SDE Reissue Preview for 2022
SDE looks ahead to the coming year
Welcome to the traditional SDE reissue preview for the year ahead! As usual we will start with the first three months of this year where we have confirmed releases and then move on to what we know/think/presume/hope will be reissued later in the year. Of course they’ll be plenty of things not covered, so please as well as offering your thoughts on reissues mentioned below, do chip in with forthcoming products you know about that SDE hasn’t mentioned! You can do this via the comments section.
January 2022 (view on the SDE release calendar)
January is looking a little bit more healthy than last year which suffered badly due to the COVID pandemic. There’s nothing ludicrously expensive and plenty of cheap products that have appeal like the Nik Kershaw and Frankie Goes To Hollywood ‘Essential’ collections.That much-delayed Peter Cetera 6CD box will finally be released, I am assured, and don’t forget about the coloured vinyl edition of Paul Young’s The Secret of Association. Not only does it have bonus tracks but the SDE shop is selling signed copies!
Reissues, box sets and albums of interest in January include:
- David Bowie / Hunky Dory (50th anniversary vinyl picture disc)
- David Bowie / Toy: Box
- Elvis Costello / The Boy Named If (new album)
- Nik Kershaw / Essential (3CD set)
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Essential (3CD set)
- Now Yearbook ’84 Extra (3CD set)
- Peter Cetera / Love, Glory, Honor & Heart (6CD box)
- Jamiroquai / Travelling Without Moving (Expanded 2LP yellow vinyl)
- Now That’s What I Call Punk and New Wave (4CD set)
- Slade / Alive! (red/black splatter vinyl)
- Bernard Butler / People Move On (4CD deluxe)
- Beverley Craven-Judie Tzuke-Julia Fordham / Woman to Woman Concert
- Now That’s What I Call Electronic (4CD set)
- PJ Harvey / Let England Shake – Demos
- Jethro Tull / The Zealot Gene (new album)
- Paul Young / The Secret of Association (expanded 2LP coloured vinyl)
- The Pixies / Live in Brixton (8CD or 8LP box set)
February 2022 (view on the SDE release calendar)
The big news in February is that Tears For Fears will release their first album in over 17 years! That’s one helluva wait but I can assure you it’s excellent. On the reissue front, the Dodgy 8CD A&M Years box set is one I’m really looking forward to.
Reissues, box sets and albums of interest in February include:
- Paul McCartney & Wings / Wildlife half-speed mastered vinyl
- Various Artists / British Mod Sounds of the ’60s (4CD or 6LP)
- Cat Stevens / Harold and Maude soundtrack (vinyl/CD)
- Pink Floyd / Pulse reissue
- Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point (new album)
- Dodgy / The A&M Years (8CD or 4LP box)
- Sheena Easton / A Private Heaven (2CD deluxe)
March 2022 (view on the SDE release calendar)
Confirmed releases are thinning out a bit, by the time we get to March, but the Suzanne Vega box is one that stands out for me. It has that wonderful front cover photo (an improvement on the plain cover used on that limited CD box), is pressed on four different coloured vinyl records and comes as an attractive ‘bookset’. There are still SIGNED copies available via Suzanne’s shop priced at £120. If that’s too much, then unsigned versions are available on Amazon in the UK for £85.
Reissues, box sets and albums of interest in March include:
- Lemonheads / It’s A Shame About Ray (2CD or 2LP reissue)
- Bryan Adams / So Happy It Hurts (new album)
- Franz Ferdinand / Hits to the Head (best of)
- Placebo / Never Let Me Go
- Suzanne Vega / Close Up Series 4LP vinyl box
- Marillion / An Hour Before It’s Dark (new album)
April 2022 and beyond
Now let’s looks ahead to the rest of the year with some featured artists and more reissue summaries, below.
Madonna
We know that the long-awaited Madonna reissues will start this year because Warner Music Group and Madonna told us in August 2021. The good news is that this will be a the start of a “multi-year catalog series” (similar wording as was used in 2010 for the start of Paul McCartney’s still running Archive Collection series), but the bad news is that Madge herself will “personally curate” the physical deluxe reissues. When the artist themselves take the reigns, it normally doesn’t end well (hey there, Phil Collins). Hopefully, this is marketing guff and someone who knows what they are doing will be behind the wheel. We were told the first release would be announced “soon” five months ago, so surely we’ll get some news…er, soon. The big question is which album they will start with. SDE readers voted by a large margin for the first album, Madonna, but we’ll have to wait and see. If we’re talking anniversaries, then Erotica is 30 this year, but it’s fair to say that it’s very unlikely that they’d start with that album. Madonna’s debut is 40 in 2023 so could they – would they – hold fire on that album for a further year? If so, then what will happen this year? The first single ‘Everybody’ is 40 in October, but that’s nearly a year away. There was talk of “unique releases for special events” which suggests we may get something for this year’s Record Store Day. Labels do like to start ‘big’ to generate momentum and excitement so one of the ‘Likes’ – “… A Virgin” or “…A Prayer” – is a distinct possibility.
The Beatles
Everywhere you look there’s Beatles-related anniversaries so really ANYTHING could happen in 2022. It’s the 60th anniversary of the UK release of Love Me Do, in October, for example. The most popular reissue for fans would almost certainly be a super deluxe edition of the Revolver album from 1966. This would see Giles Martin start to work backwards from Sgt. Pepper. There has been plenty of debate about whether the technology exists (‘de-mixing’ and the like) to allow for a worthwhile new stereo mix (and by extension a 5.1/Atmos mix) and indeed when SDE spoke to Giles last year we covered that topic. I get the feeling the decision has probably already been made (in the affirmative) but they are keeping their cards close to their chest. That doesn’t mean it will happen this year – there is no longer any pressure to keep to a 50th anniversary – so we’ll have to wait and see what transpires. Now that The Beatles: Get Back documentary has been available for six weeks or so, fans might be hoping for some kind of Let It Be part 2 reissue that includes the documentary and perhaps some audio that wasn’t included in the 2021 box set – in particular, the entire rooftop concert as an audio-only experience. I think Apple might sanction a standalone rooftop concert release on CD and vinyl (with perhaps a deluxe edition with surround sound etc.), given that it was omitted almost entirely from the Let It Be box, but I don’t see them revisiting any further sessions from Let It Be.
John Lennon
The John Lennon reissue campaign has been a revelation and so far we’ve had three stunning deluxe sets: Imagine, Gimme Some Truth (a greatest hits) and the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album. SDE expects 1972’s Some Time in New York City album to be next, with most likely an autumn release date. This is a double album, part studio and part live recordings (the latter dubbed Live Jam). It features the band Elephant’s Memory and was produced by John and Phil Spector. Very political and not particularly well received – or even that well known these days – it will be interesting to see what the team do with the source material on the way to their ‘Ultimate MIxes’. Fun fact: John Lennon was reportedly annoyed when Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick hit the shops three months earlier (in the USA) as it used the same newspaper cover idea and therefore lessened the visual impact of his own album.
Paul McCartney
Last year was the third year since Paul McCartney kicked off his Archive Collection campaign over a decade ago that no reissue for forthcoming (the other two were 2019 and 2016). This means that in the three years since the December 2018 double whammy of Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway we’ve had just the one reissue: Flaming Pie. The problem is that Paul McCartney is always so busy on other projects, as this year has shown. In 2021 there was The Lyrics book, a cookbook, two documentaries (the Rick Rubin 1-2-3 min-series and of course The Beatles: Get Back) a Royal Mail stamps initiative, the Let It Be box set and the McCartney III Imagined remix album. Still all this lack of activity on the Archive Collection front means SDE is fairly confident that we will get a reissue this year and the smart money is on Paul ‘finishing’ the 1970s by re-releasing 1978’s London Town and 1979’s Back to the Egg at the same time. There are no guarantees in life, but I can’t see Paul prioritising any other album above these. Press to Play (1986) we know was a commercial disaster and not an album Paul is likely to look back fondly on and while it contains a couple of Elvis Costello co-writes, Off The Ground (1993) is rather an inferior sequel to Flowers in the Dirt, delivered no major UK or US hits and has aged particularly badly. Everything else was issued post 2001 and feels too recent. One thing we should consider is that Paul might be tempted back to Band on the Run for what would be a fourth reissue for its 50th anniversary, although if that were to happen it wouldn’t be until 2023.
David Bowie
With no David Bowie ‘era’ boxes to worry about in 2022 (the rights to the post-millennium albums don’t revert to Warner Music for a few more years) the label are likely to focus on Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars this year. We’ve already had the announcement about the vinyl picture disc but expect a Conversation Piece style multi-disc deluxe package that will cover both albums. These will be CD sets, although whether Warners have the capacity to put out big vinyl boxes as well, with the current production challenges, remains to be seen. We may well get an announcement on this in the coming week with what would have been David’s 75th birthday approaching.
The Police
Andy Summers told SDE last August that there is “gigantic 10-year plan to release Police material” which sounds great, although he didn’t say when this 10-year plan would start! However, we do know that the first album to be reissued as a box set will be 1979’s Regatta De Blanc and while there’s no ruling out Blondie-style delays, Summers was quite specific, telling this site that “There’s a four-disc version of Regatta De Blanc coming… with a lot of extra tracks”. Police reissues are so long overdue, this is going to be a big deal when it finally happens. The one threat is that Sting solo projects seem to automatically take precedent so let’s hope Mr Sumner isn’t planning an album of covers or some such nonsense for 2022!
George Michael
On New Year’s Day, the official George Michael twitter account tweeted: “2022 marks an exciting year for George and his music and we can’t wait to share it all with you”. Before you get your hopes up, they also told us in May last year that “There’s also something very special to come later this year…” regarding Older and that didn’t happen. Let’s not forget that a 25th anniversary edition of Listen Without Prejudice was supposed to be released in 2015. It was eventually announced in September 2016 for release in November of that year, only to be delayed to March 2017. Tragic events then intervened and it didn’t come out until October 2017. Even the Faith reissue, which was originally scheduled for September 2010, was delayed until the end of January 2011 because George was jailed after admitting driving while unfit through drugs and possessing two cannabis cigarettes. In late 2019, SDE reported on a vinyl reissue of Symphonica which we independently had confirmed was in the works, but it now appears to have been shelved or at least put on the back-burner. Everyone who pre-ordered it via Amazon in the UK got a cancellation email recently. All this should serve as a reminder that anything George Michael-related is cursed to be delayed, often repeatedly. Unlike Prince, whose untimely death served to remove all the reissue-roadblocks, George’s passing has made no difference at all. His reluctance to green-light reissue campaigns, and his dithering when he was eventually talked into them, has set the tone for the last five years where no major reissue projects have been delivered (LWP doesn’t count since it was effectively done before George’s passing). Activity these days is mostly around legacy and brand rather than reissues and physical product. While this is intensely frustrating for fans, the irony is, all this faffing around and doing next to nothing is probably WHAT GEORGE WOULD HAVE WANTED. Having said all of that, SDE is expecting Sony to deliver a belated Older 25 reissue in 2022 and we can only wait to see what form this takes. Anyone hoping for any Wham!-related reissues (like Make It Bigger) is likely to be disappointed.
Prince
Welcome 2 America was a fantastic surprise, but 2021 was still disappointing in that there was no major reissue of a classic Prince album, as had been the case in 2018 (1999) and 2020 (Sign O’ The Times). SDE understands that the vinyl production chaos played a big part in this, given that 13 vinyl records were required to service the Sign O’ The Times super deluxe. We should have been enjoying a 30th anniversary Diamonds and Pearls reissue but that is now likely to emerge in 2022 although we may have to wait until summer/autumn for this to be delivered.
Pink Floyd
Despite all the bitching, it does appear as if, four years later, the new stereo and 5.1 remixes of Pink Floyd’s Animals will finally be released this year. This is confirmed by the Mortal Remains exhibition in LA which has a large print of the ‘new’ album cover with a card underneath saying that the “anticipated release” for the Animals box set is June 2022. Of course that’s not exactly legally binding and we could see further delays. Also, Dolby Atmos is where it’s at these days, so I wonder if they’ve been tempted to create an Atmos mix as well as the standard 5.1 version? Probably not.
The Who
We already know that the next Who box set will be the 1971 classic, Who’s Next. It contains two trademark Who songs in ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ and ‘Baba O’Reily’. Expect demos / outtakes from the Lifehouse project, surround mixes and more. Pete Townshend posted some behind-the-scenes videos of some of the tape transfer/restoration work last year, which confirmed the project was happening.
Blondie
Blondie are clearly using the George Michael ‘bumper guide to reissuing back catalogue’ as their playbook, since fans are still waiting for the box set that they told us in 2018 was “coming in 2019”. Here’s a quick reminder of the timeline:
THE BLONDIE BOX SET TIMELINE
- Sep 2018: Complete Studio Recordings 1975-1982 announced for the “fall of 2019”
- Oct 2018: ‘Heart of Glass’ 12″ issued to whet fans’ appetites
- Aug 2020: No news for nearly two years, then the band post on their website that “The first Blondie archival box set coming in 2021”
- Feb 2021: A graphic novel (by Z2 Comics), Against The Odds is announced. The $500 super deluxe pre-order includes a “very special Blondie music bundle”. This graphic novel is expected “in the fall of 2021”
- May 2021: Clem Burke tweets that the box set is “definitely” coming out in August 2021
- July 2021: Clem Burke tweets that “Unfortunately due to vinyl production delays it looks like release date moved to 2022”.
We did get the Yuletide Throwdown single late last year, which was pretty cool and shows some creativity and a commitment to physical product absent from team George Michael, right now.
