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Wilco / The Whole Love: Expanded

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Wilco’s 2011 album The Whole Love will be reissued as a 2CD deluxe edition in May.

The band’s eighth studio album includes the songs ‘Art of Almost’, ‘Dawned on Me’ and ‘Sunloathe’.

The Whole Love 2CD expanded edition

This new expanded 2CD deluxe edition offers revised cover art and a bonus disc of related single, EP and bonus tracks plus a selection from The Loft’s archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos.

The Whole Love will be reissued on 2 May 2025, via Sony.

Tracklisting

The Whole Love: Expanded Wilco / 2CD deluxe

    • CD 1
      1. Art of Almost
      2. I Might
      3. Sunloathe
      4. Dawned on Me
      5. Black Moon
      6. Born Alone
      7. Open Mind
      8. Capitol City
      9. Standing O
      10. Rising Red Lung
      11. WholeLove
      12. One Sunday Morning
    • CD 2
      1. I Love My Label
      2. Speak Into The Rose
      3. Message from Mid-Bar
      4. Sometimes It Happens
      5. Black Moon (iTunes Session)
      6. Born Alone (SiriusXM Session)
      7. Dawned on Me (SiriusXM Session)
      8. I Might (SiriusXM Session)
      9. Cruel To Be Kind (feat. Nick Lowe)
      10. Art of Almost (Demo)
      11. Rising Red Lung (early rough)
      12. Sunloathe (early rough)
      13. WholeLove (iTunes Session)

NOW 12″80s 1984 – Part Two

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Now That’s What I Call Music continue their CD collections of 1980s twelve-inch mixes with a new 4CD set: NOW 12″ 80s: 1984 Part Two

This set follows up Part One from January and what with this being 1984 and all, it’s rather predictably good – if familiar. Its 46 tracks include massive hits from Wham!, Culture Club, Nena, Eurythmics, New Order, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Bronski Beat, ABC, Art of Noise, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Tina Turner, Simple Minds and many more.

There’s a few notable rarities, such as the 8.10 Extended Mix of the ‘Playout’ version of Paul McCartney’s ‘No More Lonely Nights’, which has thus far only appeared on CD on the 1993 reissue of Give My Regards to Broad Street (the 6.53 Arthur Baker ‘Special Dance Mix’ remains unreleased on CD). It has to be said that NOW are doing good work in getting out rare Macca remixes (with the man himself apparently uninterested) since over the last few years they have so far having delivered on CD the Extended Mixes of ‘Say Say Say’, ‘Once Upon A Long Ago’ and now ‘No More Lonely Nights’. Let’s hope John ‘Tokes’ Potoker’s 1986’s remix of ‘Pretty Little Head’ will be in their sights in the future, although that single wasn’t it hit, so that may well be an issue.

Back to this compilation, and it is quite possibly hosting the CD debut of the Extended Mix of Elton John’s hit ‘Passengers’ and it’s also home to the early 1984 extended mix of the Thompson Twins ‘Lay Your Hands On Me’, which is the Alex Sadkin co-produced version before Nile Rodgers laid his hands on it. This version is a bit more Into The Gap than Here’s To Future Days which is obviously a good thing!

NOW 12″ 80s: 1984 Part Two will be released on 11 April 2025.

Tracklisting

NOW 12″80s 1984: Part Two Various Artists /

    • CD 1
      1. Wham! – Freedom (Long Mix)
      2. Culture Club – The War Song (Ultimate Dance Mix)
      3. Nena – 99 Red Balloons (Club Mix)
      4. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Extended Mix)
      5. New Order – Thieves Like Us (12″ Extended)
      6. Scritti Politti – Absolute (Version)
      7. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams (Extended)
      8. Ultravox – Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (12” Version)
      9. Spandau Ballet – Highly Strung (Extended Version)
      10. Alison Moyet – Invisible (Extended Version)
      11. Bananarama – Rough Justice (Original 12” Mix)
      12. Elton John – Passengers (Extended Remix)
    • CD 2
      1. Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (New York Mix)
      2. Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy (12”)
      3. Hazell Dean – Searchin’ (I Gotta Find A Man) (12″ Version)
      4. Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It For The Boy (Extended Version)
      5. The Pointer Sisters – Automatic (12″ Special Remix)
      6. Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home) (Special Extended Version)
      7. The Art Of Noise – Beat Box (Diversion One)
      8. ABC – How To Be A Millionaire (Bond Street Mix)
      9. Re-Flex – The Politics Of Dancing (12” Extended Mix)
      10. Talk Talk – It’s My Life (Extended Mix)
      11. Fiction Factory – (Feels Like) Heaven (12” Version)
    • CD 3
      1. Duran Duran – The Reflex (Dance Mix)
      2. Nik Kershaw – I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Extended Mix)
      3. Kim Wilde – The Second Time (Extended Version)
      4. Limahl – Never Ending Story (12” Dance Mix)
      5. Thompson Twins – Lay Your Hands On Me (U.S. Remix)
      6. Nick Heyward – Love All Day (And Night)
      7. Simple Minds – Speed Your Love To Me (Extended Mix)
      8. Soft Cell – Down In The Subway (12″ Version)
      9. The Stranglers – Skin Deep (Extended Version)
      10. Echo & The Bunnymen – Silver (Tidal Wave)
      11. The Icicle Works – Love Is A Wonderful Colour (Long Version)
      12. Swans Way – Soul Train (12″ Mix)
    • CD 4
      1. Paul McCartney – No More Lonely Nights (Extended Version)
      2. Tina Turner – Better Be Good To Me (Extended 12” Remix)
      3. The S.O.S Band – Just Be Good To Me (Long Version)
      4. Change – Change Of Heart (Long Version)
      5. Lionel Richie – Running With The Night (Album Version)
      6. Shakatak – Down On The Street (Dance Mix)
      7. Miami Sound Machine – Dr. Beat (Long Version)
      8. Ollie & Jerry – Breakin’…There’s No Stopping Us (12″ Version)
      9. Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me (Vocal)
      10. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Talking Loud And Clear (Extended Version)
      11. Howard Jones – Hide And Seek (Extended Version)

