixes and edits from the original singles. This appears to be mostly comprehensive, with the exception of a small number of ‘Limbo’ versions, and extra points go to BMG for putting together a ‘listenable’ running order (not grouping remixes of the same track together).
Dylanesque was of course Ferry’s tribute to the songwriting genius of Bob Dylan. Released in 2007, it’s now reissued on red vinyl and CD (no bonus tracks).
Bête Noire and Dylanesque are reissued on 14 November 2025. The CDs are packaging in Japan-style mini-LP replicas.
In other Bryan Ferry news, the pre-order window for the Boys and Girls blu-ray closes today (15 October). Secure your copy only via the SDE shop.
Chrissie Hynde delivers this new album consists of duets. Collaborators, include k.d.lang, the late Mark Lanegan, Dave Gahan, Cat Power, Brandon Flowers, Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson and more.
Queen’s 1975 album A Night At The Opera is newly pressed on 180g clear vinyl with gold labels for National Album Day. This features the ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Love of My Life’ and ‘You’re My Best Friend’. For SDE’s guide to National Album Day visit this post.
NOW Music continue their ‘era’ series with NOW That’s What I Call An Era – Disco: 1973-1980 available as a 4CD set or on 3LP coloured vinyl.
As the name suggestions, this is a celebration of the golden age of disco over an eight-year period and the 4CD versions (available in deluxe hardcover book or standard card sleeve) offers 88 tracks, while the 3LP coloured vinyl version delivers 48.
Deluxe hardcover book 4CD set
Tracks include Sister Sledge’s ‘We Are Family’, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’, The Village People’s ‘YMCA’, Chaka Khan’s ‘I’m Every Woman’, Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’, Diana Ross’ ‘Upside Down’, The Trammps’ ‘Disco Inferno’, Kool & The Gang’s ‘Ladies Night’, Baccara’s ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’, Amii Stewart’s version of ‘Knock On Wood’, The Hues Corporation’s ‘Rock The Boat’, The Isley Brothers’ ‘That Lady, Pt 1’, The O’Jays’ ‘I Love Music’, Thelma Houston’s ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’, Tavares’ ‘Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel (Part 1)’, LaBelle’s ‘Lady Marmalade’, Yvonne Elliman’s ‘If I Can’t Have You’ and many more. Full tracklisting is below.
NOW That’s What I Call An Era – Disco: 1973-1980 will be released on 7 November 2025.
The SDE exclusive blu-ray features a new Dolby Atmos Mix of Dare, created by John Barrett at Abbey Road Studios. Additionally, the disc includes a 5.1 Surround Sound Mix of the album and instrumental mixes in both Atmos and 5.1. Alongside this content sits the original 1981 stereo mix and bonus A-sides, B-sides, remixes and instrumentals from the original singles, in stereo (see tracklisting below for full details).
Pre-orders have been despatched and the last remaining contingency/cancellation stock is now available.
Ultravox’s classic 1984 compilation The Collection has been massively expanded and will be released in December as a 4CD + 2 x Blu-ray deluxe edition.
The Collection featured the 14 singles Ultravox released between 1980 and 1984 and sold over two million copies worldwide, going triple platinum in the UK. It includes hits such as ‘Vienna’, ‘All Stood Still’, ‘The Voice, ‘Dancing With Tears In My Eyes’ and what at the time was a brand new single ‘Love’s Great Adventure ‘ (recorded specifically for The Collection).
This newly remastered compilation includes a remastered version of the original compilation and adds The Collection II with a further 14 singles, alternative and unreleased versions from 1986 to 2024; The Remixes which features newly created 80s-style extended mixes by the likes of Midge Ure, Steven Wilson, Blank & Jones; and a disc of B-sidescollected together for the first time.
4CD + 2 x blu-ray deluxe of The Collection (click image to enlarge)
The two blu-rays are packed, offering over four hours of footage between them, including 27 promo videos, Top of the Pops appearances, live performances and more.
The Collection Deluxe Edition is limited to 5,000 units worldwide and comes in a large format 12-inch box with rigid-board slipcase and two 20-page booklets, with lyrics and photos.
Other formats include a 4LP deluxe pressed on clear vinyl which features audio from the first two CDs in the box set over eight sides of vinyl. It is housed in a die-cut sleeve with interchangeable images within a four-page insert. There’s also a 2LP half-speed edition on black vinyl (original 14 tracks) and a single CD version with 19 tracks.
