SDE was pleased to see that ABBA have released both ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ – the first two singles from the forthcoming Voyage – as physical releases. Both of them on CD and ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ additionally on seven-inch vinyl. Watch the video for a closer look!
To mark the records’s 40th anniversary, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Darkwill releasethe three singles from 1981’s Architecture & Morality together on one album, along with associated tracks: unreleased demos, studio sessions and live performances.
‘Souvenir’, ‘Joan Of Arc’ and ‘Maid Of Orleans’ are the brilliant, international hit singles from the album but they are joined by 15 other tracks including the demo of ‘Souvenir’, the rough mix of ‘Choir Song’, ‘Motion & Heart (Live at Drury Lane, 1981)’, a rough mix of ‘Joan Of Arc’, the ‘Georgia Demo’ of ‘New Song’, the demo of ‘Maid Of Orleans’ and more!
Architecture & Morality: The Singles. The 3x 12″ version offers coloured vinyl in a six-panel gatefold sleeve (click image to enlarge)
These 18-tracks are available on one CD called Architecture & Morality: The Singles but they are also being issued as a special anniversary 3×12-inch package in a six-panel, embossed, silver-board gatefold sleeve. The vinyl also comes with a download code.
The singles are pressed on magenta, purple and red vinyl. While the 18-track CD is pre-orderable in most places, the vinyl is slightly different. It is widely available via most channels except in the UK where it appears to be exclusive to the Sound of Vinyl and recordstore.co.uk.
Architecture & Morality: The Singles is released on 15 October 2021.
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Tori Amos will release a new studio album called Ocean to Ocean next month.
This follow-up to 2017’s Native Invader, is described as “her most personal work in years” and as an album “bursting with warmth and connection, with deep roots in her earliest song writing”.
Written during lockdown in Cornwall this year (where Tori Amos lives), Ocean to Ocean is “a universal story of going to rock bottom and renewing yourself all over again”.
Ocean to Ocean CD comes in a gatefold card wallet with booklet (click image to enlarge)
The artwork was also shot in Cornwall with Amos looking suitably dramatic on the cliffs of the county’s south west shores.
The album will be available on CD (no deluxe edition, it seems) and on double vinyl, with a limited edition blue variant available from various D2C channels.
The Decca/Universal UK/EU store was offering signed CDs earlier today but has now sold out, although coloured vinyl is still available and there is a cassette. There may be different/better options for international readers.
Dido‘s debut album, 1999/2001’s No Angel will be released as a special coloured vinyl LP for this year’s ‘National Album Day’.
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The album was of course MASSSIVE and by 2003 had sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and it ended up being the second best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.
This new edition is pressed on grey-coloured vinyl and will be released on 16 October 2021.
76/77 is a new four-CD box set featuring recordings of the Sex Pistols before the release of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols in 1977. It features 80 alternate versions of tracks recorded between May 1976 and Sept 1977.
This 2021 release comes from the archive of surviving Small Faces member Kenney Jones and delivers two sets recorded at the Twenty Club in Mouscron, Belgium on January 9, 1966. It captures live versions of well-known songs alongside tracks The Small Faces never recorded in the studio. The deluxe, gatefold CD digi-book designed by Phil Smee and features in-depth sleeve notes and a new interview with Kenney Jones. Coloured vinyl appears exclusive to the Small Faces shop.
Robbie Williams / Life Thru A Lens and I’ve Been Expecting You (vinyl)
Robbie‘s first two albums issued on vinyl. Both have been newly mastered at Abbey Road Studios, are pressed on 180g vinyl and come in gatefold sleeves. These include download codes.
Falco‘s 1986 album Emotional will be reissued next month as a 3CD+DVD deluxe set and on vinyl.
The album features the singles ‘The Sound of Musik’ and ‘Coming Home (Jeanny Part II, One Year Later)’ both of which were successful to various degrees across Europe (the latter topped the German charts) although neither song managed to break into the UK top 40 (‘Rock Me Amadeus’ and ‘Vienna Calling’ from 1985’s Falco 3 remain the Austrian’s only UK hits).
The album couldn’t repeat the international success of its predecessor, but was still a top ten hit in Norway, Switzerland as well as Austria and Germany.