Other reissue news, rumours, new albums and musings
China Crisis have confirmed a 2CD reissue of their 1986 album What Price Paradise is coming this year and Lloyd Cole has told fans that 2003’s Music in a Foreign Language will be his next reissue this year and it will come with 10 bonus tracks of “rough mixes before other musicians were brought in”. This will be available on vinyl and CD. Erasure’s 1995 self-titled album is expected to be next in their two-CD reissue campaign and Tori Amos told SDE that “we will be doing something” around the 30th anniversary of her solo debut Little Earthquakes.
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a-ha will release a new album in 2022 called True North. This was recorded in in Bodø, Norway in November 2021. It’s a filmed live-performance with The Arctic Philharmonic and there will be a film and an album in the autumn. It’s not clear whether these are entirely new songs, or old songs or a mixture of both.
The New Order reissue/box sets should continue with Lowlife and Slash has confirmed that a Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion box set will happen in the summer of 2022 with bonus content to include the warm-up gig from The Ritz in 1991 and a Vegas show.
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ReviewsThere’s the usual silence from Kate Bush, but SDE feels like something could happen in 2022, most likely a new studio album. Having worked on that rather flawed reissue campaign as recently as 2018 we can’t see Kate spending her time on individual album super deluxe package, much as we’d like it. The Dreaming is 40 years old in September if you want to get your hopes up! Kate REALLY needs to do something with her video archive, which has been languishing on VHS/laserdisc for decades.
We are currently seeing tentative ‘baby steps’ when it comes to UMC’s custodianship of the ZTT label and, in particular, the Frankie Goes To Hollywood catalogue. We had some ‘vanilla’ reissues last year and in a few weeks the Essential compilation hits ‘the shops’ but SDE understands that, all being well, fans can expect something more weighty and interesting later in 2022.
Talking of ZTT, new music from xPropaganda – Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag – is on the way. The new album is produced by Stephen Lipson, which I’m sure you’ll agree is all very exciting.
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The Pet Shop Boys‘ second album is Actually 35 years old in 2022! Not that we should expect a box set. Their debut Please was not afforded the same treatment for either it’s 30th (in 2016) nor its 35th (last year). I think we can conclude that super deluxe type box sets are not Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s ‘thing’. A remix collection is long overdue, mind, so it would be nice to see something like that surface, although the smart money is on the guys “working on the new album”.
It’s not like Demon Music to pass up the opportunity to reissue a Suede album, which means SDE must conclude that despite band and fan reservations over 2002’s A New Morning, we are likely to see a reissue in the now familiar DVD-sized casebound book. Since the album was issued in September, expect this later in the year.
The Lilac Time’s Astronauts album from 1991 will be reissued this year (via Needle Mythology). It will be a 3CD set and feature the album (remastered), a demos and outtakes album and a live album from the Dreaming tour of 1991.
As well as the new album, Marillion should this year deliver deluxe reissues of Seasons End and Holidays in Eden. In related news, Fish is said to be working on a deluxe reissues of his first two solo albums (Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (1990) and Internal Exile (1991). Expect similar packages for both artists with surround mixes and bonus material.
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It’s a shame to note that after a whirlwind of activity a few years back, all seems quiet on the INXS front. 20 years after Kick was first issued as a 2CD deluxe edition, there have still be no serious reissues of any other INXS album! Instead, we’ve had plenty of greatest hits and two more Kick reissues: Kick25 and Kick30. INXS manager Chris Murphy was always a man with a plan, but his sad passing almost a year ago has perhaps left the campaign – which struggled for traction even with Chris’ enthusiasm – rather rudderless. It’s terrible that great albums like Shabooh Shoobah, The Swing, Listen Like Thieves and Welcome to Wherever You Are have been ignored and are in danger of being forgotten.
R.E.M. didn’t release an album (Up) for another two years after New Adventures in Hi-Fi, so Concord may well either need to pause the 25th anniversary reissue campaign and will perhaps re-focus on an earlier part of the band’s career in 2022.
Ultravox’s 1981 album Rage in Eden will be reissued in 2022 and will be very much in keeping with the excellent Vienna set of 2020 and it is likely that BMG will move on to Supergrass’ self-titled album from 1999 having done a fine job with In It For The Money last year. Just over four years after their debut was reissued as a super deluxe edition, there is still no sign of Roxy Music’s second album, 1973’s For Your Pleasure, being given the box set treatment. I feel we are in for a long wait on that one.
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Any word on the George Michael, Symphonica vinyl album if the French release is it still on schedule ! September was mentioned .
Intervention Records did wonders with Joe Jackson’s “Body and Soul” on LP and hybrid SACD (also, check out their audiophile reissues for Joan Armatrading’s eponymous album and the Church’s “Starfish”), I hope we’ll be getting a “Night and Day” SACD this year since they already re-released it on vinyl. Perfect timing to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Like many other people, I would love Prefab Sprout‘s output from “Swoon” to “Andromeda Heights” in remastered and expanded sets. Not sure if Paddy McAloon would agree – only “Steve McQueen” was remastered in 2007 for CD, and the extra material was completely re-recorded. No b-sides, no alternative versions.
I suspect it will be a quiet year for R.E.M. and that we may expect something in 2023 for “Up”. Who knows? U2 skipped “Rattle and Hum” and “Zooropa” was included in 2011’s super deluxe multi-disc edition of “Achtung Baby”. I agree that they should revisit “Pop” but the songs on “The Best of 1990 2000” were remixed, so do we have to expect a revised thing or will they keep it intact?
Simple Minds already had their best-selling records reissued and expanded, I seriously doubt that Pet Shop Boys are interested in re-re-releasing “Actually” since they already had it remastered twice. The Alan Parsons Project’s “The Turn of a Friendly Card” that someone mentioned was already remastered in 2006/7 as a single CD and later as a 2-CD set. Do we need more demos?
Tindersticks are going to release their first career-spanning compilation, Franz Ferdinand will have their first greatest hits out. A few years ago it seemed that the best we could have would be a “This Is…” Spotify playlist, they’ve changed their minds. Hurrah. I think of bands and artists who have never released a hits compilation – Coldplay, Muse, Linkin Park – or a complete singles collection when they had plenty of hits – Duran Duran‘s “Decade” was released in 1989, “Greatest” in 1998.
Siouxsie and the Banshees were expected to release a definitive singles collection, “EverAfter”, years ago. It never happened.
My wishes this year:
So many exciting announcements about music coming out this year.
Marillion- super excited for the new album and confirmation of the deluxe editions continuing. I have all the released sets and they are fantastic. Very much looking forward to the re-issue of Fish’s first two albums as well.
A-ha- intrigued by the new album also being a live symphonic one.
China Crisis- an unexpected surprise reading that What Price Paradise is getting a re-issue.
Wish list for this year (and beyond…)
The Fixx- announced their first new album in 10 years is coming soon. Lead single is a banger. With their first album, “Shuttered Room” turning 40 this year, it seems like a great time for a SDE. Considering their entire back catalog (minus Reach The Beach and some assorted compilations/live albums) is OOP and goes for a small fortune on eBay, I’d love to see re-issues or a box set with b-sides, extended versions, remixes, etc. at some point.
The Cure- my greatest musical love and my greatest frustration. So many broken promises from Robert over the years, it’s hard to know what to expect anymore. The new album would be nice, but I’d love to finally get the SDE of Wish, a full set of the Show/Paris concerts, a blu ray of The Cure In Orange, and (depending on how much of it was completed) the unreleased second album recorded at the same time as 4:13 Dream.
Japan- SDE’s for “Gentlemen Take Polaroids” and “Tin Drum” to go with my “Quiet Life” set. Possibly with the original (and still unreleased) version of “Some Kind Of Fool” included.
XTC- I hope the Apple Venus SDE can be completed and that English Settlement, Mummer, and Big Express can one day get the same treatment.
Sparks- L’il Beethoven is 20 years old this year and OOP. I would love to see it re-issued. It and Seduction of Ingmar Bergman are their only albums I’m currently missing from my collection.
Would be great to have 2cd versions of all the High Llamas albums. Likewise for Prefab Sprout.
The soundtracks to The Bitch, Stud & The World is Full of Married Men.
A cd compilation of everything by David Austin & Boogie Box High.
Anything from the Pet Shop Boys.
My Life Story to get the reissue treatment.
And finally a deluxe edition of From A-B by Octopus.
Is that too much to ask!?
Love the site & the comments section & a Happy New Year to Paul & everyone in chat!
Not sure if there’s any Pavement fans lurking on here but the reissue that no-one thought would ever happen is finally happening on the 8th April…Terror Twilight: The Farewell Horizontal Edition (2*CD or 4*LP)
Nice! It’s about time seeing the others were all released a while ago.
Al Stewart recently announced in Record Collector magazine that Madfish are going to release a 50 cd box set, consisting of a huge amount of unreleased live materiel. Is this the release in March that someone has alluded to below.?Really looking forward to that, if it is true.
Hi
does anyone know if Supertramp will ever reissue box sets, great work on what is coming thanks so much.
James
Really hoping London Town and Back to the Egg finally gets over the line – perhaps as a double set a la Wild Life/Red Rose Speedway with a live album taken from the Glasgow Apollo Dec 1979 gig. Add in Mull, Girls School, 7 & 12 in versions of Goodnight Tonight and Day Time Night Suffering, Back to the Egg TV special plus the usual selection of unreleased material/different versions. Count me in!
Paul, what do you mean exactly by “no Bowie‘era’ boxes to worry about in 2022 ? I read in Record Collector magazine a while back that the individual albums via Warners from 1968-2016 are due to start appearing in 2023. So logic dictates that (hopefully) the final box will appear this year. I really hope it does – don’t want to have to wait several years for it.
RC also reported that Edsel have confirmed there will be 50th anniversary versions of T.Rex-The Slider and the Born To Boogie movie. I missed out on the 40th version of The Slider as it was just to big for my storage space, so I hope this revamped version will be better packaged. Three discs (2xCD + DVD) in a slim booklet (ala Dandy In the Underworld) would be perfect.
Other hopes include Bill Nelson’s Red Noise-Sound On Sound SDE. Now that the Be Bop catalogue is done and dusted, surely it is time for Red Noise to get the same treatment.
Warners don’t acquire the rights to 2000-2016 Bowie until 2023, so the earliest the final box/boxes can appear is next year, but it’s most likely to be 2024 I think.
Paul,
It’s great that you take the time to put so much pre-release (and speculated release) information in one place like this. There’s a lot you’ve mentioned that I’m looking forward to, most notably (for me anyway) ‘Who’s Next’, ‘Animals’, and ‘Rage in Eden’. And, a ‘Conversation Piece’ style box covering the Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust era would be great. The Tony Visconti re-mixes of ‘Space Oddity’ and (even more so) ‘Lodger’ were pretty extraordinary, and the former made ‘Conversation Piece’ a nice listen. Just as I never completely gave up on vinyl I have no intention of turning away from the CD format, which in any event makes the most sense for most of these multi-disc sets. Again Paul, thanks for all you do in putting this site together and keeping us informed and entertained at the same time. Cheers…
Rob (Toronto)
XTC – English Settlement, Mummer, and Apple Venus
Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Rory Gallagher- Deuce, Live in Europe, Blueprint, Tattoo
Jethro Tull – Crest of a Knave
Joe Jackson – Look Sharp, I’m the Man
Robert Palmer – All !!
10cc – All !
Cherry Red have just announced their March releases. Pop Don’t Stop Greatest Hits by Kim Wilde will be released on triple white/red splatter vinyl for £33 and The 12″ Album/12″ers Vol 2 by Howard Jones will be released on CD.
I really hope Budgie’s debut album gets the Esoteric treatment?
Spotted this today:
ALAN PARSONS ANNOUNCES NEW LIVE RELEASE
“ONE NOTE SYMPHONY: LIVE IN TEL AVIV” OUT FEBRUARY 11, 2022
FEATURES A FULL PERFORMANCE WITH ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Frontiers Music is proud to announce the release of another stunning live performance from Alan Parsons and his incredibly skilled band of musicians, “One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv” on February 11, 2022. The band’s performance with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will be available on 2CD + DVD, Blu-ray, 3xLP, and Digital formats.
Oh yes, he’s been dishing out the live releases left and right recently! I think this is part of financing the upcoming studio album.
Very odd though that “Miracle” is relegated to the DVD in both cases, being axed from the CDs… it’s one of the few new songs in the setlist…
Thanks Paul for your preview for 2022. Let’s hope that this is going to be a great music year. From your preview I would like to see these albums :
David Bowie – “Hunky Dory”
David Bowie – “Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars”
George Michael – “Older”
Pink Floyd – “Animals”
The Police – “Reggatta De Blanc”
Here is my “wishlist” for 2022 re-issues :
ABC – “The Lexicon Of Love”
Kate Bush – “The Dreaming”
Duran Duran – “Rio”
Donald Fagen – “The Nightfly”
Michael Jackson – “Thriller”
The Alan Parsons Project – “The Turn Of A Friendly Card”
Roxy Music – “Avalon”
Toto – “Toto IV”
I don’t think that it is going to happen, but it would be great if Kate Bush would be working on a new album. The same thing goes for Peter Gabriel.
Peter Gabriel put out something near the end of last year to say that he was working on a new album.Of course there may be a fair distance between “working on” and releasing.
I would welcome SDEs of Michael Jackson’s best selling trilogy – Off The Wall, Thriller, and BAD. Thriller turns 40 this year. I’m imagining the usual remixes/extended versions, b-sides, and demos along with instrumentals, music videos, interviews, in concert footage and some Atmos or 5.1 mix. something akin to Prince’s Sign of the Times Deluxe, but even better. We are talking about THE biggest selling album of all time and two others from that list.
Thanks Paul for your musical weather forecast.
Personally I’m looking forward to Prince super deluxe editions (Parade/Diamonds&Pearls) and other Prince vault releases (I would love to see a RSD release of Camille).
