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this is the thread where you can choose a music scene/movement/label that you think deserves a good thorough reissuing. anything goes, 1994 jungle, 1972 bubblegum, 1950s proto-rock, whatevah. must have an underlying theme to it tho'.

i'd like to see a double cd jam & lewis retrospective. you?

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Article Response: First Avenue

second box forthcoming. both promo-only.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sheesh, promo gods are the premo gods, they have beaten me again.

ok - the chapel hill story?

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I would take the Chapel Hill story in a fast heartbeat over, say, the Olympia story

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and duh--The Complete Roxanne Battle Songs box set.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

'he writes the songs: big daddy kane lends a hand 88-91'.

why no release for the jam/lewis comp matos, it looks hott.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

that thread links to the First Ave piece, there's a Jam interview there, he sez why there

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

a comprehensive reissue of everything on Sarah. i'd say Factory as well but James Nice is doing a decent job of that already.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

also a compilation of the Caff label. it would probably almost fit on a single CD.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

*feels a bootleg coming on*

maybe i can get sued by Bob Stanley

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think he'd mind. If you're doing a Caff CDR, can I have a copy? 8-)

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the bitch magnet and galaxie 500 7s on tape - wasn't there a lot of awful heavenly/creation type bands on there? the razorcuts one is nice.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

actually they're pretty much all top stuff. and Rob - yes :)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

How about: "The Really Genuinely Totally Complete And Absolutely Definitive Miles Davis "We're Not Going To Find Any More Live Recordings Or Studio Outtakes Or Anything Even Remotely Like That After This Ever Again Ever, We Promise" Collection (including everything on all those Montreux / Plugged Nickel / Stockholm live collections and the Bitches Brew / In A Silent Way / Jack Johnson boxsets and everything he released on Blue Note, Capitol, Prestige and every other label ever, regardless of whether it was released in his own name or with him playing as a sideman, even the ones when he wasn't using his own name because of contractual restrictions or anything, this time we really do mean EVERYTHING)"?

To be released on mid-price for.... does £4.99 sound OK?

Also coming soon for release on mid-price: "Absolutely Everything Lee "Scratch" Perry Was Ever Involved In Any Way Whatsoever"; "The Entire Contents Of Frank Zappa's Vaults"; "The Complete Recorded Works Of Sun Ra"....

I like this game!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

a comprehensive five-disc Sun Ra box would be fucking amazing, actually.

and duh: Motown: The Complete A-Sides, 1960-73 (or so)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh ooh i've got another: a complete retrospective of the Able label.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

now that's just really unrealistic.

how about Cook Laboratories wind & train sounds & weird percussion records, 1950s? anyone?

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

'sympathy for the record industry: before they moved into the garage'

plus jungle riddim comps, amen (natch), think, funky mule, apache.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Rough Trade Complete Singles 1978-1983 (or so)
Nasty Girls and Manic Mondays: An Anthology of Prince's Outside Productions (2CDs, Rhino)
The Watergate Box (3CDs, Rhino, opens with 18 minutes of silence)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

and obviously a Time best-of

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Sign 'O' the Times: Complete box set, featuring the album (one disc), every configuration of Dream Factory, Crystal Ball, and Camille, a DVD of the movie, and two extra discs minimum of live stuff.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The Best Microhouse Album in the World . . . Ever, compiled by Andy Kellman (two or three discs)
The Riot Grrrl Story (single 50-minute disc)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"a comprehensive five-disc Sun Ra box would be fucking amazing, actually."

Do you think you could do a comprehensive Sun Ra box with just 5 discs? I think it would certainly be an interesting exercise - I've only got a fraction of his recorded output but the words "quart" and "pint pot" spring to my mind!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

YES! to the Andy K microhouse comp, and i'm off to find that comp of jill jones, vanity, time etc, fingers crossed.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Did You Peep Into Your Head Last Night: The Complete Hugh Masekela 1966-1975
To the best of my knowledge, everything from this period but Grrr is out of print unless you count the combined The Lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga and some scattered "Greatest Hits" stuff. I want "Gafsa" (actually, his entire '68 s/t record) on CD so desperately.

