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Out This Week / on 24 March 2023

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By Paul Sinclair

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Pink Floyd / The Dark Side of the Moon 50th anniversary box set editions

Pink Floyd / The Dark Side of the Moon CD, Vinyl, Box Set, Blu-ray, DVD

An SDE Reader Rating of 1.4 (out of 5) suggests that fans aren’t impressed by this 50th anniversary Dark Side of the Moon box set, although the separate release of Live at Wembley Empire Pool on CD and vinyl offers much better value.

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Elton John / Honky Château 50th anniversary reissue

Elton John / Honky Château 50th anniversary CD, Vinyl

Elton John’s brilliant Honky Château album from 1972 is reissued on vinyl and CD. Both formats include a newly created selection of outtakes from the original session tapes and the 2CD addition features eight live recordings from a Royal Festival Hall show in 1972.

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Depeche Mode / Memento Mori CD, Vinyl

Memento Mori is Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album and their first as a two-piece line-up of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, following co-founder Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher’s passing in 2022.

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Various Artists / The Best of British Ska... Live! CD, Vinyl

Dance Craze is a 1981 concert film recorded at various venues throughout 1980 at the height of the 2Tone movement. It features exclusive live recordings by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers. Deluxe 3CD and 3LP sets available and the film has been restored to blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos Mix!

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The Kinks / The Journey: Part 1 CD, Vinyl

To mark their 60th anniversary The Kinks have collected tracks in a themed compilation called The Journey: Part 1.

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  2. Well Floydians
    What a weekend
    TDSOTM 50th Ann box set and live cd and LP collected today from favourite records shop Badlands in Cheltenham and for literally the price of tea and a slice having asked if there were any they gave two copies of the promo poster; it’s double sided to reflect album and live album.
    Official book ordered separately flicked through whilst listening to live album.
    Also flicked through excellent Any Colour You Like listing all 700 known vinyl variants of the album
    Awaiting the Martin Popoff unofficial book to arrive
    Vacuum packed the t shirts including Abbey Road one.
    Suffice to say that along with Neil Young bootleg pre orders and the Bruce MoFi pre order and now the IQ Subby live at De Boederidj 2011 triple coloured vinyl pre order, my credit card is now esconsed in freezer

    Only gripe is the dimensions of the box. Even taller than EY so it won’t fit in my storage shelving!
    Carl

    1. Every day I thank God I was born in this era to hear all this wonderful music as most came out. I am 61 and have had the Beatles soundtrack play every day of my life thanks to my sisters. I love them more every day.

    2. That certainly is worth celebrating. As Dave says, a great era to be born in (I am 10 years older).
      In other posts I have said how massive a deal the release of a Beatles LP was back then and this release was literally mind blowing to a young music fan.

  4. Out this week also, an extravagant reissue of the Velvet Underground’s “Loaded”. Nine LPs and 4 singles for 250 $ plus shipping. Exclusively on the Rhino website.

  5. Paul, you might be pleased to know that I might be able to stop complaining about Depeche Mode not touring Australia since 1994. Dave Gahan has recently said they have unannounced plans to tour Australia and Asia in 2024.

  6. Honky chateau deserved a 3CD+BR treatment. 2 CDs for the complete Royal Festival Hall show [or another show if that one wasn’t complete for whatever reason] and the original album. Throw the studio extras with the live tracks [CD 2] or on the album CD.
    Why did they decide to give MATW nice treatment and not this one?
    A big middle finger to Amazon Canada for jacking up the prices just before release day. Luckily I got mine at $31 and not $45.

  8. Grant Lee Buffalo’s excellent first two long players (Fuzzy & Mighty Joe Moon) get a well deserved remster and re-release on clear vinyl.
    New long players by Ellie Goulding and Lana Del Rey as well, though physical Ellie due 7th April.

    1. I too enjoyed Grant Lee Buffalo & have the 2CD anthology, yet actually all 4 albums are great & would love if Rhino put out a nice compact box with all 4 CDs and a bonus disc with rarities…it can happen…and yes I know of the new LDR & EG, also new Melanie Martinez…

          1. It just seems a bit arbitrary, especially considering the price and the question of the whole item’s necessity.

          2. Also a bit rich coming from an industry hell bent on getting people to buy vinyl albums they already have 23 copies of. Here’s a way around that; an actual glass prism. You know, the stuff prisms are traditionally made from…

            As an aside, someone has already uploaded the DM album to pootoob, so if you don’t do streaming you can try before you buy.

