Author: Paul Sinclair

Now That’s What I Call 40 Years

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NOW That’s What I Call Music celebrate a staggering 40 Years of compilations with some celebratory sets, some of which skim the surface of the last four decades with others digging deeper.

This is a ‘suite’ of physical releases under the banner NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years and they are available on CD and coloured vinyl which, in total, features over 250 tracks!

First off, NOW 40 Years is a 5CD set that features 100 tracks and comes in a card sleeve. This spans the four decades and kicks off with Culture Club’s ‘Karma Chameleon’ and is bang up to date, finishing with Kylie’s ‘Padam Padam’. A 3LP tri-coloured vinyl edition (43 tracks) of this set is also available.

This one compilation spans 40 years

If you want to go deeper, then the NOW team have split the 40 year period into four decades, resulting in four volumes, with 3CD and 3LP sets devoted to each ten year period. The 3CD sets boast deluxe Yearbook-style hardcover book packaging with notes about the tracks, summary of the era and original NOW artwork. Volume 1 is 1983-1993, Volume 2 is 1993-2003, Volume 3 is 2003-2013 and the fourth volume is 2013-2023.

The individual 3CD volumes come in hardcover book packaging

All of the individual 3CD sets feature at least 60 hits. The triple-vinyl packages for each decade are all pressed on limited edition coloured vinyl (white, red, blue and green respectively) and these come in tri-fold sleeves.

All 10 of the physical NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years sets will be released on 24 November 2023, 40 years to the week of that very first album. Full tracklistings to all editions can be found below and the NOW shop is offering numbered prints with purchases (CD-sized with the CD sets and vinyl-sized with the LPs).

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Tracklisting

NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years Various Artists /

    • CD 1
      1. Culture Club – Karma Chameleon (NOW 1, 1983)
      2. UB40 – Red Red Wine (NOW 1, 1983)
      3. Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart (NOW 1, 1983)
      4. Queen – Radio Ga Ga (NOW 2, 1984)
      5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (NOW 2, 1984)
      6. Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (NOW 2, 1984)
      7. Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It (NOW 3, 1984)
      8. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (NOW 3, 1984)
      9. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters (NOW 4, 1984)
      10. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My
        Heart) (NOW 6, 1985)
      11. Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer (NOW 7, 1986)
      12. Billy Ocean – When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (NOW 7, 1986)
      13. Bananarama – Venus (NOW 7, 1986)
      14. The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way (NOW 8, 1986)
      15. RUN DMC feat. Aerosmith – Walk This Way (NOW 8, 1986)
      16. Bon Jovi – Livin' On A Prayer (NOW 9, 1987)
      17. T’Pau – China In Your Hand (NOW 10, 1987)
      18. Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind (NOW 11, 1988)
      19. S’Express – Theme From S-Express (NOW 12, 1988)
    • CD 2
      1. Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up (NOW 13, 1988)
      2. Womack & Womack – Teardrops (NOW 13, 1988)
      3. Kim Wilde – You Came (NOW 13, 1988)
      4. Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart (NOW 14, 1989)
      5. Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) (NOW 15, 1989)
      6. Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U (NOW 18, 1990)
      7. Elton John – Sacrifice (NOW 18, 1990)
      8. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do (From ‘Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’) (NOW 20, 1991)
      9. Shakespears Sister – Stay (NOW 21, 1992)
      10. The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette – Justified And Ancient (NOW 21, 1992)
      11. SNAP! – Rhythm Is A Dancer (NOW 22, 1992)
      12. Duran Duran – Ordinary World (NOW 24, 1993)
      13. Sade – No Ordinary Love (NOW 25, 1993)
      14. Freddie Mercury – Living On My Own (NOW 25, 1993)
      15. Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (NOW 26, 1993)
      16. Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around (From ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (NOW 28, 1994)
      17. The Pretenders – I’ll Stand By You (NOW 28, 1994)
      18. Coolio, L.V. – Gangsta's Paradise (NOW 32, 1995)
      19. Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger (NOW 33, 1996)
    • CD 3
      1. Spice Girls – Wannabe (NOW 34, 1996)
      2. George Michael – Fastlove (NOW 35, 1996)
      3. Eternal feat. Bebe Winans – I Wanna Be The Only One (NOW 37, 1997)
      4. All Saints – Never Ever (NOW 39, 1998)
      5. Aqua – Barbie Girl (NOW 39, 1998)
      6. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn (NOW 39, 1998)
      7. Robbie Williams – Angels (NOW 39, 1998)
      8. Boyzone – No Matter What (NOW 41, 1998)
      9. Cher – Believe (NOW 42, 1999)
      10. Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time (NOW 44, 1999)
      11. Steps – Tragedy (NOW 44, 1999
      12. Gabrielle – Rise (NOW 45, 2000)
      13. S Club – Don’t Stop Movin’ (NOW 49, 2001)
      14. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (NOW 50, 2001)
      15. Mary J. Blige – Family Affair (NOW 50, 2001)
      16. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder On The Dancefloor (NOW 51, 2002)
      17. Girls Aloud – Sound Of The Underground (NOW 54, 2003)
      18. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me A River (NOW 55, 2003)
      19. The Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love? (NOW 56, 2003)
      20. Will Young – Leave Right Now (NOW 57, 2004)
    • CD 4
      1. James Blunt – You’re Beautiful (NOW 61, 2005)
      2. Westlife – You Raise Me Up (NOW 62, 2005)
      3. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (NOW 64, 2006)
      4. MIKA – Grace Kelly (NOW 66, 2007)
      5. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black (NOW 67, 2007)
      6. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (NOW 68, 2007)
      7. Take That – Rule The World (NOW 68, 2007)
      8. P!NK – So What (NOW 71, 2008)
      9. Coldplay – Viva La Vida (NOW 71, 2008)
      10. The Killers – Human (NOW 72, 2009)
      11. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (NOW 75, 2010)
      12. Katy Perry – Firework (NOW 77, 2010)
      13. Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor (NOW 79, 2011)
      14. Lana Del Rey – Video Games (NOW 80, 2011)
      15. One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful (NOW 80, 2011)
      16. PSY – Gangnam Style (강남스타일) (NOW 83, 2012)
      17. Bastille – Pompeii (NOW 84, 2013)
      18. Pharrell Williams – Happy (From ‘Despicable Me’) (NOW 87, 2014)
      19. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball (NOW 87, 2014)
      20. Sia – Chandelier (NOW 88, 2014)
      21. Idina Menzel – Let It Go (From ‘Frozen’) (NOW 88, 2014)
    • CD 5
      1. Ed Sheeran – Sing (NOW 88, 2014)
      2. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (NOW 90, 2015)
      3. Little Mix – Black Magic (NOW 91, 2015)
      4. Shawn Mendes – Stitches (NOW 93, 2016)
      5. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself (NOW 93, 2016)
      6. Rag ‘n’ Bone Man – Human (NOW 96, 2017)
      7. Dua Lipa – New Rules (NOW 98, 2017)
      8. George Ezra – Shotgun (NOW 100, 2018)
      9. Calvin Harris, Sam Smith – Promises (NOW 101, 2018)
      10. Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble – This Is Me (NOW 102, 2019)
      11. Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved (NOW 102, 2019)
      12. Billie Eilish – bad guy (NOW 103, 2019)
      13. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights (NOW 105, 2020)
      14. Glass Animals – Heat Waves (NOW 108, 2021)
      15. Olivia Rodrigo – drivers license (NOW 108, 2021)
      16. Lil Nas X – MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) (NOW 109, 2021)
      17. Elton John & Dua Lipa – Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (NOW 110, 2021)
      18. Sam Ryder – SPACE MAN (NOW 112, 2022)
      19. David Guetta & Bebe Rexha – I’m Good (Blue) (NOW 113, 2022)
      20. Loreen – Tattoo (NOW 115, 2023)
      21. Kylie Minogue – Padam Padam (NOW 115, 2023)

Tracklisting

NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years Various Artists / 1983-1993: Vol 1

    • CD 1
      1. Culture Club – Karma Chameleon (NOW 1, 1983)
      2. UB40 – Red Red Wine (NOW 1, 1983)
      3. Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart (NOW 1, 1983)
      4. The Cure – The Lovecats (NOW 1, 1983)
      5. Queen – Radio Ga Ga (NOW 2, 1984)
      6. Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (NOW 2, 1984)
      7. Nena – 99 Red Balloons (NOW 2, 1984)
      8. Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (NOW 2, 1984)
      9. Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It (NOW 3, 1984)
      10. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (NOW 3, 1984)
      11. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams (NOW 4, 1984)
      12. Limahl – Never Ending Story (NOW 4, 1984)
      13. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters (NOW 4, 1984)
      14. Lionel Richie – Hello (NOW 4, 1984)
      15. Sister Sledge – Frankie (NOW 5, 1985)
      16. Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me) (NOW 5, 1985)
      17. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My
        Heart) (NOW 6, 1985)
      18. Level 42 – Something About You (NOW 6, 1985)
      19. Bananarama – Venus (NOW 7, 1986)
      20. Billy Ocean – When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (NOW 7, 1986)
    • CD 2
      1. Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer (NOW 7, 1986)
      2. The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way (NOW 8, 1986)
      3. RUN DMC feat. Aerosmith – Walk This Way (NOW 8, 1986)
      4. Bon Jovi – Livin' On A Prayer (NOW 9, 1987)
      5. Europe – The Final Countdown (NOW 9, 1987)
      6. T’Pau – China In Your Hand (NOW 10, 1987)
      7. Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind (NOW 11, 1988)
      8. Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth (NOW 11, 1988)
      9. Tiffany – I Think We're Alone Now (NOW 12, 1988)
      10. S’Express – Theme From S-Express (NOW 12, 1988)
      11. Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up (NOW 13, 1988)
      12. Womack & Womack – Teardrops (NOW 13, 1988)
      13. Kim Wilde – You Came (NOW 13, 1988)
      14. Robin Beck – First Time (NOW 14, 1989)
      15. Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart (NOW 14, 1989)
      16. Inner City – Good Life (NOW 14, 1989)
      17. Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) (NOW 15, 1989)
      18. Cliff Richard – I Just Don’t Have The Heart (NOW 16, 1989)
      19. Debbie Harry – I Want That Man (NOW 16, 1989)
      20. Tears For Fears – Sowing The Seeds Of Love (NOW 16, 1989)
    • CD 3
      1. Adamski & Seal – Killer (NOW 17, 1990)
      2. Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me (NOW 17, 1990)
      3. The Beautiful South – A Little Time (NOW 18, 1990)
      4. Roxette – It Must Have Been Love (NOW 18, 1990)
      5. Elton John – Sacrifice (NOW 18, 1990)
      6. Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U (NOW 18, 1990)
      7. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go (NOW 19, 1991)
      8. Scorpions – Wind Of Change (NOW 20, 1991)
      9. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do (NOW 20, 1991)
      10. Simply Red – Stars (NOW 21, 1992)
      11. Shakespears Sister – Stay (NOW 21, 1992)
      12. The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette – Justified And Ancient (NOW 21, 1992)
      13. SNAP! – Rhythm Is A Dancer (NOW 22, 1992)
      14. Charles & Eddie – Would I Lie To You? (NOW 23, 1992)
      15. Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite (NOW 23, 1992)
      16. Duran Duran – Ordinary World (NOW 24, 1993)
      17. West End feat. Sybil – The Love I Lost (NOW 24, 1993)
      18. New Order – Regret (NOW 25, 1993)
      19. Freddie Mercury – Living On My Own (NOW 25, 1993)
      20. Sade – No Ordinary Love (NOW 25, 1993)

Tracklisting

NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years Various Artists / 1993-2003: Vol 2

