Kate Bush: Parlophone accused of not telling us the whole story
The news yesterday of Kate Bush‘s The Other Sides four-CD set kicked off an interesting debate about transparency and what fans should and shouldn’t be told about future release schedules by record labels.
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Kate Bush will release her The Other Sides B-side compilation as a standalone 4CD set and has also officially made available the video for her 1991 cover of Elton John‘s Rocket Man and spoken about the making of the song and the video.
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BMG will issue a new Emerson Lake & Palmer anthology across four coloured vinyl records in May.
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Music on Vinyl are to reissue Marianne Faithfull‘s 1981 album Dangerous Acquaintances, initially as a limited white vinyl pressing.
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The David Bowie Clareville Grove Demos seven-inch vinyl box set, which contains home demos recorded in 1969, is now up for pre-order.
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Coming soon, is this video interview with Heaven 17, as Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory recline on the SDE sofa for 45 minutes of questions and answers about their career and the new box set Play to Win: The Virgin Years.
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As predicted, when the David Sylvian vinyl reissues were announced, the 1991 Japan reunion album called Rain Tree Crow is also getting the same reissue treatment in March.
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Howard Jones‘ new album is called Transform and will be released in May. While we await full details, including formats, fans might be interested to know that the vinyl edition can be pre-ordered for a great price right now in the UK.
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Secretly Canadian (in partnership with Chimera Music) has announced today – on Yoko Ono’s 86th birthday – a limited WHITE vinyl edition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s Unfinished Music No. 3: Wedding Album (1969).
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Chrysalis are set to release a deluxe edition of Generation X, the self-titled 1978 debut album by one the British punk band that featured a young Billy Idol.
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Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus issues, Groove Denied, his first solo album without ‘the Jicks’ next month.
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Early eighties Scottish pop band Altered Images have a new Greatest Hits on the way, via Demon Records, which will be pressed on pink vinyl.
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After the news of Dido yesterday, another signed CD bargain available today with rock star/photographer Bryan Adam‘s forthcoming album Shine A Light also being offered as an ‘exclusive signed edition’ via Amazon in the UK.
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After around 18 months of faffing around, Paul McCartney had a great run at the end of 2018, with the excellent Egypt Station, the 50th anniversary reissue of ‘The White Album’ and then two excellent reissues of Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, which were bundled into an expensive, but rather good, box set called Paul McCartney & Wings 1971-1973. It seemed like the missteps of the Flowers in the Dirt and the haphazard coloured vinyl marketing campaign were behind him and Paul was ‘getting back’ to releasing decent products again. That was until this week, when fans were informed of the ‘Traveller’s Edition’ deluxe box set of Egypt Station.
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The ‘Traveller’s Edition’ box set of Paul McCartney‘s Egypt Station has just gone on sale. SDE provides the links required to order a copy, if you so wish…
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Amazon in the UK are selling Dido‘s forthcoming album, Still On My Mind, as SIGNED CD edition.
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Amazon Germany is price-matching local competitor Saturn/Media Markt with another outstanding 3-for-2 offer. You can buy three music box sets and get the third (the cheapest) for nothing, regardless of the price-tag. This deal runs until Monday 18 February.
Thousands of items are eligible (not just music), although remember you do have to buy from Amazon Germany direct and not any third party sellers. Also the discount will be automatically applied at the last stage of checkout. This link shows everything eligible (you can search), but below is a list of SDE CD and vinyl favourites that are all in the deal!
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It’s strangely in keeping with its theme of travel and trains (at least for those of us in the UK) that Paul McCartney‘s Egypt Station box set arrives so late. The fact that a box set was in production was clear from day one, but details of this ‘traveller’s edition’ super deluxe have only just been announced and the set itself won’t be shipping until May, eight months after the album was released. Read on to find out the details of this limited set…
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