NewsOut This Week on 7 May 2021
New reissues and releases
Alphaville / Afternoons in Utopia and The Breathtaking Blue CD, Vinyl, DVD
Alphaville reissue their second and third albums Afternoons In Utopia and The Breathtaking Blue in May, both with remastered audio and bonus material.
New Order / Education Entertainment Recreation CD, Box Set, Blu-ray
New Order‘s 2018 show at London’s Alexandra Palace is to be released on audio and video formats, in May, as Education Entertainment Recreation.
Van Morrison / Latest Record Project Vol 1 CD, Vinyl
Van Morrison‘s new album is called Latest Record Project, Vol 1 and fans can pre-order a signed two-CD set from Amazon in the UK.
Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum / Thanks For Coming CD, Vinyl
Thanks for Coming is the debut album of Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum, a trio fronted by actor and musician Michael C. Hall. CD is out on Friday with vinyl following next week. Read the SDE interview with the band.
Weezer / Van Weezer
Nearly a year late, Weezer deliver their 14th studio album.
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For anyone with money to burn. Weezer have just announced a limited Van Weezer deluxe boxset for £95
Limited to 100 copies
Van Weezer album on a transparent purple and lightning bolt cassette — exclusive to the box set only
Lightning bolt laser cut picture disc — exclusive to the box set only — featuring two exclusive remixes: Beginning of the End (Wyld Stallyns Mix) and Hero (Mike Mago Mix)
Screen printed Van Weezer back patch
Exclusive sticker sheet
Weezer lithograph
Etched metal guitar pick
$110 for folks in the US.
Great – nothing for me this week. Now I can use that money to buy something from my Wishlist.
One reissue that came out a couple of weeks ago through Music On Vinyl is an expanded version of the Critical Beatdown album by Ultramagnetic MC’s. I’m waiting on mine in the post. It’s a 2LP on yellow vinyl and replicates the track listing from a 2004 CD expanded version: the original 15 tracks on record 1 but with an extended version of Ego Trippin’ and 6 12” remix versions on record 2. This includes the 12” remix of A Chorus Line featuring Tim Dog, which I’ve only ever seen on a Hip-Hop Mastercuts compilation from the 90s.
Reviews of this pressing and the sound quality on Discogs has been positive.
This, to me, is one of the greatest albums of Hip-Hop’s golden era of the late 80s/early 90s, just behind Public Enemy’s Nation Of Millions. It’s all killer no filler and I’m really pleased that this version has been issued on vinyl.
I have found from buying Music On Vinyl reissues before (Pulp, Swervedriver) that they don’t tend to include download cards which is a shame, but the quality of the pressing is the main thing.
For those in the US would suggest importcds.com if you are looking for the Alphaville or New Order releases. Much cheaper than on AMZ US. $30 combined savings for the two Alphaville releases (2CD, 2CD/DVD) and $15 cheaper for the New Order release (2CD/Blu-Ray).
A new Weezer album is never too late. And I say that as someone with a lot of affection for them
Also out this week:
Amy Winehouse “At The BBC” 3 disc box-set released by Island Universal Music.
Dexter Gordon “A Day In Copenhagen” released by Edel Musik Produktion Schwarzwald.
And outside the UK we have to wait one week for the release of the Procol Harum “Missing Persons (Alive Forever) EP.
So looking forward to the Alphaville re-issues. I hope they arrive with no problem, never having used Rhino before.
Is it too much to hope for further deluxe re-issues from the band? I know their commercial fortunes waned after this, but an album like Prostitute deserves much love (though Salvation, not so much)
Signed Van Morrison on preorder and also the new CD EP from Procol Harum (can’t remember last time I bought a CD EP), which is also out on Friday. Old school weekend coming up.
Anyone else noticing a recent trend to help push a new release album’s chart position just days after the release date? Namely offering cheaper product or new versions. Today I have received an email from The Coral advertising an exclusive digital version of their new album which includes 5 acoustic versions and a remix of a track featuring Paul Weller. You do get a discount of a pound if you pre-ordered physical versions from their store. Surely it isn’t too much to have given those extra tracks as free downloads to preorder buyers? When the Snuts released their debut album on the Friday within 2 days they were offering LPs and CDs at discounted prices. Their Amazon exclusive LP was discounted by £5 the day after release and lasted a week before going back up in price. Shame if you pre-ordered it. You got shafted by a fiver. Talking of Shame – they also offered discounted CDs days after release and then put the price back up after a week. We’ve had Kylie selling signed CDs just after release date to get that extra push in sales. Shame if you pre-ordered it. You will have to buy another copy if you want the signed one. Which of course is the point. I just think it’s shabby to treat your fanbase like that. An artist’s core fanbase will preorder so this is just a kick in the teeth to them.
I think this has been going on for a few years but is more effective now album sales are so low. The tactic obviously works as we’ve had something like 36 albums debut at number one in a row in the UK. All only survive for one week at the top, then most plummet (one even fell straight out of the Top 100 in week 2).
I feel your pain. And there’s the old chestnut of putting out a deluxe edition of an album very soon after the original was released, also a kick in the teeth for fans
Couldn’t agree more.
Oh for the long-gone days before SoundScan (a point-of-sale data recording system), when chart manipulation consisted of covertly paying stores to over-report sales by phone, or simply calculating sales based on wholesale-to-retail shipments rather than purchases by the public.
In the US we used to joke about albums that “shipped Platinum [from the label], and returned Platinum.”
Extra sales from loyal fans, yes, but I don’t think it’s to boost an album’s chart position. You have to actively seek out the charts now if you want to see them. In the past they were featured in music weeklies, newspapers, the BBC website, Ceefax, record shop chart displays/layout, etc. Even HMV no longer have a big wall displaying albums in their chart positions.