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Pet Shop Boys / Nonetheless blu-ray edition

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Region-free Blu-ray Audio with Dolby Atmos • Quick pre-order link

Pet Shop Boys forthcoming album Nonetheless will be available on a special blu-ray edition which is now available to pre-order exclusively via the SDE shop.

The region-free blu-ray audio features a Dolby Atmos Mix and a Hi-Res Stereo Mix (96/24) of the album and also includes the official video for the first single, ‘Loneliness’, directed by Alasdair McLellan.

The SDE pre-order includes an exclusive slipcase and will be released on 26 April 2024, via Parlophone, along with the other physical formats. You can pre-order the blu-ray and the 2CD edition via the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below. The slipcased edition is limited to 3,000 units.

Nonetheless blu-ray in the slipcase

Tracklisting

Nonetheless Pet Shop Boys / Blu-ray Audio

    • Dolby Atmos Mix of Nonetheless
      1. Loneliness
      2. Feel
      3. Why am I dancing?
      4. New London boy
      5. Dancing star
      6. A new bohemia
      7. The schlager hit parade
      8. The secret of happiness
      9. Bullet for Narcissus
      10. Love is the law
      96/24 stereo mix of Nonetheless
      1. Loneliness
      2. Feel
      3. Why am I dancing?
      4. New London boy
      5. Dancing star
      6. A new bohemia
      7. The schlager hit parade
      8. The secret of happiness
      9. Bullet for Narcissus
      10. Love is the law
      Video to Loneliness (directed by Alasdair McLellan)

Clamshell box set edition of The Waterboys’ 1985 due in April

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With the recently released deluxe edition effectively now sold out at the distributors, The Waterboys‘ celebration of their This Is The Sea album is being made available at a cheaper price and a less luxurious presentation.

You get the same six CDs which feature 95 tracs, 64 of them previously unreleased, but this time they are presented in card wallets which are housed in a clamshell box set. The massive 220 hardcover book is distilled to a 56-page, perfect bound booklet.

The new clamshell version of 1985

The new version is about £35 cheaper, so fans can argue which version presents the best value. The proper deluxe is limited to 3,000 units and you can check it out via the SDEtv unboxing video.

This clamshell box edition of 1985 will be released on 12 April 2024, via Chrysalis.

Tracklisting

1985 The Waterboys / 6CD deluxe

    • CD 1: Towers Open Fire:
      1. Trumpets (Session)
      2. Be My Enemy (Prototype 3)
      3. The Ways Of Men (Session)
      4. The Waves #1
      5. Old England (Demo)
      6. Towers Open Fire
      7. Down Through The Town
      8. Ribbon Of Steel (Live)
      9. Bury My Heart (Live)
      10. The Three Day Man (Live)
      11. Medicine Bow (Session)
      12. This Is The Sea (Live)
      13. A Door For My Soul Home (Demo)
      14. Son Of Rags
      15. In My Bed
      16. The Pan Within (Inst Demo)
      17. Even The Trees Are Dancing (Full Length)
      18. Theme
      19. Fuzz Guitar Vamp
      20. Death Is Not The End
    • CD 2: The Black Book:
      1. Beverly Penn (Piano Demo)
      2. Don’t Bang The Drum (Piano Demo)
      3. Be My Enemy (Piano Demo)
      4. The Day I Ran Out Of People
      5. Winter Blows
      6. The Mercenary And The Samaritan
      7. Looking For Dickon
      8. Spirit (Piano Demo)
      9. All The Bright Horses
      10. Custer’s Blues (Piano Demo) / The Woman In Me
      11. Paris In The Rain
      12. The Song Of Sitting Bull
      13. Talk About Wings
      14. The Whole of The Moon (Writing of)
      15. The Pan Within (Piano Demo)
      16. No Sun In The Sky
      17. Winter In The Blood
      18. We Belong To The World
      19. The Whole of The Moon (Piano Demo)
    • CD 3: A Sky Full Of Crows:
      1. Medicine Jack
      2. Medicine Jack Boogie-Woogie
      3. The Sound Of Snow
      4. The Pan Within (Inst)
      5. It Should Have Been You, Guitar Play
      6. Old England (Early Take)
      7. Old Macmichael Had A Band / Sweet Thing
      8. Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town
      9. Spirit (Full Length)
      10. Then You Hold Me
      11. Trumpets (Instr #1)
      12. Rain Come Down
      13. Son of Dirt
      14. This Is The Sea (Drumatix Version)
    • CD 4: The Ladder
      1. Medicine Bow (Elemental Rough Mix)
      2. Trumpets (Inst #2)
      3. Be My Enemy (Rough Mix)
      4. Sleek White Schooner
      5. Sweetheart Like You
      6. This Is The Sea (Fast with Mike Lead Guitar Demo)
      7. Adrian And The Piano Storm
      8. Beverly Penn (Synth Version)
      9. This Is The Sea (Fast with Tom Verlaine Lead Guitar Version)
      10. The Waves #2
      11. The Ladder (Demo)
      12. Beverly Penn
      13. Don’t Bang The Drum (Livingston Mix)
      14. Ribbon of Steel Slide Guitar
      15. Paisley Park
    • CD 5: Mountaintop:
      1. The Whole of The Moon (Livingston Mix)
      2. High Far Soon
      3. This Is The Sea (Livingston Mix)
      4. Medicine Bow (Full Length)
      5. The Pan Within (Wickham’s First Play)
      6. Miracle / World Party (Demo)
      7. I Am Not Here
      8. Born To Be Together (Session)
      9. Higher In Time (Session)
      10. The Whole of The Moon (Video Version)
      11. Meridian West
      12. Don’t Bang The Drum (Session)
      13. Medicine Bow (Session)
      14. Behold The Sea
      15. Beverly Penn 2023
    • CD 6: This Is The Sea (The Album)
      1. Don’t Bang The Drum
      2. The Whole of The Moon
      3. Spirit
      4. The Pan Within
      5. Medicine Bow
      6. Old England
      7. Be My Enemy
      8. Trumpets
      9. This Is The Sea

Box Set and Reissue Deals for March 2024

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The Rolling Stones / Hackney Diamonds CD+blu-ray CD+Blu-ray

£32 was £50

Deal Over!

