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As announced back in April Roger Waters‘ 1992 album Amused to Death is to be reissued in July.
If you’ve browsed for the title on Amazon recently you may have noticed that there are a multitude of options for the buyer, including three double vinyl editions, a CD+Blu-ray deluxe and a hybrid SACD. So what’s going on, and which edition should the discerning music fan go for?
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In September, Suede will release a special deluxe set featuring their performance of Dog Man Star at London’s Royal Albert Hall across six discs and accompanied by a hardcover book.
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Deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin‘s final three studio albums: Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda will be released next month.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s homecoming gig at Barrowlands last November, where they played their now 30-year old debut LP Psychocandy in full, is to be celebrated in a special deluxe box set.
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Neil Young will release a new album, The Monsanto Years, at the end of the month which he has recorded with ‘Promise of the Real’, a band that features Willie Nelson’s son Lukas.
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A new 14-disc box set featuring the solo work of Steve Hackett is set to be released in the autumn.
Continue reading “Steve Hackett / Premonitions: 14-disc box coming later this year”
The second and third albums from 1980s American pop-rockers Mr. Mister are being reissued, with bonus tracks, by Rock Candy Records later this month.
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New ten-years-in-the-making three-CD set that captures the entire musical output of Robin Gibb over a 12-month period from 1969 to 1970. 
Eleventh studio outing for Simply Red sees a return to a major label (East West / Warners). Big Love is being promoted via first ‘single’ Shine On.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 1 June 2015”
April’s Brunswick Singles box was always volume one of four planned seven-inch Who box sets (Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor) and August brings the next: The Reaction Singles 1966.
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It’s the weekend! While you all ‘chillax’ it’s another working day for SDE and so it’s time to kick back with some stories and updates from the past week, along with gossip and news from the weeks to come…
Flamboyant singles box for Pet Shop Boys?
There seemed to be two distinct camps after yesterday’s announcement detailing the extraordinary Bananarama 33CD ‘In A Bunch’ singles box. Naturally enough, hardcore fans of the girl group were delighted with the offering, which seems to deliver what many could only dream of – every remix, variation, b-side of every single between 1981 and 1993.
Music fans who don’t put Bananarama at the top of their list of favourite artists could only turn green with envy – “Why can’t we have a set like this for the Pet Shop Boys?” was a suggestion picked up enthusiastically by many pop fans in the comments section of the post.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 30 May 2015”
Edsel continue their superb curation of Bananarama‘s back catalogue with what is probably the dream set for fans – a 33CD Singles box with a disc devoted to each 45 that includes “absolutely every B-side and remix originally issued around the world” along with many previously unavailable instrumentals and other rarities.
Continue reading “Bananarama / In A Bunch: The Singles 1981-1993/ 33CD box set!”
Florence & The Machine‘s forthcoming album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is to be issued as a limited edition seven-inch vinyl box set.
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Sting / This Cowboy Song (UK CD single) – 95p
Nothing dates a song more than the words “featuring Pato Banton”. As Terence Trent D’Arby once sang “You will pay tomorrow for what you do today…”. The Pato Banton collaboration is the least interesting thing on this CD single which has a few Sting treasures probably destined never to be issued anywhere else. Once example is the ‘Extended Remix’ of the single which after four minutes turns into a groovy jazz workout clocking in at over 11 minutes! If you can forgive the thick Jamaican accent Take Me To The Sunshine is a decent floaty, summery B-side and a final bonus on this four-track disc is a ‘classic radio’ mix of When We Dance which was the other non-album single (with This Cowboy Song) taken from the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994. I think I prefer this remix to the standard version! Remarkably, Fields of Gold was Sting’s first UK solo top ten single after ten years of trying.
Lloyd Cole / She’s A Girl And I’m A Man (UK 12″) – £1
While we wait for the Commotions box set here’s a reminder of a single release early in Lloyd Cole‘s solo career. She’s A Girl And I’m A Man was the lead single from second solo album Don’t Get Weird On Me Babe. The name of the album was nicked from Raymond Carver. Anyway, there was never a title track on the long player and the nearest you get is the B-side to this single called Weird On Me. Joining it, is a cover of T. Rex’s Children of the Revolution. She’s A Girl And I’m A Man failed to penetrate the UK top 40, like much of LC’s solo output – this was largely down to not getting played on the radio.
Continue reading “Second Hand News / June 2015”
The Rolling Stones‘ 1965 single (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is being reissued as a special 50th Anniversary 12-inch vinyl single in July.
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Out this week is Sony’s repackaging of Miles Davis‘ 1970 album Bitches Brew. This is effectively the 40th anniversary content minus the vinyl records, so you get 3CD+DVD in a nifty ‘bookset’ format. Check out an SDE photo gallery below to view the new presentation.
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Universal Music are to issue a new 9LP vinyl box set featuring music of Canadian rock legends The Band in July this year.
Continue reading “The Band / The Capitol Albums 1968-1977 / vinyl box set”
Edsel Records will next month release a box set collecting the solo work of Bill Wyman.
Continue reading “Bill Wyman / White Lightnin': The Solo box / 4CD+DVD set”
After last year‘s sumptuous reprint of his Cathy book, John Carder Bush is publishing another book of photographs featuring his sister, Kate Bush.
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Last year, Universal Music reissued Bon Jovi’s 1988 album New Jersey to a reasonable amount of fanfare. There was a remastered 2CD deluxe edition in addition to a three-disc ‘super deluxe’ box set. One format that was excluded from that reissue, was a ‘Pure Audio’ blu-ray audio. With the band’s previous album – 1986 blockbuster Slippery When Wet – the exact reverse has happened – and the album has recently been reissued only on the Pure Audio blu-ray format, with no other editions issued.
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In August this year, Sony’s Legacy Recordings will release a massive 23-disc box set: The Isley Brothers: The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters (1959-1983).
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