NewsOut This Week / 25 Sep 2015
David Bowie / Five Years (box set)
It seems like an age since David Bowie‘s Five Years box was announced. The 12CD or 13LP box is released on Friday and includes six studio albums (four new remasters), two live sets, an alternate mix of Ziggy Stardust and the exclusive two-disc compilation Re:Call 1. 
Queen / Studio Collection (18LP vinyl box)
Queen‘s Studio Collection is the Bentley Continental of box sets. The 18LP vinyl collection is reassuringly expensive and undeniably lavish. Appropriate for Queen, I suppose. Stunning coloured vinyl records, etched discs, superb book and sturdy outer box.
Bob Marley / Complete Island Recordings (12LP vinyl box)
Nine studio albums and two live releases in this extensive Bob Marley and the Wailers vinyl box set. Comes in rigid card box or pricey metal ‘collector’s edition’ – both designed to resemble a zippo lighter.
New Order / Music Complete
Ten years on from the last studio outing, New Order return with Music Complete which is available in this generous vinyl box edition at a surprisingly palatable price.
Various Artists / Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records
Extensive, 124-track five-disc Creation Records set from Cherry Red, Artifact… comprises two discs of early A and B-sides, a third CD of rarities and album tracks, a further disc of previously unissued demos and finally a fifth CD of rare BBC sessions.
All About Eve / deluxe reissues
All About Eve’s 1988 self-titled debut and follow-up Scarlet and Other Stories and both reissued as two-CD deluxe editions featuring extended mixes, B-sides, radio sessions and live recordings.
Don Henley / Cass County (deluxe edition)
Don Henley returns with a Cass County his fifth studio album and first since 2000’s Inside Job. Guests include Mick Jagger and Dolly Parton and this deluxe comes with four bonus tracks.
Steven Wilson / Transience
Steven Wilson‘s new compilation Transience is designed (by him) to show his more ‘accessible’ side. It’s a double vinyl gatefold set with side four an etched disc. Comes with digital download.
Elvis / Live in Las Vegas (4CD set)
Delayed from last week, this competitively priced four-CD set contains 89 Elvis recordings across an almost 20-year period (1956-1975) and is a compact repackage of the 2003 release.
Squeeze / Access All Areas (CD+DVD)
Demon Music’s Access All Areas series continues with this Squeeze set, with live performance on DVD combined with a CD of the same audio.
- • UK Order: Squeeze: Access All Areas
- • USA Order: Squeeze: Access All Areas
- • ITALY Order: Squeeze Access All Areas
The Mission / Singles A’s & B’s (2CD)
Great value 36-track collection that features both sides of all 15 of The Mission‘s Top 70 UK singles Also includes “unreleased edits”.
David Bowie / Reality (clear vinyl)
If you weren’t lucky enough to secure Music On Vinyl’s orange pressing of David Bowie‘s Reality from last year then Friday Music in the US are this week releasing a clear vinyl pressing of the rather underrated album from 2003.
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for anybody interested there is an error with all about eve first album 2cd.
it includes the single version of ‘every angel’ twice instead of album plus single version. so you need to keep your old cd.
Steven Wilson claims this LP will be a very limited one run release. This LP contains a big chunk of his “popular” hits. Trust me, it will be on CD in a couple of years.
Yikes. Don Henley really went mellow. He releases a country album! Features a bunch of country stars and Mick Jagger [Jagger in a country album?]. [Snoring.]
Doh doh doh! Sorry, meant to say, “…sounds very “Juan MacLean” so maybe they should give him a go”.
I am not ewesally bad at spelin and gramor.
Very impressed by New Order’s Music Complete.
Paul – can we expect a review from you anytime soon or would that be encroaching on “Classic Pop” territory?
As aside, does anyone know who is doing the mixing on the Ltd vinyl box? Are they extended versions by the originating producers of each track or should we expect some extra sparkle throughout from someone like Stuart Price or Richard X? Hmmm, maybe even bring out Steven Hague?
Tutti Frutti sounds very “Juan MacLean” sound maybe they should have given him a go.
Might review it via the actual vinyl box when mine turns up next month…
Perhaps I’m too pedantic, but if you scroll up to the top of the page, the positioning of the sticker and the wording on it gives the impression that the Bowie box set was curated by SDE.
I asked because the “New Out This Week” sticker gives the impression that it is curated by SDE.
The impression I was hoping to give was that all the products mentioned in the post are ‘new out this week’.
Was the Bowie box set curated by this website?
No involvement, although working on a David Bowie release would be a dream (hint, hint…)
Might be cheaper to buy from the US, even with import charges
anyone ever find out what the japanese bonus was for the bowie box?
Still not prepared to pay £100 for the Bowie box set. Thought prices might come down between press release and release date but apparently not. Hoping they fall a bit after 25/9/15. £80 for the CD including p&p and I’m in. But with rumours of the Springsteen River box imminent there’s only so much that a poor boy can do!
Agree with you re price, I did pre-order but as price not dropped to something around the price point you mention I can live without it at the moment
£41 for Bowie’s Reality LP. Ouch!!
I know. I think it’s because it’s technically, an import.
Re the Bowie 5 years box. Is it known if the remastered studio albums from the box being sold separately will be in gold rather than silver and if they also come as mini LP CD card sleeves like the box set editions, or will they be silver and in jewel cases?