Very good price for the CD+blu-ray box set with the blu-ray featuring a Dolby Atmos Mix of the album. You can watch the SDEtv unboxing video here.

 

Dire Straits / Live 1978-1992 8CD box 8CD box set

£40

Deal Over!

 

 

Neil Young / Dume 2LP 2LP vinyl

£19 was £38

Deal Over!

 

 

The Rolling Stones / Hackney Diamonds: Live Edition 2CD 2CD

£9 was £13

Deal Over!

Bonus CD with live tracks.

 

Nirvana / In Utero 5CD box 5CD super deluxe

£98

Deal Over!

Under £100 for In Utero 30 on CD.

 

Various Artists / NOW presents Disco 5LP coloured vinyl 5LP coloured vinyl

£79 was £100

Deal Over!

Decent reduction for this 5LP vinyl box set with a fantastic tracklistings (details here).

 

Cat Stevens / Tea For The Tillerman super deluxe super deluxe edition

£35 was £150+

Deal Over!

Unbelievable price for this massive Cat Stevens super deluxe edition that includes 5CDs, a vinyl LP, a 12-inch EP, a blu-ray, a 98-page hardcover book, and various posters and lyric sheets, stickers etc.

 

The Beach Boys / Sail on Sailor 1972 6CD set 6CD deluxe

£40 was £118

Deal Over!

Great price in the UK for this 6CD Beach Boys deluxe set. Read Alexis Petridis’ SDE review.

Prince / Diamonds and Pearls 7CD+blu-ray super deluxe edition box set reissue

Prince / Diamonds and Pearls 7CD+Blu-ray 7CD+DVD

£105

Deal Over!

Under £100 for last year’s excellent Diamonds and Pearls CD box set.

Mark Knopfler / Down The Road Wherever 3LP+deluxe CD 3LP+deluxe CD+Art Print+Sheet Music+download

£30 was £60

Deal Over!

Mark Knopfler’s 2018 album in deluxe box set form. This includes the album as a 2LP set, a bonus LP with four additional tracks and then the same 16 tracks on deluxe CD. Also includes numbered print and guitar tab sheet music. This deal is via the SDE shop – very limited stock available.

Pink Floyd / Animals deluxe edition

Pink Floyd / Animals deluxe CD+DVD+Blu-ray+LP

£29 was £50+

Deal Over!

Slightly underwhelming when first released, but for under £30 this deluxe of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals is a great buy. You get the 2018 stereo mixes on CD and vinyl and the 5.1 mixes (and hi-res stereo) on blu-ray or DVD.

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions / Collected Recordings 1983-1989 6LP box 6LP vinyl box

£95 was £170

Deal Over!

Superb box featuring the three albums remastered (approved by LC) and a further three albums of B-sides, demos and rarities. This deal is via the SDE shop – limited stock available.

Def Leppard / Pyromania box set

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Def Leppard’s 1983 album Pyromania will be reissued in April across numerous physical editions.

The band’s third studio album was the first to feature guitarist Phil Collen (who had replaced Pete Willis) and launched the band into the rock stratosphere. ‘Photograph’ and ‘Rock of Ages’ were both top 20 singles in America (although the band would have to wait for Hysteria‘s ‘Animal’ to crack the UK top 40) and ‘Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)’ established itself as a Leppard classic. Pyromania also reached No 2 in the US charts.

The ‘top of the range’ edition in what is nominally a 40th anniversary reissue is the 4CD+blu-ray box set. This features the album remastered, a disc of rarities (outtakes, demos, rough mixes), two live CDs (Live at Westfalen Halle, Germany and Live at the LA Forum) and a blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos Mix, a 5.1 mix, a new stereo mix, an instrumental version and five videos. The Atmos Mix has been “overseen by Giles Martin” and the 5.1 and stereo versions are all 48 kHz / 24 bit, in case you are wondering!

4CD+blu-ray Pyromania box set

Joe Elliott who has acted as executive producer on the set, the mastering has been done by the band’s long-serving sound engineers Ronan McHugh and Andy Pearce.

There’s also a 2CD version which features the remastered album and on the second disc a selection of rarities from CD 2 in the box and four live tracks from LA Forum. There’s also two black vinyl editions: one is a single half-speed mastered LP and the other is a 2LP set with 11 rough mixes on the second record (the first record in this set isn’t half-speed mastered).

Pyromania will be reissued on 26 April 2024, via UMC/Mercury.

