New label on the blog and Razor & Tie imprint Analog Spark will reissue Meat Loaf‘s classic Bat Out Of Hell as a Super Audio CD (SACD) next month…
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Author: Paul Sinclair
Top 20: Wings and solo Paul McCartney
With the release of Pure McCartney today, SDE picks its own top 20 Wings and solo McCartney recordings. One track per album (except Driving Rain, which hasn’t got a good track on it). Check out our selections below with many rare videos and audio for each song…
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Pet Shop Boys issue ‘Twenty Something’ a second single from SUPER
The Pet Shop Boys will release a second CD single from their album SUPER, later this month..
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XTC / Skylarking and English Settlement heavyweight 2LP deluxe vinyl packages
Andy Partridge is preparing deluxe double vinyl packages of two XTC albums: the corrected polarity edition of 1986’s Skylarking and English Settlement (1982) …
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Blank & Jones / so80s box set
Let’s face it, things are just better when they’re in a box. So SDE notes with interest that our friends Blank & Jones have created a limited edition box set to house all of their various artists so80s remix compilations, including volume 10 which is out this week…
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SDEtv: Marvin Gaye Vol 3 vinyl unboxing
SDE Editor Paul Sinclair takes a look at the recent Marvin Gaye Volume Three 1971-1981 vinyl box set in this unboxing video…
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FIRST PICTURES / Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul
Out last week was the new Dexys album, modestly called Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul. This is available as a 2CD+DVD deluxe, with signed copies initially available from Amazon in the UK. Check out some photos of this rather good value package, below…
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Sex Pistols / Live ’76 box set
Universal Music celebrate the 40th Anniversary of punk this summer with Live ’76, a new Sex Pistols box of historic live performances, available on 4LP vinyl or 4CD.
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UK retailer HMV announce limited editions as part of ‘Vinyl Week’
UK music retailer HMV have announced a ‘vinyl week’ where their customers will benefit from special discounts on selected vinyl records, and unique limited edition coloured vinyl pressings…
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Gilbert O’Sullivan / The Essential Collection / new 2CD best of
A new two-CD set featuring the best of Gilbert O’Sullivan will be issued this week…
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A Decade of Dio / 6CD & 6LP box set
Rhino will remember the work of the late Ronnie James Dio next month, with the release of a brand new box set, A Decade of Dio 1983-1993.
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Blank & Jones on curating so80s
Exclusively for SDE, those producers, remixers, DJs and compilation curators Blank & Jones, reveal the challenges and frustrations in putting together so80s compilations and spotlight a few selections from the forthcoming so80s 10, which is released this week…
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Out This Week / on 10 June 2016
Paul McCartney / Pure McCartney
With only the one greatest hits compilation in the last 29 years, Paul McCartney‘s Pure McCartney is certainly overdue. Leaving off Flowers In The Dirt tracks still rankles, but two-CD will satisfy most, while 4CD deluxe package lacks rarities. 
Phil Collins / …But Seriously and The Essential Going Back
And we’re done… Less than six months after the first two, Phil Collins completes his reissue campaign with …But Seriously and, bizarrely, a cut-down ‘Essential’ version of Going Back.
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Deal alert / Chicago: Quadio box set
Out in a couple of weeks is this Chicago box set called Quadio which contains nine blu-ray audio discs featuring hi-res stereo and original quadrophonic mixes of their first eight studio albums (1969-76) plus the 1975 greatest hits compilation. It is finally available in Europe, and at a great price.
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Ramones 40th anniversary
New image of the 40th anniversary deluxe edition of the Ramones 1976 self-titled debut…
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Saturday Deluxe / 4 June 2016
New remix of A Design For Life
As part of the Everything Must Go 20th anniversary Manic Street Preachers have commissioned a new remix of their classic single A Design For Life. The remix is by David Wrench and you can listen to it on SoundCloud (see below). Let us know what you think!
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It’s Immaterial / Life’s Hard and Then You Die reissue track listing revealed
We’re pleased to confirm the full track listing of the forthcoming 30th anniversary deluxe reissue of the It’s Immaterial album Life’s Hard And Then You Die…
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Deal alert / The Monkees: Classic Album Collection 10CD box set
Incredible price over on Amazon Spain for the recent 50th anniversary The Monkees Classic Album Collection…
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R.E.M. vinyl reissues
R.E.M. are to reissue three early albums on vinyl in July…
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Nineties Bowie back in print
Parlophone Label Group are reissuing three David Bowie albums on CD next month originally released between 1995 and 2000.
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