Out This Week / on 28 August 2015

Bananarama / In A Bunch (CD singles box)

Bananarama‘s 33CD singles extravaganza is finally released this week. Over 300 tracks to enjoy including, many, many, many remixes! 

Faces / You Can Dance, Sing, or Anything (LP and CD box)

The 5CD Faces box has bonus tracks but the 5LP vinyl set is also an attractive option because it’s cut from the analogue master tapes. 

Motorhead / Bad Magic (box set)

Motorhead‘s 22nd studio album Bad Magic is released today and this vinyl box is perhaps the edition of choice, because it collects gatefold vinyl and CD (in ‘ecolbook’ packaging), along with a couple of patches and an A1 poster.

• • UK Order: Bad Magic box set
• • USA Order: Bad Magic box set
• • GERMANY Order: Bad Magic box set

Jimi Hendrix Experience / Atlanta Pop Festival (2CD)

In 1970 Jimi Hendrix played at the second Atlanta Pop Festival to an audience estimated to have been in excess of 300,000 people. This new 2CD release (also on 2LP vinyl) is almost the full concert. A documentary will be issued on DVD and blu-ray later in the year.

• • UK Order: Atlanta Pop Festival 2CD
• • USA Order: Atlanta Pop Festival 2CD
• • GERMANY Order: Atlanta Pop Festival 2CD

GTR/ Deluxe 2CD

GTR, the short-lived Steve Howe/Steve Hackett rock band, produced just the one (self-titled) album in 1986. Esoteric are reissuing a remastered version of it with a 14-track bonus disc of the band live in Los Angeles in July 1986. 

Jean-Michel Jarre / Essential Recollection

Essential Recollection, a new Jean Michel Jarre hits set from Sony, looks rather inessential if you ask me, gathering as it does the usual suspects on this single disc offering.

• • UK Pre-order: Essential Recollection
• • USA Pre-order: Essential Recollection
• • GERMANY Pre-order: Essential Recollection

Taste /I’ll Remember (4CD)

A young Rory Gallagher featured in Irish band Taste whose two late ’60s studio albums are newly remastered here are sit alongside a couple of CDs of live performances and rare session tracks and demos 

Elvis Presley / 30 #1 Hits (2LP vinyl)

The 2002 number ones Elvis collection is reissued on double vinyl.

• • UK Order: Elvis 30 #1 Hits  (2LP)
• • USA Order: Elvis 30 #1 Hits (2LP)

Faith No More / Angel Dust and The Real Thing (2LP)

The double LP vinyl versions of June’s Faith No More reissues seem to have taken an age to come out but are finally released this week. These both come with bonus tracks. 

Anthony Phillips / Private Parts & Pieces I-IV (5CD box)

The first four volumes of Anthony Phillips‘ Private Parts… albums are collected here with bonus tracks and an extra CD of previously unreleased material.