The Ultravox Official Store has exclusives bundles and The Collection reissue is out on 5 December 2025, via Chrysalis.
Nine months after Madonna let slip that her 1994 album Bedtime Stories was going to be reissued, the details have finally officially been announced, but as the saying goes, you might want to curb your enthusiasm…
The reissue consists of just three formats
2CD set with the original album on CD 1 and eight bonus remixes, five of which are unreleased, on CD 2
A black vinyl EP with the 8 remixes on CD 2 of the 2CD set
The original album reissued on silver-coloured vinyl
And that’s all folks! For the EP of remixes Madonna worked with Stuart Price, “editing and mixing versions into a cohesive new chapter”.
I think we always knew it was going to be this way when Warners proudly announced their “multi-year catalog series” and told us that Madonna would “personally curate” the album reissues. That announcement was over four years ago and Bedtime Stories is the first studio album to be reissued since that time (August 2021).
The 2CD set is a 6-panel matt laminated ‘soft pack’ with 24 page booklet. The vinyl records are both 180g pressings.
Bedtime Stories (The Untold Chapter) will be released on 28 November 2025, via Warner Records. What do you think of this reissue? Leave a comment below and
Simply Red celebrate four decades of music with Recollections, a new compilation that features entirely re-recorded versions of 40 tracks.
Available as a 3CD set and a 4LP vinyl package, Recollections steps through the various eras and includes all the big hits, such as ‘Money’s Too Tight To Mention’, ‘Holding Back The Years’, ‘Stars’, ‘Fairground’ and more. It has been produced by Andy Wright who has had a hand in producing every Simply Red album since 1998’s Blue. It is also available as a 20-track double vinyl.
Mick Hucknall explains: “As a way of celebrating 40 years of Simply Red, we thought it apt to release these takes. Andy Wright set about capturing the atmosphere and sonics of the originals and has done a magnificent job. This has enabled us to come full circle and celebrate our 40 years with you.”
The re-recorded version of ‘Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)’
It’s not unusual for artists to re-record their old hits (they own the master recordings when they do this, rather than the original label – kerching!) but it is unusual to record quite so many. Mick Hucknall has ‘previous’ in this regard as well. 2013’s Song Book 4CD compilation already included some re-recorded hits on its fourth disc and before that, 2005’s Simplified album offered ‘stripped down’ reinterpretations. It has now been 17 years since Simply Red’s classic run of early albums on East West were reissued.
Recollections will be released on 21 November 2025 and can be pre-ordered from the Simply Red shop.
The pre-order window for theTears For FearsSongs From The Big Chair SDE-exclusive blu-ray is about to close.
The blu-ray audio – #52 in the ongoing SDE Suround Series – features a tremendous Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix of album as well as revised 5.1 and Stereo Mixes. These are therefore different to the mixes in the box set back in 2014.
All three Steven Wilson audio streams (Atmos, 5.1 & Stereo) are also available in instrumental form on the SDE exclusive blu-ray. Below is a summary of the audio streams on the SDE exclusive blu-ray:
2025 Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48/24)
2025 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (96/24)
2025 Steven Wilson Hi-Res Stereo Mix (96/24)
2025 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix – Instrumental (48/24)
2025 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix – Instrumental (96/24)
2025 Steven Wilson Hi-Res Stereo Mix – Instrumental(96/24)
1985 Original Hi-Res Stereo Mix – non-limited Miles Showell remaster(96/24)
Bonus Remixes in Stereo (48/24)
Additionally, this Songs From The Big Chair blu-ray features 12 bonus tracks (stereo only) comprised of all the extended remixes issued in the UK of the various singles, including original and remix 12-inches for many singles, as well as the Extended Mix of non-album single ‘The Way You Are’.
The booklet in the blu-ray features track-by-track annotation from Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith, producer Chris Hughes and A&R man Dave Bates, taken from my interviews in 2014 as well as a note from Steven Wilson on his approach to remixing the album in Dolby Atmos.
The pre-order window closes TOMORROW, Tuesday 7 October 2025 and is the last point you can guarantee a copy of this release.
Songs From The Big Chair will be released on 14 November 2025, via UMR.
