As promised last weekend, SDE is giving away some Record Store Day product from the 2015 releases. I’ve actually changed the originally plan which was to giveaway a different item every day, to simply offering up 10 different releases all at once (less work!)
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Author: Paul Sinclair
Best of the Grateful Dead on 2LP
The Grateful Dead‘s 50th Anniversary ‘Best Of’ which was issued on CD last month, is coming to vinyl LP.
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Hear Kurt Cobain's Beatles cover
Brett Morgen, the director of new documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, came across this cover of The Beatles‘ And I Love Her amongst the Nirvana frontman’s home recordings.
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John Lennon / 9LP vinyl box set
Capitol/UMe will release a 9LP John Lennon vinyl box set in June.
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Deal alert / Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Complete Epic Recordings box
Incredible price on Amazon UK at the moment for the 12-disc Stevie Ray Vaughan Complete Epic Recordings box set.
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James Taylor / Before This World
Before This World is James Taylor‘s first collection of new material in 13 years and will be released in June across a number of formats including a super deluxe edition box set.
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Simply Red return with Big Love
Mick Hucknall returns in June with Big Love, the first Simply Red studio album in eight years.
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Out This Week / 20 April 2015
Frank Sinatra / Ultimate Sinatra: Centennial Collection
100 tracks for 100 years. This Centennial Frank Sinatra 4CD set is also available in slightly reduced form across two LPs and even a 25-track single disc offering.
Catatonia / Deluxe 2CD reissues
Edsel’s Catatonia reissues are finally a reality. 2CD sets for Way Beyond Blue, International Velvet and Equally Cursed and Blessed. 2001’s Paper Scissors Stone brings up the rear as CD+DVD package.
Deal alert / Pink Floyd: The Endless River CD+DVD deluxe set
Crazy price for the Pink Floyd Endless River deluxe set on Amazon UK at the moment (11.45am Sunday 19th April). This is the CD+DVD set which gives you the album in stereo and 5.1 surround sound, plus 40 minutes of bonus material (six videos and three audio tracks). Comes packaged in smart 24-page hardcover book with postcards.
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Saturday Deluxe / 18 April 2015
Record Store Day
Happy Record Store Day! I hope some of you have managed to get out and snag some vinyl from your ‘wants’ list. Twitter is full of great photos of passionate music fans up with the birds, standing in a queue. Controversially, for the first time in four or five years I haven’t got up early this time around but will be heading down to Flashback in Islington a bit later on, in the knowledge that I will have exactly zero chance of picking up an a-ha picture disc or any of the David Bowie items. Can’t complain though, because I’ve been lucky enough to get some items to preview as you may have noticed during this week.
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RSD15 Preview / Universal Music: Simple Minds, Small Faces & more
Record Store Day is almost upon us, but just enough time to show you some of the items that Universal Music are issuing for one day only, including this Simple Minds Waterfront picture disc, a blue vinyl Who seven inch single, a Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols 12-inch picture disc, a Small Faces seven-inch box set, the vinyl debut of the soundtrack to Wes Anderson‘s The Darjeeling Limited, an EP of Dire Straits Charlie Gillet sessions from 1977 and a Johnny Cash white vinyl seven-inch.
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The Rolling Stones / From The Vault: Marquee Club pre-orders
The newly announced Rolling Stones From The Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 release is now available to pre-order in the UK and Germany.
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Marvin Gaye / Let's Get It On / blu-ray audio coming soon
Universal Music will later this month release Marvin Gaye‘s 1973 album Let’s Get It On on the hi-res blu-ray audio format.
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FIRST PICTURES / The Who: Brunswick Singles seven-inch box
Released last week is The Brunswick Singles 1965-1966, the first in a series of four limited edition seven-inch vinyl box sets from The Who. Check out the SDE picture gallery below to see this set in all its glory.
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RSD15 Preview / Demon Music: Belinda Carlisle, Suede & Ian Dury
More Record Store Day goodies on show today, as SDE checks out what Demon Music have in store for those queuing early on 18 April for some limited edition vinyl. The label have a great range of items to suit most tastes and budgets including (pictured below) Suede, Ian Dury, Belinda Carlisle and The Beat.
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US price-drop for Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers super deluxe edition
The price of the forthcoming Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers box set (now delayed until to June 8/9th) has dropped by a not inconsiderable $110 in the USA.
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Frankie: Tinned / Simply Frankie Goes To Hollywood / 3CD set
Corned beef, pilchards, baked beans and now Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Yes, we’ve had Frankie ‘cassetted’, well now it’s Frankie ‘tinned’ because Simply Frankie Goes To Hollywood is one of the inaugural releases in Union Square Music’s “Simply Tins” series providing three CDs of hits, album tracks and rarities.
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Robin Gibb / Saved by the Bell: Collected Works 1969-70
Saved By The Bell: The Collected Works of Robin Gibb 1969-1970 is a new three-CD set that captures the entire musical output of Robin Gibb over a 12-month period from 1969 to 1970 and includes the previously unreleased album Sing Slowly Sisters.
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RSD15 Preview / Fire Records: Pulp, Lemonheads, Giant Sand
More Record Store Day previews in anticipation of this Saturday. Today SDE takes a look at some of what indie Fire Records has to offer.
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Paul Hardcastle: 19: The 30th Anniversary Collection
Paul Hardcastle is marking the 30th anniversary of his 1985 anti-war hit 19 with a celebratory vinyl and CD release that collects 14 versions of the career-defining single.
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