Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Rhino are certainly cranking out the ‘Warner Bros. Years’ collections this summer, with the latest a ten-CD box set in favoured clamshell packaging, summarising The Doobie Brothers’ output for the label.
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New image showing the ‘bookset’ styling of Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85 a new five-disc set which is due in September.
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Limited edition twelve-inch single reissued to celebrate the 50th birthday of Satisfaction. This 180g vinyl has been cut from the from the original mono master tapes. 
New five-CD set from Parlophone that collects all The Hollies albums and singles, along with rare tracks released from January 1969 to March 1973.
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The Rolling Stones‘ 1969 gig at London’s Hyde Park will be the focus of the next ‘From the Vault‘ series.
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Those Norwegian purveyors of melancholy we like to call a-ha, have this week made available a song from their forthcoming album Cast In Steel. Under The Makeup is a windswept and rather beautiful string-laden track that really delivers, with a typically pointed lyric of regret and miscommunication. The opening lines are classic Paul Waaktaar-Savoy: “This is how it ends, each on our own / unless we pretend, meanwhile our hearts turn to / stone shaped by wind, boulders slowly moulded over time, here within”.
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Pre-order the 2LP vinyl edition of Duran Duran‘s new album Paper Gods at a fantastic price!
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It comes to something when a compilation which is targeted at, in the words of the label, ‘the casual fan’, is a 190-minute, three-disc extravaganza, full of ‘hits, tracks & remixes’. That is what you will find on Simply Frankie Goes To Hollywood, a new budget priced triple-disc set from Union Square Music.
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Later this month Rhino will release The Studio Albums 1969-1983 a new Alice Cooper box set that includes all of the albums he recorded with Warner Bros. Records.
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I have just been informed that there are less than 50 of the SIGNED editions of the Paul Young Tomb of Memories The CBS Years 1982-1994 four-CD set left.
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Duran Duran‘s new album Paper Gods will be out in September and the various editions are now available to pre-order.
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Here’s a picture of I’ll Remember, that Taste four-CD set that we told you about last month. SDE has further details (below) on the collection that is due for release in late August.
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Following last month’s announcement of a 33CD Bananarama singles box, Demon Music have applied a similar template to the work of Belinda Carlisle and are set to issue The CD Singles 1986-2014, a 28CD collection that gathers up the various B-sides and additional mixes that were issued across the different formats of each single released in the US and UK.
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We have ‘American TV’ to thank for the fact that the unofficial last date of The Rolling Stones‘ 1971 UK tour was filmed (on Friday 26 March), with this set at The Marquee Club performed in front of an ‘elite’ audience of just 150 people, said to include Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page.
Continue reading “Review / The Rolling Stones: From The Vault Marquee Club 1971”
Sony Music has collaborated with SuperDeluxeEdition on Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994, a new Paul Young four-CD collection set for release in August.
Compiled by SDE Editor Paul Sinclair (with input from Young), this new collection spans Paul’s entire tenure with CBS/Sony and is awash with rarities, taking in many new-to-CD cuts, demos, previously unreleased alternate mixes of album tracks (and hit singles) along with unheard songs recorded during the sessions for The Secret of Association, Other Voices and The Crossing.
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Rhino will issue The Twin/Tone Years, a new four-LP Replacements vinyl box set in August this year.
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Little Indian are to issued Björk‘s recent Vulnicura on coloured vinyl next month.
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Review of the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions six-disc box due later this week. In the meantime can read an interview with Lloyd.
Two-disc deluxe edition celebrates Tina Turner‘s career-rejuvenating album. Also reissued on vinyl LP.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 29 June 2015”
The headline news this week was the announcement of Five Years 1969-1973 the first in a series of David Bowie box sets from Parlophone. In general, it’s always quite exciting when a major release of one of your favourite artists is announced, but once the dust had settled opinion was rather divided on the merits of the new set which contains Bowie’s first six RCA studio long-players, two live albums and a new two-disc compilation.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 27 June 2015”
Two pieces of good news for Steve Hackett fans. Premonitions, the forthcoming 14-disc box set has dropped in price significantly on Amazon UK and SDE can also bring you the full confirmed track listing.
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New Order return in September with Music Complete, their 10th studio album.
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