I also would like to see reissues of Older/Songs From The Last Century/Patience/Symphonica by George Michael, Wish by The Cure, Back On Top by Van Morrison and Invincible by Michael Jackson (this already has been reissued but is too expensive).
Looking forward to . . . .
As well as the excellent Franz Ferdinand best of in Apr, there’s the Divine Comedy 24 track compilation ‘Charmed Life’ due next month – neat coloured double vinyl incl; Latest Bowie box unbundling; Bryan Ferry solo vinyl reissues/issue campaign continuing someday soon. A number of the later releases of course had limited (if any) vinyl runs back in the day; TTD moving a step closer – all hail the excellent ‘Symphony or Damn’ needed the super deluxe edition; Paul Weller creeping closer to the start of the excellent period beginning with ‘As is Now’, ‘22 dreams etc remastered/vinyl editions; INXS – not sure what the Giles Martin curatorship means! Hopefully super deluxe of ‘Welcome’ & ‘New Moon’ someday soon; Robbie Robertson solo albums post Band deluxe campaign. His first three solo albums are so varied and equally excellent. Lanois produced first album featuring amongst others U2 and Peter Gabriel has that big sound in desperate need of a remastering; Steely Dan vinyl; And of course, anything George Michael related.
Will Mike Oldfield ever complete his remaster series. Was so looking forward to Earth Moving and Amarok.
I have held off buying the originals in the hope of an eventual Deluxe release but as the years pass since we got Discovery and The Killing Fields I get the feeling he has lost interest.
Time for Genesis to dig deeper into their live show catalogue and give us some shows from other tours not represented so far. Also the Ray Wilson live shows would be greatly appreciated. And BluRay release of When in Rome, Mama Tour and maybe from the latest tour.
Pet Shop Boys were talking about revisiting all their 12 inches, CD singles and cassingles. This would be a great year to start.
On the subject of Ray Wilson, Genesis should also compile the b-sides plus one unreleased outtake from the Calling All Stations era. Some of those tracks are stronger than what made the album.
If Calling All Stations is ever re-issued, it should at least feature all songs in complete. The released CD had them all faded out before they were over, like on the radio 5 seconds before the news. Beyond comprehension.
Do you think they actually have real endings? There has already been a reissue in form of the 2007 remix, and I don’t think this issue was greatly changed there.
The way the fadeouts sound, there must have been more originally. On one or two songs, there are even lyrics in the booklet that are not heard because the songs are faded before.
Just a quick update on the New Musik vinyl reissues by Music On Vinyl. WARP has just been announced for Feb 18th. That means all 3 albums will be available as 2 LP expanded editions on coloured vinyl.
Do you have source? Could not find anything online. Thanks
There isn’t really anything online… but it’s happening, trust me. SDE is your source on this one!
As others have mentioned – we need a revisit of 1234. Much underrated album.
A fine album, yes, but it also demonstrates how much influence Lipson and Horn had. It lacks the trademark sound of A Secret Wish, that very cool, sophisticated, intellectual, yet still emotional style.
“Only One Word” is a great song, for example, but then again, it would easily pass as a Whitney Houston tune.
(Apart from that, only Mertens was left of the original lineup.)
I was very excited when Heaven Give Me Words came out (I believe it was co-written by Paul Humphries of OMD). It was a beautiful vocal by their new vocalist but when I listened to 1234, I was underwhelmed. A stark contrast to A Secret Wish.
It was Howard Jones co-writing Heaven Give Me Words with Michael Mertens and, I think, Ian Stanley. But Paul Humphreys was married to Claudia Bruckens at one point (forming One-Two)
I noticed that a few people have expressed hopes for LAMENT by ULTRAVOX coming out at some point. QUARTET is actually next in line and that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. No chance of that coming out this year though.
Looking forward to the Animals release. Would hope for a similar treatment to Meddle….. and proper stand alone versions of Pompeii as well as The Venice concerts as well as a re issue of Crystal Voyager all on dvd. Would be fab to hear something new from Kate Bush, but please, no more remasters etc. Not sure what Tori will do with Little Earthquakes? I’ve got the half speed remaster and that’s good enough for me! A Hawkwind re masters campaign would be nice along with Gong and associated releases as well as Tangerine Dream. Yessongs remaster wouldn’t go amiss either! Are we likely to hear anything from Bjork that will be a return to form. I love her innovative experimental work, but since the wonderful Vespertine, for me she has gone a bit predictable.
Meddle could be expanded with all the “Nothings” – we only got one on the Early Years sets.
Press to Play is one of my favourite Macca albums; it would be good to have an SDE option for it; but as mentioned it probably won’t sell any better than the original.
I’m looking forward to another Prince release; as long as the pricing isn’t too outrageous.
I have never listened to this album and would really like it included purely for completeness.
I am holding off picking up an old copy in expectation of it eventually forming a part of the archive series but would like the Wings completion first.
i would like to see a deluxe edition of cream wheels of fire. also a badly needed overhaul of the early jefferson airplane catalog.
Wheels Of Fire is somewhere in the works apparently.
I agree and it is great to hear someone mention the Airplane.
I posted a comment last night, dunno why it hasn’t been published :( Anyway, to repeat – Dexys Midnight Runners will reissue Too Rye Ay “As It Should Have Sounded” next September, coinciding with a tour. According to the latest issue of Classic Pop magazine, they’ve also got some famous faces to do three covers of songs from the album including Robbie Williams having a go at “Jackie Wilson Said”. Apparently, he thought that was a Dexys original.
Well, on pain of repeating myself 12 months on…
It would be amazing to have:
1, The Duran Duran album SDE that dare not speak it’s name though don’t know where BMG stand on this. I would expect Vinyl reissues of all the album they now have this year to be done for the fans! You’d think there would be some 40th Anniversary memorabilia out there by now unless they want to get the “Future Past” tour out of the way 1st so there’s no distraction.
2, INXS “Welcome to Wherever you are”. I’m sure I read Giles Martin was working on this. Lots of content surely but maybe being kept back for the anniversary year in 2023?
3, ANYTHING from Bryan Ferry / Roxy Music. Music of this quality cannot be ignored.
4, Depeche Mode CD Single boxes to the quality of the Vinyl boxsets would be amazing. Also the time is surely due for the reissue campaign to carry on AND in the same format for continuity for the fans as everything prior to “Playing with the Angel”, especially the DVD documentaries which were brilliant.
5, NOW 1980, 81, 82 in 4 disc book format would be brilliant.
Looking forward to Wings, Bowie, Who, Lennon.
Would assume Band on The Run, would be for 50th next year.
Hoping Prince will be Dirty Mind/Controversy box.
Isn’t Jackson’s Thriller 40 this year? If so let’s do a proper box set and no current mixes.
Madonna, latest news was in studio with current trendy producers mixers, let’s hope it’s new material and not going down the reimagining route.
Tull Thick As A Brick would be nice.
The usual suspects like ABC, Ultravox would be appreciated.
Thriller is 40 this year – would be great to see the full original version of the album, too long for vinyl dynamics, finally see the light of day. Besides the extended 12’’ versions, Lady Of My Life was only available on a Rod Temperton promo compilation. It would be great to see all versions and associated tracks in one place, and there are bound to be some unreleased tracks of the era still in the can. But like a Wham! reissue (to include all original versions of Last Christmas) this is unlikely to happen.
Like others here I want to see some long promised SDE issues. In no particular order
Who’s Next – The Who
Broadsword & the Beast – Jethro Tull
A 50 th anniversary reissue/upgrade to SDE of Thick as a Brick
Get Back soundtrack/complete rooftop concert
Deep Purple Made in Europe
CSNY Fillmore concerts
Neil Young Archives 3
Yes – Going for the One/Tormato/Drama/90125 SDE’s
Traffic box set.
I also want to put a plea for an Ashley Hutchings box in the way Universal/Island did with Sandy Denny, Richard & Linda Thompson, Fairport Convention and John Martyn.
It’s 50 years since Lindisfarne broke out so some SDE’s of the Charisma albums
I know that the smart money on the next Bob Dylan Bootleg Series is Time Out Of Mind but I would prefer a set covering Desire/Street Legal.
All this would stretch the wallet but think of the hours of pleasure.
Put me in the line for that Thick As A Brick reissue.Ian said in a recent interview as it is not planned though.
CSNY Fillmore is somewhere on Neil’s to do list but not for this year,
Island were well on the way to compiling a Traffic box with a disc count and format resembling their John Martin box.Steve refused permission in a dispute over royalties.That was around 10 years ago and I think it is in the deep freeze.
Hate to disappoint you but the Dylan team have said the Desire session tapes were destroyed accidentally.Street Legal is somewhere in their plans but the tapes of the accompanying tour were also destroyed shortly after the tour.
The multitracks for “Yes-Drama” have never been found, and even if they someday are found, keyboardist Geoff Downes is opposed to remixing the album. Steven Wilson’s contract only covered the remixing of 1971-1974 Yes albums. And there will never be any archival releases by Traffic, due to Steve Winwood’s long-term greivances against Universal Music.
Hey Paul! Excellent article, as always. So to join in the fun a few things from me.
Heaven 17: I dithered and missed out on both of their CD box sets. Would love for them to be re-issued
Supergrass: I dithered on their career cd boxset too. I’d be first in line for that one this time
Now that Team Bowie have got the excellent Brilliant Adventures out, will 2022 see them revisit the not so Brilliant Live Adventures? I’m missing the last LP and a box (I know!!). They’ve gauged our interest and then … absolute silence!!
Following hot on the heels of Let It Be, which should have included Let It Be … Naked, so slightly disappointed with that release, I’ll take anything by the fab four!! I’m hoping the Disney+ mini-series makes it to blu-ray and an audio of the rooftop gig would be a nice treat. Will we have to wait until 2023 for the commencement of the 60th Anniversary releases or will they work backwards and go to Revolver next? I’d also like some Remasters of the 3 Anthology albums if that’s not too much to ask.
The New Order definitive editions have been superb, as has the opportunity to purchase the 12″ Singles. Looking forward to seeing Lowlife appear along with its associated singles. If we could get these definitive editions up until Republic, I’d be a happy bunny.
I would love to see a Pet Shop Boys campaign that was similar to either the New Order definitive editions, but with 12″ Singles included (and all these tracks either combined on cd or accessible via supporting download codes), or a series of 12″ Single/CD Single boxes on cd like Depeche Mode way back when. I have all the “Further Listening” releases but I think either of these would be magical. I’d also welcome a remaster of Disco and Alternative.
I was disappointed by the lack of a Prince super deluxe set last year, so here’s hoping the estate make up for it this year, but it’s got to go some to better SOTT, which was excellent.
Someone has referenced that U2’s POP is 25 years old. It would be nice to see that get a dusting down and maybe the boys spend some time finishing it! I believe they have always said it was undercooked. A set similar to the 20 year Achtung Baby or 30 year Joshua Tree would be appreciated
A deluxe edition of the Cure’s wish like those that went before would be very welcome, as would expanded sets by Simple Minds … I’d personally like Sons and Fascination/Sister Feeling Call, but would take Real Life if that’s all we’re going to get, Manic Street Preachers … someone mentioned Know Your Enemy and that would do nicely and the Housemartins/Beautiful South. I’ll be interested to see what happens with the upcoming Madonna sets, although there have been reservations expressed about those here.
Finally, two total wish list items for me. Firstly a Charlatans singles (12″/cd single) cd boxset similar to that the Manics did to support National Treasures and secondly, expanded sets of Paul Weller’s majestic solo work … if he has the time to curate his back catalogue when he’s not creating new music.
Also label execs, if you want us to part with significant amounts of money to purchase vinyl box sets, please be kind enough to provide a download code so we can listen to it on our phones, like those who pay less to purchase the cd version can.
Beatles rooftop concert is being shown at US imax venues on 30th january. Also the Get Back documentary is being released on bluray/dvd in feb.
I am hoping for the Abba deluxe The Visitors including singles boxes like the other ones. Obviously delayed due to something else they released! On Voyage I expect a special edition to include for the first time vinyl singles of all tracks released not just I Still have faith in you. I mean I personally can’t wait 40 years for that collection!
Seeing as it’s the 40th this year, I do hope someone somewhere (Steven Wilson?) is working on a 5.1 mix for an SDE of Lexicon of Love.
I’d also appreciate if someone could make a headstart on a 5.1 mix of Big Country’s The Crossing for *its* 40th NEXT year :)
A Suede reissue for “A New Morning” in the same style as the previous reissues would be a must have for me. That album was nowhere near as bad as the band claimed. Would be good to include the Hoffer demos that you could download at the time of release. A Pet Shop Boys remix collection, including some of the cutting edge stuff that was on the DJ promos, would be amazing. I’ve been hoping for that for a few years so hopefully someone at Parlophone will read this article. ABC’s “The Lexicon Of Love” is 40 years this year and deserves a super-de-luxe box. I doubt that will happen though. Let’s hope Paddy McAloon will release more of his archive material.
One blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reissue out this year is a 20th anniversary vinyl release of “The Opiates” by Thomas Feiner and the Anywhen.
It is an exquisite album originally released on David Sylvian’s Samadhi Sound label in 2001.
The new edition has two new tracks and re-establishes a track that was on the original version but left off the last version.
I think it’s the first time it’s been issued on vinyl ever.
There’s 7 days left on the Bandcamp pledge campaign and I read somewhere that he’s only pressing-up to order so it might be your only chance.
https://thomasfeiner.bandcamp.com/campaign/the-opiates-revisited
N.B. Feiner has been championed by Matt Johnson and appears on the “Radio Cineola Trilogy” boxset doing an excellent cover of “This Is The Day”. Also worth checking out is the Exit North material which is his project with Steve Jansen (ex-Japan drummer).
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know about this 20th anniversary release on vinyl.