Chemical Brothers Singles 93-03: The Box Set
That thing Astralwerks dropped last month was pretty scant. I want to see the Chemicals get the Massive Attack treatment and have a box set of all their singles, b-sides included.

The Exploding Hearts, Guitar Romantic Remastered
They could do this like Pet Sounds, combining both versions onto one CD -- the first half remastered and re-engineered to sound pristine and clear; the second half given its original constant-red LOUD AS FUCK sound. (I don't know if sound technology is at the point where they can do much more than turn the volume knob down slightly, though.)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're looking at record labels, how about some of the bands on Illuminated Records from the mid 80s? If only to have some bloody Portion Control, late 23 Skidoo and 400 Blows on CD. Not really a scene, but I'd love to stop playing my vinyl. A good decent 'best of' will do nicely for now.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I'd like a proper release of The Beach Boys Smile sessions, I've seen it on bootleg but I want it now.

In fact, it would be cool to get loads of Brian (and Van Dyke?) saying things in the studio, like on that version of Good Vibrations on the Smiley Smile/Wild Honey reissue.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and a 'godspeed you black emperor side project box set: compiling all the extra stuff so you don't feel compelled to buy it when you see it'.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Well I'd like a proper release of The Beach Boys Smile sessions, I've seen it on bootleg but I want it now.
In fact, it would be cool to get loads of Brian (and Van Dyke?) saying things in the studio, like on that version of Good Vibrations on the Smiley Smile/Wild Honey reissue. "

Jim, have you tried http://members.tripod.com/earcandy_mag/prosmile.htm

The CD-R that is available (a friend copied it for me) has just about everything you could possibly want to hear from the Smile sessions, day by day. It's very good!

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're doing record labels, how about Bob Last's Fast Product including all their "Earcom" releases?

Early material and rarities by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Gang Of Four, Human League, Joy Division, Mekons, Middle Class, Scars; lost gems by The Flowers (wasn't there some connection between them and The Flying Lizards?), From Chorley, Noh Mercy, 2.3; obsurities by the likes of Basczax, Blank Students, Graph, Prats, Products, Thursdays, and.... errrr.... a couple of tracks by The Stupid Babies (featuring an extremely young Adamski)!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

wot they've all release stuff on that one label??

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

bands/labels I wanna see reissues of:
juicebox
dance mania
foul play (everything up to the first album)
1st three years of locked on
derrick may (every track he ever did, every remix he ever did, unreleased stuff + djmix!!!)

― edddd, Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's time they released all of Dylan and the Band's Basement Tapes -- at least another disc's worth, anyway.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The CD-R that is available (a friend copied it for me) has just about everything you could possibly want to hear from the Smile sessions, day by day. It's very good!

Magic! I'll have a look at it...

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Sound of the Funky Drummer!!!
A 10-CD Box Set History of the Most Sampled Drum Beat on the Planet

(Limited Edition vinyl version comes packaged inside a snare drum replica, autographed by Clyde Stubblefield.)

― s woods, Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

A single disc of the best of Y Records.
The complete People Records single A-sides would fit neatly onto three discs, I bet.
If I had the money to do it, I'd do a comprehensive four-disc set on the nameless scene w/ James Kavoussi, Wm. Berger and Chris Thomas at its core--Uncle Wiggly, Fly Ashtray, Particle Steve, pHoaming Edison, Happy Cat, World of Dreams/World Without End, the Pink Elephants, Mr. Lugnutz, Smack Dab, Van Gelder, S!T!O!I!N!K!, the Gamma Rays, the Mood Expansion Chamber... so so so much good stuff, much of which has never even been issued.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 9 October 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Wonder - Smile, Please
Out-takes, unreleased and live materials, 1971 - 1974