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Tracklisting

Pyromania Def Leppard /

    • CD 1: Pyromania (remastered)
      1. Rock Rock (Till You Drop)
      2. Photograph
      3. Stagefright
      4. Too Late For Love
      5. Die Hard The Hunter
      6. Foolin’
      7. Rock Of Ages
      8. Comin’ Under Fire
      9. Action! Not Words
      10. Billy’s Got A Gun
    • CD 2: Rarities
      1. No You Can’t Do That – Outtake
      2. Untitled 1 – Demo
      3. Untitled 2 – Demo
      4. Untitled 3 – Demo
      5. Untitled 4 – Demo
      6. Untitled 5 – Demo
      7. Untitled 6 – Demo
      8. Rock Rock Till You Drop – Demo
      9. Too Late For Love – Demo
      10. Comin’ Under Fire – Demo
      11. Billy’s Got A Gun – Demo
      12. No You Can’t Do That – Demo
      13. Rock Rock (Til You Drop) – Rough Mix Version
      14. Photograph – Rough Mix Version (Unfinished Vocal)
      15. Stagefright – Rough Mix Version
      16. Too Late For Love – Rough Mix Version
      17. Die Hard The Hunter – Rough Mix Version
      18. Foolin’ – Rough Mix Version
      19. Rock Of Ages – Rough Mix Version
      20. Comin’ Under Fire – Rough Mix Version
      21. Action! Not Words – Rough Mix Version (Chorus Only)
      22. Billy’s Got A Gun – Rough Mix Version
    • CD 3: Live Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany / Dec. 18, 1983
      1. Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
      2. Billy’s Got a Gun
      3. Foolin’
      4. Rock of Ages
      5. Let It Go
      6. Wasted
    • CD 4: Live At The L.A. Forum / Sept. 11, 1983
      1. Rock! Rock!! (Til You Drop)
      2. Rock Brigade
      3. High And Dry (Saturday Night)
      4. Another Hit And Run
      5. Billy’s Got A Gun
      6. Mirror Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)
      7. Foolin’
      8. Photograph
      9. Rock Of Ages
      10. Bringin’ On The Heartbreak
      11. Switch 625
      12. Let It Go
      13. Wasted
      14. Stage Fright
      15. Travellin’ Band
    • Blu-ray
      [Blu-ray: Atmos / 5.1 / New Stereo / Instrumental]
      1. Rock Rock (Til You Drop)
      2. Photograph
      3. Stagefright
      4. Too Late For Love
      5. Die Hard The Hunter
      6. Foolin’
      7. Rock Of Ages
      8. Comin’ Under Fire
      9. Action! Not Words
      10. Billy’s Got A Gun
      Videos
      1. Photograph – Official Video
      2. Rock Of Ages – Official Video
      3. Foolin’ – Official Video
      4. Too Late for Love – Official Video / Supersonic (Historia)
      5. Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop) – Official Video / Japanese Show (Historia)

Out This Week / on 8 March 2024

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Alice Cooper / Billion Dollar Babies - Trillion Dollar Deluxe Edition CD, Vinyl

Remastered and reissued versions of the 1973 Alice Cooper shock rock and glam album

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Kirsty MacColl / Kite (half-speed mastered vinyl)

Kirsty MacColl’s 1989 album is reissued as a half-speed mastered vinyl edition. Its follow-up, 1991’s Electric Landlady (featuring the hit ‘Walking Down Madison’) gets the same treatment.

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Best of Bruce Springsteen

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Sony Music will release a Bruce Springsteen ‘Best Of’ next month with a collection of songs that span his 50-year recording career.

Available as a 2LP set or on a single CD, the 18-track selection starts at 1973’s Greeting from Asbury Park, NJ and ends with 2020’s Letter To You. 

indie-exclusive ‘Atlantic Blue’ 2LP set

There’s no deluxe editions or anything expanded beyond those 18-tracks, although a digital release does offer a 31-track song offering. There is however a indie exclusive ‘Atlantic blue’ vinyl variant of the 2LP set. The cover photo was shot by Eric Meola during the Born To Run sessions, and there’s sleeve notes by Erik Flannigan.

Best Of Bruce Springsteen will be released on 19 April 2024, via Sony Music. SDE has a limited allocation of the indie Atlantic Blue vinyl over at the SDE shop. Pre-order via this link or use the button/widget below.

Tracklisting

Best of Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen /

      1. Growin’ Up Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ (1973)
      2. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (1973)
      3. Born To Run Born To Run (1975)
      4. Thunder Road Born To Run (1975)
      5. Badlands Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
      6. Hungry Heart The River (1980)
      7. Atlantic City Nebraska (1982)
      8. Dancing in the Dark Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
      9. Born in the U.S.A Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
      10. Brilliant Disguise Tunnel of Love (1987)
      11. Human Touch Human Touch single (1992)
      12. Streets of Philadelphia Streets of Philadelphia single (1993)
      13. The Ghost of Tom Joad The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
      14. Secret Garden Greatest Hits (1995)
      15. The Rising The Rising (2002)
      16. Girls In Their Summer Clothes Magic (2007)
      17. Hello Sunshine Western Stars (2019)
      18. Letter To You Letter To You (2020)

Beth Gibbons / Lives Outgrown

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30 years after Portishead’s seminal debut Dummy, and over 20 years since her collaboration with Rustin Man (Talk Talk’s Paul Webb), Beth Gibbons is about to release her debut solo album, Lives Outgrown.

The album was produced by James Ford and Gibbons with additional production by Lee Harris (another Talk Talk connection, he was the drummer).

Described as “Beth’s most personal work to date”, the album is a result of a period of sustained reflection and change — “lots of goodbyes,” in Beth’s words. Floating on a Moment, the first song made available from Lives Outgrown, will give you a feel for the album, and you can listen below.