Tracy Chapman’s debut to be reissued on vinyl

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Tracy Chapman’s eponymous debut album will be reissued on vinyl next month.

The long-player features the singles ‘Fast Car’, ‘Talkin’ Bout A Revolution’, and ‘Baby Can I Hold You’, and has gone on to sell more than 20m copies worldwide, since its release in 1988.

This is being promoted as a 35th anniversary reissue (?) and has been prepared for release by Chapman and the album’s original producer, David Kershenbaum. The album is pressed on 180g vinyl with audio sourced from an analogue master. It comes with the insert of translated lyrics, which accompanied the original international release. As well as a standard black vinyl edition, an exclusive orange vinyl version is available via Amazon.

Tracy Chapman will be reissued on 4 April 2025, via Rhino/Elektra.

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Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman / 35th anniversary vinyl LP

    • Side One
      1. Talkin’ Bout A Revolution (2:38)
      2. Fast Car (4:58)
      3. Across The Lines (3:22)
      4. Behind The Wall (1:46)
      5. Baby Can I Hold You (3:16)
      Side Two
      1. Mountains O’ Things (4:37)
      2. She’s Got Her Ticket (3:54)
      3. Why? (2:01)
      4. For My Lover (3:15)
        5. If Not Now… (2:55)
        6. For You (3:09)

Grateful Dead / The Music Never Stopped

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The Music Never Stopped is a brand new compilation of Grateful Dead live performances taken from a mammoth limited edition 60CD box set called Enjoying The Ride.

This ‘breakout’ collection comes in 3CD and 6LP editions and consists of at least one song from every show featured in Enjoying The Ride, including at classic Dead venues as Winterland, Red Rocks, the Spectrum, the Frost, the Fillmore East, and more.

The 3CD version of The Music Never Stopped (click image to enlarge)

The big 60CD box (only available via the band’s website) features mostly unreleased material, so that obviously translates through to this smaller package (if you can call a 6LP vinyl box set ‘small’).

The Music Never Stopped will be released on 30 May 2025, via Rhino.

Tracklisting

The Music Never Stopped Grateful Dead /

    • CD 1
      1. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (5/13/78)
      2. ALTHEA Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (3/14/81)
      3. PLAYING IN THE BAND Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73)
      4. HARD TO HANDLE Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/25/71)
      5. WHARF RAT Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (9/16/87)
      6. DOIN’ THAT RAG Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/5/69)
      7. MY BROTHER ESAU Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (8/20/83)
      8. DEAL Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (5/12/91)
    • CD 2
      1. SCARLET BEGONIAS Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
      2. TOUCH OF GREY Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
      3. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
      4. LAZY LIGHTNING> Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
      5. SUPPLICATION Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
      6. ATTICS OF MY LIFE Boston Garden, Boston, MA (10/3/94)
      7. ESTIMATED PROPHET Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
      8. EYES OF THE WORLD Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
      9. BROWN-EYED WOMEN Winterland, San Francisco, CA (3/20/77)
    • CD 3
      1. TRUCKIN’> Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
      2. SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN’Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
      3. BIG BOY PETE Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/21/85)
      4. BIRD SONG Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/15/72)
      5. LET IT GROW Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (5/1/81)
      6. BLACK MUDDY RIVER Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89)
      7. DAYS BETWEEN Capital Centre, Landover MD (3/17/93)
      8. NOT FADE AWAY> Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
      9. GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD> Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
      10. NOT FADE AWAY Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)

Box Set and Reissue Deals for March 2025

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Elton John & Brandi Carlile / Who Believes in Angels? Amazon exclusive CD

£8 was £12

Deal Over!

The Who / Who’s Next / Life House 10CD+blu-ray £103 10CD+blu-ray

£103 was £230

Deal Over!
Def Leppard / Pyromania 40

Def Leppard / Pyromania 4CD+blu-ray box – £26 4CD+blu-ray box set

£26 was £54

Deal Over!

This features the album remastered, a disc of rarities, two live CDs and a blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos Mix, a 5.1 mix, a new stereo mix, an instrumental version and five videos.

Neil Young / On The Beach 50th anniversary clear vinyl LP

Neil Young / On The Beach – clear vinyl LP £17 50th anniversary clear vinyl LP

£17

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Little Feat / Feats Don’t Fail Me Now 3CD – £11 3CD deluxe

£13 was £20

Deal Over!
David Bowie / Rock 'n' Roll Star! 5CD+blu-ray deluxe set

David Bowie / Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! 5CD+blu-ray – £63 5CD+blu-ray deluxe

£63

Deal Over!

