Author: Paul Sinclair

WIN a rare Paul McCartney Live In Los Angeles CD

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Win a Paul McCartney Live In Los Angeles CDEarlier today we reported that premium members of Paul McCartney‘s website have been offered a free download of 14 tracks from his 2007 gig in Amoeba Records.

However we don’t want non-premium members to miss out on the fun, so we are giving away the 12-track CD version of this release that was available for one day only via a newspaper in the UK and Ireland.

To be in with a chance of winning this exclusive McCartney Live CD  simply:

  • 1. Subscribe to the weekly SuperDeluxeEdition newsletter – click here.
  • 2. Leave a comment on this post by clicking here –  tell us why you’d like to win!

You may already subscribe to our newsletter – if so then leave just leave a comment. When leaving your comment, please enter the same email address as used to subscribe to the newsletter. This competition is open to all.

GOOD LUCK! A winner will be selected at random on Monday 26 November 2012 and informed via email. The winner will also be announced on this blog.

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood / Frankie Said (Japan Edition)

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Frankie Said Japanese 2CD Edition
Frankie Said (Japan Edition) front cover

The Frankie Goes to Hollywood compilation Frankie Said was released at the beginning of last week, and is a successful fusion of punter pleasing hits and fanboy rarities. The competitively priced ‘best of’ benefits from its simplicity – all the big singles, along with a few choice album cuts and a couple of the best selling twelve inch singles of all time. Sorted.

However, news reaches us that ZTT Japan have upped the ante and created their own special version of Frankie Said that takes the lean, naturally aspirated European edition of the compilation, and adds a supercharger to the front of it.
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The Rolling Stones / GRRR! super deluxe makes a monkey out of fans

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FIRST PICTURES: The Rolling Stones / GRRR! Super Deluxe Edition

The new Rolling Stones hits collection GRRR! was released yesterday (in the UK), and here we look at the most expensive Super Deluxe Edition variant.
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Led Zeppelin / Celebration Day: buying options with pictures

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Led Zeppelin‘s Celebration Day concert release is out next week (17/18 November) and there are a plethora of options to confound and confuse. This post is an attempt to make sense of the options, with photos of the packaging so you can see what you’ll be getting. Here goes..

2CD Edition (ie no DVD or Blu-ray)

Led Zeppelin / Celebration Day
2CD Edition

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Sugar / A Box of Sugar vinyl set

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Sugar / A Box Of Sugar

Having succesfully reissued Sugar‘s albums on expanded CDs, Edsel now turn their attention to vinyl, with the release of a deluxe vinyl boxset containing the complete recordings made between 1992 and 1995 by the trio of Bob Mould (guitar, vocals), David Barbe (bass) and Malcolm Travis (drums).

The boxset marks the 20th anniversary of Copper Blue’s 1992 release, and all recordings have been remastered specifically for vinyl, from the original tapes by FU:EL engineer Jim Wilson. It will be released on 10 December 2012.

Contents:

  • • Vinyl replicas of all 3 studio albums with printed inner sleeves
  • • Double gatefold B-sides collection, incorporating their 1992 BBC radio session in full
  • • Double gatefold live album recorded in 1994
  • • Vinyl replica of their debut 7” on Bob Mould’s Single Only label
  • • First ever vinyl issues of ‘Besides’ and ‘The Joke Is Always On Us, Sometimes’
  • • 20 page book containing photos, rare memorabilia and candid interviews that tell the story of the band’s short but intensecareer in their own words.
  • • Eight pieces of vinyl total.

Sugar / A Box Of Sugar vinyl set

Track listings:
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Out this week / 12 Nov 2012

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Check your calendars! This week sees ‘new’ releases from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and The Doors…

The Beatles / Stereo Vinyl Box Set – Did you or didn’t you? It’s certainly a lot of cash, but the fab four’s entire output on heavyweight vinyl, remastered, is very hard to resist. The albums can be bought separately for around £20 each, but you don’t get the nice book that comes with the box. More here.

The Beatles / Stereo Vinyl Remasters box set

The Rolling Stones / GRRR! – More monkey business from Jagger, Richards et al. This set comes in a few different editions including the all-singing, all-dancing Super Deluxe Edition Box Set. We have one of the later and will be posting pictures soon. More here.

The Rolling Stones / Grr! / New hits collection

Elvis / Prince From Another Planet – The Deluxe Edition of this release offers two full sets from The King  – newly remixed – when he played Madison Square Garden in 1972, along with some unearthed Super 8 film of the performance on DVD, sync’d to the audio. More here.

Elvis Presley / Prince From Another Planet Legacy Edition

Paul McCartney / Live Kisses Blu-ray – As a big McCartney fan I’m finding it hard to get excited about this release. In fact, I will be receiving a free video download as a ‘thank you’ for being a premium member of Macca’s website (they are closing that service down) so will wait patiently for the Wings Over America reissue! More here.