The album is available on deluxe CD, packaged in a hardcover ‘casebound’ book (but with no extra tracks) or a standard presentation (jewel case). There’s also a deluxe vinyl in addition to the standard version that ship with a 12-page scrapbook. Remarkably (refreshingly?) there appears to be no coloured vinyl variant!

Lives Outgrown will be released on 17 May 2024, via Domino.

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Tracklisting

Lives Outgrown Beth Gibbons /

      1. Tell Me Who You Are Today
      2. Floating On a Moment
      3. Burden of Life
      4. Lost Changes
      5. Rewind
      6. Reaching Out
      7. Oceans
      8. For Sale
      9. Beyond the Sun
      10. Whispering Love

Dead Or Alive / The Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remixes

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Pete ‘Mixmaster’ Hammond has worked with some of Dead Or Alive’s later recordings for a throwback Hi-NRG remix project that sees him “completely re-plays and reworks” 11 tracks in the classic 80s sound.

The Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remixes is being issued as a 2LP coloured vinyl set for Record Store Day, but the good news for non-RSD fans and CD aficionados is that this project is also being released as a 2CD set in deluxe gatefold seven-inch packaging.

These remixes are a retro take on those newer songs – how they might have sounded, if recorded and mixed in the 1980s. The album includes new remixes of ‘Hit And Run Lover’ and the 2000 remix of You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).

The Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remixes will be released on 26 April 2024 via Edsel.

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Tracklisting

The Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remixes Dead Or Alive /

    • CD 1
      1. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 2000 [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 09:37
      2. Hit And Run Lover [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:28
      3. U Were Meant 4 Me [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:28
      4. Lover Come Back To Me 2000 [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:24
      5. My Love Is On The Line [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:56
      6. Gone 2 Long [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:13
    • CD 2
      1. Total Stranger [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 10:09
      2. Unhappy Birthday [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 09:26
      3. Something In My House 2000 [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:05
      4. I Don’t Care About Your Heart [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:53
      5. My Heart Goes Bang 2000 [Pete Hammond Hi-NRG Remix] 08:30

Blancmange / Everything is Connected: The Best Of 1979-2024

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Blancmange will release a new ‘best of’ in May called Everything is Connected.

Curated by Neil Arthur, and spanning 45 years, the compilation features 38 tracks in its 2CD edition, including the UK top 10 hits ‘Living On The Ceiling’, ‘Blind Vision’ and ‘Don’t Tell Me’ and well as some of Arthur’s personal favourites.

The 2CD version of Everything Connected also includes two previously unreleased tracks ‘Again, I Wait For The World’ and ‘Wish’. The vinyl is a tight 10-track affair.

Everything Connected will be released on 10 May 2024, via London Records.

Tracklisting

Everything is Connected Blancmange /

    • CD1
      1. ‘Sad Day’ (original version)
      2. ‘I’ve Seen The Word’
      3. ‘God’s Kitchen’
      4. ‘Feel Me’
      5. ‘Living On The Ceiling’
      6. ‘Waves’
      7. ‘Game Above My Head’ (12” version)
      8. ‘Blind Vision’
      9. ‘That’s Love, That It Is’
      10. ‘Vishnu’
      11. ‘Don’t Tell Me’
      12. ‘The Day Before You Came’
      13. ‘What’s Your Problem’
      14. ‘Lose Your Love’
      15. ‘Why Don’t They Leave Things Alone’
      16. ‘Drive Me’
      17. ‘I’m Having A Coffee’
      18. ‘The Western’
      19. ‘Just Another Spectre’
    • CD 2
      1. ‘The Fall’
      2. ‘Last Night (I Dreamt I Had A Job)’
      3. ‘Jack Knife’
      4. ‘What’s The Time?’
      5. ‘We Are The Chemicals’
      6. ‘Anna Dine’
      7. ‘Distant Storm’
      8. ‘I Smashed Your Phone’
      9. ‘Not A Priority’
      10. ‘Mindset’
      11. ‘This Is Bliss’
      12. ‘Clean Your House’
      13. ‘Commercial Break’
      14. ‘Some Times These’
      15. ‘Reduced Voltage’
      16. ‘Take Me’
      17. ‘Again, I Wait For The World’
      18. ‘Wish’
      19. ‘Empty Street’

Pre-order a signed CD of Norah Jones’ new album

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Norah Jones’ brand new album Visions will be released next week and you can now secure a signed copy of the CD from Amazon in the UK.

The songwriter and pianist has collaborated with producer and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels for this new record, with eight of the album’s dozen tracks composed with him. Check out ‘Running’ from Visions, below. This song features Norah on vocals, piano, guitar, and bass with Leon on drums and baritone saxophone.

Visions is released on 8 March 2024, via Capitol/EMI. The CD comes with a signed artcard.

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Visions Norah Jones /

      1. All This Time (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)
      2. Staring at the Wall (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)
      3. Paradise (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)
      4. Queen of the Sea (Norah Jones)
      5. Visions (Norah Jones)
      6. Running (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)
      7. I Just Wanna Dance (Norah Jones/Leon Michels/Homer Steinweiss)
      8. I’m Awake (Norah Jones)
      9. Swept Up in the Night (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)
      10. On My Way (Norah Jones/Pete Remm)
      11. Alone With My Thoughts (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)
      12. That’s Life (Norah Jones/Leon Michels)

Luther Vandross / ‘Luther’ reissues

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Before Luther Vandross’ solo career started in 1981 with the magnificent Never Too Much, he headed a group called ‘Luther’ who released two albums: their self titled 1976 debut and the 1977 follow-up This Close To You. Both records were released on Cotillion Records at the time and have never been issued on CD, or reissued at all come to that. This will change in June as both albums are re-released on CD and vinyl formats.