The reissue is generous and the 3CD+DVD set offers the album remastered plus two CDs of extended remixes, radio versions and instrumentals. The DVD (which is confirmed as PAL and presumed region 2) features 11 tracks played live on the Emotional tour. These are on DVD for the first time. This comes in a DVD-sized digi-pack and includes The deluxe edition comes with a 20 page booklet in English and German and includes new sleeve notes, unseen pictures and lyrics.
The album is also available on black vinyl although a limited edition 180g red vinyl version is available. UK fans can order both formats from the SDE shop.
Emotional will be reissued on 12 November 2021 (was 29 October).
Warner Music Group have confirmed that the next David Bowie ‘era’ box set will be released in the autumn of 2021 and will be called Brilliant Adventure [1992-2001].
The news was almost a footnote in a statement issued on Thursday about a new deal with the David Bowie Estate, which sees Warners acquire the rights to David’s later output, which was previously controlled by Sony.
Warners already had the rights to output from 1968 to 1999 (Hours being the last studio album) but now they add the material he released from 2000-2016, including the albums Heathen (2002), Reality (2003), The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar (2016). In other words, everything is under one roof.
As we know, Warners have reissued an enormous amount of Bowie material in recent years – particularly since his death – including the so-called ‘era’ box sets such as Five Years (2015) , Who Can I Be Now (2016), A New Career in a New Town (2017) and Loving The Alien (2018). Much of this was said to be part of a plan that David approved in his last year or two of his life (the label are “guided by Bowie’s vision for his catalog” to use the official terminology).
Warners choose not to release another era box in 2019, preferring to concentrate on the 50th anniversary of the Space Oddity album (and single). So they put out various vinyl box sets featuring unheard demos and the Conversation Piece CD package with an expectation of returning to the big boxes in 2020, only to find they were unable to so due to the global pandemic and production and supply-chain issues.
But after two years away, the label have confirmed it is now happening in 2021. To quote the statement “The fifth Era box, Brilliant Adventure (1992 – 2001), is slated for release this fall, with details to come”.
The years in parenthesis confirm that Tin Machine will form no part of Brilliant Adventure and so the five studio albums included will be Black Tie White Noise (1993), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Outside (1995), Earthling (1997) and Hours (1999).
This new deal means that Warners can now continue the era boxes into the last two decades of Bowie’s life. What would you like to see in Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001)? Leave a comment.
Welcome to the world of ’80s Bob Dylan – the most maligned and misunderstood period in a remarkable career that’s spanned almost 60 years.
It was Dylan’s worst decade for several reasons – bad album reviews, dodgy leather jackets and a disastrous Live Aid performance with Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards all spring to mind immediately – but it was also an inventive and varied one for him musically, as he dabbled with Christian rock, reggae and synths, albeit with mixed results.
Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol.16 1980-1985 essentially picks up where 2017’s Vol. 13 Trouble No More 1979–1981 left off. The deluxe five-CD edition includes 57 Dylan recordings – 54 of them which have been previously unreleased in any format.
The songs that have been available elsewhere are ‘Let It Be Me’ – first released as a B-side to ‘Heart of Mine’, an international seven-inch single, and ‘Don’t Ever Take Yourself Away’, from the soundtrack album, Hawaii Five-0: Original Songs From the Television Series. Both are outtakes from his 21st studio album, Shot of Love, the third and final record in his Christianity trilogy. A third previously released recording, ‘Death Is Not The End’, an outtake from 1983’s Infidels, first appeared in an edited version on Dylan’s 1988 album, Down In The Groove. The version on Springtime In New York is the first time the song’s been heard in full.
Packaging-wise, the five-CD version is one of the better Dylan reissues – it comes in a sturdy box, similar to the impressive 2018 deluxe edition of More Blood, More Tracks, which was the 14th entry in The Bootleg Series. The contents are housed in two books – one, which contains all the CDs and the credits, is designed to look like studio tapes from the recording sessions, while the other is a 104-page colour book with an extensive essay and informed liner notes by journalist Damien Love, as well as plenty of decent photographs of Dylan and reproductions of reviews, press coverage and memorabilia.