Great price for the Ziggy Stardust box.

King Crimson / Red 2CD+2xBlu-ray – £20 2CD+2xBlu-ray

£20 was £40

Deal Over!

Kevin Ayers / All This Crazy Gift Of Time 8CD+DVD box – £68 8CD+DVD

£68 was £89

Deal Over!

U2 / Songs of Surrender 4CD set 4CD

£12

Deal Over!

Joni Mitchell / Archives Vol 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980 6CD set

£52

Deal Over!
Queen / Queen I 6CD+LP collector's edition

Queen / Queen 1 6CD+LP collector’s edition 6CD+LP collector’s edition

£85

Deal Over!

Superb price for the lavish Queen 1 box. You can watch the SDE unboxing video, here.

Prince / Diamonds and Pearls 7CD+blu-ray super deluxe edition box set reissue

Prince / Diamonds and Pearls 7CD+blu-ray super deluxe 7CD+Blu-ray super deluxe

£54

Deal Over!

Aphrodite’s Child / 666 4CD+blu-ray 4CD+blu-ray

£45

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Talking Heads / Talking Heads: 77 3CD+blu-ray – £44 3CD+blu-ray

£44 was £80

Deal Over!

Half-price for this Talking Heads super deluxe which includes an Atmos Mix.

a-ha / True North 2LP+CD+USB deluxe – £18 2LP+CD+USB+book

£17

Deal Over!
Swing Out Sister / Blue Mood, Breakout & Beyond

Swing Out Sister / Blue Mood, Breakout & Beyond 8CD box – £30 8CD

£30 was £50

Deal Over!

Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent 4CD+DVD – £20 4CD+DVD

£20 was £35

Deal Over!
Blondie / Against The Odds 10LP super deluxe

Blondie / Against The Odds 1974 – 1982 10LP super deluxe 10LP vinyl super deluxe

£134 was £250+

Deal Over!

The 10LP super deluxe set offers all six studio albums – Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican and The Hunter – and includes four additional LPs of session outtakes, B-sides, and demos. These rarities are titled ‘Plaza Sound’, ‘Parallel Beats’, ‘Coca Cola’, ‘Home Tapes’. This vinyl box comes with a bonus 10-inch of outtakes called ‘Out In The Streets’ and a seven-inch single featuring the band’s cover of The Doors’ ‘Moonlight Drive’ and demo of ‘Mr. Sightseer’. In total, it contains 124 studio tracks.

Joni Mitchell / Archives Vol 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980 4LP box set

£55

Deal Over!
Bob Dylan / Trouble No More 8CD+DVD box set

Bob Dylan / Trouble No More: Bootleg Series Vol 13 – 8CD+DVD 8CD+DVD

£60

Deal Over!

Suede / Dog Man Star 2LP half-speed 2LP half-speed vinyl

£18

Deal Over!

Talking Heads / Talking Heads: 77 – 3CD+blu-ray 3CD+blu-ray super deluxe

£67 was £80+

Deal Over!
Whitesnake / Still Good to be Bad 4CD+blu-ray box set

Whitesnake / Still Good to Be Bad 4CD+blu-ray 4CD+blu-ray

£27 was £36

Deal Over!

REM / New Adventures in Hi-Fi 2CD+blu-ray 2CD+blu-ray

£20

Deal Over!

Out This Week / on 14 March 2025

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Steven Wilson / new studio album The Overview

Steven Wilson / The Overview CD, Vinyl, Box Set, Blu-ray

Steven Wilson’s new album sees him return to expansive, progressive music, with a 42-minute​ long-player inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space. Deluxe box sets are sold out but there’s a few blu-rays and mint green vinyl editions on the SDE shop.

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Garbage / Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

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Garbage will release a new studio album called Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, in May.

The band’s eighth long-player was recorded at Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, Butch Vig’s studio Grunge Is Dead, and Shirley Manson’s bedroom. It was produced by the band and longtime engineer Billy Bush.

I have been lucky enough to enjoy a sneak preview of the album and for me it’s a real return to form. They’ve dialled down some of the industrial textures to offer some fantastic melody-driven grunge-pop. ‘There’s No Future In Optimism’ (the opener) has a title that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it has a insistent earworm of a refrain in “If you’re ready for love”. ‘Chinese Fire Horse’ is an expletive-laden corker, with some brilliant, angular guitar work. ‘Hold’ is driving pop with a great chorus, the dubby ‘Have We Met (The Void)’ starts with end-of-the-world synths and the dramatic, yearning ‘Love to Give’ us underscored by dramatic Timpani. There’s lots of production, with great arrangements, but despite that Let All That We Imagine Be The Light has an pleasing lo-fi charm. It’s the group’s best collection of songs since the original era.

CD with band-signed insert available from Amazon in the UK

Shirley Manson had this to say about the album: “Going into making this record, I was determined to find a more hopeful, uplifting world to immerse myself in. The title of the album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is a perfect, headline statement for the record as a whole. When things feel dark it feels imperative to seek out the forces that are light, positive and beautiful in the world. It almost feels like a matter of life and death. A strategy for survival”.

