Author: Paul Sinclair

Morrissey / Kill Uncle reissue

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Morrissey / Kill Uncle reissue / new sleeve design

Morrissey continues to be the ‘George Lucas’ of pop by fiddling with releases when the opportunity arises to reissue them. Following on from last year’s Viva Hate travesty, 18 April sees the reissue of his disappointing second album, 1991’s Kill Uncle.

The front cover has been replaced entirely by the faux-sixties creation pictured above, and two B-sides have been added in the shape of Pashernate Love and East West. What was the last track of the album – There’s A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends – is replaced by a previously unreleased ‘live in the studio’ version.

The album has been remastered by Bill Inglot and is available as a CD in a gatefold card wallet or 2LP gatefold vinyl.

Morrissey / Last Of The International Playboys
Click to enlarge

For reasons unknown, Morrissey has also chosen to reissue his 1989 Last Of The International Playboys single on the same day as Kill Uncle. It boasts another new cover, featuring Rick Astley, no less, and will be available on CD single and various other formats, backed with new live tracks recorded at the BBC.

 

Kill Uncle Reissue – CD version

Kill Uncle Reissue – Vinyl version

Track listing:

  1. Our Frank
  2. Sing Your Life
  3. Mute Witness
  4. King Leer
  5. Asian Rut
  6. Pashernate Love
  7. East West
  8. Found Found Found
  9. Driving Your Girlfriend Home
  10. The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye
  11. There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends (Live-in-Studio Version)
  12. (I’m) The End of the Family Line

Fleetwood Mac / Rumours super deluxe edition box set

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Fleetwood Mac / Rumours super deluxe edition

Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours album was the first major ‘super deluxe’ release of 2013 and was issued just over a month ago. We have previously posted a photo gallery of the box, but here we take a more in-depth look at the content within.

The 12-inch square slipcase is of high quality and quite sturdy. Within this resides a gatefold jacket which contains the vinyl and the five optical discs (four CDs and a DVD).
Continue reading “Fleetwood Mac / Rumours super deluxe edition box set”

WIN: Fine Young Cannibals reissues

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Win a set of Fine Young Cannibals reissues

We have a set of new Fine Young Cannibals reissues to giveaway, courtesy of our friends at Edsel Records. Both albums, Fine Young Cannibals and The Raw & The Cooked, come with bonus discs packed with remixes, and non-album tracks. In total 32 extra tracks over and above the standard 10-track albums!

Head on over to our Facebook page to enter. If you are not a Facebook user, don’t worry there will be plenty of opportunities to win other prizes in the coming months!

Second Hand News / February 2013

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Although we are lucky enough to get sent some music releases for review, you still can’t beat the going-into-a-record-shop-and-buying-a-record experience.

With the decline of independent record stores, and the near obliteration of the big chains (at the time of writing HMV in the UK is closing a massive amount of shops, and its future looks far from bright) we are finding that charity (or thrift) shops are becoming excellent places to find rare, or interesting releases and generally very cheap prices.

So in the first of a new monthly feature, Second Hand News will give you a little insight into the ‘new arrivals’ into the SuperDeluxeEdition used record collection. Second hand items that have caught our eye and resulted in a purchase and a bounce in our step as we head back to SDE HQ and look forward to listening to the items in question.

The Beautiful South / Carry On Up The Charts 2CD greatest hits
Click to enlarge

Beautiful South / Carry On Up The Charts (1994)

The ‘2CD’ at top right should be the giveaway that explains why we pounced on this 1994 hits collection from The Beautiful South. This was a limited edition that contained 14 B-sides on a bonus disc in addition to the standard 14-track CD.

The Blow Monkeys / WildFlower 7" Single

The Blow Monkeys / Wildflower seven-inch single (1984)

Having appreciated Cherry Red’s recent two-CD reissues of The Blow Monkeys’ first two albums, this single from Limping For A Generation with its pop-art sleeve was always going to be coming home with us when spotted for £1. The B-side is a live version of Waiting For Mr Moonlight which is on the reissue.

