Edsel’s 20th Anniversary deluxe box set of Suede‘s Dog Man Star has dropped in price (again) on Amazon UK who – for the time being – now undercut the official Suede store.
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Author: Paul Sinclair
AFTER The Dawn: As the curtain closes, what next for Kate Bush?
“This is the last song tonight… and for a while!” Kate Bush, 1st October 2014
As Kate Bush left the stage last night to a rapturous standing ovation, her newly found ‘day job’ – and the routine that went with it – was over. The Before The Dawn extravaganza has come to an end after 22 shows and has been an unprecedented success. Fans, critics, fellow artists and musicians had run out of superlatives to describe the show which featured almost the whole of her 1985 album Hounds of Love (only The Big Sky and Mother Stands For Comfort weren’t played) and A Sky of Honey, the concept piece from the second side of 2005’s Aerial.
Let’s be honest, the last four years have been heaven for Kate Bush fans, with two albums in 2011 (Director’s Cut and 50 Words For Snow) and now this year a who-would-have-thought-it live residency at Hammersmith Odeon. The big question is will Kate ever perform live again? If it’s going to happen it certainly won’t be for a while, so in the meantime what is next for Kate? We examine the options…
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Simon & Garfunkel / The Complete Albums Collection box set
Sony / Legacy Recordings will release a Simon & Garfunkel Complete Albums Collection box set in November.
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Blondie boxed. New 6LP vinyl set.
Universal will release a Blondie vinyl box later this year that collects all the studio albums from the original 1976-1982 era.
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Simple Minds / Big Music
Simple Minds return with Big Music, their first studio album in over five years this November.
The album will be available as a special 2CD+DVD deluxe edition which adds six bonus tracks to the standard 12-track album via a bonus CD and also offers a DVD that features two full length promo videos, a few other clips, behind the scenes footage and band interviews. The set includes a booklet and poster.
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DEAL / George Harrison The Apple Years 1968-75 box set
Cheapest price yet for George Harrison‘s The Apple Years 1968-75 box set as Amazon UK knock over £20 off the price.
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ABBA / The Studio Albums vinyl box
Having issued the 40th anniversary singles vinyl box, Universal Music/Polydor – in their role as custodians of the Polar Music catalogue – were always quite likely to put out an ABBA vinyl box set featuring the original studio albums, and at the end of next month that is exactly what is going to happen.
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The Jam / Setting Sons box set
Universal Music will reissue The Jam‘s fourth album Setting Sons as a 3CD+DVD super deluxe box set in November.
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Tears For Fears / MASSIVE “Songs From The Big Chair” box set coming
Universal team up with SuperDeluxeEdition.com to create stunning 6-disc super deluxe editon box set.
Roland Orzabal: (speaking to Paul Sinclair in 2014)
“We had let go of any Tears For Fears ideology, because it all came out in The Hurting. We were getting older, we had a bit of money, so life wasn’t that bad [laughs]. I mean, I bought my first house at 21. There wasn’t the ‘difficult second album syndrome’. It was an easy second album syndrome. You know, instead of being so het up by ‘the message’ we started to relax.”
Universal Music will reissue Tears For Fears‘ second album Songs From The Big Chair in November as a six-disc super deluxe edition box set that, amongst all the bonus material, delivers every commercially issued b-side and remix of the era, previously unreleased radio sessions and early mixes and a high-resolution 5.1 surround sound mix courtesy or highly respected remixer and engineer Steven Wilson.
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Out This Week / 29 September 2014
Oasis / (What’s The Story) Morning Glory ? (deluxe box)
Second reissue this year from Oasis. Still one of the UK’s best selling albums, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory ? from 1995 contains mega-hits Wonderwall, and Don’t Look Back In Anger. 
ABBA / Live at Wembley Arena 2CD and 3LP set
ABBA Live at Wembley Arena presents a complete concert at the famous London venue from 10 November 1979. Includes ‘new’ ABBA song called I’m Still Alive.
