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This vinyl box collects all of Dire Straits‘ albums on heavyweight 180g vinyl. Brothers In Arms and On Every Street are double LPs meaning this is an eight-LP set.
At £76 on Amazon UK at the time of writing, that’s under a tenner per vinyl which seems like a pretty good deal. Bernie Grundman has mastered the first four titles from analogue masters, with lacquers cut by Grundman and Chris Bellman.
Universal Music will reissue Ocean Colour Scene’s 1997 album Marchin’ Already as a four-disc box set in February 2014, as well as re-releasing a two-CD deluxe edition of their debut a few weeks earlier
For the Marchin’ Already box (which will also be issued as a two-CD deluxe), the original album takes up the first disc and is joined by a second CD of B-sides, radio sessions and previously unreleased demos. A further audio disc offers up a hour of live performance capturing the band’s gig at the Manchester Apollo on 22 February 1998 and a DVD – Travellers Tunes: Live at Stirling Castle (originally a VHS release in ’98) – completes the set.
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Nilsson‘s RCA Album Collection box set is undoubtedly one of the boxes of the year and was superb value even when not discounted.
With this set you can enjoy all his RCA albums with bonus material, plus nearly 30 previously unreleased bonus tracks many of which are to be found on three unique ‘sessions’ CDs which form part of this offering. 17 CDs in total.
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Scritti Politti‘s well received 2006 album White Bread Black Beer is our Japanese CD of the Day.
This edition comes with a bonus DVD. It’s effectively a 15-minute EPK (Electronic Press Kit) but is really rather interesting as we follow Green Gartside around Paris as he buys a guitar from a music shop, and hangs out in local cafes while talking about his past (“success felt like failure”) and his approach to this new record (yet to be followed up!).
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American musician and singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan’s restless musical journey has taken him from being frontman of the Screaming Trees, to collaborating with Kurt Cobain, to being a member of the Queens of the Stone Age. As well as this, during the last 20 or so years he’s released a large amount of solo material through the Sub Pop and Beggars Banquet labels.
Light In The Attic (responsible for Lee Hazlewood’s recent deluxe box) are shining a spotlight (no pun intended) on Lanegan’s work with the release of Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011. The collection gathers up solo material for Sub Pop, Beggars and more, and includes 12 unreleased tracks.
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Dan Hartman‘s 1979 album Relight My Fire will be reissued as an expanded edition in January 2014 by Hot Shot Records/BBR.
The record was only six tracks long when originally released, but it does, of course, include the disco classic title track, a song which Take That (with the help of Lulu) took to number one in the UK charts in 1993 (Hartman died the following year aged only 43).
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Update 09:00 7/12/13 – Amazon seem to have some more in stock!
Update 18:00 6/12/13 – As some have mentioned in the comments, this is now unavailable again, so clearly sold out at the cheap price. If you were quick off the mark you may have got lucky!
Level 42‘s Running In The Family Super Deluxe Edition was one of the 25th anniversary reissues back in October 2012.
The four disc box set (3CDs and a DVD) went out of print VERY quickly, and many were caught out and missing out on the opportunity to own this super deluxe set. Since that time it has be very hard to find for anything like a reasonable price, regularly being sold for well over £100.
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Morrissey‘s third solo album, 1992’s Your Arsenal will be reissued on 25 February 2014 by Parlophone Records.
The Mick Ronson produced long player was a return to form following the disappointing Kill Uncle and featured five singles including We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful and You’re The One For Me, Fatty.
This reissue is being branded the ‘Definitive Master’ and is a new remastering of the album. The CD will include a bonus DVD, featuring a previously unreleased live concert recorded at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on 31 October 1991, with the band that would record Your Arsenal.
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Last year Sony/Legacy snuck out a small number of Bob Dylan 50th Anniversary box sets to prevent the recordings from entering the public domain – the so called ‘use it or lose it’ strategy in terms of copyright. Only 100 of these four-CD sets were said to have been made available to the public through independent stores in Europe.
It seems they the label have deployed the same strategy in 2013 but are going the vinyl route this time around. The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 is a vinyl box this time, a six-LP set in fact, which features a mixture of previously unreleased studio and live recordings from 1963 (see full track listings below).
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We looked a this 15-CD Paul Simon Complete Albums Collection box when it was released back in October and concluded that despite the very nice packaging and the unarguably great music within, at around £90 you should be looking to get a bit more for your money.
Well the good news is that this is now available on Amazon UK for only £57 which suddenly makes this solo career-spanning set a much more attractive buy. It’s our deal of the day!
Olivier Robert-Murphy is a Global Head of New Business at Universal Music Group.
He and fellow Frenchman Laurant Villaume have spent the last two years bringing their vision of hi-res audio to market, in the form of audio-only blu-ray discs branded High Fidelity Pure Audio. This year has seen a flurry of releases on the format including albums by The Rolling Stones, Supertramp, The Velvet Underground, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder and Queen. John Lennon’s Imagine has just been announced as a new release for later this month.