          3. I always thought what people do when listening to music on YouTube IS streaming…

  10. Wish they had continued to release the Elton John albums on SACDs back in the 00s. The mixes were superb. It’s so hard to understand the music label decisions sometimes. but one has to presume that the bottom line dictates everything, fans bedamned

  11. Regarding the new DM album some (quite reputable reviewers) are praising it with several going as far as to say it’s up there with Music For The Masses and Violator. I personally find that very hard to believe but would very much like to see an SDE review. I’m not buying it till the silly prices drop however.

    1. Absolutely right, I’m a bit baffled by the pricing, I can live with streaming the new LP for a while, it’s going to be a wait for the SDE alert for me

  12. This week:

    Whitney Houston I Go To The Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston Sony Music Catalog (Sony Music)

    Lana Del Rey Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Interscope US/Polydor UK/Urban EU (Universal Music)

    Katie Melua Love & Money (Deluxe CD – Standard CD – Vinyl) BMG Rights Management (Warner)

    Ellie Goulding Higher Than Heaven (Deluxe CD includes bonustrack – Signed Standard CD – Vinyl) Polydor (Universal Music)

    Babymetal The Other One Cooking Vinyl/Indigo Also released as Japanese Puzzle Edition by Toy’s Factory Japan.

    Jessye Norman The Unreleased Masters Decca (Universal Music)

    Randy Crawford You Might Need Somebody: The Warner Bros. Recordings 1976-1993 Soulmusic Records/Cherry Red Records (Edel) EU release only – already released in the UK and the US.

    Del Shannon Stranger In Town: a Del Shannon Compendium (Limited 12 CD Box-Set) Demon Music Group/Edsel (Soulfood) EU release only – already released in the UK and the US.

    1. Thank you for pointing out the release of the new Lana del Rey album. I’m a fan and the songs I heard are fantastic. And I have to check out this Whitney Houston compilation.
      By the way, did you hear the four new Taylor Swift songs ?

      1. You are welcome Mr. Remi. We have just heard the new Taylor songs, so thanks for the mentioning. In fact it’s only one new song and then three re-recordings, but who cares? It’s Taylor!

  13. Latest Mojo comes with a Kinks cd, looks like an interesting tracklisting. Mojo cds have been great recently – Dylan, Depeche Mode, and now The Kinks.

  15. Looking forward to receiving Elton’s Honky Chateau 2CD edition.
    Gutted that they didn’t see fit to give this album the deluxe treatment it surely deserves. A classic album from start to finish.
    This should have been a 3 or 4 CD + blu-ray set.
    The 2004 SACD is superb.

  16. Looks like Amazon AU agrees with the majority of readers on SDE regarding Pink Floyd’s 50th DSOTM.
    It’s not even available to pre-order :)

    1. For those interested, You can see here the audio difference of Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon – 21 versions  between CD, SACD, Cassette, 8 track, Blu-ray 2011 Immersion, Vinyl, Qobuz Hi-Res – Stereo, quadraphonic, 4.0, 5.1 

  18. Blood Records have produced a great variant of Elton John’s ‘Honky Château’ – hand-numbered pink & yellow splatter.Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine, with vinyl cutting by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, London
    Limited to 500 copies (sold out in 2mins!) – hope some of you managed to order one? Should be shipped the same day as the regular reissue…

    https://blood-records.co.uk/products/elton

    1. Thanks for the heads up. I’m curious how people know about these super limited releases. Is it Blood Records and their acquaintances or was this announced in an Elton John email? Same with the Notre Dame U2 Songs Of Surrender release. I like to buy them but I’m simply not aware. How do people know about this?

      2. Blood Records started up as Flying Vinyl several years ago releasing one 5 x 7″ singles vinyl box set a month, I’ve been buying off them from day 1, they find unknown up and coming artists, then expanded into Blood Records and now sell Just LP’s releasing something most weeks … You can join their mailing list and they message / text you when anything is released, Elton Johns was the fastest ever selling out in 90 seconds, sadly My payment verification text took too long to arrive when checking out and my copy sold out in the basket!
        Annoyingly the only release i’ve ever missed!

      4. Most items are posted on socials now – Blood Records twitter feed is a must-follow… but they generally release newer music, but have some amazing limited releases, including zoetropes, colour variants, signed & even ‘gel-filled’ sleeves! They are replay innovative.

  19. Is it wrong of me to hope that any poor sales for the DSOTM SDE might be a lesson to music companies to make more effort regards future releases? That they might take note of the negative reaction by folks here, certainly? Who would after all be the main target audience for releases such as this.

    1. I’m hoping the same. This box and the Rush Signals SDE are the most naked cash grabs I’ve ever seen – they actually make the Ise Your Illusion box look like good value! I’m hoping they sell next to nothing at full price and get heavily discounted. The fact that the most recent Kinks box was reduced from £120 to just £50 within 6 months of release shows that people are getting sick of high prices for little to no fresh content, and that box had 6 lps, 4 cds and a bluray which is more content that DSOTM and Signals combined!!

