Out This Week / 8 June 2015
The Rolling Stones / Sticky Fingers (super deluxe box)
After a slight delay due to manufacturing issues, The Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers is reissued. There are two vinyl editions a CD and double-CD set and TWO boxes including a super deluxe edition.
John Lennon / Lennon (9LP vinyl box)
John Lennon‘s solo studio albums, including 1984′s posthumous Milk and Honey, are collected in this new 180g vinyl box set. Original packaging is replicated.
Muse / Drones (new album)
New Muse album, Drones, is available as a double vinyl set, a CD+DVD deluxe and a top-of-the-range deluxe box.
Various / Pete Townshend’s Classic Quadrophenia
Deutsche Grammophon this week release this ‘symphonic reimagining’ of Quadrophenia, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English tenor Alfie Boe on vocals. Pete Townshend does play guitar!
Faith No More deluxe reissues
Two-CD deluxe editions of Faith No More‘s The Real Thing and Angel Dust. Bonus tracks include remixes, B-sides and live cuts.
Act / Love & Hate: A compact introduction (2CD)
New double CD set from ZTT / Salvo that features a ‘Director’s Cut’ of Act‘s only album (1988’s Laughter, Tears and Rage) on one disc, and remixes on the other.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Live in Paris (2CD+DVD)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club gig at Theatre Trianon in Paris in February 2014 is issued as a deluxe 2CD+DVD set (incorrectly listed as CD+DVD on Amazon UK). As well as the concert performance, the DVD features Yana Amur’s 33.3% documentary. Vinyl version is also available.
Halo James / Witness (expanded reissue)
Short lived British pop band Halo James had one big hit in Europe in the late eighties with Could Have Told You So. Their one album, 1990’s Witness, is reissued today as an expanded CD with eight bonus tracks.
- • UK Order: Witness (Special Edition)
- • USA Order: Witness: Special Edition
- • GERMANY Order: Witness (Expanded Edition)
Frank Sinatra / Ultimate Sinatra 2LP
The four-CD edition of Ultimate Sinatra was issued back in April, but vinyl fans have had to wait until this week for the double 180g edition. The two records feature 24 tracks but comes with a digital bonus of Just In Time (Alternate Version.
Vangelis / Blade Runner (vinyl LP)
Rhino release Vangelis’ classic soundtrack to Ridley Scott’s masterpiece on 180g black vinyl.
Nothing about the British Sea Power Classic Decline of… being reissued today in Deluxe Editions?
[…] No More‘s two-CD deluxe reissues of Angel Dust and The Real Thing are out this week, but the double vinyl sets (which include some bonus tracks) aren’t due until the end of […]
Halo James were hardly seminal or groundbreaking.
Why so little space for Halo James ? :( Didin’t like the album or the band ?
Within the context of ‘Out This Week’ they got the same space as everyone else :)