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Shed Seven / A Maximum High 25th anniversary reissue

Box set and expanded 3LP vinyl

By Paul Sinclair

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Shed Seven’s 1996 album, A Maximum High, is reissued for its 25th anniversary as a special multi-format box set and as a triple coloured vinyl set.

The band’s second album delivered five top 30 singles, including the top ten hit ‘Going For Gold, resulting in the Shed Seven appearing on Top of the Pops four times during the height of Britpop.

The new box set features a 3LP vinyl edition of A Maximum High which recreates the two-CD special edition from late 1996, which included a bonus CD featuring all the band’s 1994-1996 B-sides along with two newly recorded tracks. This triple LP set is pressed on ‘bowling ball’ coloured vinyl. The box set also features In Colour: Shed Seven Live at the Hanover Grand which captures the band in concert at the small central London venue on 30 January 1996 to promote the release of the first single ‘Getter Better’. The setlist includes songs from the previous album Change Giver, B-sides, and sees songs from A Maximum High make their live debut.

The box set also includes a CD called Max HiRange – Demonstration Tape , which includes previously unheard demos, instrumentals and acoustic tracks, all taken from the 1995/1996 A Maximum High era. Additionally the set includes an exclusive signed art print and A Maximum High UK tour laminate, all in a lift-off lid box set.

The triple coloured vinyl is available separately, although as with the box set it is exclusive to the Shed Seven official shop. A single LP of the album pressed on orange vinyl will be available via HMV.

A Maximum High will be reissued on 26 November 2021.

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Tracklisting

A Maximum High Shed Seven / 3LP coloured vinyl

    • LP 1
      Side 1
      1. Getting Better
      2. Magic Streets
      3. Where Have You Been Tonight
      4. Going For Gold
      5. On Standby
      6. Out By My Side
      Side 2
      1. Lies
      2. This Day Was Ours
      3. Ladyman
      4. Falling From The Sky
      5. Bully Boy
      6. Parallel Lines
    • LP 2
      Side 3
      1. Long Time Dead (New Version)
      2. Around Your House
      3. Swing My Wave
      4. Out By My Side (Piano Version)
      Side 4
      1. Immobilise
      2. Killing Time
      3. This Is My House
      4. Sensitive
    • LP 3
      Side 5
      1. Barracuda
      2. Mobile 10
      3. Stepping On Hearts
      4. Never Again
      Side 6
      1. Song Seven
      2. Making Waves
      3. Sleep Easy
      4. Only Dreaming

Tracklisting

‘In Colour’ – Shed Seven Live at The Hanover Grand Shed Seven / white vinyl LP

    • Side 1
      1. Dirty Soul
      2. Around Your House
      3. Long Time Dead
      4. Bully Boy
      5. Where Have You Been Tonight?
    • Side 2
      1. Dolphin
      2. Song Seven
      3. Going For Gold
      4. Speakeasy
      5. Getting Better

Tracklisting

Max-HiRange – Demonstration Tape CD Shed Seven / CD

      1. Getting Better (Demo)
      2. Magic Streets (Demo)
      3. Where Have You Been Tonight (Demo)
      4. Going For Gold (Acoustic)
      5. On Standby (Demo)
      6. Out By My Side (Demo)
      7. Lies (Demo)
      8. This Day Was Ours (Killing Me Softly)
      9. Layman (Acoustic)
      10. Falling From The Sky (Acoustic)
      11. Bully Boy (Instrumental)
      12. Parallel Lines (Instrumental)
      13. Instrumental Demo ’95 ONE
      14. Instrumental Demo ’95 TWO
      15. Instrumental Demo ’95 THREE

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33 thoughts on “Shed Seven / A Maximum High 25th anniversary reissue”

  1. Almost bought the 2CD deluxe edition of this a few times after stumbling across it by accident on eBay. I didn’t even know they did 2 cd versions of the first two albums and I’m pretty tuned into that stuff. Would have loved a proper 3 disc of this in the vein of the recent supergrass and SFA ones. Shame seems like a missed opportunity. I’ll be passing on a box set with vinyl.

    1. A little bit of controversy and discussion generates the traffic that makes things interesting. Obviously it’s never nice when it overheats and gets personal, but manageable differences of opinion do make the postings a bit more engaging then everyone just agreeing with everything all the time. I like to deliberately throw a grenade in every now and again, but I’m sure Paul would kick me or anyone into touch very quickly if he thought we were pushing things too far.

      1. I’ll throw the grenade back! There is not much to debate. You don’t like Britpop. So what. It doesn’t bother me & there’s probably nothing that I would say to you that would convince you otherwise. Each to their own.

    2. I will do so usually in regard to reissue theory, that is how well a release is compiled and packaged. For example, consider the recently announced Madonna reissues that are “personally curated.” Almost certainly this will entail certain mixes/demos/b-sides/ephemera Ms. M no longer finds agreeable not being included.

    3. I sometimes do to illustrate that our musical tastes are often tied to when we were in our teens and college years (if you went): I see my story fitting a common theme. I appreciate that everyone has their favourites, but I think it is rare for anyone to fully appreciate every musical style or era. I am a “child of the 80s” and am waiting increasingly impatiently for the 40th anniversary release of Ultravox- Rage in Eden and what, if anything might be done for the iconic Human League – Dare! album. The 90s and Britpop passed me by, partly because I moved to the USA and also because family life took over my time. I try to give everything a chance, but when I listen to bands like Shed Seven, I find they do little for me. Guitar driven music has never been my thing.

