Out This Week / 11 Feb 2013
Led Zeppelin / Celebration Day 3xLP
Almost three months after the original release, the Led Zeppelin live album is issued as three heavyweight LPs.
Richard Thompson / Electric (Deluxe Edition)
Songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson recorded this new record in Nashville with Buddy Miller producing. This deluxe edition is a 2CD set with seven bonus tracks.
- • UK Order: Electric (Deluxe Edition)
- • USA Order: Electric [Deluxe 2CD]
- • CANADA Order: Electric (Deluxe 2CD)
- • GERMANY Order: Electric (Deluxe Edition)
Yes / Original Album Series (5CD Set)
Five CD set from Yes, containing Going For The One (1977), Tormato (1978), Drama (1980), 90125 (1983) and Big Generator (1987).
• UK Order: Yes – Original Album Series
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• CANADA Order: Yes – Original Album Series
• GERMANY Order: Yes – Original Album Series
Elvis Presley / Music & Photos
Two CD hits collection from The King, in large format packaging and ten 11 x 12.5 inch photos.
- • UK Order: Elvis Presley (Music & Photos)
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- • CANADA Order: Elvis Presley (Music & Photos)
- • GERMANY Order: Elvis Presley (Music & Photos)
Bob Dylan Music & Photos
Two CD hits collection (actually The Essential Bob Dylan) in large format packaging with ten quality 11 x 12.5 inch photos.
- • UK Order: Bob Dylan (Music & Photos)
- • USA Order: Bob Dylan (Music & Photos)
- • CANADA Order: Bob Dylan (Music & Photos)
- • GERMANY Order: Bob Dylan (Music & Photos)
Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks (Hybrid SACD)
More Dylan, this time a numbered limited edition Hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD) from audiophile specialists Mobile Fidelity. This has been mastered from the original tapes and is presented in hi-res Stereo.
- • UK Order: Blood on the Tracks SACD
- • USAD Order: Blood on The Tracks
- • CANADA Order: Blood on the Tracks
- • GERMANY Order: Blood on the Tracks
Conny Plank / Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank
A 4CD box set highlighting the early work of legendary German Krautrock producer Conny Plank (Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia, D.A.F.).
This nicely designed packaged comes with an extensive booklet and comprises two CDs of original tracks that had a Conny involvement (e.g. Le Sinistre – a track from the sessions of the Eurythmics first album In The Garden, which Plank co-produced), a further CD of remixes and rounds off with a disc featuring a previously unreleased live show featuring Plank, Dieter Möbius and Arno Steffen in Mexico 1986.
- • UK Order: Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank
- • USA Pre-order: Who’s That Man: Tribute to Conny Plank
- • CANADA Pre-order: Who’s The Man: Tribute To Conny Plank
- • GERMANY Order: Who’s That Man/a Tribute to Conny Plank
R.E.M. / Original Album Series (5CD set)
The critically acclaimed Warner albums from the early to mid-nineties are notable by their absence, but this value set could be a good catching up exercise for those who stopped buying R.E.M. records around the time of 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi. This set contains Up, Reveal, Around The Sun, Accelerate and Collapse Into Now. Bonus points for quite a groovy cover design.
- • UK Order: R.E.M. Original Album Series
- • USA Order: R.E.M. Original Album Series
- • CANADA Order: R.E.M. Original Album Series
- • GERMANY Order: R.E.M. Original Album Series
Bob Dylan / Bringing It All Back Home (Hybrid SACD)
Like Blood On The Tracks, Dylan’s 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home is released this week by Mobile Fidelity as a hi-res Stereo Hybrid SACD.
- • UK Order: Bringing It All Back Home
- • USA Order: Bringing It All Back Home
- • CANADA Order: Bringing It All Back Home
Jeff Buckley / Music and Photos
Another edition of Sony’s new ‘Music & Photos’ series. For this Jeff Buckley release, a CD of hits and a live DVD accompany the 10 glossy photos.
- • UK Order: Jeff Buckley (Music & Photos)]
- • USA Order: Jeff Buckley (Music & Photos)
- • CANADA Order: Jeff Buckley (Music & Photos)
- • GERMANY Order: Jeff Buckley (Music & Photos)
The Allman Brothers Band Hybrid SACD
As well as the Dylan releases, audiophile specialist Mobile Fidelity this week issue The Allman Brothers Band 1969 debut. This is a stereo hybrid SACD.
By Paul Sinclair
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