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Sony Music / Legacy Recordings have chosen the week the album turns 40 to announce that Emerson Lake And Palmer‘s Brain Salad Surgery will be reissued on 7 April 2014 as a Super Deluxe Edition box set.
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This is a brand new Japanese release (UICY-75886) of The Rolling Stones classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers. The album comes packaged in true mini-LP CD form, replicating in precise detail the original vinyl, including a jeans with working zipper and belt buckle, which when unfastened, reveal well-filled underpants beneath.
The sheet insert from the original release is identical (except smaller..) as is the rear cover which featured the debut of what is now basically The ‘Stones corporate logo – the ‘tongue & lips’.
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Leo Sayer has recently put together a box set which compiles and celebrates most of his studio output from the last 40 years. Just A Box includes all his studio albums and comes with two bonus CDs of rarities. Not only that, the musician and songwriter has also taken to the road in the UK and plays the 229 Venue tonight.
We caught up with Leo recently, and in the first part of a two part interview we talked to him about the early years and his initial success in England before he became a massive star in North America…
SuperDeluxeEdition: How did you get into music in the first place?
Leo Sayer: The first record I bought was Jerry Lee Lewis, “Great Balls Of Fire”, and my dad heard a little bit of me playing it in the bedroom, came storming in, picked it up and said ‘I don’t want to hear that in my house again’ – opened the window and threw it into the garden. And at that moment my rebellion was set. It was always going to be the voice of family or authority that would set the meter for my expression.
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We have finally got our hands on the much talked about Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection Vol. One
Despite containing most of the musical legend’s studio output, the 47CD box set is surprisingly compact, measuring just over seven-inches across and a little over five inches in height and depth. It has a very attractive rubbery soft-feel finish with some classy spot varnishing on the graphics and photos.
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This 2009 Japanese mini-LP CD of Prince‘s 1987 album Sign O’ The Times (cat number WPCR-13538/9) displays the usual stunning attention to detail that Japanese have become known for, in terms of CD packaging and presentation.
All the elements of the original vinyl are replicated, including the sticker that adorned the front cover – just in case you didn’t recognise his purpleness (or should that be his peach-and-black-ness?). The postcard that you could send off to join the Prince ‘Fan Club’ (cue nostalgia for the simpler times of life pre-internet…) is also included and shrunk down, Mike Teavee-style.
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Scottish band Mogwai will issue a new album, Rave Tapes, on 20 January 2014.
The 10-track release is being issued in the UK/EU on Mogwai’s own Rock Action Records and via other labels various global territories, including Sub Pop in the US.
A special limited edition box set will be available, which will feature the album on vinyl, an exclusive twelve-inch record, a seven-inch single, a CD of Rave Tapes, a large format (12″ x 12″) book of studio photography by photographer Steve Gullick (shot during the recording sessions), and three similarly sized art prints. All vinyl is 180g and their will be a download code for audio content.
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This reissue celebrates twenty years since the first Frank Sinatra Duets album was released. The Super Deluxe Edition box comes with two LPs, two CDs and a DVD amongst other content. 
After a few weeks of delays, the excellent value 6CD version of The Waterboys‘ Fisherman’s Box is out today. This comes packaged in a small clamshell box rather than the deluxe edition’s twelve-inch box.
Universal offer up this collection of 14 rare and previously unreleased gems across seven seven-inch vinyl records. Highlights include Do I Love You by Frank Wilson – thought to be the world’s rarest Motown 45 as an original pressing. This numbered, limited release also contains new-to-vinyl tracks from Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder and The Temptations. Comes with MP3 download code.
Exceptional presentation for Echo and the Bunnymen’s debut album. Comes with two heavyweight LPs and notes in the book pages from guitarist Will Sergeant.
Music On Vinyl will issue a box set featuring Roy Orbison‘s first three albums, plus a newly curated fourth LP, in late November/early December 2013.
The Monument Vinyl Box Set collects Lonely and Blue from 1961, Crying from 1962, In Dreams from 1963, and the never before issued Oh! Pretty Woman described by Sony Music as the ‘missing’ Monument album masterpiece that could have, and should have been released as its title song, Oh, Pretty Woman was topping the charts in 1964.
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Dire Straits’ The Studio Albums 1978-1991 vinyl box set was just £70 when it first appeared on Amazon UK back at the end of September. Although it has gone up a little bit since then, it’s still fairly good value at £86. Buying from Amazon Germany will save you around £10 but you do have to factor in the shipping (normally very cheap). France matches the current UK price, and if you choose to pay up the Amazon US ‘import’ price, then you’re looking at a hefty £139 for this 8LP box set.
More details on The Studio Albums 1978-1991 vinyl box here.
The 7CD+LP deluxe version of this Waterboys Fisherman’s Blues sessions set is out already but many fans have been waiting patiently for the cheaper 6CD clamshell version of Fisherman’s Box (finally released next week). The price for this has remained fairly consistent on Amazon UK at between £22 and £24. Those in the US should probably buy from Europe, because the price is almost twice as much on Amazon.com at the time of writing.