Songs From The Big ChairTears For Fears/SDE Exclusive blu-ray
SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR
– 2025 Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48/24)
– 2025 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (96/24)
– 2025 Steven Wilson Hi-Res Stereo Mix (96/24)
– 2025 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix – Instrumental (48/24)
– 2025 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix – Instrumental (96/24)
– 2025 Steven Wilson Hi-Res Stereo Mix – Instrumental (96/24)
– 1985 Original Hi-Res Stereo Mix (96/24)
Shout 6:32
The Working Hour 6:31
Everybody Wants To Rule The World 4:11
Mothers Talk 5:06
I Believe 4:55
Broken 2:38
Head Over Heels 5:02
Listen 6:53
BONUS 12 MIXES (STEREO 48/24 ONLY)
The Way You Are (Extended Version) 7.42
Mothers Talk (Extended Version) 6.18
Shout (Extended Remix Version) 7.42
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Extended Version) 5.39
Broken / Head Over Heels / Broken (Preacher Mix) 8.01
Mothers Talk (Beat Of The Drum Mix) 8.56
Shout (US Remix) 8.01
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Urban Mix) 6.01
Mothers Talk (US Remix) 4.12
Shout (Dub) 6.49
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Instrumental) 4.21
Shout (Acapella) 5.02
55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls (still available)
4 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife (still available)
53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked (still available)
52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair
51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish
50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
48 The Who / Who Are You
47 The Human League / Dare
46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2
45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia
44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever
43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives
Neil Young continues his Official Release Series (ORS) with CD and vinyl box sets that bring together four albums from the 1990s.
Volume 6 of ORS features discs 26, 27, 28 and 30 which are Harvest Moon (1992), Unplugged (1993), Sleeps With Angels (1994) and Mirror Ball (1995), respectively.
This collection of albums represents a period which saw Young enjoy more commercial success than he’d had during the 1980s, as he found new generations of fans both from the record-buying public and young bands alike, particularly those from the Grunge scene (NY being dubbed the ‘Godfather of Grunge’ in some quarters). Pearl Jam worked with him on Mirror Ball, of course. That album and Sleeps With Angels returned Neil Young to the UK top 10 album chart for the first time in 15 years.
The two boxes are 4CD and 8LP limited edition, numbered sets available both featuring “historically accurate artwork”. Four tracks on Mirror Ball have been remixed (‘I’m The Ocean’, ‘Big Green Country’, ‘Truth Be Known’, ‘Throw Your Hatred Down’) and this “all analog” recording has been remastered by John Hanlon and Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. The LPs are all pressed on 180g vinyl.
Both ORS Volume 6 box sets will be released on 24 October 2025 via Reprise Records.
The Human League’s iconic third studio album, Dare, is reissued as an SDE exclusive blu-ray audio. Stock has arrived and shipping is about to start. Last copies available from the SDE shop.
Richard Ashcroft’s new album. Features the single ‘Lover’ which incorporates elements of Joan Armatrading’s ‘Love and Affection’. Signed CD available via Amazon.
NOW Music have announced 1991 as the next year in the now long-running Yearbook series.
It features 78 tracks across four CDs and there’s the usual deluxe and standard variants (with the former offering deluxe hardback book packaging with a 28-page booklet containing track-by-track notes). A 3LP version pressed on yellow vinyl offers 43 songs.
The first CD starts with George Michael and Elton John (you can guess the song) and includes massive hits from the one and only Chesney Hawkes, Seal (‘Crazy’), R.E.M. (‘Shiny Happy People’), Simply Red (‘Stars’), Cathy Dennis (Touch Me (All Night Long)) and more. Pet Shop Boys make two appearances on Yearbook 1991 with ‘Jealousy’ (the fourth and final single from Behaviour) on this first disc and later on CD 4 with their ‘Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)’ mash-up
Disc 2 includes The KLF’s ‘3am Eternal’, more Seal (his version of ‘Killer’), and a load of crossover club hits from acts including C+C Music Factory, Rozalla, K-Klass, Utah Saints, Oceanic, as well as Brothers In Rhythm. This disc also includes Crystal Waters‘ irritating, but annoyingly catchy, ‘Gyspy Woman (She’s Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da)’, A Tribe Called Quest’s excellent ‘Can I Kick It?’ before ending with Color Me Badd’s ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’.
The 4CD deluxe edition of Yearbook ’91
CD 3 includes Sting’s All This Time, Robert Palmer’s Marvin Gaye twofer ‘Mercy Mercy Me/IWant You’, The Waterboys’ ‘The Whole of the Moon’, The Stone Roses’ I Wanna Be Adored and Crowded House’s ‘Fall at Your Feet’. The last two tracks are grouped together beautifully with ‘More Than Words’ from Extreme followed by ‘Wind of Change’ by the Scorpions.
