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The Smiths Complete Box Set Wins Best Reissue at NME Awards

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The Smiths took home the prize for ‘best reissue’ at the NME awards this week for their spectacular ‘Complete’ box set which was released last October and is now out of print. The box was limited to 4,000 and retailed at over £200, but is now commanding prices of well over £400. It took the gong ahead of Nirvana‘s Nevermind Super Deluxe Edition, The Rolling Stones‘ Some Girls Super Deluxe Edition, and Manic Street Preachers National Treasures.

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New World Party track but UK fans made to wait for Arkeology Box

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World Party / Arkeology / 5-CD Box SetFontana who are distributing the World Party Arkeology box in the US have streamed Words a previously unreleased track by the band which features on the third disc within the box set.
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Diana Ross & The Supremes / 50th Anniversary The Singles Collection

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Diana Ross & The Supremes / 50th Anniversary The Singles Collection

This set came out late last year and is a delightful package. It brings together every A- and B-side from The Supremes up to the point when Diana Ross left to pursue a solo career.

Included are the group’s 14 No. 1 Pop and R&B hits from Where Did Our Love Go to Someday We’ll Be Together, and the iconic Baby Love and Stop! In The Name Of Love as well as rare early and alternate versions of some tracks.

In total 82 tracks across three discs. You can see the track listing from the photo gallery below.

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Madonna / Vinyl Reissues and Complete Studio Recordings Box

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Madonna / Vinyl ReissuesMadonna‘s first five albums will be reissued on 18og vinyl on 26 March 2012.

Madonna, Like A Virgin, True Blue, Like A Prayer and Erotica (2xLP) will all feature original artwork and inner sleeves with True Blue also replicating the original poster that came with that release back in 1986.

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Pet Shop Boys / Format: B-sides and Bonus Tracks 1996-2009 / Review

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Pet Shop Boys / Format B-sides and bonus tracks 1996-2009Format is another well titled album from the Pet Shop Boys. The double CD picks up from where previous compilation Alternative left off, collecting B-sides, and bonus tracks from all their singles during the period 1996-2009.

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Pink Floyd / The Wall : Does packaging make a difference?

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The 2011 remastering campaign of Pink Floyd’s complete back catalogue has largely been judged a success, thanks to the audio skills of James Guthrie and Joel Plante who were responsible for all the remastering. If they sound great, how to they albums look? How do they feel? Has the same care and attention been bestowed on the packaging? Has this area really delivered to the same extent as the audio?

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Dr Feelgood / All Through The City (with Wilko 1974-1977) 4-disc box

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DR FEELGOOD All Through The City (with Wilko 1974-1977)April 2nd 2012 sees the release of a 3CD+DVD box set of Dr. Feelgood material called All Through The City.

The three CDs will include the first four Dr. Feelgood albums, plus previously unreleased material, while the DVD contains a massive amount of archive live TV performances including seven tracks from a 1975 appearance on UK TV’s The Geordie Scene and three tracks from The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Discs 1 and 2 are made up by their first four albums – Down By The Jetty, Malpractice, Stupidity and Sneakin’ Suspicion.  Disc 3 features 16 previously unissued tracks – 13 studio recordings and three live tracks.

See below for full track listing.

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ZTT and The Art of the 12inch, Volume Two / Review

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ZTT - Art Of The 12", Volume TwoCan any record label really lay claim to having mastered the “Art Of The 12inch” more than ZTT (Zang Tuum Tumb). It seems rather unlikely. Founded in 1983 by Producer Trevor Horn, his wife Jill Sinclair and music journalist Paul Morley, ZTT’s roster in the 1980s would include Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Art of Noise and Propaganda and no other label during that period focused quite so much attention on the 45rpm 12″ single.
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Band on the Run wins another Grammy Award for Paul McCartney

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Paul McCartney and Wings / Band On The Run Deluxe EditionPaul McCartney’s 2010 archive reissue of his 1973 classic Band on the Run, won a Best Historical Album at the 54th Grammy’s in Los Angeles last night.

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T-Rex / Electric Warrior Deluxe & Super Deluxe Editions on the way

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T-Rex / Electric Warrior / Deluxe and Super Deluxe Editions

T-Rex’s classic Electric Warrior album will be reissued in a variety of formats on 23 April 2012. In addition to this, a special limited box set of singles is being produced especially for Record Store Day 2012 (21 April 2012).

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Pink Floyd / The Wall Immersion Box Set Trailer

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Pink Floyd/EMI have today released a promo film showing the contents of the forthcoming Immersion Box Set of The Wall. As you will see, the contents are consistent with the two previous Immersion Box Sets.

The Wall Immersion Box can be preordered here (US) and here (UK/Europe).