Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
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 presents a complete concert at the famous London venue from 10 November 1979. Includes ‘new’ ABBA song called I’m Still Alive.
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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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’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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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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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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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”
…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 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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Universal Music will release a Creedence Clearwater Revival vinyl box set next month.
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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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David Bowie‘s reissued Sound + Vision box is out this week. As expected the four CDs reside in a ‘fatbox’ double CD case which comes with an outer card slipcase.
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The Endless River is a new Pink Floyd album created from music recorded in 1993 during The Division Bell sessions.
At the time, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason had played freely together (at Britannia Row and Astoria studios) for the first time in over 20 years and the unreleased sessions from that time have been revisited, with the band spending the last year recording and upgrading the music to create The Endless River.
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Sony always seem to hit the spot when it comes to quality packaging for a reasonable price and this Rory Gallagher Irish Tour ’74 40th anniversary deluxe box appears to be no exception.
The expansive 7CD+DVD set is available for between £30-35 and comes packaged in a eight-panel ten-inch wallet and includes a booklet with extensive liner notes. Everything slots in to an outer slipcase
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Terry Ott examines two recent Hendrix reissues.
“And if I don’t see you no more more in this world, I’ll meet you on the next one – but don’t be late. Don’t be late.” Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix
Did Johnny Allen Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix have a premonition when he wrote the above lyric? We’ll never know.
But what we do know is that we can ‘see’ or rather hear Jimi again in this world from around the productive period when he made his other-worldly remarks, even one of these two early posthumous Hendrix albums did take 43 years to make it to officially on to CD (Rainbow Bridge) with the other (The Cry Of Love) being long unavailable. It may even be worth the wait, sound wise, seeing as they are newly remastered from the original two track basic stereo master tapes from Electric Ladyland Studios – but more on that later.
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David Bowie‘s new single, Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime), is receiving the retro packaging treatment ahead of its 17 November release.
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A new George Harrison box features six remastered albums (also available separately) and an exclusive DVD. An great looking book is also included with notes from Kevin Howlett.
The 2003 ‘reboot’ of David Bowie‘s original 1989 Sound + Vision box added an extra disc to take fans through the ’80s and into the early nineties, and unlike the forthcoming Nothing Has Changed it features a few well chosen Tin Machine tracks (a good thing – really). Eleven years ago the high cost meant upgrading wasn’t a priority, but this new repackage at a crazily cheap price means this is now highly recommended.
The Kinks Anthology 1964-1971 is finally available for pre-order on Amazon UK having been available in the US and Germany for over a week.
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With the Sun Zoom Spark Captain Beefheart 4CD set only £20 at the time of writing, it’s only fair that vinyl aficionados had a chance top pick up the 4LP set at a reduced price too and happily Amazon have obliged with a significant price-drop.
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In November Edsel will reissue all of Lisa Stansfield‘s Arista-era albums as deluxe 2CD+DVD sets. In addition, a 33-track three-CD remix anthology will also be released.
Fans can buy all 18-discs together in an exclusive box set The Collection 1989-2003 which is also available from Lisa’s store with an exclusive bonus 12″. So lots of goodies to enjoy. See below for a first look at all the track listings for each album (and the remix set).
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