February 15, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: deals
Updated on 17 Feb with some new selections!
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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February 16, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, 1990s, bryan adams, new music
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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February 16, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: paul mccartney, Saturday Deluxe
Journey’s End: Thoughts on McCartney’s Egypt Station box
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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February 15, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: paul mccartney
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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February 15, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: Dido
Amazon in the UK are selling Dido‘s forthcoming album, Still On My Mind, as SIGNED CD edition.
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February 14, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, paul mccartney, The Beatles, wings
Super Deluxe Edition of Egypt Station • Pre-order open tomorrow
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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February 13, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1960s, alfred hitchcock, bernard herrmann, soundtracks
2LP+CD+7″ super deluxe • Red vinyl
Soundtrack specialists Stylotone, in association with The Bernard Herrmann Estate, will issue for the first time ever, from the original master tapes, the original motion picture soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 film Marnie, as composed and conducted by film score Maestro Bernard Herrmann.
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February 13, 2019 by Paul Sinclair
3 x 7″ vinyl box • plus Pinups picture disc announced for RSD
Following the recent Spying Through A Keyhole announcement, Parlophone are to release another seven-inch vinyl box set of David Bowie demos, called Clareville Grove Demos.
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February 12, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, barry white, The Love Unlimited Orchestra
7CD box set of remastered albums + selected vinyl reissues
Barry White‘s Love Unlimited Orchestra‘s seven albums have been remastered and are to be reissued as The 20th Century Records Albums 1973-1979, a new seven-CD box set.
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February 12, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: deals
David Bowie / Who Can I Be Now? [1974-1976] 13LP vinyl box – £157.99
Cheapest price to date for this vinyl box that includes remastered versions of Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station along with the Re:Call 2 compilation, various live albums and an alternate mix of Station to Station.
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February 11, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: chaka khan, david bowie, Elvis Presley, Gary Crowley, josef k, out this week, the new seekers
David Bowie ‘Loving The Alien’ remasters available separately
Parlophone issue the 2018 remasters of the David Bowie albums included in the Loving The Alien box set as standalone releases next month.
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February 11, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: coloured vinyl, the flight of the conchords
The previously announced Flight of the Conchords Live in London audio set will be available as a limited ‘Loser Edition’ on 3LP CLEAR vinyl.
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February 11, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: alan parsons project, bjork, Bob Dylan, guns n roses, shaggy, st vincent, sting
Last night was the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards and amongst the weird and wonderful categories (“Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano)” were a few that will be of interest to SDE readers…
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February 10, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, 1990s, R.E.M.
First time on vinyl in the USA/Canada
Warners’ 2003 R.E.M. compilation In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 will be reissued by Craft Recordings as a double vinyl set in May.
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February 9, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: donna summer, fleetwood mac, lindsey buckingham, Saturday Deluxe, Super Furry Animals, tears for fears
Lindsey Buckingham has open heart surgery
Scary stuff as Lindsey Buckingham‘s wife Kristen yesterday revealed that the musician underwent ’emergency open heart surgery’ late last week.
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February 8, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, now, various artists
The very first Now That’s What I Call Music compilation, issued in the UK in November 1983, has been reissued a number of times but the second volume, which followed four months after the first in March 84, is to be released on CD for the first time in April.
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February 8, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: Japan, SDEtv, trevor horn
Is the demise of the CD a self-fulfilling prophecy? Record labels are sometimes guilty of either not issuing new releases on the format (see volume two of Sony’s Bruce Springsteen‘s album collection box set and yesterday’s Marvin Gaye announcement from Universal) or putting out a CD so lacklustre in terms of packaging and presentation, that even the most diehard physical music fan might start questioning their commitment to the format.
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February 7, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, pet shop boys
Four new songs • Won’t be on the new album • 12-inch vinyl and CD
The Pet Shop Boys return in April with a new four-track EP, Agenda.
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February 7, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, Marvin Gaye, vinyl
A few days before what would have been Marvin Gaye‘s 80th birthday, Universal Music will issue You’re The Man, the album that was supposed to be the follow-up to the classic What’s Going On.
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February 7, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1980s, tears for fears, video
Tears For Fears took to the stage last night at London’s O2 to entertain a capacity crowd with a 90-minute hit-packed set. Watch them perform ‘Memories Fade’ from their 1983 debut The Hurting.
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