In terms of formats the album is available in ‘pearl sunrise’ coloured vinyl, orange vinyl and on CD. The official Garbage shop has various options, including signed prints with bundles, but you can buy the CD on its own with a signed insert, from Amazon in the UK.

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light will be released on CD and vinyl on 30 May via BMG.

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Garbage / Let All We Imagine Be The Light

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light Garbage /

      1. There’s No Future In Optimism
      2. Chinese Fire Horse
      3. Hold
      4. Have We Met (The Void)
      5. Sisyphus
      6. Radical
      7. Love To Give
      8. Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty
      9. R U Happy Now
      10. The Day That I Met God

Prince and the Revolution / Purple Rain blu-ray audio

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Prince’s timeless 1984 album Purple Rain has been mixed in Dolby Atmos and will be released on blu-ray audio in April. An exclusive SDE edition with a specially-designed slipcase is available to pre-order.

Prince shattered all expectations and made music history when he released the album Purple Rain, followed by the hit film of the same name weeks later. The 9-track LP went on to win two Grammy awards, two American Music Awards, a Brit Award, and an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score. 

In 2012 the Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry, which only accepts sound recordings that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”

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Purple Rain features the iconic singles ‘When Doves Cry’, ‘Let’s Go Crazy’, ‘Purple Rain’, ‘I Would Die 4 U’, and ‘Take Me With You’.  The album spent an incredible 24 weeks at number one on the Billboard album charts and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide.

The 2024 Dolby Atmos presentation ofPurple Rain was meticulously mixed from the original multi-track master tapes by Prince’s protege and Best Engineered Grammy nominee Chris James. 

This blu-ray audio (no video) features: 

  • Purple Rain 2024 Dolby Atmos Mix (48/24)
  • Purple Rain Original 1984 Mix (96/24)

The hi-res stereo mix is the 1984 mix as mastered by Bernie Grundman. It is not the 2015 Paisley Park remaster that was featured on the 2017 deluxe edition.

The SDE exclusive edition features a unique and specially designed slipcase unavailable anywhere else.

This special blu-ray audio edition of Purple Rain will be released on 25 April 2025 via NPG Records and Paisley Park Enterprises in partnership with Warner Records. 

Tracklisting

Purple Rain Prince and the Revolution / Blu-ray Audio

    • Blu-ray audio features Purple Rain in Dolby Atmos and 96/24 stereo mix
      1. Let’s Go Crazy
      2. Take Me With U
      3. The Beautiful Ones
      4. Computer Blue
      5. Darling Nikki
      6. When Doves Cry
      7. I Would Die 4 U
      8. Baby I’m A Star
      9. Purple Rain

Gary Numan / Berserker reissue

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Gary Numan’s 1984 album Berserker will be reissued in April.

The first album issued on his own label, Numa Records, Berserker signified the beginning of a new period in Numan’s career, where he would take his sound in a new direction. It would also see Numan’s commercial fortunes dip somewhat (the second single from the album, ‘My Dying Machine’, was his first not to make the UK top 40, peaking at 66, and the album itself failed to crack the top 40).

The album has been remastered and expanded to a 4CD deluxe edition (with bonus remixes and live performance) and as a 2LP vinyl set with selected bonus tracks. Expanded digital versions of Numa era albums come to streaming on 7 March 2025, and presumably these will all be issued physically, in due course.

Berserker will be reissued on 25 April 2025 via BMG.

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Tracklisting

Gary Numan / Beserker reissue

Beserker Gary Numan /

    • CD 1: Berserker
      1. Berserker
      2. This Is New Love
      3. The Secret
      4. My Dying Machine
      5. Cold Warning
      6. Pump It Up
      7. The God Film
      8. The Child With The Ghost
      9. The Hunter
    • CD 2: Bonus Tracks
      1. Empty Bed, Empty Heart (Bonus track)
      2. Here I Am (Bonus track)
      3. She Cries (Bonus track)
      4. Rumour (Bonus track)
      5. This Ship Comes Apart (Bonus track)
      6. Berserker (Extended Mix)
      7. This Is New Love (Extended Mix)
      8. The Secret (Extended Mix)
      9. My Dying Machine (Extended Mix)
      10. Cold Warning (Extended Mix)
      11. The Hunter (Extended Mix)
    • CD 3: White Noise (live)
      1. Intro
      2. Berserker
      3. Metal
      4. Me, I Disconnect From You
      5. Remind Me To Smile
      6. Sister Surprise
      7. Music For Chameleons
      8. The Iceman Comes
      9. Cold Warning
      10. Down In The Park
    • CD 4: White Noise (live)
      1. This Prison Moon
      2. I Die, You Die
      3. My Dying Machine
      4. Cars
      5. We Take Mystery (To Bed)
      6. We Are Glass
      7. This Is New Love
      8. My Shadow In Vain
      9. Are Friends Electric?

Suzanne Vega / Flying With Angels

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Suzanne Vega will release Flying With Angels, a new album, in May.

It’s Vega’s first studio album since 2016’s Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, although since that record featured songs written half a decade earlier (for the play Carson McCullers Talks About Love) Flying With Angels is actually Suzanne’s first album of new songs in 11 years (2014’s Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles being the last).

