David Sylvian‘s 1999 solo album Dead Bees On A Cake was issued on (white) vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day 2018, but will soon by widely available on the format as a double 180g black vinyl set, featuring the same bonus tracks.
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New book: Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
Another ‘must buy’ book for this autumn (along with Ricochet and Imagine John Yoko) is Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin, the “first and only official illustrated book to be produced in collaboration with the members of the band”.
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Pixies / Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa / 30th anniversary reissue
Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa is a forthcoming 30th anniversary deluxe edition that brings together Pixies‘ eight-track mini-album Come On Pilgrim and the band’s full-length album Surfer Rosa.
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Yazoo will issue ‘Four Pieces’ on CD after listening to fan feedback
BMG/Yazoo change their mind after SDE highlights fan dissatisfaction
Fans disappointed by the lack of a CD version of Yazoo‘s recently announced Four Pieces vinyl box set can celebrate a small victory tonight, as the band announce that the four disc package will now be issued on CD, as a direct result of ‘fan demand / feedback’.
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Bobbie Gentry / Girl From Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters
The Girl From Chickasaw County is a new career spanning eight-CD deluxe set that brings together all of American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry’s studio albums and adds a massive amount of previously unreleased recordings.
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Alice in Chains / Rainier Fog signed CD
Alice in Chains will issue a new album, Rainier Fog, later this month, and Amazon in the UK have an exclusive SIGNED CD edition up for pre-order.
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Ramones Road to Ruin super deluxe edition now available in the UK
The forthcoming Ramones Road to Ruin super deluxe edition looks to be one of the best Ramones 40th anniversary sets to date, with an incredible amount of bonus material in the 3CD+LP package. While it was announced almost two weeks ago, for some reason it has been unavailable for pre-order in the UK, until now.
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Culture Club announce new album, ‘Life’
After the debacle of Tribes, the previous-album-that-never-came-out (see the PledgeMusic campaign page that was cancelled, with customers refunded) Culture Club (I can’t be doing with this ‘Boy George and Culture Club’ business) have finally got their act together and have repurposed the album as Life, with the release scheduled for October.
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Deep Purple / Purple vinyl reissues
Universal Music are to release coloured vinyl reissues of classic early seventies Deep Purple albums, each mastered from new transfers.
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
SPAIN: Roger Waters / Is This The Life We Really Want coloured vinyl – £13
AMAZING price for this limited edition 2LP green vinyl set.
David Bowie / Zeroes 2018 limited edition seven-inch picture disc
In anticipation of the David Bowie Loving The Alien box set, Parlophone will issue a special seven-inch vinyl picture disc of Zeroes (2018), from the newly ‘re-produced’ version of 1987’s Never Let Me Down which is included in the box set.
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Out This Week / on 3 August 2018
Ben Folds Five / Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1994-2012 CD, Box Set
Signed sets are long gone, but this 13CD box is still an impressive collection, featuring all four Ben Folds Five albums (including 2012’s comeback album, The Sound of the Life of the Mind), all of Folds’ solo albums (up until 2012) as well as live recordings, b-sides and lots of other bonus material. Presented in a unique brick box set.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters return with a new album, ‘Look Now’
Elvis Costello & The Imposters (the latter being two-thirds of The Attractions: Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher on bass) have recorded a new album Look Now which will be released in October on Concord Music.
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Saturday Deluxe / 28 July 2018
Fans slam decision not to issue Yazoo box on CD
If you believe the ‘death of the CD’ hype – largely perpetuated by the media and some parts of the record industry itself – then it might be worth taking a look at the comments from real fans on SDE, under the recent post about the forthcoming Yazoo Four Pieces box set, which paint a very different picture…
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The Beta Band / The Three E.P.’s / 20th anniversary 4LP deluxe vinyl box set
Because Music have acquired the back catalogue of The Beta Band and will start a reissue campaign with a 4LP deluxe coloured vinyl presentation of the classic Three E.P.’s compilation.
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The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King 6LP coloured vinyl & 4CD+blu-ray
All journeys must come to an end, and so it is the case with Rhino’s glorious limited edition coloured vinyl box sets of Howard Shore’s ‘Complete Recordings’ of Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings franchise. The Return of the King will be issued in September as a numbered six-LP vinyl set and a 4CD+blu-ray edition.
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Johnny Hates Jazz / Turn Back The Clock / 3CD and 2LP vinyl reissue
Late ’80s British pop group Johnny Hates Jazz are reissuing a 30th anniversary deluxe edition of their debut Turn Back The Clock.
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True Romance soundtrack / 25th anniversary edition white splatter vinyl
The soundtrack to Tony Scott’s True Romance – one of the best films of the 1990s – is being reissued (again) as a special coloured vinyl pressing.
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Yazoo / Four Pieces 4LP vinyl box
As synthpop duo Yazoo (known as ‘Yaz’ in the US), Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet issued two classic albums, before going their own way and enjoying further success (with Erasure and as a solo artist, respectively). Thirty-five years on from this this brief, but productive, collaboration, a new four-LP vinyl box called Four Pieces is to be released. It includes both albums, a remix LP and a disc of largely unreleased BBC Sessions.
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Small Faces / Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake SIGNED 50th anniversary box sets
The Small Faces classic 1968 album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake will be reissued in September as a 50th anniversary box set, with 3LP vinyl and 3CD+DVD variants available.
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