Springtime In New York is packaged as two books and features five CDs (click image to enlarge)
It’s a nice package for the asking price, which, at the time of writing, is around £117. There are other versions available – two-CD and two-LP highlights editions and a four-LP offering as part of Third Man Records’ ‘Vault’ Series.
So, what about the music? Considering the title of this collection, for the first song on disc one of the box set, we actually find ourselves in autumn in California, listening to a cinematic and spooked version of ‘Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)’, recorded in Dylan’s private rehearsal space, Rundown Studios, in Santa Monica. The original recording was a highlight of his 1978 album, Street Legal, and this take is arguably even better, with eerie electric piano. Dylan is joined by atmospheric, wailing female backing vocals. Next up he revisits another gem in his back catalogue, 1964’s ‘To Ramona’, reinventing it as folky soul, with mandolin, some warm organ and yet more female backing vocals.
Bar a slowed-down, swampy ‘Mystery Train’, the ’50s R&B tune which became a rockabilly classic after being recorded by Elvis (Dylan’s version, with Ringo Starr on drums, is an outtake from Shot of Love), disc one consists of rehearsal tracks, including several covers. Dylan tackles Neil Diamond’s wedding disco staple, ‘Sweet Caroline’, turning it into a Phil Spector-esque ballad, with Ronettes-like backing vocals and Jim Keltner on echoing drums – the liner notes describe it as “basement Wall of Sound”, which is a perfect description.
There’s a version of the traditional gospel song, ‘Jesus Met The Woman At The Well – Dylan and his band convert it into a chugging, heads-down blues boogie – and a sultry and slow-burning take on ‘Fever’, which is a late-night prowl, with menacing bluesy guitar. The best cover is one of the simplest – a moving and stately rendition of ‘Abraham, Martin and John’ that’s a stripped-down duet with Clydie King and featuring Dylan on piano.
Original song, ‘Let’s Keep It Between Us’, which was recorded by Bonnie Raitt, is laid-back and soulful, with some seriously great organ playing by Willie Smith. A version of Bill LaBounty’s ‘This Night Will Last Forever’ is less impressive – pleasant enough, but inessential AOR.
Fast forward to the summer of ’81, when Shot of Love is released, to a mostly hostile reception – Rolling Stone critic Paul Nelson gave it two stars out of five, only singling out one track, ‘Every Grain of Sand’, for praise, while NME writer Nick Kent called it “Dylan’s worst album to date.” Dylan begged to differ – in an interview he gave in 1983, he called it his favourite album and U2’s Bono also has a soft spot for it, saying it showcases Dylan’s ability as a singer.
Shot of Love may have failed to hit the mark for a lot of people, but the 11-track second disc of this collection which consists of outtakes from the album sessions of the spring of 1981, has plenty to offer. It kicks off with the enchanting ‘Angelina’, which is laden with religious imagery – a later version of it was included on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3, but this is the first take and has a fuller, richer sound.
‘Price of Love’ – not the Everly Brothers song but a Dylan composition – is a throwaway, but likeable and infectious rocker, with some mean electric guitar, honking sax, garage organ and a Bo Diddley beat. It’s fun – Dylan and his musicians obviously felt the same, as you can hear them laughing in the studio after the song finishes. Funnily enough, ‘Let It Be Me’ is a song that was popularised by the Everly Brothers – Dylan first recorded it for 1970’s Self Portrait. The pared-down version included here is moving and hymnal, with church-like organ.
Another of Dylan’s early influences, Hank Williams, gets a look in – there’s a great, barroom band interpretation of the country song ‘Cold, Cold Heart.’ We get more country licks but mixed with some summery pop reggae on the catchy and Caribbean-flavoured ‘Don’t Ever Take Yourself Away.’
Blues is the name of the game on ‘Fur Slippers’, where we find Dylan in a foul mood, because his girlfriend has absconded and taken his luxurious footwear of the song’s title with her – this track was covered by BB King in 1999. ‘Borrowed Time’ has an up-tempo, organ-fuelled groove and it’s interesting to hear the band picking up the song as they go along – it takes shape as we’re listening to it, while ‘Is It Worth It?’ is edgy blues-reggae with ad-libbed lyrics. Dylan chuckles at one point during the recording.
