Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
If last year’s mammoth 15-hour REMTV 6-DVD set is more R.E.M. than you can handle, then the brand new documentary R.E.M. By MTV, that was a small part of that offering, is now available separately.
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Phil Collins‘ 1981 album Face Value will be reissued this autumn as a deluxe edition, heralding the start of a new global catalog deal with Warner Music Group.
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Duran Duran‘s classic 1982 album Rio is being made available again this summer as a two-CD deluxe edition.
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New discs to replace the faulty DVDs that formed part of Simple Minds Sparkle in the Rain super deluxe edition box set will be sent out to those that requested them in about two weeks time, SDE has been told.
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The three albums Eddi Reader recorded for Geoff Travis’ Blanco y Negro label in the late nineties, have been collected with extensive bonus tracks for a new five-CD box set.
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This new Eric Clapton compilation makes most sense via the three-CD deluxe edition, with the first disc concentrating on studio recordings, the second disc preoccupied with live cuts and a third CD dominated by blues material. 
Half-speed remastered vinyl pressings of some of Genesis‘ biggest selling albums including Invisible Touch and We Can’t Dance.
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Air‘s The Virgin Suicides soundtrack is being reissued as a rather lavish box set as SDE announced yesterday, but what has come to light since then is the fact that the version retailing on Amazon France appears to be exclusive.
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The long awaited reissue and remaster of Roger Waters 1992 album Amused to Death is due in July and this very special double LP picture disc edition is one of the formats on offer. You can save £15 on the Amazon UK price by ordering this today from Amazon France.
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French band Air‘s soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s 1999 film The Virgin Suicides will be reissued as a limited edition five-disc super deluxe edition box set this June.
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It’s the weekend! SDE is nursing a hangover and is kicking back with some stories and updates from the past week, along with gossip and news from the weeks to come…
Last weekend I was on a stag do in Bratislava in Slovakia. Obviously, the usual revelry took place… but I couldn’t resist popping into a local shop to pick up some CDs. Funnily enough, it wasn’t a record shop but rather a ‘pound shop’ stacked high with discount household items. I say pound shop – this being Slovakia it was actually a ‘Euro Shop’ so each item was the equivalent of around 72p – even better! A stack of Madonna CDs in the shop window – many of which were the 2001 remasters – drew me inside. I knew I ‘needed’ True Blue, so what the hell… In the end I walked out with both that and Confessions On A Dancefloor, both sealed for a total cost of €2. They are definitely originals before you ask!
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 9 May 2015”
George Harrison‘s recently reissued Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 box set is available on Amazon Italy for a fantastic price at the time of writing (6pm 8/5/15).
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Steven Wilson‘s stereo remix of Jethro Tull‘s 1971 album Aqualung is to be released on vinyl later this month.
Continue reading “Jethro Tull / Aqualung Steven Wilson mix on 180g vinyl”
If you are thinking of picking up Annie Lennox‘s recent An Evening Of Nostalgia With… release (out this week), then you might have considered opting for the CD+DVD or CD+Blu-ray combo. However, you need to be careful since these are perhaps not what you think.
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Goldfrapp‘s debut album, Felt Mountain, will be reissued vinyl in June.
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Little over a week ago SDE highlighted some great deals on Amazon UK for the forthcoming Rolling Stones ‘From The Vault’ series: The Marquee Club Live in 1971. Although the prices were very cheap, some readers were rather confused by inaccurate and confusing listings which didn’t really make clear which product was which.
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Grace Jones‘ 1985 album Slave To The Rhythm will be reissued by Culture Factory next month.
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SDE has discovered that if you buy the blu-ray audio version of the newly released Grace Jones Disco set (which gathers together the Portfolio, Fame and Muse albums plus extensive bonus tracks) the download code offers hi-res WAV files instead of the usual MP3s.
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Warner Music will next month reissue Tina Turner‘s 1984 album Private Dancer as a two-CD deluxe edition.
Continue reading “Tina Turner / Private Dancer 30th anniversary deluxe edition”
The Lover Speaks – British duo David Freeman and Joseph Hughes – only released one eponymous album in 1986 – and then all but disappeared. That album, which features the original version of No More I Love You’s – famously covered by Annie Lennox – will be reissued in June as an expanded deluxe edition.
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Eagle Vision will release The Who Live at Shea Stadium, a concert film documenting the band’s 1982 tour, in June 2015.
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