The KLF are back on disc four with Tammy Wynette ‘Justified and Ancient’ (make mine a 99, why don’t you?) and reminds us that Boy George had a hit with ‘Bow Down Mister’ under the Jesus Loves You moniker. My memory tells me this was big hit but “reality” points out that it actually peaked at a lowly No. 27 in the UK. Amy Grant’s brilliant ‘Baby Baby’ features here as does Kylie Minogue’s ‘Shocked’, sister Danni’s ‘Jump to the Beat’, Lisa Stansfield’s ‘Change’ and the weird historical artefact that is The Grease Megamix which stitches all those John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John hits together 12 years after the movie. This just makes me think about how they got away with “pussy wagon” on tea time television. Yearbook 1991 ends with another ‘Crazy’ but not Seal this time, it’s Patsy Cline singing the Willie Nelson classic.
NOW Yearbook 1991 will be released on 31 October 2025.
Bryan Ferry’s 1985 solo album, Boys and Girls, is now available to pre-order as a limited edition 40th anniversary SDE exclusive blu-ray audio. It features an immersive 2025 Dolby Atmos Mix, amongst other content.
Ferry’s sixth studio album features the classic hit single ‘Slave To Love‘, along with other singles ‘Don’t Stop The Dance‘ and ‘Windswept‘. Musicians on the record include Guy Fletcher, Nile Rodgers, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Tony Levin, Omar Hakim, David Sanborn and many more.
As well as the brand new Dolby Atmos Mix by Bob Clearmountain (who mixed the album originally), it also includes the original 5.1 Mix from 2005 which was released on SACD back in the day as well as the original 1985 stereo mix in hi-res stereo (the 1999 remastering, Ferry’s preferred version).
Audio streams on the Boys and Girls SDE exclusive blu-ray:
Boys and Girls 2025 Dolby Atmos Mix (48/24)
Boys and Girls 2005 DTS-HD dedicated 5.1 Mix (96/24)
Boys and Girls 1985 Original Stereo Mix (48/24)
The new Atmos Mix was overseen and approved by Bryan Ferry and the album’s co-producer Rhett Davies. The blu-ray is #55 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and comes packaged in the same deluxe hardcover mediabook packaging used for the Roxy Music’s Avalon and the Bryan Ferry Retrospective releases. As ever, Boys and Girls ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
Please note that the Dolby Atmos Mix on the SDE Blu-ray is of much higher quality than its streaming counterpart. It is not compressed as it is on streaming platforms. Encoded in Dolby TrueHD Atmos it has a bit rate 10 times higher (up to 8000 kbits/s) than streaming’s Dolby Digital Plus (768 kbits/s).
The Boys and Girls blu-ray is available to pre-order from today. It is a limited edition and has a 14 day pre-order window, which closes on 14 October 2025. Availability cannot be guaranteed after that date.
This Boys and Girls blu-ray is released on 5 December 2025 via UMR.
Dead Or Alive / My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor) 7″ pic disc
‘My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor)’ is the fourth and final single to have been released from Dead Or Alive’s 1985 album Youthquake. It was remixed for this release (the B-side is ‘Big Daddy Of The Rhythm (Live)’).
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Hawkins’ 1994 album was produced by Stephen Lipson and yielded three top 40 UK hits, including ‘Right Beside You’. She has now re-recorded the album as a ‘raw’/acoustic form and called it Whaler Re-Emerging, which is available on CD this week. Check out the new version of ‘Right Beside You’, below.
Kate Bush announced a new compilation on CD and vinyl on Monday called Best of the Other Sides. This news was of course reported on SDE but rather ludicrously, no tracklisting was supplied by Kate’s representatives, so at least initially, we didn’t know exactly what was on this compilation. This wasn’t an accidental omission, I asked and was told “we’re not announcing the tracklist”. Er, okay.
This was despite the fact that this compilation was due to go up to on streaming yesterday, by which point the cat would be out of the bag, anyway. I suppose they were trying to wring some ‘excitement’ from what is a rather lacklustre release, if truth be told, but unsurprisingly, it got leaked, so the whole thing was ultimately a waste of time and energy.
