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Thanks to a few SDE readers who’ve got in touch to advise that Amazon UK are now selling the Suede seven-inch Singles Box set for £73. This compares to £100 on the official store.
The box contains 24 seven-inch singles and a 20-page 7 x 7″ booklet.
The Singles Box is released on 14 April 2014. A CD version is also available.
Track listing: Continue reading “SDE Deal Alert: Suede / seven-inch vinyl singles box on amazon”
Universal will release Complete Motown Collection box sets later this year for Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.
Details are scant, but pre-order links are already available with the Marvin Gaye set offering 25 discs, the Diana Ross collection clocking in at 23 discs. These are likely to have card sleeves with some gatefolds, and will come in some kind of clamshell box.
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Edsel Records follow their two Suede Singles box sets with a flurry of releases from the band in May.
Suede‘s triumphant return to the live stage at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010 is reissued and repackaged as a 2CD+DVD digi-pack, while the same concert performance is also pressed onto heavyweight 180g vinyl for a triple LP set.
Continue reading “World of Suede: more vinyl and CD reissues from Edsel Records”
The super deluxe edition box set of Oasis‘ Definitely Maybe is now available for purchase direct from Amazon US.
The “very limited” six-disc box set was announced last month but has only been available on the UK Amazon site and the official Oasis store until recently. In addition to three CDs, the box contains a double heavyweight vinyl version of the album, an exclusive seven-inch single, a hardcover book and a number of other memorabilia-type items.
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Elton John‘s 1973 classic is reissued as a five-disc super deluxe edition with two discs of previously unreleased live performance and a DVD with a documentary. 
Following last week’s two-disc Belinda Carlisle Collection comes this comprehensive Anthology featuring hits, rarities, videos, TV performances and more.
The Stranglers celebrate 40 years with this 11CD set that includes rarities, recent releases and the classic UA/Liberty Records era.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 24 March 2014”
Suzanne Vega‘s Close-Up series started back in 2010 and since that time four volumes have been released with the singer-songwriter reinterpreting large chunks of her catalogue creating four new thematic albums.
The packaging of these individual releases wasn’t very exciting (simple small card sleeves) so it is pleasing to note that April sees the release of a special hardcover book edition celebrating Close-Up that combines all four CDs from the series and offers a fifth CD that collects all the digital-only bonus tracks from the individual album releases.
Continue reading “Suzanne Vega / Close-Up series 6-disc deluxe hardcover book”
The Doors’ 1972 compilation Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine will be reissued as a limited edition double-LP Set for Record Store Day 2014.
Pressed on translucent amber swirled vinyl this long out-of-print double album was the first compilation to be released after Jim Morrison’s death in 1971. The collection mixes familiar cuts and deep tracks Continue reading “#RSD14 / The Doors / “Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine” coloured vinyl”
Edsel’s Suede CD single box set contains 24 CDs rounding up most (but not all) of the various extra tracks on the CDs / Cassettes / DVDs of the day. The Bloodsports 45s make their debut on the CD single format and the CD singles box also comes with a bonus DVD featuring 28 promo videos.
This set is £80 via the official Suede Shop, but is now available from Amazon UK for just £63 (at the time of writing). The vinyl version looks like it will be available to order on Amazon soon, also.
Track listing: CD Single Box Continue reading “DEAL OF THE DAY: Suede / CD Singles box set now on Amazon”
Salvo will put out a new two-CD Kirsty MacColl collection, The Anthology next month.
Although it’s debatable if the world needs another MacColl compilation (Salvo’s own A New England: The Best of Kirsty MacColl is only a year old), Continue reading “Kirsty MacColl / All I Ever Wanted: The Anthology / 2CD compilation”
George Michael has this week released Symphonica, a live album from his 2011-2 tour that features orchestral / big band arrangements of many of his songs, alongside a generous selection of covers.
Although in recent years we’ve had some one-off singles (December Song, True Faith, White Light) an album of new studio material has not materialised. Indeed, remarkably, Michael has only released one ‘proper’ album in the last 18 years (2004’s Patience).
