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Black / Wonderful Life 2CD Deluxe

Posted on February 14, 2013February 15, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Wonderful Life by Black (aka Colin Vearncombe) was originally released back in 1987 and was a significant success in the UK, yielding two top ten hit singles in the (reissued) title track and the single Sweetest Smile.

March 18th sees a deluxe reissue of this album in the form of a two-CD set, which comprises the full original album plus a second CD of 14 bonus tracks, including the original Ugly Man version of the Wonderful Life single plus a selection of B-sides and four songs from a 1986 Janice Long session. The album’s liner notes come complete with a specially commissioned interview with Colin.

Wonderful Life Deluxe Edition track listing:
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Paul Hardcastle / Interview

Posted on February 14, 2013February 14, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Paul Hardcastle is a artist, songwriter and producer who has been making music for the last 30 years. He started out in the electro/dance sphere, and in recent decades, his musical journey has led to him more of an ambient, smooth jazz sound, evident on last year’s 19 Below Zero album.

There have been plenty of diversions and collaborations along the way, with Hardcastle often recording under aliases, to avoid contractual problems. He is best known outside the US for his enormous hit single 19, which reflected on the plight of veterans who served in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It would reach number one in 13 different countries around the world.

Demon Music Group through their Music Deluxe imprint, released Electrofied 80s: Essential Paul Hardcastle at the end of last month. This two-CD retrospective highlights some of Hardcastle’s best work with much focus on the music produced in the 1980s-era.

We recently caught up with Paul and spoke to him about this new release…

SuperDeluxeEdition: How did the new compilation come about?

Paul Hardcastle: Demon Music contacted me to say they were interested in getting together a compilation of my old electro and ’80s type of stuff, and to be honest with you, I thought that’s would be great, because number one I’d have a CD of all my stuff (laughs).
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Giorgio Moroder / On The Groove Train Volume 2: 1974 -1985

Posted on February 13, 2013February 13, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Repertoire records last year issued On The Groove Train Volume 1: 1975-1993, a collection of Giorgio Moroder collaborations and productions spanning two CDs.

A follow-up to this volume will be released on 4 March 2012 (UK) and On The Groove Train Volume 2: 1974 -1985 sees a further selection of rarities from the Italian producer, featuring work of artists such as Donna Summer, Chris Bennett and Roberta Kelly. The songs are culled from various international releases and take in A-sides, B-sides adn the occasional 12-inch versions.

On The Groove Train Volume 2: 1974-1985 track listing:
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FIRST PICTURES “Music & Photos” sets featuring Elvis, Dylan, Miles Davis

Posted on February 12, 2013February 13, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Elvis Presley / Music & Photos — Large format packaging sits nicely alongside your vinyl (click to enlarge)

Sony have this week released their Music & Photos series. As previously announced these four sets – featuring Elvis, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Jeff Buckley – contain two CDs of music (CD+DVD for Buckley) and place them in a large format package which also contains ten quality photo prints of the artist in question.

The contents sit securely within a large gatefold wallet, which has similar dimensions to a vinyl album. The photo prints look ideal for framing, with no commercial logos or text on them whatsoever. More photos below:
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Scared To Get Happy / The Story of Indie Pop / five CD set on the way

Posted on February 12, 2013February 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Cherry Red records narrate a ten-year story of indie pop with a new mammoth five-CD box Scared To Get Happy.

This set bookends the decade of the 1980s, and takes in tracks from the likes of The Pale Fountains, Lloyd Cole, Prefab Sprout, Everything But The Girl, The Wonder Stuff, The Brilliant Corners and The Vaselines amongst many, many others. In fact the label are still tweaking the track listing at the time of writing, so don’t be surprised to find a few final tweaks applied by the time this is released, which is expected to be June 2013.

Keep up with the latest via facebook.com/scaredtogethappy

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FIRST PICTURES: A New England: The Very Best of Kirsty MacColl

Posted on February 12, 2013February 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

A New England: The Very Best Of Kirsty MacColl is a 21-track hits collection due for release from Union Square Music on 25 Februrary 2013 (UK date, other territories may vary). As previously announced, Amazon.co.uk are offering an exclusive ‘deluxe’ edition of this compilation that comes with a bonus DVD containing 10 promo videos and five art cards. These cards have photos of Kirsty on one side and quotes from song lyrics on the other.

