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40 unreleased live tracks from 1974 on a very high res blu-ray (192/24) or three CDs. Both sets come with a bonus DVD featuring eight filmed performances. 
New Manics album out today and available in the now familiar two-CD deluxe edition with bonus audio including demos of all the tracks on the album.
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Released this week was the 30th Anniversary deluxe edition of the Bob Marley Legend compilation.
This two-disc edition offers CD and blu-ray audio versions of the album, with the latter featuring a new 5.1 surround mix, alternate versions of Easy Skanking and Punky Reggae Party and the studio version of No Woman No Cry (the CD maintains the original versions of all of those tracks).
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Lowest price ever on Amazon UK for the highly-rated Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection, Vol. One box set, with it now dipping under £100.
The 47CD (!) set features ‘the entire official discography’, so all 35 studio albums are present and correct, including 1973′s Dylan, as well as six live albums, and a special two-CD compilation, Side Tracks, that brings together previously released non-album singles, tracks from compilations, and songs from films.
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Edsel Records have earned a deserved reputation for putting out some excellent deluxe reissues over the years. Virtually flawless offerings expanding the studio albums of Bananarama and Belinda Carlisle are two sets that come to mind.
Most recently they’ve turned their attention to Simply Red. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about the classic albums from the late eighties and the early nineties (Stars was the only really good deluxe that Warners put out) but rather the ‘noughties’ albums that Mick released on his own SimplyRed.com label after walking away from his major label deal.
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Remember the Ghostbusters glow-in-the-dark twelve-inch issued for Record Store Day back in April? Well that desirable item is already commanding high prices, but fear not, since Sony have set up a 30th Anniversary Ghostbusters online store and filled it with some exclusive items, including a repress of Ghostbusters RSD release, but this time not numbered and without the RSD sticker. It still exhibits the same glow-in-the-dark qualities.
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Oasis will reissue their 1995 album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? in September, the second of their ‘Chasing The Sun’ reissues.
As with their debut, this has been remastered and re-packaged and this release includes b-sides, early demos and soundcheck recordings from the Oasis archives. The box set more or less follows the design and content of the Definitely Maybe set. It contains the standard three-CD deluxe edition (see track listing below) plus the following:
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Following the success of last year’s Paul Young collection, Cherry Red Records will release a Thompson Twins Remixes & Rarities compilation later this year.
The two-CD set brings together extended remixes of all the classic singles including Sisters Of Mercy, In The Name Of Love, and Love On Your Side, alongside some choice rarities such as the single/AOR version of The Gap, early B-side In The Beginning and Fools In Paradise (King For A Day instrumental).
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Pink Floyd’s 1994 studio album is something of a vinyl feast, but at least it also includes a 5.1 blu-ray and CD of the album.
Nice to see a The The reissue. This Soul Mining vinyl box comes with a new remaster of the album (overseen by Matt Johnson) and an extra twelve-inch gatefold vinyl of alternative versions and remixes.
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The Allman Brothers Band 1971 Fillmore East Recordings 6CD box set has dropped in price significantly on Amazon UK.
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Parlophone Label Group will release a new Deep Purple set next month, called Hard Road: The Mark 1 Studio Recordings 1968-69.
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In the very late sixties The Chairmen Of The Board were the flagship act of Holland-Dozier-Holland’s then newly established Invictus label.
Best known for their 1970 top three US hit Give Me Just A Little More Time (covered in the early nineties by Kylie Minogue) the band released four studio albums for Invictus in the first half of the 1970s.
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Out now in Japan, but not released in Europe or America until 14 July, the Meet The Beatles Japanese five album mini-LP vinyl replica box set has just dropped in price on Amazon UK by around 15%.
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Peter Gabriel’s Back to Front deluxe set is out this week.
Pictured here is the 2 x blu-ray + 2CD deluxe edition which presents the four discs in a 60-page hardcover book designed by longtime Gabriel collaborator Marc Bessant.
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Underworld‘s acclaimed third album dubnobasswithmyheadman will be reissued in October 2014 across a number of formats, including a five-disc super deluxe edition box set.
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Massive thanks to SDE reader and Prince fan Simon Thornhill. Simon read about the Sign ‘O’ The Times Japanese blu-ray box set on this blog and not only ordered it, but has put together this really illuminating video review to show everyone exactly what the box and its contents are like. Great job, Simon!
Sign O’ The Times Japanese HD Remastered Edition blu-ray box set is out now.
As reported by Roger Stormo’s excellent Beatles blog, there is yet another variation of the 50th Anniversary blu-ray of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, this time a Japanese edition.
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Peter Gabriel’s So-celebrating concert is issued on Blu-ray and DVD, as well as four-disc deluxe sets of both formats that include two CDs.
This 40th Anniversary David Bowie seven-inch picture disc has the best image so far and features the David Live version of 1984 on the B-side .
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Pack shot of the reissue of Jethro Tull‘s A Passion Play which is due out in just over a week’s time.
This set has the subtitle ‘An Extended Performance’ because as well as a new stereo mix and 5.1 mix of the album proper by Steven Wilson, the earlier abandoned sessions that the band recorded in Chateau d’Herouville in France, get the same treatment – new stereo mixes and 5.1 surround mixes!
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Queen are to release a 40th anniversary celebration of two gigs at London’s Rainbow Theatre later this year, across a multitude of audio and video formats.
Recorded by Roy Thomas Baker, the band’s 31 March 1974 show at the Rainbow was so good, it was touted as a live follow-up to Queen II for a while, before this idea was eventually shelved and Sheer Heart Attack became the third album. When that record was a massive success (along with single Killer Queen) Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor returned to the venue in November 1974 for two further dates.
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An unheard demo of The Blow Monkey’s 1987 hit It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way is one of the highlights of a new two-CD deluxe edition of third album She Was Only A Grocer’s Daughter released by Cherry Red later this month.
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