More details on Fisherman’s Box here.
Ol’ Blue Eyes‘ Duets Super Deluxe was under £70 for a while in the UK but has risen to £83 in recent days. Amazon Germany’s €80 price equates to around £67, so for those in Europe, well worth picking this up from there. But what’s this? The US price (ignore the crazy import version) is only $62 or £38!! That’s a real bargain for the double vinyl and 2CD+DVD set.
More details on Duets Super Deluxe Edition box here.
All prices are correct at the time of writing.
Rhino have recently issued this six disc Ramones box set.
The Sire Years 1976-1981 collects the band’s first six albums: Ramones (1976), Leave Home (1977), Rocket To Russia (1977), Road To Ruin (1978), End Of The Century (1980), and Pleasant Dreams (1981).
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Out on Monday 18 November is this stylish Alexander O’Neal Tabu Anthology box set. Six studio albums (1985’s Alexander O’Neal to 1993’s Love Makes No Sense) sit alongside two exclusive bonus discs offering seven-inch and twelve-inch remixes. The impressive 40-page booklet offers lots of detail around each record and the very thick, sturdy box is a far cry from some of the cheap card slipcases that come with similar album collections. These have also be newly remastered. More information available here.
Alexander O’Neal: “The Tabu Anthology”
The Rolling Stones‘ celebration of their 2013 London Hyde Park gigs is out this week.
Sweet Summer Sun: Live At Hyde Park has been issued in an enormous number of formats, but putting vinyl to one side, the pick of the bunch was this deluxe edition which combines two CDs of audio with the flexibility of the show on DVD and Blu-ray. Actually, to be totally accurate the US deluxe edition is the best version since it uniquely adds a DVD of the 1969 Hyde Park gig to make the North American edition a five-disc set.
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In January 2014 Charly Records will release Here Come The Nice: The Immediate Years Box Set 1967-1969, a lavish Small Faces package that celebrates the band’s 1960s career on Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate Records label.
This set features every worldwide hit single, A & B side plus EPs and rare and previously unreleased material, unheard recording sessions from Olympic, IBC & Trident Studios, outtakes, early mixes, alternate versions and live material.
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Humble Pie‘s Rockin’ The Fillmore was originally a seven track live album from 1971.
The so-called ‘supergroup’ featuring guitarist Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott, actually performed four nights at the New York City venue in November of that year.
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The Waterboys‘ Fisherman’s Box 7CD+LP deluxe box set has been out for a few weeks and we thought we’d bring you some photos of the package. A cheaper, smaller clamshell variant (6CDs) has been delayed and is now looking like being released on 18 November.
The deluxe box includes a heavyweight vinyl version of the original Fisherman’s Blues album as well as a large format 12″x 12″ booklet, which includes some great photos and Mike Scott’s track-by-track guide to all 121 songs in this set.
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Edsel Records will reissue all five of the official studio albums by UK Britpop era band Gene in January 2014.
The albums have all been remastered and these reissues are being issued as two-CD sets, with a large selection of bonus tracks added, including BBC radio sessions and unreleased live performances (see full track listing below). These deluxe editions will be presented in the now familiar casebound book packaging.
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Roger Taylor‘s solo career-spanning box set The Lot was due out today, but Amazon are no longer selling the set after fans complained of a host of errors with the box, both with the music itself and typos in the actual text.
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British synth-pop pioneer Howard Jones is playing three dates in the UK at the end of this month to celebrate 30 years of making music. Ticket holders for the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 29 November and Birmingham’s O2 Academy on 30 November, will each receive a complimentary CD that will be available from a special desk near the merchandise stand at each show.
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The Who‘s Tommy is reissued as a Super Deluxe Edition and includes a disc of 25 unheard demos, an unreleased ‘live bootleg’ performance of the rock opera and the whole album in 5.1 surround on Blu-ray ‘Pure Audio’ disc.
19 years after the first BBC Beatles set, comes this 63-track follow up. Just for good measure Apple have remastered the first volume as well and you can even pick both up in a limited ‘collection’ slipcase.
This celebration of The Rolling Stones‘ 2013 Hyde Park gigs is available in a bewildering array of formats, but the pick of the bunch is this surprisingly well-priced 4-disc deluxe book package.
Hot on the heels of the Dylan Complete Album Collection from last week comes a similar set featuring the work of American keyboardist and composer Herbie Hancock. This collection contains 34 remastered CDs, with many getting their debut outside of Japan.
A new Pogues box set, 30 Years, will be released by Rhino in December 2013.
This eight CD collection contains the albums Red Roses For Me, Rum Sodomy and the Lash, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Peace and Love, Hell’s Ditch, Waiting For Herb, and Pogue Mahone. A previously unissued live album The Pogues With Joe Strummer Live in London (recorded at The Forum in 1991) is also included.
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