  4. If you are a vinyl fan then a mix of vinyl and CD’s in the top of the range box isn’t really much use, is it? Either go all out CD or all out vinyl. I have the original vinyl LP so won’t be investing in this reissue.

  5. Hmv single vinyl is £28 – the triple vinyl delivered via the website is £40 – so bit of a no brainier- shed seven b sides are pretty good – I’ve still got the original 2 cd version so nice to have it on vinyl – under rated band – and great live too

  6. another ‘lift- off lid box’ – it will encourage new collectors to store it flat, which is apparently wrong.

    i wish more boxes were slip case / book style
    .

  8. I would’ve liked the set as CD only as it’s a great album, but one I don’t need on vinyl. Shame.

    Big week for 90s teens like me, though, what with the new Boo Radleys album being announced as well.

    1. So you don’t like the Sheds? Fair enough, but if there’s a market box sets will be produced. I have no interest in Beatles, Bowie or Kylie box sets but I don’t deny there’s a substantial market for it. As for this one? Well, I’ll pass as I have a fair chunk of the material on CD and I don’t need to double dip on it. I’m saving for the Jethro Tull next month…

  10. Let’s alienate CD buying public further by releasing a 1 CD demo album in a vinyl box. For people that have the 2CD bit expensive to buy the box for the CD and reverse that for vinyl, no vinyl copy.

    I bet the set has been newly remastered which makes the original 2CD redundant.

    Not sure who this is generally aimed at but i do applaud the stupidity of it all.

  11. I would have been very interested in a CD box set even it had to have 12″ vinyl in it as well but not the other way round thanks. Possibly because they reissued most of their albums as double CD sets some years ago they are ignoring the CD format now?

  13. 4lp + 1cd= hard no. What a missed opportunity they ignore the cd buyer. Ok for me. To be honest I had never heard of Shed Seven. When I looked them up on YouTube, turns out they are an Oasis copy. Not a huge fan of that sound although their first 2 albums are excellent, I got the 3cd version of each.

    1. They were Oasis peers, actually. Debut albums the same year (released about a week apart if I remember correctly), this album about 5 months after Oasis’ second.

      I always liked them, and they had some fantastic singles.

    2. Oddly I cannot stand Oasis but I love Shed Seven. I was aware of 2CD reissues of the first couple of albums (bought Change Giver but ignored Maximum High as I already have the 2CD set from back in the day) but not 3-disc ones. What’s on the third disc in your sets?

        1. Ah, all becomes clear! I did wonder why he’d be buying albums by a band he professed to dislike! Wouldn’t know about Oasis for reasons mentioned above, I can’t abide ’em.

          1. Yes my apologies, that wasn’t very clear. I was referring to the Oasis albums. Cheers!

    1. Britpop was the historic low-point of er…British pop. Everything from baggy to Blur was one great big post-Smiths jingle-jangle coke-addled parochial hellhole.

      It’s no wonder the Americans turned their nose up at it. Credit to Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon for eventually steering Blur away from the whole mess.

      1. Cannot agree. Suede and in particular Pulp, for example, have lasting appeal for me.

        I am aware Pulp existed for a decade before Britpop was coined as a term but their breakthrough did come in that era.

        1. I don’t consider Suede and Pulp britpop. To me Pulp doesn’t sound like oasis or blur at all but maybe that’s the wrong standard? Any guitar driven band that was successful at the time is brit pop?

        2. Pulp buck the trend by being the least laddish and most knowing group of the era, and by the sheer force of their song-power.

          There was none of the toxic positivity that blighted Post-rave indie and Brit-pop.

      3. The worse time in British pop for me was the New Romantic boom and the years after. Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club followed by Ultravox, Adam Ant, Howard Jones, Nick Kershaw etc and then the whole Stock, Atkin & Waterman era. I was in my twenties and frankly outside of the cultural importance of Boy George found them to be tepid at best, certainly aside from George none of them were cool like the Bowie, Roxy & Bolan that influenced the Romantics. I find the SAW sound particularly grating.
        I spent the 80’s seeing a lot of the 60’s, 70’s bands starting with Zeppelin in 79 and The Who, Stones, Bowie, Roxy, Queen, Springsteen, Dylan and more current bands from the New Wave and Two Tone movements (& PSB). For me they satisfied my pop needs and had gravitas which was sorely missing from the kilt and bandana wearing. I do understand how exciting and ground breaking the fashion movement was but the music, oh dear. I remember seeing Pete Townsend in Birmingham NEC about 82, he wore a pink jacket and make up so even the best dabbled.
        the Brit Pop hype was so dull but it did mean we got some good guitar bands in the main stream again and we could so do with that now.

    2. I have to admit it was one of my favourite times in music, I was 22 in 1994 and going to 60+ gigs a year. Saw Shed Seven support Suede a few times and Rick Witter annoyed me with his shirtless swagger, but eventually they grew on me. I was a bit late for the Smiths as I was only 15 when they split but I loved Marion, Menswear, Sleeper, Elastica, Suede, Gene, Kenickie – what a time to be alive!

      1. Similar to you – 23 in 94 – great times – from that first Suede album to Pulps “this is hardcore” there were some classic albums and bands around in those years

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