    • CD 1
      1. 1Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) (NOW 26, 1993)
      2. D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better (NOW 27, 1994)
      3. M People – Moving On Up (NOW 27, 1994)
      4. Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No) (NOW 28, 1994)
      5. Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around (From “Four Weddings And A Funeral” Original
        Motion Picture Soundtrack) (NOW 28, 1994)
      6. All-4-One – I Swear (NOW 28, 1994)
      7. The Pretenders – I’ll Stand By You (NOW 28, 1994)
      8. Youssou N’Dour feat. Neneh Cherry – 7 Seconds (NOW 29, 1994)
      9. Corona – The Rhythm Of The Night (NOW 29, 1994)
      10. Whigfield – Saturday Night (NOW 29, 1994)
      11. East 17 – Stay Another Day (NOW 30, 1995)
      12. Supergrass – Alright (NOW 31, 1995)
      13. Livin’ Joy – Dreamer (NOW 31, 1995)
      14. Coolio, L.V. – Gangsta’s Paradise (NOW 32, 1995)
      15. Babylon Zoo – Spaceman (NOW 33, 1996)
      16. Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) (NOW 33, 1996)
      17. Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger (NOW 33, 1996)
      18. Saint Etienne – He’s On The Phone (NOW 33, 1996)
      19. Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack (NOW 34, 1996)
      20. Spice Girls – Wannabe (NOW 34, 1996)
    • CD 2
      1. George Michael – Fastlove (NOW 35, 1996)
      2. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s (NOW 35, 1996)
      3. Texas – Say What You Want (NOW 36, 1997)
      4. Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity (NOW 36, 1997)
      5. The Prodigy – Breathe (NOW 36, 1997)
      6. The Source feat. Candi Staton – You Got The Love (NOW 36, 1997)
      7. Eternal feat. Bebe Winans – I Wanna Be The Only One (NOW 37, 1997)
      8. Hanson – MMMBop (NOW 37, 1997)
      9. Chumbawamba – Tubthumping (NOW 38, 1997)
      10. Aqua – Barbie Girl (NOW 39, 1998)
      11. All Saints – Never Ever (NOW 39, 1998)
      12. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn (NOW 39, 1998)
      13. Robbie Williams – Angels (NOW 39, 1998)
      14. The Tamperer Feat. Maya – Feel It (NOW 40, 1998)
      15. The Corrs – Dreams (NOW 41, 1998)
      16. Boyzone – No Matter What (NOW 41, 1998)
      17. Fatboy Slim – Praise You (NOW 42, 1999)
      18. Cher – Believe (NOW 42, 1999)
      19. ATB – 9pm (Till I Come) (NOW 43, 1999)
      20. Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way (NOW 43, 1999)
    • CD 3
      1. Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time (NOW 44, 1999)
      2. Steps – Tragedy (NOW 44, 1999)
      3. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (NOW 44, 1999)
      4. Gabrielle – Rise (NOW 45, 2000)
      5. Sonique – It Feels So Good (NOW 46, 2000)
      6. Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me (NOW 46, 2000)
      7. Craig David – 7 Days (NOW 47, 2000)
      8. Atomic Kitten – Whole Again (NOW 48, 2001)
      9. Hear’Say – Pure & Simple (NOW 48, 2001)
      10. Blue – All Rise (NOW 49, 2001)
      11. S Club – Don’t Stop Movin’ (NOW 49, 2001)
      12. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (NOW 50, 2001)
      13. Mary J. Blige – Family Affair (NOW 50, 2001)
      14. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder On The Dancefloor (NOW 51, 2002)
      15. Liberty X – Just A Little (NOW 52, 2002)
      16. Las Ketchup – The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) (NOW 53, 2002)
      17. t.A.T.u. – All The Things She Said (NOW 54, 2003)
      18. Girls Aloud – Sound Of The Underground (NOW 54, 2003)
      19. Nelly & Kelly Rowland – Dilemma (NOW 54, 2003)
      20. Daniel Bedingfield – If You’re Not The One (NOW 54, 2003)

Tracklisting

NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years Various Artists / 2003-2013: Vol 3

    • CD 1
      1. 50 Cent – In Da Club (NOW 55, 2003)
      2. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me A River (NOW 55, 2003)
      3. Sugababes – Hole In The Head (NOW 56, 2003)
      4. Keane – Somewhere Only We Know (NOW 57, 2004)
      5. Will Young – Leave Right Now (NOW 57, 2004)
      6. Kelis – Milkshake (NOW 57, 2004)
      7. Outkast – Hey Ya! (NOW 58, 2004)
      8. Anastacia – Left Outside Alone (NOW 58, 2004)
      9. Natasha Bedingfield – These Words (NOW 59, 2004)
      10. Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved (NOW 59, 2004)
      11. Eric Prydz – Call On Me (NOW 59, 2004)
      12. Tony Christie – (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (NOW 60, 2005)
      13. Stereophonics – Dakota (NOW 60, 2005)
      14. James Blunt – You’re Beautiful (NOW 61, 2005)
      15. Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone (NOW 62, 2005)
      16. The Pussycat Dolls, Busta Rhymes – Don’t Cha (NOW 62, 2005)
      17. Westlife – You Raise Me Up (NOW 62, 2005)
      18. Shayne Ward – That’s My Goal (NOW 63, 2006)
      19. Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On (NOW 63, 2006)
      20. Lily Allen – Smile (NOW 64, 2006)
      21. McFly – Don’t Stop Me Now (NOW 64, 2006)
    • CD 2
      1. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (NOW 64, 2006)
      2. Nelly Furtado – Maneater (NOW 64, 2006)
      3. Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ (NOW 65, 2006)
      4. MIKA – Grace Kelly (NOW 66, 2007)
      5. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby (NOW 66, 2007)
      6. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black (NOW 67, 2007)
      7. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (NOW 68, 2007)
      8. Take That – Rule The World (NOW 68, 2007)
      9. Duffy – Mercy (NOW 69, 2008)
      10. Sam Sparro – Black & Gold (NOW 70, 2008)
      11. Usher feat. Young Jeezy – Love In This Club (NOW 70, 2008)
        1
      12. Jennifer Hudson – Spotlight (NOW 71, 2008)
      13. P!NK – So What (NOW 71, 2008)
      14. Coldplay – Viva La Vida (NOW 71, 2008)
      15. The Killers – Human (NOW 72, 2009)
      16. Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah (NOW 72, 2009)
      17. Pixie Lott – Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) (NOW 73, 2009)
      18. Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love (NOW 74, 2009)
      19. La Roux – Bulletproof (NOW 74, 2009)
      20. The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (NOW 74, 2009)
      21. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (NOW 75, 2010)
    • CD 3
      1. B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars – Nothin' On You (NOW 76, 2010)
      2. JLS – The Club Is Alive (NOW 76, 2010)
      3. Flo Rida feat. David Guetta – Club Can't Handle Me (NOW 77, 2010)
      4. Katy Perry – Firework (NOW 77, 2010)
      5. CeeLo Green – Forget You (NOW 77, 2010)
      6. Jessie J – Price Tag (NOW 78, 2011)
      7. LMFAO, Lauren Bennett & GoonRock – Party Rock Anthem (NOW 79, 2011)
      8. Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor (NOW 79, 2011)
      9. Christina Perri – Jar Of Hearts (NOW 80, 2011)
      10. Lana Del Rey – Video Games (NOW 80, 2011)
      11. One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful (NOW 80, 2011)
      12. Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight (NOW 81, 2012)
      13. David Guetta feat. Sia – Titanium (NOW 81, 2012)
      14. Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe – We Are Young (NOW 82, 2012)
      15. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe (NOW 82, 2012)
      16. PSY – Gangnam Style (강남스타일) (NOW 83, 2012)
      17. Florence + The Machine – Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix) (NOW 83,
        2012)
      18. will.i.am & Britney Spears – Scream & Shout (NOW 84, 2013)
      19. Bastille – Pompeii (NOW 84, 2013)
      20. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX – I Love It (NOW 85, 2013)
      21. Tom Odell – Another Love (NOW 85, 2013)

Tracklisting

NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years Various Artists / 2013-2023: Vol 4

    • CD 1
      1. Avicii – Wake Me Up (NOW 86, 2013)
      2. Lorde – Royals (NOW 86, 2013)
      3. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball (NOW 87, 2014)
      4. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha – Timber (NOW 87, 2014)
      5. Pharrell Williams – Happy (From “Despicable Me 2”) (NOW 87, 2014)
      6. Ed Sheeran – Sing (NOW 88, 2014)
      7. Idina Menzel – Let It Go (From “Frozen”) (NOW 88, 2014)
      8. Sia – Chandelier (NOW 88, 2014)
      9. Ella Henderson – Ghost (NOW 88, 2014)
      10. Paloma Faith – Only Love Can Hurt Like This (NOW 88, 2014)
      11. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (NOW 89, 2014)
      12. Hozier – Take Me To Church (NOW 89, 2014)
      13. Labrinth – Jealous (NOW 90, 2015)
      14. James Bay – Hold Back The River (NOW 90, 2015)
      15. Years & Years – King (NOW 90, 2015)
      16. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (NOW 90, 2015)
      17. Little Mix – Black Magic (NOW 91, 2015)
      18. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (From “Fifty Shades Of Grey”) (NOW 91, 2015)
      19. Rachel Platten – Fight Song (NOW 92, 2015)
      20. Sigala – Easy Love (NOW 92, 2015)
      21. Jonas Blue & Dakota – Fast Car (NOW 93, 2016)
    • CD 2
      1. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself (NOW 93, 2016)
      2. Lukas Graham – 7 Years (NOW 93, 2016)
      3. Shawn Mendes – Stitches (NOW 93, 2016)
      4. DNCE – Cake By The Ocean (NOW 94, 2016)
      5. James Arthur – Say You Won’t Let Go (NOW 95, 2016)
      6. Christine and the Queens – Tilted (NOW 95, 2016)
      7. Rag’n’Bone Man – Human (NOW 96, 2017)
      8. The Chainsmokers & Coldplay – Something Just Like This (NOW 97, 2017)
      9. Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson – Symphony (NOW 97, 2017)
      10. Dua Lipa – New Rules (NOW 98, 2017)
      11. Rita Ora – Anywhere (NOW 98, 2017)
      12. Tom Walker – Leave A Light On (NOW 99, 2018)
      13. Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still (NOW 99, 2018)
      14. George Ezra – Shotgun (NOW 100, 2018)
      15. Anne-Marie – 2002 (NOW 100, 2018)
      16. Calvin Harris, Sam Smith – Promises (NOW 101, 2018)
      17. Ava Max – Sweet But Psycho (NOW 102, 2019)
      18. Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved (NOW 102, 2019)
      19. Billie Eilish – bad guy (NOW 103, 2019)
      20. Post Malone – Circles (NOW 104, 2019)
      21. Kygo & Whitney Houston – Higher Love (NOW 104, 2019)
      22. Tones And I – Dance Monkey (NOW 104, 2019)
    • CD 3
      1. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights (NOW 105, 2020)
      2. Joel Corry feat. MNEK – Head & Heart (NOW 106, 2020)
      3. Ariana Grande – positions (NOW 107, 2020)
      4. Glass Animals – Heat Waves (NOW 108, 2021)
      5. Olivia Rodrigo – drivers license (NOW 108, 2021)
      6. The Kid LAROI – WITHOUT YOU (NOW 108, 2021)
      7. Lil Nas X – MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) (NOW 109, 2021)
      8. Tom Grennan – Little Bit Of Love (NOW 109, 2021)
      9. Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under (NOW 110, 2021)
      10. Elton John & Dua Lipa – Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (NOW 110, 2021)
      11. Lost Frequencies, Calum Scott – Where Are You Now (NOW 111, 2022)
      12. Cat Burns – go (NOW 111, 2022)
      13. GAYLE – abc (nicer) (NOW 111, 2022)
      14. LF SYSTEM – Afraid To Feel (NOW 112, 2022)
      15. Lizzo – About Damn Time (NOW 112, 2022)
      16. Sam Ryder – SPACE MAN (NOW 112, 2022)
      17. Rosa Linn – SNAP (NOW 113, 2022)
      18. OneRepublic – I Ain’t Worried (NOW 113, 2022)
      19. David Guetta & Bebe Rexha – I’m Good (Blue) (NOW 113, 2022)
      20. Sam Smith & Kim Petras – Unholy (NOW 113, 2022)
      21. SZA – Kill Bill (NOW 114, 2023)
      22. PinkPantheress – Boy’s A Liar (NOW 114, 2023)
      23. Loreen – Tattoo (NOW 115, 2023)
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Prince / Diamonds and Pearls 7CD+blu-ray set – unboxed

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SDEtv takes an exclusive look at the forthcoming Prince and the New Power Generation Diamonds and Pearls box set.

Diamonds and Pearls is reissued on 27 October 2023, via Warner Records.

