ITALY: Pink Floyd / The Early Years 1965-1972 box set – €299
Been a while since we’ve seen this mammoth 27-disc set in a deal. €299 equates to about £270 which is about £50 cheaper than it is in the UK right now. Still the only place to get the four ‘Bonus Continu/ation’ discs and the five replica seven-inch singles.
Four early David Sylvian albums will be issued on 180g vinyl in February.
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Limited orange vinyl edition • Out in January
Juliana Hatfield will issue Weird, her second album in less than a year, in January 2019.
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A-ha! (No, not that one). It’s the time of year when we sing about putting ‘A Partridge in a pear tree’ so why not put A Partridge on your pre-order list with this new Knowing Me Knowing You 3LP vinyl record set, which features broadcaster Alan Partridge hosting his very first radio chat show.
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The Prince Estate and Sony’s Legacy Recordings have announced reissues of a trio of Prince albums: Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth. All three will be reissued on CD and released for the first time on vinyl in February next year, with limited PURPLE vinyl pressings available.
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Depeche Mode continue with their 12-inch vinyl box set reissue campaign with packages around the singles pulled from their third and fourth albums Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward.
After five days in business at the back of London’s redeveloped Kings Cross area, Kate Bush‘s pop-up shop (officially called ‘Kate Bush Remastered Pop-Up’) closed its doors yesterday.
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After last year’s excellent Punk and New Wave box set, broadcaster and DJ Gary Crowley has turned his attention to the 1980s, by curating a new four-CD and 3LP package called Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s.
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First time on vinyl • Very limited SIGNED copies • Bonus seven-inch
Snow Patrol are reissuing their second album When It’s All Over We Still Have To Clear Up on vinyl for the first time.
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‘Serious Hits…Live’ and ‘A Hot Night in Paris’ reissued & remastered
Phil Collins‘ ‘Take a Look at Me Now’ reissue campaign continues with the reissue of 1990 live album Serious Hits…Live.
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SDE exclusive Mansun CD single with rare audio
Mansun‘s 1997 album Attack of the Grey Lantern was reissued in the summer for as a four-disc deluxe book edition which included demos, rarities, outtakes, BBC sessions and a 5.1 surround mix (on DVD). This deluxe set (along with the double coloured vinyl edition) is now available to buy on the SDE shop and each order comes with a FREE, very limited and completely exclusive Mansun CD single!
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USA: Rush / Hemispheres super deluxe – $88 (approx £69)
Massive super deluxe features 2CD, blu-ray (with 5.1 mix), 3LP and more. This is £145 in the UK, so less than half price!
And now for something completely different…
Light In The Attic have created a Japan Archival Series and this continues early next year with Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, an expansive overview of the country’s vital minimal, ambient, avant-garde, and New Age music – what can collectively be described as ‘kankyō ongaku’, or environmental music. This is the first ever fully licensed collection of this music outside of Japan and it features internationally acclaimed artists such as Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Joe Hisaishi, as well as other pioneers like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoshio Ojima and Satoshi Ashikawa. This set is available as a 3LP vinyl box set or a deluxe 2CD book package.
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Paul McCartney continues his ‘Archive Collection’ reissue series with two early Wings albums: Wild Life from 1971 and Red Rose Speedway from 1973. Both are issued as lavish super deluxe box sets (as well as all the other usual formats) and are also collected in an expensive Wings 1971-1973 limited edition box set that features additional books and audio. Incidentally, the US price for the Wild Life box has just dropped right down to $98 which is around £77. In the UK it’s £130!
SDE takes a look at the new Howard Jones box sets Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action – released last Friday – with this new unboxing video. Does the packaging and presentation justify the relatively high price tag for these super deluxe editions of Howard’s first two albums? Watch the SDEtv video and find out…
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Demon Records will issue Tertiary Phase a new 3LP coloured vinyl deluxe set that features the third series of Douglas Adams’ classic comedy science fiction radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
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One of the best deals of 2018 ends today!
I wouldn’t blame you if you had ‘deal fatigue’ after the last week with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but I feel it’s my duty to make you aware that Amazon in Germany are price matching local competitor Media Markt and doing a 3-for-2 promotion on physical music, blu-ray and DVDs etc. There’s loads of ‘big name’ box sets in the deal including Bowie, Lennon, Police, Dylan, Beatles, Kate Bush, The Kinks and more!
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Out next week is Music On Vinyl’s reissue of Tanita Tikaram‘s much loved debut Ancient Heart. The 1988 album has been pressed on clear vinyl for a limited run of 1500 copies and the gatefold package includes a personal note from Tanita. Watch the video below to see the vinyl reissue in production and get a feel for what looks like a quality presentation…
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Check out this video to The Monkees new single ‘Unwrap You At Christmas’. This song was penned by XTC‘s Andy Partridge and features on the recent Christmas album The Monkees Christmas Party.
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Early next year Edsel will issue The CBS Singles Collection, a new Paul Young box set which includes every UK single issued on the CBS label as a CD single, packed with mixes, B-sides, instrumentals and even the odd unreleased demo. The box set also includes a DVD with all the videos which (issued on the format for the first time), and the first 1500 boxes come with a print SIGNED by Paul Young.
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