Luther were a quintet and in addition to Vandross, the band members were Anthony Hinton, Diane Sumler, Theresa V. Reed and Christine Wiltshire. The first album, Luther, features seven songs, all written and produced by Luther Vandross including the hit ‘Funky Music (Is A Part of Me)’, which Vandross and David Bowie reimagined into ‘Fascination’ for Bowie’s Young Americans album (before ‘Funky Music’ had been officially released).

‘Funky Music (Is A Part of Me)’ from the Luther album

It also includes ‘Everybody Rejoice (A Brand New Day)’ from the musical ‘The Wiz’, marking the only recording of Vandross’s rendition of the song. The CD version of the reissue features a bonus instrumental version of the album track ‘The 2nd Time Around’, although disappointingly, ‘At Christmas Time’, the group’s 1976 single with two festive tracks penned by Vandross (‘At Christmas Time’ and ‘May Christmas Bring You Happiness’) is nowhere to be found.

Luther is released on CD for the first time in June

This Close To You features another nine Luther Vandross songs, which he again self-produced and it’s notable that a certain Nile Rodgers plays guitar on every song. The CD reissue features three bonus tracks. Both Luther albums are reissued on vinyl with the standard album-only tracklistings.

Luther will be reissued on 19 April while This Close To You follows on 7 June 2024, both via Sony’s Legacy Recordings.

Tracklisting

Luther Luther /

      1. Funky Music (Is A Part Of Me)
      2. The 2nd Time Around
      3. I’ll Get Along Fine
      4. Everybody Rejoice (From the Tony Award Winning Musical, “THE WIZ”)
      5. Emotion Eyes
      6. This Strange Feeling
      7. It’s Good For The Soul (Parts I And II)
      CD-only bonus track
      1. The 2nd Time Around (Instrumental)

Tracklisting

This Close to You Luther /

      1. This Is For Real
      2. A Lover’s Change
      3. Don’t Take The Time
      4. Jealousy Is In Me
      5. I’m Not Satisfied
      6. This Close To You
      7. Don’t Wanna Be A Fool
      8. Come Back To Love
      9. Follow My Love
      CD-only bonus tracks
      1. Can’t Get Enough Good Loving
      2. Come Back To Love (Instrumental)
      3. Don’t Wanna Be A Fool (Instrumental

Out This Week / on 1 March 2024

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Madonna / Celebration Vinyl

Madonna’s 2009 ‘best of’ gets a limited repress on 4LP vinyl.

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Liam Gallagher John Squire

New album bringing together the talents of Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and The Stone Roses’ John Squire

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The Who / Live at Shea Stadium 1982

The Who’s 1982 tour was promoting the It’s Hard album and was their last to feature Kenney Jones on drums. This release features the show from the second of their two nights at New York’s Shea Stadium and was recorded on 13 October 1982. This is the first official release of the audio from the full show.


Violet Femmes 40th anniversary vinyl box

Vinyl version of the expanded 40th anniversary edition of Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut features the remastered album, B-sides, live sessions and rare demos. Housed in a lift-top box with die-cut “darkened window detail” revealing the box contents, the set includes three vinyl LPs, a replica seven-inch single (‘Ugly’ b/w ‘Gimme The Car’) and a 40-page book featuring new sleeve notes by journalist David Fricke and interviews with the band.

The Waterboys / 1985 unboxing video

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Out today is The Waterboys’ 1985 box set, a massively expanded version of the band’s This Is The Sea album featuring 95 tracks. Watch as SDEtv unboxes the new deluxe edition and also looks at the new vinyl version of the album.