“Each song on the album takes place in an atmosphere of struggle,” Vega notes, “struggle to survive, to speak, to dominate, to win, to escape, to help someone else, or just live”.

The album features ‘Rats’, which was issued as a standalone single last year along with nine other songs.

In terms of formats, there’s a smart 2CD casebound book edition which offers six demos and 36 pages of content, available signed from Suzanne Vega’s official shop. The same channel has an exclusive red smoke vinyl edition of the new album. A single CD edition is also available.

Flying With Angels will be issued on 2 May 2025

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Flying With Angels Suzanne Vega /

    • Flying With Angels
      1. Speakers’ Corner
      2. Flying with Angels
      3. Witch
      4. Chambermaid
      5. Love Thief
      6. Lucinda
      7. Last Train From Mariupol
      8. Alley
      9. Rats
      10. Galway
    • Bonus CD (deluxe only)
      1. Flying with Angels (Demo)
      2. Speakers’ Corner (Demo)
      3. Witch (Demo)
      4. Galway (Demo)
      5. Lucinda (Demo)
      6. Rats (Demo)

Out This Week / on 7 March 2025

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Kraftwerk / Autobahn Blu-ray

Kraftwerk‘s  50th anniversary blu-ray edition of their landmark 1974 album Autobahn. Order from the SDE shop for exclusive slipcased edition.

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Jethro Tull / Curious Ruminant (new album)

Jethro Tull’s new album features nine tracks varying in length from two and half minutes to almost seventeen minutes. Musicians include former keyboardist Andrew Giddings and drummer James Duncan, along with the current band members David Goodier, John O’Hara, Scott Hammond and, making his recording debut with the band, guitarist Jack Clark. Loads of formats, the pick of which is probably the 2CD+blu-ray large format ‘artbook’ edition which amongst the extras include an Atmos Mix by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief.


Eric Burdon & War / The Complete CD Collection

Eric Burdon & WAR – The Complete CD Collection contains the full albums from 1970 and 1976: Eric Burdon Declares War, Black Man’s Burdon (2CD set), and Love Is All Around. All audio was remastered by Bernie Grundman.

Eric Clapton / Meanwhile (2LP set)

The gold vinyl edition of Eric Clapton’s latest album is out this week

NOW Yearbook ’98 – Extra

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Now That’s What I Call Music will next month release NOW Yearbook ’98 – Extra, a 3CD companion to the 4CD and 3LP set issued in January.

Featuring 60 tracks the set includes music from Robbie Williams, Stereophonics, Natalie Imbruglia, Sheryl Crow, The Corrs, Billie Piper, Simply Red, Elton John, Manic Street Preachers, Paul Weller, Ash, Embrace, James, The Bluetones, All Saints, The Spice Girls and many more. Full track listing is below.

NOW Yearbook Extra ’98 will be released on 28 March 2025.

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NOW Yearbook ’98 Extra Various Artists /

    • CD 1
      1. Robbie Williams – Let Me Entertain You
      2. Stereophonics – Local Boy In The Photograph
      3. Sheryl Crow – There Goes The Neighborhood
      4. Natalie Imbruglia – Smoke
      5. The Corrs - What Can I Do (Tin Tin Out Remix)
      6. Alisha’s Attic – The Incidentals
      7. Space With Cerys Matthews – The Ballad Of Tom Jones
      8. Aqua – My Oh My
      9. All Saints - Lady Marmalade
      10. Billie Piper – Girlfriend
      11. B*Witched – Rollercoaster
      12. Cleopatra - Life Ain’t Easy
      13. Five – Everybody Get Up
      14. Busta Rhymes - Turn It Up / Fire It Up
      15. Brandy - Top Of The World (feat. Ma$e)
      16. Usher – Nice & Slow
      17. Eagle-Eye Cherry – Falling In Love Again
      18. Lighthouse Family – High
      19. Simply Red - Say You Love Me
      20. Elton John – Recover Your Soul
    • CD 2
      1. Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting
      2. Paul Weller – Brand New Start
      3. Ocean Colour Scene – It’s A Beautiful Thing
      4. Embrace – My Weakness Is None Of Your Business
      5. James – Destiny Calling
      6. Ash – Jesus Says
      7. The Bluetones – Solomon Bites The Worm
      8. Republica – From Rush Hour With Love
      9. Catatonia - Road Rage
      10. Finley Quaye – Your Love Gets Sweeter
      11. Simple Minds – Glitterball
      12. Robbie Williams – No Regrets
      13. The All Seeing I - Beat Goes On
      14. Fatboy Slim – Gangster Trippin
      15. Apollo 440 – Lost In Space (Theme)
      16. Faithless – Take The Long Way Home
      17. Lovestation - Teardrops
      18. Dario G – Sunmachine
      19. Sash! - La Primavera
      20. Gloria Estefan – Oye
    • CD 3
      1. All Saints - War Of Nerves
      2. Shania Twain – From This Moment On (The Right Version)
      3. Sarah McLachlan – Adia
      4. Paula Cole - I Don’t Want To Wait
      5. Lutricia McNeal - Stranded
      6. Tin Tin Out & Shelley Nelson – Here’s Where The Story Ends
      7. Imaani - Where Are You
      8. Louise - All That Matters
      9. Boyzone – All That I Need
      10. 911 – All I Want Is You
      11. E-17 - Each Time
      12. Another Level – Guess I Was A Fool
      13. Kavana – Special Kind Of Something
      14. OTT – The Story Of Love
      15. Hanson – Thinking Of You
      16. Dina Carroll – One, Two, Three
      17. Monica – The First Night
      18. Brandy - Have You Ever?
      19. Honeyz – End Of The Line
      20. Spice Girls – Goodbye

Status Quo / Live!