For the third and fourth discs, which make up the heart of the box set, we’re in New York, in the spring of 1983 – hence the title – for the Infidels sessions, with a band including guitarists Mark Knopfler and Mick Taylor, Alan Clark (keyboards) and Robbie Shakespeare (bass) and Sly Dunbar (drums) – aka reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie. Disc three contains several of the highlights and some of the most appealing discoveries for Dylanologists.
The full-band version of ‘Blind Willie McTell’, which is an Infidels outtake, is stunning – with Dylan’s lonesome harmonica and slide guitar by Mick Taylor, it captures a desolate mood and is a welcome alternative to the acoustic piano/ guitar recording that saw the light of day on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3. Apparently, Dylan never felt he recorded the song right, so, frustratingly, it was left off Infidels. Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin called the song “Dylan’s one indisputable masterpiece of the early Eighties”. It’s hard to argue with him.
One of the other gems for diehard fans is the inclusion of two versions of ‘Too Late’ – one acoustic and the other with a band. The song is an early incarnation of what became ‘Foot of Pride’ (available on Bootleg Series Vols 1-3). In fact, there’s also a take of ‘Foot of Pride’ included on the third disc too, so you can hear how the song morphed from its original version into something completely different. ‘Too Late’ is a wonderful song, evoking Dylan’s classic ‘70s Blood On The Tracks era. It’s much better than ‘Foot of Pride’, which is slick ‘80s blues-rock.
“‘Too Late’ is a wonderful song, evoking Dylan’s classic ‘70s Blood On The Tracks era.”
There’s more blues on disc four, which kicks off with the solid, raw, good-time boogie of ‘Clean Cut Kid’ – an Infidels outtake which was reworked into a less appealing, more polished version for 1985’s Empire Burlesque. Things calm down for a lovely, intimate alternate take of ‘Sweetheart Like You’ from Infidels and the disc ends with the glorious, full and unedited seven-minute version of ‘Death Is Not The End’, with gospel vocals by R & B group Full Force.
The final disc pulls together outtakes from Empire Burlesque, which thankfully dispense with the ‘80s production sheen that marred the album, and a couple of live tracks recorded in 1984 – a blistering ‘Enough Is Enough’ at Slane Castle, Ireland (Ian McLagan is on keys), and a loose and lively recording of ‘License To Kill’ performed on Late Night with David Letterman, with members of L.A. punk band, The Plugz, backing him.
However, the key song on the last CD is the 12-minute ‘New Danville Girl’, which was recorded as ‘Brownsville Girl’ for 1986’s Knocked Out Loaded. Co-written with actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director, Sam Shepard, it’s up there with ‘Blind Willie McTell’ as one of Dylan’s best songs of the ‘80s and harks back to his epic ‘60s ballads like ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.’ Straight away, we’re plunged into magnificent widescreen territory, as Dylan struggles to recall a Gregory Peck Western he watched: “Well, there was this movie I seen one time. About a man riding ‘cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck. He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.”
Almost 60 years into his career, Dylan continues to surprise us with his latest releases and Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol.16 1980-1985 doesn’t disappoint – it’s one of the essential entries in The Bootleg Series, providing a fascinating insight into a difficult artistic period for the legendary singer-songwriter.
It also gives us a tantalising glimpse into what might have been, had he ditched some of the songs, recordings and the ‘80s production techniques he used on the albums he put out at the time – they haven’t aged well – and opted instead to include several of these versions. He might have still chosen to wear bad leather jackets and play Live Aid, but, if things had turned out different musically, we might’ve forgiven him. Most of the time.
Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol.16 1980-1985 is out today, 17 September 2021.
SDE takes a close look at the 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, which is released today, 17 September 2021.
The exclusive 2LP vinyl edition shown in the video can be ordered via the Sound of Vinyl.
Australian band The Church‘s fifth album Starfish is being reissued as a 2LP vinyl set in November. The 1988 album was a surprise commercial success, particularly in America where it went gold and first single ‘Under The Milky Way’ climbed into the top 30 hit of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The reissue expands Starfish from 10 tracks to 18, with the album proper across almost three sides of vinyl (“for maximum bass and dynamics” say the label). The bonus tracks include acoustic versions of ‘Under The Milky Way’ and ‘Antenna’ and other studio recordings.
