Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
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. 
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Alison Moyet this week announced some deluxe reissues. I was going to be cheeky and title the post “Alison Moyet reissues – just not the ones you want” but I thought that was a little bit harsh on Cooking Vinyl who have put the work into the new two-CD sets of Hometime, The Voice and Turn. I’ll admit to having lost interest in Moyet’s work at this point in time (meaning the noughties), but maybe I need to revisit because there seems to be a fair amount of love for Hometime with a few of you declaring it to be ‘a masterpiece’.
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Krautrock ‘supergroup’ Harmonia see their complete works reissued in October as a 5LP vinyl box set.
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That’s a lot of vinyl for one album, but this super deluxe edition of New Order‘s forthcoming Music Complete album is excellent value for what you get.
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Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours super deluxe edition box is apparently getting cheaper and cheaper and is an absolute bargain on Amazon UK at the moment.
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Last August hip-hop legends Public Enemy performed an intimate show at London’s Metropolis Studios, giving 125 lucky fans a chance to see them up close and personal. Inevitably, this was filmed and recorded and this September will be released across five different formats including a super deluxe edition box set.
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This is the newly created cover to the ‘other’ version of David Bowie‘s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars that is included as part of the forthcoming Five Years 1969-1973 box set.
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The metal ‘fanbox’ edition of a-ha‘s forthcoming album Cast in Steel is now available to pre-order outside of Germany.
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Paul McCartney‘s forthcoming deluxe editions of Tug of War and Pipes of Peace were listed on Amazon UK at the unlikely price of £89.99 but, as expected have already dropped in price significantly, with further price-cuts a distinct possibility.
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This October Sony will release Anthologia, a four-disc collection of the work of the ‘punk poet’ John Cooper Clarke.
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The much anticipated super deluxe edition box set of a-ha‘s 1985 album Hunting High and Low is released in September and some eagle-eyed fans have noted that the Japan edition of this box appears to offer something extra over and above the European set.
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As some of you may have read on last week’s Saturday Deluxe post Kate Bush has offered the track Wildman from her album 50 Words For Snow for the Art of Peace Foundation’s Songs For Tibet II compilation, which is being marketed via PledgeMusic.
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Alison Moyet has recently announced two-CD deluxe reissues and vinyl pressings of her post-Sony ‘noughties’ albums: Hometime, Voice and The Turn.
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Bernard Butler’s first post Suede work was his 1995 collaboration with David McAlmont, appropriately titled The Sound of McAlmont & Butler. That album is to be reissued as a five-disc 20th anniversary deluxe edition in September, complete with hardcover book.
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After a few delays, this 9LP vinyl box set is released, featuring The Pretenders‘ eight Warners albums issued between 1979 and 1999. A couple, including Viva El Amor!, have never been issued on vinyl before.
40th double-disc anniversary of Elvis Presley‘s 1975 features an alternative mix of the album sans overdubs plus a bonus disc full of selected live cuts
The Isley Brothers Complete RCA Victor And T-Neck Album Masters box set is due out at the end of August and there is a fantastic saving to be made if you pre-order now via Amazon Italy.
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It was Kate Bush‘s birthday on Thursday. Happy Birthday to her! Unfortunately for fans around the globe, no David Bowie-style birthday product announcement was forthcoming. We are all waiting patiently for last year’s incredible Before The Dawn show to come out on blu-ray, hopefully in some kind of lavish box set. It was filmed for a few nights and the audio for every single show was meticulously recorded. If it was any other artist you could virtually guarantee the product would be ready for Autumn 2015 but hey, it’s Kate. It is quite conceivable that it will NEVER be released if she’s unhappy with some element. Let’s hope that’s not the case.
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As predicted in last week’s SDE newsletter (not signed up? click here), Paul McCartney‘s 1982 solo album Tug of War and 1983 follow up Pipes of Peace will both be reissued in October, with the former being remixed and both albums available in the now familiar multi-disc deluxe ‘book’ editions.
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