Continue reading “Second Hand News / February 2013”

Dr Feelgood / “All Through The City” box repackaged and reissued

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

DR FEELGOOD All Through The City (with Wilko 1974-1977)

EMI are reissuing the last year’s Dr. Feelgood All Through The City 3CD+DVD box set in April 2013. The set is still less than a year old, but went quickly out-of-print and has commanded high prices for some months now on eBay and Amazon marketplace.

Details are still to be confirmed on what the repackage will actually look like, but our guess is that the four discs will reside in a CD ‘fat-box’ with the extensive notes, photos and comic strips of the original repurposed into a standard square CD booklet.

The All Through The City box concentrates on the Wilko Johnson-era and this reissue comes a few months after fans were saddened by the news that the Canvey Island guitarist has terminal cancer of the pancreas.

Read our review of the original release, along with track listings.

 

10cc / Tenology replacement disc

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

10cc / Tenology replacement disc

Some purchasers of last year’s 10cc Tenology set, were rather disgruntled to discover that the classic single I’m Not In Love appeared only in single edit form on disc one of this five disc set.

Word has reached us that Universal did indeed correct this, and re-pressed the first disc with the full length version of the 1975 UK number one. They will happily send you out a replacement disc upon request. You can contact Universal via this email address.

Jamiroquai / Deluxe 2CD reissues

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Jamiroquai / Travelling Without Moving 2CD Deluxe reissue

Sony Music will release Jamiroquai‘s first three albums as two-CD deluxe editions on 11 March 2013 (in the UK) to celebrate 20 years since their first album on the label.

Emergency On Planet Earth (1993), The Return Of The Space Cowboy (1994), and Travelling Without Moving (1996) have been remastered and come with bonus discs of B-sides, live performances, and rarities, including unreleased BBC archive material.

All come with a 20-page booklet, featuring lyrics and a 2,000-word essay on the album, written by Jay Kay. Full details and track listings below…

Jamiroquai / Emergency On Planet Earth 2CD Deluxe Edition

Jamiroquai / The Return Of The Space Cowboy 2CD Deluxe Edition

Jamiroquai / Traveling Without Moving 2CD Deluxe Edition

Track listings:
Continue reading “Jamiroquai / Deluxe 2CD reissues”

Cheap Trick / The Complete Epic Albums Collection 14CD box

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Cheap Trick / The Complete Epic Albums Collection

Sony Legacy will release a 14-disc Cheap Trick box set in spring 2013.

The Complete Epic Albums Collection contains all the band’s studio albums from 1977 to 1990 (many expanded, or newly remastered) along with the full Budokan concert and the Found All The Parts E.P. which is new to CD in the US.

This set comes with a 40-page booklet and the packaging looks quite similar to the recent Blue Öyster Cult box. This Cheap Trick box will be available for between £50-60 or equivalent.

Albums in the box:
  • 1. Cheap Trick (Expanded)
  • 2. In Color (Expanded)
  • 3. Heaven Tonight (Expanded)
  • 4. At Budokan: The Complete Concert (2 CDs)
  • 5. Dream Police (Expanded)
  • 6. Found All the Parts
  • 7. All Shook Up
  • 8. One on One (newly remastered for this box)
  • 9. Next Position Please (Authorized Version)
  • 10. Standing on the Edge (newly remastered for this box)
  • 11. The Doctor (newly remastered for this box)
  • 12. Lap of Luxury  (newly remastered for this box)
  • 13. Busted (newly remastered for this box)
Cheap Trick / The Complete Epic Albums Collection
Click to enlarge
Cheap Trick / The Complete Epic Albums Collection
Click to enlarge

 

Pete Ham / Keyhole Street: Demos 1966-67 / 2CD archive release

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Pete Ham / Keyhole Street: Demos 1966-67

Pete Ham, singer and composer in British rock band Badfinger, died too young in 1975, but his songwriting skills and early years are being remembered with a limited edition 50-track double CD set – Keyhole Street: Demos 1966-67.

Released by Pete Ham’s estate, and only available through direct-to-fan specialists PledgeMusic, this set contains songs recorded when Pete would have been aged 19 and 20. The demos were recorded on a two-track recorder with Ham layering performances via the ability to ‘bounce’ tracks. Listeners will enjoy classic balladry, Pink-Floydian psychedelia, rock’n’roll tributes, R&B, Beach Boys type harmonies, interesting instrumentals, music hall stereotypes, an Elvis tribute, blues, humorous lyrical content, Beatle-ish tracks, and a horror film soundtrack.

