Demon Music will issue a 12LP Jesus and Mary Chain Vinyl Box Set on 16 December 2013.
The box will contain all of their original studio albums – Psychocandy (1985), Darklands (1987), Automatic (1989), Honey’s Dead (1992) Stoned & Dethroned (1994) and Munki (1998) – pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl.
Additionally, this vinyl box – issued in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the formation of the band – comes with a Live In Concert 2LP set that features eight tracks from a 1992 Sheffield Arena gig and 12 more from a concert at the Trinity Centre in Bristol in 1995. Another double LP, The BBC Sessions, collects 32 tracks recorded across the decades for BBC radio. Continue reading “Get an exclusive discount on Jesus and Mary Chain vinyl box via SDE”
British singer songwriter Leo Sayer has worked with some fine musical talent during his career. In the 1970s in particular, his albums featured contributions from the likes of Steve Gadd, Ry Cooder, Jeff Porcaro, Lindsey Buckingham, Greg Phillinganes, Waddy Watchel, Ray Parker Jnr, Steve Cropper, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and Steve Lukather and Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, to name but a few. Continue reading “PICTURES / Leo Sayer: Just A Box”
Kickback City is a new compilation of crime noir inspired music from Rory Gallagher that is a perfect marriage of content and presentation.
Three CDs come packaged in a glossy bookset, featuring The Lie Factory, an exclusive new ‘novella’ by Ian Rankin. The story comes stunningly illustrated in full graphic novel style by Timothy Truman. The first disc here features a selection of 14 studio recordings from the late rock-blues guitarist (see track listing below), with a second CD offering a selection of live performances. The third disc has actor Aidan Quinn narrating Ian Rankin’s story. The set also includes four glossy Lie Factory postcards. Continue reading “FIRST PICTURES / Rory Gallagher: “Kickback City” deluxe 3CD set”
Rhino will issue a new Yes box set on 11 November 2013.
The Studio Albums 1969-1987 includes expanded and remastered versions all 12 studio albums released by the prog rock band during this period. They are Yes (1969), Time and a Word (1970), The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close to the Edge (1972), Tale from Topographic Oceans (1973), Relayer (1974), Going for the One (1977), Tormato (1978), Drama (1980), 90125 (1983) and Big Generator (1987). Continue reading “Yes / The Studio Albums 1969-1987”
Mute Records are to issue an enormous 17 LP Can box set in December 2013.
All records will be pressed on 180g vinyl, and come housed in a linen wrapped box. The set features 13 of the band’s classic albums, alongside Out Of Reach, which has been unavailable in any official format since its original release in 1978, plus Can Live, a bonus live disc featuring the classic Can line up of Holger Czukay (bass), Michael Karoli (guitar), Jaki Liebezeit (drums) and Irmin Schmidt (keyboards). The live album was recorded at Sussex University in 1975 and will be unavailable in any format outside of the Can Vinyl Box. Continue reading “Can / Vinyl Box 17LP set”
Above is a photo mock-up of the #8385 Collected Works 1983-1985Cabaret Voltaire box set.
This package comes as an 8-disc set (6CDs+2DVD) or a 12-disc collection which adds four vinyl records. Albums, twelve-inch remix compilations and unreleased material all feature. Full details and track listings here.
#8385 Collected Works 1983-1985 is out on 11 November 2013
When Edsel Records reissued Robert Palmer‘s Island era albums on CD, we were delighted. Regular SDE readers will know, we rate the Yorkshireman’s diverse ’70s output highly and like many fans were frustrated with the lack of activity around his catalogue.
Leo Sayer / Just A Box: The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2006 (14 disc box set)
40th Anniversary collection – curated by Leo Sayer himself – features all of his original studio albums (across 12 CDs) in mini-vinyl replica wallets and two bonus discs gather non-album tracks.
Various Artists / Oh Yes We Can Love: A History Of Glam Rock (5CD Box set)
This new box set looks beyond the normal boundaries of Glam Rock to examine its roots and its influences across the decades. 91 tracks across five discs.
Roger Taylor will issue a massive 13-disc box setin November that celebrates his 35 years of activity outside of his ‘day job’ in Queen.
The Lot features all Taylor’s solo albums and his material as front man for the group The Cross. Four bonus CDs of solo / The Cross single remixes, edits and B-sides are included, as is an exclusive box set version of his new album Fun On Earth. A DVD of videos completes the set, which comes packaged in a hard case slipcase with a book which holds all the discs.
Alexander O’Neal is the first Tabu box out in November
Demon Music will release an album collection box set from Alexander O’Neal in November 2013. This isthe first of two artist specific Anthology box sets (The S.O.S. Band is due in March next year) with a multi-artist larger Tabu box also due in Spring 2013.