Just a small correction about the original release. It was on the Clear Spot german label in 2001. David Sylvian(who befriended Thomas Feiner) re-released the album in 2008 on his Samadhi Sound label. It was titled Thomas Feiner & Anywhen – The Opiates Revised. I own the original CD but not the Samadhi reissue so I don’t really know why he called it “Revised” ?
My girl friend (at the time) offered me the CD as a present back in 2001 because she had an advance copy and it quickly became her favorite album. I had never heard of Anywhen before she offered it. I was blown away by this album. Not immediatly but it’s the kind of album that grows on you. It’s surprising it never reached the (massive) audience it deserved. Even after 20 years, very few people know about that album.
Bananarama’s 40th anniversary – be interesting to see what they do! I hope the Communards release a vinyl for their second album. Also looking forward to the Madonna releases.
Is there anything left to do with Banarama? Maybe picture disc albums? Did they do colored reissues? Otherwise they’ve milked it dry?
I wish they repress the singles box set.
I agree, we have been spoilt, musically all that’s left is demos. I was thinking of a tour, but in these times who knows! I am still looking forward to the PSBs tour re-scheduled from 2020!
A Conversation Piece style boxset would be VERY welcome but the most interesting thing I read there was about new movement in the ZTT camp. I’m probably the only person but ZTT released an OST from the film Insignificance which I absolutely ADORED and would love to see it remastered and re-released as my vinyl copy is knackered!
As there is some trend of reissuing deluxe versions shortly after the original issue, what I would most want is a deluxe version of Imposter by Dave Gahan and Soulsavers, with extra live album, live DVD and remixes. Really love that album, but don’t really feel like buying a vanilla CD for £13 or a single black vinyl record with nothing special.
I can’t wait to see what the Orbital 30-Something campaign is actually going to consist of, hopefully expanded CD-Reissues & not a vinyl-only load of rubbish…
Would also be nice to finally see the long-mooted MACHINA Reissue from Smashing Pumpkins…
…and Super Furry Animals & Supergrass to continue their reissues in the excellent fashion they have carried out so far…
Technically, this year marks the 30th anniversary of Duran Duran’s “Wedding Album”, but because they came up with “Come Undone” and recorded “Femme Fatale” to replace the much better songs of “Stop Dead” and “Time 4 Temptation”, the album got pushed back to 1993. Ho-hum. I’m glad they’ve got a great new album out which I wholly support, but damn….they’ve missed opportunities to do super deluxe reissues of “Liberty” (and there are quite a few excellent unreleased tracks from that, as well as songs that did make the cut which sounded so much more better before Brown Eyes got his mits on them), “The Wedding Album” (for which we’ve all cried out for the SDE treatment), and “Thank You” (hey….it was an ok album).
Anniversaries are always related to the release date, so it’s rather a moot point with regards to The Wedding Album. I wholeheartedly agree that it’s ridiculous that they haven’t reissued it (outside of the original 2CD set, of course).
I wonder if Mike Oldfield will revisit the rest of the Virgin albums. There are four to go, five if you include the Killing Fields.
Islands, Earth Moving, Amarok and Heaven’s Open.
Really, really, really (you get the point) really not bothered about Heaven’s Open but the other three have a place in my heart, particularly Earth Moving.
Kate: All been said before.
It’s lovely to enter a year where there is a confirmed Lilac Time release. Rather like The Dreaming, Astronauts has a curious history but virtually every 21st century yahoo fan poll I ever saw had it firmly at the top of the tree. It was a nightmare to make, the band (such as it was) was falling to pieces, as was Stephen. It bombed, record company decisions were laughable (Hypnotone? uuurgh). But it is the most consistently beautiful record he has ever made, bar one divisive track.
Cocksure (Because We Love You) is allegedly finished so what is holding that up I have no idea. I would wish for a second Hawks release too, so not wanting much there from SAJD.
For all of my other favourite artists there have been no real rarities collections and yet rumour has it that the well is already dry. It beggars my belief that a band like Tears for Fears can release 3 x SDEs with a wealth of unheard material But for Japan / Sylvian, ELO, Wham!, ABBA….. it’s all done and dusted with some previously available 12″ mixes, a few one minute out-takes based on bits of songs, some instrumentals and a megamix of bits, pieces and thoughts.
A three / four disc Secrets of the Beehive would (or at least should) fly out the door as would an SDE of Out of the Blue, but no, nada, zilch, squat. Nothing. All used up, all 7 minutes of it. So maybe TFF were just weird and kind of, y’know, recorded stuff that no one else did? I find it difficult to believe that Curt and Roland were any more obsessed with getting stuff down than any other group. More or less, give or take one might think most bands were laying stuff down in one form or another.
I know it’s always been said that some artists were freaks and had 30 songs for each album and some had only 12 songs and struggled for b-sides. I guess we will never find out, but I would hazard a guess that most albums have another hour, minimum, of associated material. Unreleased but finished, remix, alternate or demo form.
Earth Moving is such a good album. Underrated and forgotten.
Bit obscure perhaps but I’d love a JJ72 box set to include the unreleased third album, all b sides & a live disc.
Plus one for this, this would be excellent…
Here’s my copy and paste list of things I’ve read here and agree with:
DiscoDave2000
SDE/DLX/Expanded Editions Wishlist
Prefab Sprout – Jordan The Comeback / Steve McQueen / From Langley Park To Memphis / Andromeda Heights (Thomas Dolby production in Atmos or 5.1? Please.)
Richard
Combat Rock Is 40 in May and the rat patrol from fort Bragg demos need a proper clean up and issue .
There are lots of Clash bootlegs circulating but the sound quality is not up to much. Come on Mick Jones make me happy.
B-Side the point
..also 20th anniversary of Norah Jones legendary debut album, would love to see a box set with live concert and other stuff.
One of the top 40 best selling albums of all time
Peter Barker
With Prince SDEs, I would hope for Around The World In A Day or Parade to get that treatment before Diamonds & Pearls.
I would also hope for a deluxe or super deluxe reissue of Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti
Chris Sutton
Yes’s Going For The One would be a nice one to have in 5.1 as would Kate’s Hounds Of Love
AdamW
But my biggest question is, when will we get SDEs of Stevie Wonder‘s incredible run of albums from Music Of My Mind through Original Musiquarium I? That first one turns 50 in March – no better time than the present, I say!
Many thanks Paul for all that you do with this invaluable music information resource.
Regards,
I just thought I’d also like for Motown/Universal to release all of Stevie Wonder 60s albums on vinyl, like they did with Marvin Gaye a few years ago, or CD would suffice. Maybe we’ll finally see Original Musiquarium II!
Why is the estate of Jim Steinman RIP not yet delving into his archive?There must lots of unreleased songs and also demos of literally every one of his famous songs he has written for others.What I would love is one huge box set of his archive material added to all the other artist recordings of his songs,especially the non-Meatloaf ones as Meatloaf Steinman classics are already easy to locate.Other artists versions not so widely known!There is much more to Jim Steinman than just his work with Meatloaf.One massive box set tribute would be fab and a big seller.
I would love to see at least something reissued form so underated Sylvester. I’ve got impression that this Legend was totally forgotten by everyone.
I also would like to see “Even in the Quetest Moments…” by Supertramp.
Supertramp are a wasteland… a land of wasted opportunities. They could do so much. Get the last couple of records back in print. Release more live shows. Demos, and the few studio tracks that didn’t get released on CD yet (the original mix of “Land Ho”, the studio version of “You Started Laughing”).
There was supposed to have been a 25th anniversary re-issue of THE CRANBERRIES’ TO THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED released before Christmas but it never arrived. Does anyone have information what’s going on with that please?
Highest on my wishlist would be a new Kate Bush album,(preferably not in the style of 50WFS)
The Waterboys have an expanded and remixed version of their An Appointment With Mr Yeats album out in June – LP +CD- both remixed and with CD (only) having 6 bonus tracks. There is still hope a live DVD of the materials debut performances with a large musical ensemble at Irelands National Abbey Theatre may be included or released separately at the same time . They also have an album of new material called ‘All Souls Hill’ out in April
I actually quite like the sound of an orchestral Duran Duran album, my favourite of theirs Big Thing would lend itself so well though obviously it would be a greatest hits affair
A new Peter Gabriel would be nice
A DVD release of Laurie Anderson’s groundbreaking ‘Home of the Brave’
Is it too early to wish for a Crowded House follow up to Dreamer’s Are Waiting?
I second other’s wishes SDE’s for:
Nik Kershaw- Radio Musicola and The Works
The Housemartins – The People who Grinned…
The Beatles – Revolver
Madonna- Like A Prayer
INXS- The Swing and X
The Concert for Bangladesh
Also, I heard an expanded Hardline According to TTD is due in 2022
SDES please :
Cyndi Lauper’s underrated Christmas album (excellent unreleased recordings of other tracks performed live with NYC Gay Mens Choir could be added among many others)
Malcolm McLaren & Bootzilla Orchestra- Waltz Darling
World Party- Bang!
Maria McKee- Life Is Sweet
Jane Siberry – When I Was a Boy
Tears For Fears- Elemental
Happy New Year everyone!
Revolver would be great – if they reverse from Sergeant Pepper that would also mean Rubber Soul after that. Woo-hoo! Although it would still be nice to have a proper Pepper vinyl super deluxe.
Who’s Next great – but a vinyl super deluxe please ( Who Sell Out was just CD)
Prince – disappointing if it is the mostly weak and bland Diamonds and Pearls – I don’t feel the need for a deep dive into that period(especially if it’s a similar price to Sign o’ the times boxset). Guess I’ll have to wait further for Around the World and Parade.
Eels deluxe reissues would be grand – of course their new album Extreme Witchcraft is out in January – working again with PJ Harvey – and the vinyl box package is beautifully designed as ever (they’re a class act).
XTC Apple Venus great – it’s a masterpiece. Still have the original limited CD box with the lovely feather inside. Crying out for a similarly great vinyl package – get the big 12 inch feathers in production.
Looking forward to New Order boxes resuming with Low-Life – hopefully they’ll also continue releasing the associated 12 inches too.
Also, the great Father John Misty has just announced his new album Chloe and the Next 20th Century for April with a lush looking deluxe vinyl box with 7inch re-recordings of two of his songs by Lana Del Ray.
2022 shaping up to be interesting.
I still hope for a massive Biograph-like boxed-set around the first few albums of Jackson Browne.
Oh my yes. You just know his first two albums could sound so much better. And with unreleased tunes from that era? It would make my year! (Well, maybe not, but close!)
I’m really interested in the Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion box set but I’m still smarting after getting stung with the price drop on the Appetite For Destruction super deluxe box set. Depends on the price, but it may not be a day one purchase for me!
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me :)
Some Time In New York City Ultimate has officially been confirmed – there’s even a website for it… The MSG films have been restored for a while now and the expectation is that the full show will be compiled from the 2 performances.
Paul Young’s self-titled album turns 25 this year and together with its b-sides it hasn’t been part of any reissue programme yet. I would certainly buy it!
In addition to lots of the others already mentioned, I’m interested in the Terence Trent D’arby reissues and would also like to see Seal’s albums getting the Super Deluxe treatment. We could do with another Smiths reissue and I’d like a 3rd Depeche Mode remix box set.
Incidentally, I think I recall some mention of there being a problem with the XTC Apple Venus project. Would be a shame.
2022 is the 50th anniversary of the first 10cc releases. I would love to see the following: a complete reissue program with demos, b sides, unreleased tracks, especially on CD and in 5.1, and a new, comprehensive box set that gathers all the above together. If they dont want to gather together the entire catalogue I would love to hear the first 4 albums sonically improved in a box, and the rest as free standing releases.
Also, and this is even more of a stretch, could Godley, Creme, Stewart snd Gouldman be persuaded to make a new album together? Maybe Trevor Horn, (who already works with Lol Creme, and has worked with Kevin Godley in the past), could be encouraged to do the production? I live in hope.
Great suggestion Simon. 10cc are poorly lacking in this respect. I would stretch the early Album Box to five to include Deceptive Bends and I do have a soft spot for Ten out of Ten. We can only wish.
Paul!
A very Happy New Year to you!
After reading every listed title I was getting disappointed, until I saw Ultravox, Rage In Eden receiving a deluxe box set! I was ready to buy this in 2021, and I’m ready NOW.
Regrets, I’ve had a few:
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want, but I can still hope.
Scars album was reissued as a 3 CD set by Cherry Red a couple of years ago.
A 9 disc Teardrop Explodes boxset was being assembled a few years back but the trail on that went cold.
Joe, I’ve posted the hope for an expanded Sons and Fascination/Sister feelings Call for years now, without success. Maybe this year???
The Scars – Author! Author! came out in 2020 as a 3cd box set on Cherry Red. It’s definitely worth buying!
Hi Joe, there was a 40th anniversary vinyl reissue of The Garden last year available in 2 colors, there was also a second vinyl release (also in 2 colors) called ‘Church’ that contained various b-sides and non album tracks (‘Miles Away’):
https://johnfoxx.tmstor.es/
Am keeping my fingers crossed for:
…The Go-Betweens Volume 3 boxset
…Robert Forster’s 3rd and 4th albums on vinyl c/o Needle Mythology
…The House of Love Universal boxset
…Anything INXS related (I heard that ‘X’ was ready to go last year)
But i’m not holding my breath. A new House of Love album is imminent though which is good news (albeit minus Terry Bickers).
I would give a kidney for a House Of Love Phonogram Years box set.