Tracklisting

1985 The Waterboys / 6CD deluxe

    • CD 1: Towers Open Fire:
      1. Trumpets (Session)
      2. Be My Enemy (Prototype 3)
      3. The Ways Of Men (Session)
      4. The Waves #1
      5. Old England (Demo)
      6. Towers Open Fire
      7. Down Through The Town
      8. Ribbon Of Steel (Live)
      9. Bury My Heart (Live)
      10. The Three Day Man (Live)
      11. Medicine Bow (Session)
      12. This Is The Sea (Live)
      13. A Door For My Soul Home (Demo)
      14. Son Of Rags
      15. In My Bed
      16. The Pan Within (Inst Demo)
      17. Even The Trees Are Dancing (Full Length)
      18. Theme
      19. Fuzz Guitar Vamp
      20. Death Is Not The End
    • CD 2: The Black Book:
      1. Beverly Penn (Piano Demo)
      2. Don’t Bang The Drum (Piano Demo)
      3. Be My Enemy (Piano Demo)
      4. The Day I Ran Out Of People
      5. Winter Blows
      6. The Mercenary And The Samaritan
      7. Looking For Dickon
      8. Spirit (Piano Demo)
      9. All The Bright Horses
      10. Custer’s Blues (Piano Demo) / The Woman In Me
      11. Paris In The Rain
      12. The Song Of Sitting Bull
      13. Talk About Wings
      14. The Whole of The Moon (Writing of)
      15. The Pan Within (Piano Demo)
      16. No Sun In The Sky
      17. Winter In The Blood
      18. We Belong To The World
      19. The Whole of The Moon (Piano Demo)
    • CD 3: A Sky Full Of Crows:
      1. Medicine Jack
      2. Medicine Jack Boogie-Woogie
      3. The Sound Of Snow
      4. The Pan Within (Inst)
      5. It Should Have Been You, Guitar Play
      6. Old England (Early Take)
      7. Old Macmichael Had A Band / Sweet Thing
      8. Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town
      9. Spirit (Full Length)
      10. Then You Hold Me
      11. Trumpets (Instr #1)
      12. Rain Come Down
      13. Son of Dirt
      14. This Is The Sea (Drumatix Version)
    • CD 4: The Ladder
      1. Medicine Bow (Elemental Rough Mix)
      2. Trumpets (Inst #2)
      3. Be My Enemy (Rough Mix)
      4. Sleek White Schooner
      5. Sweetheart Like You
      6. This Is The Sea (Fast with Mike Lead Guitar Demo)
      7. Adrian And The Piano Storm
      8. Beverly Penn (Synth Version)
      9. This Is The Sea (Fast with Tom Verlaine Lead Guitar Version)
      10. The Waves #2
      11. The Ladder (Demo)
      12. Beverly Penn
      13. Don’t Bang The Drum (Livingston Mix)
      14. Ribbon of Steel Slide Guitar
      15. Paisley Park
    • CD 5: Mountaintop:
      1. The Whole of The Moon (Livingston Mix)
      2. High Far Soon
      3. This Is The Sea (Livingston Mix)
      4. Medicine Bow (Full Length)
      5. The Pan Within (Wickham’s First Play)
      6. Miracle / World Party (Demo)
      7. I Am Not Here
      8. Born To Be Together (Session)
      9. Higher In Time (Session)
      10. The Whole of The Moon (Video Version)
      11. Meridian West
      12. Don’t Bang The Drum (Session)
      13. Medicine Bow (Session)
      14. Behold The Sea
      15. Beverly Penn 2023
    • CD 6: This Is The Sea (The Album)
      1. Don’t Bang The Drum
      2. The Whole of The Moon
      3. Spirit
      4. The Pan Within
      5. Medicine Bow
      6. Old England
      7. Be My Enemy
      8. Trumpets
      9. This Is The Sea

Paul Weller / 66

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Paul Weller will release a new studio album in May called, simply, 66.

The 12 songs on 66 were worked up in Weller’s Black Barn studio over the course of three years with various guest musicians, including Dr Robert, Richard Hawley, Steve Brooks and Max Beesley

There are lyrical contributions from Suggs, Noel Gallagher and Bobby Gillespie (‘Ship Of Fools’, ‘Jumble Queen’ and ‘Soul Wondering’ respectively) and Weller shares production duties on a few tracks with Christophe Vaillant, White Label and Charles Rees. String arrangements are by Hannah Peel.

You can preview ‘Soul Wandering’, above, although apparently “the first proper single” will be ‘Rise Up Singing’ which will be made available on 5 April.

As well as vinyl and CD there’s a 2CD set packaged in deluxe hardcover book format, with four extra tracks on the second disc. As you’d expect there’s various coloured vinyl editions which all come with a 12-page booklet and foldout poster.

66 will be released on 24 May 2024, via Polydor.

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Tracklisting

66 Paul Weller /

    • CD 1
      1. Ship of Fools
      2. Flying Fish
      3. Jumble Queen
      4. Nothing
      5. My Best Friend’s Coat
      6. Rise Up Singing
      7. I Woke Up
      8. A Glimpse of You
      9. Sleepy Hollow
      10. In Full Flight
      11. Soul Wandering
      12. Burn Out
    • CD 2 (deluxe only)
      1. Wheel of Fortune
      2. In A Silent World
      3. Now is Here
      4. Gotta Get On

Last chance to order the SDE-exclusive Wham! blu-rays

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Thank you for all your enthusiasm for the forthcoming Wham! Fantastic and Make It Big SDE-exclusive blu-ray audios, numbers 19 and 20 in the SDE Surround Series. The pre-order window officially closes today, so this is your last chance to guarantee a copies of these 80s-tastic releases, although we’ll extend it for another couple of days until we reach the weekend!

Both blu-rays are region-free and are only available via the SDE shop and include Dolby Atmos Mixes of the album, 96/24 hi-res stereo mixes and then a bevy of bonus tracks in stereo and Atmos including remixes, B-sides, instrumentals and more!

Don’t miss out! Place your pre-order by either heading off to the SDE shop using this link, or alternatively use the buy button (‘add to cart’) below. There’s a specially-priced two blu-ray bundle, we ship worldwide and there’s no extra import charges for EU customers (for orders below €150). We’ve recently added India to the list of countries we ship to.

The Fantastic and Make It Big blu-ray audios is a collaboration between Sony Music and SDE and will be released on 22 March 2023. Both blu-ray will ship with a FREE collectors’ edition SDE Surround Series slipcase!

TECHNICAL NOTES: This blu-ray audio requires a blu-ray player. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp. The Dolby Atmos mix will ‘fold down’ to 5.1 or stereo if a Dolby Atmos decoder is not detected.

