Author: Paul Sinclair

Manic Street Preachers / National Treasures Box / Pictures & track listing

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Here we bring you EXCLUSIVE pictures of the new Manic Street Preachers National Treasures Box which is released on Monday 31st October and available exclusively through the band’s website. Below you will find a full track listing for the 38 CD singles included in the box, along with 25 pictures showing all aspects of this package. A three disc deluxe edition with all 38 singles and 41 videos can be ordered here.

Manic Street Preachers / National Treasures Box Set / FIRST PICTURES and track listing

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Singles Bar / U2: Achtung Baby

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U2 / Achtung Baby / Super Deluxe EditionA new feature, Singles Bar, takes a look at the singles released from classic albums

The Super (and Uber) Deluxe editions of U2’s brilliant 1991 album Achtung Baby are nearly upon us! With the release date for these massive box sets just a week away (see here for details), we thought now would be a good time to reflect back on the singles pulled from the album. Which ones are just as great as the record they come from, and which ones are a bit of a let down? Our guest blogger, James Eldred from The Lost Turntable, takes a look to find out.

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The Stone Roses reform / Press Conference / Super Deluxe Edition

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The Stone Roses to reform / Super Deluxe Edition 20th Anniversary
So it’s official. The Stone Roses are to reform –  something that seemed less likely to happen than John and George coming back from the grave for a Beatles’ reunion.
But they are back, at least until – in the words of Ian Brown – “the wheels fall off”.

Here’s the press conference from this morning to get you in the mood:

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Top Ten Songs… for Halloween

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Kate Bush / The Dreaming / Top 10 Halloween Songs / Get Out Of My House
Kate Bush was inspired to write a scary song after watching The Shining


With Halloween approaching I couldn’t let it pass without a superdeluxeedition top ten… so here we have it, the connoisseur’s choice when it comes to ghostly, scary or trick-or-treaty songs. Think you can do better? Let’s see your suggestions in the comments section!

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Elvis Presley / Young Man With The Big Beat / 5 Disc Box Set Review

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Elvis Presley / Young Man With A Big Beat / 5-disc box set
“A fine young lad and a fine talent…. ladies and gentleman, Elvis Presley!”

Elvis Presley’s incredible 12 months of 1956 are celebrated in this new 5-disc set from Sony.

Young Man With The Big Beat comprises two discs of original tracks from the official releases of that year, a CD of previously unreleased live performances which span that 12 month period, a fourth CD of outtakes and finally a fifth CD that contains interviews with both the man himself and manager Colonel Tom Parker.

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Dusty Springfield / Goin’ Back: The Definitive Dusty Springfield / Box

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Dusty Springfield / Goin' Back: The Definitive Dusty Springfield

Universal Music will release Goin’ Back: The Definitive Dusty Springfield on 31 October – a lavish 7 disc box set which includes four CDs (split thematically into her hits, rarities, BBC recordings and her work for stage and screen) and three DVDs containing much rare footage.

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The Kinks in Mono / 10 CD Box Set / News

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The Kinks in Mono / 10CD Box Set
November 21 sees The Kinks follow in the footsteps of The Beatles and Bob Dylan with the release of a very special 10CD mono box set.

The Kinks in Mono brings together The Kinks’ first seven LPs from Kinks through to Arthur, as well as 4 extra EPs and 2 volumes of further collectables – all in mono. The set also includes a 32 page, pop annual style book complete with new liner notes, memorabilia (including rare photos), discography information and more.

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A Guided Tour of Madness / 3CD+DVD Box Set / Review

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Madness / A Guided Tour of Madness / 3CD+DVD Box Set
A Box Full of Madness*

*May contain Nutty Boys

It was quite hard to avoid Madness in the 1980s. 14 of their first 16 singles hit the UK top ten. That meant constant appearances on Top of the Pops and regular airplay on BBC Radio One. In fact when they decided to call it a day in 1986 (before reforming in later years) with (Waiting For) The Ghost Train only one of their singles (Sweetest Girl) had failed to breach the UK’s top thirty.

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Sting: 25 Years / 3CD+DVD Box Set

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Sting 25 Years / 3CD+DVD Box Set
Sting has recently released a box set celebrating his entire career as a solo artist.

Sting: 25 Years, contains three CDs, totalling 45 tracks, from his 1985 debut album, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles, to his latest release, Live in Berlin. A fourth disc is a previously unreleased live concert DVD and the whole thing is packaged in a well designed hardcover book.

