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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.
Continue reading “Deal Alert / Beach Boys: Made in California 6CD deluxe set”
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.
Continue reading “Elvis / That’s The Way It Is deluxe”
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.
Continue reading “Eighth Wonder / Remix Anthology”
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”
Cherry Red will issue Blue Rondo A La Turk‘s debut album on CD for the first time this month.
The jazz-pop outfit released Chewing The Fat in 1982, a long-player that included the top 40 UK hit Me and Mr. Sanchez which became the official theme for the 1982 Brazil World Cup.
Continue reading “Blue Rondo A La Turk / Chewing The Fat expanded deluxe edition”
Six months on from its debut on the Pure Audio blu-ray audio format (stereo only), Bob Marley‘s Legend compilation (the world’s best-selling reggae album, fact fans) gets a second bite of the hi-res cherry with a new release that features a 5.1 surround sound mix of the whole album by renowned engineer Bob Clearmountain.
Continue reading “Bob Marley / “Legend” 30th anniversary edition CD+blu-ray”
If you haven’t picked up the new Blondie Ghost Of Download / Greatest Hits Redux package (aka Blondie-4(0)-Ever), we’d recommend you check it out.
You may have noticed some references online to a vinyl version of this new set and there will indeed be a limited quantity available in the UK and Europe. In fact we’ve had an early look at the two-LP set and can confirm that it is absolutely fantastic!
Continue reading “FIRST PICTURES / Blondie-4(0)-Ever deluxe 2LP vinyl package”
Out yesterday in Japan, is this “HD Remastered” special edition blu-ray of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times 1987 concert film.
This is a Region A release (Americas, East Asia) and can be purchased as a standard blu-ray or as this deluxe version which comes with a booklet, postcards and an outer slipcase (optimistically referred to as a ‘box’).
Continue reading “Prince / Sign O The Times HD remastered edition blu-ray”
The Led Zeppelin reissues are finally here, complete with ‘companion’ audio discs with unreleased material. Whether the expensive no-bonus-audio box sets provide value or an Oasis-style you’ve-been-had feeling, remains to be seen.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 2 June 2014”
If you’ve placed an order via Amazon UK for Audio Fidelity’s vinyl repress of Kate Bush‘s The Sensual World, you may be wondering what’s going on, as the delivery date keeps getting pushed back (it’s currently showing as ‘unavailable’).
Continue reading “Kate Bush: Audio Fidelity update”
3 Loop Music will reissue Beth Orton‘s second album Central Reservation later this month, as an expanded two-CD deluxe set.
The 1999 long-player (nominated for a Mercury Music Award) features the singles Stolen Car and Central Reservation and was the follow-up to Orton’s acclaimed debut Trailer Park.
Continue reading “Beth Orton / Central Reservation expanded deluxe reissue”
Rhino will release a new Dream Theater box set in June.
The Studio Albums 1992-2011 is an 11-disc box that will include most of the metal/rock band’s career with ten albums starting with Images and Words. The full contents are as follows: Continue reading “Dream Theater / The Studio Albums”
Rhino will release CSNY 1974 in July, a 40th anniversary celebration of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1974 tour.
The set will be available as a 3CD+DVD package or a Pure Audio Blu-ray Audio +DVD set, both featuring 40 previously unreleased live tracks as well as a eight filmed performances on the DVD. The blu-ray element is 192/24 so this should sound amazing.
Continue reading “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / “CSNY 1974”: four disc box set”
A standalone DVD featuring Andy Jackson’s new 5.1 surround sound mix of Pink Floyd‘s The Division Bell has made a surprise appearance on the Pink Floyd official webstore.
Continue reading “Pink Floyd / The Division Bell 5.1 DVD available separately”
Tina Turner‘s Private Dancer was released on this day 30 years ago.
The record became an enormous success for the singer (then in her mid-forties) thanks in part to an 18-month single release schedule that saw no fewer than seven songs from the ten-track album issued as 45s, in various territories.
The first of those singles was a cover of the Al Green classic Let’s Stay Together which, when issued in November 1983, penetrated the UK top ten and became her first top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 since the iconic Nutbush City Limits performed with ex-husband Ike ten years earlier.
That single was produced by Martyn Ware (with Greg Walsh), from Heaven 17 and he spoke to SuperDeluxeEdition recently to share his memories of working with Tina. You can read that interview in full below.
Continue reading “Martyn Ware on Tina Turner’s Private Dancer”
ZTT’s Organisation Of Pop compilation continues its global 30th birthday celebrations with a new Tokyo Edition.
This two-CD set is (in theory) available only in Japan and comes as a matt laminated gatefold card sleeve, with yet another bespoke cover design and a completely different track listing to the previous London and New York editions.
Continue reading “Japanese CD / ZTT: The Organisation of Pop (Tokyo Edition)”
Whether it’s via Press Releases or the blurb on those stick-on spec sheets on the back of music box sets, record labels can *sometimes* over-egg the pudding when it comes to the claims about the music contained within. With that in mind, here’s a lighthearted look at reissue and music box set PR….
“Career spanning” > The bits of the artist’s career the label have the rights to.
“Host of unreleased recordings” > Music rejected the first time around for being sub-standard. Continue reading “TRANSLATED! The SDE guide to reissue and music box set PR”
We’re not changing our now semi-infamous ‘bag of shite‘ stance when it comes to this Oasis box, and so it still doesn’t come recommended by SDE, however a £31 price drop is pretty significant, so for those who feel that this needs to be on their shelf, and haven’t yet taken the plunge, we’d like to at least highlight an opportunity to save some cash. But just remember you’ll save even more by not buying it :) At the time of writing it’s £79 on Amazon UK which we’re confident is the cheapest price anywhere in the world (correct us if we’re wrong!).