Let’s not forget the original Other Sides (the four-disc version in the 2018 box sets) was already a flawed collection since it wasn’t a comprehensive round up of B-sides, extra tracks and remixes in the first place. There was no ‘Dreamtime’ (‘The Dreaming’ B-side from 1982), no instrumental of ‘Running Up That Hill’ (originally on the 12-inch single) – both those tracks are unreleased on CD, so would have been worthy inclusions on this new set, by the way – and also no extended remixes of singles on The Red Shoes. These are just a few that were missing.
Not only that, this new compilation is surely not really a genuine best of in terms of the selection. Putting aside personal preferences, it cannot be a coincidence that none of Kate’s ‘picks’ date from before The Dreaming era, in 1982. While the press release didn’t do something as useful as tell us what was on this collection, it did go out of its way to point out that “The release comes at a time when Kate’s song ‘Army Dreamers’ is skyrocketing online, looking set to become her second most streamed track after ‘Running Up That Hill’“.
Well, the B-side to ‘Army Dreamers’ is the historically interesting (and rather lovely) ‘Passing Through Air’. This song was produced and engineered by David Gilmour in 1973, when Kate was around 15 years old. ‘Passing Through Air’ was included in the original Other Sides, along with other older tracks like the previously unreleased ‘Humming’ (also 1975) and ‘Ran Tan Waltz’ (B-side to ‘Babooska’ in 1980) but none of them are included on the new release. You’d have thought the standalone festive single ‘December Will Be Magic Again’ (released in 1980) would have merited inclusion, but it’s not there and neither is its B-side ‘Warm and Soothing’. Meanwhile on Best of The Other Sides we do get ‘Walk Straight Down The Middle’, a song which is so rare it’s on every original CD copy of The Sensual World!
So what’s going on? Well, since moving to The state 51 Conspiracy from Warners (two years ago), rights issues around Kate’s first three album is not the same as her last seven, which is why, when the indie coloured vinyl was released in 2023, the first three (‘The Kick Inside’, ‘Lionheart’ and ‘Never For Ever’) were ‘US-only’. This was not an issue in 2018 for the box sets since Kate was still with Warners for all albums. This complication is very likely to have influenced Kate’s decision to ignore anything from this era on Best of The Other Sides, which is obviously a shame.
Scroll down to see the full tracklisting of Best of The Other Sides.
WINGS blu-ray available again
Good news! Due to exceptional demand, SDE is pleased to have secured an additional allocation of WINGS blu-rays, in the hope that anyone who wants a copy of this definitive self-titled anthology, on this format, will not miss out.
The forthcoming Frankie Goes To HollywoodWelcome to the Pleasuredome 7CD+blu-ray box set is just over a month away from release, but yesterday I was lucky enough to see one in the flesh! There’s a very informative (and big) sticker on the front which I was delighted to note had my name on it (yay!). The reason is because I wrote an introductory note for this box set which focuses on that crazy year of 1984 and how Frankie dominated the charts and UK pop for those 12 months. Kevin Foakes (aka DJ Food) does some great work by contributing a Frankie timeline which is included in the excellent hardcover book that comes with this set. As I say, I saw this set yesterday but I don’t have a copy yet. Rest assured there will be an SDEtv unboxing when I eventually get my hands on one.
Unfortunately, the SDE shop is sold out of this box. We are hoping to get some more but until then you’ll have to check other retailers. Of course, we are selling the SDE exclusive blu-ray audio which as well as Dolby Atmos, 5.1, Stereo, extra tracks etc. has bonus content not on the blu-ray in the box set (namely instrumentals and an exclusive 30-minute Steven Wilson remix of the title track). The pre-order window for this blu-ray closes on Monday 29 Sep.
As part of their campaign to promote the forthcoming compilation Industry & Seduction, the Thompson Twins are offering a CD single of the song ‘Roll Over’ via their official shop. ‘Roll Over’ was almost a single in 1985 (it was withdrawn).
I asked Tom Bailey about this in 2014, while working on the Remixes and Rarities compilation. He said “that [song] was ready to release as a single just at the point where I became ill [with nervous exhaustion] and wanted to stop recording, so it was just madness to proceed. I think it was even pressed up and ready to go, but we just withdrew and said ‘no’. We didn’t have it in us to do all the promotional rounds”.
The tracklisting for the ‘Roll Over’ CD single is as below. Only track 1 features on the new compilation.
NOW Music remind us what a strong year 1985 was in pop, with a 4CD set that presents ‘Part Two’ of 12″80s:1985, as NOW continue to step through the 1980s, year-by-year, spotlighting extended mixes of hit songs.
