You know some care and attention has gone into this Lee Hazlewood Industries (LHI) deluxe set when you open the front cover (complete with gold foil blocking) and find a replica business card printed on textured paper with an embossed logo, mounted within a die-cut page! No corners appear to have been cut with the presentation of There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving 1966-1971 – an anthology that, according to indie label Light In The Attic, has been seven years in the making. Continue reading “FIRST PICTURES: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971 / 5-disc set”
This John MartynIsland Years box set is epic. It contains 17 CDs featuring the 12 key studio albums (recorded for Island between 1967 and 1987) with previously unreleased mixes, outtakes, unheard songs and two complete, previously unreleased live solo concerts from 1972 and 1977 and the complete demos for The Apprentice, the last album Martyn delivered to Island. Add to that a DVD with loads of TV performances, a large hardback book and you have an amazing set.
This has to be our BEST EVER deal of the day, because you can pick this up now from Amazon Germany at the time of writing for just €39! That’s £33! It’s £154 on Amazon UK. Don’t hesitate because this will surely be gone before the day is out!
Released back in the late summer of 2013, this four-CD set of classic and rare Sly & The Family Stone tracks really delivered. Mono single mixes, studio outtakes, live recordings, rare instrumentals – it has the lot and 17 of these tracks are previously unreleased.
Universal Music continue to exploit their newly acquired Beatles catalogue, with a comprehensive reissue of the band’s output as released in North America via a 13CD ‘The U.S. Albums’ box set as well as limited individual CD reissues of 12 of those Capitol Records’ titles.
On 20 January Universal Music celebrate 50 years since Meet The Beatles and I Wanna Hold Your Hand went to number one in America by reissuing 12 Capitol titles on CD and a special The US Albums box set.
To help you understand how these releases differed from the UK albums we give you the SuperDeluxeEdition guide to the US Albums. Pre-order links for the new CDs are included although at the time of writing the UK links aren’t live yet, but the others do work!
Please be aware that Apple are using the global 2009 remasters for their reissue of the U.S. Albums, so all references below to added reverb, or fake or ‘duophonic’ stereo will not apply to the reissues. However unique edits and mixes are thought to have been maintained by use of the original 1960s Capitol analogue master tapes.
Meet the Beatles! (1964)
The first Capitol long player contains nine tracks from With The Beatles (omitting five) and adds I Wanna Hold Your Hand, its US B-side This Boy, and I Saw Her Standing There (from Please Please Me) which was a unique mono mix for the US.
This one’s a real mish-mash. The five tracks from With The Beatles not featured on Meet The Beatles are included, along with She Loves You/I’ll Get You from the 45, Thank You Girl (B-side to From Me To You in the UK) and You Can’t Do That from the UK version of A Hard Day’s Night. Long Tall Sally and I Call Your Name also get a global debut on this album, a month before the Long Tall Sally EP hit the shops in the UK. Thank You Girl was a unique stereo mix with some additional harmonica riffs.
Amazon Canada is the place to shop for today’s Deal of the Day.
They currently have the forthcoming limited edition John Mellencamp1978-2012 19CD box set for $77 CA. That’s just over £44! In Europe you can expect to pay around £120 for this set, so with a potential saving over over £75 that’s more than enough to offset shipping costs. Continue reading “DEAL OF THE DAY: John Mellencamp: 1978-2012 box set”
Parlophone Label Group will issue a KajagoogooandLimahl five-CD Original Album Series set in January 2014.
This collection will contain the three eighties-era Kajagoogoo albums (Crazy Peoples Right to Speak was credited to Kaja) without bonus tracks and the two Limahl efforts from the same era, including the full CD debut of Giorgio Moroder collaboration 1986’s Colour All My Days. Continue reading “Kajagoogoo and Limahl / Original Album Series / 5CD set”
Bruce Springsteen‘s forthcoming new album High Hopes will be available in the UK and Europe as the same two-disc deluxe set that first appeared on Amazon in the US. Continue reading “Springsteen deluxe gets UK release”
Vol. 12B: 1972 brings the acclaimed Complete Motown Singles series to an end. This five-CD set (plus seven-inch vinyl within the front cover) covers Motown’s output from the last half of 1972 and contains 100 remastered tracks.
Erdal (red jeans) helping with “Let’s Dance” demos back in 1982
Erdal Kizilcay is a Turkish born multi-instrumentalist who spent over ten years collaborating with David Bowie on a number albums including 1987’s Never Let Me Down, 1993’s The Buddha of Suburbia and 1995’s Outside. He also played bass guitar in two consecutive world tours: The Glass Spider Tour of 1987 and 1990’s Sound + Vision Tour.