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Pink Floyd / The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set / Review

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The new Immersion Box delivers the ultimate Dark Side of the Moon listening experience across 6 discs

So, after almost six months of anticipation, expectation and speculation, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set has finally arrived.

This most celebrated of albums was reissued for it’s 20th anniversary in 1993, but in those days putting a newly remastered CD in a bespoke box with a few nicely designed ‘art cards’ was considered a deluxe treatment.

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EXCLUSIVE: The Smiths Complete Box Set The FIRST pictures!

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We are proud to bring you these EXCLUSIVE pictures of the new The Smiths Complete Box which is released on Monday 3rd October.  These are limited to only 4,000 worldwide, with less than half that amount allocated for the UK. You can place your order by clicking here.

The Smiths Complete Box Set Exclusive FIRST pictures

The Smiths Complete Box Set Exclusive FIRST pictures

The Smiths Complete Box Set Exclusive FIRST pictures

The Smiths Complete Box Set Exclusive FIRST pictures

The Smiths Complete Box Set Exclusive FIRST pictures

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Pink Floyd / Dark Side of the Moon / Immersion Box Set – Opening the box video

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Well, the Immersion Box has arrived at superdeluxeedition HQ.

What do you see when you open a Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box?

A full review with high-res stills coming soon, but in the meantime this video I put together using the newly arrived box might might offer some insight…

You can order The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box by clicking here.


 

The Dark Side Of The Moon Immersion Edition is out now and can be purchased here

Pointer Sisters / Break Out Deluxe Edition / Review

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The Pointer Sisters’ finest achievement, celebrated with a deluxe edition offering both versions of the album

The Pointer Sisters had solid success in the 1970s with a soft rock audience. This reached its culmination in 1978, with their album Energy, which included a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Fire that reached no. 2 on the US singles chart. Although they continued to have hit singles for the next few years, they yearned for the really BIG hit album which had eluded them.
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Billy Joel / The Complete Albums Collection + Piano Man 2-disc Legacy

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Billy Joel / The Complete Albums Collection / 15 disc box set  Billy Joel’s 40-year career as a solo recording artist is celebrated on November 8 with a pair of releases – a limited edition Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection boxed set and a two-disc Legacy Edition of 1973’s Piano Man album (featuring a long-lost fabled radio concert from 1972).

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The Rolling Stones / Some Girls Super Deluxe Edition & Live in Texas Blu-ray

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The Rolling Stones / Some Girls Super Deluxe Edition / Live in Texas 1978
The Rolling Stones are to release on November 21, 2011 a re-mastered, expanded, Super Deluxe, Deluxe and Digital editions of Some Girls, the chart-topping album from 1978.

This reissue follows in the footsteps of the Exile on Main Street reissue from 2010 and will include some undiscovered gems that have recently been unearthed from the Rolling Stones vaults by producer Don Was. There are rumoured to be around 10 bonus tracks.

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Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise? / Deluxe CD+DVD Edition Review

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Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise / Deluxe Edition Review
Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise…

…Or should that be (Who’s Afraid?) Of the Art of Noise?

The distinction is subtle, but important. Issues such as these have kept me awake at night over the years. A similar preoccupation is “what happened to CTIS104?”, the ‘missing’ cassette single (“cassingle”) in a run which started with Into Battle with Art of Noise (CTIS100), took in Frankie singles such as Two Tribes (“Keep the Peace – a cassette celebration” CTIS103) and ended with Act’s Snobbery & Decay (Cabaret-Cassette CTIS25).

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Why Pink Floyd? Update: Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box ‘Spy Shots’

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Pink Floyd / Dark Side of the Moon / Immersion Edition
DSOTM Immersion Box ‘Spy Shots’

With only a little over a week to go until the reissue of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon as a 6-disc Immersion Edition (as well as the Discovery Box and individual Discovery Editions) we thought you might be interested in sneaky close-up look at the packaging, courtesy of an empty ‘display-only’ box in a London record store.

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In Bloom: The Nirvana Exhibition / Nevermind Super Deluxe Edition

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Nirvana / Nevermind Super Deluxe Edition and other formats
It’s a sobering thought that Nirvana’s seminal breakthrough album Nevermind is approaching it’s 20th birthday.

In a little over a week’s time, this anniversary will be celebrated, as Universal Music reissue the album in various configurations, the most notable being a 5-disc super deluxe edition.

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