Various limited editions of this archival release are being made available, some with an exclusive seven-inch vinyl and others with posters or lithographs. All the details can be found here.

Ham is to be awarded a blue plaque at the railway station in his home town of Swansea on 27 April 2013 which will be followed by a concert in memory of Ham, featuring two original Iveys members (they changed their name to Badfinger at the suggestion of Paul McCartney).

Lou Reed / Original Album Series

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Lou Reed / Original Album Series 5CD set

When Lou Reed‘s 1992 album Magic and Loss was first issued on CD, it not only had all the lyrics in English in the booklet, but translations of the words in many other languages. With the version included in this new Rhino ‘Original Album Series’ you get nothing except the name of the songs written on the back of a card sleeve, with producer and writing credits (no musicians) at the bottom. Such is progress…
Continue reading “Lou Reed / Original Album Series”

RECORD COLLECTOR: Duran Duran / The Wedding Album (1993)

Posted on by Paul Sinclair
RECORD COLLECTOR: Duran Duran The Wedding Album 1993
Duran Duran “The Wedding Album” 1993

1989 – 1992 was not a great time to be a Duran Duran fan. It’s tempting to call it their ‘wilderness years’ but there were other neglected, and inhospitable eras such as the late 1990s (when EMI refused to release studio album number nine, Medazzaland, in the UK), so that might just be confusing.

Let’s just say the boys from Birmingham lost their way somewhat. Having released the hits compilation, Decade in 1989, the band followed it less than a year later with Liberty, a rather misguided step in the direction of soft-rawk.
Continue reading “RECORD COLLECTOR: Duran Duran / The Wedding Album (1993)”

Pepe Deluxe competition winner

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Pepe Deluxe / Queen Of The Wave deluxe editionCongratulations to ‘Mitch’, who has been randomly selected as the winner of the Pepé Deluxe Queen Of The Wave deluxe edition competition.

We will be in contact with Mitch and he will be receiving the  deluxe set plus a few other Pepé Deluxe goodies very soon.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Plenty more prizes to be won in the coming weeks – at the time of writing you can win a Van Halen box set.

FIRST PICTURES: Fine Young Cannibals 2CD deluxe reissues

Posted on by Paul Sinclair
Fine Young Cannibals / debut album deluxe edition
Fine Young Cannibals deluxe edition

The Fine Young Cannibals deluxe editions should be available from today in the UK (other territories may vary). Each reissue comes with non-album tracks and remixes. Full track listings here.


Fine Young Cannibals / The Raw & The Cooked deluxe edition
Fine Young Cannibals / The Raw & The Cooked deluxe edition

Win a Van Halen Studio Albums box

Posted on by Paul Sinclair
WIN! Van Halen / Studio Albums 1978-1984 limited edition box set
Win this Van Halen Studio Albums 1978-1984 box set

We have a copy of the Van Halen The Studio Albums 1978 – 1984 box set to give away to a SuperDeluxeEdition reader!

This set – released today – is a limited edition, and features the first six studios albums in the band’s career.

To be in with a chance of winning this Van Halen box set, simply:

  • 1. Subscribe to the weekly SuperDeluxeEdition newsletter – click here.
  • 2. Leave a comment on this post – so we know who wants to win!

If you already subscribe to our newsletter,  just leave a comment. This competition is open to all. We will pick a winner at random in a week’s time –  on Monday 4 March 2013. Good luck! 

WIN! Van Halen / Studio Albums 1978-1984 limited edition box set

WIN! Van Halen / Studio Albums 1978-1984 limited edition box set

Swing Out Sister on “Private View”

Posted on by Paul Sinclair
Swing Out Sister / Private View interview
Corinne Drewery from Swing Out Sister. Photo by Claire Lawrie.

Swing Out Sister have recently released a deluxe edition of Private View, a hits collection (of sorts) that features new recordings and new arrangements of favourite tracks. The new edition pairs this CD with Tokyo Stories, a DVD capturing the performance and atmosphere at gig in Japan from November 2010.

