Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
If you were unaware that David Bowie had a new album out today, then you must be living on another planet. The Next Day sees old mucker Tony Visconti in the producer’s chair and is available in 14-track standard CD, 17-track deluxe edition CD and 2xLP vinyl. 
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Demon Music Group have put together some superb promo mixes in anticipation of their extensive Tabu Catalogue reissue campaign with deluxe reissues from the likes of Alexander O’Neal, Cherrelle and The S.O.S. Band. The best of them are below… enjoy!
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Here we present a photo gallery of the packaging for David Bowie‘s long-awaited new album The Next Day. Pictured is the deluxe edition, which comes as a six-panel digipack with three bonus tracks. The album will be released next week.
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – collectively known as Tears For Fears – yesterday launched a new website precisely 30 years on from the UK release of their 1983 debut album The Hurting.
At present, the site consists of a single white page, in the middle of which sits the striking Hurting album cover image, of the child with his head in his hands. Underneath this sits the following message: “Thanks for an amazing 30 years. This year is going to be a big one. Get ready! – Curt & Roland”.
So, let the speculation begin..!
We’d like your thoughts on what this ‘big’ year might entail? In our view, it’s reasonable to assume that Universal Music are working on a deluxe edition of The Hurting album, especially since the only reissue was a 1999 expanded version with a modest four bonus tracks.
Whatever is in the planning, you can stay in touch with the band via their twitter and Facebook accounts.
Just like last year when Another Day was issued as a seven-inch single before RAM came out as a deluxe edition, Paul McCartney will preempt the next issue in his Archive Collection campaign – Wings Over America – with an exclusive vinyl offering on Record Store Day.
This time a twelve-inch vinyl record is being issued, and the single in question is the live version of Maybe I’m Amazed, his exquisite love letter to Linda that appeared in studio form on his first solo album McCartney in 1970.
It wasn’t issued as a single until 1976 when the live cut reached number 10 in the Billboard Hot 100. This Record Store Day twelve-inch replicates a promo-only version issued to radio at the time and includes short and long versions of the track in both mono and stereo mixes.
By stating that this exclusive is “to herald the release of Wings Over America”, McCartney is officially acknowledging the reissue of his mammoth triple album for the first time.
The details of the RAM reissue were revealed by McCartney on 22 March last year. If the same timelines are followed we may hear something about WOA in a couple of weeks from now!
More information regarding Record Store Day here > UK Site | US Site
More details are emerging of Demon’s Tabu Catalogue reissue campaign. We previously informed you of the Alexander O’Neal debut album two-CD expanded edition, and today we have the track listing for Cherrelle‘s 1984 debut Fragile.
Unlike Alexander O’Neal’s album this comes as a one-disc expanded edition with five bonus tracks, including two versions of I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On, famously covered by Robert Palmer on his Riptide album.
Expanded reissues from stablemates The S.O.S Band and Brainstorm will be released on the same day.
Cherrelle Fragile track listing:
Madness have created a special four-disc deluxe box version of last year’s Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da album.
Released on 15 April 2013 and shipped direct from the band via Topspin Media, this set will include nine exclusive band demos, seven exclusive new album tracks and four exclusive alternate versions. In addition, the set includes a DVD of Madness at the ‘House Of Fun’ weekend at Butlins in 2011, and a 21-track CD of the same gig performed a year later in 2012.
In total 70 tracks across the four discs, and this box set will also come with ‘Oui Oui Ouija Board Game Artwork’ and a 32-page booklet.
For full track listing and to pre-order, click here.
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.
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:
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).
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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!
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 ‘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.
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.
SuperDeluxeEdition reader Marcus Sigismund has been randomly selected as the winner of the Van Halen limited edition Studio Albums 1978 – 1984 box set.
Congratulations to Marcus (we will be in touch), and thanks to everyone who entered. Stay tuned for more competitions!
The legendary Italian producer offers a further selection of rarities from artists such as Donna Summer, Chris Bennett and Roberta Kelly. More here.
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.
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.
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…
Track listings:
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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.
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).
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…
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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.
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