This release is from Intervention Records and they state that the album and bonus tracks are 100 percent analog-mastered from the original analogue tapes, by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. We are promised these will be “ultra-quiet” because they are pressed at RTI in Camarillo, CA and that Intervention “replaces it’s stampers every 500 copies so every pressing is is a hot stamper”.
The artwork has been restored and this becomes a gatefold with the original inner sleeves printed as the inside gatefold panels. The jacket is the ‘tip-on’ variety made by Stoughton printing in L.A. This means heavyweight card with the artwork ‘pasted’ onto the board. This has then been laminated.
Clearly much effort is going into this, although being an import here in the UK, it’s pretty expensive. If you are wondering about a CD version, Intervention actually issued that early on this year. Not just CD either, the it’s a hybrid dual-layer SACD which is compatible with all normal CD players but gives you access to the hi-res stereo on SACD players (there’s no surround version). This contains the same 18-tracks.
Starfish is reissued as a 2LP set on 26 November 2021, via Intervention. The SACD set is available now.
Album remastered • B-sides • Bonus tracks including unreleased material
This November, Erasure will reissue their sixth album, 1994’s I Say I Say I Say as an expanded two-CD deluxe set. Produced by Martyn Ware, it was their fifth number one album and featured the hit singles ‘Always’, ’Run To The Sun’ and ‘I Love Saturday’.
I Say I Say I Say two-CD deluxe edition
The album is newly remastered and disc one appends the six original B-Sides. The second CD includes 16 bonus tracks including rare and unreleased remixes, BBC recordings, alternate mixes and demos.
The deluxe, double-CD edition comes in hardcover ‘casebound book‘ style packaging and features exclusive photos by the Douglas Brothers and brand new sleeve notes by Mat Smith. There appears to be no vinyl edition of this reissue which, in all likelihood, will be due to the massively long lead times right now in the pressing plants.
This deluxe edition of I Say I Say I Say is released on 5 November 2021, via BMG.
Duran Duran played their first shows in the UK to a paying audience for nearly five years this week, as they dusted off the cobwebs and warmed up in their hometown of Birmingham for their headlining slot on Sunday at this weekend’s Isle of Wight Festival .
Simon Le Bon looked dapper in white trousers and jacket (on the first night) and with Nick Rhodes manning his synths at the rear and the two Taylors (Roger and John) taking care of the rhythm section, this was the ‘four-fifths’ version of Duran Duran we’ve been familiar with since Andy spoiled the reunion party by departing in 2006.
In terms of guitar duties, there was no sign of Blur’s Graham Coxon who contributed to their forthcoming album Future Past and has recently joined Duran Duran on stage for various promotional duties. Instead, the reliable Dom Brown returned. His history with the band goes back well over 15 years, but he’s never officially been ‘in’ Duran Duran, so it was just another day at the office (niche Wet Wet Wet joke warning) for the ‘Graeme Duffin’ of the band. A saxophone player and two female backing singers were the other contributors on stage.
The band opened with ‘Invisible’, the rather good first single from the forthcoming new album before delivering a triple-header of ‘The Reflex’, ‘Notorious’ and ‘A View To A Kill’. All classic Duran Duran tracks of course, but I always feel that while Nile Rodgers may have done them a big favour when he remixed ‘The Reflex’ in 1984 – delivering a number one hit as a result – they pay the price in the live environment. Rodgers choppy, cut-and-paste reworking never sounds particularly fluid live and I can’t relax, because I’m always worried something will go wrong with Nick Rhodes triggering all those studio samples and sequences and half the song will disappear!
‘Tonight United’ received its live debut on 14 September at the O2 Birmingham Institute
Given these were warm up shows, it was a chance for the band to road test new material and so in addition to ‘Invisible’, the crowd got to hear the most recent single ‘Anniversary’ and an album track called ‘Tonight United’. The former sounded particularly good with a real organic, almost Notorious-era vibe, while ‘Tonight United’ had a retro pulsing keyboard sound (perhaps not surprising given the album version is co-written and co-produced by disco legend Giorgio Moroder).
