Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Are you ready for November? In what has to be the most heavily congested release schedule I can remember, for physical music fans of a certain demographic (SDE readers, effectively), there is an absurd amount of great product coming out. If you have eclectic taste then prepare your wallet for action…
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There’s that old adage that if you can’t knock out a song on an acoustic guitar or plonk out the chords on a piano, then it’s probably not very good. I’m not sure I totally agree with it – The Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ probably doesn’t lend itself to such treatment, and is still a great track – but Johnny Hates Jazz have decided to put the ten songs on their 1988 debut to this test by including an acoustic version of the entire album as one of the bonus CDs in the recent 30th anniversary reissue of their debut Turn Back The Clock (the other disc is the more traditional mix of extended versions, B-sides and demos).
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Sony will celebrate Elvis Presley‘s ’68 Comeback Special will a seven-disc super deluxe edition box set, due to be issued at the end of November.
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3LP coloured vinyl box set • All three albums
Transvision Vamp‘s three albums for MCA, including the unreleased-in-the-UK third album, are brought together in I Want Your Love, a new 3LP vinyl box set.
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Dead Or Alive‘s 1984 debut album Sophisticated Boom Boom will be reissued on limited edition orange/black vinyl next month.
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Legendary producer Trevor Horn, often credited with ‘inventing the 80s’, now ‘reimagines’ the decade with a newly announced album of eighties classics recorded with ‘the Sarm Orchestra’ and a string of guest vocalists including Robbie Williams, Seal and Tony Hadley.
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6LP coloured vinyl studio albums box set • Some on vinyl for the first time
This December, Demon Records will issue Rejuvenation 2001-2014 a collectors’ coloured vinyl box set that brings together the studio albums of Simple Minds spanning the era that delivered covers album Neon Lights (2001) through to 2014’s Big Music.
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As previously reported, the Manic Street Preachers will reissue their 1998 album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, with anniversary CD and vinyl sets now confirmed for December.
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Music On Vinyl will issue Tanita Tikaram‘s 1988 album Ancient Heart as a special coloured vinyl 30th anniversary edition in December.
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Deluxe packaging • A ‘Bryan Ferry Orchestra’ album
Bryan Ferry will release a new album Bitter-Sweet in November.
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Neil Young will release Songs For Judy in November an album of live performances from 1976.
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Cherry Red will release a two-CD expanded deluxe edition of The Politics of Dancing, the debut album from short-lived synth-pop outfit Re-Flex.
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4LP vinyl box • Coloured vinyl • Bonus LP of non-album material
Demon Records will next month issue The Stiff Recordings 1977-1980 a new 4LP coloured vinyl box set featuring three Ian Dury/and The Blockheads albums issued in that three year period, along with a bonus LP.
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The Kinks / The Kinks Are The Village Preservation Society CD, Vinyl, Box Set
BMG issue a massive 11-disc 50th anniversary super deluxe edition of The Kinks‘ 1968 album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society.
XTC will reissue Skylarking, Apple Venus (Vol. I) and Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. II) as remastered 200g single vinyl pressings this week.
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The Rolling Stones are next month issuing Voodoo Lounge Uncut, the full unedited live performance from Nov 1994, previously issued in truncated form in the 1990s.
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So Mr Record Company Executive, you’ve done the easy bit. You’ve collected, curated and repackaged David Bowie’s peerless output from the 1970s and sat back as music fans of every virtually every generation were bowled over by the quality of the music, the sheer number of albums and Bowie’s ever-changing image and artistic integrity. Job done.
Your mission now, should you choose to accept it: The 1980s….
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Paul McCartney continues his ‘Archive Collection’ reissue series in December with two early Wings albums: Wild Life from 1971 and Red Rose Speedway from 1973. Both are issued as lavish super deluxe box sets (as well as all the other usual formats) and are also collected in an expensive Wings 1971-1973 limited edition box set that features additional books and audio.
With 1970’s McCartney a solo album and the following year’s RAM credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, WildLife (an album I have always called ‘Wings Wildlife’!) was effectively the long-playing debut from Wings. It was released only seven months after RAM in December ’71. There were no singles at all from this album, although in 1972 a series of non-album 45s were released: ‘Give Ireland Back To The Irish’, ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ and ‘Hi Hi Hi’ / ‘C-Moon’. All are included as bonus tracks (with their respective B-sides) on these new reissues.
UK: The Doors / Waiting For The Sun -2CD+LP super deluxe – £30
Great price for this quite recent super deluxe with features 14 previously unreleased tracks and a newly remastered stereo mix.
Sony Music in Japan will issue a 40th anniversary edition of Billy Joel‘s album 52nd Street as a multi-channel hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD) which boasts a ludicrously lavish (and satisfyingly geeky) packaging.
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