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

How about a good Small Wonder Records comp.?
Anthrax, Bauhaus, Camera Obscura, Carpettes, Cockney Rejects, Crass, Cravats, Cure, English Subtitles, Fatal Microbes, Patrik Fitzgerald, Leyton Buzzards, Menace, Molesters, Murder The Disturbed, Nicky & The Dots, Poison Girls, Prole, Puncture, Punishment Of Luxury, Wall, Zeros,

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Japan's Picky Picnic released an LP in '85 on Ata Tak, that if it was reissued, would probably start a craze in whatever genre they are. Avant-electro-minstrel?

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

There actually is a Small Wonder comp on I think Overground. Bought it a few years ago. They did that Frank Sumatra & the Mob EP, too (psst, collectors: it's Family Fodder under a different name)...

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

David Toop's Virgin AMBT comps all back in print w/deluxe packaging and an extra disc apiece of the stuff he couldn't license the first time.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mid 90s American punk, preferably not of the skate-punk or surf-punk variety: Rancid, Avail, Bouncing Souls, Citizen Fish, Violent Society.

The Complete Southern Rap Story.

The Downward Spiral Sessions.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Sly and the Family Stone: The Riot Sessions. The fact that there is no Sly box -- but there is (or was) a Chicago box -- hurts me in my heart.

We need remasters of all the Beatles albums. We also need a collected Homosexuals-and-spin-offs box. We need a Guided By Voices double-disc greatest hits set to convince the unconvinced -- the upcoming Human Amusements at Hourly Rates sure the hell isn't it.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Homosexuals reissues are coming.

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"There actually is a Small Wonder comp on I think Overground."

There are a couple on Anagram but sadly I think they only contain the shoutier punk-by-numbers stuff and miss the English Subtitles / Fatal Microbes / Nicky & The Dots stuff that I'd really like to see on CD. Are those the ones you're thinking about Douglas?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always wanted a Best of SST Records 1981-1989 CD box set.

― BrianB, Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

this heat deserves the box set treatment -- if deceit was reissued in 2001, how come i can't find it anywhere?

the pop group needs a box set, too. damned if i'm shelling out $40 for y.

― Andrew Calaman (Andrew Calaman), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Same thing I've been saying for the past two fucking decades:

*Bob Seger: The Punk Rock Years*

― chuck, Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yo Dom! More info on the Homosexuals reish please!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A pre-disco Giorgio Moroder compilation.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 10 October 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

about the homosexuals reissue: I asked cutler about this in an e-mail back in august. his response was that he was currently working on that very reissue, and that he hoped to have it out by october. so... we'll see.

generally the first notice anyone gets of a new ReR release is Cutler announcing one for mailorder at the website . I do get the impression he has little idea how many people are looking forward to copies of this one.

I've never heard it myself, outside of a few matmos dj gigs, but I'm a big L. Voag fan.

― (Jon L), Friday, 10 October 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

A Chic organisation box set.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 October 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Enomanipulations" - a 4cd retrospective of his best manipulations and productions from roxy music, through his solo material, to (sorry snobs) his best work with james and u2.

Inspired by the new Outkast, and the above post, how about a 2 disc retrospective of Bernard and Nile's best post-Chic productions, each producer getting one disc.

"Solid Plank" - (sorry for unbearably cheesy title) a 5 cd retrospective of the productions of Conrad Plank, stretching from "kraut"-rock to DAF and Ultravox to everything afterwards.

Lastly, Depeche Mode should get the same treatment as the Pet Shop Boys did - every album should be remastered with a bonus disc of the best remixes and any non-album tracks from the period.
Violator, though, maybe deserves an additionaly limited edition 3 disc set with *everything* that was released around it (i doubt there are many who want to hear every version extant of "enjoy the silence" but i do).

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Bob Drake says on his website the mastering is done on the Homosexuals stuff, expect very soon. He also talks about doing the Art Bears reissues. Everything is falling into place.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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