Confirmed! Bananarama 33CD Singles box set: full track listing

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The time has come… Without further ado, SDE exclusively brings you the full and confirmed track listing for Edsel’s 33CD Bananarama In A Bunch: The Singles 1981-1993 box set. Continue reading “Confirmed! Bananarama 33CD Singles box set: full track listing”

How to buy the new David Bowie 2015 remasters individually

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The Hunky Dory 2015 remaster is much anticipated

When David Bowie‘s forthcoming Five Years box was announced Parlophone stated that the Re:Call 1 rarities compilation would be ‘exclusive to the boxed sets’. What that means of course, is that the six individual newly remastered studio albums will at some point be available separately.
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Bruce Springsteen releases Tunnel of Love era live show

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Bruce Springsteen yesterday released a 1988 live show via his Live Bruce Springsteen website which he launched late last year.

This concert performance is from the 28 April 1988 and was the 28th show on the Tunnel of Love Express tour where the band were augmented by ‘The Horns of Love’. It was the second night of a five night stand at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles.
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The Doobie Brothers / The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1983

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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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Picture / Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85

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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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Out This Week / 6 July 2015

The Rolling Stones / (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 50th

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. Read more


The Hollies / Changin’ Times (5CD set)

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. Read more
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Saturday Deluxe / 4 July 2015

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Listen to a-ha’s Under The Makeup

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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Simply Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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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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