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Tracklisting

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

    • CD 1: DIAMONDS AND PEARLS (REMASTERED)
      1. Thunder
      2. Daddy Pop
      3. Diamonds And Pearls
      4. Cream
      5. Strollin’
      6. Willing And Able
      7. Gett Off
      8. Walk Don’t Walk
      9. Jughead
      10. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
      11. Push
      12. Insatiable
      13. Live 4 Love
    • CD 2: SINGLE MIXES & EDITS (REMASTERED)
      1. Gett Off (Damn Near 10 Min.)
      2. Gett Off (Houstyle)
      3. Violet The Organ Grinder
      4. Gangster Glam
      5. Horny Pony
      6. Cream (N.P.G. Mix)
      7. Things Have Gotta Change (Tony M Rap)
      8. Do Your Dance (KC’s Remix)
      9. Insatiable (Edit)
      10. Diamonds And Pearls (Edit)
      11. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night (Edit)
      12. Call The Law
      13. Willing And Able (Edit)
      14. Willing And Able (Video Version)
      15. Thunder (DJ Fade)
    • CD 3: VAULT I
      1. Schoolyard
      2. My Tender Heart
      3. Pain
      4. Streetwalker
      5. Lauriann
      6. Darkside
      7. Insatiable (Early Mix – Full Version)
      8. Glam Slam ’91
      9. Live 4 Love (Early Version)
      10. Cream (Take 2)
      11. Skip To My You My Darling
      12. Diamonds And Pearls (Long Version)
      All previously unreleased
    • CD 4: VAULT II
      1. Daddy Pop (12″ Version)
      2. Martika’s Kitchen
      3. Spirit
      4. Open Book
      5. Work That Fat
      6. Horny Pony (Version 2)
      7. Something Funky (This House Comes) (Band Version)
      8. Hold Me
      9. Blood On The Sheets
      10. The Last Dance (Bang Pow Zoom And The Whole Nine)
      11. Don’t Say U Love Me
      All previously unreleased
    • CD 5: VAULT III
      1. Get Blue
      2. Tip O’ My Tongue
      3. The Voice
      4. Trouble
      5. Alice Through The Looking Glass
      6. Standing At The Altar
      7. Hey U
      8. Letter 4 Miles
      9. I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love
      10. Thunder Ballet
      All previously unreleased
    • CD 6 & 7: LIVE AT GLAM SLAM, 1992
      1. Thunder
      2. Daddy Pop
      3. Diamonds And Pearls
      4. Willing And Able
      5. Jughead
      6. The Sacrifice Of Victor
      7. Nothing Compares 2 U
      8. Thieves In The Temple
      9. Sexy M.F.
      10. Insatiable
      11. Cream/Well Done/I Want U/In The Socket (Medley)
      12. 1999/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      13. Gett Off
      14. Gett Off (Houstyle)
      All tracks previously unreleased
    • Blu-ray
      Live at Glam Slam 1992: Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 11, 1992 (Stereo, 5.1 Dolby True HD, Dolby Atmos)
      1. Thunder
      2. Daddy Pop
      3. Diamonds And Pearls
      4. Willing And Able
      5. Jughead
      6. The Sacrifice Of Victor
      7. Nothing Compares 2 U
      8. Thieves In The Temple
      9. Sexy M.F.
      10. Insatiable
      11. Cream/Well Done/I Want U/In The Socket (Medley)
      12. 1999/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      13. Gett Off
      14. Gett Off (Houstyle)
      Special Olympics, Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minneapolis July 1991 – Soundcheck 19 July 1991 (Stereo, 5.1 Dolby True HD, Dolby Atmos)
      1. Let’s Go Crazy/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      All tracks previously unreleased
      SHOW – JULY 20, 1991
      (Stereo, 5.1 Dolby True HD, Dolby Atmos)
      1. Diamonds And Pearls
      2. Let’s Go Crazy/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      All tracks previously unreleased
      Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection (stereo-only)
      1. Introduction
      2. Thunder (Live)
      3. Gett Off
      4. Cream
      5. Diamonds And Pearls
      6. Dr. Feelgood (Live)
      7. Call The Law
      8. Willing And Able
      9. Jughead (Live)
      10. Insatiable
      11. Strollin’
      12. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
      13. Live 4 Love (Live)

Tracklisting

Diamonds and Pearls Prince / 12LP+blu-ray super deluxe edition

    • LP 1: DIAMONDS AND PEARLS (REMASTERED)
      Side A
      1. Thunder
      2. Daddy Pop
      3. Diamonds And Pearls
      Side B
      1. Cream
      2. Strollin’
      3. Willing And Able
      4. Gett Off
    • LP 2: DIAMONDS AND PEARLS (REMASTERED)
      Side A
      1. Walk Don’t Walk
      2. Jughead
      3. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
      4. Push
      Side B
      1. Insatiable
      2. Live 4 Love
    • LPs 3: SINGLE MIXES & EDITS (REMASTERED)
      Side A
      1. Gett Off (Damn Near 10 Min.)
      2. Gett Off (Houstyle)

      Side B

      1. Violet The Organ Grinder
      2. Gangster Glam
      3. Horny Pony
      4. Cream (N.P.G. Mix)
    • LP 4: SINGLE MIXES & EDITS (REMASTERED)
      Side A
      1. Things Have Gotta Change (Tony M Rap)
      2. Do Your Dance (KC’s Remix)
      3. Insatiable (Edit)
      4. Diamonds And Pearls (Edit)
      Side B
      1. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night (Edit)
      2. Call The Law
      3. Willing And Able (Edit)
      4. Willing And Able (Video Version)
      5. Thunder (DJ Fade)
    • LP 5: Vault I
      Side A
      1. Schoolyard
      2. My Tender Heart
      3. Pain
      Side B
      1. Streetwalker
      2. Lauriann
      3. Darkside
      All previously unreleased
    • LP 6: Vault I (continued)
      Side A
      1. Insatiable (Early Mix – Full Version)
      2. Glam Slam ’91
      3. Live 4 Love (Early Version)
      Side B
      1. Cream (Take 2)
      2. Skip To My You My Darling
      3. Diamonds And Pearls (Long Version)
      All previously unreleased
    • LP 7: Vault II
      Side A
      1. Daddy Pop (12″ Version)
      2. Martika’s Kitchen
      3. Spirit
      4. Open Book
      Side B
      1. Work That Fat
      2. Horny Pony (Version 2)
      3. Something Funky (This House Comes) (Band Version)
      4. Hold Me
      All previously unreleased
    • LP 8: Vault II (continued) & Vault III
      Side A:  Vault II (continued)
      1. Blood On The Sheets
      2. The Last Dance (Bang Pow Zoom And The Whole Nine)
      3. Don’t Say U Love Me
      Side B: Vault III
      1. Get Blue
      2. Tip O’ My Tongue
      3. The Voice
      4. Trouble
      All previously unreleased
    • LP 9: Vault III (continued)
      Side A
      1. Alice Through The Looking Glass
      2. Standing At The Altar
      3. Hey U
      4. Letter 4 Miles
      Side B
      1. I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love
      2. Thunder Ballet
      All previously unreleased
    • LP 10: LIVE AT GLAM SLAM, 1992
      Side A
      1. Thunder
      2. Daddy Pop
      3. Diamonds And Pearls
      Side B
      1. Willing And Able
      2. Jughead
      3. The Sacrifice Of Victor
      All tracks previously unreleased
    • LP 11: LIVE AT GLAM SLAM, 1992
      Side A
      1. Nothing Compares 2 U
      2. Thieves In The Temple
      3. Sexy M.F.
      Side B
      1. Insatiable
      2. Cream/Well Done/I Want U/In The Socket (Medley)
    • LP 12: LIVE AT GLAM SLAM, 1992
      Side A
      1. 1999/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      2. Gett Off
      3. Gett Off (Houstyle)
      Side B

      Etching

    • Blu-ray
      Live at Glam Slam 1992: Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 11, 1992 (Stereo, 5.1 Dolby True HD, Dolby Atmos)
      1. Thunder
      2. Daddy Pop
      3. Diamonds And Pearls
      4. Willing And Able
      5. Jughead
      6. The Sacrifice Of Victor
      7. Nothing Compares 2 U
      8. Thieves In The Temple
      9. Sexy M.F.
      10. Insatiable
      11. Cream/Well Done/I Want U/In The Socket (Medley)
      12. 1999/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      13. Gett Off
      14. Gett Off (Houstyle)
      Special Olympics, Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minneapolis July 1991 – Soundcheck 19 July 1991 (Stereo, 5.1 Dolby True HD, Dolby Atmos)
      1. Let’s Go Crazy/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      All tracks previously unreleased
      SHOW – JULY 20, 1991
      (Stereo, 5.1 Dolby True HD, Dolby Atmos)
      1. Diamonds And Pearls
      2. Let’s Go Crazy/Baby I’m A Star/Push (Medley)
      All tracks previously unreleased
      Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection (stereo-only)
      1. Introduction
      2. Thunder (Live)
      3. Gett Off
      4. Cream
      5. Diamonds And Pearls
      6. Dr. Feelgood (Live)
      7. Call The Law
      8. Willing And Able
      9. Jughead (Live)
      10. Insatiable
      11. Strollin’
      12. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
      13. Live 4 Love (Live)

Camel / Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984

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Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 is a new box set featuring the music of English prog-rock band Camel.

The box features 27 CDs & five blu-rays and includes newly remastered versions of every Camel album and single issued between 1973 and 1984, but also includes new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound versions of five albums, as well as new mixes of three concerts; The Marquee Club, London 1974, Hammersmith Odeon 1976 and Hammersmith Odeon 1977.

The package also features previously unreleased outtakes from album recording sessions and BBC Radio ‘In Concert’ appearances from 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1981.

Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 (click image to enlarge)

The five blu-rays comprise three discs which offer 5.1, new stereo and original stereo of the following albums: Camel, Mirage, Music Inspired by The Snow Goose, Moonmadness and Nude. The fourth blu-ray disc contains 21 videos (largely live performance, Old Grey Whistle Test etc.) while the final blu-ray delivers the 1984 concert film ‘Pressure Points The box set includes an illustrated book with essay and a poster.

As well as this massive box set the following remastered albums will be issued on vinyl: Camel, Moonmadness, Music Inspired by The Snow Goose and Nude.

Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 will be released on 24 November 2023, via UMR/Decca. Good price via Germany, although it’s worth noting that they won’t deliver to the UK.

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Air Born The MCA & Decca Years 1973 – 1984 Camel /