While fans continue to wait for his muse to return, it is at least refreshing to be able to talk about the man in relation to some new music rather than read about him in the tabloid press as they report deliciously on some unfortunate incident (self inflicted or otherwise).
Continue reading “George Michael / Symphonica”
Roy Orbison‘s 1989 album Mystery Girl gets a 25th anniversary reissue in May 2014.
Released posthumously just two months after his death, Mystery Girl featured Orbison working with the songwriting talents of Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Bono and The Edge and spawned the hit single You Got It which was a transatlantic top ten hit.
The reissue will be available as a CD+DVD deluxe edition (with nine bonus tracks, a documentary and many videos), a 2LP 180g double vinyl set and an expanded single CD remaster.
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Having surprised the world by releasing two albums in one year back in 2011 (Director’s Cut and 50 Words For Snow) Kate Bush has arguably just topped that this morning by announcing that she will play a series of 15 live dates at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in August and September 2014.
Continue reading “Before The Dawn: Kate Bush to perform live in London in 2014”
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The humble RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed may have been slightly overshadowed in recent years by newer, sexier social media channels, but it’s still Continue reading “Stay connected to SDE”
Andy Partridge is to reissue XTC‘s 1986 album Skylarking in April.
This new CD edition – out on his own APE label – will feature a number of changes including the addition of the track Dear God (always intended to for the album but left off due to record label concerns about US audience reaction), new artwork (consistent with Partridge’s original concept) and last but not least corrected polarity.
Continue reading “XTC / Skylarking: new edition”
Daryl Hall and John Oates‘ 1981 album Private Eyes has been recently reissued as a SACD by audiophile specialist Mobile Fidelity.
The smash hit album continued two number one singles in the title track and I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) and this numbered “Ultradisc UHR” stereo disc is actually a hybrid SACD and so is compatible with all CD players.
Private Eyes SACD is out now.
Track listing Continue reading “Hall & Oates / “Private Eyes” SACD”
Following on from a limited double picture disc version, pop culture gurus SPACELAB9 are issuing Dave Porter’s Original Score from the Television Series Breaking Bad as a black vinyl double LP.
This will still be a limited run, and will come packaged in a deluxe full colour gatefold jacket, with two heavy stock printed inner pocket sleeves featuring images from the TV show. First pressings also includes a full color 18 x 24 poster.
Continue reading “Breaking Bad / Original Score 2LP”
US cinephiles The Criterion Collection will reissue The Beatles‘ 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night on blu-ray and DVD in June this year.
This new edition features a 4K digital film restoration approved by director Richard Lester and of particular interest to music fans is the fact that it comes with two soundtrack options: mono and a new 5.1 surround soundtrack created by Apple Records, both of which are in uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio on the blu-ray.
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Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Toto: Live in Poland in April 2014.
The concert was filmed in Lodz during last year’s 35th Anniversary Tour and will be issued across a number of formats including DVD, Blu-ray, two-CD and a deluxe 60-page hardcover book edition that contains all of the above.
Continue reading “Toto / Live in Poland deluxe set”
As regular readers will know, the Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual reissue has been controversial, both for the pricing and due to the content missing from the two-disc set.
Here’s a first look at what caused the consternation and the high price point. Yes, it’s the “3D” packaging which is supposed to recreate the bedroom featured in the Girls Just Want To Have Fun video. Fair play, it’s creative, but with no option for a less Barbie-like, no-frills, two-CD version, the folly of the project remains.
Continue reading “The Girlie Show: Cyndi Lauper / She’s So Unusual: 3D pack shot”
Unfortunately not a ‘proper’ new album from George Michael, Symphonica contains live-in-the-studio orchestral versions of some GM classics (no Carless Whisper) and some choice covers.
Four CDs of previously unreleased live Rod Stewart tracks spanning over two decades in this nicely designed set.
The coloured versions may prove hard to get hold of (particularly online) but regardless, it is great to have David Bowie‘s superb 2003 album available on vinyl.
Continue reading “Out This Week 17 March 2014”
