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Paul McCartney / Live Kisses Blu-ray

Posted on August 28, 2012November 12, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Eagle Rock will release Paul McCartney‘s Live Kisses on Blu-ray and DVD on 12 November 2012.

Live Kisses showcases McCartney’s performance of songs from his Kisses On The Bottom album (which was released in February 2012) live from the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Paul is joined by a virtuoso group of musicians led by Diana Krall on the piano for renditions of classic songs from the American songbook and his self-penned My Valentine. The DVD and Blu-ray includes interview clips between songs with Paul, Diana Krall and many of those involved in the recording of the Kisses On The Bottom album.

The audio for four of the tracks was made available as a free download to those who purchased the Deluxe Edition of Kisses On The Bottom and nine audio tracks are available as the album “iTunes Live from Capitol Studios”.

Live Kisses track listing
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The Rolling Stones / Some Girls: Live In Texas Vinyl + CD + DVD

Posted on August 28, 2012August 28, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

The Rolling Stones gig at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on 18 July 1978, was filmed on 16mm film, and last year the footage was carefully restored and the sound remixed and remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the original multitrack tapes.

This Live In Texas concert was released on an enormous amount of formats last year – a standalone DVD, DVD/CD combo, Blu-ray, Blu-ray/CD combo (all from Eagle Rock) and some footage even made a ‘promotional’ appearance on the rather thin Some Girls Super Deluxe Edition, solely to encourage fans who had already paid around £75 for the rather thin set to purchase the full gig.

Not content with all this activity last year, Eagle Rock have come up with a new version of Live In Texas in an attempt to get you to part with your cash. This time the audio has been pressed onto two 180g vinyl records which comes packaged with a CD (repeating the audio) and a DVD of the video. The whole thing comes packaged in a three-panel gatefold sleeve, with the CD and DVD discs inserted into the middle panel. This is due for release on 10 September 2012.

The Rolling Stones / Some Girls: Live In Texas 1978 LP/CD/DVD — CD and DVD in the middle panel

The extras on the DVD are the same as before – an interview with Mick Jagger in Paris 2011, and performances from Saturday Night Live in October 1978 including Tomorrow featuring Dan Aykroyd & Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones performing Shattered, Respectable & Beast Of Burden. In addition excerpts from an ABC 20/20 Special on Rolling Stones rehearsing for the US tour (Jun 1978) are included as a bonus feature.

There is not a Blu-ray version of this vinyl combo release, forcing those wanting the optimum audio and video quality to forsake the vinyl or buy two formats.

If you can wait until 15 October, a cheap way of picking up the Blu-ray version of Some Girls: Live In Texas is to purchase yet another Eagle-Rock variation. This time it’s a ‘Special Limited Collectors’ Edition’ – a Rolling Stones double pack that brings together the Blu-rays of the Exile On Main Street era Ladies & Gentlemen (filmed in 1972 on the US tour) and Some Girls: Live In Texas. At the time of writing this can be pre-ordered on amazon.co.uk for £11.89.

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The Beach Boys / Fifty Big Ones + Greatest Hits and album reissues

Posted on August 25, 2012August 28, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

The Beach Boys continue their 50th anniversary celebrations with a number of significant releases over the next few months.

On 24 September (9 October in the US) Capitol/EMI will issue two new hits collections. The first will be a single disc release, appropriately titled ‘Greatest Hits’ and will take in 20 of their most popular tracks, including recent single That’s Why God Made The Radio. An alternative, broader selection will be offered on a two-CD box – Greatest Hits: Fifty Big Ones. The packaging for this release will be similar to the Smile Sessions 2CD set, with a lift-off lid box and expanded booklet and postcards within.
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Steve Winwood / Arc Of A Diver two-disc deluxe edition

Posted on August 23, 2012August 25, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Universal Music will reissue Steve Winwood‘s Arc Of A Diver, on 24 September as a two-CD deluxe edition.

The album was Winwood’s second solo record, and provided him with a US top ten hit (his first) in the form of While You See A Chance. The singer is, of course, a talented multi-instrumentalist and played everything on this album.

The bonus material is slight but well chosen – it includes a BBC Radio 2 documentary about the album and some rare radio edits of the album tracks.

Pre-order Arc Of A Diver Deluxe here (US) or here (UK).