    • CD 1: Camel – Remastered (Released as MCA Records MUPS 473 in 1973)
      1. Slow Yourself Down
      2. Mystic Queen
      3. Six Ate
      4. Seperation
      5. Never Let Go
      6. Curiosity
      7. Arubaluba
      8. Sarah (previously unreleased) – Bonus track
      9. Never Let Go (single version) – Bonus track
      10. Homage to the God of Light (live) (from “Greasy Truckers – Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall”) – Bonus track
    • CD 2: Mirage – Remastered (Released as Deram SML 1107 in 1974)
      1. Freefall
      2. Supertwister
      3. Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider
      4. Earthrise
      5. Lady Fantasy
      6. Earthrise (Bonus tracks: Demo session – Decca Studios 15th July 1973 (Previously unreleased))
      7. The Traveller (Bonus tracks: Demo session – Decca Studios 15th July 1973 (Previously unreleased))
      8. Supertwister (Bonus tracks: Demo session – Decca Studios 15th July 1973 (Previously unreleased))
      9. The White Rider (Bonus tracks: Demo session – Decca Studios 15th July 1973 (Previously unreleased))
      10. Lady Fantasy (Bonus tracks: Demo session – Decca Studios 15th July 1973 (Previously unreleased))
    • CD 3: Mirage Sessions
      1. Lady Fantasy (Basing Street studios original mix)
      2. Autumn (previously unreleased)
      3. Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 6th June 1974) – Bonus track
      4. Ligging at Louis’ (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 6th June 1974) – Bonus track
      5. Lady Fantasy (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 6th June 1974) – Bonus track
      6. Arubaluba (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 6th June 1974) – Bonus track
    • CD 4: Live at The Marquee Club – 30th June 1974 (Newly mixed in full by Stephen W. Tayler)
      1. Introduction
      2. Earthrise
      3. Nimrodel
      4. Six Ate
      5. Supertwister
      6. Mystic Queen
      7. Arubaluba
    • CD 5: Live at The Marquee Club – 30th June 1974 (Newly mixed in full by Stephen W. Tayler)
      1. Rhayader Goes to Town
      2. The Snow Goose / Freefall
      3. Lady Fantasy
      4. Homage to the God of Light
    • CD 6: Music Inspired by the Snow Goose(Remastered (Released as Decca SKL-R 5207 in May 1975)
      1. The Great Marsh
      2. Rhayder
      3. Rhayder Goes to Town
      4. Sanctuary
      5. Fritha
      6. The Snow Goose
      7. Friendship
      8. Migration
      9. Rhayder Alone
      10. Flight of the Snow Goose
      11. Preparation
      12. Dunkirk
      13. Epitaph
      14. Fritha Alone
      15. La Princesse Perdue
      16. The Great Marsh
      17. Flight of the Snow Goose (single version) – Bonus track
      18. Rhayder (single version) – Bonus track
    • CD 7: Snowgoose Sessions (Recorded and mixed at Decca Studios, Broadhurst Gardens 7th June 1974)
      1. Riverman
      2. Rhayder Goes to Town (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      3. Sanctuary (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      4. The Snow Goose (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      5. Migration (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      6. Rhayder Alone (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      7. Flight of the Snow Goose (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      8. Preparation (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      9. Dunkirk (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      10. Epitaph (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      11. La Princesse Perdue (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      12. The Great Marsh (BBC Radio One “In Concert” – 22nd April 1975)
      13. Selections from “The Snow Goose” (BBC TV Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975) a. The Snow Goose / b. Friendship / c. Rhayader Goes to Town
    • CD 8: Live at The Royal Albert Hall – 17th October 1975 (Remastered & mixed with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Bedford)
      1. Introduction by Peter Bardens
      2. The Great Marsh
      3. Rhayder
      4. Rhayder Goes to Town
      5. Sanctuary
      6. Fritha
      7. The Snow Goose
      8. Friendship
      9. Migration
      10. Rhayder Alone
      11. Flight of the Snow Goose
      12. Preparation
      13. Dunkirk
      14. Epitaph
      15. Fritha Alone
      16. La Princesse Perdue
      17. The Great Marsh
      18. Encore: Lady Fantasy (previously unreleased)
    • CD 9: Moonmadness – Remastered (Released as Decca TXS-R 115 in 1976)
      1. Aristillus
      2. Song Within a Song
      3. Chord Change
      4. Spirit of the Water
      5. Another Night
      6. Air Born
      7. Lunar Sea
      8. Sprit of the Water (demo) – Bonus track
      9. Chord Change (demo) (previously unreleased) – Bonus track
      10. Lunar Sea (demo) (previously unreleased) – Bonus track
      11. Another Night (single version) – Bonus track
    • CD 10: Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976 (Newly mixed in full by Stephen W. Tayler)
      1. Aristillus
      2. Song Within a Song
      3. The Great Marsh
      4. Rhayader
      5. Rhayader Goes to Town
      6. Air Born
      7. Chord Change
      8. The White Rider
    • CD 11: Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976 (Newly mixed in full by Stephen W. Tayler)
      1. Lunar Sea
      2. Preparation
      3. Dunkirk
      4. Another Night
      5. Lady Fantasy
    • CD 12: Rain Dances (Released as Decca TXS-R 124 in 1977)
      1. First Light
      2. Metrognome
      3. Tell Me
      4. Highways of the Sun
      5. Unevensong
      6. One of These Days I’ll Get An Early Night
      7. Elke
      8. Skylines
      9. Rain Dances
      10. Highways of the Sun (single version) – Bonus track
      11. First Light (live at the Colston Hall, Bristol 2nd October 1977) – Bonus track
      12. Metrognome (live at the Colston Hall, Bristol 2nd October 1977) – Bonus track
      13. Unevensong (live at the Colston Hall, Bristol 2nd October 1977) – Bonus track
      14. Skylines (live at Leeds University 3rd October 1977) – Bonus track
      15. Lunar Sea (live at the Colston Hall, Bristol 2nd October 1977) – Bonus track
      16. Raindances (live at the Colston Hall, Bristol 2nd October 1977) – Bonus track
    • CD 13: Rain Dances Live
      1. Never Let Go (live at the Colston Hall, Bristol 2nd October 1977)
      2. First Light (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      3. Metrognome (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      4. Unevensong (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      5. Rhayader / Rhayader Goes to Town (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      6. Skylines (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      7. Highways of the Sun (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      8. Lunar Sea (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      9. Rain Dances (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      10. Never Let Go (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
      11. One of These Days I’ll Get an Early Night (BBC In Concert – Golders Green Hippodrome – 29th September 1977)
    • CD 14:  Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 30th September / 1st October 1977 (Newly mixed in full by Stephen W. Tayler)
      1. First Light
      2. Metrognome
      3. Unevensong
      4. Rhayader
      5. Rhayader Goes to Town
      6. Preparation
      7. Dunkirk
      8. Sanctuary
      9. The Snow Goose
    • CD 15: Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 30th September / 1st October 1977 (Newly mixed in full by Stephen W. Tayler)
      1. Tell Me
      2. Song Within a Song
      3. Skylines
      4. Highway to the Sun
      5. Lunar Sea
      6. Rain Dances
      7. One of These Days I’ll Get an Early Night
    • CD 16: Breathless (Released as Decca TXS-R 132 in 1978)
      1. Breathless
      2. Echoes
      3. Wing and a Prayer
      4. Down on the Farm
      5. Starlight Ride
      6. Summer Lightning
      7. You Make Me Smile
      8. The Sleeper
      9. Rainbow’s End
      10. Rainbow’s End (single version) – Bonus track
    • CD 17: I Can See Your Houses From Here (Released as Decca TXS-R 137 in 1979)
      1. Wait
      2. Your Love is Stranger Than Mine
      3. Eye of the Storm
      4. Who We Are
      5. Survival
      6. Hymn to Her
      7. Neon Magic
      8. Remote Romance
      9. Ice
      10. Remote Romance (single version) – Bonus track
    • CD 18: Nude (Released as Decca SKL 5323 in 1981)
      1. City Life
      2. Nude
      3. Drafted
      4. Docks
      5. Beached
      6. Landscapes
      7. Changing Places
      8. Pomp and Circumstance
      9. Please Come Home
      10. Reflections
      11. Captured
      12. The Homecoming
      13. Lies
      14. The Birthday Cake (The Last Farewell)
      15. Nude’s Return (The Last Farewell)
      16. Captured (first version) (previously unreleased) – Bonus track
    • CD 19: BBC Radio One In Concert – Hammersmith Odeon 27th February 1981 (First broadcast 2nd May 1981)
      1. Never Let Go
      2. Song Within a Song
      3. Lunar Sea
      4. Summer Lightning
      5. Ice
      6. City Life
      7. Drafted
      8. Docks
      9. Beached
      10. Landscapes
      11. Changing Places
      12. Reflections
      13. Captured
      14. The Birthday Cake (The Last Farewell)
      15. Nude’s Return (The Last Farewell)
    • CD 20: The Single Factor (Released as Decca SKL 5328 in 1982)
      1. No Easy Answer
      2. You Are the One
      3. Heroes
      4. Selva
      5. Lullabye
      6. Sasquatch
      7. Manic
      8. Camelogue
      9. Today’s Goodbye
      10. A Heart’s Desire
      11. End Piece
      12. You Are the One (promotional 12-inch single version) – Bonus track
    • CD 21: Stationary Traveller (Released as Decca SKL 5334 in 1984)
      1. Pressure Points
      2. Refugee
      3. Vopos
      4. Cloak and Dagger Man
      5. Stationary Traveller
      6. West Berlin
      7. Fingertips
      8. Missing
      9. After Words
      10. Long Goodbyes
      11. In the Arms of Waltzing Fraulines – Bonus track
      12. Pressure Points (12-inch single extended version) – Bonus track
    • CD 22: Pressure Points Live at Hammersmith Odeon 11 May 1984
      1. Pressure Points
      2. Drafted
      3. Captured
      4. Lies
      5. Refugee
      6. Vopos
      7. Stationary Traveller
      8. West Berlin
      9. Fingertips
    • CD 23: Pressure Points Live at Hammersmith Odeon 11 May 1984
      1. Sasquatch
      2. Wait
      3. Cloak and Dagger Man
      4. Long Goodbyes
      5. Rhayader
      6. Rhayader Goes to Town
      7. Lady Fantasy
    • CD 24: Camel and Mirage (New Stereo Mix by Stephen W Tayler)
      Camel
      1. Slow Yourself Down
      2. Mystic Queen
      3. Six Ate
      4. Seperation
      5. Never Let Go
      6. Curiosity
      7. Arubaluba
      Mirage
      1. Freefall
      2. Supertwister
      3. Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider
      4. Earthrise
      5. Lady Fantasy
    • CD 25: Music inspired by The Snow Goose (New Stereo Mix by Stephen W Tayler)
      1. The Great Marsh
      2. Rhayder
      3. Rhayder Goes to Town
      4. Sanctuary
      5. Fritha
      6. The Snow Goose
      7. Friendship
      8. Migration
      9. Rhayder Alone
      10. Flight of the Snow Goose
      11. Preparation
      12. Dunkirk
      13. Epitaph
      14. Fritha Alone
      15. La Princesse Perdue
      16. The Great Marsh
    • CD 26: Moonmadness (New Stereo Mix by Stephen W Tayler)
      1. Aristillus
      2. Song Within a Song
      3. Chord Change
      4. Spirit of the Water
      5. Another Night
      6. Air Born
      7. Lunar Sea
    • CD 27: Nude (New Stereo Mix by Stephen W Tayler)
      1. City Life
      2. Nude
      3. Drafted
      4. Docks
      5. Beached
      6. Landscapes
      7. Changing Places
      8. Pomp and Circumstance
      9. Please Come Home
      10. Reflections
      11. Captured
      12. The Homecoming
      13. Lies
      14. The Birthday Cake (The Last Farewell)
      15. Nude’s Return (The Last Farewell)
    • Disc 28: Blu-ray
      ‘Camel’ & ‘Mirage’ High Resolution 5.1 Surround Sound & Stereo Mixes by Stephen W Tayler / High resolution original stereo mix
      Camel
      1. Slow Yourself Down
      2. Mystic Queen
      3. Six Ate
      4. Seperation
      5. Never Let Go
      6. Curiosity
      7. Arubaluba
      Mirage
      1. Freefall
      2. Supertwister
      3. Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider
      4. Earthrise
      5. Lady Fantasy
      6. Autumn – Bonus track
    • Disc 29: Blu-ray
      ‘Music inspired by The Snow Goose’ & ‘Moonmadness’ High Resolution 5.1 Surround Sound & Stereo Mixes by Stephen W Tayler / High resolution original stereo mix
      Music Inspired by The Snow Goose
      1. The Great Marsh
      2. Rhayder
      3. Rhayder Goes to Town
      4. Sanctuary
      5. Fritha
      6. The Snow Goose
      7. Friendship
      8. Migration
      9. Rhayder Alone
      10. Flight of the Snow Goose
      11. Preparation
      12. Dunkirk
      13. Epitaph
      14. Fritha Alone
      15. La Princesse Perdue
      16. The Great Marsh
      17. Riverman – Bonus track
      Moonmadness
      1. Aristillus
      2. Song Within a Song
      3. Chord Change
      4. Spirit of the Water
      5. Another Night
      6. Air Born
      7. Lunar Sea
    • Disc 30: Blu-ray
      ‘Nude’ High Resolution 5.1 Surround Sound & Stereo Mixes by Stephen W Tayler / High resolution original stereo mix
      1. City Life
      2. Nude
      3. Drafted
      4. Docks
      5. Beached
      6. Landscapes
      7. Changing Places
      8. Pomp and Circumstance
      9. Please Come Home
      10. Reflections
      11. Captured
      12. The Homecoming
      13. Lies
      14. The Birthday Cake (The Last Farewell)
      15. Nude’s Return (The Last Farewell)
    • Disc 31: Blu-ray: The Video Vaults
      1. Never Let Go
      2. Arubaluba
      3. Selections from “The Snow Goose” a. The Snow Goose / b. Friendship / c. Rhayader Goes to Town (Guildford Civic Hall 1973 – MCA Promo film shown on “The Old Grey Whistle Test”)
      4. The White Rider (BBC TV – The Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975)
      5. Lunar Sea (BBC TV – The Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975)
      6. Preparation (BBC TV – The Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975)
      7. Dunkirk (BBC TV – The Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975)
      8. Another Night (BBC TV – The Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975)
      9. Lady Fantasy (BBC TV – The Old Grey Whistle Test – 21st June 1975)
      10. First Light (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      11. Metrognome (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      12. Unevensong (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      13. Rhayader / Rhayader Goes to Town (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      14. Skylines (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      15. Highways of the Sun (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      16. Lunar Sea (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      17. Rain Dances (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      18. Never Let Go (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      19. One of These Days I’ll Get an Early Night (Live at Hammersmith Odeon – 14th April 1976)
      20. City Life (BBC TV – “Sight & Sound in Concert – 29th September 1977”)
      21. Lies (BBC TV – “Sight & Sound in Concert – 29th September 1977”)
    • Disc 32: Blu-ray: Pressure Points (1984 concert film)
      1. In the Arms of Waltzing Fraulines
      2. Pressure Points
      3. Refugee
      4. Vopos
      5. Stationary Traveller
      6. West Berlin
      7. Fingertips
      8. Sasquatch
      9. Wait
      10. Cloak and Dagger Man
      11. Long Goodbyes
      12. Rhayader
      13. Rhayader Goes to Town
      14. Lady Fantasy
      15. In the Arms of Waltzing Fraulines

A Different Staircase: Steven Wilson’s Harmony Codex bonus disc, reviewed

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The irony of reviewing Harmonic Distortion, the second disc from the deluxe edition of Steven Wilson’s The Harmony Codex, is that unless you pre-ordered it, you won’t be able to hear it (at least, not yet). This edition has sold out, apparently more quickly than usual, presumably for the collections of Steven’s already (mostly) adoring fans. It’s a shame, as this alternate re-imagining of the main album is even richer than SW’s usual bonus fare.

Having spoken to Wilson a few times this year, not only was he keen to impress that the album was conceived as an Atmos record from the ground up, but also that he took care to track everything in 24/96 –  meaning, coupled with his usual exemplary ‘non-mastering’ mastering technique, the source album is an audiophile treat whether listened to in Dolby Atmos, a stereo mix on vinyl, or as a CD, particularly using headphones. I have subsequently heard the album at as many Atmos playbacks as possible and have lived with the hi-res stereo for a few months, which makes listening to this second disc a whole new adventure, even a disturbing one when put up against my familiarity with disc one.

Where disc two outstrips the extra tracks associated with the even more lockdown-impacted The Future Bites project is in the third-party reworkings, which are more effective. This disc’s configuration is a reshuffling of the original track sequence with a couple of omissions, most notably the Ninet Tayeb-penned ‘Rock Bottom’, (other than a delightful, almost hidden reprise). Some duplicates occur, and cunning interstitial ‘Moods’ air some of the main themes from the tracks with diverse instrumental breaks newly taking the lead (Theo Travis’s Duduk from ‘Beautiful Scarecrow’) or un-layered vocals being given new focus or clarity, starting with Rotem Wilson’s intoned lines on the opening theme. ‘Actual Brutal Facts’ features nowhere.

