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Soft Cell / Keychains and Snowstorms CD, DVD, Book
Keychains and Snowstorms is a new 10-disc Soft Cell box set that “tells the definitive story of one of electronic music’s most thrilling and pioneering acts”. The 9CD+DVD package features a wealth of material – 50 percent of which the label claim is unreleased – including 12-inch mixes remastered, B-sides remastered, new extended/reworked versions, early versions and demos, radio sessions, live recordings and more.
Sheryl Crow will issued Live at the Capitol Theatre in November, an audio-visual combo package that celebrates the final show of her 2017 Be Myself Tour.
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Eight years into Paul McCartney‘s sloth-like reissue campaign and Yoko Ono has just announced a box set from his old bandmate and songwriting partner that eclipses any of McCartney s deluxe editions.
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British comedy TV series The League of Gentlemen is celebrated in November by Demon Records. The label have worked with creators Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson to produce a lavish 12LP coloured vinyl box set that features some stunning illustrations by horror legend Graham Humphreys.
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In a special ‘Saturday Deals’ post, SDE highlights some massively reduced box sets available in the UK right now. For a change, these are mostly CD box sets from the likes of Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Pete Townshend, Soundgarden, Def Leppard and more!
Guns N’ Roses / Appetite for Destruction 4CD+blu-ray super deluxe – £84
Was £140! With VAT deducted that’s a US dollar price of $90. Includes 5.1 mix.
Universal Music will, in November, issue Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971, a new six-disc Mott The Hoople box set which delivers everything the band recorded during their time at Island Records including many bonus tracks and unreleased material.
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BMG will issue a 30th anniversary deluxe edition of Mike + The Mechanics 1988 album Living Years, in November.
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You spoke, they listened. BMG and Yazoo responded to the minor furore about the lack of a CD edition of the forthcoming Four Pieces release and quickly moved to ensure that this package (which includes remastered albums, remixes and unreleased BBC sessions) would be available on CD.
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A 25th anniversary edition of The Cranberries‘ debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? will be released in October across a number of formats including a four-disc box set
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USA: The Band / Music From Big Pink super deluxe – $67 (or £52)
Includes 2018 stereo mix, 2LP vinyl, blu-ray with new 5.1, and 7″ single.
SDE is giving away two recent CD box sets by British punk legends U.K. SUBS! One lucky winner will receive both The Albums A-M and The Albums N-Z. With 15 CDs in each package that’s a tremendous 30CD bundle.
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Jethro Tull‘s 1968 debut album, This Was, will be reissued as a 3CD+DVD deluxe edition in November with stereo and surround mixes by Steven Wilson and rare recordings.
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Depeche Mode / Archive 12-inch boxes Vinyl, Box Set
In August, Sony will issue two new Depeche Mode vinyl box sets that feature the 12-inch singles issued for their first two albums, Speak & Spell and A Broken Frame.
Paul McCartney has emailed his ‘biggest’ Spotify fans to offer those who use the streaming platform an exclusive physical product.
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Save at least £100 on the massive Guns N’ Roses ‘Locked N’ Loaded’ Appetite For Destruction box set, with this deal via Amazon Germany.
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T.Rex Gold is a new, improbably priced, three-CD compilation that brings together the greatest hits of Marc Bolan & T.Rex. It’s available as a double vinyl set, too.
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The Thompson Twins‘ sixth album Close To The Bone will be reissued as a limited edition white vinyl pressing at the end of August.
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Well it didn’t take long, but Amazon in the UK have now reduced the mighty John Lennon Imagine six-disc box set down to a superb price.
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Gilbert O’Sullivan‘s new self-titled album is released today and although it earned a mention in this week’s Out This Week post, it turns out you can buy SIGNED vinyl and CD editions from his official online store.
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In October, Universal Music will reissue John Lennon‘s 1971 Imagine album across a number of physical formats as Imagine – The Ultimate Collection. The most exciting of these is a new six-disc (four CDs and two blu-ray audio discs) super deluxe edition box set that is ‘remixed and remastered’ and contains all manner of outtakes, sessions, demos, alternate takes, surround mixes, and more. 135 tracks in total.
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