Lost Highway soundtrack reissued on limited edition yellow vinyl

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The soundtrack to David Lynch‘s 1997 film Lost Highway is to be reissued on vinyl, with the first 2000 available as a yellow pressing (with a ‘tip of black’).
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Alison Moyet deluxe editions now available for pre-order

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As previously reported, ‘the Sony four’, as we like to call Alison Moyet‘s long-players issued between 1984 and 1994, are being reissued as two-CD deluxe editions. These are now available to pre-order…

Quick pre-order links: Alf 2CDRaindancing 2CDHoodoo 2CDEssex 2CD
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XTC / Skylarking 30th anniversary definitive CD+blu-ray edition

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It’s been a busy few years for XTC‘s 1986 album Skylarking wth the vinyl reissue back in 2010, the ‘corrected polarity’ CD of 2014, this year’s boxed deluxe vinyl version and now – thanks to the discovery of the multi-tracks – a double-disc 30th anniversary definitive edition which delivers a Steven Wilson 5.1 surround mix on blu-ray audio, along with a wealth of other bonus material.
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Deal alert / Lee Hazlewood Industries: 5-disc deluxe edition

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If you haven’t got There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving 1966-1971, the superbly packaged five-disc celebration of producer, songwriter and label-owning maverick Lee Hazlewood, then there’s really no excuse now, since it’s available at the moment at a crazily cheap price over on Amazon Italy.
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Donna Summer / The Ultimate Collection career-spanning hits set on 3CD & 2LP

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The Ultimate Collection is a new triple-disc Donna Summer collection that brings together 50 classic tracks from 1968 onwards, including the hits, Macarthur Park, This Time I Know It’s For Real, Love To Love You Baby, She Works Hard For The Money, Dinner With Gershwin, State of Independence and I Feel Love
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Out This Week / 7 October 2016

Lou Reed / The RCA & Arista Album Collection (17CD box)

All of Lou Reed‘s solo albums from the 1970s and early ’80s remastered under the “direct personal supervision” of the American rock musician shortly before his death. Large format box includes, 80-page hardbound book, poster + five 8″ x 10″ prints. Read more


Yes/ Tales From Topographic Oceans (CD+blu-ray)

Fifth in the series of the Yes reissues and as with previous album reissues, this boasts Steven Wilson stereo and 5.1 mixes and masses of bonus material. Read more Continue reading “Out This Week / 7 October 2016”

Saturday Deluxe / 1 October 2016

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November spawned a monster

It is of course common practise for record labels to ‘save’ their premium products for the latter part of the year because as well as targeting the music obsessive (that’ll be you and me, then) and feeding their wallet-emptying pastime, the record companies know that friends and family are also on the look out for *that* Christmas gift to bring us joy during the festive period (probably via some unsubtle hints like “wow, have you seen this Lou Reed box, that looks amazing…”). But in the five and a half years SDE has been up and running, I’ve never known a month quite like November 2016, when it comes to reissues and box sets…
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Queen / On Air / archive radio sessions issued for the first time on CD and vinyl

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Virgin/EMI (Hollywood Records in the US) will issue Queen On Air in November, an archival release that brings together six Queen radio sessions recorded for the BBC between February 1973 and October 1977.
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