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A-ha have tonight announced that they will perform together for the first time in four years for Rock in Rio 2015.
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Omnivore/Universal’s Jellyfish reissues, scheduled for release early next year, are now available to pre-order.
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A-ha have confirmed an extensive reissue plan for 2015 which will see four of their albums expanded and remastered.
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This post is sponsored by Legacy Recordings.
The career-spanning box was originally released in September 2013 and Clash guitarist Mick Jones stated at the time that the ambition was to make ‘the best box set ever’. Whether they achieved that aim is open for debate, but there is no doubt that they went to a lot of effort trying.
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Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has recently started a big Beatles promotion where they are supplying their readers over – the next weeks and months – with the entire Beatles canon and a unique box set which will hold a total of 22 individual titles (and 26 discs!). We have an exclusive photo gallery of this new set for you to view….
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Perhaps it was only a mock-up after all, or maybe Sharleen Spiteri reads SDE, but whatever the situation there is now a NEW front cover for Texas 25 to replace the much criticised previous version that featured in the press release and was used on the band’s official site/store.
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Move quickly to secure a great deal via Amazon UK on the soon to be released T. Rex Vinyl Collection box set, especially if you’re based in the US.
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We have a fantastic Tears For Fears prize to give away courtesy of our friends at udiscovermusic.com. One lucky SDE reader will win the six-disc super deluxe edition box set of Songs From The Big Chair, along with the blu-ray audio edition and the limited edition 2014 mix vinyl pressing. A superb 8-disc bundle! Details on how to enter are below.
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Wham!‘s Last Christmas is arguably the best Christmas single EVER. It is the fun of the early 1980s distilled into a seemingly effortless pop song that was played everywhere at the time; school discos, supermarkets, on the radio (of course) and obviously every Christmas party. It was the perfect sign-off to the best year pop music has seen (1984) and it sold well over a million copies making it apparently the biggest selling number two of all time in the UK (Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas kept if off the top spot).
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Lloyd Cole is working with Universal Music to help compile material for a forthcoming Lloyd Cole and the Commotions box set.
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This comprehensive Simon & Garfunkel collection sees all their studio output brilliantly remastered (by Vic Anesini). You also get the greatest hits, Graduate soundtrack and four live albums thrown in for good measure. 
Two Donna Summer boxes available, a 10CD set of expanded deluxe editions (including a three-CD Another Time and Place) or an 8LP vinyl box that adheres to original track listings. Everything is also available individually.
The Pixies 1989 album Doolittle reissued as a 50-track three-CD deluxe edition (fantastic value on Amazon UK) and a double vinyl. The latter includes bonus tracks but actual album is download only. 
Continue reading “Out This Week / 1 December 2014”
Four-disc Jethro Tull box set with enormous amount of extra material and 5.1 remixes drops in price by £7.
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A fantastic price reduction of over £15 brings this five-CD Kinks anthology down in price to just £33 pounds. Includes a massive 139 tracks, 25 of which are previously unreleased.
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Continue reading “Final reissue & box set DEALS as Black Friday week draws to a close”
For some unknown reason The Jam super deluxe box sets are always quite expensive when compared to other similar releases (e.g. The Velvet Underground). The latest Setting Sons box is no exception and this 4CD+Book+memorabilia set hasn’t dropped below £94 on Amazon UK since it was announced back in September. Thankfully we have our new favourite, Amazon Germany, who can offer you this set for a massively reduced price.
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George Benson‘s 1980 album Give Me The Night will be reissued by Music On Vinyl next month.
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Here’s the best of what SDE can bring you – many of these are gold old fashioned great deals and have little to do with Black Friday itself, while some might be a time limited offer which is being promoted specifically as a Black Friday discount. We’ll make clear the difference below. So take a deep breath, check your wallet is up to the task, and let’s dive in:
This Black Friday deal is going live tonight at 7pm GMT/UTC or 2pm EST. This is a generous super deluxe with slightly weird packaging. Contains remastered and expanded album, a 5.1 surround version, two CDs of live at the hammersmith odeon and remastered vinyl record.
> GRAB DEAL AT 7PM (GMT) or 2pm (EST) TODAY (Amazon US)
Superb 6-disc box curated with the help of yours truly. Remixes, B-sides, videos, TV appearances, previously unreleased early versions, 5.1 mix and more!!
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Ludicrous value even at full price, this 17CD box set includes all Nilsson’s RCA albums and comes with three discs worth of rarities. There is an amazing amount of bonus tracks.
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Although the title perhaps suggests otherwise The Elements of King Crimson is not a live album but rather a ‘2014 tour box’ that contains some unique and previously unreleased content that goes all the way back to 1969.
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The new Bob Dylan Basement Tapes Complete six-CD box set is over £100 on Amazon UK but is almost exactly HALF that price on Amazon Germany today.
Continue reading “Deal Alert / Bob Dylan: Basement Tapes Complete 6CD box”
Scottish band Texas will celebrate their 25th anniversary early next year with a new album, Texas 25.
Continue reading “Texas celebrate a quarter of a century with “Texas 25””
Earlier this year we dismissed Oasis’ Definitely Maybe deluxe box as overpriced and under spec’d. There didn’t seem too much point reviewing the follow-up (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? in its box set guise because as far as we could tell it was more of the same.
Nevertheless, if you really want the deluxe box version of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? but haven’t managed to justify the huge cost, it’s going to be available on Amazon UK tonight at 7.30pm GMT/UTC.
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Out this week is R.E.M‘s massive six-DVD box set REMTV. A collaboration between Rhino and MTV, this set comprehensively charts the career of the Athens, Georgia band via nearly 15 hours of footage including both Unpluggeds (with outtakes), a VH1 Storytellers (from 1998), performances at multiple award ceremonies (MTV, Video Music Awards, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). The set also features an excellent new feature-length documentary called MTV by R.E.M.
We’ve seen the documentary but have yet to wade through all this content. What is impressive however, is how well packaged this set it. You can view a photos below.
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