If we’re allowed to wish for anything, then here is my dream wish list (off the top of my head):
The previously unreleased album(s) by: The The – Gun Sluts (or Karmic Gravity, Pornography of Despair, or Spirits)
The confirmed new album(s) by: The Cure / Robert Smith
These previously released albums by: Prince – Slaughterhouse, Chocolate Invasion, N.E.W.S., Xpectation (perhaps all in one collected box)
A new album by: OMD
An expanded/SDE reissue campaign of: Echo and the Bunnymen
A proper (read “larger”) CD SDE of: Prince’s Purple Rain
The long rumoured: Sisterhood vinyl SDE
An SDE (similar to the previous one’s) of: Fleetwood Mac – Say You Will
To be fair, PSB have done their Further Listening reissues twice now (with the second series including a couple of 3-CD sets), and have been good about collecting their b-sides in album form (Alternative and Format), so I can’t imagine there’d really be a need for a Super Deluxe-style boxset from them for any particular album.
What, oh what have we done to deserve SIX discs of Peter Cetera inflicted upon us? What’s next, Laura Branigan?
Whatever Madonna and Warner do, I’d still like to have a non-Qsound edition of The Immaculate Collection.
McCartney? I’m also hoping for reissues of London Town and Back to the Egg. For Back to the Egg, I’d like to see the 12-inch version of ‘Goodnight Tonight’ included; it was always a mystery to me why the 1993 reissue included the b-side (‘Daytime Nightime [sic] Suffering’) as an extra track but not even the a-side’s 7-inch version.
If the Prince Estate are to continue their reissue series in 2022, my vote would be for Controversy. Diamonds and Pearls had three good songs (the title track, ‘Cream’, and ‘Money Don’t Matter 2 Night’); the rest was substandard filler. (Prince feeling threatened by rap and trying to play catch-up was not a pretty sound.) Sadly, that template would hold for most of the decade—two or three decent songs plus enough material to fill out the playing time.
But when it comes to Please or Actually all Pet Shop Boys did was repeat a 17-year old 2CD deluxe from 2001. Hardly exciting or comprehensive. None of the remixes from Shep Pettibone, Francois Kervorkian, Frankie Knuckles etc were on there. An amazing Please box virtually compiles itself and I can’t understand why they aren’t interested, but hey ho.
Honestly, they could come up with a cool series name and finally release remix albums for all their studio albums. Not sure how much material there’d be but probably two CDs worth at least so it’s not like it would be that expensive. Did they ever explain why the Further Listenings remixes were only their own work?
The ‘only our remixes’ was a sensible approach back in 2001 because 2CD deluxe editions were about as ‘deluxe’ as the market demanded at that time, so it was a natural fit.
That’s the issue I have with just repeating them nearly 20 years later. Things move on.
Fully agree. I don’t know how a deep dive into the Diamonds era can be justified. His attempts at rap were mostly woeful and tainted the rest of his 90s output – I don’t know why he felt so threatened- he should have stuck with what he was good at. The rot set in with the execrable Batman soundtrack – there’s no need for superdeluxes from then on. Don’t even think about a Batman super deluxe please – what a waste of vinyl and resources.
Who is to blame that Brücken and Freytag must call their project “xPropaganda”? Michael Mertens?
Surprised there’s no mention of Annie Lennox and the 30th anniversary of ‘Diva’.
Surely if the stars align, we should see 3-disc + blu-ray box-set that includes the album, official remixes, MTV Unplugged, etc. along with the video album.
Considering what they have to work with, the packaging should be a thing of beauty.
Annie Lennox is the reason there haven’t been any more Eurythmics reissues. She’s not interested in stuff like this.
Because you can’t beige something like Diva. She’s become the most boring artist ever. What a loss.
You’re most likely right Paul, but it wouldn’t surprise if she gives the nod on something to do with ‘Diva’, considering the importance of where it lies in her body of work.
Obviously what she does now and has been doing for decades in helping to change the lives of millions for the better is the priority in her life.
Depeche Mode should release a Exciter 12 singles box set this year. Also, since 1993 Depeche Mode have released a new album every four years. It’s been five years since Spirit… so maybe.
The Manic Street Preachers hinted at a Know your enemy reissue a little while back, so that’s a possibility.
Pet shop boys could start doing 12 singles box sets – that would be nice.
Also, following on from Abba and Tears for fears, it would great to have another suprise release from some-one who hasn’t put out a new album for a decade or more.
Always an interesting read, thank you Paul.
Steely Dan catalogue is long, long overdue for an upgrade. Citizen Steely Dan was released in 1993. As someone else has mentioned, 5.1 or Atmos mixes would be fantastic.
Looking forward to Pink Floyd Animals, Jethro Tull Broadsword and NYA Vol III.
Other wants are:
.Another Free box set along the lines of Songs of Yesterday
.Still waiting for Deep Purple’s Made in Europe SDE first announced in 2015 (legalities must be finalised by now??)
.A “Quadio” style box set by Santana – the first three Santana albums are now on 4.0ch SACD in Japan
.Further deluxe editions of Golden Earring albums. The Moontan deluxe released late last year sounds superb
.Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card SDE
.Cat Stevens – Catch Bull at Four SDE
.A Bob Seger Box set. (Please!!!!)
The list goes on……
Happy New Year Paul and to all SDE readers. Stay safe
There are so many amazing bands and artists I’d love to see SDEs from, to name a few:
ABC – How To Be A Zillionaire (would make an amazing 3 disc edition that contained every version)
Art of Noise – Below The Waste (the previous deluxe editions for IVS and INS?N! were impressive, hope this actually happens)
B-52’s – Bouncing Off The Sattelites (frankly, the Cosmic Thing deluxe was fairly disappointing and incomplete)
Bruce Springsteen – Born In The USA (pretty unlikely that we’d get a 2 or 3 disc set with the remixes, but one can dream)
Devo – Oh No It’s Devo (my favorite album by them, would make a dynamite 2 disc)
Electric Dreams Soundtrack (a pipe dream, but there are more than enough tracks and versions for a 2 disc edition)
Escape Club – Wild, Wild West (surely their debut is worthy of a reissue, even if it just included the title track remixes)
Lene Lovich – No Man’s Land (hard to understand why this hasn’t been done yet. It’s You has several great versions)
Pat Benatar – Seven The Hard Way (a double disc with mixes of Invincible and Sex As A Weapon would be great!)
Peter Wolf – Lights Out (there were several top 40 hits from the former J. Geils front man, this album isn’t even in print on CD, let alone the fact that none of the excellent remixes have seen CD release)
Stevie Nicks – Rock a Little (what happened to this reissue campaign? So many mixes of I Can’t Wait that have never seen CD)
Wax – Magnetic Heaven (criminally underrated album of irresistible pop has plenty of remixes that haven’t been released on CD)
Yes please I’d love Rock A Little and more Stevie Nicks reissues!
Looking forward to the Renaissance-Scheherazade reissue this month.
A new Jimi Hendrix 3-CD + Blu-ray boxed set “Electric Lady Studios:A Jimi Hendrix Vision” is coming from Sony Legacy/Experience Hendrix in March. The set focuses on sessions for Hendrix’s intended fourth album “The First Rays of The New Rising Sun”. Familiar song titles, but presumably different takes, mixes etc.
Announced today is Electric Lady Studios which is a new Hendrix box.Formats are either 3cds or 5 lps both coming with an audio Blu-ray Disc.
It appears to be largely an expanded version of First Rays Of The New Rising Sun and it is hard to tell at the moment how much is previously unreleased.
Release is 25 March.
Thanks Paul, that’s a realistic list based on what we know happened the past years. I see a lot of people excited about the Madonna reissues. Madonna is not the type to give the fans what they want, she’s all about what SHE wants. Given the sales of her latest albums have been marginal, she may want to use these reissues to revive her brand but I doubt she sees it that way.
My hopes for 2022 reissues are as follows:
-Iggy Pop – Blah Blah Blah
-Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche and Provision
-ABC – Alphabet City and How To Be A Zillionaire
-Nik Kershaw – Radio Musicola and The Works
-OMD – Sugar Tax
-The Eurythmics and Depeche Mode are a goldmine for the label. Everyone wants those individual albums reissued in at least box set format. Just do it already.
-Daft Punk – Random Access Memories. The album is only 9 yrs old but such brilliance should no longer be ignored.
-Tina Turner – Private Dancer. Let’s give that album the same treatment as Foreign Affair
-Rolling Stones – Undercover, please include the Arthur Baker mix of Too Much Blood
-The Ramones – End Of The Century should be next
-5.1 Mixes of the early Howard Jones albums
-Alan Parsons Project – I Robot box is hopefully next
-Mick Jagger – She’s The Boss. I always liked this album, pls release it with all the commercially released remixes
-Grace Jones – Living The Life
-Tom Petty – Into The Great Wide Open
-Arthur Baker Presents….the next one in this series
-So80s part 14
-The Beloved – Blissed Out
It would be great if Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” got the same treatment as “Foreign Affair”, but I think that we would have to wait until 2024 for it’s 40th Anniversary.
P.S. : Has the Arthur Baker mix of “Too Much Blood” ever been released on CD?
A new box set is supposed to be release this spring (March ?) from Robert Fripp called EXPOSURES (with an S !), forming a bridge between King Crimson completing its work in 1974 and beginning again in 1981. It seems it will be a massiveboxset covering the Exposure album era, recordings from 1977 to 1980, including Exposure album, Frippertronics, the League of Gentlemen etc. (maybe his playing with Blondie ?) and a good book.
Also, as announced here on SDE, the new Porcupine Tree album in the middle of the year. I will looking for new Jethro Tull boxes to add to my collection, Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and as mentioned in the article: the John Lennon New York box (as good as the others Lennon Boxes maybe), PF Animals, Who’s next, McCartney London Town and Back to the Egg (if not overpriced). I would be please if a new Kinks box is release this year. Maybe a Peter Hammill box following the very good Van Der Graff Boxset of last year. May be its to soon in 2022 to have the next Bowie era box.
There are many expectations here in this forum, so have a good and fun box sets year !
All I want for Christmas 2022 is huge mega cd box set that is incorporating Wish, Show and Paris from The Cure. Then i will be a happy camper despite Man City buying its gazillionth premiere league championship with Sheik Money. Sheik Yerbouty and a healthy 2022!!!! Go Reds!
On the 90s Britrock front, I see 3 Colours Red are reissuing their two albums early this year.
Their older, better brothers-in-arms The Wildhearts promised a reissue of their second, and best, album ‘p.h.u.q.’ last year but with a tantalising reimagining in its originally intended form of a double album (fans will know it would have been a real humdinger, but got split apart into two albums – or album and an EP to be precise – by their record label whom they had a famously bad relationship with) so hopefully that finally sees the light of day at some point – I know they have particularly struggled with the vinyl pressings over the past couple years.
Speaking of reimagining fan favourites – Manic St Preachers (or Nicky Wire at least) have been talking about a Know Your Enemy reissue, but splitting it down into two albums (or two parts in the track listing order perhaps) as originally intended (and no doubt subbing in a b-side as has become standard on their reissues) so I’ll look forward to that this year.
Would be good to get a reissue of Reef’s underrated third album Rides this year, seeing as the first two have had a replenish in recent years and they have a new album out this year to ride the tails of, but as there’s no neat anniversary to reflect I think that’s just wishful thinking on my part.
And for what it’s worth, if anyone even remembers the band Headswim from the mid-late 90s, I hear they’re trying to reissue their debut this year too. They had two or three good tunes I recall, but possibly were a product of their time. Maybe we just need a reminder of what we missed!
“Nik Kershaw – Radio Musicola
Lilac Time – Astronauts
Kraftwerk – Computer World
Human League – Dare (SDE with the Love & Dancing instrumentals, demos, b-sides, extended/remix versions, videos, etc)
Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche ’85 (I can’t imagine how amazing this would be in Atmos or 5.1)
Simple Minds – Real Life (should be next up anyway…)
The Housemartins – The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (there are non LP and b-sides galore for certain)
Propoganda – 1234 (maybe piggyback with the xPropaganda release)
China Crisis – What Price Paradise(happy this is confirmed!)
Nick Heyward – Postcards from Home, I Love You Avenue”
Some great choices here.
I think I’d pass out if i heard Cupid & Psyche ’85 in surround.
Sadly Human League have confirmed, no Dare 40 & I’m completely bummed.
They said theres nothing else in the archive
I love Headswim. Despite Yourself is an awesome album (check it out on Spotify) and they should have gone on to bigger & better things. It’s not a cheery album as a lot of the songs are about their brother dying from leukaemia. If you want a reference guide, I would say it is slightly similar to Radiohead in the Bends era. I’ve got a 6 track promo of Better Made which interestingly features re-recordings of some of their earlier songs in more of a Despite Yourself style – previously they were a lot heavier. They still get regular spins by me & I don’t think they were a product of their time. I can’t see any mention of a reissue by googling so please let me know if I can follow news of it in anyway. If not, please provide updates if you hear anything further.
Fantastic item. Looking forward to the possible Bowie hunky dory and Ziggy expanded versions. Combat Rock Is 40 in May and the rat patrol from fort Bragg demos need a proper clean up and issue .
There are lots of Clash bootlegs circulating but the sound quality is not up to much. Come on Mick Jones make me happy.
..also 20th anniversary of Norah Jones legendary debut album, would love to see a box set with live concert and other stuff.
One of the top 40 best selling albums of all time
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Definitely one of my favorite SDE articles. Gets me giddy with anticipation or a roll of the eyes (SDEs from TFF, GM, INXS, really?). At any rate, this is also when I post my wish list for any label catalog managers that may be reading…
SDE/DLX/Expanded Editions Wishlist
Prefab Sprout – Jordan The Comeback / Steve McQueen / From Langley Park To Memphis / Andromeda Heights (Thomas Dolby production in Atmos or 5.1? Please.)
OMD – Crush (time to stop milking Architecture & Morality era and release this album in expanded/deluxe format)
Nik Kershaw – Radio Musicola
Lilac Time – Astronauts (happy this is confirmed!)