Harmonic Distortion is disc two of the three-disc deluxe edition of The Harmony Codex

In the clutch of the ‘redone by others’ tracks, we get the Manic Street Preachers lending a muscular rock backdrop to the originally synthesised and delicate ‘Economies of Scale’ and it almost works – at least it does so better than Biffy Clyro’s similar effort on the previous album. This is less of a remix than a replacement of the old instrumental under SW’s beautifully produced vocal parts. Remarkably, Mikael Åkerfeldt’s straight up (no vocal treatments) cover rendition of ‘Time Is Running Out’ is genuinely affecting. Tears For Fears‘ (Roland Orzabal’s) remix of ‘What Life Brings’ is another partially successful re-imagining, once again substantially replacing the instrumentation in a relatively conventional and predictable style.

More traditionally, electronic collaborators old and new bring their remix versions of the source tracks. Producer David Kosten’s Faultline Remix of the crushing album opener ‘Inclination’ introduces a genuine sense of foreboding, and a similar angle is pursued by others, including Meat Beat Manifesto and Interpol, who drop the first version on this disc of pivotal track ‘Staircase’. Jack Dangers’s version of ‘Beautiful Scarecrow’ ups the trip-hop factor with no little success.

On the bonus disc, the ambient joys of the title track are extended to an overtly-hypnotic and ambient 17 minutes, and the other alternates offered by ‘the man himself’ include an ‘Impossible Tightrope’ which gives much more prominence to big slices of Ben Coleman’s violin performance, and replaces SW’s for once subtle and subdued bass playing with a much more filigree Nate Navarro interpretation of the same part.

In many ways, the best is saved for last, when The Radiophonic Workshop’s Mark Ayres (progenitor of the exemplary SDE Surround Series Orbital Atmos mix from last year) lends a suitably Who-vian air of spacey and spectral menace to his version of ‘Staircase’, delaying the introduction of most of the ‘song’ elements massively and enterprisingly dropping a soupçon of Ninet’s ‘Rock Bottom’ vocal into the final closing of the piece – originally achieved by vocal extraction but as it was an effect SW enjoyed greatly he supplied Mark with the clean vocal to ensure the final polish.

It is to be hoped that as per the deluxe editions of some of Steven’s prior projects, we will see a hi-res streaming edition of this particular deluxe in the fullness of time. These alternate treasures should not locked be in this limited box at CD resolution, they’re too good for that.

The Harmonic Distortion disc was reviewed by Patrick Cleasby for SDE. The Harmony Codex is out now.

Tracklisting

Steven Wilson / New album The Harmony Codex

The Harmony Codex Steven Wilson /

    • CD 1
      1. Inclination (7.15)
      2. What Life Brings (3.40)
      3. Economies of Scale (4.17)
      4. Impossible Tightrope (10.42)
      5. Rock Bottom (4.25)
      6. Beautiful Scarecrow (5.21)
      7. The Harmony Codex (9.50)
      8. Time is Running Out (3.57)
      9. Actual Brutal Facts (5.05)
      10. Staircase (9.26)
    • CD 2: Harmonic Distortion
      1. Codex Theme #7
      2. Economies of Scale – Manic Street Preachers remix
      3. Codex Theme #9
      4. Inclination – Faultline remix
      5. Impossible Tightrope – alternate version
      6. Codex Theme #6 4
      7. Beautiful Scarecrow – Meat Beat Manifesto Excursion 1
      8. Codex Theme #8
      9. Time is Running Out – Mikael Åkerfeldt version
      10. Staircase – Interpol Remix
      11. Codex Theme #3
      12. What Life Brings – Aug 22 mix by Roland Orzabal
      13. The Harmony Codex – long take
      14. Staircase – Radiophonic Workshop rem
    • Blu-ray
      1. High Resolution Stereo (96/24)
      2. 5.1 Mix (96/24)
      3. Atmos (48/24)
      4. Stereo Instrumentals (96/24) *
      5. 5.1 Instrumentals (96/24) *
      6. Atmos Instrumentals (48/24) *
      7. ECONOMIES OF SCALE video (Directed by Charlie Di Placido)
      8. THE HARMONY CODEX video (Directed by Crystal Spotlight/Miles Skarin)
      * exclusive to this edition

Black Sabbath / Hand of Doom 1970-1978 box set

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BMG are to issue a new Black Sabbath vinyl box set called Hand of Doom 1970-1978.

This set features eight of the band’s classic albums, released from 1970 to 1978, on vinyl picture disc. The albums in question are the band’s self-titled debut (1970), Paranoid (1970), Master Of Reality (1971), Vol 4 (1972), Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973), Sabotage (1975), Technical Ecstasy (1976) and Never Say Die! (1978).

Eight Black Sabbath albums pressed on vinyl picture disc (click image to enlarge)

The box set is limited to 3,000 copies and comes with a large coloured poster. It’s available for all territories outside North America.

Hand of Doom will be released on 1 December 2023 via BMG.

Pink Floyd / The Dark Side of the Moon blu-ray audio – unboxed!

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SDEtv takes a close look at the new Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon ‘breakout’ blu-ray audio and compares it to some previous offerings along the way.

The Dark Side of the Moon blu-ray is released on 13 October 2023. Order your copy from the SDE shop (we’re already shipping).

Out This Week / on 13 October 2023

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Pink Floyd / The Dark Side Of The Moon Blu-ray

Pink Floyd release ‘breakout’ versions of the 50th anniversary edition of The Dark Side Of The Moon, including a blu-ray audio with the new Dolby Atmos Mix.

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Kate Bush coloured vinyl reissues

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All ten of Kate Bush’s studio albums are being re-released through her new label The state51 Conspiracy on vinyl and CD, with special coloured vinyl editions being available via independent record shops.

The Kick Inside (1978), Lionheart (1978), Never For Ever (1980), The Dreaming (1982), Hounds of Love (1985), The Sensual World (1989), The Red Shoes (1993), Aerial (2005), Director’s Cut (2011) and 50 Words For Snow (2011) boast new ‘Ecopak’ CD packaging with booklets and reseable poly-sleves. All CDs feature the 2018 remastering by Kate and James Guthrie.

The vinyl editions also use the 2018 remasters, but with new lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman. These have been pressed at the Record Industry plant in the Netherlands.

The ‘indie editions’ are pressed on coloured vinyl which is sympathetic to the original album artwork and feature new Fish People label designs and special OBI strips with the pressing date on them. They are protected in resealable poly-bag liners with a ‘Fish People Reissue’ sticker, bottom right. Refreshingly, these coloured vinyl pressings are described as “unlimited editions” and will be in production constantly. The only thing that will change is the pressing date on the OBIs.

Sadly, the first three albums are USA-only, which is why you won’t find them in the selection on the SDE shop. It’s worth noting that the Hounds of Love that forms part of this reissue campaign is not the “special presentation” we were promised earlier this year, so we have to presume that that will emerge at some point in the future.

These Kate Bush reissues are released on 20 November 2023, via The state51 Conspiracy. Pre-order via the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below.

Hounds of Love pressed on ‘Raspberry Beret’ coloured vinyl
The Sensual Word pressed on ‘Ash Grey’ coloured vinyl
The Red Shoes pressed on ‘Dracula’ coloured vinyl
Aerial pressed on ‘Goldy Locks’ coloured vinyl
Director’s Cut pressed on ‘Hazy Red’ coloured vinyl
50 Words For Snow pressed on ‘Snowy White’ coloured vinyl

Yes / The Yes Album super deluxe

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Rhino are to release a new super deluxe edition box set of Yes‘ third studio album, The Yes Album.

It features a vinyl LP, four CDs and a blu-ray audio and offers a new Dolby Atmos Mix of the 1971 album from Steven Wilson. His previous 5.1 mix and a hi-res stereo mix are also included on the blu-ray (but not the original mix of the album).

Elsewhere, on CD are two previously unreleased concerts, the instrumentals and new stereo mix (from 2014), 20 tracks of rarities and the original mix of the album (which is also on the vinyl in this set).

Wilson shares his insights into the new mixes in the set’s sleeve notes: “For the Atmos Mix, I used my 5.1 as a starting point but found myself taking quite a different approach on some parts of the music, partly by virtue of now having the extra speakers to place the sounds in, but also because I’ve learned a few things in the nearly ten years since I first remixed the album…I hope you enjoy The Yes Album in its new, fully spatialised form. To me, it still sounds as fresh as the day it was recorded.”

Steven references his 2014 mixes which were released in that year as a CD+blu-ray set with loads of great content. This is still available via the SDE shop, but obviously doesn’t feature the new Atmos Mix.

The Yes Album super deluxe edition will be released on 24 November 2023, via Rhino.

Tracklisting

The Yes Album Yes /

    • Vinyl LP
      Side one
      1. Yours Is No Disgrace
      2. Clap (Instrumental)
      3. Starship Trooper
        1. Life Seeker
        2. Disillusion
        3. Würm
      Side two
      1. I’ve Seen All Good People
        1. Your Move
      2. A Venture
      3. Perpetual Change
    • CD 1: Original Album
      1. Yours is No Disgrace
      2. The Clap
      3. Starship Trooper
      4. I’ve Seen All Good People
      5. A Venture
      6. Perpetual Change
    • CD 2: Steven Wilson Remix / Steven Wilson Remix Instrumentals
      Steven Wilson 2014 Remix
      1. Yours is No Disgrace (Steven Wilson Remix)
      2. The Clap (Steven Wilson Remix)
      3. Starship Trooper (Steven Wilson Remix)
      4. I’ve Seen All Good People (Steven Wilson Remix)
      5. A Venture (Steven Wilson Remix)
      6. Perpetual Change (Steven Wilson Remix)
      Steven Wilson Instrumentals
      1. Yours is No Disgrace (Steven Wilson Remix) [Instrumental]
      2. The Clap (Steven Wilson Remix) [Instrumental]
      3. Starship Trooper (Steven Wilson Remix) [Instrumental]
      4. I’ve Seen All Good People (Steven Wilson Remix) [Instrumental]
      5. A Venture (Steven Wilson Remix) [Instrumental]
      6. Perpetual Change (Steven Wilson Remix) [Instrumental]
    • CD 3: Rarities
      1. “Your Move” – Single Version (2023 Remaster) 
      2. “Starship Trooper: Life Seeker” – Single Version (2023 Remaster)
      3. “Clap” – Studio Version (2023 Remaster)
      4. “A Venture” – Extended Mix (2023 Remaster)
      5. “Yours Is No Disgrace” – Mono Version (2023 Remaster)
      6. “Clap” – Mono Version (2023 Remaster)
      7. “Starship Trooper” – Mono Version (2023 Remaster)
      8. “Life Seeker”
      9. “Disillusion”
      10. “Würm”
      11. “I’ve Seen All Good People” – Mono Version (2023 Remaster)
      12. “Your Move”
      13. “All Good People”
      14. “A Venture” – Mono Version (2023 Remaster)
      15. “Perpetual Change” – Mono Version (2023 Remaster)
      16. “Starship Trooper: Life Seeker” – Alternate Take (Instrumental) *
      17. “I’ve Seen All Good People” – Early Take
      18. “Your Move”
      19. “All Good People”
      20. “Yours Is No Disgrace” – Alternate Mix 
    • CD 4: Live
      Live at Konserthuset, Gothenburg, Sweden (January 21, 1971)
      1. “I’ve Seen All Good People” * 
      2. “Your Move”
      3. “All Good People”
      4. “Astral Traveller” * 
      5. “Everydays” *
      Live at the Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT (July 24, 1971)
      1. “Yours In No Disgrace” *
      2. “I’ve Seen All Good People” *
      3. “Your Move”
      4. “All Good People”
      5. “Clap / Classical Gas” *
      6. “Perpetual Change” *
    • Blu-ray
      2023 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix
      2023 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix DTS-HD MA
      2023 Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix LPCM
      2023 Stereo Remaster
      1. Yours is No Disgrace
      2. The Clap
      3. Starship Trooper
      4. I’ve Seen All Good People
      5. A Venture
      6. Perpetual Change

Bryan Ferry / Mamouna deluxe reissue

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Bryan Ferry’s ninth solo studio album Mamouna is being reissued as CD and vinyl deluxe sets in November.

The 1994 album was Ferry’s first studio album of original material for seven years and for a time it had the working title ‘Horoscope‘. Eventually the recordings developed into the finished Mamouna album, but for the first time, these previously unreleased alternate recordings are released as Horoscope on both 3CD deluxe and 2LP vinyl editions of the Mamouna reissue.