This new ‘Souvenir Edition’ of Private View is reviewed here. We recently caught up with Corinne and Andy from the band  to talk about the release.

SuperDeluxeEdition: How did Private View come about?

Corinne Drewery: It was forced upon us!

Andy Connell: It was the volcano that was the birth of that [Volcanic ash caused all flights to be cancelled to and from the UK for a number of days in spring 2010]

Corinne: Yes, the volcano in Iceland erupted two days before we were going to go and do an American tour, which we had completely re-tailored the songs for. We had kind of done a set that was more acoustic and jazzy and we hadn’t played the songs like this before in America, so we picked some songs that were old favourites of ours, some old and new, just for this American tour, and the volcano came along and scuppered our tour.
Continue reading “Swing Out Sister on “Private View””

Alexander O Neal / Debut album Tabu 2CD expanded edition

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Alexander O'Neal / Debut album as 2CD Expanded Edition

Demon Music have announced the details of the first release in their Tabu catalogue reissue campaign.

Alexander O’Neal‘s 1985 debut is to be issued as a two-CD set on 8 April 2013, packaged as a casebound book, which contains the song lyrics and an essay. The original studio album is on CD1, whilst CD2 includes additional remixes and alternate versions of the singles.

Demon have said that they will be “re-issuing the entire Tabu catalogue on expanded re-mastered CDs, digital, a selection of 180GM vinyls, and some amazing boxsets”.

Original Alexander O'Neal LP with bonus remix album
This 10″ bonus remix album is not replicated in full on the new  2CD (click to enlarge)

It is a shame that “The Remix Album” a ten-inch vinyl special given away with early copies of the vinyl record back in 1985 has not been replicated in full on the bonus disc of this reissue. Saturday Love (Extended Remix) and Saturday Love (Acappella) are both missing. They are clearly being saved for the expanded reissue of stablemate Cherrelle’s High Priority.

Hearsay will follow in May with All Mixed Up slated for a June release.

 

Deluxe CD

180g Audiophile vinyl with download card

Alexander O’Neal reissue track listings

CD1

  • 1. A Broken Heart Can Mend
  • 2. If You Were Here Tonight
  • 3. Do You Wanna Like I Do
  • 4. Look At Us Now
  • 5. Medley: Innocent / Alex 9000 / Innocent II
  • 6. What’s Missing
  • 7. You Were Meant To Be My Lady (Not My Girl)

CD2

  • 1. If You Were Here Tonight [soft version]
  • 2. Innocent
  • 3. Innocent [extended dance remix]
  • 4. You Were Meant To Be My Lady (Not My Girl) [extended dance remix]
  • 5. What’s Missing [remix]
  • 6. Are You The One

Van Halen / The Studio Albums box

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Van Halen / The Studio Albums

On Monday 25 February Rhino will release Van Halen: The Studio Albums.

This limited edition box set (only one production run)  compromises Van Halen’s first six albums spanning 1976 to 1984 – effectively the David Lee Roth-era – and contains some of their best known songs including Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, Runnin’ With The Devil, Jump, Dance The Night Away, Unchained, Everybody Wants Some, Hot For Teacher and Panama.

The CDs will be packaged in the usual card vinyl replica jackets, housed in a clamshell box.

The Studio Albums track listing

CD1) VAN HALEN: 1 Runnin’ With The Devil, 2 Eruption,
3 You Really Got Me, 4 Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love , 5 I’m The One, 6 Jamie’s Cryin’,
7 Atomic Punk, 8 Feel Your Love Tonight, 9 Little Dreamer, 10 Ice Cream Man, 11 On Fire

CD2) VAN HALEN II: 1 You’re No Good, 2 Dance The Night Away,
3 Somebody Get Me A Doctor, 4 Bottoms Up!, 5 Outta Love Again, 6 Light Up The Sky,
7 Spanish Fly, 8 D.O.A, 9 Women In Love, 10 Beautiful Girls,

CD3) WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: 1 And The Cradle Will Rock,
2 Everybody Wants Some!, 3 Fools, 4 Romeo Delight, 5 Tora! Tora!, 6 Loss Of Control,
7 Take Your Whiskey Home, 8 Could This Be Magic?, 9 In A Simple Rhyme,