Kraftwerk – Computer World
Mike Rutherford – Smallcreep’s Day
Bruce Springsteen – Born In the USA (SDE following the River and DarknessOTEOT SDEs)
Human League – Dare (SDE with the Love & Dancing instrumentals, demos, b-sides, extended/remix versions, videos, etc)
Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche ’85 (I can’t imagine how amazing this would be in Atmos or 5.1)
Simple Minds – Real Life (should be next up anyway…)
The Housemartins – The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (there are non LP and b-sides galore for certain)
Propoganda – 1234 (maybe piggyback with the xPropaganda release)
Christians – Happy In Hell (the other Island titles have been expanded already)
China Crisis – What Price Paradise(happy this is confirmed!)
Nick Heyward – Postcards from Home, I Love You Avenue
Steve Winwood – Back In The High Life, Talking Back To The Night
XTC – English Settlement, Mummer, and Apple Venus CD/BR
Yes – Going For The One, Tormato, Drama CD/BR
Full Catalog Reissue Campaigns
Steely Dan – serious audiophile reissue campaign (Atmos/5.1/Quad) of Can’t Buy A Thrill through Gaucho
Beautiful South, The Police (happy to hear this is in the works!), Psychedelic Furs, Madonna, Michael McDonald (WB/Reprise years),and Sade – reference the XTC/Marillion/Deacon Blue/Jethro Tull reissue campaigns – very high quality, fairly exhaustive contents, reasonable pricing.
Fully expecting Vinny Vero to deliver on the Wang Chung catalog this year (now that his Peter Cetera project delivered)!
Oh and let’s keep vinyl and CD separate! I gave up vinyl almost 40 years ago and still buy CDs in 2022 like millions of other folks globally. Viva la CD!
The Springsteen Born In The USA box is likely to be combined with Nebraska.Hoping the Sony deal gets some movement on this.
Mentioning Winwood gets me misty eyed thinking about the mammoth Traffic box Island were compiling only for Steve to shut it down in a royalty dispute.
A piggyback of _1234_ with the xPropaganda would actually be a bit weird, since the intersection of the personnel is the empty set. Of course, a separate release taking advantage of the xPropaganda release, now that might work.
One or two items might end up being bought, but I now view my music collection as “done” unless the impossible happens and some sort of multi-disc CD of Win’s _Uh! Tears Baby_ appears. Unlikely – although I wish I knew where the blockage was, and why. I figure a 4CD set would be feasible – one disc for the basic album, remastered with 12” mixes and B-sides from the singles, one disc for the pre-album single/12” versions and, oh, the two McEwans mixes of “You’ve Got The Power” (there was a promo CD, so it’s fair game), Davey Henderson’s indicated there’s a heap of material recorded with David Motion that didn’t make it, there are presumably demos, probably enough for a live CD…OK, maybe a 3CD set. I’d pay good money for that – it’s about the only thing I can think of where I’d be willing to go to triple digits.
The album has been so studiously ignored, a multi-disc set is the only sane option for anyone willing to try a re-release – even just a basic CD re-release is apparently such an insurmountable obstacle that anyone who managed to get rights to do that could presumably do a full set.
I suspect sales would be better than you’d imagine – it seems to be an album that people who’ve heard really want to own. Add in the tiny number of CDs pressed back in 1987, and a re-release with a few frills (history, track notes by surviving band members) could do pretty well. As I’ve said, I’d put good money down. There was a time I’d have tried to get a Kickstarter going myself, but there’s such an information void on why it’s never even had a no-frills re-release, and I’m old and tired.
I agree wholeheartedly, it’s never been clear why the album hasn’t been reissued but I am aware that many have tried.
I have a weird story about my CD copy, which many may find irritating.. in the early days of the internet, I had a dream one night that I found a copy on the internet. So I got up, dialled up on my 56k modem, did an Ask Jeeves search, ‘Win Uh Tears Baby CD’ and lo and behold one Scottish online shop had a copy for £8..
The unamusing thing was when it was first sent, it was an empty CD box. A quick email and a week later the disc turned up to become prize possession.
It is a totally brilliant album and why ‘You Got The Power’ was never a hit, I shake my head at the English public. There was a story that Gallup doctored its chart position due to the massive Scottish sales ratio to everywhere else, driven by the McEwan advert. But it could be an urban myth like many ‘shoulda’ stories!
The source for the Gallup story was Davey Henderson himself, from what I recall. Scottish sales of the “You’ve Got The Power” single were *big*, Gallup thought it was suspicious, didn’t bother to ask anybody *why* it might be selling in a big way in Scotland but not in the rest of the UK, concluded it was a chart rigging attempt, and only counted the English sales towards the chart position. Given that the English sales were tiny, since the McEwans ad campaign that featured the song didn’t show outside Scotland, it ended up with something like a single week at 96 in the chart.
I’ve no idea what the Scottish sales would have pushed it up to – I’m guessing maybe the lower reaches of the top 40 at most – but it’d have got national airplay and might have taken off from there. The thing that always made me believe that the band might have made it big if it had gotten that airplay, was that at the end of 1989, the Edinburgh local independent station Radio Forth had a big “best of the 80s” poll, asking people to write in with what they considered the best of the decade. The actual show aired on Hogmanay and was pretty much what you’d expect, except “You’ve Got The Power” came in somewhere (can’t remember exactly where) in the 15th to 25th range. Bear in mind this was three years after the single had been released, a couple of years after the ads stopped airing, even after the second album and related singles had been and gone. OK, so it wasn’t exactly a scientific chart, but it maybe gives you an idea of what Edinburgh area sales, at least, were like.
I tend to think that if the chart manipulation by Gallup hadn’t happened, “You’ve Got The Power” might have been a decent-sized hit. Not top 10, but maybe top 20. I don’t think Win’d have become huge, but they might have been a bit more appreciated nationally, chances are the “Super Popoid Groove” single would have gone top 40 rather than stalling at 63, and from there on we’re into pure speculation, since we’re talking about whether they’d have been dropped by London/Swamplands, whether they’d have had another go at pushing Davey as a solo artist (not sure if that’d have worked – he was definitely the “face” of the band, but the first album at least is very much a band album, even if that wasn’t the case for the second (which peaked with the cover for the “Dusty Heartfelt” single, which looked like something you’d expect to see for a solo artist).
I am at the point where I don’t need a deluxe edition release to coincide with a landmark anniversary (i.e. 30th, 35th, etc.) Given the delays, legal squabbles, and supply issues, it’s a win just to get it out.
Having said that, I’d be ecstatic if the following see the light of day this year:
New Order – Low Life Definitive Edition
New Order – Substance 35th Anniversary Edition (not on any radar but how cool would this be?)
Prince – Around the World in a Day Deluxe
Fish – Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Something from The Police that isn’t a re-hash of a greatest hits collection
Simple Minds – Real Life Deluxe Edition (don’t have much faith in this happening given what it took to pull Street Fighting Years deluxe together)
Keep up the good work, Paul – I didn’t know half the list was on its way in 2022!
As others have said, surely what we’re all waiting for is more Neil Young!
I’m not convinced we’ll get Archives 3 this year, given the scale of it he’s talking about, but Bootleg Series 2-6 look to be certain, and I’m hoping for Noise and Flowers and that we’ll finally get a slice of Toast.
I’d also really like to hear the Alchemy live album from the 2012/13 CH tour.
In terms of others, will we finally get that new Cure album?! I hope so.
Of the box sets I’m involved with, I can’t say much save that several will appear via Madfish, Earth, Repertoire and Cherry Red in 2022. The Madfish one will be announced in March. Of various (mostly early 70s) Repertoire projects, the first one likely to be released this year will be a 4CD ‘Stefan Grossman Live at the BBC 1968-86’ – the folk-blues maestro on exhilarating form, with several guests.
Do you know if Esoteric ( or anyone else) have plans to release Quiver’s first 2 albums? and Budgie’s first? Also, I hope you agree, that Robert Palmer’s legacy is crying out for some TLC.
Funny you mention it……
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Some others for 2022:
The Police ‘Around The World’ reissue (March ’22) and Andy Summers/Robert Fripp ‘I Advance Masked’ and ‘Bewitched’ reissues (Sep ’22) as per SDE Andy Summers interview.
Rush ‘Moving Pictures’ 40th reissue (was due last year)
Sinead O’Connor ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’ 30th box set (as promoted when the RSD ‘Live in Rotterdam ’90’ 12″ came out last July)
Is it conceivable that Billy Joel’s studio albums, vol II could be released? I love the first set and i’m very pleasantly surprised by his debut album Cold Spring Harbor.
I’m just hoping for The King to come out of his hideout to show the world he’s not dead. And the discovering and release of the Maria Callas ShowerTapes would be a nice surprise too (No, not those, those where she’s singing).
With Prince SDEs, I would hope for Around The World In A Day or Parade to get that treatment before Diamonds & Pearls. The Prince Estate are reissuing standard versions of earlier albums to keep them in print. I hope that some rarer and download albums like Slaughterhouse, The Chocolate Invasion, C-Note, N.E.W.S. and 20 Ten get released this way.
I would also hope for a deluxe or super deluxe reissue of Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti and for the music documentaries Highlights & Hangups (Paul Weller) and New World Towers (Blur) to finally get a DVD/Blu-ray release.
The Hellacopters have just released a new single (Reap A Hurricane) so hopefully a new album will come out from them.
We are well overdue for new music by The xx.
Thanks Paul for such a great and informative site.
Wish list for 2022:
New Order Low-life SDE
Visage Beat Boy album is being reissued by Rubellan
The Cure’s Wish reissue (?) and new album
U2 Pop SDE would be nice
INXS reissues (Giles Martin was to be working on these as per SDE post a couple years back)
The Sisterhood – The Gift (Sisters of Mercy-related) was to be reissued late ’19/early ’20
Psychedelic Furs box that was highlighted several years ago in MOJO…
Continuation of OMD album reissues
Continuation of The Alarm’s original album reissues
Housemartins People Who Grinned… reisssue
More The Cult reissues
More Big Audio Dynamite deluxe editions
More Oingo Boingo reissues
More XTC reissues
Beautiful South SDEs
Blondie Box
Ultravox Rage in Eden
George Michael Older would be great
Looking forward to the Madonna and Prince reissues (wish Prince was an ’80s album)
I remember reading about Martin working on INXS releases. I wonder what happened? (Uh, other than COVID, duh.)
My guess is that he’s still available to do it if someone actually green lights an INXS reissue campaign.
I sure hope so. Shabooh Shoobah and The Swing are the two I’m interested in, and seeing how they were the albums that broke INXS in the US, it’s surprising they haven’t been reissued.
I (and many other Frankie fans) Would love to see a box set for Liverpool similar to the magnificent job done with …Pleasuredome a few years back.
Looks like the Jethro Tull resissues will also continue with Broadsword and the Beast being next on the horizon.
Would love to see something special around Little Earthquakes too, but nothing will replace my original signed CD from when she played the small room at our Student Union.
I’ll believe the Animals 5.1 release when I have it in my own hands.
I’m hoping that it’ll be a little cheaper than last year with Bowie and Prince hoovering up a lot of money between them.
I would like to see a CD issue of the Inside the Pleasuredome. Or at least FLAC files.
The Black Sabbath boxed reissues seem bound to continue. Tony Iommi has been working on a Tony Martin era box. From the original lineup Never Say Die is a possible with expanded live set. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the big one missing but rumours are the original master’s are missing.
There was talk of an expanded Genesis Lamb Lies Down On Broadway box coming out in 2021.
Yes’s Going For The One would be a nice one to have in 5.1 as would Kate’s Hounds Of Love but we all said that when the last underwhelming reissue was out!
Surely time for someone to do a full review of Playn Jayn releases and plug the gaping hole in this tragically under-rated band’s re-releases, box set of the two albums with some radio sessions and additional live performances would be good! Anyone…?
Wow….I first saw The Playn Jayn at the Wardour Street Marquee, supporting The Truth.
Absolutely blew me away as a live band. Saw them again at the 100 Club and also saw The Other Side, one of the lead singer’s (one of the Jones brothers) bands after they split up, supporting Roachford !
Friday 13th was an amazing live album. I think I read that the other lead singer Craig Lindsay had passed away.
An amazing band, should have been massive !
Jethro Tull Broadsword And The Beast confirmed for mid year by Mr Anderson.He said it will be the largest of the Tull boxes.
Dylan Bootleg Series Volume 17 Time Out Of Mind considered a lock for 25th anniversary.
Wilco Yankee Hotel FoxtrotAll work except manufacturing completed.Expect release late in the year.
Joni Mitchell Archives Volume 3 covering For The Roses to Hissing Of Summer Lawns.Likely to be subtitled Asylum Years Part 1.
Tom Petty 1997 Fillmore Concerts box.A stand of 20+ shows.Confirmed over a year ago that this was the next archival release they were working on.
Porcupine Tree Deadwing is coming.It was delayed due to (you guessed it) vinyl manufacturing issues.Hoping for similar format to In Absentia
The Concert For Bangla Desh.At the time of the All Things Must Pass release they said this was next.May not mean 2022.
R.E.M. 40th anniversary which was actually last year.When they released the Radio Free Europe single mid year they said it was only the first in what would be “ a lot of exciting releases “ celebrating the anniversary.All we got after that was the underwhelming New Adventures reissue so maybe more.
And last and definitely not least Neil Young.How many of these we will get to hold in our hands in 2022 is up for debate but this is what is proposed
-5 Official Bootleg Series releases.Dorothy Chandler and Royce Hall (both 71),Rainbow(73),Bottom Line (74) and Ducks (77).In the last few days placeholders for these have started appearing on Amazon sites so expect announcement soon for simultaneous release of all 5
-Summer Songs.A Hitchhiker type solo session from 87 featuring a lot of songs that would later appear on Freedom and American Dream.It is Disc 13 of Archives Vol 3 in the CD version and on disc 10 in the Bluray version.
-Toast.Unreleased studio album with Crazy Horse from 2000 that has also popped up on some Amazon sites in the last few days with 24 June release.
