December 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: george harrison, John Lennon, paul mccartney, ringo starr, The Beatles
Universal Music continue to exploit their newly acquired Beatles catalogue, with a comprehensive reissue of the band’s output as released in North America via a 13CD ‘The U.S. Albums’ box set as well as limited individual CD reissues of 12 of those Capitol Records’ titles.
The reissues span 1964’s Meet The Beatles! to 1970’s Hey Jude and are released in January 2014, exactly 50 years after the mop tops celebrated I Want To Hold Your Hand becoming their first American number one.
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December 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: The Beatles
On 20 January Universal Music celebrate 50 years since Meet The Beatles and I Wanna Hold Your Hand went to number one in America by reissuing 12 Capitol titles on CD and a special The US Albums box set.
To help you understand how these releases differed from the UK albums we give you the SuperDeluxeEdition guide to the US Albums. Pre-order links for the new CDs are included although at the time of writing the UK links aren’t live yet, but the others do work!
Please be aware that Apple are using the global 2009 remasters for their reissue of the U.S. Albums, so all references below to added reverb, or fake or ‘duophonic’ stereo will not apply to the reissues. However unique edits and mixes are thought to have been maintained by use of the original 1960s Capitol analogue master tapes.
Meet the Beatles! (1964)
The first Capitol long player contains nine tracks from With The Beatles (omitting five) and adds I Wanna Hold Your Hand, its US B-side This Boy, and I Saw Her Standing There (from Please Please Me) which was a unique mono mix for the US.
The Beatles’ Second Album (1964)
This one’s a real mish-mash. The five tracks from With The Beatles not featured on Meet The Beatles are included, along with She Loves You/I’ll Get You from the 45, Thank You Girl (B-side to From Me To You in the UK) and You Can’t Do That from the UK version of A Hard Day’s Night. Long Tall Sally and I Call Your Name also get a global debut on this album, a month before the Long Tall Sally EP hit the shops in the UK. Thank You Girl was a unique stereo mix with some additional harmonica riffs.
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December 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: Deal of the day, john mellencamp
Amazon Canada is the place to shop for today’s Deal of the Day.
They currently have the forthcoming limited edition John Mellencamp 1978-2012 19CD box set for $77 CA. That’s just over £44! In Europe you can expect to pay around £120 for this set, so with a potential saving over over £75 that’s more than enough to offset shipping costs.
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December 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, Giorgio Moroder, kajagoogoo, limahl
Parlophone Label Group will issue a Kajagoogoo and Limahl five-CD Original Album Series set in January 2014.
This collection will contain the three eighties-era Kajagoogoo albums (Crazy Peoples Right to Speak was credited to Kaja) without bonus tracks and the two Limahl efforts from the same era, including the full CD debut of Giorgio Moroder collaboration 1986′s Colour All My Days.
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December 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: hi-res, Pink Floyd, roger waters, SACD, vinyl
Analogue Productions’ much anticipated reissue of Roger Waters‘ 1992 album Amused To Death will not now be released until April 2014.
The stereo hybrid SACD and double LP 200g vinyl reissue were announced way back in January 2013, with a suggested October release date. Then Amazon started taking pre-orders for a November release, but that came and went with no official word.
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December 12, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: bruce springsteen
Bruce Springsteen‘s forthcoming new album High Hopes will be available in the UK and Europe as the same two-disc deluxe set that first appeared on Amazon in the US.
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December 11, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, motown
Vol. 12B: 1972 brings the acclaimed Complete Motown Singles series to an end. This five-CD set (plus seven-inch vinyl within the front cover) covers Motown’s output from the last half of 1972 and contains 100 remastered tracks.
The music is only half the story, because anyone who has bought any of these sets will tell you how brilliant the packaging is, as well as the quality of the words and pictures within.
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December 11, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, adam and the ants
Sony are looking to reissue Adam And The Ants‘ 1979 debut album Dirk Wears White Sox on vinyl, to coincide with Adam Ant performing the album live in its entirety at the Hammersmith Apollo on 19 April 2014.
The record label are looking for input from SuperDeluxeEdition readers to help them create a fan-pleasing edition of this post-punk debut. So now is your chance to influence a release, rather than complain about it afterwards!
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December 11, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, david bowie, Erdal Kizilcay
Erdal (red jeans) helping with “Let’s Dance” demos back in 1982
Erdal Kizilcay is a Turkish born multi-instrumentalist who spent over ten years collaborating with David Bowie on a number albums including 1987′s Never Let Me Down, 1993′s The Buddha of Suburbia and 1995′s Outside. He also played bass guitar in two consecutive world tours: The Glass Spider Tour of 1987 and 1990′s Sound + Vision Tour.
In celebration of the excessive, theatrical, some would say overblown Glass Spider Tour, a Glass Spider Band has emerged featuring two original members; Erdal himself and keyboard player Richard Cottle. They are joined by new personnel and will be recreating Bowie’s greatest hits on 17 December 2013 at the Under The Bridge venue in London. We caught up with Erdal a few weeks ago to talked to him about working with David Bowie and touring with him in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
SuperDeluxeEdition: How did this new Glass Spider show come about?
Erdal Kizilcay: The company Bloomberg wanted to do a Bowie thing. Me and Richard Cottle [are involved] – he also played on that record. I did the whole album, the Never Let Me Down album. About 80% of that album is me. Bloomberg wanted to do a Bowie thing with Tom Wilcox – he’s organising this Glass Spider concert in December and he’s curator of the ICA. Next week we’re also doing Iggyfest at the ICA, since I also did the Iggy Pop album Blah Blah Blah.
SDE: Was that the first time you worked with David, on the Blah Blah Blah album?
EK: Absolutely, yes…. [pause] sorry no! We’re talking about 25 years ago, even more actually. I was called in to Montreux, to Mountain Studio to help with his demos for the Let’s Dance album. Nile Rogers was there and they needed a bass player, and I had a name for myself here in Switzerland, so they called me in.
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December 11, 2013 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, Grateful Dead
This week sees the vinyl release of Dick’s Picks Volume 5, the fifth live album in the Dick’s Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead.
This set features a full concert, recorded on 26 December 1979 at the Oakland Auditorium Arena in Oakland, California. It was originally issued on CD back in 1996.
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