Highlights included ‘Friends of Mine’ from their 1981 debut; a storming ‘(Reach Up For The) Sunrise’ (the Jason Nevins radio-mix arrangement) which probably ‘rocked’ harder than anything on the first night; and ‘Girls On Film’, which segued with Calvin Harris’ 2007 hit ‘Acceptable in the 80s’, before signing off with a ‘Planet Earth’ coda.
SDE was lucky enough to attend both nights in Brum and the setlists weren’t identical. On the first evening fans were treated to a rare performance of ‘Skin Trade’ from the Notorious album which sounded fantastic although this was dropped for the second night and replaced by ‘Planet Earth’ which I have to acknowledge went down better with the crowd. Remarkably, Duran Duran also omitted ‘Save A Prayer’ from night #2 (my companion was wracking his brain trying to remember the last time they didn’t play that 1982 smash) as well as ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’. For the second evening, Duran Duran added their cover of Melle Mel’s ‘White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)’ to the set. Taken from their much-maligned 1995 covers album Thank You, it may be considered a bit naff for Duran to perform this, but it works in the live setting and is a lot of fun, probably because it’s such a good to sing along too, whoever is singing it!.
Save A Prayer was performed on the first night in Birmingham, but not the second.
Ordinary World (encore for night #1, but much further up the setlist on the second evening) sounded good as ever, as did the other big hit from 1993’s ‘The Wedding Album’, ‘Come Undone’. Duran played nothing from 1988’s Big Thing nor 1990’s Liberty. The latter was no surprise, although I’d love to hear ‘Serious’ or ‘My Antartica’ in the live setting. No songs from the-album-before-last (2010/11’s All You Need Is Now) were played on either night and only ‘Pressure Off’ from 2015’s Paper Gods made the grade.
There was a warm, relaxed, informal atmosphere across the two nights in Birmingham and frontman Simon Le Bon was his usual likeable self and rather endearing with it. He revelled in this homecoming and offered heartfelt thanks to the audience for sticking with the band over the years. Nick didn’t say anything at either gig and John briefly acknowledged Simon last night after Le Bon had introduced and thanked the band members and other musicians on stage.
With so many classic hits in their locker, it’s impossible to not feel entertained by Duran Duran live on stage and while, occasionally, I yearned for more creativity, in terms of arrangements – and for the music to sound more ‘real’ and less like the studio recordings – I’m probably in the minority and the familiar cues (that sequencer for ‘Save A Prayer’, those orchestra stabs for ‘A View To A Kill’) definitely had the desired impact on the crowds this week.
In essence, these were greatest hits sets and so we didn’t learn much about the new album and hardcore fans were only offered a few crumbs in terms of rarities (‘Skin Trade’ being the obvious one). But I have no doubt the selection will be well-received by the non-partisan festival crowd at the weekend, so in that respect, job done.
Duran Duran played the O2 Institute Birmingham on 14 and 15 September 2021 and they play the Isle of Wight festival on 19 September. The new album, Future Past, is released on 22 October 2021.
With only a single UK chart-topping album to their name – 1998’s This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours – the Manic Street Preachers and their label are clearly keen to change that by giving their new album, The Ultra Vivid Lament, a little push with a few promotions.
The standard CD edition is just £5.99 on Amazon in the UK right now (a saving of nearly 50 percent), and even the two-CD deluxe with signed artcard on the same site is £2 cheaper than it was last week, at £15. The only format that appears unchanged, in terms of the price, is the amazon-exclusive yellow vinyl which remains at £25.
Earlier this week the band also offered signed posters with orders of the album from their own web shop, although these are no longer available. However, at the time of writing, there is a new bundle which consists of the two-CD deluxe, T-shirt and signed Nicky Wire original polaroid for just £20! Update 16/9/21: This is now sold out and has been removed from their store.
The Ultra Vivid Lament was released last Friday, on 10 September 2021.
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SDE takes a close look at the recent 50th anniversary CD+Blu-ray reissue of Pink Floyd‘s Atom Heart Mother. This release is exclusive to Japan and is out now.
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Another in the ongoing Japanese Singles Collection series will be released this November and this new release focuses on Chaka Khan.
As we previous editions, this is a CD+DVD combo set and features all Khan’s singles that were issued in Japan along with a couple of bonus tracks (namely ‘Only Once’ and ‘Lover’s Touch’).