-New additions of Harvest (with around 2 hours of video) and Ragged Glory (with 23 minutes of additional music).
-Additional Archives releases Noise And Flowers (2016 Europe with Promise Of The Real ) and Crazy Horse Early Daze
-The Big One!Archives Volume 3 which covers from 1976 Crazy Horse North American tour to the end of Geffen era in 1987.2 formats-13 cds or a 10 Bluray version that as well as all the audio has 8 concert films both released and unreleased.They have completed all the pre production work and are talking about mid year release and with no vinyl involved I am hopeful they can stick to that.Neil has said that after the Volume 2 fiasco there will be enough manufactured so that everyone who wants one will be able to get one.Expect expensive though.I’m guessing the Bluray version with the deluxe book will be around $US400.
Paul, again thanks for doing this every year. Always look forward to it.
My wishlist for the year would definitely include the following:
Jethro Tull-cant wait for the Broadsword remaster….wish they would revisit Thick As A Brick and correct the problem with the last remaster plus add some additional material…..i believe March is its 50th.
Queen-Huge missed opportunity not releasing any archival stuff for their 50th….think all we got was the umteenth hundred release of Greatest Hits yet again…..the Live Killers box is what I want…..though i did read somewhere that Brian was done with raiding the vaults for stuff….hopefully that is just a nasty rumor.
Macca-finish the 70’s please and give us London Town and Back To The Egg.
Bowie-Yes to a Conversation Piece type box for Hunky Dory and Ziggy….i would love to start having his video vault raided…..the wealth of stuff out there is astonishing…..they could start with a combo box of Five Years/The Last Five Years.
Led Zeppelin-An archival live box would be nice but not holding my breath.
Siouxsie and the Banshees- We were promised a complete hits collection and a video collection years ago…..plus deluxes of at least Juju and Kiss In The Dreamhouse would be great.
The Miracle has long been mooted for a Queen SDE release, it was announced unofficially a few years ago at a Mercury Phoenix Trust fundraiser and rumours bounce around the Queen community that it is done and dusted and just waiting on the button to be pressed for later this year.
Ultravox Rage In Eden release date 01/09/22 on pre-order vinyl 4 LP box and 2 LP. from bontonland.cz
Tracklist :
4LP
LP1
1. A1 The Voice
2. A2 We Stand Alone
3. A3 Rage In Eden
4. A4 I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)
5. B1 The Thin Wall
6. B2 Stranger Within
7. B3 Accent on Youth
8. B4 The Ascent
9. B5 Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind)
LP2
1. C1 The Thin Wall (Single Version)
2. C2 I Never Wanted To Begin
3. C3 I Never Wanted To Begin (Extended Version)
4. D1 The Voice (Edit)
5. D2 Paths And Angles
6. D3 Private Lives (Crystal Palace 13/6/81)
7. D4 All Stood Still (Crystal Palace 13/6/81)
LP3
1. E1 The Thin Wall (Crystal Palace 13/6/81)
2. E2 New Europeans (Crystal Palace 13/6/81)
3. E3 Sleepwalk (Crystal Palace 13/6/81)
4. E4 I Remember (Death In The Afternoon) [Crystal Palace 13/6/81]
5. F1 Stranger Within (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
6. F2 Mr. X (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
7. F3 Rage In Eden (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
LP4
1. G1 Accent on Youth (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
2. G2 The Ascent (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
3. G3 Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again) [Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981]
4. G4 Vienna (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
5. H1 Passionate Reply (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
6. H2 Passing Strangers (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
7. H3 We Stand Alone (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
8. H4 All Stood Still (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
9. H5 The Voice (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 16/10/1981)
Thanks for the tip, but I’ll buy this on CD. It should have been issued last year, but I’m glad it’s going to happen.
I searched and found a forum which linked to an European retailer listing a 5CD+DVD release next month. Personally I find the track listing above disappointing, so the news of this CD release (which I’m taking with a huge grain of salt) encouraging.
Hey Paul, I forgot: any news of the announced but delayed SDE for Smashing Pumpkins’ “MACHINA”?…
Don’t forget 2022 is the year Orbital are to release new updated versions of songs and deluxe albums for their overdue 30th anniversary
Soft Cell have stated a new release campaign for their Some Bizzare albums, and Toyah is due to continue her re-releases with Toyah Toyah Toyah and Anthem in expanded editions. There’s also an expanded version of Sunday All Over the World’s ‘Kneeling at the Shrine’ coming soon.
Finally I spotted a re-issue of Gina X Performance’s Nice Mover and Voyeur is on the way (DBLE LP)
Yes, Soft Cell were supposed to reissue their 1981-1984 output last year but in the end the campaign was delayed. Now they’ll have a brand new album on BMG, I hope we’ll get them before Christmas. Also, Cherry Red may release Marc Almond’s “Tenement Symphony” as their next 2CDs+DVD set (“The Stars We Are” and “Enchanted” had to be licensed by Parlophone/Warner, while the label owns TS and “Twelve Years of Tears”).
XTC series—There was an announcement last January that Steve Wilson had the multi-tracks for Apple Venus and that was the next release up. Towards the end of the year, Steve was on a podcast and said some of the parts/tracks where missing. I’m not sure where they are on the XTC reissue series, but I look forward to it returning.
Brilliant summary of what’s in store for this year Paul. My wallet is twitching already.
Looking forward to the Who Lifehouse/Who’s Next and hopefully a couple of McCartney archive boxes (lets hope the trend of escalating prices doesn’t continue though).
I think the Kinks have Muswell Hillbillies lined up for an expanded edition and you never know if the Davies brothers will surprise us with something new.
There was an unreleased JJ Cale album mentioned a while ago which may see the light of day. World Party Egyptology is still unreleased on vinyl as the final part of the reissue programme plus the ever promised new album.
Tracks 2 from Bruce or a Born in the USA box would be nice.
Joni Mitchell archives 3 should happen later in the year.
Neil Young archives 3 is planned along with a few other releases from his archive.
Hoping for some Chuck Prophet archival projects.
And finally a new Donald Fagen album is said to be in the works.
I’m in for the 30th use your illusions of course.
I agree wholeheartedly about your INXS comments. They must be sitting on a treasure trove of great unreleased music.
And let’s not forget Max Q.
I would like to see expanded editions of The Swing and Shabooh Shoobah.
Just to note that the Frankie link in the list near the top is the same as the Kershaw one.
Oops, sorry. Fixed that now.
Fun reading as always, thanks.
Just wondering if any Blue Nile sets can be hoped for. I know they only have 4 CDs plus a Paul Buchanan but those and some live stuff, Buchanan on other CDs (Craig Armstrong, Chris Botti) and a nice book would be worth it.
Anything by the Blue Nile would be good. I’d love to have a b-sides collection compiling every b-side they’ve ever done. Also a fairly recent Instagram post by Paul Buchanan gave the impression that he was working on new material. No idea whether it was solo stuff or the BN.
We were supposed to get a deluxe edition of Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing in 2021 per Mr. Wilson but that didn’t materialize. Perhaps in 2022?
Think they will probably be concentrating on the new material, so it’s possible it will be delayed.
There is a massive Bonzos box set due later this year. Looking forward to Marillion, Fish, Ultravox, Guns’n’ Roses and Tull SDE’s. If I have any money left I would like to see SDE’s for Motorhead’s Iron Fist, Soft Cell’s NSEC, second Black Crowes’ album and most of all a continuation of the Slade vinyl reissue programme to cover ALL their albums.
Still waiting for a deluxe edition of Art Of Noise‘s Below The Waste to round out their China-era studio albums (In Visible Silence‘s deluxe edition came in 2017 and In-No-Sense? Nonsense!‘s arrived in 2018).
Love @Heraldo’s idea of a big ol’ Fats Comet/Tackhead box, but I’d settle for a deluxe edition of Gary Clail & On-U Sound System‘s Emotional Hooligan (which turned 30 last year with nary a notice) or a just any kind of reissue of Judy Nylon and Crucial‘s Pal Judy.
But my biggest question is, when will we get SDEs of Stevie Wonder‘s incredible run of albums from Music Of My Mind through Original Musiquarium I? That first one turns 50 in March – no better time than the present, I say!
Thanks for the article. 2022 has so much potential. Beatles should be great if they actually release the Revolver remix. Perhaps too soon after Peter Jackson developing his de-mixing technology. The exorcising of the vaults to bring out Bowie’s Hunky Dory / Ziggy Stardust albums in coherent box sets would be appreciated. But I am looking forward to another helping of Who’s Next / Lifehouse. I remember reading that The Who’s shows at the Young Vic were supposed to have been filmed as well as recorded. Not sure whatever became of that. I just hope that the sound is better than some of the prior releases that always seemed a mixed bag.
You just made my day with that Ultravox news. That means that, two years for now, on the 40th anniversary of its release, I might actually have an SDE of “Lament” in my clammy grip!
I second that.
Isn’t it presumed that this year’s Dylan box will mark the 25th anniversary of the Time Out Of Mind album? If so, I can’t wait.
Due to the pandemic, it looks like some artists missed their anniversary releases so when it comes to 50th anniversary releases it looks as though we’re getting re-releases from 1971 (The Who) as well as 1972 (David Bowie).
It’s good to know the Ultravox Vienna box set isn’t a one off and Lament is on the way. I really enjoyed the 5.1 surround mix of the album so I hope there’s another one on the way for Lament. Is there hope for the same treatment to Dare by the Human League?
Roxy Music could release a 40th anniversary of Avalon, there’s already a ready made Bob Clearmountain 5.1 mix that was issued on SACD that could be issued on blu-ray instead.
Great call on Dare – saw the 40th anniversary tour at the tail end of last year and it was great.
Do we know Lament is coming? I would like to see that happen.
My mistake, I jumped ahead of myself. I meant ‘Rage in Eden’ which will be reissued this year.
Hey, I’ll take either one. And by either one, I mean both.
In for any Police box set campaign this year, ditto for Who’s Next, Use Your Illusion and whatever the Prince estate throws our way (the 1999 and Sign ‘O The Times boxes were excellent). Animals, come now gents, shake hands and make that happen. I’ll be all over Revolver… Tomorrow Never Knows whizzing around in Dolby Atmos? Yes please.
That was a great read Paul, thanks for the update – LOTS of exciting stuff to look forward to. (Particularly those 2 Marillion albums for me). Though my big wish is for, well, “Wish”. On the 21st April it’s the 30th anniversary of the Cure’s most anticipated / talked about / longed-for re-issue. The next in line after their deluxe edition reissue series came to a grinding halt. (Early Cure song-title pun not intended). Surely with a tour this year to support their new album, it would be a perfect time to raise their profile, -and sell a shed-load more tickets, by reminding people of one of their (if not the 90s’) greatest albums?
Even more than Wish (not my favorite Cure album), I would love to see reissues of Show and Paris, with additional songs from the same shows (or other shows on the tour). The Cure were in fantastic form as a touring band at the time. Maybe a live box set with multiple shows, plus the Show video on DVD or Blu-Ray?
Also on my Wish list: The Cure in Orange on DVD or Blu-Ray. Another excellent show that definitely needs an upgrade for audio and video quality.
There is also the lost Electribe 101 album in March (moved from February) and a confirmed Billy MacKenzie (Associates) box set sometime soon.
Hints of a Duran Duran orchestral album (from Simon) as well as the hope of a super deluxe edition of Future Past as noted.
I would welcome any further Duran Duran activity but an orchestral album would be near last on my wishlist.
Here’s hoping for more McCartney reissues . Even though Press To Play was a commercial flop I was hoping for a statement on Give My Regards To Broad St. Maybe the film wasn’t that big but the soundtrack was. No More Lonely Nights was one of Paul’s biggest solo hits. There should be a major reissue with all the various remixes of NMLN.
I really want Beatles-related reissues this year… like every year. The Fab four did not celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Decca tapes, maybe it’s time to make them official. All releases are on the grey market. I know is not their best work, but that’s where it started.
And Some Time in NYC, well… I’m not sure it will be treated like Imagine and Plastic Ono Band. It does not have the same commercial potential.
And Macca, all I need is a Chaos and creation reissue. It’s already 17 years old !
As always Paul, thank you for the rundown. There is a lot on this preliminary list that excites me. I guess new music from Peter Gabriel continues to be the thing we dare not mention (since there is no point).
Hello,,I hope that Madfish continues with their highly ambitious sets, what could be next after Family, Wishbone Ash, Steve Hillage, Gentle Giant , Caravan etc? My hope is that Madfish go for sets by Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers, Pentangle studio – live. I also wish for “complete” sets by Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (they have been revealed a few years back), Talk Talk and Siouxsie and the Banshees. There will be a Grateful Dead box coming, hopefully based on acoustic shows ( a double lp exists). How can I be sure about Grateful dead, well they have released a set every year for at least 10 years. Neil Young will release more outtakes including the planned bootleg series. At last, please compile the definitive Moby Grape set . I hope that this now is a possibilty after all the legal problems that Moby Grape has suffered from since their formation. From Pauls list and all your comments, I will absolutely go for the Who, Marillion and Fish. Best regards Hans
I’m not really a Tears for Fears fanatic but I’ve listened to the album and I was surprised by its quality. It’s a melancholic, autumnal record, mostly quiet, but with a few upbeat moments. They do not attempt to sound “modern”, whatever that means.
The Beach Boys celebrate their 60th anniversary this year. Alan Boyd (one of the compilation producers of the Feel Flows box set) has confirmed their will be other archival releases coming.
Wasn’t Sade in the studio doing something new?
Paul Simon celebrated his 80th birthday in 2021. His Alternate Tunings album (a rarities collection) was announced 4 years ago but … we got nothing. Sigh! The Paul Simon album came out 50 years ago so … fingers crossed.