Paul McCartney / Live Kisses Blu-ray

The Doors / Live at the Bowl ’68 Vinyl Edition – The CD came out three weeks ago, but this week sees the release of the double vinyl version of this live set with restored audio. More here.

The Doors / Live at the Bowl '68 CD, DVD, Blu-ray and Vinyl release

 

New movie box set blog SuperDeluxeBluray launches today!

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SuperDeluxeBluray / New blog

We love bringing you all the latest news and reviews on super deluxe music box sets, but like most of you, we also LOVE movies, particularly on high definition BLU-RAY!

So we are proud to announce that a new sister blog launches today called SuperDeluxeBluray. 

Just like this blog, SuperDeluxeBluray will concentrate on box sets, but of course these will be movie box sets. All Blu-ray releases – no DVDs, unless they are included in so-called ‘combo’ boxes where you get Blu-ray, DVD and sometimes digital copies.

The new blog will focus on high end deluxe sets – boxes with special packaging, limited edition releases, exclusive releases that might only be available in specific countries, and career-spanning sets from the world’s best directors.

I hope you will take a look. There are quite a few posts up already, and a competition is up and running for someone to win a Blade Runner 20th Anniversary Box Set.

You can also join in the fun on the SuperDeluxeBluray facebook page and follow the blog on twitter.

Thank you!

WIN a Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists Collector’s Box

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WIN a Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists Collector's Box Set
Generation Terrorists Collector’s box is now unavailable

****This competition is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who entered. Dan Newton was selected as the winner on 26 November 2012.****

This Generation Terrorists Collector’s box was only available direct from the Manic Street Preachers web site and was SOLD OUT before the official release date. No more are available for purchase, leaving some tardy fans very disappointed.

Exclusive to this set is a bonus CD of additional demos and B-sides (22 tracks in total) as well as a 10-inch vinyl record with four BBC Radio One session tracks. A further two CDs and a DVD are carried over from the 3-disc legacy edition.

WE HAVE A SET TO GIVE AWAY TO ONE LUCKY READER!

To be in with a chance of winning this superb prize simply:

  • 1. Subscribe to the weekly SuperDeluxeEdition newsletter – click here.
  • 2. Leave a comment on this post by clicking here –  tell us why you’d like to win!

If you already subscribe to our newsletter than just leave a comment. When leaving your comment, please enter the same email address as used to subscribe to the newsletter. This competition is open to all.

GOOD LUCK! A winner will be selected at random on Monday 26 November 2012 and informed via email. The winner will also be announced on this blog.

****This competition is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who entered. Dan Newton was selected as the winner on 26 November 2012.****

We’ve made a video to show you what’s in this superb box set.

WIN a 14 disc bundle of Levellers deluxe edition reissues

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Win a set of Levellers reissues

Edsel Records have been very busy of late delivering reissues from Aztec Camera, Ian McCulloch, Deacon Blue, the Steve Miller Band and Sugar to name but a few. In fact there has been so much product of late, that it’s rather easy to miss certain reissues.
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Japanese CD of the day / Paul Young

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Paul Young / The Secret Of Association Japanese CD of the dayThis 2009 Japanese ‘paper sleeve’ (or mini LP CD) reissue of Paul Young‘s 1985 album The Secret Of Association has one big attraction (aside from the typically excellent packaging). It is the only CD to date that contains the full extended version of his US number one record Every Time You Go Away (a cover of the Hall and Oates song). It is a bonus track at the end of the album, after Man In The Iron Mask (itself a bonus on the original CD).

The Edsel 2CD reissue of 2007 did list the extended version of Everytime You Go Away on disc two, but disappointingly this was an error, and it played the seven-inch version.

The original UK cassette included the extended version in place of the normal album version, but the ’80s CD didn’t. Four other extended remixes featured on that tape, including I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Everything Must Change, Hot Fun and I Was In Chains. ‘Playhouse’ and Everything Must Change appeared on the Edsel release but Hot Fun and I Was In Chains have never been issued on CD in their extended form.

Paul Young / The Secret Of Association Japanese CD of the day
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Elbow / Definitive Vinyl Album box

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Elbow / Definitive Vinyl Box SetElbow are to issue a limited edition box set of all their albums to date, on seven heavyweight vinyl double gatefold LPs on 26 November 2012.

As a bonus, this set will ship with a USB stick holding all seven albums as high resolution WAV files.

