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Universal Music will issue a Dire Straits vinyl box set in November.
The Complete Studio Albums 1978-1991 will deliver all six of the band’s studio long players on 180g vinyl, starting with their superb eponymous debut, working through to the commercial high of 1985’s Brothers In Arms before signing off with On Every Street from 1991. All have been newly remastered by engineer Bob Ludwig.
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Suede‘s 11LP vinyl box set announced last month, looked to be exclusive to their online webstore. Unfortunately for US fans, this box could not be shipped to North America due the distribution rights situation.
However, a potential solution has emerged for fans across the Atlantic, since the box is now available to order from the Amazon UK site. Although they are charging more for the set (£169 at the time of writing), assuming there are no restrictions in place, US shoppers should see that reduced to around £140 with the removal of VAT.
The box set collects all six Suede studio albums (Suede, Dog Man Star (2LP), Coming Up, Head Music (2LP), A New Morning, Bloodsports), and also includes B-Side compilation Sci-Fi Lullabies (3LP), for the first time on vinyl.
Rhino will release an eleven-disc Ry Cooder box set on 11 November 2013.
As the title suggests, 1970-1987 collects the American musician’s solo albums over a 17 year period (the Warner era), starting with his 1970 eponymous debut and calling a halt at 1987’s Get Rhythm.
Expect the usual no-frills approach with vinyl replica card sleeves, housed in a clamshell box, with no booklet(s).
Universal Music will release a new six-disc Eric Clapton box set on 25 November 2013.
Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Recordings is a 5CD+ Blu-ray Audio box set that celebrates the period between April 1974 and June 1975 when Clapton produced the studio albums 461 Ocean Boulevard and There’s One In Every Crowd, as well as the live double set E.C. Was Here.
All three of those albums are included in this new box in remastered, expanded form, and all include previously unreleased session outtakes or unheard live performances.
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Universal Music will issue a Boomtown Rats Classic Album Selection box set on 21 October 2013.
This collection features the Dublin band’s six original albums – The Boomtown Rats (1977), A Tonic For The Troops (1978), The Fine Art Of Surfacing (1979), Mondo Bongo (1980), V Deep (1982) and The Fine Art Of Surfacing (1984) – and all come packaged in card wallets. The CDs will feature the bonus material included with previous reissues.
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America‘s 1971 eponymous debut album is to be issued as a Hybrid SACD by Audio Fidelity on 1 October 2013.
The album features the Neil Young-esque hit single Horse With No Name (added after it was a hit) and the success of that song helped the LP get to number one on the Billboard album chart (where it remained for five weeks).
This Audio Fidelity reissue will play on all CD players, but the (stereo) hi-res version will only be evident on SACD players.
Light In The Attic records have put together a very lavish box set commemorating the legacy of Lee Hazlewood Industries from 1966 – 1971.
Lee Hazlewood was an American singer, songwriter and producer. He wrote and produced the 1966 hit These Boots Are Made For Wakin’ for Nancy Sinatra and shortly after formed Lee Hazlewood Industries (LHI).
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It’s that time of the month! SDE has been shopping for used records, largely in charity or thrift stores. Here’s what we’ve found…
In 1993 with Ordinary World and ‘The Wedding Album‘ Duran Duran were the goose that, to everyone’s surprise, suddenly laid a golden egg. EMI failed to reap the full benefits from this unexpected bounty by giving up on the album when the poorly chosen third single (Too Much Information) flopped. Could’ve-been-hits such as UMF, None Of The Above, and the sumptuous Milton Nascimento collaboration Breath After Breath frustratingly went untested on the UK singles chart. The band had already started thinking about their covers album (the ill-fated Thank You) and it would be eleven years before they would have another UK top ten hit.
This special edition was a rather half-hearted effort to celebrate the success of The Wedding Album – it added a bonus disc which included the three ‘B-sides’ which had gone unreleased in the UK (Falling/Fallen Angel, Stop Dead and Time For Temptation) and three mixes of the UK singles (all previously released on various CD singles).
As will as the 47CD box set, Columbia / Legacy will issue The Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection Vol. One on a limited edition harmonica USB stick in early November.
The USB contains 35 studio titles, six live albums, the special Side Tracks compilation and a digital booklet featuring new album-by-album liner notes. Features summarised below:
This USB stick is available to North America via Amazon.com, the rest of the world can order direct from the Bob Dylan online store.
Sony are to issue a new Bob Dylan greatest hits compilation on 4 November 2013.
The Very Best Of Bob Dylan joins a long list of Bob collections including The Best Of Bob Dylan (1997), The Best Of Bob Dylan Volume 2 (2000), The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), The Best Of Bob Dylan (2005), Dylan (2007) and The Real Bob Dylan (2012).
It’s hard to imagine why the world needs another collection of Mr Zimmerman’s songs, but 2013 is another year, and so another greatest hits is apparently required. It will be TV advertised in the hope that this set ends up in the Christmas stockings of casual Dylan fans.
A two-CD deluxe edition is available, in addition to the standard one disc configuration. At the time of writing Amazon UK are selling the deluxe at a lower price than the single disc version – so you save money if you ‘go large’. Track listings below.