For the Beach Boys, a Carl and the Passions/Holland boxset has been announced.
Yes, Paul Simon please!
Wouldn’t it be great to get the quad mixes of Bridge, Rhymin’ Simon, etc.?
And another vote for Alternate Tunings. I wonder what ocean that was dropped into?
A plethora of stuff to look forward to! Looking forward to a year of interesting posts on this here website.
The Prince estate is apparently re- releasing 12 albums in vanilla form on the fourth of februari: Prince, For You, Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, Around the World, Sign ☮️ The Times, Lovesexy, Come, the Vault, the Hits 1 and the Hits 2
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Needle Mythology will also finally re-release the Finn Brothers albums, or at least the first one (Finn), especially if the twice-delayed Crowded House tour goes ahead at last, as well as the ALT album (Andy White, Liam O Maonlai and Tim Finn) on vinyl for the first time.
My lord what I wouldn’t give for a remastering of Everyone Is Here.
I’m really concerned about the Animals 5.1 set. All I want is a Blu-ray of the 5.1, (and now the remix on CD assuming I can tell the difference – the original is pretty darn fine). The box set looks suspiciously as though we will have to buy the same thing on four media in one box for presumably the new £120 price point that seems super-popular with record companies now.
The Who box could be good, and it won’t be a real year if there is no Dylan, although I can handle a 3CD fold out better than a 6 CD mega-box (..although if it’s a good one…)
I’d really like to see a complete albums reissue, with extra tracks, of 2 artists: Eurythmics and Sade.
Wait why will there not be a Bowie era box this year. Shouldn’t we get the final one?
No because Warners don’t own the rights to the post-Millennium studio albums (yet).
After “Toy”, we need a 1964-1969 boxset.
Wasn’t there a deal for the publishing rights of the whole Bowie cataloge. Think it went for 250mio.. to warner… And includes all songs of David Bowie.. think a read it somewhere.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/arts/music/david-bowie-catalog-sold.html
Yes. Announced via MusicWeek today.
Yes there’s a $250 milion deal but it’s for Bowie’s songs publishing rights. Warner Chappell negociated with Bowie’s estate and reached an agreement a few days ago.
About Bowie’s catalog, Warner Music already had a deal with Bowie’s estate and they will own the rights to Bowie’s entire catalog (from 1968 to 2016) starting in 2023. For now, Sony still owns the rights to Bowie’s albums from the 2001-2016 era.
In 2022, they will celebrate Bowie’s birth (75 years) so no box set this year (maybe a Bowie 75 compilation). I guess they will release the last era box set (2003-2016) in 2023.
After that I wouldn’t be surprised to see complete Bowie box sets separately (Studio Albums, Live Albums, 7″ Singles box sets and Demos/Unreleased/Outtakes box set). Maybe they will split the Studio Albums in two sets. Just a guess. I hope they will do that because I really don’t like those era box sets with everything (studio, live albums, singles, unreleased, outakes, etc.). I like what they did with Beatles catalog. First the remastered albums box sets (mono and stereo) and then individual albums box sets.
Nice update Paul, of what is coming hopefully in the next twelve months. Personally looking forward to Guns n Roses, Ultravox, Pink Floyd at last.
Would be happy if we finally got Queen, Live Killers box, which has been promised for sometime, as nothing last year for Queens 50th.
Looks likely we will get Brian May, Another World, as very similar set to Back to the Light, with the fantastic Gold Collection logo lol.
Be interested to see what can be added to a FGTH box, cannot be anything left worth having, 5.1 mix of WTTPD maybe.
Off the top of my head these are things I’m aware of being planned for ‘22.
– new CD and vinyl SDE’s of Soft Cell’s pre-Cooking Vinyl albums
– More Japan / Sylvian vinyl reissue(s).
– Kraftwerk remixes project
– Bill Nelson’s Red Noise SDE
– Something quite special from Peter Gabriel
– Summer announcement of Low Life SDE as per Paul’s post (would have been earlier had Warners not got a small treasure trove of extra stuff from Mr Hook in late ‘21)
– Expanded vinyl reissues of The Residents 70’s albums (alongside the continuation of the brilliant pREServed CD reissue series)
– Barry Adamson vinyl reissue campaign through Mute
– Eels back catalogue vinyl reissues
– a 5LP set of In The Nursery music (their first venture into vinyl for something like 30 years – content as yet tbc)
Will we however see any if the following:
– the long promised Teardrop Explodes box set (or did the release on Head Heritage last year signal that as being dead in the water)?
– the equally long-trailed Psychedelic Furs box (which I assume had the breaks applied to it when the band decided to records new material – which was pretty vintage!)
– more from Matt Johnson’s vaults (either more “bootleg volumes”, lost albums or SDE’s?
– more from the legendary Postcard records after the Paul Quinn set last year, or a reissue of the first Win album and more Paul Haig SDE’s while on a Scottish tip?
– a loosening of Stevo’s grip on the Test Dept catalogue so OLI can finally do the long hinted-at anthology?
– a full Tackhead / Fats Comet etc retrospective after the excellent On-U sets for African Head Charge, New Age Steppers and Dub Syndicate sets?
– Cherry Red going beyond BBD/RN and doing SDE’s of Bill Nelson’s early solo stuff?
– ZZT reissuing Hoodlum Priest’s debut album (with extras)…and even whatever exists in the vaults of Das Psych-Oh! Rangers that never made it into the world as yet?
– more Severed Heads vinyl reissues?
– the multi-LP Shipwreck Radio vinyl set from Nurse With Wound?
This Kraftwerk remix thing is news to me. I dare not ever expect anything from Kraftwerk, but I would welcome any activity. As for Japan, hopefully so.ething for Oil on Canvas.
I continue to be surprised by the milking of their catalogue that Ralph Hütter has done. Since Tour de France Soundtracks, there’s been very little original material and it’s be one live performance after another. Yet another remix album would be an utter bore. For me, the Computerworld and Music Non-Stop / Technopop (US) was very creative and sonically fantastic. With Mr Schneider gone and Hütter the only remaining member, new material would be more a solo effort rather than Kraftwerk per sé.
I own their Blu-Ray “Catalogue” box set and it is really enjoyable. Just don’t want any more “Aerodynamik” remixes of remixes.
We shall see.
Totally agree, Green. Kraftwerk have been one of my favourite bands since 1977 but I wouldn’t be interested in yet more remixes. Why they cannot come up with new material is beyond me. Maybe they don’t want to risk their legacy but frankly there are bands/artists who have been doing electronic music better for a while.
Re: ZTT and Das Psycho-Oh! Rangers, I would like to see an anthology of their output. (For the uninitiated, one single, in 7″ and 12″ variants.) I was pleasantly surprised by their tracks on the Art of the 12″ compilations.
Also ZTT, would be interesting to see a reissue… er, issue of Instict’s material.
– more from Matt Johnson’s vaults (either more “bootleg volumes”, lost albums or SDE’s?
Agreed. He’s held on to Gun Slutsfor an awful long time. Would also love to see a CD release of his 1989 The The vs. The World performance from Albert Hall.
the absolutely brilliant Hoodlum Priest ZTT lp probably needs to be filed in the “never” category – all due to the samples…
Woo xPropaganda and Lipson! Most looking forward to Low-life, should be stellar. Most wished for..ABC, c’mon Mr Fry, poke people!
ABC would be awesome, but fairly unlikely
As a Bowie collector any releases are welcome,but I’m really looking forward to the Blondie box set
I can picture this now..
(I always make spelling mistakes using my phone,and have to edit lol)
The main reissue set I will be interested to learn about is the New Order material. As for new albums, I have lost interest in the new Tears for Fears after hearing the advance singles, but have picked up interest in the similarly long awaited Soft Cell album after hearing the first single.
The Wang Chung reissue plan is finally arriving this year. After many delays and manufacturing issues these should see the light of day before June.
Just found out recently that one of Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory’s first bands were him as singer and Wang Chung as the band.
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting on those. They have been teased way back to the start of 2019 and even had a release date that year. Then covid was blamed for the holdup yet other stuff was being reissued. He even posted on twitter last April the following statement We’ve been waiting for them, too! But we’re a hot second away from finally announcing the release date of the first three deluxe editions. Strange i read recently that they were one of the artists whose material was destroyed in that 2008 Universal fire.
The ‘True North’ album from a-ha is 12 tracks of completely new material, 6 songs by Paul and 6 by Magne.
Excellent – thanks!
It’s basically an 11th studio album, albeit one recorded ‘live’ in a couple of days instead of them spending months arguing with each other in studios across the world! Track titles we know so far are: ‘You Have What It Takes’, ‘Between the Halo and the Horn’, ‘I’m In’ and ‘Bluest of Blue’ by Magne (demos of these were released on Magne’s instagram during 2020/21) and ‘Make Me Understand’ and ‘True North’ by Paul.
That’s quite a clever strategy, because as you say, the whole trying to record an album not in the same room, with various co-writers and co-produces doesn’t really work that well.
Great start to the new year, Paul – thanks for that!
It’s the 40th anniversary of some of my favourite albums this year. Would be great to hear if there are plans (or rumours!) for updated editions or box sets of –
Roxy Music – Avalon
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream
Scritti Politti – Songs To Remember
Grace Jones – Living My Life
Associates – Sulk
Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
The Church – Blurred Crusade
Oooh. Yes. That’s one I missed of my other post.
There are lots of Siouxsie / Banshees related things in the works (nothing specific with a date as yet) and more Cure reissues in the pipeline too (tho may be post the new album (which may it may not see the light of day this year I guess!)
New Gold Dreams been done, incl excellent 5.1, so not quite sure what else you’d be expecting.
Good article paul. I expect some Bob Dylan reissue this year and the new Red hot chili peppers album is exciting. Do We believe that Peter Gabriel Will realease a new album in 2022. Really hope for inxs realeases.
Any news on the paul macartney live realeases We Got 3 Will the last be realeased
Out at the end of January are vinyl reissues of the first two albums by NEW MUSIK. Both FROM A TO B and ANYWHERE are being released by Music On Vinyl. They will be 2LP expanded editions on coloured vinyl. I am looking forward to these plus RAGE IN EDEN deluxe edition by ULTRAVOX.
I’m still hoping for a 50th anniversary box for The Kinks’ “Muswell Hillbilies”. Provided that there’s enough material for it, of course. I could do without another ‘kitchen sink’. The Lola box wasn’t that great and would have fit on two CDs without the talking.
Given the paucity of material from the album sessions [to say nothing of the quality], one hopes the forthcoming Some Time In New York City box will include at least one of the MSG concerts on film. And given that it was Yoko who personally went searching for the Mike Dougles Show tapes, hopefully some of those live performances will make the cut as well. A very affecting ‘Imagine’ with saxaphone, and the bar-room-rough Chuck Berry duets being just some of the highlights of those shows that could do with being out in the open.
Great article Paul. Looking forward to a Low Life reissue and Animals.
Is this a typo though?
“Slash has confirmed that a Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion box set will happen in the summer of 2021“
Soft Cell will release a 40 years anniversary single of Tainted Love and we may also presume Depeche Mode will continue the 12” collection with Exciter and maybe U2 will release Pop 25 years anniversary. Happy new year!
Tull’s Broadsword and the Beast is definatley coming out this year. The man has himself confirmed it. Steven Wilson at the helm again.
It looks likley to be full of the additional songs we all know didn’t make the cut originally including the wonderful Motoreyes.
Cannot wait.
I’m hoping there’s not another lengthy gap between Bowie boxes. Waiting until the 10th anniversary of Blackstar in 2026 would be very foolish. Hopefully the rights revert before then. Or maybe the fabled Tin Machine box can fill the void?
There’s also some chatter about an Epic-era vinyl set for Tori Amos which covers Scarlet’s Walk, The Beekeeper and American Doll Posse. I’d take that in a heartbeat.
There is an interesting point in the press material about the sale of the Bowie ouvre in that it mentions the deal ‘… [also includes] the two studio albums from Tin Machine’ – nothing about the TM live album. One wonders, a little, if this WCM deal pulls the rug out of the TB box, given its troubled history with the David-said-we-were-a-seperate-entity-no-backsies dispute.
It is Bowie’s publishing credits they bought, not the masters to those recordings. And Reeves Gabrels and the Sales brothers would still hold their own publishing credits on whatever they had writing credit for in TM, I presume.
Wasn’t there a deal done over the publishing et al, which cleared the way for the limited reissue of TMII, and it becoming a Bowie album. Certainly the press release seems to confirm this. It would be a sensible thing for the remaining 3 ‘equal members’ to do – cover versions of Tin Machine songs do not exactly trip off the memory. And, having been in bands, I can tell you it is hard enough to get 4 musicians to agree on anything – 3 musicians and an accountant? Forget it!
I wonder if artwork is included in the Sale Of The Cen… er, of this week [Paul S must be praying for the time George Michael’s estate sell up, at least something might get released then], because I’m not having Toy in the house until the cover undergoes a Buddha Of Suberbia facelift. Hard enough getting the kids to sleep if they think there is a spider in the house, they’d be afraid to even blink if they thought that cover picture was downstairs.
I hope they have come to some arrangement to move forward on thr Tin Machine material but I did not read anything conclusive about that yet.
I may be the only one in the whole world, but I would love to see a vinyl reissue of Bob Geldof’s solo debut “Deep in the heart of nowhere” as a double disc with all the unedited tracks.
Just did some polling…
You’re right, you’re the only one.
Just joshin’. “Love Like A Rocket” was a fine single. I’d vote for some hotter masters of the Rats albums first, though, I think.
Good article, Paul. I did wonder whether there would be a 45th Anniversary release this year for Bowie’s ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ albums. Maybe they’ll wait for the 50th but it would be nice to see these two important albums reissued, especially ‘Low,’ which just has to be on orange vinyl to match the stunning cover!