Mamouna 3CD box set

Additionally, the 3CD set offers a disc of ‘Sketches‘: alternate, early versions and instrumentals from the album. The triple CD box is packaged similarly to the Tina Turner deluxe sets (Foreign Affair, Break Every Rule) and all three discs come with outer and inner sleeves. The 2LP offering is gatefold with printed inners offering the covers to both albums (Mamouna and Horoscope).

Mamouna is reissued on 17 November 2023 via BMG.

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Mamouna Bryan Ferry /

    • CD 1: Mamouna
      1. DON’T WANT TO KNOW
      2. N.Y.C.
      3. YOUR PAINTED SMILE
      4. MAMOUNA
      5. THE ONLY FACE
      6. THE 39 STEPS
      7. WHICH WAY TO TURN
      8. WILDCAT DAYS
      9. GEMINI MOON
      10. CHAIN REACTION
    • CD 2: Horoscope (previously unreleased)
      1. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
      2. THE ONLY FACE
      3. DESDEMONA
      4. S&M
      5. LOOP DE LI
      6. GEMINI MOON
      7. RAGA
      8. MOTHER OF PEARL
    • CD 3: Sketches (previously unreleased)
      1. MAMOUNA (INSTRUMENTAL EDIT ’89 / ’94)
      2. YOUR PAINTED SMILE (INSTRUMENTAL) (FIRST DRAFT ’89)
      3. YOUR PAINTED SMILE (WITH GUIDE VOCALS) (LATER VERSION ’89)
      4. YOUR PAINTED SMILE (PIANO AND VOCAL ’93)
      5. NYC / DESDEMONA (INSTRUMENTAL ’91)
      6. ROBOT (INSTRUMENTAL) (FIRST DRAFT ’89)
      7. THE ONLY FACE (INSTRUMENTAL) (FIRST DRAFT ’89)
      8. THE ONLY FACE (PIANO AND VOCAL ’93)
      9. LOOP DE LI (INSTRUMENTAL) (FIRST DRAFT ’89)
      10. HOROSCOPE STRINGS (INSTRUMENTAL ’90)

Tracklisting

Mamouna Bryan Ferry /

    • LP 1: Mamouna
      1. DON’T WANT TO KNOW
      2. N.Y.C.
      3. YOUR PAINTED SMILE
      4. MAMOUNA
      5. THE ONLY FACE
      6. THE 39 STEPS
      7. WHICH WAY TO TURN
      8. WILDCAT DAYS
      9. GEMINI MOON
      10. CHAIN REACTION
    • LP 2: Horoscope (previously unreleased)
      1. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
      2. THE ONLY FACE
      3. DESDEMONA
      4. S&M
      5. LOOP DE LI
      6. GEMINI MOON
      7. RAGA
      8. MOTHER OF PEARL

Roger Waters / The Dark Side of the Moon Redux – unboxed!

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SDEtv takes a look at the various editions of Roger Waters’ new ‘reimagining’ of Pink Floyd’s classic 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon.

The Dark Side Of The Moon – Redux is released on 6 October 2023 via Cooking Vinyl.

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Roger Waters / The Dark Side of the Moon Redux

The Dark Side of the Moon Redux Roger Waters /

      1. SPEAK TO ME
      2. BREATHE
      3. ON THE RUN
      4. TIME
      5. GREAT GIG IN THE SKY
      6. MONEY
      7. US AND THEM
      8. ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE
      9. BRAIN DAMAGE
      10. ECLIPSE

INXS get ‘All Juiced Up’ for series of limited coloured vinyl 12-inch records

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Limited coloured vinyl 12″ series with rare and classic remixes

INXS fans might recall that the bonus CD of remixes offered with the limited edition version of their 1994 Greatest Hits was dubbed ‘All Juiced Up’. Well, 29 years later All Juiced Up re-emerges, this time as a series of NINE limited edition 12-inch records, all pressed on coloured vinyl.

INXS All Juiced Up Part 2 spans the band’s career and features remixes of songs such as ‘Need You Tonight’, ‘Listen Like Thieves’, ‘New Sensation’, ‘What Your Need’, ‘Suicide Blonde’, ‘Original Sin’, ‘Not Enough Time’, ‘Taste It’ and many more. Each record features four remixes and all audio has been remastered at Abbey Road. We are promised that these 12-inches will only be produced for a one-time limited edition coloured vinyl run.

Record 1 (of 9) is pressed on blue vinyl

There will be nine records in total and the schedule is as follows: The first volume of three 12”s will be released THIS MONTH, followed by a further three in February 2024, with the final set appearing in May next year.

INXS, with their late manager Chris Murphy, were real 12-inch mix enthusiasts, even releasing Dekadance, a collection of their mixes, way back in 1983. As INXS guitarist & founding member Tim Farriss says “INXS always embraced synthesizers, sequencers and samplers in our music. Back In the early 80s, we often felt like pioneers of combining pub rock with funk, dance and disco elements, so remixes or 12-inch versions, were always something that we were and still are very passionate about. We were very fortunate to work with some of the most outstanding remix engineers and DJs of their time. These mixes spoke of the ‘club culture’ and helped highlight the ‘dance’ influences in our music.”

This first batch of All Juiced Up Part 2 will be released on 20 October 2023, via UMe/Petrol Records. They are not available via normal retail, only via Universal D2C (Direct-to-Consumer) channels.

Record 2 (of 9) is pressed on pink vinyl

Tracklisting

All Juiced Up Part 2 INXS /

    • INXS – ALL JUICED UP PART 2 – Record 1
      SIDE ONE
      1. I’m Only Looking (Morales Bad Yard Mix)
      2. Bitter Tears (Lorimer 12” Mix)
      SIDE TWO
      1. Need You Tonight (Liebrand 12” Mix)
      2. Listen Like Thieves (Extended Remix)
    • INXS – ALL JUICED UP PART 2 – Record 2
      SIDE ONE
      1. Not Enough Time (Ralphi Rosario Mix)
      2. Original Sin (Dance Dub)
      SIDE TWO
      1. Underneath the Colours (Cement Mixer)
      2. Freedom Deep (Extended 12” Mix)
    • INXS – ALL JUICED UP PART 2 – Record 3
      SIDE ONE
      1. Please (You Got That…) (E-Smoove Club Mix)
      2. New Sensation (Nick 12” Mix)
      SIDE TWO
      1. Taste It (Youth 12” Mix)
      2. To Look At You (Extended Mix)
Record 3 (of 9) is pressed on red vinyl

10cc / 20 Years: 1972-1992

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Edsel will release a new 10cc box set early next year called 20 Years 1972-1992.

The 14CD package features all the band’s studio albums, with the exception of 1995’s Mirror Mirror, and includes Live and Let Live, the double live album from 1977, and two additional CDs of non-album tracks and alternate/singles mixes. In total, 20 Years offers 145 tracks.

The band initially consisted of Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley And Lol Creme and enjoyed commercial success during this period with ten top 10 singles and an impressive three number ones (‘Rubber Bullets’, ‘I’m Not In Love’ and ‘Dreadlock Holiday’). They also scored five consecutive top 10 albums (‘Sheet Music’, ‘The Original Soundtrack’, ‘How Dare You!’, ‘Deceptive Bends’ and ‘Bloody Tourists’).

The 20 Years box set contains 14 CDs and offers 145 tracks (click to enlarge)

Godley and Creme departed in 1976 but Steward and Gouldman carried on with various line-ups. The band ultimately disbanded towards the end of 1983 but continues as a touring band today with Graham Gouldman as the only fully-fledged original member. An 18-date world tour starts in March next year.

This box includes a 10,000 word essay on the band penned by Liam Newton, author of the band’s official biography, The Worst Band in the World.

20 Years 1972-1992 will be released on 26 January 2024 via Edsel.

Tracklisting

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Ten Years: 1972-1982 10cc /

    • CD 1: 10cc (1973)
      1. 1Johnny, Don’t Do It
      2. Sand In My Face
      3. Donna
      4. The Dean And I
      5. Headline Hustler
      6. Speed Kills
      7. Rubber Bullets
      8. The Hospital Song
      9. Ships Don’t Disappear In The Night (Do They?)
      10. Fresh Air For My Mama
    • CD 2: SHEET MUSIC (1974)
      1. The Wall Street Shuffle
      2. The Worst Band In The World
      3. Hotel
      4. Old Wild Men
      5. Clockwork Creep
      6. Silly Love
      7. Somewhere In Hollywood
      8. Baron Samedi
      9. The Sacro-Iliac
      10. Oh Effendi
    • CD 3: THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (1975)
      1. 1. Une Nuit A Paris
        Part 1 – One Night In Paris/Part 2 – Same Night In Paris/Part 3 – Later The Same Night In Paris
      2. I’m Not In Love
      3. Blackmail
      4. The Second Sitting For The Last Supper
      5. Brand New Day
      6. Flying Junk
      7. Life Is A Minestrone
      8. The Film Of My Love
    • CD 4: HOW DARE YOU! (1976)
      1. How Dare You
      2. Lazy Ways
      3. I Wanna Rule The World
      4. I’m Mandy Fly Me
      5. Iceberg
      6. Art For Art’s Sake
      7. Rock ‘N’ Roll Lullaby
      8. Head Room
      9. Don’t Hang Up
    • CD 5: DECEPTIVE BENDS (1977)
      1. Good Morning Judge
      2. The Things We Do For Love
      3. Marriage Bureau Rendezvous
      4. People In Love
      5. Modern Man Blues
      6. Honeymoon With A B Troop
      7. I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor
      8. You’ve Got A Cold
      9. Feel The Benefit:
        I) Reminisce And Speculate, Ii) A Latin Break, Iii) Feel The Benefit
    • CD 6: LIVE AND LET LIVE (1977)
      Disc 1
      1. The Second Sitting For The Last Supper
      2. You’ve Got A Cold
      3. Honeymoon With B Troop
      4. Art For Art’s Sake
      5. People In Love
      6. Wall Street Shuffle
      7. Ship’s Don’t Disappear In The Night (Do They?)
      8. I’m Mandy Fly Me
      9. Marriage Bureau Rendezvous
    • CD 7: LIVE AND LET LIVE (1977)
      Disc 2
      1. Good Morning Judge
      2. Feel The Benefit
      3. The Things We Do For Love
      4. Waterfall
      5. I’m Not In Love
      6. Modern Man Blues
    • CD 8: BLOODY TOURISTS (1978)
      1. Dreadlock Holiday
      2. For You And I
      3. Take These Chains
      4. Shock On The Tube (Don’t Want Love)
      5. Last Night
      6. The Anonymous Alcoholic
      7. Reds In My Bed
      8. Lifeline
      9. Tokyo
      10. Old Mister Time
      11. From Rochdale To Ocho Rios
      12. Everything You Wanted To Know About!!! (Exclamation Marks)
    • CD 9: LOOK HEAR? (1980)
      1.  One-Two-Five
      2. Welcome To The World
      3. How’m I Ever Gonna Say Goodbye
      4. Don’t Send We Back
      5. I Took You Home
      6. It Doesn’t Matter At All
      7. Dressed To Kill
      8. Lovers Anonymous
      9. I Hate To Eat Alone
      10. Strange Lover
      11. L.A. Inflatable
    • CD 10: TEN OUT OF 10 (1981)
      1. Don’t Ask
      2. Overdraft In Overdrive
      3. Don’t Turn Me Away
      4. Memories
      5. Notell Hotel
      6. Les Nouveaux Riches
      7. Action Man In Motown Suit
      8. Listen With Your Eyes
      9. Lying Here With You
      10. Survivor
    • CD 11: WINDOWS IN THE JUNGLE (1983)
      1. 24 Hours
      2. Feel The Love (Oomachasaooma)
      3. Yes I Am
      4. Americana Panorama
      5. City Lights
      6. Food For Thought
      7. Working Girls
      8. Taxi Taxi
    • CD 12: …MEANWHILE (1992)
      1. Woman In Love
      2. Wonderland
      3. Fill Her Up
      4. Something Special
      5. Welcome To Paradise
      6. The Stars Didn’t Show
      7. Green Eyed Monster
      8. Charity Begins At Home
      9. Shine A Light In The Dark
      10. Don’t Break The Promises
    • CD 13: SOME OF THE BITS WE MISSED (1972-1979)!
      1. Hot Sun Rock
      2. 4% Of Something
      3. Bee In My Bonnet
      4. Waterfall
      5. Gismo My Way
      6. 18 Carat Man Of Means
      7. The Worst Band In The World [Radio Version]
      8. Channel Swimmer
      9. Good News
      10. I’m Not In Love [Single Edit]
      11. Get It While You Can
      12. Hot To Trot
      13. Don’t Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste
      14. I’m So Laid Back, I’m Laid Out
      15. Nothing Can Move Me
    • CD 14: MORE BITS WE MISSED (1980-1992)!
      1. One-Two-Five [Single Version]
      2. Only Child
      3. Les Nouveaux Riches [Single Mix]
      4. Tomorrow’s World Today
      5. Run Away
      6. The Power Of Love
      7. You’re Coming Home Again
      8. We’ve Heard It All Before
      9. Memories [U.S. Mix]
      10. Feel The Love (Oomachasaooma) [Edit]
      11. She Gives Me Pain
      12. 24 Hours [Edit]
      13. The Secret Life Of Henry
      14. Don’t
      15. Lost In Love
      16. Man With A Mission
      17. Woman In Love [Radio Edit]
      18. Welcome To Paradise [7″ Edit]

Simple Minds / Acoustic in Concert

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Simple Minds‘ Acoustic in Concert will be reissued in December as a CD+blu-ray edition.