The DVD contains a collection of 13 music videos which the label say are available on DVD “for the first time in the world”. This seems like a wild claim, although it does actually appear to be the case!
These sets are always well-package and this comes with the usual colour booklet featuring the sleeves of the Japanese singles and lyrics, etc.
Chaka Khan: Japanese Singles Collection – Greatest Hits will be released on 17 November 2021. There are various purchase options and while the UK price seems massively expensive compared to Japan, by the time you’ve paid postage and import duty (Amazon Japan is fine on this point) you don’t actually save that much.
In another great SDE competition, we have copy of the five-CD edition of the recent Beach BoysFeel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 to give away. This set features 108 previously unreleased tracks and comes packaging in a large hardcover book with rare photos and a new essay.
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The prize draw is open to all SDE Members. Simply ensure you are logged in and confirm your entry into the competition in the poll below! If you aren’t an SDE member yet, it’s free and easy to sign-up!
One winner will be randomly selected at 12 noon (BST) on Monday 27 September 2021 and will be contacted via the email address linked to their SDE account. The winner will also be announced on SDE. Good luck!
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Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan / Springtime in New York: 1980-1985CD, Vinyl
Sony will release the latest chapter in Columbia’s acclaimed Bob DylanBootleg Series in September. Volume 16 is known as Springtime in New York and focuses on the three albums of the era: Shot of Love (1981) Infidels and Empire Burlesque and contains previously unreleased outtakes, alternate takes, rehearsal recordings, live performances and more.
Everything But The Girl‘s debut album, 1984’s Eden is re-released as a half-speed mastered 180g vinyl pressing. As with the other reissues, this was done at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell.
Already incredible value, you can now pick up the deluxe version of Marillion‘s Fugazi for just £20. Features new stereo mix, live concert, 5.1 mix, documentary on the blu-ray and more.
Tears For Fears/The Seeds of Love4CD+blu-ray super deluxe
Nice price for the Tears For FearsSeeds of Love box set which is a fascinating and forensic look at the 1989 album. Includes the Steven Wilson 5.1 surround mix.
George Harrison/All Things Must Pass8LP vinyl super deluxe
Superb price for this Iggy Pop box set that contains both The Idiot and Lust For Life, TV Eye, a disc of edits and outtakes and three live gigs. In the UK this is £53!
The Magnificent Seven is a new 5CD+DVD Waterboys box set that tells the story of the seven-piece line up from the Fisherman’s Blues 1989 tour through to the release of the band’s fifth album, Room to Roam in 1990.
As well as the remastered Room To Roam album, this set contains more than 80 previously unreleased tracks over four additional CDs packed with demos, unreleased studio tracks, live and informal jams/sessions.
The DVD contains two complete 1989 audience films of Glastonbury Festivaland Milan, home movies and professional footage at Spiddal House during the making of Room To Roam, plus films shot on Waterboys visits to Spiddal in 2010 and 2012.
The super deluxe of The Magnificent Seven is packaged in a massive 240-page book written by Mike Scott (click image to enlarge).
There are two versions of The Magnificent Seven. The super deluxe edition is packaged in a 240-page book containing a 50,000-word narrative by Mike Scott telling the full story of The Waterboys seven-piece band, a collection of previously unseen photos, track notes by all band members, maps, lyrics, manuscripts, and other archival memorabilia. The book slots into a rigid slipcase (approximately 288 x 255mm).
The other version of The Magnificent Seven dispenses with the luxury and simply offers the six discs in a clamshell box with an accompanying booklet.
Room to Roam has been half-speed mastered by Miles Showell (click image to enlarge)
In addition to these CD sets, the original Room to Roam album from 1990 has been mastered at half-speed and cut for vinyl by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. This is a now 2LP set running at 45rpm. The original artwork has been presented in a new 5mm wide-spined sleeve, with poly-lined inners and insert.
The Magnificent Seven and the Room to Roam vinyl are released on 3 December 2021. These products are available via the band’s official store but are now also available via other channels as you can see below. SDE Members can rate the Magnificent Seven super deluxe at the top of this page.
