Out This Week / on 30 October 2015

The Jam / Fire and Skill (6CD box)

Fantastic box set for fans of The Jam. Six CDs and six unreleased live performances from virtually every year of the band’s life, including early 100 club performance in 1977 to Wembley Arena in 1982. 

The Who/ Track Records singles box 

This third volume of Who singles boxes is much bigger than the previous two, containing 15 seven-inch singles from the band’s Tracks Records era – featuring 45s like Pinball Wizard, I Can See For Miles and Won’t Get Fooled Again. 

XTC / Oranges & Lemons (CD+Blu-ray)

The standard-setting XTC reissues continue with 1989’s Oranges & Lemons. As before this is a two-disc combo, but don’t let that fool you, there’s an unbelievable amount of content on the blu-ray including rehearsals, demos, promo videos, singles mixes, instrumentals, hi-res 5.1 and more! 

The Velvet Underground / Loaded: Reloaded super deluxe

Another six-disc Velvet Underground deluxe set which contains a remastered version of their 1970 Loaded album and five more discs packed with content. 

Van Morrison / Astral Weeks expanded

Expanded versions of Van Morrison‘s 1968 classic Astral Weeks and 1970’s His Band and the Street Choir are issued this week, both with unreleased bonus tracks.  

Alanis Morissette / Jagged Little Pill (4CD set)

Four disc reissue of Alanis Morissette‘s massive selling Jagged Little Pill includes a disc of demos and an unreleased concert from 1995. 

Erasure/ Always: The Very Best Of

This new Erasure hits collection is available as a triple-disc set which adds hardcover book packaging and adds two CDs of new and ‘classic’ remixes. 

Rod Stewart / Another Country (deluxe)

Rod Stewart‘s 29th studio album Another Country is his second in a row to feature self-penned material. The deluxe CD adds five bonus tracks including (bizarrely) In a Broken Dream, the 1969 Python Lee Jackson track that features Rod’s vocals. It is now cheekily credited as Rod Stewart ‘featuring’ Python Lee Jackson!

• • UK Order: Another Country deluxe
• • USA Order Another Country deluxe
• • GERMANY Order: Another Country deluxe

Elvis with the Royal Philharmonic / If I Can Dream

Rather dubious project that puts classic Elvis vocal performances with brand-new orchestral accompaniment. If that wasn’t bad enough, Michael Bublé features on Fever.

• • UK Order: If I Can Dream
• • GERMANY Order: If I Can Dream

Guy Garvey  / Courting The Squall (signed vinyl edition)

The Elbow frontman releases his first solo album. This signed vinyl edition is exclusive to Amazon UK.

• • UK Order: Courting The Squall signed vinyl

The Rolling Stones / Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990

Another Rolling Stones ‘From the Vault’ release. This is Tokyo 1990 and the Steel Wheels tour. Available in a myriad of formats, explained here > 

Gentle Giant / Octopus (CD+blu-ray)

Those UK prog rockers Gentle Giant get their fourth album reissued and remixed by Steven Wilson. This CD+Blu-ray combo features loads of bonus material including instrumentals, flat-transfers etc. 

Wet Wet Wet / Picture This super deluxe

While we wait for Popped In Souled Out to be reissued Universal Music are putting out a super deluxe of Wet Wet Wet‘s 1995 album Picture This. Also available as a 2CD set. 

Garbage / 20th anniversary reissue

Part 2 of the rather spread out Garbage reissue is the two-LP vinyl set. The 3LP version isn’t out until December!