Bruce Springsteen / The Album Collection, Vol. 1 (1973-1984)
Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will release Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984 in November, a CD (and vinyl) box set of remastered editions of the first seven Bruce Springsteen albums recorded for Columbia Records between 1973 and 1984.
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Suede / Dog Man Star 20: trailer
Dog Man Star is easily one of the best albums of the 1990s, and for this writer it surpassed anything that Blur came up with and eclipsed both of the first two celebrated Oasis records between which its release was sandwiched. In fact I’ve just remembered that I reviewed the album when the 2011 deluxe edition came out so head over here, for the full considered verdict.
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ABBA / Gracias Por La Musica deluxe edition / CD+DVD
ABBA’s Spanish-language album, Gracias Por La Música, receives the Deluxe Edition treatment this November.
This could be perceived as slightly barrel-scraping but there’s a certain logic to the reissue. The original record was recorded in 1980 after the group had released a Spanish language version of their 1979 hit Chiquitita. That single had been an attempt to break into Latin America – a territory where ABBA were not enjoying the massive success they’d enjoyed everywhere else – and because it did very well the album was commissioned.
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The Moody Blues / The Polydor Years 1986-1992 / 9-disc box
November sees the release of this nine-disc Moody Blues box set that brings together, for the first time, remastered editions of all the band’s Polydor-era albums, spanning the period 1986 to 1992.
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Inside The Pleasuredome / Trevor Horn Q&A and Frankie playback
Legendary producer Trevor Horn delighted 60 lucky Frankie Goes To Hollywood fans last night by talking in detail about his work with the group in the very room where Relax and many other of the band’s hits were created.
Sarm Studios in West London was the venue for the special playback event which was hosted by Classic Album Sundays‘ Colleen Murphy. All four sides of Frankie’s 1984 debut album Welcome To The Pleasuredome were played (loudly) on an appropriately expensive turntable and hi-fi system after Trevor had been interviewed and entertained his audience with anecdotes and musical insights. We learned for example how third UK number one, The Power of Love, went from the key of E to F as a result of speeding up the track by a semitone and how Relax was changed key to E minor which in the words of Horn turned it into something “big and sad”.
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DEAL: Motorhead / The Complete Early Years 15CD box set
A ludicrously big price-drop (nearly £100!) for a slightly ludicrous box set, this Motörhead The Complete Early Years has never been cheaper. Continue reading “DEAL: Motorhead / The Complete Early Years 15CD box set”
Review: George Harrison / The Apple Years 1968-1975 box
GEORGE HARRISON’S APPLE YEARS BOX: FROM BRILLIANT, TO LESS THAN, AND OTHER.
…but moderately priced set should still appeal to Harrison devotees.
“Thirteen years after his death we have finally put the ‘ducks in a row’ and are proud to present to you, the listener, with his first six solo albums…dig it” Dhani Harrison, 2014
An argument with much merit can be made that of all the former Beatles’ solo work after the break up of the group, George Harrison produced the “best” single outing with All Things Must Pass in 1970, even though it was originally a three record set with considerable filler.
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Rod Stewart / Vinyl box set 1969-74
Rod Stewart is a five LP vinyl box set of all of Rod Stewart’s studio albums originally released between 1969 and 1974.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival / seven LP vinyl box set coming
Universal Music will release a Creedence Clearwater Revival vinyl box set next month.
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Jimmy Somerville / Dance & Desire – Rarities & Videos: track listing
Edsel’s delayed Jimmy Somerville compilation, Dance & Desire • Rarities & Videos will now be released in November, it has been confirmed.
As well as a first look at the cover art (above) we are pleased to publish the full official track listing which brings together music and videos from across Somerville’s career beginning with Bronski Beat, moving through the Communards and then Jimmy’s solo career. The story turns full circle with the inclusion of Smalltown Boy (Reprise 2014) a new version of the classic track with an accompanying promo film.
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