The forthcoming reissue of George Michael’sOlder is available as a 2LP vinyl set (black or various coloured editions) or as a 3LP+5CD super deluxe edition box set. Fans have already expressed some disappointment at the lack of CD deluxe edition, but news has emerged in the last few days of a special 2CD version that is exclusive to the Japanese market and features 15 bonus tracks.
This set appears to boast a slightly different front cover design/cropping and offers a extra disc of remixes and non-album tracks that effectively uses the four bonus discs in the super deluxe as a ‘pick ‘n’ mix’.
For example, the Japan bonus disc includes ‘Safe’ and ‘You Know That I Want To’ from Upper (CD 2 in the big box) along with the radio edits of both ‘Star People’ and ‘The Strangest Thing 97’ (both also from Upper). The Forthright Dub Remix of ‘Fastlove’ is from CD 5 in the box, while the Forthright 7″ Remix of the same song is from CD 4. The special radio edit of ‘Jesus to a Child’ is from CD3 but this Japanese double CD also includes the other ‘Jesus to a Child’ radio edit (from CD 5 in the box). You get the idea.
While there doesn’t appear to be anything exclusive on this set, if you don’t want to fork out for that expensive box set then it’s a reasonable option, particularly since it appears as if this is a Japan mini-LP CD, since the packaging is described as “original jacket” which normally means ‘paper sleeve’, aka vinyl replica.
The discs in this set are actually the Japanese blu-spec CD2 format, but rest assured that these are compatible with all CD players and so it shouldn’t be an issue.
This special 2CD reissue of Older is released on 8 July 2022
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By Paul Sinclair
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