This attractive set is presented as a six-panel digi-pack, but does not come with a booklet of any description.

Out This Week / 11 Feb 2013

Posted on February 11, 2013February 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Led Zeppelin / Celebration Day 3xLP

Almost three months after the original release, the Led Zeppelin live album is issued as three heavyweight LPs.

Richard Thompson / Electric (Deluxe Edition)

Songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson recorded this new record in Nashville with Buddy Miller producing. This deluxe edition is a 2CD set with seven bonus tracks.

Yes / Original Album Series (5CD Set)

Five CD set from Yes, containing Going For The One (1977), Tormato (1978), Drama (1980), 90125 (1983) and Big Generator (1987).

• UK Order: Yes – Original Album Series
• USA Order: Yes – Original Album Series
• CANADA Order: Yes – Original Album Series
• GERMANY Order: Yes – Original Album Series

Elvis Presley / Music & Photos

Two CD hits collection from The King, in large format packaging and ten 11 x 12.5 inch photos.

Bob Dylan Music & Photos

Two CD hits collection (actually The Essential Bob Dylan) in large format packaging with ten quality 11 x 12.5 inch photos.

Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks (Hybrid SACD)

More Dylan, this time a numbered limited edition Hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD) from audiophile specialists Mobile Fidelity. This has been mastered from the original tapes and is presented in hi-res Stereo.

Conny Plank / Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank

A 4CD box set highlighting the early work of legendary German Krautrock producer Conny Plank (Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia, D.A.F.).

This nicely designed packaged comes with an extensive booklet and comprises two CDs of original tracks that had a Conny involvement (e.g. Le Sinistre – a track from the sessions of the Eurythmics first album In The Garden, which Plank co-produced), a further CD of remixes and rounds off with a disc featuring a previously unreleased live show featuring Plank, Dieter Möbius and Arno Steffen in Mexico 1986.

R.E.M. / Original Album Series (5CD set)

The critically acclaimed Warner albums from the early to mid-nineties are notable by their absence, but this value set could be a good catching up exercise for those who stopped buying R.E.M. records around the time of 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi. This set contains Up, Reveal, Around The Sun, Accelerate and Collapse Into Now. Bonus points for quite a groovy cover design.

Bob Dylan / Bringing It All Back Home (Hybrid SACD)

Like Blood On The Tracks, Dylan’s 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home is released this week by Mobile Fidelity as a hi-res Stereo Hybrid SACD.

Jeff Buckley / Music and Photos

Another edition of Sony’s new ‘Music & Photos’ series. For this Jeff Buckley release, a CD of hits and a live DVD accompany the 10 glossy photos.

The Allman Brothers Band Hybrid SACD

As well as the Dylan releases, audiophile specialist Mobile Fidelity this week issue The Allman Brothers Band 1969 debut. This is a stereo hybrid SACD.

FIRST PICTURES: Fleetwood Mac / Rumours super deluxe edition

Posted on February 6, 2013February 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours was released last week as a super deluxe edition box set. A full review of the contents is coming soon, but until then we present these photos of the packaging for your viewing pleasure.

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Simple Minds / Celebrate: Greatest Hits+ / 2CD and 3CD sets

Posted on February 6, 2013February 6, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Simple Minds are to release Celebrate – The Greatest Hits+, a new compilation on 25 March 2013.

This career overview will be available as a two-CD edition or a more comprehensive three-CD set. Both will include two new tracks: Broken Glass Park and Blood Diamonds.

To coincide with this release, the band will kick off a Greatest Hits UK tour on 28 March at the Belfast Waterfront

Full track listings below:
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RECORD COLLECTOR: David Bowie / Never Let Me Down (1987)

Posted on February 6, 2013February 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

In the first of an occasional feature, we look at some relative rarities associated with a well-known album.

With the news yesterday that David Bowie‘s 1973 Aladdin Sane is being prepped for a 40th anniversary reissue we look back at the man’s slightly less lauded Never Let Me Down album released only 14 years later in 1987.
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Depeche Mode / “Delta Machine” available as 2CD deluxe edition

Posted on February 5, 2013February 5, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Depeche Mode‘s new album Delta Machine is due out on 25 March, and as well as the standard release, their new label Columbia will be issuing a two-CD deluxe edition, which includes a 26-page photo booklet by Anton Corbjn, and four extra tracks on the bonus CD.

