Now that "On The Beach" has finally seen its CD release, what is the most "canonical" release currently not available on CD

holy moly - is Tusk gonna have outtakes, doodads, etc.?

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Yup, It's my understanding that Rumors and Tusk will both have a whole second disc of outtakes, doodads and etc. Be still, my beating heart. Plus the first Tusk disc will finally have an uncropped version of 'Sara'. IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME.

the Japanese import is the only one that exists, correct? And I will second "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads"

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Flipper- Gone Fishin'
The Effigies- For Ever Grounded (Actually all three albums released on CD would be great, as I have the other two on LP.)

I'd like to have "Lick My Decals" and the first two Shellac 7"s on CD, but I am not holding my breath on either.

If anyone's really desperate for "Lick My Decals Off Baby" or "Starsailor" on CD then drop me a line 'cos I might just be able to help....

< rant mode >wtf are Rhino playing at not having these two acknowledged classics available anyway, eh? Three years they've supposedly been working on a re-release of Decals to my knowledge! How long does it fuckin' take, eh? Wake up, stop fuckin' about with lovingly and lavishly produced limited edition "Handmade" releases of Wild Man fuckin' Fischer, live recordings of Tiny fuckin' Tim and "Theodore Bikel's Treasury Of Yiddish Theatre And Folk Songs" and get yer priorities straight and yer fuckin' act together f'fuck's sake!

Listen to the man Carlin, he talk sense. I second "Starsailor". I was lucky enough to pick up "'Til the Band Comes In" before it disappeared altogether. Why is Mrs. Zappa digging her heels in over "Bat Chain Puller" and Wild Man Fischer?

-- Roger in Mokum (rogerteelin...), March 10th, 2004.

Well, the latter has been released last month, on Speed State Records, in a very nice digipack. More power to ILM! ;-)

(her latest album also sucks)

Nope, there have been various official releases over time.

(It's in the Rockist canon!)

4 hero - in rough territory

didn't know that Gore and Chrome had had their cd issue, anyway i hope they re-reissue soon, those are classics.
The Ornette Coleman Impulse lp and the ECM stuff i mentioned has sure never be on CD, my hope is in Japan, recently there reissued the ECM album of the Improvison Music Company bu Baley. And why Rephlex who issued on CD a lot of trash not doing a cd issue of the best Luke Vibert album since Throbbing Pouch (also oop) is too strange (yeah, they love vinil, only vinyl is true, shit like that...)

about Starsailor i have the olc CD reissue, but is mastered like crap and has index error coupling two songs in one. Wait for a rightly remastered reissue, after Rhino (even if I love them) find time after re-re-re-re-reissuing Drama by Yes.

also The Stooges need remastering but this is another tread...

ciao da francesco

The Beatles' "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" seems to fit the original premise.

LP got to number 1.

Never been released on CD.

was talking about hollywood bowl the other day with a friend. the music is pretty far down in the mix; and screaming kids dominates. found a copy of purple chick's Beatles live releases, and Indianapolis sounds incredible and makes me never want to play HB ever again.

Buckingham Nicks is due for imminent release on CD, along with remastered/special editions of Fleetwood Mac, Rumors and Tusk. (The latter two being 2-disc sets!). They were slated for release last month, but they seem to have been pushed back. Rhino's doing them, if I remember correctly.

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Did this eventually happen?

the Buckingham/Nicks, I mean. Can't find it on Rhino's site.

buckingham nicks still unavailable afaik

troo

burning sensations LP

maybe not canonical, but odd 80s hit shelved

as far as never being released officially on CD, the usual suspects (Decals, Time Fades Away, Buck-Nix) but CDs currenty out-of-print that I wish were in print:

Acid Mothers Temple, La Novia
Brainiac, Bonsai Superstar
f/I + Boy Dirt Car, Space Mantra
Konk, The Sound of Konk
White Heaven, Out
Ut, Conviction
Live Skull, Dusted
Asha Vida, Nature's Clumsy Hand

Black Devil Disco Club is the album on my wishlist that I just never expect to own. I would do anything for a CD reissue.

