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Out This Week / on 3 December 2021

New reissues and releases

By Paul Sinclair

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Depeche Mode / 101 box set

Depeche Mode release a deluxe box set edition of their classic 101 documentary/album from 1989. This reissue sees the original film “meticulously upgraded” using 4k scans of the original film reels to create a new HD edition.

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The Doors / L.A. Woman 50th anniversary deluxe edition

The Doors / L.A. Woman CD, Vinyl

The Doors‘ 1971 album L.A. Woman is reissued as a 3CD+LP set for its 50th anniversary.

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Travis / The Invisible Band CD, Vinyl, Box Set

Travis mark the 20th anniversary of their third album, The Invisible Band. A 2LP+2CD deluxe box set is the top of the range offering.

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The Waterboys / The Magnificent Seven CD, Vinyl

The Magnificent Seven is a new 5CD+DVD Waterboys box set that tells the story of the seven-piece line up from the Fisherman’s Blues 1989 tour through to the release of the band’s fifth album, Room to Roam in 1990.

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James Cameron / Brad Fiedel / Terminator 2: Judgement Day Vinyl, Blu-ray

Great value package with pairs a 2LP coloured vinyl version of Brad Fiedel’s soundtrack with a 3 x blu-ray set (all-region discs) which features 4K UHD, blu-ray & blu-ray 3D versions of Terminator. Comes with a lenticular print.

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ABBA / Little Things CD

ABBA release a fourth single from Voyage. It’s available on CD.

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  1. One that didn’t make it onto the list at the time – LTM/Les Disques Du Crepescule released a 4-CD box of Paul Haig’s 1985 album _The Warp Of Pure Fun_ on 26/11. Nice sized compact box, with the four discs each in cardboard sleeves made to look like the 12″ singles associated with the album, which is a neat touch, and a booklet with track-by-track notes by Haig, photos, etc.

    First disc is the basic album beefed up with additional tracks from the period, second disc is demo versions of the album tracks plus material from the “Lost Album”, third disc is 12″ versions, remixes and rarities, while the fourth is a live session recorded in Japan in 1985, plus further previously unreleased demos.

    For me, the set’s worth it for just the 12″ of “Heaven Help You Now”. Some nice surprises though – three versions of “The Executioner”, Haig’s collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire, for example.

    My music collection is now probably complete (ha, right), unless somebody manages to do a multi-CD box version of Win’s _Uh! Tears Baby_. That’s really the only hole in my collection now.

  2. Is may be just me, but I am feeling underwhelmed by the releases that are coming out for the end of this year. The focus seems to be formats and artists which do not appeal to me. Guess its better than being overwhelmed and having to chose.

  3. Hello everyone, I’m a new vinyl fan here! Great place! Paul would you please write something about Mono’s “Formica Blues” being re-released also on December, 3rd?

  4. Thanks for the reminder Paul, I completely forgot I preordered the 101 box set, I managed to cancel before Amazon charge me, I just can’t justify this release and I decided I’d rather have Now Presents the 1970s.

    1. I’d expect a huge price drop, the fact the documentary is on blu but the entire gig itself on DVD is ridiculous.
      I can kinda get when Anton wants his grainy efforts to be DVD quality but DM have really dropped the ball on this release at that price. It’s a shame as the packaging/posters etc look superb but no way justify a punt yet.

  5. Don’t forget the excellent Live in Brighton 1975 by Can. Recorded between Landed and Flow Motion, the album shows a band in constant upheaval. Here, they are funkier than ever, yet still very experimental. Available on triple vinyl !
    The Doors boxset is for the hardcore fans only, because most of the unreleased tracks are a continuous piece of music dedicated a single song. You have, for instance, 26 minutes of The Changeling recording session. And 21 minutes of Love her madly. That might be too much for the casual fan.

  6. The Coral have a 20th Anniversary double LP Edition of their debut LP released next March including unreleased songs. Incredibly there 6 different vinyl versions available – all with the same track listing except one which has an additional 7 inch included. There are the following available:

    Black vinyl
    Picture Disc Vinyl (Coral Store exclusive)
    White Vinyl (Indies exclusive)
    Blue vinyl (Recordstore exclusive)
    Red vinyl (Dinked Archive edition with the 7 inch)
    Picture Disc (Blood Records zoetrope exclusive)

    If you buy all these plus the CD and cassette versions it will cost you over £200. Can anyone else recall an anniversary edition of an LP (never mind a new LP) having 6 identical variants? These are all UK editions. It’s not like one of them is a German exclusive and another a Japanese exclusive for example. Love the band to bits but this is going too far. Gone are the days of an album release consisting of one LP version and a CD version for £25 or under.