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Status Quo’s 1977 album Live! will be reissued as an 8CD super deluxe box set, May.

The original double album is made up from performances at Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre between 27 and 29 October 1976 but this new box set offers, for the first time, the full live shows from each of those nights in Glasgow.

8CD super deluxe edition of Live! (click image to enlarge)

A remastered version of the original album, makes up the first two CDs and then each full live gig from Glasgow is split across two CDs, giving a total of eight discs.

The audio for this release has been mixed and mastered from newly-discovered 24-track multi-track tapes (one was in a mislabelled box marked “Peters and Lee”!) that came to light after some forensic tape library work by Andy Gamble. Francis Rossi, has since given this project his seal of approval.

The super deluxe set is presented in seven-inch format and includes a 24 page illustrated booklet, with new sleeve notes by Dave Ling, chronicling the making of the record, and the impact that it had upon release. The booklet includes biographical information, photography and images of memorabilia relating to the shows, and features an article from Andy Gamble (of AVP Studios) about the mastering processes and sound engineering behind the release.

The Live! super deluxe will be issued on 16 May 2025, via Edsel Records.

Tracklisting

Live! Status Quo /

    • CD 1: Live!
      1. Junior’s Wailing
      2. Backwater
      3. Just Take Me
      4. Is There A Better Way
      5. In My Chair
      6. Little Lady
      7. Most Of The Time
      8. Rain
      9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
    • CD 2: Live!
      1. Roll Over Lay Down
      2. Big Fat Mama
      3. Don’t Waste My Time
      4. Roadhouse Blues
      5. Caroline
      6. Bye Bye Johnny
    • CD 3: 27th October 1976
      1. Junior’s Wailing
      2. Backwater
      3. Just Take Me
      4. Is There A Better Way
      5. In My Chair
      6. Little Lady
      7. Most Of The Time
      8. Rain
      9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
    • CD 4: 27th October 1976
      1.  Roll Over Lay Down
      2. Big Fat Mama
      3. Don’t Waste My Time
      4. Roadhouse Blues
      5. Caroline
      6. Bye Bye Johnny
    • CD 5: 28th October 1976
      1.  Junior’s Wailing
      2. Backwater
      3. Just Take Me
      4. Is There A Better Way
      5. In My Chair
      6. Little Lady
      7. Most Of The Time
      8. Rain
      9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
    • CD 6: 28th October 1976
      1. Roll Over Lay Down
      2. Big Fat Mama
      3. Don’t Waste My Time
      4. Roadhouse Blues
      5. Caroline
      6. Bye Bye Johnny
    • CD 7: 29th October 1976
      1. Junior’s Wailing
      2. Backwater
      3. Just Take Me
      4. Is There A Better Way
      5. In My Chair
      6. Little Lady
      7. Most Of The Time
      8. Rain
      9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
    • CD 8: 29th October 1976
      1. Roll Over Lay Down
      2. Big Fat Mama
      3. Don’t Waste My Time
      4. Roadhouse Blues
      5. Caroline
      6. Bye Bye Johnny

Paul McCartney revisits his Wings era with new, official book

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Almost a quarter of a century after the book WINGSPAN: Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run (which was a companion to the Wingspan compilation) Paul McCartney will once again revisit the story of Wings (“the band The Beatles could have been”, in the words of Alan Partridge) with a new 500+ page book called WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run (hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it).

The WINGSPAN book was edited by Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn, but he no longer holds a place in the Fabs inner circle and the new book is edited by historian Ted Widmer, its text drawn from dozens of hours of interviews with McCartney and “numerous key players” in the band’s orbit. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run is organised around “nine wings albums”, which implies they are including 1971’s Ram (technically by Paul and Linda McCartney) and the live album Wings Over America, since there’s only seven Wings studio albums.

Between 2010 and 2018 Paul McCartney reissued seven of these nine albums, as part of his Archive Collection, with only London Town and Back to the Egg remaining (much to the chagrin of fans). The books that have come with the deluxe editions (were the deluxe editions in many cases) have of course covered the story of those albums in a fair amount of detail. It will be interesting to see how much text (if any) from those is repeated in this new book.

WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run will feature more than 100 black-and-white and colour photographs, “many never seen before” and is positioned as “part of a larger reexamination and appreciation of the group and their catalogue” which includes the One Hand Clapping album (and theatrical release), the 50th anniversary reissue of Band on the Run and a forthcoming documentary on Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings-related musical work of the 1970s from filmmaker, Morgan Neville. One suspects some audio-related project must be in the works.

WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run will be released on 4 November 2025.