CD4) FAIR WARNING: 1 Mean Street, 2 Dirty Movies, 3 Sinner’s Swing!,
4 Hear About It Later, 5 Unchained, 6 Push Comes To Shove, 7 So This Is Love?,
8 Sunday Afternoon In The Park, 9 One Foot Out The Door,

CD5) DIVER DOWN: 1 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!, 2 Hang ‘Em High,
3 Cathedral, 4 Secrets, 5 Intruder, 6 (Oh) Pretty Woman, 7 Dancing In The Street,
8 Little Guitars (Intro), 9 Little Guitars, 10 Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now),
11 The Full Bug, 12 Happy Trails,

CD6) 1984: 1 1984, 2 Jump, 3 Panama, 4 Top Jimmy, 5 Drop Dead Legs, 6 Hot For Teacher, 7 I’ll Wait, 8 Girl Gone Bad, 9 House Of Pain,

 

Universal prep Kim Wilde reissue

Posted on by Paul Sinclair
Kim Wilde / Close reissue being prepped by Universal
‘Close’ contains three UK top 10 hit singles

Universal Music have chosen not to licence out Kim Wilde‘s 1988 album Close and are planning to put out a 25th anniversary deluxe reissue at some point this year.

Cherry Red Records hoped to release this album on their Cherry Pop imprint as a 2CD deluxe edition – as they had done for Wilde’s first five albums released in the 1980s –  but Universal apparently see enough appeal for Close to keep it for themselves. The album contains four top 40 UK hit singles, three of which (You Came, Never Trust A Stranger, Four Letter Word) reached the top 10. You Came also broke into the US top 50.

Kim Wilde tweeted the following last month: “Great to hear various Close re-mixes for Mey Mr Heartache, You Came, Never trust a strange, Four Letter Word, Love In A Natural Way” so it is clear she is involved in the process.

If Universal are feeling lazy they can just re-use the track listing submitted by Cherry Red two years ago (see below). The reissue seems unlikely to be anything other than a two-CD deluxe edition, after all, and what was suggested by Cherry Red looks comprehensive enough.

How a Close deluxe edition might look:
Below is the track listing that Cherry Red were hoping to release. Time will tell if this becomes the final track listing of the Universal release.

CD1

Original Album tracks 1 – 10 (Total Time: 43’10)

  • 1. Hey Mister Heartache
  • 2. You Came
  • 3. Four Letter Word
  • 4. Love In The Natural Way
  • 5. Love’s A No
  • 6. Never Trust A Stranger
  • 7. You’ll Be The One Who’ll Lose
  • 8. European Soul
  • 9. Stone
  • 10. Lucky Guy

Bonus Tracks

  • 11. Tell Me Where You Are (B-side of ‘Hey Mister Heartache’) – 3’10
  • 12. Wotcha Gonna Do (B-side of ‘Never Trust A Stranger’) 4’04
  • 13. She Hasn’t Got Time For You ’88 (B-side of ‘Four Letter Word’) 4’36
  • 14. Hey Mister Heartache – 7″ version 3’45
  • 15. You Came – 7″ version 3’35
  • 16. Never Trust A Stranger – 7″ version 4’06
  • 17. Love In The Natural Way – video edit 3’47

CD2 

  • 1. Hey Mister Heartache – 12″ version 8’10
  • 2. Hey Mister Heartache – Kilowatt remix 6’10
  • 3. You Came – 12″ version 6’45
  • 4. You Came – Shep Pettibone 7″ mix 4’15
  • 5. You Came – Shep Pettibone 12″ mix 7’36
  • 6. You Came – Dub version #1 4’50
  • 7. You Came – Dub version #2 4’44
  • 8. Never Trust A Stranger – 12″ version 5’57
  • 9. Never Trust A Stranger – Sanjazz mix 5’45
  • 10. Four Letter Word – extended version 5’50
  • 11. Four Letter Word – Late Night mix 3’56
  • 12. Love In The Natural Way – extended version 6’00

Previous Cherry Red deluxe reissues…