The first disc includes Wham’s ‘I’m Your Man’ (in ‘Extended Stimulation’ guise), the ‘Special Dance Mix’ of Eurythmics’ ‘There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)’ (which wasn’t on the first 12-inch single), the ‘Urban Mix’ of Tears For Fears’ smash Everybody Wants To Rule The World, the 12-inch remix of Bryan Ferry’s ‘Don’t Stop The Dance’, a remix of Stephen Duffy’s ‘Kiss Me’ the ‘Mixe Plural’ version) and the ‘Extra Special Long Mix’ of Nik Kershaw’s excellent ‘Don Quixote’.
Because this is 1985, there’s many songs which feature on albums that are currently in a reissue cycle. Tears For Fears is mentioned above, but on CD 2 there’s also Fine Young Cannibals ‘Johnny Come Home’ (which features on the FYC40 deluxe set and is in Atmos, as a bonus track, on the recently announcedThe Raw & The Cooked SDE exclusive blu-ray). Disc two also includes the ‘Cutback Mix’ of Simply Red’s ‘Money’s Too Tight To Mention’, the 12-inch version of The Pointer Sisters’ Neutron Dance (which featured prominently in the soundtrack of Beverly Hills Cop) and the Extended Dance Mix of Loose Ends’ ‘Hangin’ On A String’ (which featured on 1985’s NOW Dance compilation, fact fans).
CD 3 has contributions from Paul Hardcastle, Art of Noise, Propaganda, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Yello, Billy Idol and ZZ Top while the final disc offers up extended versions of hits by Maria Vidal, Amii Stewart, Dead Or Alive, Sheila E, Steve Arrington and more. It ends with the once rare-on-CD extended version of Paul Young’s ‘Every Time You Go Away’.
If CDs aren’t your thing, NOW Music are also releasing a coloured vinyl box set of 12-inch mixes called NOW Presents…12” 80s: Volume Two: 1983-1984. This is a follow-up of the 1980-82 box that was issued last December and like the CD versions is stepping through the 80s, although this time it’s two or three years at a time. This features 44 tracks across the five coloured vinyl records (full tracklisting, below).
Both compilations are released on 17 October 2025.
The pre-order window for the Frankie Goes to HollywoodWelcome to the Pleasuredome SDE-exclusive blu-ray is about to close.
The blu-ray audio – #50 in the ongoing SDE Suround Series – features a tremendous Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix of the whole album, plus selected B-sides! The blu-ray also features new (dedicated) 5.1 mixes, new stereo mixes, exclusive instrumentals (of the whole album and B-sides) and a special, totally exclusive, 30 minute ‘Supernova’ stereo remix of ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’ by Steven Wilson!
SDE blu-ray audio stream summary for Welcome to the Pleasuredome
2025 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos MIx
2025 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48/24)
2025 Steven Wilson Stereo Mix (48/24)
2025 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix* (48/24)
2025 Steven Wilson 5.1 Instrumental Mix* (48/24)
2025 Steven Wilson Stereo Instrumental Mix* (48/24)
1984 Stereo Mix (96/24)
6 Bonus tracks in all Atmos, 5.1 and Stereo (48/24)
6 Bonus tracks as Instrumentals (Atmos, 5.1, Stereo)* (48/24)
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Supernova) – 30 min Steven Wilson remix* (48/24)
*Unavailable anywhere else
Unbelievable value at just £25, the blu-ray audio is region-free and will ship with a free and collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase and is exclusively available via the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below.
The pre-order window closes on Monday 29 September 2025 and is the last point you can guarantee a copy of this release. Propaganda’sA Secret Wish SDE blu-ray ends on the same day.
Welcome to the Pleasuredome will be released on 31 October 2025, via UMR.
The Rolling Stones will reissue their 1976 album Black and Blue in November, across at least six physical formats.
All formats use a brand new Steven Wilson stereo remix, in place of the original, while a blu-ray included with the 4CD and 5LP box sets (it’s not available separately) offers a Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix as well as a hi-res version of his stereo mix. The blu-ray also includes a live recording from the Stones’ 1976 Earls Court show (21 tracks).
