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Bruce Springsteen will release his 18th studio album, High Hopes, in January 2014.
High Hopes features a significant contribution from Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello on guitar (he also duets on The Ghost Of Tom Joad) and Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici – both no longer with us – also appear on several songs.
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‘Black Friday Deals‘ week continues on the various Amazon sites across the globe. For the uninitiated, this is where Amazon offer some VERY good discounts on all sorts of products, including music box sets. The way it works is that they release time limited deals throughout the day. Items ‘go live’ at specific times and you need to be quick off the mark to get them at the discounted price. Continue reading “Black Friday Deals / Daily bulletin”
All the studio albums with Brothers In Arms and On Every Street configured as double albums. If you do the ‘math’ that’s an 8LP box set. 
The history of The Eagles across four CDs at a frankly ridiculously low price. The final disc captures live performances from New Year’s Eve 1999 (A Night To Remember).
The Studio Recordings is an 8LP Jam collection featuring remastered versions of all six studio albums on heavyweight vinyl, plus two special LPs of non-album singles and B-sides.
This week is ‘Black Friday Deals‘ week on the various Amazon sites across the globe. For the uninitiated, this is where Amazon offer some VERY good discounts on all sorts of products, including music box sets. The way it works is that they release time limited deals throughout the day. Items ‘go live’ at specific times and you need to be quick off the mark to get them at the discounted price. Once the item on offer is “100% Claimed” (ie all the allocation has gone) it’s no longer available to purchase at the cheap price.
This bulletin post is to help you see what’s available TODAY that might be of interest.
Universal/Mercury release their Dire Straits Studio Albums 1978-1991 vinyl box set today and here we bring you some great photos of the package.
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Apple and Universal have done a very good with these new Beatles BBC releases. The Collection ‘box set’ is in reality is just both volumes contained in a simple card slipcase, but these releases do feel like two peas in a pod, so why not give them a ‘pod’ to reside in?
1994’s Live at the BBC is newly remastered and gets a presentational lick of paint, losing the sepia tones that defined the original and the plastic ‘fatbox’ 2CD jewel case. The packaging is now consistent with the 2009 stereo CD remasters, so that means glossy six panel card wallets, with the black strip and Apple and Beatles logos at the top. The 48-page booklet contains exactly the same content as before, but the layout is slightly different and the photos look much better, with the black and white shots again losing their sepia.
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The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who seems like a very appropriate day to review XTC‘s reissue of their 1992 album Nonsuch, because just like The Doctor’s TARDIS, this is one release that is very much bigger on the inside.
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Sainsbury’s Entertainment have announced that they are to stop selling physical music product online.
In a statement the supermarket chain said:
“Due to the rise in demand for downloading and streaming films and music, from March 2014 Sainsbury’s Entertainment will become a completely entertainment on demand site. From 28 February 2014 we will no longer accept online orders for physical products.”
For music box sets and deluxe reissues, the UK retail giant had a clear online strategy in place to squeeze their margins, allowing them to compete with Amazon on price. Continue reading “Sainsburys Entertainment to scrap selling physical products online”
High Fidelity Pure Audio – the Universal Music led initiative to reissue high resolution music physically on audio-only blu-ray discs – have announced that John Lennon’s 1971 album Imagine is to lead its next wave of releases.
The ex-Beatles’s second studio album is arguably the highest profile release on the format to date, although this year has also seen the of the reissue of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On on HFPA.
Continue reading “Imagine no compression? Lennon classic next release on Pure Audio”
After some delays, Vinyl180’s deluxe double vinyl, hardback book edition of Echo and the Bunnymen‘s classic 1980 debut Crocodiles was released this week.
This set pairs a heavyweight vinyl LP of the album proper, with a second 180g LP offering the ten bonus tracks from the 2003 CD reissue. All this is presented in a hardback book form. The vinyl specialist has put out other titles like this previously, notably Liza Minnelli’s Results.
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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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