White Heaven, Out

I think that this is still available (try FE?), but if you're desperate, I could be pretty easily coaxed into parting with my copy.

Space Mantra is out of print again?

Bill Dixon's Intents And Purposes (RCA Victor, 1967) has never been issued on CD. It was reissued twice on vinyl, in Japan in 1972, and on French RCA in 1976, but nothing since then.

I'm not sure; I just checked Amazon for White Heaven...I might have made a mistake about Space Mantra...sorry, prolley should not have even opened this thread

yeah mistake about Space mantra sorry foax!

isn't F/i's space mantra and their split with boy/dirt/car two different releases? I've got the vinyl so I don't know anything about the CD versions.

I see they've reissued Freaky Trigger by Win, this has raised my hopes of a reissue of Uh! Tears Baby but no sign of it yet.

speaking of live skull, their first 4 records never made it to CD

live skull
bringing home the bait
cloud one
don't get any on you

dusted has to be pretty easy to find on CD, no one ever wanted the copies that were pressed anyway!

no trend:

too many humans
a dirty dozen roses
when death won't solve your problems

although from what I understand these would have to be mastered from vinyl since the master tapes were intentionally erased

Yes, those two F/i things are different. Lexicon Devil reissued both of them on cd a few years ago.
I've got Space Mantra but not the Boy Dirt Car split.

surprised to discover boy dirt car reformed an released an album a few years ago!

F/i's split with boy dirt car is crucial if only for "trauma at the beach"

ok, looks like you might have both!

In 2000, Lexicon Devil released Space Mantra/Boy Dirt Car Split LP, which contained two recordings -- the band's first full-length, Space Mantra (originally released on RRR in 1988), and its side of a split LP with Boy Dirt Car (which was released by RRR in 1986) -- by F/I on one compact disc. ~ Tim Sendra

Yeah, I just realized this. Duh.
Trauma at the Beach is an awesome song!

boy dirt car's side is mostly grumbling electronics, but there is one great "song" where dan kubinski starts screaming "HE TORE OUT HIS EYES" over and over in his die kreuzen voice

speaking of canonical moments in music history

The Beatles' "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" seems to fit the original premise.

LP got to number 1.

Because it was by The Beatles. It sounds like crap, to say the least. Unless a flock of screaming young 60s girls are your thing...

Well, since we've wandered from the realm of the canonical, I would support a CD issue of:

Gibson Bros. - Dedicated Fool

but ain't holdin' my breath...

F/i's split with boy dirt car is crucial if only for "trauma at the beach"

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dude I knew there was a reason why I singled you out as having the best taste on ILX!!!

Outside the canon, a lot of the albums I have been longing the most for have been reissued by various labels in the Red Cherry and Demon families. Or by Repertoire. But if an album is being left to a reissue specialist label to reissue (not counting Rhino here, mind you), it can hardly be said to be canonical. With a few exceptions like "Odessey & Oracle" maybe.

And "More Than A New Discovery" (Laura Nyro) and "Gonna Take A Miracle" (Laura Nyro & Labelle), both reissued by Rev-Ola.

Her two best-known albums are still on Sony.

The entire Swans back catalogue is a mess and needs uniform CD reissues. Unlikely to happen though.

But if an album is being left to a reissue specialist label to reissue, .. it can hardly be said to be canonical.

It's not always that the label cbb, it's more often than not that the label in question closed down for business.

.. or that the rights lapsed and reverted to the artist.

Wharrabout that Morrissey guy? Now he's rectivated MajorMinor for his latest reissue.

Bona Drag. Originally on EMI, a compilation, canonical to Mozfans, out on a reactivated label, um, bzzt.

The first Queens of The Stone Age album (which was on cd) is still oop. Used copies start @ $48 on Amazon.