Out This Week / on 30 August 2024

Oasis CD, Vinyl

2CD and 4LP versions of Oasis’ 1994 debut offer unreleased early versions and outtakes.

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Various Artists / A Yacht Rock Odessey CD, Vinyl

Katie Puckrik curates this various artists compilation of Yacht Rock which is available as a 4CD set or across two vinyl records.

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Various Artists / NOW Yearbook '87 CD, Vinyl

NOW Yearbook ’87 features 80 tracks on the 4CD editions (deluxe hardcover book and standard card sleeve) and 49 tracks on the 3LP orange vinyl.

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U2 / ZooTV Live in Dublin 1993 EP

The first official release of this much bootlegged performance. This is five tracks from U2’s open-air performances at the RDS Arena, Dublin in August 1993 on CD and yellow vinyl.

Rick Astley / Free (reissue)

Rick Astley stayed with RCA for this third album, but ditched the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting/production team for 1991’s Free. This 2CD reissue via BMG features a 2024 remaster and 18 bonus tracks including B-sides, remixes and instrumentals. There’s a new vinyl version too which for the first time features the full 11-track version of the album (previously ‘Is This Really Love?’ was absent).

Various Artists / The Wiz soundtrack (2LP vinyl)

While Sidney Lumet’s 1978 film adaptation of 1974 musical The Wiz was a critical and commercial disaster, the Quincy Jones-helmed soundtrack fared a little better. It saw Jones work with Michael Jackson for the first time (MJ was The Scarecrow in the film) and produced a minor hit in ‘Ease on Down the Road’. Polydor are this week reissuing the album on vinyl.