Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
You may have been alerted to the spectacularly discounted Roxy Music super deluxe, but there are other great deals in the UK right now for music box sets, with significant discounts on physical packages featuring the music of Queen, Cream, The Beatles, Elvis, The Verve and more. See the selection, below…
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Rhino are to mark Yes‘ 50th anniversary with a new vinyl box set Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes.
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Demon Music’s forthcoming Five Star box set sounded very promising but the track listing hadn’t been officially confirmed by the label – until now.
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Cherry Red continue their Remixes & Rarities series (initiated by a certain SDE editor) with a two-CD set of classic 12-inch versions, rare mixes and other audio nuggets from short-lived 80s pop band King.
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The 1993 Sisters of Mercy compilation, Greatest Hits Volume One: A Slight Case Of Overbombing, will be reissued as a remastered double vinyl package.
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Amazing price for last year’s Roxy Music super deluxe edition right now in the UK!
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Suede will release a new album, The Blue Hour, in September.
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Oleta Adams‘ 1990 album features the big hit Get Here. Tears For Fears‘ Seeds of Love team were at the helm, so this was produced by Roland Orzabal and Dave Bascombe, with songwriting contributions from Orzabal and Nicky Holland. This is a two-CD set with bonus B-sides and remixes, and I interviewed Oleta, Roland et al, for the sleeve notes. The signed copies available via the SDE shop (now sold out) will follow in a couple of weeks. 
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DE: Brian Eno / Music For Installations 6CD super deluxe – €329 (or £280)
It’s due out on Friday, but if you order the massive ‘plexiglas’ Brian Eno super deluxe from Amazon Germany and you’ll save around £40-50 on the UK price. US fans hunting for this should consider this deal too, since it’s about $336 once VAT is deducted.
ABBA have returned to the studio and recorded two new songs which will be used in their forthcoming virtual reality tour.
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For two days only (27 and 28 April) Amazon France are offering €10 off a spend of €50 or more. The code to use is FRENCHDAYS10 and as usual, with some careful selections, this creates some good buying opportunities when it comes to physical music, reissues and box sets (although the deal isn’t just limited to music). SDE makes some suggestions…
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The Black Box Recorder box set that Luke Haines told SDE about last year is called Life Is Unfair and can now be pre-ordered on Amazon UK for a great price.
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The Killers‘ seven albums will be reissued on vinyl in Career Box, a 10LP box set.
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Scottish indie band Teenage Fanclub are to issue five of their studio albums on vinyl, later this year.
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A further variant of Phil Collins‘ The Singles will be issued in June.
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Universal Music will issue The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2006, a lavish Rolling Stones vinyl box set in June.
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The Grateful Dead‘s second album, 1968’s Anthem of the Sun, will be reissued as a 50th anniversary two-CD deluxe edition in July.
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The SuperDeluxeEdition April Fool this year was the announcement of a fictitious Paul McCartney remix compilation called Dub Sandwich. It seems that the team at Record Collector magazine in the UK are fans of SDE, since they saw the article and have listed the remix-tastic set as an official forthcoming release in the May issue of the magazine!
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A reinterpretation of Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin‘s score for George Romero’s 1978 cult horror zombie flick Dawn Of The Dead is being issued as a highly limited fan bundle which includes all sorts of goodies.
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Demon Records will reissue quirky ’80s pop act Haysi Fantayzee’s one and only album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing as a special coloured double vinyl pressing which includes extra tracks on the bonus LP.
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