Contents within the box:

1. Asleep In the Back – featuring the track Asleep In The Back for the first time on vinyl
2. Cast of Thousands – currently out of press on vinyl, and first time it will be available as a double gatefold
3. Leaders of the Free World – currently out of press on vinyl, and first time it will be available as a double gatefold
4. The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Build A Rocket Boys!
6. Dead In The Boot
7. Live at Abbey Road  – previously only available as a CD release and not available outside of this box set.

Bee Gees / Mythology 4CD reissue

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The Bee Gees / Mythology reissueRhino have been doing a great job reissuing old box sets at budget prices. Releases so far have included Fleetwood Mac‘s 25 Years: The Chain and Rod Stewart‘s Storyteller, both dating from the early nineties.

For their next release it is a little surprising to see them tackle the Bee Gees‘ four-disc Mythology box, because it was only originally released two years ago and wasn’t particularly expensive in the first place.

As with the other releases, the packaging is transformed, in this case from a ‘bookset’ to four CDs in a ‘fat box’ with an outer slip case. Unlike the other issues, this sees a new cover treatment with photos of the four Gibb brothers on a red background replacing the elaborate Gibb crest from the previous box.

The music is of course the same, with this set originally promoted both as a 50th anniversary collection and the Gibb brothers’ family album. A disc is dedicated to each brother: Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy. At the time this compilation was put together, Barry and Robin chose their own songs, with Maurice’s songs selected by his widow Yvonne and Andy’s songs selected by his daughter Peta.

This new version of Mythology is out in early December for most territories, although it is already available in Germany.

Track listing:
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Bill Withers / The Complete Sussex and Columbia albums box set

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A brief video we made to show you the new Bill Withers Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums box set.

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FIRST PICTURES: Velvet Underground & Nico super deluxe

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First Pictures: Velvet Underground & Nico Super Deluxe Edition

The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition is released this week (North America and Canada, next week) and here we bring you some exclusive pictures of this new set.

This edition is simply a very elegant 92-page book, with the six CDs contained within two thick pages at the rear. The book itself is just under 12 inches wide but only ten inches high, which makes it much easier to hold and read than the large 12 x 12-inch books, such as the one included with the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks… super deluxe edition.

Although the content within lacks any contribution from the likes of Lou Reed or John Cale, the essay by Richie Unterberger (VU author/expert) is a detailed and fascinating look at how the album came to be, and the sessions and movements of the band during that period. Superb photos enhance his words.

The only let down with this presentation is the way the discs are stored. Although it has become fairly standard to have discs housed in pockets glued to strengthen leaves within these books, there is something rather inelegant about this solution and someone really needs to come up with a better way to house discs within a book soon. I know that many fans don’t like the ‘rubbing’ of the discs in these pockets and some have reported scratched CDs as a result.

The music within will be looked at on another day, but this book feels superb in the hands, and for once a truly influential record deserves this treatment. The volume is both tasteful and serious in approach, which is what you’d expect with The Velvet Underground.

What I really want to know is can I risk ‘peeling’ the banana on the front?

Full track listing below.

First Pictures: Velvet Underground & Nico Super Deluxe Edition
Tastefully designed (click to enlarge)

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Out this week…

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Frankie and frankie only… ZTT and Salvo show how to do a greatest hits properly, with Frankie Said by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. More here.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Frankie Said hits compilation

Thick As A Brick 40th Anniversary Edition. Jethro Tull celebrate with this CD+DVD double pack. A double vinyl is also available. More here

Jethro Tull / Thick As A Brick 40th Anniversary reissue

Enjoy some neon loneliness with the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Manic Street Preachers’ debut Generation Terrorists. The Collector’s Box has SOLD OUT but the three disc ‘Legacy’ edition is almost as good. More here.

Manic Street Preachers / Generation Terrorists 3-disc set

Hungarian Rhapsody – Queen in glorious hi-def and surround sound with this 1986 concert in Budapest, on Blu-ray. More here.

Queen / Hungarian Rhapsody Blu-ray and DVD Deluxe Editions

The Rolling Stones – Charlie is My Darling Super Deluxe Edition. 1965 documentary expanded into this massive box set with CDs, DVD, Bluray and vinyl. More here.

The Rolling Stones / Charlie Is My Darling 5-disc super deluxe set

Velvet Underground & Nico – six disc Super Deluxe Edition with rare recordings and previously unreleased rehearsals and concert audio. More here.

The Velvet Underground & Nico / Super Deluxe Edition

So you have the greatest hits, but why not explore further with The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums box set by Bill Withers. More here.

Bill Withers / The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums box set

Genesis Vinyl Box Set 1976-1982 – limited edition with heavyweight vinyl and artwork faithfully reproducing the original artwork of A Trick Of The Tail, Wind & Wuthering, And Then There Were Three, Duke and Abacab. More here.

Genesis / 1976-1982 Vinyl box set