One of the four bonus tracks (All That’s Mine) is actually also the B-side to the forthcoming single Heaven, which is out a week earlier on 18 March. This single is being made available as a two-track CD single and a ‘maxi’ five-track CD single with four remixes offered in addition to the single version of Heaven.

Delta Machine will also be available as a 2xLP vinyl edition.

2CD Deluxe Edition

2xLP Vinyl Edition

Deluxe Edition track listing:
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David Bowie / Aladdin Sane 40th anniversary remaster coming to CD

Posted on February 5, 2013July 19, 2023 by Paul Sinclair

A 40th anniversary edition of David Bowie’s 1973 Aladdin Sane album will be reissued by Parlophone Label Group on 13 April 2013. It is being made available on CD and a version ‘Mastered for iTunes’.

The album – which features the hits The Jean Genie and Drive-In Saturday – was originally co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, and this reissue has been remastered by Ray Staff at London’s AIR Studios. Ray cut the original LP during his time at Trident Studios (his remaster of the Ziggy Stardust, reissued last year, was widely praised).

Disappointingly, this reissue looks to be a bare-bones remaster, with no bonus tracks or newly created surround sound mix. Perhaps this shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, because when Rykodisc reissued David Bowie’s RCA catalogue in 1990, Aladdin Sane was the only studio album to be re-released without any bonus material. The disliked 1999 remaster from EMI also came sans extras, and even the 30th 2CD set from 2003 had a bonus disc which contained a fair bit of previously released material (some from the Ryko’s 1989 Sound+Vision box set).

David Bowie / The Prettiest Star single 1970 — The Prettiest Star was an old song from 1970

The recording of Aladdin Sane was rather squeezed into the schedules in late 1972 as Bowie continued with his Ziggy Stardust tour. The inclusion of a cover of The Rolling Stones’ Let’s Spend The Night Together and the re-recording of his old 1970 single The Prettiest Star suggests there was not an abundance of new material to record, which may go some way to explaining why Aladdin Sane is often bereft of bonus offerings, when reissued.

Aladdin Sane 40th Anniversary Edition tracklisting:

1. Watch That Man
2. Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
3. Drive-In Saturday
4. Panic In Detroit
5. Cracked Actor
6. Time
7. The Prettiest Star
8. Let’s Spend the Night Together
9. The Jean Genie
10. Lady Grinning Soul

Packshot: Marvin Gaye / Trouble Man 2CD Expanded Edition

Posted on February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Marvin Gaye / Trouble Man 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition — Click to enlarge

Marvin Gaye‘s Trouble Man 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition was released in the UK and other territories last week. The reissue features many unreleased tracks including an entire disc of Gaye’s score for the film (as opposed to the soundtrack on disc one).

The package comes in the form of a six-panel digi-pak with 28-page booklet. Full review coming soon to SuperDeluxeEdition.

Out This Week / 4 Feb 2013

Posted on February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Blue Oyster Cult / The Columbia Albums Collection box set

A massive collection of music from the Long Island band’s essential era. 17 discs including a rarities CD and a disc full of live performances, this set even comes with a code for four further live concerts. More here.

Blind Guardian / A Traveler’s Guide To Space And Time

The German power-metal band’s Virgin-era is celebrated in this 15-disc box set which as well as studio albums includes unreleased demos, rare bonus tracks. The box set comes with an art print and a plectrum engraved with the band logo.

Julian Cope / Saint Julian (2CD Expanded Edition)

Julian Cope‘s third album presented with a bonus CD of non-album tracks and remixes. More here.

Taj Mahal / The Complete Columbia Albums Collection box

The innovative blues musician gets this comprehensive label anthology which includes 13 albums including Rising Sons, his collaboration with Ry Cooder. The two disc rarities/live set The Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal 1969–1973 is additionally included within this box.

Farewell, MiniDisc. And mixtapes.

Posted on February 4, 2013February 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

In the last few days Sony have announced that they are to cease production of their MiniDisc hardware, with the last device expected to be sold in March 2013.