    2. This isn’t really anything new. Younger bands (mostly indie and punk bands) have been doing multiple variants (2 to 8 or more) for at least the last 10 years. They’re targeting collectors who clearly have too much money. The sad thing is that people are falling for it. At most I’ll buy 2 variants. The one with the most bang for the buck and then maybe a second colored vinyl variant that’s the most limited pressing. To me, it’s no different from the 90s when labels would multi-format singles with different b-sides to get people to buy multiple copies of the same single. At least back then you got different songs. Today, you get 15 different variants with the same exact songs. It’s taking the piss, really.

      Incidentally, the Dinked edition of The Coral album comes with both a 4-track 7″ EP as well as a flexidisc. That’s the variant I went for, naturally.

    3. I’m a Coral fan but is there such a thing as a Coral completist who would have to scoop up every Vinyl, CD and tape edition like all those McCartney III ones. Lots of people will want this release and those Dinked Edition releases usually sell out very fast and then I guess the idea is people who didn’t manage to order one of those will go for one of the other limited editions – so to my mind this is just about giving a few different retailers a piece of the action rather it all being direct-to-fans from their own website. Seems fair enough really.

      1. Jumpers for goalposts moment:

        I’m not sure there are many musical obsessions to be had today, certainly not in the way things existed from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s or early 1990s.
        Personal obsessions started at 12 – Oldfield, 13 – Kate Bush, 14 – Japan / Sylvian , 15 – Paul Young, 16 – Wham / George, 17 – TinTin Duffy, 18 – Tears For Fears and so on up to my last one which was 22 – Julia Fordham. A decade of miniature and maximum obsession. Add in the ones I never got too deep into but barely brushed the surface of their hugeness. Beatles, Genesis, Duran, Culture Club, Bowie, Smiths, U2, Prince, Jackson, Ultravox etc.

        We only knew what we knew about these people from what we read in magazines and papers. Music, unbought, was scarce. Just Radio 1 or the behemoth Top of the Pops, Swap Shop and Tiswas. So we had to invest.

        And that investment involved hours of reading record collector magazine, on my hands and knees at Reddington’s Rare Records or finger-achingly crate skimming on Saturdays at some local-ish record fair which usually involved a bus ride or two to Walsall, Birmingham or Wolverhampton. All for a Brazilian release of Every Time You Go Away or the Japanese 7inch of Wake Me Up Before You Go-go.

        And it was that scarcity allied to the actual monetary investment that breeds obsession. Neither exist for younger people today. Anybody and everybody is available at the click of spotify’s button, on an app that they are probably not paying for either, but leeching off their parent’s or a family account.

        How can you become obsessed about someone who posts every vacuous thought, every morsel eaten and every new pair of shoes. The still occuring Kate Bush obsession wouldn’t have lasted so long if we all knew what she was having for breakfast. To get close to an artist, to feel involved, involved time, effort and money. None of which are required now. And that obsession, these obsessions have lasted over 40 years.

        I don’t imagine my girls will give a flying burrito about their current favourites AJ Tracey and Mist in 3 years let alone 40 (I had to ask them) in the way most of us did about one group or another from the last 60 years.

        As an afterthought I would say that there are still huge “stars”. Swift, Sheeran, Adkins that have devotees but with global marketing, the internet and methods of acquisition, the effort involved, the investment is nowhere near as huge. Maybe if you went to every live concert?

        Welcome to my “Werther’s” talk.

      2. I am too a Coral fan but not a Coral completist who missed his chance to purchase the Dinked Edition or Blood Records zoetrope edition – although I have managed to download the MP4 zoetrope video file. So thankfully I will not have stand over my record deck to enjoy it , however since I could not remember what I had ordered from their official website resulted in me purchasing a T- Shirt & signed poster!

        I hope to see them again in Sheffield when the tour begins :)

  7. Also out this week:

    Nina Simone “Nina Simone And Her Friends” (2021 Stereo Remaster). Released by Bmg Rights Management (Warner).

    Jason Boland And The Stragglers “The Light Saw Me”. Released by Proud Souls Entertainment (Membran).
    Country concept album about alien abduction!

    1. That Jason Boland And The Stragglers “The Light Saw Me” better be good I`ve just ordered the LP. Being a Sci-Fi nut I was intrigued.

      Also a couple of CDs after listening to a few tracks. He and his band play one of the types of American that I like. A lot.

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