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The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour Special Boxed Deluxe Edition

Posted on August 22, 2012September 8, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour Special Boxed Set — Click to enlarge

As previously revealed on this blog, The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour film is coming Blu-ray (and DVD) on 8 October (worldwide) and 9 October in North America – the news is now official.

Even better news is that as well as standard releases on DVD and Blu-ray, a special, boxed deluxe edition will also be available with the following contents:

• Set housed in a 10″x10″ box
• Both DVD and Blu-ray included
• 60-page book with background information, photographs and documentation from the production,
• A faithful reproduction of the mono double 7″ vinyl EP of the film’s six new Beatles songs, originally issued in the UK to complement the film’s 1967 release!

This sounds superb, and the set is currently retailing for £59.99 on Apple’s online store.

Pre-order Deluxe Box from amazon.com here (US)

The film has been fully restored by Paul Rutan Jr. of Eque Inc., the same company that handled the much acclaimed restoration of Yellow Submarine. The soundtrack has been remixed into 5.1 surround! This work was done at Abbey Road Studios by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. This means DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 for the Blu-ray!

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An open letter to Peter Gabriel

Posted on August 22, 2012April 7, 2020 by Paul Sinclair

Tori Amos / Gold Dust

Posted on August 21, 2012August 25, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Tori Amos releases a new album featuring orchestral reworkings of previously released songs on 1 October 2012. Gold Dust will be her thirteenth studio album and was recorded with the Metropole Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley.
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Johnny Cash / The Complete Columbia Album Collection / 63CDs!

Posted on August 21, 2012September 14, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Sony are set to release a huge Johnny Cash box set on 30 October entitled Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection.

Released on the Columbia/Legacy imprint, the box will contain 59 albums across 63 CDs from 1958’s The Fabulous Johnny Cash, to 1990’s Highwayman 2 recorded with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
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The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour DVD & Blu-ray coming in October

Posted on August 20, 2012August 25, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

The Beatles / Magical Mystery Tour / Blu-ray and DVD — Paul and John during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour

A reissue of The Beatles‘ 1967 Magical Mystery Tour film is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on 8 October 2012 (9 Oct in the US).
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Deep Purple / Machine Head Deluxe 4CD+DVD Anniversary Box

Posted on August 20, 2012August 25, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Deep Purple / Machine Head Deluxe Box 4CD+DVD

Deep Purple‘s 1972 Machine Head album gets a 40th anniversary reissue on 8 October which includes a 4CD+DVD box set.

The influential album was the band’s sixth, and would top the chart in the UK. Its most famous song Smoke On The Water described the burning down of Montreux Casino in Switzerland where the band had originally planned to record the album.
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Super Deluxe Rip-off featuring “So”

Posted on August 17, 2012April 7, 2020 by Paul Sinclair

In a few weeks it will be a year since EMI released a Super Deluxe Edition box set that featured – amongst other things – lossless surround sound album mixes, hi-res stereo, and Blu-ray for video and audio. One year on, and the same label will be shortly releasing another Deluxe Box set for a different artist that has none of the above, but… you guessed it, they are happily charging the same price.

The former was Pink Floyd’s mighty Dark Side Of The Moon ‘Immersion’ box, the later is Peter Gabriel’s flawed So Super Deluxe box set. What is going on, and why are the specifications of some of the most recently announced box sets failing to meet audience expectations? Paul Sinclair examines the issues…
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Duran Duran / The Biggest And The Best / new compilation

Posted on August 17, 2012August 20, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

While we wait to see if EMI will continue to release Duran Duran deluxe reissues by tackling 1990’s Liberty and 1993’s Duran Duran (The Wedding Album), Demon Music Group are to about to put out a comprehensive looking 2CD set (under their Music Club Deluxe imprint) which covers the band’s output right up until the point when the Decade hits compilation was originally released (late 1989).
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Propaganda / Noise And Girls Come Out To Play / ‘Best of’ collection

Posted on August 16, 2012August 17, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

ZTT and Salvo release a new Propaganda ‘best of’ on 10 September 2012. Noise and Girls Come Out to Play collects tracks from the records from across their short ZTT career including A Secret Wish, Wishful Thinking, Duel, Do Well, p:Machinery, the Nine Lives of Dr Mabuse and Propaganda’s studio sessions during their years spent taping at Sarm Studios, 1983 to 1986.

