I’m pleased to announce DECADE: The best of Super Deluxe Edition 2011-2021, a forthcoming SDE book that features highlights from the site’s first ten years.
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Author: Paul Sinclair
Out This Week / on 19 March 2021
Bob Dylan / 50th Anniversary Collection: 1970 CD
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 19 March 2021” Fawlty Towers: For The Record – 6LP white vinyl box signed by John Cleese
Fawlty Towers: For The Record is a new 6LP coloured vinyl box set that features all 12 TV episodes of the classic British comedy series. This limited edition set comes with a art print of harassed hotelier Basil Fawlty SIGNED by co-creator John Cleese.
This new set is made up from the four original BBC vinyl albums – Fawlty Towers, Second Sitting, At Your Service and A La Carte – and two newly created collections, Plat du Jour and Enjoy Your Stay. Together they form a box of all 12 episodes which have a special linking narration – supplied by hapless waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs) – which is unique to the vinyl versions and hasn’t been available since their original pressings.
Hear Paul Weller’s ‘Glad Times’
Paul Weller has ‘released’ another song from his forthcoming album Fat Pop. Listen to ‘Glad Times’ via the lyric video below…
YELLO / YELL40 Years retrospective
Electronic duo YELLO are celebrating their 40th anniversary with, YELL40 Years, a new retrospective issued across three physical formats.
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Paul McCartney / McCartney III Imagined – remix/covers album
Paul McCartney‘s 2020 album, McCartney III, is reimagined – or make that III imagined – via an interesting selection of artists including Beck, St Vincent, Damon Albarn and Josh Homme.
All of the album’s 11 tracks have been either remixed or covered by Damon Albarn, Beck, Blood Orange, Phoebe Bridgers, Josh Homme, Khraungbin, 3D RDN of Massive Attack, Ed O’Brien (EOB), Anderson .Paak, St. Vincent and more. You can listen to American singer/rapper/songwriter Dominic Fike’s cover of ‘The Kiss of Venus’, below.
Now 8 won’t be missing any tracks
The two-CD reissue of Now That’s What I Call Music 8 will not be missing any songs, if an image posted on the Amazon in the UK proves correct.
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Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler half-speed mastering details revealed
Next week, Universal Music will reissue half-speed mastered vinyl pressings of Dire Straits‘ 1985 album Brothers in Arms and Mark Knopfler‘s 1983 soundtrack to Bill Forsyth’s film Local Hero.
Both albums have digital master tapes, but Abbey Road mastering engineer – and half-speed specialist – Miles Showell talks exclusively to SDE about the detective work required to source the correct tapes in preparation for the half-speed mastering process and some surprising discoveries along the way…
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Pink Floyd / Live at Knebworth 1990
Pink Floyd‘s live performance at Knebworth in 1990 gets a standalone release on vinyl and CD next month.
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Bobby Gillespie / Tenement Kid
Bobby Gillespie, singer, songwriter and founder member of Primal Scream has written a book, Tenement Kid, which will be published later this year and is available as special signed editions.
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
Neneh Cherry / Raw Like Sushi 3CD deluxe edition
£28
The main issue with last year’s large format, three-CD deluxe package of Neneh Cherry‘s superb 1989 album, was always the price. North of £40 just seemed far too expensive, for what was on offer. However, £25 is much more like it and if you can forgive the error (the ‘Spanish Mix’ & the ‘A Little More Puerto Rico’ mix are actually identical) this is well worth picking up at this price point
ABBA / The Studio Albums 8LP coloured vinyl box
£122
Simple Minds / Street Fighting Years 2CD deluxe
£3.99
Amazing price, considering you get the remastered album and a bonus disc of 15 B-sides, single versions and remixes!
PJ Harvey / Uh Huh Her reissue
PJ Harvey‘s Uh Huh Her will be reissued on vinyl next month, along with ‘demos’ editions available on CD and vinyl.
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Get On Board The Soul Train: 8CD Philadelphia International box set
United Souls, in conjunction with Sony Legacy Recordings will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia International Records with an 8CD box set: Get On Board The Soul Train – The Sound Of Philadelphia International Records Vol 1.
This is the first volume in a limited edition series which covers the first eight studio albums released by the label from 1971-1973. This series will offer all album remastered from the original tapes and will map the history of Philadelphia International Records chronologically.
Japan / Quiet Life unboxed
Out today is the box set edition of Japan‘s 1979/1980 album Quiet Life. This features three CDs and a half-speed mastered 180g black vinyl LP. Watch the SDEtv unboxing video, below…
Alphaville / Afternoons in Utopia and The Breathtaking Blue reissues
Alphaville will reissue their second and third albums Afternoons In Utopia and The Breathtaking Blue in May, both with remastered audio and bonus material.
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John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band box set
John Lennon‘s 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band will be reissued as a 6CD+2blu-ray box set in April and will feature over 11 hours of audio newly remixed for stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos.
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Tom Petty / Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)
In a move that will surely delight and infuriate Tom Petty fans in equal measure, Finding Wildflowers, the bonus CD or 2LP vinyl set that was only available via the expensive super deluxe edition of last years Wildflowers & All The Rest reissue, will now be available separately as standalone release, on both formats, in April.
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Now That’s What I Call Music 8 to be reissued as a two-CD set
1986 ‘various artists’ compilation Now That’s What I Call Music 8 will be issued as a two-CD set for the first time later this month.
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Pre-order a signed CD of Van Morrison’s forthcoming ‘Latest Record Project’
Van Morrison‘s new album will be called Latest Record Project, Vol 1 and fans can pre-order a signed two-CD set from Amazon in the UK.
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Neil Young / Archives II 1972-1976 retail edition unboxed
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Out on Friday, is the ‘retail’ edition of Neil Young‘s Archives Vol II 1972-1976 box set. SDE takes a look at this cheaper version of this 10CD box set and compares it to its bigger cousin. Take a look at the video, below…
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