There’s a bit of repetition on the box sets and they break down like this
CD 1 / LP 1: Steven Wilson 2025 Remix
CD 2 / LP 2: Outtakes and Jams
CD 3 & 4 / LPs 3, 4 & 5: Live at Earls Court
Blu-ray: Atmos & Stereo Mixes, Les Rolling Stones Aux Abattoirs, Paris-Juin 1976, Live at Earls Court 1976
Black and Blue 4CD+blu-ray box set
It’s worth noting that the Earls Court show on the blu-ray is in Dolby Atmos and “Les Rolling Stones Aux Abattoirs, Paris-Juin 1976”, on the same disc, is a “previously unreleased live TV recording from Paris”. So very good content, indeed on this blu-ray, although you have to buy the box to get it, as mentioned previously.
The ‘Outtakes and Jams’ disc in the boxes offer previously unreleased audio, including the high-energy disco stomp of Shirley and Company’s ‘Shame, Shame, Shame’ and jams with guest guitarists including Jeff Beck, Canned Heat’s Harvey Mandel and Robert A. Johnson.
Both super deluxe box sets (vinyl and CD) come with a 100-page hardcover book featuring a brand new essay by Paul Sexton, exclusive photographs from the album sessions and tour, and a replica poster from the 1976 Paris concert.
2LP and 2CD editions of Black and Blue pair Wilson’s new stereo mix with the six ‘Outtakes and Jams’ on the second CD (or LP) from the box set. There’s also single CD and vinyl editions featuring just the new stereo mix and, apparently, a Zoetrope vinyl is also available!
Black and Blue in all its new guises will be released on 14 November 2025, via UMR.
Following on from the 1976 set of last year (#27 in the SDE Surround Series) Thin Lizzy’s 1974 album Nightlife will be reissued as an SDE exclusive blu-ray audio (#54) with some significant bonus content related to Nightlife’s follow-up, Fighting.
The album features the singles ‘Philomena’, ‘Showdown’ and ‘It’s Only Money’ and the classic ‘Still in Love With You’ and for this blu-ray features brand new 2025 remixes by Richard Whittaker in Dolby Atmos, 5.1, Stereo and in Instrumental form. The Original 1974 mix is also included.
Nightlife Audio stream summary:
2025 Dolby Atmos Mix
2025 5.1 Mix
2025 Stereo Mix
2025 Instrumental Mix
1974 Original Stereo Mix
Additionally, as bonus content, this blu-ray contains selected tracks from Nightlife’s follow-up, 1975’s Fighting (sadly, due to missing multi-track tapes, the whole album could not be included in new mixes).
Selected tracks from FIGHTING in Atmos, 5.1, Stereo and Instrumental:
Rosalie
Wild One
King’s Vengeance
Silver Dollar
The blu-ray includes the Fighting album in its entirety, in its original 1975 Stereo Mix
In addition to the exclusive blu-ray, there is also a 7CD deluxe edition (in 10-inch packaging) which is available from normal retail channels. The content as as follows (see full tracklisting below)
CD 1: Night Life – New Stereo Mix / Original Mix
CD 2: Fighting – New Stereo Mix / Original Mix
CD 3: Night Life Outtakes, B-sides, 7″ edits
CD 4: Fighting Outtakes, B-sides, 7″ edits
CD 5: Fighting / Night Life Mixes
CD 6: BBC Sessions
CD 7: Live Show (Derby 75)
Night Life Blu-ray Audio is #54 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and will released on 21 November 2025. It will be packaged similarly to previous editions and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
Do not miss out. This product is a limited edition and has a 14 day pre-order window, which closes on 8 October 2025. Availability cannot be guaranteed after that date. Pre-order only from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Fine Young Cannibals celebrate 40 years this November with some exciting products including FYC40 – a career spanning 4CD+DVD deluxe set – and an SDE exclusive blu-ray of their transatlantic number one album The Raw & The Cooked, featuring a David Kosten Dolby Atmos Mix of the 1989 long-player.
Formed in 1985 by Andy Cox, David Steele (ex-The Beat), and Roland Gift, the band broke through with ‘Johnny Come Home’ and their cover of ‘Suspicious Minds.’ The Raw & the Cooked brought global fame, with ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ and ‘Good Thing’ both hitting No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA.