Obviously, given the rich vaults of ZTT, they have made things interesting (as usual) by providing previously unreleased variations of certain tracks, so Propaganda fans should take a close look at the track listing below. Previously unreleased tracks highlighted with an asterisk.

Noise and Girls Come Out To Play by Propaganda – track listing below:
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Kirsty MacColl / Deluxe reissues

Posted on August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Salvo’s expanded Kirsty MacColl reissues are due for release on 8 October. Kite, Electric Landlady and Titanic Days are all two-CD deluxe reissues, with bonus discs full of B-sides, remixes, radio sessions and live tracks, while debut Desperate Character is released on CD for the first time, and comes as a single disc edition without bonus tracks.

We will bring you full reviews nearer the time, but for now see the full track listings below:
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Paul Simon / Live in New York City

Posted on August 15, 2012August 16, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Hear Music will release a 2CD/DVD combo entitled Paul Simon Live in New York City on 18 September. The audio and video are taken from the singer-songwriter’s Webster Hall show in NYC last November.

The set will also be available separately on Blu-ray.

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Track listings below:
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Mark Knopfler / Privateering Super Deluxe Box Set coming next month

Posted on August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Mark Knopfler‘s new album Privateering (due on 3 September) will be issued by Mercury Music in a variety of formats including a standard 2CD package, a Deluxe 3CD edition and a Super Deluxe Box Set.

A couple of tracks from the record are streaming on Knopfler’s website and configurations and track listings for the ex-Dire Straits man’s eighth solo album are detailed below:
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Peter Gabriel / “So” box details official

Posted on August 15, 2012April 7, 2020 by Paul Sinclair

Peter Gabriel‘s So limited edition box set has been confirmed and officially announced via his website. Interestingly, there is no reference to it being an ‘Immersion’ box (as described on amazon.com) with Gabriel’s site referring to it as a ‘Limited Edition Box Set’ or a ‘Deluxe Box Set’.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico / Six disc Super Deluxe Edition

Posted on August 14, 2012September 8, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

The now iconic Velvet Underground & Nico album celebrates its 45th anniversary on 30 October 2012 with a multi-format, worldwide release on 29/30 October that includes stereo and mono versions remastered from the original tapes, previously unreleased recordings of the band’s rehearsals in Warhol’s Factory and the subsequent rare April 1966 Scepter Studios recordings captured on acetate which feature early, alternate versions of songs later issued on the album.
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Roxy Music / Complete Studio Recordings 10 disc box set

Posted on August 13, 2012August 14, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings gathers together all eight of the art-rock band’s studio albums and was recently released after numerous delays.

Originally this 10CD set was to be a 12-disc affair, with eight CDs and four hi-res audio DVDs, to appeal to general collectors and audiophiles alike. The DVDs were quietly dropped and the bonus tracks were relocated. Rather than being tacked on the end of each album they were collected together on two bonus CDs. The lack of hi-res audio is a big blow to those looking for a reason to repurchase albums they might own many times over, although having unspoiled albums free of appended bonus audio can be regarded as good thing.
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Win a Frankie / Propaganda / ZTT CD bundle. RT and follow on twitter

Posted on August 13, 2012August 22, 2012 by Paul Sinclair

**This competition is now closed. Tweeter @toniuk was the winner. Congratulations. More great competitions coming soon!**

To celebrate the release of Salvo’s Frankie Goes To Hollywood Sexmix compilation we are giving away three recent releases from the ZTT ‘element’ series. One lucky winner will receive not only the Sexmix double CD, but also Art of The 12″, Volume Two which features over two and a half hours of rare remixes from not only FGTH, but also the Art Of Noise, Act, Scritti Politti, Godley & Creme and Paul McCartney. On top of this the winner will also receive the new expanded remaster of Propaganda‘s Wishful Thinking which features five previously unreleased tracks.

All in all, five discs across three releases, and nearly six hours of classic remixes and rarities from the ZTT archive!

To be in with a chance of winning, simply retweet this competition post using the button below and if you aren’t already, ensure you are following us on twitter.

ONE winner will be picked at random and announced via our twitter feed (@sdedition) on Wednesday 22 August. Open to all, good luck!

**This competition is now closed. Tweeter @toniuk was the winner. Congratulations. More great competitions coming soon!**

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