First introduced back in 1992, the MiniDisc was touted as a replacement to the compact cassette tape. It certainly was similar in one respect – you needed to sit there in real-time as you ‘taped’ the CD or vinyl record of your choice onto the MiniDisc.
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Fine Young Cannibals: deluxe edition track listings confirmed

Posted on February 1, 2013February 4, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Fine Young Cannibals / The Raw & the Cooked 2CD Deluxe Edition — Both FYC albums will be issued in 2CD deluxe editions

The much-delayed Fine Young Cannibals deluxe reissues from Edsel are finally going to be released on 18 February and SuperDeluxeEdition can confirm the full track listings.

The debut album from 1985 comes with three B-sides and in total nine remixes (all of Johnny Come Home and Suspicious Minds).

The Raw & The Cooked from 1988 includes the new tracks added to 1996’s The Finest collection, and a large selection of remixes. Neither of the remix albums previously issued – The Raw and the Remix or The Rare and the Remixed (from The Finest 2CD special edition) appear in their entirety, although it is obvious that by limiting this deluxe edition to two discs Edsel were never going to be able to include everything.

Full track listings below:

Electronic debut album: 2CD deluxe

Posted on February 1, 2013April 9, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

The debut album of Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr’s collaboration Electronic is released as a 2CD deluxe edition on 8 April 2013.
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Amazon exclusive adds DVD to Kirsty MacColl hits collection

Posted on January 31, 2013January 31, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

A New England: The Very Best Of Kirsty MacColl amazon.co.uk exclusive with DVD — Amazon.co.uk exclusive offer the new hits collection with DVD & postcards

Salvo Music’s forthcoming Kirsty MacColl collection, A New England: The Very Best Of Kirsty MacColl is available at amazon UK with an exclusive bonus disc that features 10 promo videos, plus five art cards with photographs and lyrics.

The 21-track hits collection is released on 25 February, and features some of Kirsty’s most popular songs, including tracks from her last album Tropical Brainstorm.

At the time of writing, there is no excuse not to go for the ‘deluxe’ amazon exclusive because at £12.99 it is currently cheaper more than £1 cheaper than the standard one-CD edition!

Track listing:
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Marianne Faithfull / Broken English 2CD Deluxe Edition

Posted on January 31, 2013January 31, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

Marianne Faithfull‘s 1979 album Broken English was reissued on Monday 28th January as a two-CD deluxe edition.

Faithfull’s journey from ’60s pop star muse to ’70s homeless junkie is well documented, and this album was borne out of the touring band that was put together to capitalise on unexpected success in the Irish charts with her Dreamin’ My Dreams single, from the ‘comeback’ country album of the same name (reissued in 1978 as Faithless). Demos recorded by the band were heard by Island Records’ Chris Blackwell who saw the potential for an album.
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Jimi Hendrix / Are You Experienced 200gsm audiophile mono vinyl

Posted on January 31, 2013January 31, 2013 by Paul Sinclair

The US edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience‘s debut album, released in August 1967, was very different from the UK release. Most obviously the cover was completely changed to the now familiar psychedelic ‘fisheye’ design and tracks were removed to make way for the singles that were not included in the original UK issue. Those singles were Purple Haze, Hey Joe and Foxy Lady.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Are You Experienced US album cover — US album cover

This US version was available in mono for a short time, but the UK release has never been issued in mono in the US – until now.

On 5 March 2013, Sony are issuing a very heavyweight, 200g vinyl pressing of the album, mastered from the original mono master tapes by renowned engineer Bernie Grundman. The UK running order is present and correct, as is the original UK artwork.

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Richard Thompson / Electric (Deluxe Edition)

Yes / Original Album Series (5CD Set)

Elvis Presley / Music & Photos

Bob Dylan Music & Photos

Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks (Hybrid SACD)

Conny Plank / Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank

R.E.M. / Original Album Series (5CD set)

Bob Dylan / Bringing It All Back Home (Hybrid SACD)

Jeff Buckley / Music and Photos

The Allman Brothers Band Hybrid SACD

Blue Oyster Cult / The Columbia Albums Collection box set

Blind Guardian / A Traveler’s Guide To Space And Time

Julian Cope / Saint Julian (2CD Expanded Edition)

Taj Mahal / The Complete Columbia Albums Collection box