This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
UK: Kirsty MacColl / Days 1988-1991 4CD+DVD – £39
A price drop of nearly £10 makes this summary of Kirsty’s Virgin Records era much more attractive. Features double-disc editions of Kite and Electric Landlady along with a DVD of videos.
UK: Buffalo Springfield / Complete Albums Collection vinyl box – £82 £123
5LP vinyl version now down in price. 5,000 limited edition. First two albums in mono & stereo and third album stereo-only. New mastering overseen by a certain Neil Young. The CD box is now £19.99 in the UK.
UK: Neil Young / Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live 2LP – £22.95
Down from over £28.
UK: The Beatles / Sgt. Pepper 2CD deluxe – £9.99
Amazing value. Essential.
UK: The Beatles / 1967-1970 2CD – £9.99
Classic ‘blue’ double disc compilation does a good job of summarising the creative final three and a bit years of The Beatles output. This uses the 2009 stereo remasters. The equally good ‘red’ 1962-1966 compilation is the same price.
UK: The Beatles / Anthology 1 2CD – £7.94
Still the only Beatles album where you can get Free As A Bird.
UK: The Beatles / Anthology 2 2CD – £9.99
Still the only Beatles album where you can get Real Love.
UK: The Beatles / Anthology 3 2CD – £9.99
Still the only Beatles album where you can, er, A Beginning…
UK: Graham Nash / Over The Years 2CD anthology – £4.99
Forthcoming release. First disc contains hits, second previously unreleased demos.
UK: U2 / Songs of Exprience 2LP+CD box set – £41
Forthcoming release. First disc contains hits, second previously unreleased demos.
By Paul Sinclair
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