This is live document of a special show the band recorded for BBC Radio 2’s In Concert series back in 2017. The band performed their Acoustic album of “reimagined acoustic versions” almost in its entirety, along with cover versions like Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (when they were joined by Steve Harley).

This concert was available as a CD+DVD combo at the time and on standalone blu-ray or DVD editions. Now for the first time CD+blu-ray is combined for a special dual-disc package. The blu-ray features 5.1 surround sound.

Ascoutic in Concert will be released on 1 December 2023 via

Tracklisting

Acoustic in Concert Simple Minds /

    • CD
      1. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
      2. See The Lights
      3. Glittering Prize
      4. Stand By Love
      5. Waterfront
      6. Andy Warhol
      7. Chelsea Girl
      8. Someone Somewhere In Summertime
      9. Dancing Barefoot
      10. Speed Your Love To Me
      11. Promised You A Miracle
      12. Don’t You (Forget About Me)
      13. Sanctify Yourself
      14. Long Black Train
      15. Alive And Kicking
      16. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
    • blu-ray
      1. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
      2. See The Lights
      3. Glittering Prize
      4. Stand By Love
      5. Waterfront
      6. Andy Warhol
      7. Chelsea Girl
      8. Someone Somewhere In Summertime
      9. Dancing Barefoot
      10. Speed Your Love To Me
      11. Promised You A Miracle
      12. Don’t You (Forget About Me)
      13. Sanctify Yourself
      14. Long Black Train
      15. Alive And Kicking
      16. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons / Ultimate Collection – unboxed!

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SDE explores Working Our Way Back To You: The Ultimate Collection, Madfish’s recent Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons mega-box which contains 800 tracks across 44 CDs and a vinyl LP. It comes with three books including a 144-page hardcover tome!

Working Our Way Back To You: The Ultimate Collection is available now and is limited to 2500 units worldwide. You can order a copy via the SDE shop using this link or the button below (full tracklisting is on the shop listing).

Out This Week / on 6 October 2023

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Neil Young’s Archives Vol 1: 1963-1972 reissued on CD

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The 8CD box set edition of Neil Young’s first Archives release is being reissued in November.

Archives Vol. I: 1963-1972 was released way back in 2009 in three variants: Blu-ray, DVD and CD. The first two came in massive vertical boxes while the cheaper 8CD edition came in a slightly weird folding outer box known as a ‘Garypak’ because it was designed by Young’s long-term art director, the late Gary Burden. Each CD within the box has its own custom sleeve (check out the video at the bottom which will make this fairly clear).

The repertoire covers the first decade of Neil Young’s career, including material from the Squires, Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and his early solo albums. In total, there’s 137 tracks on the eight CDs and at the time 13 of the songs had never been released before and a further 34 tracks were previously unreleased live or alternate versions. The box set comes with a 24-page booklet and a large fold-out Archives poster.

In the 14 years since Vol 1 we’ve only had one further volume, although Archives Vol 3 is expected in 2024. Anyhow Neil Young fans can’t complain about a lack of reissues, especially in recent years!

Archives Vol. I: 1963-1972 will be reissued on CD on 17 November via Reprise Records.

This video from 2021 briefly shows the design of the Archives Vol 1 8CD box set

Tracklisting

Archives Vol 1: 1963-1972 Neil Young / 10CD box set

    • CD 1: Early Years (1963-1968)
      1. ‘Aurora’ – The Squires
      2. ‘The Sultan’ – The Squires
      3. ‘I Wonder’ – The Squires
      4. ‘Mustang’ – The Squires
      5. ‘Iʼll Love You Forever’ – The Squires
      6. ‘(Iʼm A Man And) I Can’t Cry’ – The Squires
      7. ‘Hello Lonely Woman’ – Neil Young & Comrie Smith
      8. ‘Casting Me Away From You’ – Neil Young & Comrie Smith
      9. ‘There Goes My Babe’ – Neil Young & Comrie Smith
      10. ‘Sugar Mountain’ – Neil Young
      11. ‘Nowadays Clancy Canʼt Even Sing’ – Neil Young
      12. ‘Runaround Babe’ – Neil Young
      13. ‘The Ballad Of Peggy Grover’ – Neil Young
      14. ‘The Rent Is Always Due’ – Neil Young
      15. 15 ‘Extra, Extra’ – Neil Young
      16. 16 ‘Flying On The Ground Is Wrong’ – Neil Young
      17. ‘Burned’ – Buffalo Springfield
      18. ‘Out Of My Mind’ – Buffalo Springfield
      19. ‘Down, Down, Down’ – Neil Young
      20.  ‘Kahuna Sunset’ – Buffalo Springfield
      21. ‘Mr. Soul’ – Buffalo Springfield
      22. ‘Sell Out’ – Buffalo Springfield
      23. ‘Down To The Wire’ – Neil Young
      24. ‘Expecting To Fly’ – Buffalo Springfield
      25. ‘Slowly Burning’ – Neil Young
      26. ‘One More Sign’ – Neil Young
      27. ‘Broken Arrow’ – Buffalo Springfield
      28. ‘I Am A Child’ – Buffalo Springfield
    • CD 2: Topanga 1 (1968-1969)
      1. ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ – Neil Young
      2. ‘The Loner’ – Neil Young
      3. ‘Birds’ – Neil Young
      4. ‘What Did You Do To My Life?’ – Neil Young
      5. ‘The Last Trip To Tulsa’ – Neil Young
      6. ‘Here We Are In The Years’ – Neil Young
      7. ‘Iʼve Been Waiting For You’ – Neil Young
      8. ‘The Old Laughing Lady’ – Neil Young
      9. ‘Iʼve Loved Her So Long’ – Neil Young
      10. ‘Sugar Mountain’ – Neil Young
      11. ‘Nowadays Clancy Canʼt Even Sing’ – Neil Young
      12. ‘Down By The River’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      13. ‘Cowgirl In The Sand’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      14. ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
    • CD 3: Live At The Riverboat (Toronto 1969)
      1. ‘Sugar Mountain’ – Neil Young
      2. ‘The Old Laughing Lady’ – Neil Young
      3. ‘Flying On The Ground Is Wrong’ – Neil Young
      4. ‘On The Way Home’ – Neil Young
      5. ‘Iʼve Loved Her So Long’ – Neil Young
      6. ‘I Am A Child’ – Neil Young
      7. ‘1956 Bubblegum Disaster’ – Neil Young
      8. ‘The Last Trip To Tulsa’ – Neil Young
      9. ‘Broken Arrow’ – Neil Young
      10. ‘Whiskey Boot Hill’ – Neil Young
      11. ‘Expecting To Fly’ – Neil Young
    • CD 4: Topanga 2 (1969-1970)
      1. ‘Cinnamon Girl’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      2. ‘Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      3. ‘Round And Round (It Wonʼt Be Long)’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      4. ‘Oh Lonesome Me’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      5. ‘Birds’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      6. ‘Everybodyʼs Alone’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      7. ‘I Believe In You’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      8. ‘Sea Of Madness’ – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
      9. ‘Dance Dance Dance’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      10. ‘Country Girl’ – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
      11. ‘Helpless’ – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
      12. ‘It Might Have Been’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
    • CD 5: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live At The Fillmore East (New York 1970)
      1. ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’
      2. ‘Winterlong’
      3. ‘Down By The River’
      4. ‘Wonderinʼ’
      5. ‘Come On Baby Letʼs Go Downtown’
      6. ‘Cowgirl In The Sand’
    • Disc 6: Topanga 3 (1970)
      1. ‘Tell Me Why’ – Neil Young
      2. ‘After The Gold Rush’ – Neil Young
      3. ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ – Neil Young
      4. ‘Wonderinʼ’ – Neil Young
      5. ‘Donʼt Let It Bring You Down’ – Neil Young
      6. ‘Cripple Creek Ferry’ – Neil Young
      7. ‘Southern Man’ – Neil Young
      8. ‘Till The Morning Comes’ – Neil Young
      9. ‘When You Dance, I Can Really Love’ – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
      10. ‘Ohio’ – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
      11. ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
      12. ‘Tell Me Why’ – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
      13. ‘Music Is Love’ – David Crosby, Graham Nash & Neil Young
      14. ‘See The Sky About To Rain’ – Neil Young
    • CD 7: Live At Massey Hall (Toronto 1971)
      1. ‘On The Way Home’
      2. ‘Tell Me Why’
      3. ‘Old Man’
      4. ‘Journey Through The Past’
      5. ‘Helpless’
      6. ‘Love In Mind’
      7. ‘A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold (Suite)’
      8. ‘Cowgirl In The Sand’
      9. ‘Donʼt Let It Bring You Down’
      10. ‘Thereʼs A World’
      11. ‘Bad Fog Of Loneliness’
      12. ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’
      13. ‘Ohio’
      14. ‘See The Sky About To Rain’
      15. ‘Down By The River’
      16. ‘Dance Dance Dance’
      17. ‘I Am A Child’
    • CD 8: North Country (1971-1972)
      1. ‘Heart Of Gold’ – Neil Young
      2. ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’ – Neil Young
      3. ‘Bad Fog Of Loneliness’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      4. ‘Old Man’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      5. ‘Heart Of Gold’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      6. ‘Dance Dance Dance’ – Neil Young
      7. ‘A Man Needs A Maid’ – Neil Young with the London Symphony Orch.
      8. ‘Harvest’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      9. 9 ‘Journey Through The Past’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      10. ‘Are You Ready For The Country?’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      11. ‘Alabama’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      12. ‘Words (Between The Lines Of Age)’ – Neil Young with The Stray Gators
      13. ‘Soldier’ – Neil Young
      14. ‘War Song’ – Neil Young & Graham Nash with The Stray Gators

Steven Wilson / The Harmony Codex review

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It’s tempting to wonder if other musicians don’t look on the career of Steven Wilson with a certain envy. He appears to do precisely what he wants, when he wants, completely unencumbered by the kind of pressures that are brought to bear on other artists: the vagaries of fashion, the pursuit of commercial acceptance, the demands and expectations of record companies or indeed of fans. He has an impressively rabid audience – big enough to send his last two solo albums into the top five and justify Wilson publishing a pretty elliptical autobiography, Limited Edition Of One; big enough to fill Wembley Arena to see the reformed version of his most famous band, Porcupine Tree, in 2022 – but they mostly seem willing to follow him down whatever musical path he chooses to take: they might be the polar opposite of the kind of rabid latterday pop fans, or ‘stans’, who apparently spend most of their time on social media angrily lecturing their supposed idols on what they can and can’t do.

His chart positions notwithstanding, Wilson always feels at one remove from the rock mainstream, perhaps an inevitable result of having launched his career in the early 90s doing pretty much the two least fashionable things you could do at that particular juncture of British musical history – reanimating the slick, sophisticated art-pop of the 80s with No-Man and playing distinctly prog-leaning rock with Porcupine Tree – but he clearly commands the respect of an impressively eclectic array of his fellow musicians. The remix version of his seventh studio album features contributions from the Manic Street Preachers, Interpol, Tears For Fears’ Roland Orzabal, and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish metallers Opeth, their names among those on a list of collaborators that also takes in Elton John, Robert Fripp and XTC’s Andy Partridge, amongst others. Wilson is presumably the solitary thread that connects acclaimed Norwegian jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær with rave/metal hybridists Enter Shikari.

More successful than ever, entirely on one’s own terms: it’s an intriguing trick to pull off nearly 35 years into your career. For all its high-minded background – described by Wilson as “cinema for the ears”, its roots lie in a dystopian short story included in Limited Edition Of One – The Harmony Codex suggests a prosaic answer to how Steven Wilson has achieved it. He’s just very good at what he does, whether that’s knotty prog instrumentals – the jittery King Crimson-esque ‘Impossible Tightrope’ lasts nearly eleven minutes, comes complete with free-blowing saxophone, a becalmed, piano-and-choral-vocals interlude and improbably starts to shade into Giorgio Moroder-esque disco towards its conclusion, without losing its sense of urgency or propulsion – or autumnally-hued acoustic rock: ‘What Life Brings’ is gorgeous, decorated with some faintly David Gilmour-esque guitar playing.