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Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII

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Classic concert film restored with audio mixed by Steven Wilson in Atmos

Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii, the legendary 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben, has been visually restored, with audio newly remixed, and will be reissued on audio and video formats, in May, as Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII.

Pink Floyd at Pompeii pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon and is set in the ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. Filmed in October 1971 – without an audience – the performance was the first live concert to take place at Pompeii, and features ‘Echoes,’ ‘A Saucerful of Secrets,’ and ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’, amongst others. Additionally, the film includes rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios.

The film has undergone a full restoration: hand restored, frame-by-frame, from the original 35mm cut negative – recently discovered within Pink Floyd’s own archives.

Lana Topham, Director of Restoration for Pink Floyd, said: “Since 1994, I have searched for the elusive film rushes of Pink Floyd At Pompeii, so the recent discovery of the 1972 original 35mm cut negative was a very special moment. The newly restored version presents the first full [near] 90-minute cut, combining the 60-minute source edit of the performance with the additional Abbey Road Studios documentary segments filmed shortly after”. 

Steven Wilson has remixed the soundtrack in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 and stereo. The stereo mix features on new 2CD and 2LP vinyl sets, while the Atmos and 5.1 mixes are included on a blu-ray edition (there’s also a DVD version) which includes two cuts of Pink Floyd at Pompeii: the 85 minute feature film and the 60 minute concert. The CD and vinyl editions include two bonus tracks: ‘Careful With that Axe, Eugene – Alternate Take’ and ‘A Saucerful of Secrets – Unedited’. These are not on the blu-ray even though Steven Wilson told me he did remix them in Atmos!

The blu-ray edition is available from the SDE shop via this link or using the button below. Other formats and availability as listed below.

Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII will be released on 2 May 2025 via Sony’s Legacy Recordings.

Tracklisting

Pompeii MCMLXXII Pink Floyd /

    • Blu-ray
      PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII – MCMLXXII | CONCERT
      1. Echoes – Part 1
      2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
      3. A Saucerful Of Secrets
      4. One Of These Days
      5. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
      6. Echoes – Part 2
      PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII – MCMLXXII | FEATURE FILM
      1. Echoes – Part 1
      2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
      3. A Saucerful Of Secrets
      4. Us And Them
      5. One Of These Days
      6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
      7. Brain Damage
      8. Mademoiselle Nobs
      9. Echoes – Part 2

Tracklisting

Pompeii MCMLXXII Pink Floyd /

    • CD 1
      1. Pompeii Intro
      2. Echoes Part 1
      3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
      4. A Saucerful of Secrets
      5. One of These Days
      6. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
      7. Mademoiselle Nobs
      8. Echoes Part 2
    • CD 2
      1. Careful With that Axe, Eugene – Alternate Take
      2. A Saucerful of Secrets – Unedited

Tracklisting

Pompeii MCMLXXII Pink Floyd /

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Pompeii Intro
      2. Echoes – Part 1
      3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
      Side B
      1. A Saucerful of Secrets
      2. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
    • LP 2
      Side C
      1. One of These Days
      2. Mademoiselle Nobs
      3. Echoes – Part 2
      Side D
      1. Careful With that Axe, Eugene – Alternate take
      2. A Saucerful of Secrets – Unedited

Sparks / New album, MAD!

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Sparks will release a new album called MAD!, in May.

Musically we are promised “nods to New Wave, Synthpop, Art Rock and Electronic Opera” and the 12-track album includes the new single ‘JanSport Backpack’ which you can preview, below.

Formats include CD, black vinyl, blue vinyl with lenticular sleeve, cassette and a deluxe red vinyl which comes with a CD (the latter exclusive to the band’s shop).

Sparks have also announced a 2025 world tour which starts in Japan in early June and ends in Italy in July. MAD! will be released on 23 May 2025, via Transgressive Records.

Tracklisting

MAD! Sparks /

      1. Do Things My Own Way
      2. JanSport Backpack
      3. Hit Me, Baby
      4. Running Up A Tab At The Hotel For The Fab
      5. My Devotion
      6. Don’t Dog It
      7. In Daylight
      8. I-405 Rules
      9. A Long Red Light
      10. Drowned In A Sea Of Tears
      11. A Little Bit Of Light Banter
      12. Lord Have Mercy

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Last chance to order the INXS Listen Like Thieves blu-ray

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The pre-order window for the INXS Listen Like Thieves SDE-exclusive blu-ray is about to close.

The blu-ray audio – #37 in the ongoing SDE Suround Series – and features a 2025 Giles Martin Dolby Atmos Mix of the 1985 album and a 2025 Giles Martin Stereo Mix. Additionally, the SDE exclusive blu-ray offers 15 stereo bonus tracks including extended mixes, B-sides and eight live tracks from a previously unreleased 1986 concert from London’s Royal Albert Hall.

This region-free blu-ray will be packaged in a clear amaray case and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.

The pre-order window closes TODAY, 25 February 2025. Availability cannot be guaranteed after this date. The blu-ray is available only via the SDE shop.

Remember, if you ordered Roxy Music’s Avalon (#36) as a bundle with the (at the time) ‘mystery’ #37 blu-ray, you have already ordered INXS, since Listen Like Thieves was announced as #37 in the series.

You can pre-order via the shop website using this link or the buttons below.