We caught up with Olivier at Universal’s offices in West London and put some questions to him about High Fidelity Pure Audio…
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We have a superb prize bundle of NINE High Fidelity Pure Audio releases to give away to one SuperDeluxeEdition reader. These audio-only blu-ray discs are compatible with all blu-ray players and deliver a minimum of 24bit/96Khz hi-res audio.
The lucky winner will receive ALL the following titles:
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Cherry Red Records will reissue expanded versions of two pivotal albums from Luke Haines-fronted outfits in January 2014.
The Auteurs’ debut New Wave was released early in 1993 on Hut Records just as the Britpop scene was emerging and arguably contains some of Haines’ best known songs, including the singles Showgirl and How Could I Be Wrong. The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize although it lost out to Suede in the end.
Cherry Red’s forthcoming two-CD deluxe reissue adds 21 bonus tracks to the original album, including, B-sides, BBC sessions, six previously unreleased four-track demos and other rarities. See full track listing below for more detail.
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This bulletin post is to help you see what’s available TODAY that might be of interest from all the different amazon sites. We’ve added some music-related kit to mix things up a bit, particularly since the discounts are really big.
What: Paul McCartney / Wings Over America deluxe
When: 21:00 GMT/UTC or 16:00 EST
Where: Amazon.com
Expect to pay: About $80
Link: click here at 21:00 GMT or 16.00 EST to view discount
What: Stevie Wonder / Songs In The Key Of Life High-Fidelity Pure Audio
When: Available now – SDE selected deal.
Where: Amazon.co.uk
Expect to pay: About £1o
Link: SDE selected deal: click here
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Paul O’Duffy is a renowned record producer and composer whose 30-year career has seen him work a wide array of talent including Swing Out Sister, Dusty Springfield, Amy Winehouse, Was Not Was, John Barry and Tom Verlaine.
A lifelong Beach Boys fan, we asked Paul to review the 50th anniversary Made In California 6CD box set that was released recently. Read his thoughts on this set below…
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Mike and the Mechanics‘ 1988 album Living Years will be released as a Deluxe Edition on 20 January 2014.
This late-in-the-day 25th Anniversary issue does of course feature The Living Years, a massively successful hit single for Mike Rutherford’s band, that reached number one in the US Billboard charts in March 1989.
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January 2014 sees the reissue of three Del Amitri albums.
Waking Hours (1989), Change Everything (1992), and Twisted (1995) will all be re-released as two-CD deluxe editions on Universal Music’s Re-presents imprint. The albums have been re-mastered from the original tapes and include new sleeve notes by music journalist Terry Staunton. Each is packaged with a second CD containing mainly B-sides.
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This bulletin post is to help you see what’s available TODAY that might be of interest from all the different amazon sites. We’ve added some music-related kit to mix things up a bit, particularly since the discounts are really big.
What: Daft Punk / Random Access Memories CD
When: 19:00 GMT/UTC or 14:00 EST
Where: Amazon.com
Expect to pay: About $7
SuperDeluxeEdition editor and ZTT Records fan Paul Sinclair goes in search of 1980s avant garde pop group, the Art Of Noise.
I was a child of the 1980s. Or rather a teenager. The Gods had decreed that those most impressionable of years would not overlap into any other decade and after many years buying and listening to music I duly turned 20 in December 1989 and became a ‘grown up’ just in time for the nineties.
It was the decade of the eighties that was celebrated last Saturday evening in London, at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, with a performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra called 19 Eighties: The Rhythm Of A Decade. The centrepiece of this event was the world premiere of the Art Of Noise‘s 1983 debut release, Into Battle, ‘remixed’ for orchestra. AON’s very own Anne Dudley had created this in addition to another lengthy piece called Rhythm of a Decade. Founding Art of Noise member, Paul Morley, would host the evening and the strong connection with the ZTT record label continued with the inclusion of two pieces by composer and musician Andrew Poppy, who like the Art Of Noise, was signed to the Zang Tumb Tuum in the 1980s.
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All of Can‘s 13 studio albums plus some extra content in this 17LP vinyl box set. Check out Germany prices to get the best deal. 
Roy Orbison‘s first three albums, plus a newly curated fourth LP in this Music On Vinyl 180g vinyl box set .
All 12 studio albums by Yes released between 1969 and 1987 packaged in this CD box set. Bonus tracks are included and Big Generator comes with what were Japan-only remixes.
Little Sand Box is an eight-CD set featuring the solo work of Giant Sand frontman Howe Gelb. Liner notes from Gelb himself are included within the booklet.
Great value four-disc set that celebrates 25 years of Simply Red output from 1985 to 2010. The fourth disc offers something new with a selection of re-recorded tracks.