Bob Dylan: The Very Best Of (Deluxe Edition)
Bob Dylan: The Very Best Of (Standard Edition)
Track listing:
Columbia / Legacy Recordings will release the ‘the entire official discography’ of Bob Dylan on 4 November 2013 in an enormous 47 CD box set, titled Bob Dylan The Complete Album Collection Vol. One.
All 35 studio albums are present and correct, including 1973’s Dylan, (which is issued on CD in North America for the first time) as well as six live albums, and a special two-CD compilation, Side Tracks, which brings together previously released non-album singles, tracks from compilations, and songs from films.
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Just as it seemed as if the number of formats of The Rolling Stones’ Sweet Summer Sun Hyde Park Live release couldn’t get any more confusing, it just has.
We outlined the five different purchasing options earlier this month, but now feel the need to update you with the latest choices open to you.
Amazon UK haven’t really got their act together with this release, and for a long time didn’t include the top-of-the-range ‘deluxe’ edition which consists of 2CD+DVD+Blu-ray and a book. However, for a few days last week they DID introduce this option (around £30) only for it to disappear soon after. Those of you in Europe can pick it up from Amazon in Germany.
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Paul McCartney has revealed the final cover art for his forthcoming album New.
The image was produced by design consultancy YES and is a warmer, softer and 3D variant of the black and white design that – it turns out – has been a placeholder for online retailers thus far.
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Nirvana‘s third and final studio album In Utero is reissued today in a variety of formats.
Here we bring you an extensive photo gallery covering every format available, from four-disc super deluxe edition box set, to the single CD remaster. If you haven’t already pre-ordered this reissue, we hope these pictures will give you a feel for what’s on offer at the different price points.
The Super Deluxe Edition box set is the most expensive version of the In Utero reissue you can buy, retailing at around £80. The four discs included are the original album remastered (by Steve Albini) plus B-sides and bonus tracks; a 2013 mix of the original album, plus demos; the audio from the MTV 1993 Live & Loud broadcast and a DVD featuring the Live & Loud show, including songs not originally broadcast and 12 extra performances from rehearsals and other shows.
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Universal push the boat out with this 20th Anniversary Edition of Nirvana‘s In Utero being offered as a 4-disc Super Deluxe Edition, a 45RPM 3LP vinyl set (including 8 bonus tracks), two-disc deluxe, single disc remaster and later this month a hi-res Blu-ray audio. 
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Sony Music Japan will issue Miles Davis The Collection (aka Masterpiece Collection) box set in October, which features Blu-spec CD2 reissues of Miles Davis’s 24 albums (Blu-spec CD2 is a high-fidelity format compatible with standard CD players).
This limited box set features the 20 single CDs and four double CDs, all packaged in standard jewel cases. It comes with seven postcards featuring black & white photos of Miles.
Miles Davis / The Collection is released on 15 October 2013
Albums in the box set (all Blu-spec CD2)
As announced back in July, Rhino have a schedule of releases this autumn that involved taking classic box sets and repackaging (and repricing) them for the modern age.
At the end of September we will see Buffalo Springfield and Crosby Stills and Nash sets hit the market, but here we concentrate on two boxes released last week: Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur’s Farm and The Last Waltz by The Band.
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Update 11/11/13 – The DVD has been dropped from this deluxe edition – it is now only a single CD with the three bonus tracks.
The Killers celebrate ten years of music, with their first hits collection, appropriately titled Direct Hits.
The 15-track selection includes the singles from the Las Vegas band’s four studio albums, Hot Fuss (2004), Sam’s Town (2006), Day & Age (2008) and Battle Born (2012), as well as including two new tracks Shot At The Night and Just Another Girl.
A deluxe CD+DVD edition is also available which comes with three bonus tracks on the audio disc, one of which is the original demo of Mr Brightside. The DVD features a never-before-seen Killers documentary.
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With all the focus on Mike Oldfield‘s recent sold-out-before-it-was-released Crises box set, some of the attention was diverted away from the reissue of the album before Crises, 1982’s Five Miles Out.
Universal have put together a great value three-disc set which features the original album remastered (plus two bonus tracks), performances from the Five Miles Out Tour (previously unreleased) and the entire album available in surround sound (Dolby 5.1 or DTS). There is even space for some ‘visual content’ including the promo video for Five Miles Out and a couple of tracks from a BBC TV special.
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There was a little confusion (thanks to an erroneous Amazon description) around the vinyl content within the deluxe version of forthcoming Waterboys Fisherman’s Box.
This new photo confirms that the premium edition offers seven CDs and one 180g vinyl record. Six of those CDs are available in the cheaper version of this set, with the bonus disc (a collection of songs that influenced the making of the album – see track listing below) exclusive to this box. The vinyl is a remastered copy of the original Fisherman’s Blues album.
The photo also shows the three large art prints and the 32-page booklet (to the left of the green vinyl album sleeve). The contents reside in the large slipcase (the other CD-only package is a small clamshell affair).
Fisherman’s Box is released on 21 October 2013 on Parlophone. Full track listings and further details on this set can be found here.
7CDs + LPs Deluxe box
6CD Clamshell box set
Bonus CD track listing (exclusive to deluxe version)