A blu-ray audio is a blu-ray disc with no video content. It is region-free and compatible with ALL blu-ray players. Any stereo content can be played via two speakers or a soundbar, in the normal way, but to enjoy the surround sound/spatial audio element such as 5.1 mixes and Dolby Atmos Mixes you will need to connect to an appropriate amplifier/receiver with speaker set-up or a Atmos/5.1 certified soundbar

Tracklisting

Fantastic Wham! / SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio

    • Dolby Atmos & 96/24 Stereo
      1. Bad Boys
      2. A Ray of Sunshine
      3. Love Machine
      4. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)
      5. A Ray of Sunshine (Instrumental Remix)
      6. Love Machine (Instrumental Remix)
      7. Club Tropicana
      8. Nothing Looks The Same in the Light
      9. Come On
      10. Young Guns (Go For It!)
      11. Nothing Looks The Same in the Light (Instrumental Remix)
      Bonus tracks in Dolby Atmos & Stereo
      1. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) – single version 3.32
      2. Young Guns (Go For It) – single version 3.43
      3. Young Guns (Go For It) UK 12” mix 5.11
      4. Blue (Armed With Love) 3.56
       Bonus tracks in Stereo-only
      1. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Club Mix] 4.20
      2. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Social Mix] 6.45
      3. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Unsocial Mix] 6.38
      4. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Special Club Remix] 3.05
      5. Young Guns (For For It) – Special US 12” Remix 6.53
      6. Going For It 4.39
      7. Bad Boys (12” Extended Club Mix) 4.58
      8. Bad Boys (instrumental) 3.21
      9. Club Tropicana (instrumental) 3.31
      10. Club Fantastic Megamix 3.57

Tracklisting

Make It Big Wham! / SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio

    • Dolby Atmos & 96/24 Stereo
      1. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 3.51
      2. Everything She Wants 5.03
      3. Heartbeat 4.44
      4. Like A Baby 4.15
      5. Freedom 5.02
      6. If You Were There 3.39
      7. Credit Card Baby 5.10
      8. Careless Whisper 6.32
      Bonus tracks in Dolby Atmos & Stereo
      1. Careless Whisper (Single Version) 5.03
      2. Freedom (version from The Final) 5.20
      3. Last Christmas 4.26
      4. Everything She Wants (Remix edit) 5.30
      5. Freedom (Long Version) 7.09
      6. Last Christmas (Pudding Mix) 6.45
      7. Everything She Wants (Remix) 6.30
      8. I’m Your Man 4.07
      9. The Edge of Heaven 4.37
      10. Battlestations 5.31
      11. Where Did Your Heart Go? 5.50
       Bonus tracks in Stereo-only
      1. A Ray of Sunshine (specially recorded for ‘The Tube’)
      2. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (instrumental) 4.02
      3. Freedom (instrumental) 5.10
      4. Last Christmas (Pudding Mix Edit) 4.47
      5. I’m Your Man (Extended Stimulation)
      6. Do It Right (Instrumental)
      7. I’m Your Man (Acappella)
      8. Blue (Recorded Live in China)
      9. I’m Your Man (version from Music From The Edge Of Heaven version)
      10. Wham! Rap ’86

The SDE Surround Series so far is:

#1 Tears For Fears: The Tipping Point

#2 xPropaganda: The Heart Is Strange

#3 Gilbert O’Sullivan: Driven

#4 Shakespears Sister: Hormonally Yours

#5 Brian Eno: FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

#6 Orbital: Optical Delusion

#6.5 Various Arists: Concert For George

#7 Ten Years After: A Space In Time

#8 Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)

#9 Tears For Fears: The Hurting

#10 Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells

#11 Suede

#12 ABC: The Lexicon of Love

#13 Duran Duran: Danse Macabre

#14 Trevor Horn: Echoes – Ancient and Modern

#15 Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

#16 Def Leppard: Diamond Star Halos

#17 Paul Young: No Parlez

#18 Mark Knopfler: One Deep River

Madonna / Celebration 4LP repress

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Celebration, Madonna’s 2009 ‘best of’ is having a limited repress, as a 4LP vinyl set, next month.

The collection was originally released as an 18-track single CD, a 36-track 2CD set and there was also a 2xDVD edition with 47 videos. The original 4LP version was issued in America and Europe and featured the same 36 tracks on the double-CD edition (see full tracklisting below).

The vinyl repress is actually being released very quickly, it’s out on 1 March 2024 via Rhino. There’s no indication as how many are being made but it’s described as “limited”. You can pre-order this via the SDE shop (we have a guaranteed stock allocation) using this link or the button / widget below.

Tracklisting

Celebration Madonna / 4LP vinyl

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Hung Up – 5:38
      2. Music – 3:45
      3. Vogue – 5:16
      4. 4 Minutes – 3:09
      Side B
      1. Holiday – 6:08
      2. Everybody – 4:10
      3. Like A Virgin – 3:09
      4. Into The Groove – 4:45
    • LP 2
      Side C
      1. Like A Prayer – 5:42
      2. Ray Of Light
      3. Sorry – 3:58
      4. Express Yourself – 4:00
      5. Open Your Heart – 3:49
      Side D
      1. Borderline – 3:59
      2. Secret – 4:28
      3. Erotica – 4:30
      4. Justify My Love – 4:54
      5. Revolver – 3:40
    • LP 3
      Side E
      1. Dress You Up – 4:02
      2. Material Girl – 4:00
      3. La Isla Bonita – 4:04
      4. Papa Don’t Preach – 4:29
      5. Lucky Star – 3:38
      Side F
      1. Burning Up – 3:44
      2. Crazy For You – 3:44
      3. Who’s That Girl – 4:00
      4. Frozen – 6:18
    • LP 4
      Side G
      1. Miles Away – 3:45
      2. Take A Bow – 5:20
      3. Live To Tell – 5:51
      4. Beautiful Stranger – 4:22
      Side H
      1. Hollywood – 4:23
      2. Die Another Day – 4:36
      3. Don’t Tell Me – 4:11
      4. Cherish – 3:51
      5. Celebration

Bat For Lashes / The Dream of Delphi

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Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes releases a sixth studio album, The Dream of Delphi, in May.