The clamshell edition of The Magnificent Seven (click image to enlarge)
The Magnificent Seven track listing
CD1:CELTIC SUMMER – And A Bang On The Ear / Morag / The Winkles Overture / Bonnie Kate / The Woodland Strut / On My Way To Heaven / Maggie (It’s Time For You To Go) / Old England / Natural Bridge Blues / The Wayward Wind / Morag / That’s The Way The World Goes Round / Roche’s Favourite / Defying Gravity / Colin’s Tune / Rocking Rose / Song Of The River / Three Ships / The 3 Minutes Before Dinner / When Will We Be Married / The Streets Of Galway.
CD2: THE RAMBLES OF AUTUMN – This Is The Sea-New Morning / When Ye Go Away / Fisherman’s Blues / Strange Boat / Rainy Day Women Numbers 12 & 35 / Dingle Regatta / A Pagan Place / Reels / The Munster Hop / Custer’s Blues / Girl Of The North Country / The Trip To Broadford / Sweet Thing-Blackbird-You Can’t Always Get What You Want / Your Darling Ain’t Your Darling Anymore / Higherbound / The Kings Of Kerry / Saints And Angels / Something That Is Gone.
CD3:WINTER’S WORK – Carolan’s Welcome / The Raggle Taggle Gypsy / Disease Of Conceit / Spirit / With The Scottish Fiddlers Of Los Angeles / Morag / Danny Murphy / Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz / How Many Songs Till I Get Home / The Hut On Staffin Island / The Pan Within / Learning The Polka / The New-Mown Meadow / Somebody Might Wave Back / A Man Is In Love / Something That Is Gone / Islandman / Song From The End Of The World / Bigger Picture / Maybe The Sandman / A Life Of Sundays.
CD4: ATLANTIC SPRING – A Man Is In Love / A Life Of Sundays / Bigger Picture / Lost Highway / The Raggle Taggle Gypsy / The Trip To Broadford / The Wyndy Wyndy Road / Spring Comes To Spiddal / Loopers Return / Further Up, Further In / Blues With Barry / And I Dreamed I Wandered / Room To Roam / The Happy One-Step-Blackbird / Upon The Wind And Waves / Islandman / Yellow Submarine / The Star And The Sea / Higher In Time / Tripping Up The Stairs / Bed On The Floor / A Song For The Life (1) / A Song For The Life (2) / Nanny Water / Natural Bridge Blues / The Kings Of Kerry / Spring Comes To Spiddal / The Inchicore Reel-Alright Folks Now, Time Please / How Long Will I Love You 2021 / The Music Lasts Forever.
CD5: ROOM TO ROAM (Album) – In Search Of A Rose / Song From The End Of The World / A Man Is In Love / Bigger Picture / Natural Bridge Blues / Something That Is Gone / The Star And The Sea / A Life Of Sundays / Islandman / The Raggle Taggle Gypsy / How Long Will I Love You / Upon The Wind And Waves / Spring Comes To Spiddal / The Trip To Broadford / Further Up, Further On / Room To Roam / The Kings Of Kerry.
DVD: Glastonbury 1989 – On My Way To Heaven / Strange Boat / Girl From The North Country / Bed on The Floor / Maggie It’s Time For You To Go / Billy The Kid / And A Bang On The Ear / Big Blue Ball / The Whole of The Moon / Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz / When Will We Be Married / Good Morning Mr Customs Man / Fisherman’s Blues / This Land Is Your Land / Further Up Further In / Lost Highway.
TEATRO ORFEO, MILAN 1989 – Fisherman’s Blues / Strange Boat / Girl From The North Country / A Man Is In Love / When Ye Go Away / The Raggle Taggle Gypsy / In Search of A Rose / Old England / Natural Bridge Blues / Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? / A Song For Life / And A Bang On The Ear / Good Morning Mr Customs Man / Jimmy Hickey’s Walk / When Will We Be Married / Be My Enemy / The Trip To Broadford / Sweet Thing-Blackbird-You Can’t Always Get What You Want / How Many Songs Till I Get Home / Spirit / The Whole of The Moon / Higherbound / Medicine Bow / This Is The Sea / Room To Roam.
HOME MOVIE: Spiddal House Recording Sessions (1990).
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME A Song For Life (1990). TeachAnSpideil (TG4 )- The Waterboys visit to Spiddal House (2010). Return To Spiddal (Short Film, 2012).
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