In celebration of the excessive, theatrical, some would say overblown Glass Spider Tour,a Glass Spider Band has emerged featuring two original members; Erdal himself and keyboard player Richard Cottle. They are joined by new personnel and will be recreating Bowie’s greatest hits on 17 December 2013 at the Under The Bridge venue in London. We caught up with Erdal a few weeks ago to talked to him about working with David Bowie and touring with him in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
SuperDeluxeEdition: How did this new Glass Spider show come about?
Erdal Kizilcay: The company Bloomberg wanted to do a Bowie thing. Me and Richard Cottle [are involved] – he also played on that record. I did the whole album, the Never Let Me Down album. About 80% of that album is me. Bloomberg wanted to do a Bowie thing with Tom Wilcox – he’s organising this Glass Spider concert in December and he’s curator of the ICA. Next week we’re also doing Iggyfest at the ICA, since I also did the Iggy Pop album Blah Blah Blah.
SDE: Was that the first time you worked with David, on the Blah Blah Blah album?
EK: Absolutely, yes…. [pause] sorry no! We’re talking about 25 years ago, even more actually. I was called in to Montreux, to Mountain Studio to help with his demos for the Let’s Dance album. Nile Rogers was there and they needed a bass player, and I had a name for myself here in Switzerland, so they called me in. Continue reading “Bowie collaborator Erdal Kizilcay on “Glass Spider” and “Never Let Me Down””
We have some pictures of this Eagles vinyl box coming soon, but Rhino have done an excellent job with the packaging with gold foil blocking, textured sleeves, posters included and other details meticulously recreated. The six-LP set is currently £66 on Amazon UK (having come down from over three figures) which is significantly cheaper than the US price of $140 which equates to about £85.
In February 2014 Universal Music will release Rainbow: The Singles Box Set 1975-1986.
This set will feature 19 CDs in replica single sleeves, housed in a rigid box with lift-off lid. All the original single mixes have been remastered for the box which also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring detailed annotations on each release as well as sleeve notes by Andy Francis, an authority on the band. Full track listing can be found below. Continue reading “Rainbow / The Singles Box 1975-1986 / 19CD set”
Paul Rymer guest reviews the Japan-only 2CD 30th Anniversary Edition of Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s soundtrack to Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence as well as the companion release Coda.
Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983) is one of those unusual films that has gained a greater reputation over time; it is the film debut of Takeshi Kitano, who later went on to become an award winning director and writer; Jack Celliers is one of David Bowie‘s best regarded acting roles, and the soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also plays a leading role in the film) has lived on beyond the silver screen, most recently forming part of Anne Dudley’s Rhythm Of A Decadeperformed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s South Bank Centre. Continue reading “Ryuichi Sakamoto / “Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence” 2CD deluxe”
With this year’s obsession with David Bowie‘s The Next Day you’d think he hadn’t produced any decent work since 1983’s Let’s Dance.
The reality is that between 1993 and 2003 Bowie produced seven studio albums (counting Buddha of Surburbia) of which three are at least as good as (if not better) than The Next Day. Continue reading “DEAL OF THE DAY: Bowie Box (10CD)”
It’s quite hard to determine the point of releasing Bob Dylan‘s Complete Album Collection, Vol. One on a USB stick, housed in a (non-working) harmonica.
Although it was originally announced as containing better-than-CD quality audio, Sony ended up updating their marketing material and the digital files on here are actually 16bit /44.1kHz FLAC format, which is identical quality to what’s on the CD version. In other words the ‘carrot’ of hi-res Bob Dylan disappeared.
If you’re interested in the mechanics of how the USB stick works, the process is that you plug it into your computer and (for Mac owners) you navigate to the drive called “DYLAN” and double click on a file called ‘MacStart’. That launches the interface which looks like this: Continue reading “Bob Dylan / The Complete Album Collection, Vol. One Harmonica USB”
The Velvet Underground / White Light / White Heat (Super Deluxe Edition)
The death of Lou Reed makes the reissue of The Velvet Underground‘s second album White Light / White Heat all the more poignant. This Super Deluxe Edition echoes the packaging of last year’s Velvet Underground & Nico set although it only contains half the number of CDs (three).
Eric Clapton / Give Me Strength: 1974-75 Recordings (5CD+Blu-ray audio)
Expanded versions of 461 Ocean Boulevard, There’s One In Every Crowd and E.C. Was Here (all with previously unreleased material), plus a disc of Freddie King sessions ANDa blu-ray audio with hi-res surround sound versions (including an unreleased Elliot Scheiner 5.1 of 461 Ocean Boulevard) make this set an absolute feast for Eric Clapton fans.
John Mellencamp / 1978-2012 (19CD box set)
This massive box is effectively the entire studio catalogue of John Mellencamp – 223 tracks over 35 years. Includes bonus offerings with many of the albums. Continue reading “Out This Week / 9 December 2013”