Described as an “ode to motherhood” the record was created in LA during COVID-19 when Khan had given birth to her daughter Delphi.

The record weaves together 10 song poems, “documenting the polarity of navigating both an exterior world what was seemingly turning upside down, whilst also experiencing the profoundly personal and transformational early moments of mothering Delphi, named after the Greek Oracle, the ancient future teller”.

A couple of tracks from this record were debuted live last summer (notably at Christine and the Queens‘ Meltdown Festival at the Southbank – SDE was there!) and we are told the songs have a personal intimacy and a diary-like quality to these compositions from ‘The Midwives Have Left‘  to writing a ‘Letter To My Daughter‘ and ‘Waking Up‘. You can preview the title track, above.

Natasha has worked with Brad Oberhofer, Mary Lattimore and Jack Falby on this album which will be available on 31 May 2024, via Decca. Unlike the previous two Bat For Lashes albums (Lost Girls and The Bride), there is no box set edition of The Dream of Delphi, but some coloured vinyl editions are available.

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Bat For Lashes / The Dream of Delphi new album

The Dream of Delphi Bat For Lashes /

      1. The Dream Of Delphi
      2. Christmas Day
      3. Letter To My Daughter
      4. At Your Feet
      5. The Midwives Have Left
      6. Home
      7. Breaking Up
      8. Delphi Dancing
      9. Her First Morning
      10. Waking Up
      11. The Dream Of Delphi (Extended Strings Version)

Portishead / Roseland NYC Live

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Portishead’s Roseland NYC Live concert – recorded and filmed at New York’s Roseland Ballroom with a 28-piece orchestra back in 1997 – is being reissued on CD and coloured vinyl.

The album, which was issued originally in 1998, has been “newly remastered” and also expanded; the tracklisting now includes ‘Undenied’ and ‘Numb’ from the concert film, and the full length performance of ‘Western Eyes’, which was played in part over the credits of the film. Also, ‘Sour Times’ and ‘Roads’ are also now the actual Roseland versions, since previously these were substituted on the album release with recordings from other performances. All five of these tracks will be on CD and vinyl for the first time.

Gatefold 2LP red vinyl with poster and backstage pass

The 2LP edition is pressed on red vinyl, comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes a recreation of the sticky backstage pass used for the concert. The CD edition also comes with this pass and has a 12-page booklet.

These two physical 25th anniversary editions of Roseland NYC Live are released on 26 April 2024, via UMR/Island.

CD edition with backstage pass

Tracklisting

Roseland NYC Live Portishead / 25th anniversary edition

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Humming
      2. Cowboys
      3. All Mine
      Side B
      1. Mysterons
      2. Only You
      3. Half Day Closing
      4. Over
    • LP 2
      Side A
      1. Glory Box
      2. Sour Times
      3. Roads
      Side B
      1. Strangers
      2. Undenied
      3. Numb
      4. Western Eyes

Buzzcocks / Singles: Going Steady coloured vinyl

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Domino will release the Buzzcocks’ compilation Singles: Going Steady on coloured vinyl next month.

Originally released in 1979 in the USA on the cusp of the band’s first American tour this collection got an official release in the UK in 1981 (and later CD).

This album was reissued only five years ago on black and indie-exclusive violet vinyl and one presumes this new edition uses the same “restored and re-mastered” audio from the original quarter-inch tapes.

The 45th anniversary orange vinyl edition is a “one-off” pressing and it comes with a numbered sticker and an 8-page booklet. It is limited to 2,000 units.

Singles Going Steady will be released on vinyl on 8 March 2024 via Domino Recordings.

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Singles Going Steady Buzzcocks / Orange vinyl LP

    • Side A
      1. Orgasm Addict
      2. What Do I Get?
      3. I Don’t Mind
      4. Love You More
      5. Ever Fallen in Love
      6. Promises
      7. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
      8. Harmony in My Head
      Side B
      1. Whatever Happened To?
      2. Oh Shit!
      3. Autonomy
      4. Noise Annoys
      5. Just Lust
      6. Lipstick
      7. Why Can’t I Touch It?
      8. Something’s Gone Wrong Again

Paul McCartney & Wings / Band on the Run 50th anniversary edition – unboxed

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SDEtv takes a look at the recent 50th anniversary reissue of Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1973 album Band on the Run. This is the 2LP deluxe set which comprises the half-speed mastered version of the original album and a vinyl LP of the ‘Underdubbed Mix’.

The 50th anniversary of Band on the Run is out now via MPL/UMe. The 2LP is D2C only, but that is not the case for the 2CD and the standalone half-speed vinyl.

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Band on the Run Paul McCartney and Wings / 50th anniversary edition

    • LP 1 or CD 1: Band on the Run (US version)
      1. Band on the Run
      2. Jet
      3. Bluebird
      4. Mrs. Vandebilt
      5. Let Me Roll It
      6. Mamunia
      7. No Words
      8. Helen Wheels
      9. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me)
      10. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
    • LP 2 or CD 2: Underdubbed MIxes
      1. Band on the Run
      2. Mamunia
      3. No Words
      4. Jet
      5. Bluebird
      6. Mrs. Vandebilt
      7. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
      8. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me)
      9. Let Me Roll It