      A user on here commented last week that people would complain about boxes like these no matter what was included – that’s simply NOT true. If this box had included ALL the previously issued content from the Immersion box and the complete Wembley show I’d have been happy to purchase, I just can’t see the sense in paying 3x the price for half the content – if the content isn’t there, reduce the price accordingly. Its not like we don’t already own the album several times over, and I doubt anyone buying the album for the first time is going to stump up £250 for the privilege.

      2. Totally agree. I’m so disappointed with the Rush Super Deluxe releases. I get that they were perfectionists, but there has to be material available; demos, jams, isolated tracks, etc available that they have never released to the fans. I really don’t need crappy paraphernalia, I want material I have never heard. Rant over.

        1. They made the mistake of locking themselves into a way over-priced box set niche and now feel compelled to continue that line. If they had included the SW 5.1 of AFTK on a more affordable edition, we could now pick up a simple CD/Blu-ray digipack of Signals. Instead the new remaster of Signals isn’t released on a standalone CD at all, which is asinine. Although compressing the Sean Magee remaster of Moving Pictures for the physical release was also asinine.

    2. It’s not wrong but it mainly depends on the intentions behind making something so poor. As with most things on the internet one has to work out whether it is cynicism or stupidity.

      Are they doing it on purpose or by accident. One has to think it is the latter, why would a business put something out so misguided? The cynical point of view is that they produce crap to kill off physical product. But they are leaving pound notes on the table in doing that.

      It’s interesting as SDE goes in to it’s second decade to see many products in their second or third (fourth?) SDE re-issue. How many of them are genuinely better than the last re-issue?

      1. I’m afraid I’m leaning towards the fact that the labels simply want to kill off the physical product. The current round of reissues is absolutely pathetic, a fraction of the content being sold as a premium product, whilst diverting a what exclusives exist towards their streaming platforms. To the labels it no doubt makes perfect sense – lower royalty rates plus no manufacturing costs. They are too stupid to realise that they are fatally wounding their own cash cow – in 10-15 years the audience that actually pays for their product will be dead or retired and they are currently doing nothing to replace those customers. They have reduced most music to the equivalent of audio wallpaper. Give it 20 years and there won’t be a record industry, just its zombified corpse living within whatever media megacorporation has swallowed up all the rights.

        1. I was recently speaking to a local friendly record shop owner, who’d been to an independent record store convention. His opinion is that the record companies only care about streaming, not physical product.

          Pricing new LP’s at £40 / £50 is a strategy to milk as much money as possible from those prepared to pay, but the decline in sales will inevitably happen. Food and energy – first. Idiotic prices for some plastic discs – last.

          No wonder the record companies see their future as digital providers, and are happy to take their £15 a month subscription fees. Just wait for that business model to implode! Once mum and dad stop paying for family subscriptions, most kids will carry on watching and listening to You Tube, rather than pay out for streaming.

          When I look at all the records and cd’s I’ve bought in the last decade, I’m relieved that I’ve an amazing collection, built at a fraction of today’s costs, with better content than on recent releases. I’ve enough music to listen to, to last ten lifetimes.

          It’s easy to pick the best new things to buy, and they are mostly small independent bands, who are doing their utmost to succeed and generate a worthwhile living. Good luck to them all.

      2. I’m leaning towards the stupidity/laziness aspect. If the labels really wanted to kill physical product they would just shutter their archival/catalog releases departments. Why pay employees/contractors to produce turds vs just stop making turds altogether?

        1. Excellent point. We all remember a time when we would expend 200% time and energy to *NOT* do our homework, when it would have been easier to just do our homework in the first place.

          Stupidity it does seem to be.

      3. I can’t see all labels wanting to kill off physical product as there is still a huge demand. It’s the same with gaming where the digital only console of the PS5 is easily outsold by the one with a disc drive. The only medium I do see disappearing is films and TV shows on DVD/blu/4K where it’s often cheaper to stream on Prime, Netflix etc. Far less in those formats are being released as of late. And to be honest when a physical 4K movie or at least a deluxe edition is 50 quid plus can’t say I’m surprised.

  20. Superdeluxe has forgotten that there is an Elvis Presley vinyl album of highlights from the ON TOUR boxed set coming out this week called ELVIS LIVE 1972

  21. Paul, is there any indication there might be just a simple 50th anniversary re-release of the DSOTM vinyl album on its own? Probably a bit boring for Pink Floyd but it’s all I want!

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