Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
To celebrate the fact that Black Tie White Noise was 22 years old yesterday, SDE is revisiting this feature on the album that was originally published back in 2012…
Black Tie White Noise was released in 1993 – a tricky year for David Bowie and something of a new beginning. To make sense of it, we need to take a brief look back at the preceding five year period.
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Reissues of Bad Company and Straight Shooter both with bonus discs full of previously unreleased tracks, takes, and mixes from the original sessions. 
The acclaimed Foo Fighters 8-part documentary directed by Dave Grohl, now out on DVD and Blu-ray.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 6 April 2015”
Excellent deal on the Queen Live at the Rainbow 4LP vinyl box on Amazon Italy which is over £30 cheaper than the UK price.
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Audio Fidelity are to tackle Billy Joel‘s 1974 album Streetlife Serenade in the next of their multi-channel SACD releases.
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It’s the weekend! A time when SDE pours maple syrup on its pancakes, has a sip of orange juice (with ‘bits’), and kicks back with some stories and updates from the past week, along with gossip and news from the weeks to come…
The big news this week was the announcement of a reissue of The Rolling Stones‘ Sticky Fingers album.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 4 April 2015”
Paul Weller will release the title track of his forthcoming album, Saturns Pattern, as seven inch single in May.
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Steven Wilson‘s stunning deluxe edition is now very hard to get hold off. This 2CD+Blu-ray+DVD edition contains a demos disc exclusive to this set, as well as a 5.1 mix and many audio extras all set in a truly stunning large format hardcover book. Amazon Germany have some stock now which, while not rock-bottom in terms of pricing, is quite reasonable and could well be the last chance to snag one of these before the prices go through the roof.
Continue reading “Deal alert / Steven Wilson / Hand.Cannot.Erase. deluxe edition”
David Bowie has collaborated on a new play called Lazarus, with writer Enda Walsh, which is inspired by the 1963 novel, The Man Who Fell To Earth and will feature new music by the now publicity-shy rock star.
Continue reading “Bowie has written new 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' inspired songs”
Soundgarden are to release a six-LP vinyl edition of their rarities collection, Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path, that was first issued on CD last November.
Continue reading “Soundgarden / Echoes of Miles / deluxe 6LP vinyl box set”
BEST EVER price on Amazon UK for wonderful 12CD box set, Simon and Garfunkel: The Complete Albums Collection.
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BMG will mark the 50th anniversary of the release (on Transatlantic Records) of influential folk-guitarist Bert Jansch‘s eponymous debut album.
Continue reading “Bert Jansch debut reissued”
Cherry Pop will reissue an expanded version of Bros‘ second album The Time next month.
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Warners/Rhino will release, Forever Man, a new Eric Clapton ‘best of’ at the end of next month that spans three decades of Clapton’s Reprise Records years.
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The excellent 10CD Complete Studios Albums Roxy Music box set is going cheap again, this time on Amazon UK.
Continue reading “Deal alert / Roxy Music: Complete Studio Albums 10CD box set”
Duran Duran are expected to release their fourteenth studio album in September 2015.
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The Rolling Stones will reissue their classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers as a super deluxe edition box set in May, which features previously unreleased studio recordings and rare live performances. Continue reading “The Rolling Stones announce Sticky Fingers reissue and box sets”
Mike Oldfield will this year continue his ongoing programme of re-presenting his body of work with reissues of his 1984 album Discovery and the soundtrack to Roland Joffé’s film The Killing Fields.
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Lowest price EVER for the Bruce Springsteen 8CD Albums Collection, Vol 1 on Amazon UK at the time of writing.
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Genesis will release a 6LP vinyl box set in May cataloguing their last four studio albums.
Continue reading “Genesis / 1983-1998 vinyl box”
The three Specials / Special AKA albums all reissued with bonus CDs packed with non-album singles, B-sides, Peel Sessions and live tracks.
New 4CD box that contains remasters of Van Halen‘s 1978 eponymous debut and 1984,along with a brand new live album Tokyo Dome Live In Concert.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 30 March 2015”
