Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Elvis Today was never one of Elvis’s biggest selling albums. At best, it could only be called a mediocre hit, one which only managed to reach #48 in the UK album chart, and did even worse in the States.
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As explained back in June, the recent Roger Waters Amused to Death reissue actually comes in two very similar vinyl pressings; one issued by Sony and the other by the US audiophile label Analogue Productions. But how can you tell the difference and which one have you got?
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The Sisters Of Mercy follow-up their First and Last and Always vinyl box with a similar set for their second album, 1987’s Floodland.
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The recently announced Donna Summer 24CD Singles… Driven By The Music box set has already dropped in price on Amazon UK.
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David Bowie‘s 1975 single Golden Years will be the next in the seemingly never-ending 40th anniversary seven-inch picture discs.
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Steve Howe formed short-lived rock band GTR with guitarist Steve Hackett in 1985, after his departure from ASIA.
With vocalist Max Bacon, bassist Phil Spalding and drummer Jonathan Mover they recorded the self-titled, Geoff Downes produced album, which was issued in 1986. There was never a follow-up, but the band did tour and this newly remastered double-disc deluxe edition from Esoteric Recordings features 14 tracks performed live in Los Angeles in 1986 on the second CD.
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All three volumes of Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet‘s Under The Covers albums are collected in new four CD and six-LP box sets, both due for release in October.
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Amazing price at on Amazon Canada for the rather swish 7in-83-88 R.E.M. seven-inch vinyl box.
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Really proud of this Paul Young set that I compiled for Sony Music. This is a four CD journey through Young’s CBS career, via hits, rare mixes, unheard alternate versions and a few previously unreleased songs. Great value too. 
Massive 23-disc Isley Brothers box. 22 albums most with bonus tracks – 84 rare and previously unreleased.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 21 August 2015”
If you were underwhelmed by Pressure Off, the first song Duran Duran put out from their forthcoming Paper Gods album, perhaps you’ll enjoy the title track which perhaps isn’t quite as eager to please. This is DD firmly in ‘album track’ territory, as the song – which features “Mr Hudson” (who?) – goes on for seven minutes and is apparently structurally ‘free’ to do what it wants.
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A new 24CD ‘Driven By The Music’ Donna Summer Singles box set will be released in October.
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Salvo Music are to release the classic Madness ‘Madstock’ gig as a CD+DVD set in October.
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A good overview of what you can expect from the forthcoming David Gilmour Rattle That Lock deluxe CD+ Blu-raybox or CD+DVD deluxe box sets.
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Cherry Red will reissue model-turned-pop-star Nick Kamen‘s self-titled debut album as a two-CD deluxe edition in September.
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A few of you have requested more information around the Julian Cope reissues that are out this week – in particular exactly which tracks/variants on are the bonus discs of the two-CD reissues of World Shut Your Mouth and Fried.
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This September, as he kicks off the second leg of his Hand. Cannot. Erase. tour, Steven Wilson will issue Transience, a limited edition ‘three-sided’ double vinyl set via KScope Music.
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ABBA‘s Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida) sees her third solo album Something’s Going On reissued as a limited and numbered three-disc deluxe edition in October.
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This isn’t so much a ‘deal alert’ as an availability alert, since Paul McCartney‘s top-of-range SUPER deluxe edition of Tug of War (released in Oct) is limited to just 1000 units and is already unavailable from many stockists including McCartney’s own website. However, this is available on Amazon Italy at the time of writing.
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XTC‘s 1989 album Oranges And Lemons will be reissued in October as a CD+Blu-ray deluxe edition, jam-packed with bonus content which includes a 5.1 surround sound mix by Steven Wilson.
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The Replacement‘s three Twin/Tone studio albums plus the Stink EP are collected in this new vinyl box set from Rhino.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 14 August 2015”
