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Out This Week / on 23 June 2023

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By Paul Sinclair

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Eric Clapton / The Definitive 24 Nights CD, Vinyl, Box Set, Blu-ray, DVD

Eric Clapton’s reputation has taken a bit of a battering in recent years, but back in 1991 he could do little wrong as this groundbreaking run of 24 concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall demonstrates. Each night featured him performing a career-spanning set with one of three lineups – a rock band, a blues band, or an orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen. This reissue offers EIGHT physical formats including 8LP vinyl and 6CD box sets both of which come with three blu-rays.

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Lloyd Cole / On Pain CD, Vinyl

Lloyd Cole’s 12th studio album On Pain has a lot going for it, on paper. Four of the eight new songs are co-written by Commotions founding members Blair Cowan and Neil Clark, who also perform on the record and it’s produced by Chris Merrick Hughes, who produced Tears For Fears‘ classic 1985 album Songs From The Big Chair.

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Little Feat / Sailin' Shoes

Little Feat / Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken deluxe sets CD, Vinyl

Little Feat’s second and third albums are reissued as 2CD and 3LP deluxe editions. Newly remastered, these feature previously unreleased demos, outtakes and live tracks.

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Madonna / Finally Enough Love: The Rainbow Edition Vinyl

Delayed from last week: The 6LP ‘rainbow’ coloured vinyl reprint of Madonna’s Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones is now released this week.

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Pete Townsend / Rough Mix and Empty Glass Vinyl

Two Pete Townshend solo albums from the late 70s/ early 80s are reissued as limited edition half-speed mastered vinyl editions.

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Enya / A Box Full of Dreams Vinyl

Enya’s 1997 CD collection, A Box of Dreams, is reissued on vinyl for the first time.

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Stewart Copeland / The Police: Deranged For Orchestra CD, Vinyl

The Police Deranged for Orchestra sees Stewart Copeland rearrange The Police’s hits orchestrally with guest vocalists.

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  1. Just received the Stax boxset of songwriters demos. A fabulous little package, and the first disk sounds great and bodes well for the rest.

  2. Sorry if this is unrelated, but just soooo funny –

    “It’s getting increasingly difficult to tell the real from the fake these days,” Peter Gabriel said with a smile as he strolled nonchalantly onto the stage at London’s O2 Arena. “It might surprise you to learn that you’re looking at an avatar. But unlike the wonderful ABBA show just down the road, my avatar is 20 years older, 20 pounds heavier and completely bald. Meanwhile, I’m ripped and lying on a beach…”

  3. David Bowie BRILLIANT LIVE ADVENTURES are back in stock on his U.K. website (including the boxes) and you get 15% if you sign up as a new customer (Hide My Email… anyone? ;)

    1. They’ve been in stock for a while haven’t they? They were last time I looked anyway. But aren’t those discounts only ever usable against non-media stuff. I.e. not the actual music, but all the other tat instead.

  4. This week:

    Sonny Rollins Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums Craft Recordings.
    3 CD and 3 vinyl Box-Set.

    Charles Mingus The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings Rhino (Warner).
    7 CD and 8 vinyl Box-Set.

    McCoy Tyner The Montreux Years BMG Rights Management (Warner).

    Matt Monro The Complete EMI Recordings 1971-1984 Strawberry / Cherry Red Records (Edel).
    4 CD Box-Set.

    Madness Keep Moving BMG Rights Management (Warner).
    2 CD edition includes 13 bonus tracks.

    1. I already have the Charles Mingus boxset. It is awesome ! Any jazz fan should have these albums… Thank you for pointing out the other releases.

      1. You are welcome Mr. Remi. Also out this friday:

        Modern Jazz Quartet The Montreux Years BMG Rights Management (Warner).

  5. Yes, really looking forward to Lloyd Cole. Certainly, stepping out of his “comfort zone” (actually hate that term, but it gets the point across), but sounding so comfortable in it.
    Have to say, absolutely loving the six Peter Gabriel tracks to date. Not sure about the way he’s releasing them. Novelty wore out by the second single. Just awaiting the album release. If we’re looking at 10 tracks, hopefully get a Darkside album, and a Brightside album in the same gatefold release (vinyl colour variation of course to reflect the dark/bright).
    You guys in the UK attending the gigs?