This INXS Listen Like Thieves blu-ray is released on 9 May 2025 via Petrol / UMe.

Tracklisting

Listen Like Thieves INXS / 40th anniversary

    • Listen Like Thieves: 2025 Giles Martin Stereo Mix & 2025 Giles Martin Dolby Atmos Mix
      1. What You Need
      2. Listen Like Thieves
      3. Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
      4. Shine Like It Does
      5. Good + Bad Times
      6. Biting Bullets
      7. This Time
      8. Three Sisters
      9. Same Direction
      10. One x One
      11. Red Red Sun
      Bonus Stereo Audio: Remixes, B-sides and Live
      1. Listen Like Thieves (Extended Remix)
      2. Begotten
      3. What You Need (Nick Launay Remix)
      4. I’m Over You
      5. Sweet As Sin
      6. Six Knots
      7. Listen Like Thieves (Instrumental Remix)
      8. Same Direction (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      9. Kiss The Dirt (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      10. Biting Bullets (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      11. Shine Like it Does (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      12. Listen Like Thieves (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      13. One X One (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      14. What You Need (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)
      15. Red Red Sun (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 – London, UK)

Order a signed CD of Steven Wilson’s new album

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Steven Wilson’s new studio album, The Overview, is released in just under three weeks and you can pre-order a signed copy of the CD from Amazon in the UK.

The two-track, 42-minute​ album is inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space and sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases.

The signed CD of The Overview is exclusive to Amazon in the UK and is exceptional value at just £10.99. The album is released on 14 March via Fiction Records. Coloured vinyl and blu-ray editions are also available to pre-order via the SDE shop.

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Steven Wilson / new studio album The Overview

The Overview Steven Wilson /

    • OBJECTS OUTLIVE US (23.17)
      1. No Monkey’s Paw
      2. The Buddha Of The Modern Age
      3. Objects: Meanwhile
      4. The Cicerones
      5. Ark
      6. Cosmic Sons Of Toil
      7. No Ghost On The Moor
      8. Heat Death Of The Universe
      THE OVERVIEW (18.27)
      1. Perspective
      2. A Beautiful Infinity I
      3. Borrowed Atoms
      4. A Beautiful Infinity II
      5. Infinity Measured In Moments
      6. Permanence

Rush / Rush 50

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Rush will release Rush 50, a career-spanning box set next month.

The Canadian rock band settled on their classic lineup of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart in July 1974, four months after releasing their debut album. The lineup would then remain unchanged for the rest of the band’s career, as Rush became one of biggest prog rock bands of the 70’s and 80’s.

The new anthology box sets are available across four CDs or seven vinyl LPs. Both features 50 tracks, with seven previously unreleased. Tracks are taken from every studio album, live release, and deluxe reissue that the band has officially released. 

The 4CD edition of Rush 50 (click image to enlarge)

Amongst the rarities are the first ever official CD and LP reissue of Rush’s very first single, a cover of Buddy Holly’s ‘Not Fade Away’, with ‘You Can’t Fight It’ on the B-side, both of which have been newly remastered from the original tapes. There are also “vault editions” of ‘Working Man’ and ‘The Trees’, featuring alternate guitar solos. ‘Working Man’ had previously only been available as a digital single, and ‘Trees’ had never been officially released besides appearing in the Rock Band 2 video game. Alongside this are five unreleased live songs, including two non-album cuts, ‘Bad Boy’ and ‘Garden Road’.

Each box includes new artwork from the band’s creative director Hugh Syme, and a hardcover book featuring essays and photographs. The 180g vinyl is housed in high quality ‘tip-on’ sleeves.

Rush 50 will be released on 21 March 2025 via UMC/Mercury.

The 7LP edition of Rush 50 (click image to enlarge)

Tracklisting

Rush 50 Rush /

    • CD 1
      1. Not Fade Away
      2. You Can’t Fight It
      3. Working Man (Vault Edition)
      4. Need Some Love
      5. Before and After
      6. Bad Boy
      7. Garden Road
      8. Anthem
      9. Fly By Night
      10. Bastille Day
      11. 2112: Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
      12. By-tor & the Snow Dog
      13. Something for Nothing
    • CD 2
      1. Closer to the Heart
      2. Xanadu
      3. Drum Solo
      4. The Trees (Vault Edition)
      5. La Villa Strangiato
      6. In the Mood
      7. The Spirit of Radio
      8. Natural Science
      9. A Passage to Bangkok
      10. Tom Sawyer
      11. Limelight
      12. Vital Signs
    • CD 3
      1. YYZ
      2. Subdivisions
      3. Red Sector A
      4. Witch Hunt
      5. New World Man
      6. The Big Money
      7. Time Stand Still
      8. Distant Early Warning
      9. Superconductor
      10. Dreamline
      11. Stick It Out
      12. Test for Echo
      13. The Rhythm Method
    • CD 4
      1. One Little Victory (Remixed)
      2. Cygnus X-1
      3. The Seeker
      4. Between the Wheels
      5. The Main Monkey Business
      6. Workin’ Them Angels
      7. Freewill
      8. Red Barchetta
      9. Headlong Flight
      10. Manhattan Project
      11. Jacob’s Ladder
      12. What You’re Doing/Working Man/Garden Road