Very much the man you call if you’re a legendary rock or pop artist who wants an album remixed into spatial audio – he’s recently performed the 5.1/Dolby Atmos duties for everyone from Jethro Tull to Chic – Wilson has talked up The Harmony Codex as a modern example of what can be done with spatial mixing, setting up special immersive playbacks, where fans can experience the entire album in a “hemisphere of sound”. You can understand why – spatial audio currently exists largely as an adjunct to the reissue market, as its go-to guy, Wilson presumably wants to see it develop as an option for new music – and the videos online of people emerging from said playbacks looking like they’ve undergone some kind of religious epiphany tell their own story about how effective it all is. Nevertheless, there’a a slight danger in all of this. It runs the risk of making The Harmony Codex sound like a hi-fi demonstration album, something to show off your system with, which feels like dramatically underselling its contents. It’s a beautifully-produced album, but what really matters is the music: it’s worth noting that it sounds incredible as an m4a stream with nothing more advanced than a mobile and a pair of headphones for playback.

It’s an album that feels a little like a culmination, tying together the various strands of his musical past. As well as prog and Economy of Scale’s 21st Century reboot of the kind of progressive, experimental ’80s sound pursued on those albums where the era’s pop stars allowed their music to unfurl in directions far removed from the stuff that got them in Smash Hits – David Sylvian’s Brilliant Trees, Thomas Dolby’s The Flat Earth, The Associates’ Sulk – you get a feeling for his love of abstract electronics: the quietly menacing sound of ‘Beautiful Scarecrow’ isn’t a million miles removed from Coil’s late ’90s work.

If his penchant for metal isn’t as obviously reflected as it was in the albums Porcupine Tree made in the early noughties, there’s still a perceptible heaviness about the guitar on ‘Actual Brutal Facts’. You get a distinct sense of Wilson’s restless musical spirit: within seven minutes, opener ‘Inclination’ has moved from atmospheric, vaguely Middle Eastern motifs, to a pounding industrial rhythm track and claustrophobic sampled breathing, to epic-sounding rock, to ambient electronic instrumental, to something approaching a piano ballad. In theory, it should sound disjointed – like a bunch of interesting ideas thrown at the wall in the hope that some of them will stick – but it doesn’t, which is testament to Wilson’s skill as a writer, his hugely impressive way with a dynamic shift: the moment when the band kicks in is like the musical equivalent of a cinematic jump-scare.  

And you also get an equally distinct flavour of Wilson’s uncompromising approach. Near the middle of the album, you encounter 10 instrumental minutes of beatless, drifting electronica. It’s beautiful, but there’s something almost confrontational about positioning it at the centre of the action, rather than as a mood-setting introduction or a lengthy coda, and something rather bullish about making it the album’s title track. It’s the action of someone who knows precisely what he wants to do, confidently declining to underestimate his audience. It’s the action of someone who’s carved themselves out a unique position within the musical landscape: listening to The Harmony Codex – or rather, absorbing yourself in its umpteen shifts in sound and tone and mood – Steven Wilson sounds like an artist out on his own, in the best possible sense of the phrase. 

The Harmony Codex was reviewed by Alexis Petridis. It’s out today on Virgin Records.

Tracklisting

Steven Wilson / New album The Harmony Codex

The Harmony Codex Steven Wilson /

    • CD 1
      1. Inclination (7.15)
      2. What Life Brings (3.40)
      3. Economies of Scale (4.17)
      4. Impossible Tightrope (10.42)
      5. Rock Bottom (4.25)
      6. Beautiful Scarecrow (5.21)
      7. The Harmony Codex (9.50)
      8. Time is Running Out (3.57)
      9. Actual Brutal Facts (5.05)
      10. Staircase (9.26)
    • CD 2: Harmonic Distortion
      1. Codex Theme #7
      2. Economies of Scale – Manic Street Preachers remix
      3. Codex Theme #9
      4. Inclination – Faultline remix
      5. Impossible Tightrope – alternate version
      6. Codex Theme #6 4
      7. Beautiful Scarecrow – Meat Beat Manifesto Excursion 1
      8. Codex Theme #8
      9. Time is Running Out – Mikael Åkerfeldt version
      10. Staircase – Interpol Remix
      11. Codex Theme #3
      12. What Life Brings – Aug 22 mix by Roland Orzabal
      13. The Harmony Codex – long take
      14. Staircase – Radiophonic Workshop rem
    • Blu-ray
      1. High Resolution Stereo (96/24)
      2. 5.1 Mix (96/24)
      3. Atmos (48/24)
      4. Stereo Instrumentals (96/24) *
      5. 5.1 Instrumentals (96/24) *
      6. Atmos Instrumentals (48/24) *
      7. ECONOMIES OF SCALE video (Directed by Charlie Di Placido)
      8. THE HARMONY CODEX video (Directed by Crystal Spotlight/Miles Skarin)
      * exclusive to this edition

Tina Turner / Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll

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Warner Records will issue a new Tina Turner compilation called Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, in November.

This sees her complete singles collection issued on one 3CD set for the first time, starting with ‘Whole Lotta Love’ from 1975 and going all the way up to the Kygo remix of ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ in 2020. A big 5LP vinyl box set, with the same content, is also available along with a cuts-to-the-chase 12-track single vinyl LP.

This set also includes a brand-new version of ‘Something Beautiful Remains’, reworked by producer and long-time collaborator of Tina, Terry Britten. It is retitled and becomes ‘Something Beautiful’.

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll will be released on 24 November 2023 via Rhino.

Tracklisting

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Tina Turner /

    • CD 1
      1. Whole Lotta Love (1994 Remaster)
      2. Acid Queen (1994 Remaster)
      3. Root, Toot Undisputable Rock ‘N Roller
      4. Viva La Money
      5. Sometimes When We Touch
      6. Music Keeps Me Dancin’
      7. Let’s Stay Together (Single Version)
      8. Help (2015 Remaster)
      9. What’s Love Got To Do With It (2015 Remaster)
      10. Better Be Good To Me
      11. Private Dancer (Single Edit)
      12. I Can’t Stand The Rain (2015 Remaster)
      13. Show Some Respect (2015 Remaster)
      14. We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) [1994 Remaster]
      15. One Of The Living
      16. It’s Only Love (feat. Bryan Adams) [1994 Remaster]
      17. Typical Male (2022 Remaster)
      18. Two People (2022 Remaster)
      19. What You Get Is What You See (2022 Remaster)
      20. Girls (2022 Remaster)
    • CD 2
      1. Break Every Rule (2022 Remaster)
      2. Paradise Is Here (2022 Remaster)
      3. Afterglow (2022 Remaster)
      4. Tearing Us Apart (feat. Eric Clapton) (1994 Remaster)
      5. Addicted To Love (Live at Camden Palace, London)
      6. A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)
      7. Tonight (with David Bowie) (Live at NEC, Birmingham) (2015 Remaster)
      8. River Deep, Mountain High (Live in Europe)
      9. The Best (Edit)
      10. Steamy Windows (2021 Remaster)
      11. I Don’t Wanna Lose You (2021 Remaster)
      12. Look Me In The Heart (2021 Remaster)
      13. Foreign Affair (Edit)
      14. Be Tender With Me Baby (2021 Remaster)
      15. It Takes Two (Rod Stewart with Tina Turner)
      16. Nutbush City Limits (The 90’s Version)
      17. Love Thing
      18. Way Of The World
    • CD 3
      1. I Want You Near Me
      2. I Don’t Wanna Fight (Single Edit) (2023 Remaster)
      3. Disco Inferno (2023 Remaster)
      4. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (7″ Single Edit) (2023 Remaster)
      5. Proud Mary (Edit) [2023 Remaster]
      6. Goldeneye (2003 Remaster)
      7. Whatever You Want (Alternative Mix)
      8. On Silent Wings (Single Edit)
      9. Missing You (Single Edit)
      10. In Your Wildest Dreams (feat. Barry White) (Radio Edit)
      11. Cose Della Vita (Eros Ramazzotti with Tina Turner)
      12. When The Heartache Is Over
      13. Whatever You Need
      14. Open Arms
      15. Teach Me Again
      16. What’s Love Got To Do With It (Kygo Remix)
      17. Something Beautiful (2023 Version)

NOW Yearbook 1988

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Now That’s What I Call Music’s next Yearbook will be focused on 1988.

NOW Yearbook ’88 will be available as a deluxe 4CD set in hardcover book packaging and a standard 4CD offering with card sleeve. Both feature 82 tracks. The 3LP coloured vinyl edition cuts this down to 45 tracks.

The first disc of NOW Yearbook 88 opens with George Michael’s ‘Father Figure’ and includes Duran Duran’s I Don’t Want Your Love, and ‘You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart’ by Eurythmics,’ Heart’ by Pet Shop Boys, New Order’s ‘Blue Monday ‘88’, a-ha’s ‘Stay On These Roads’, and Yello’s biggest hit to date ‘The Race’.

CD 2 has a PWL phase with Kylie, Bananarama, Jason etc. and follows with dance tunes from the likes of S’Express (‘Theme From S-Express’), and Yazz & The Plastic Population with ‘The Only Way Is Up’,

Great to see Springsteen open disc three (‘Tougher Than The Rest’ from Tunnel of Love) and it all goes a bit ‘rock’ for a bit with Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi and Billy Idol.

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The Pet Shop Boys return for CD 4 with a great ‘one-two’ of ‘Left to My Own Devices’ followed by Eighth Wonder’s ‘I’m Not Scared’ which of course was written and produced by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. More late 80s pop follows from Dollar, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Bros, Taylor Dayne and more.

NOW Yearbook ’88 will be issued on 3 November 2023.

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Tracklisting

NOW Yearbook ’88 Various Artists /

    • CD 1
      1. George Michael – Father Figure
      2. Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth
      3. Kim Wilde – You Came
      4. Duran Duran – I Don’t Want Your Love
      5. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
      6. Pet Shop Boys – Heart
      7. New Order – Blue Monday ’88
      8. Yello – The Race
      9. a-ha – Stay On These Roads
      10. The Adventures – Broken Land
      11. Aztec Camera – Somewhere In My Heart
      12. Tanita Tikaram – Good Tradition
      13. Fairground Attraction – Perfect
      14. Danny Wilson – Mary’s Prayer
      15. The Communards – There’s More To Love (Than Boy Meets Girl)
      16. Scritti Politti – Oh Patti (Don’t Feel Sorry For Loverboy)
      17. UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – Breakfast In Bed
      18. Everything But The Girl – I Don’t Want To Talk About It
      19. Sade – Love Is Stronger Than Pride
      20. Sting – Fragile
    • CD 2
      1. Kylie Minogue – I Should Be So Lucky
      2. Bananarama – I Want You Back
      3. Rick Astley – Together Forever
      4. Jason Donovan – Nothing Can Divide Us
      5. Brother Beyond – The Harder I Try
      6. Bros – I Owe You Nothing
      7. The Timelords – Doctorin’ The Tardis
      8. Bomb The Bass – Beat Dis
      9. Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up
      10. S’Express – Theme From S-Express
      11. Inner City – Good Life
      12. Womack & Womack – Teardrops
      13. Climie Fisher – Love Changes (Everything)
      14. Breathe – Hands To Heaven
      15. Glenn Medeiros – Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You
      16. The Beach Boys – Kokomo
      17. Belinda Carlisle – Circle In The Sand
      18. Jane Wiedlin – Rush Hour
      19. The Bangles – Hazy Shade Of Winter
      20. Gloria Estefan / Miami Sound Machine – Anything For You
      21. Elton John – Candle In The Wind (Live)
    • CD 3
      1. Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than The Rest
      2. Deacon Blue – Real Gone Kid
      3. Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
      4. Iron Maiden – Can I Play With Madness
      5. Pat Benatar – All Fired Up
      6. Billy Idol – Hot In The City
      7. Sinéad O’Connor – Mandinka
      8. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
      9. The Mission – Tower Of Strength
      10. All About Eve – Martha’s Harbour
      11. Cher – I Found Someone
      12. Heart – These Dreams
      13. Robin Beck – First Time
      14. Maxi Priest – Wild World
      15. Aswad – Don’t Turn Around
      16. Will Downing – A Love Supreme
      17. Mica Paris – My One Temptation
      18. Sananda Maitreya – Sign Your Name
      19. Brenda Russell – Piano In The Dark
      20. Whitney Houston – One Moment In Time
    • CD 4
      1. Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
      2. Eighth Wonder – I’m Not Scared
      3. Dollar – O L’Amour
      4. Desireless – Voyage Voyage
      5. Sabrina – Boys (Summertime Love)
      6. Hazell Dean – Who’s Leaving Who
      7. Kylie Minogue – The Loco-Motion
      8. Debbie Gibson – Only In My Dreams
      9. Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now
      10. Kim Wilde – Never Trust A Stranger
      11. Transvision Vamp – I Want Your Love
      12. Bros – When Will I Be Famous?
      13. Wet Wet Wet – With A Little Help From My Friends
      14. Wee Papa Girl Rappers – Wee Rule
      15. Salt-N-Pepa – Push It
      16. Pebbles – Girlfriend
      17. Natalie Cole – Pink Cadillac
      18. Taylor Dayne – Tell It To My Heart
      19. Bananarama – Love, Truth & Honesty
      20. Angry Anderson – Suddenly (7” Mix)
      21. Cliff Richard – Mistletoe And Wine