    1. Completely agree on the Lloyd Cole release and the Peter Gabriel release strategy… time for a track list and release date, I think!

  6. The Lloyd Cole album has be intrigued. I was caught off-side by Guesswork (The previous electronics album) and I adore ‘Standards’ (The last rock album) but over a few listens it became a favourite.
    I look forward to this album doing the same.

  7. The new Queens of the Stone Age album is now up to 7 different coloured vinyl variants which is beyond silly. A glow in the dark version was made available from the selected retailers who participated in an album launch event midnight last Thursday. Fetching selling money on Ebay. Resident Records advertised they had some left but you could only get them by going in store (we are back to this nonsense where record companies insist on over the counter sales only).
    Blood Records then announced a green vinyl edition of 3000 with a different cover on Friday. They are usually a pre order company where a “campaign” is launched weeks/months before release date with a maximum number of units or if they don’t sell out in advance, they close the campaign well before release date. This the first time I can recall them advertising a release on actual release date. To date they have sold only half and sales a trickling upwards slowly. They could get stung here. Maybe fans have spent all their money on the other 6 variants.

    Also HMV vinyl week seemed to go with a whimper. Normally they have a big campaign ahead of their exclusive colour vinyl editions. I had to search it out. I signed up for notifications and never received a single one. Some are way too pricy. Nearly every release went online to be available to buy from their website on Saturday afternoon and are still available now. Only a small number are not available. Normally these sell out very quickly but not this year. As another poster pointed out they haven’t stated the number of copies available for each release as per previous years. Perhaps they got greedy in terms of making too many copies and certainly in their pricing policy. £50 for a single yellow vinyl LP of LA Woman by The Doors anyone?

    1. Hopefully that’s the vinyl bubble steadily deflating now. Releases coming in all these different colour variants has just become silly in recent years and a combination of inflation, import duties and, especially, mortgage prices will see it slow down significantly this year. The absolute Wild West pricing went way too far – it used to be that you’d have an idea of how much an LP was going to cost you before you even started, now you’re looking at anything from £22 to £50 with no obvious difference in the product. It had to break and I would be relieved if this was the beginning of the end. Well, it would be, if we weren’t already seeing CD prices rocket too.

      1. It appears they made a massive cock up with the Ultravox Vienna picture disc, and it was pressed with the live at St Alban’s gig from the Vienna box set, rather than the studio album oops. believe some got sold but rest were withdrawn from sale when they realised. Got Gary Numan Telekon which looks great on red/black splatter

    2. What exactly is the USP for the HMV 1921 vinyl?

      I’d understand the attraction if they were AAA Pallas pressings….but is it JUST the colour!?

      1. I couldn’t believe they had the nerve to choose aha’s Hunting High and Low! Seriously, give it a rest, that album has been reissued on vinyl so many times in the last 8 or 9 years ..

        1. I had the exact same thought on Saturday morning when I saw the Hunting High & Low. This album has bee released to death while the rest of their catalog screams out for attention.
          It was nice to see a queue waiting at HMV Westfield for the releases and there was a nice mix of young and old. Staff handed out lists and then had your choices ready behind the counter for collection

  8. Looking forward to the Clapton set, wish the Enya release was on CD (again) but my fault for missing countless opportunities in the past and not picking it up. As to Clapton’s reputation surely the revelations or actual facts (even MSM is now admitting) prove he was right all along. Just glad that division in society is over for the moment and hope fans can forgive artists (on either side of the debate) and not let it ruin their listening.

    1. Sorry, what is he right about?

      As for the album, I have the original and it was a huge disappointment. No energy at all, even then it seems he was phoning it in.

    2. The album is slightly remixed. It is interesting to hear, but it’s not an essential release. There is also an instrumental version of this masterpiece. It is also nice to listen to once or twice. But a crucial element is missing : the voice of Mr Gainsbourg, of course, and his poetry…

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