FYC40 is the very best of Fine Young Cannibals that features:
CD1:Fine Young Cannibals’ self-titled album plus 8 bonus tracks (including previously unreleased Anne Dudley sessions)
CD2:The Raw & The Cooked plus 10 bonus tracks
CD3:Select remixes 1989-1996 including 2 previously unreleased mixes by Prince Paul and Juan Atkins
CD4:More remixes 1996-2025 include four new 2025 remixes (Flight Facilities / DJ Q / Initial Talk / The Reflex) and 3 remixes on CD for the first time (Cerrone, Dimitri from Paris, Derrick Carter)
DVD:Restored music videos in HD, ‘Live at the Paramount’(1989) – 15 track full concert restored and remastered, and select BBC performances from The Old Grey Whistle Test, Wogan and Top of The Pops
In total, the FYC40 deluxe edition features over 100 tracks and the hardcover book packaging is housed in a heavyweight slipcase. Audio is remastered and there’s essays by Andrew Harrison and John Earls.
The Raw & The Cooked was a smash hit and contains many singles, including ‘Don’t Look Back’, ‘I’m Not The Man I Used to Be’ and the band’s two USA number ones, ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ and ‘Good Thing’.
The album includes tracks co-produced with David Z who worked extensively with Prince, notably ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ and ‘I’m Not Satisfied’, but the rest of the album, including ‘Good Thing’, was mostly produced by the band with engineering credits being shared by Julian Mendelsohn, Robin Goodfellow, Dave Anderson and John Potoker.
David Kosten has rebuilt a 2025 stereo version of the album from the master tapes and from that created an immersive Dolby Atmos Mix of The Raw & The Cooked. The SDE exclusive blu-ray (#53 in the SDE Surround Series) also includes 2025 5.1 mixes from Kosten, headphones-only Binaural Mixes and Instrumental versions of each (Atmos, 5.1, Stereo and Binaural). Note, that no multi-track tapes could be found for the song ‘Don’t Let It Get You Down’ so David made use stem-splitting technology for that track to create Atmos, 5.1 and instrumental versions (the stereo is the original).
Additionally, the blu-ray features the original 1989 master, the 2013 remaster and a new 2025 remaster of The Raw & The Cooked.
Audio stream summary for The Raw & The Cooked SDE blu-ray (11 versions of the album!!)
2025 David Kosten Dolby Atmos Mix (48/24)
2025 David Kosten 5.1 Mix (96/24)
2025 David Kosten Stereo Mix (96/24)
2025 David Kosten Binaural Mix (headphones only) (96/24)
2025 David Kosten Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix (48/24)
2025 David Kosten 5.1 Instrumental Mix (96/24)
2025 David Kosten Stereo Instrumental Mix (96/24)
2025 David Kosten Binaural Instrumental Mix (headphones only) (96/24)
Original 1989 Stereo Master (bonus tracks as per original years) (TBC)
Finally, the blu-ray features the four bonus tracks listed below, all available in Atmos and the various audio streams described above. This means that as well as such a comprehensive look at The Raw & The Cooked, the blu-ray contains all of Fine Young Cannibals hit singles in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 etc.
Johnny Come Home
Blue
Suspicious Minds
The Flame
As if the FYC40 deluxe and The Raw & The Cooked SDE blu-ray were not generous enough in terms of content, on the SDE shop we have an amazing bundle of both products that ships with an SDE exclusive 12-track CD single of ‘She Drives Me Crazy‘, which features US Mixes many of which were promo-only at the time.
Fantastic BUNDLE via the SDE shop. Click image to pre-order.
The Raw and the Cooked Blu-ray Audio is #53 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and will released on 5 December 2025 (was 21 November), via London Records. It will be packaged similarly to previous editions and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
Do not miss out. This product is a limited edition and has a 14 day pre-order window, which closes on 8 October 2025. Availability cannot be guaranteed after that date.
SDE Surround Series collectors should be aware that Thin Lizzy’s 1974 album Fighting has also just been announced today (#54 in the series). Details on the shop.
The Cars’ 1984 studio album, Heartbeat City, will be reissued as a 4CD+vinyl LP deluxe edition in October.
Featuring many hit singles, including ‘Drive’, ‘You Might Think’ and ‘Magic’, the album was produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange and remains the band’s most commercially successful long-player.
This new deluxe edition is in Rhino’s now familiar large format deluxe packaging that combines CDs with vinyl. This is despite constant feedback from fans who do not like these ‘mixed media’ packages.
The content looks fairly good with two CDs of remixes, early and alternate versions and a disc featuring a full 1984 concert recorded in Houston. This is in addition to the standard album on CD 1 and on the vinyl (no word on remastering). This package comes with a 12-inch booklet.
Heartbeat City deluxe edition will be released on 31 October, via Rhino.