Since the Anthology boxes were first announced way back in February, there has been some confusion over the content. Would the boxes simply hold a set of the expanded reissues that were released individually during the year, or could we expect a straightforward set of album-only reissues in card sleeves (like those Original Album Series collections)? Continue reading “Tabu Anthology boxes offer bonus content and remastered sound”
Tears For Fears 1983 debut album The Hurting is reissued this week as a two-CD deluxe edition and a 4-disc box set. Earlier this year we put some questions to Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith about the making of the album. Here’s what they had to say…
SuperDeluxeEdition: Graduate had a very different sound to Tears For Fears and The Hurting – were you keen to move on and doing something more ‘new wave’?
Curt Smith: We knew we didn’t want to be in a band anymore.
Roland Orzabal: Yes. We were acutely aware of the new electronic movement. I remember listening to the Radio One chart run down with Curt, and when they announced that Tubeway Army was number one with Are Friends Electric?, we both looked at each other and knew we had to change. That change didn’t really occur until a lot later: once we’d left Graduate and became a duo; the new direction was obvious. Continue reading “Tears For Fears on “The Hurting””
Next week sees the long anticipated deluxe reissues of Bananarama‘s first six albums. The British girl band has most of their success in the 1980s, and four out of the six reissues were released in that decade. Each album is being released as a 2CD+DVD set and full track listings and details can be found here.
Last month we spoke with Tom Parker who produced this reissue series from Edsel Records, to find out more about the challenges of putting these releases together.
SuperDeluxeEdition: How did the project come about?
Tom Parker: My background with reissues if you like, is that I was a fan of, and grew up with, PWL and wider pop music generally. The first thing I ever did was I got in touch with PWL in the mid-nineties. I’ve always been interested in the visual side of things and I remember sending off ideas for sleeve designs. I got in touch with Pete [Waterman] and interviewed him for a long lost Kylie fanzine, and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. Continue reading “Bananarama reissue producer talks to SuperDeluxeEdition”
Congratulations go to Tom Nagle, Ken Marshall, Graeme “G Man” Atkinson, Adrian Barrett and Paul Johnston, who have all been randomly selected as WINNERS of the ZTT Organization of Pop CD and T-shirt bundles. You should all be receiving an email from us shortly.
Thanks to everybody who took the time to enter and to ZTT Records and Razor & Tie in the USA for supplying these great prizes.
Full track listings for Edsel’s second wave of Everything But The Girl reissues are now available, and as promised they a large amount of bonus material including unreleased demos, live tracks and remixes.
The Suede Vinyl Collection features 7 albums and 11LPs
Suede‘s 11LP Vinyl Collection box set is released today, and we can bring you some exclusive photos of the box.
All of the band’s studio albums are presented on vinyl, in a sturdy white outer box with the classic suede logo spot varnished with album artwork inset.
This collection includes two gatefold LPs – Dog Man Star and Bloodsports – although only the former is actually a double album. Head Music is another double, while the B-side compilation Sci-Fi Lullabies is spread over 3LPs. All the albums are on 180g heavyweight vinyl, with the exception of Bloodsports which is pressed on what you might call ‘medium weight’ 140g. The music uses the 2011 remastering with adjustments made for vinyl. This is true for all the records except for Bloodsports, which hasn’t been remastered – unsurprising since the album is a little over six months old.
Artwork reproduction is surprisingly good. Sci-Fi Lullabies the star of the show with the John Kippin cover photo looking pin sharp, with crisp text throughout. A New Morning is the runt of the litter with the already horrible cover, looking rather soft with a hint of pixelation around the typography. I wouldn’t have blamed the band for changing the cover to this album, but they’ve stuck with the photo of a CD!
In addition to the records, this set comes with an excellent large format 34-page booklet. Thankfully, it’s not full of arty photos, rather exactly the content you might hope for, which is the band talking through every album track-by-track. These are based on what appear to be new interviews with journalist Pete Paphides (Bernard Butler takes part for the first two records).
Only 1500 of these (numbered) sets have been produced, and although one imagines the albums will be made available individually at some point in the future, until then, this is the only way to buy remastered Suede on vinyl.
Any box set north of £100 should be considered a significant investment, but this collection is undoubtedly worth it for Suede, Dog Man Star, ComingUp, Sci-Fi Lullabies and Bloodsports, alone. Place your order while you still can.
Formel Eins was a pop music show that aired in Germany in the 1980s
Fans of the SoEighties (So80s) compilations from German DJs and pop music enthusiasts Blank & Jones, may be interested to learn that a new three-CD collection has just been issued called Formel Eins.
Formel Eins [translation: Formula One] was a popular music show – the German version of the UK’s Top Of The Pops – and it ran for seven years between 1983 and 1990. Much like the British pop programme, different presenters came and went and so too did different theme tunes (all of which are included here). Continue reading “Blank & Jones / So80s: Formel Eins”
