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Diamond Dogs, the title track of David Bowie‘s 1974 album, is the next single to receive the 40th Anniversary seven-inch picture disc treatment. The new vinyl features the studio version backed with the David Live (2005 mix) performance of the song.
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Pink Floyd‘s Division Bell super deluxe edition box set has dropped in price for a second time on Amazon UK with the price now under £100.
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Pretzel Logic, Steely Dan’s 1974 studio album, has already celebrated its 40th birthday this year, which may or may not be related to the fact that Universal Music Japan will reissue the album in three formats this later this summer.
Continue reading “Steely Dan / Pretzel Logic: Japanese mini-LP SHM-SACD / CD reissues”
A new album from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers will be released next month.
Hypnotic Eye is the first studio record since 2010’s Mojo and Petty recently described it to Rolling Stone as a “straight hard-rockin’ record, from beginning to end”.
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Incredible deal! The Soundgarden Superunknown 5-disc super deluxe edition is available at the time of writing for less than £40!.
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Apple/ Universal will release The Beatles in Mono, a limited 14LP vinyl box set in September with all the music within being newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios.
The CD Mono box from 2009 was created from digital remasters but this time around these new vinyl versions have been cut without the use of any digital technology.
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Demon Music are set to issue an Average White Band anthology that celebrates the Scottish soul/funk band’s entire career across a mammoth 19 CDs.
Continue reading “The Average White Band / “All The Pieces”: career-spanning 19CD box”
Universal Music will issue All The Voices, a 10LP vinyl box set collecting the work of INXS, in September.
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Rob Puricelli reviews Morrissey’s 2CD ‘Definitive Remaster’ of Vauxhall And I
In the interests of full disclosure, I am not a Morrissey fan.
But it’s not as simple as that, I’m afraid. You see, I was always appreciative of The Smiths. So many great tunes, tapping into the more angst-ridden aspects of my psyche. And as lead singer of said band, Morrissey was one quarter of the collective and whilst he had his outspoken moments, the band were the most important thing. After the split, Morrissey became numero uno and he seemed – to me anyway – to become increasingly vocal and patronising on a great many things. To hear his rants and raves, surly political faux pas and general pomposity, simply put me off giving any of his musical endeavours the time of day.
Continue reading “Morrissey / Vauxhall And I: 20th Anniversary definitive master”
A massively expanded version of The Allman Brothers Band’s 1971 live album At Fillmore East, will be released in July.
The new set is called The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings and will be available as a six-CD box, a three-blu-ray audio collection or a four-LP vinyl package and will feature 14 previously unreleased tracks from various March 1971 shows, with the venue’s closing gig of 27 June that same year being included in its entirety (along with an introduction by venue owner Bill Graham, that is also unreleased).
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We told you about Demon Music’s Simply Red reissues last month and while no one would argue that these albums represent the band at their zenith, the packages do look excellent in terms of what you get for your money. The prices have gone up a bit on Amazon now, but Demon are selling some decently-priced bundles through the Simply Red MyPlay store, and they are also doing a special promotion which kicks off at tomorrow morning at 9am (UK time).
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The world’s designers continue to wrestle with the problem of how the new 50th Anniversary blu-ray of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night will look in their area of the world, so we thought we’d take a look at some of the different designs.
To recap, in America the always cool Criterion Collection have gone with this slightly Saul Bass-inspired design:
This is brilliant; loads of energy, it’s in black and white which is appropriate for the movie, and it’s nice and ‘arty’.
Here’s what the good old UK have gone for:
Oh dear. I’ve seen photofit mug shots more accurate than this hideous cover, with those awful colour tints. But hang on? Have studio Second Sight read the not too complimentary feedback left by SDE readers? It looks like they have, because now Amazon are showing a new cover image:
Continue reading “Around the world in A Hard Days Night: blu-ray cover variations!”
Mystery Girl Unravelled, a fascinating and often moving documentary about the making of Roy Orbison‘s posthumous album Mystery Girl (released in 1989), is one of the highlights of a charming new CD+DVD deluxe edition from Sony Music/Legacy Recordings.
The film steps through the record track-by-track, aided by old home video footage and new interviews with the likes of Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Bono and ‘Roy’s Boys’ – Alex, Roy Jnr, and Wesley.
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Following on from January’s US Albums box set, the Japanese are having their own Fab Four fiftieth celebration with Meet The Beatles!, a five-disc box set that contains the Japanese versions of Meet The Beatles, The Beatles’ Second Album, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles No. 5 and Help! for the first time ever on CD.
These will all be presented in the usually pin-point accurate Japanese mini-LP CD vinyl replica sleeves and unlike the discs in the US Albums box, the individual titles all come with OBIs replicating the original designs.
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The round metal Who box offers 2CD+DVD+Blu-ray of the 2013 concert and as a bonus you get the full Quadrophenia album in hi-res 5.1 on Pure Audio. 
Soundgarden fans are in for a treat with this generous set that includes a blu-ray with 5.1 surround sound. It’s also at a great price on Amazon UK at the moment.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 9 June 2014”
Fantastic deal now on Made in California, the six-disc 174-track Beach Boys anthology from last year.
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An original RCA pressing of The Blow Monkeys‘ second album Animal Magic. PD 70910 was made in Germany and RCA did what they always did which is ruin the front cover artwork by insisting their logo go on the front. No one escaped this including David Bowie and the Eurythmics. PRICE PAID: £2.49
Talking of Bowie, here’s the original CD version of 1987’s Never Let Me Down. Not much to see here you may think, but a close look at the back reveals Too Dizzy as track 10. Bowie convinced EMI America to remove this from future pressings as he’d apparently decided he didn’t like it, so this is the only place you can find the song. Bad news for co-writer Erdal Kizilcay who regularly incorporates the song into his concerts. In fact another Kizilcay co-write also missed out on album inclusion; Girls (previously recorded by Tina Turner) ended up as the B-side to the second single Time Will Crawl. PRICE PAID: £2.49
Continue reading “Second Hand News / June 2014”
Sony will release a massive ten-disc box set in August celebrating Elvis Presley‘s 1970 album and documentary That’s The Way It Is.
The original album contained 12 tracks (eight studio recordings and four live songs) whereas this lavish deluxe set houses 156 tracks of audio, with 21 unreleased live recordings.
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A 12-track Remix Anthology of singles by the short-lived Patsy Kensit-fronted eighties band Eighth Wonder will be released by Cherry Red next month.
Highlights include the Pet Shop Boys‘ penned (and co-produced) I’m Not Scared which was a top ten hit in the UK and is featured here three times including the Little Louie Vega Mix and the 10″ Remix.
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Morrissey’s forthcoming album World Peace Is None Of Your Business will, after all, be available as an expanded 18-track deluxe CD.
Fans had been expressing disappointment that the deluxe bundles announced a few weeks ago only offered a “deluxe digital album” rather than a physical deluxe. Continue reading “Morrissey / “World Peace Is None Of Your Business” deluxe expanded CD”
