Rolling 2008 reissue thread

And, yes, those Yazoo ones are of course in May. At least that's the release dates for now.

Also Dennis Wilson "Paficic Ocean Blue" expanded and remastered in May

As mentioned elsewhere, The Feelies' Crazy Rhythms is out February 5.

Apparently the latest word is that the early Genesis box will be out in September. My wishful thinking: (1) that these won't be quite as compressed as the previous reissues and (2) that instead of using that gelatinous logo they've had since We Can't Dance they use something period-appropriate like the Foxtrot-era windblown saloon lettering.

Matador is reissuing the Mission of Burma Ace of Hearts recordings, which should be sweeeeet. March, I think?

and i think i read something about Drag City putting out a bunch of early Jim O'Rourke stuff.

Me thinks the latest bunch of Genesis reissues were considerably less compressed than the mid-period ones. They may have been learning a bit, and obviously prog+heavy compression = a match made in Hell.

Strange with the delay, but I guess they are figuring out a way to squeeze "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" with 5:1 mixes, interviews and bonus videos into one DVD.

_Here, My Dear_ is out -- saw it at a brick-and-mortar store in Detroit last week -- I thought Hip-O Select was mailorder-only. . .

The Quarteto Em Cy reissue and the Sweet Smell of Success OST(both on El records)

Yacht Rock alert! Marty Balin's first solo LP gets reissued Febuary 12, along with Whole Oats...

Here, My Dear has just been reissued in the UK, but as half of a twofer; the other half is In Our Lifetime, which isn't a bad bargain come to think of it (I always thought the latter album was severely underrated at the time).

...although on checking HMV it also seems set to be reissued in its own right next week!

If it sees its UK release next week, I guess it's come here around next week or thereabouts too.

Just found that The Thompson Twins have reissued their two most well-known albums. "Quick Step And Sidekick" and "Into The Gap" are both among the most underrated albums ever, unjistly hated by critics back in the day, and it's good to see them back, adding just about every possible mix that was available at the time to the 2CD-editions.

Alternative Tentacles are reissuing Amebix's Spiderleg releases this year. Which is top news.

hope they do vinyl. um, of the amebix stuff. i'm set with thompson twins vinyl.

They probably will, AT usually does vinyl. They often do vinyl versions of CDs out on other labels, for instance.

the amebix thing is actually coming out in only a week or two IIRC, and it's on wax.

is that the early amebix shit? i NEED that. i'm chuffed.

fallout (boo, hiss) just did an early fred neil singles comp. supposed to be "pop and rockabilly," i don't think i've heard any of the tracks.

Dallas Frazier's The R&B Years on Raven.

Van Duren's classic Memphis powerpop album from '78, Are You Serious?, on Water, 4/22.

Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story, on Big Beat.

From Rhino, Forever Changes Collector's Edition and Otis Redding's Otis Blue.

A bunch of John Anderson (not Jon Anderson, Geir--the country singer) on Collectors' Choice, including the classic Tokyo, Oklahoma.

and, the Gaye Here, My Dear reissue appears to have a disc of...gawd, remixes. anyone heard them?

Apparently most of U2's 80s back catalogue will always be released in Deluxe Editions around the summer of 2008.

ALSO, not always

Rhino Presents Deluxe Editions of the The Replacements Twin/Tone Catalog

Matador is reissuing the Mission of Burma Ace of Hearts recordings, which should be sweeeeet. March, I think?

-- tylerw, Sunday, 27 January 2008 22:04 (2 months ago) Link

these are SO GOOD. they even used the old Ace of Hearts labels for the vinyl!! the sound is incredible too

Wow, this Amebix band really sounds like early Killing Joke to me. Pretty cool.

A-Square (Of Course): The Story of Michigan's Legendary A-Square Records Due on May 26th. Features early sides by the MC5, Prime Movers and other Michigan garage legends.

Altough it's not up on their site yet, Collectors' Choice is dropping the soundtrack to Enter The Dragon, We Have Come for Your Children by The Dead Boys, and O Lucky Man! and Between Today and Yesterday by Alan Price on May 13th.

and, the Gaye Here, My Dear reissue appears to have a disc of...gawd, remixes. anyone heard them?

Yes - they all take the "tasteful" hardly-do-anything-to-the-original route, which makes them not a trainwreck but also not at all interesting. I think the one-sheet stayed away from the word "remix", calling them "new mixes" because they were only allowed to add sounds that came from the original session tapes, or something like that. They seemed super-dull to me.

Remixing old material in a modern way is a bad idea anyway. I am so happy I made sure to get the previous version of "Thriller" - the one that had actual outtakes of 1982 material rather than those great classic songs being slaughtered by today's awful top producers.

light in the attic just reissued (sixto) rodriguez' cold fact album. yay.

oh yeah and cherry red just did a teenage jesus & the jerks cd, with some live stuff AND beirut slump added on.

it's basically everything and bonus material.

Cherry Red also do a Five or Six cd comp...a few of their songs are amazing, but it lacks some crazy killer long stuff from the later LP.

"Light in the attic just reissued (sixto) rodriguez' cold fact album. yay"

got it.
Sugarman = best song ever

well, almost.

it's up there. STYLOPHONE!

Just got the latest Anthology Recordings newsletter (anthologyrecordings.com)This issue has a lot more familiar items than usual, but still a pretty good assortment.
Hello All,
We hope you'll excuse us for the brief absence, but we've been busy at work preparing a ton of new records and some cool new features on the site.
The
first thing worth mentioning is that we've just put up about 100 new records
(!) - we'll go into more detail below, but there are some excellent labels such as Dexter's Cigar, Village Thing, ESP Disc and many others available
now. So please cruise around the site and enjoy!
You'll also notice a couple of cool new features such as a radio player, which will be updated daily and is also embeddable (bloggers feel free to
grab it!). Additionally, there is a new gift certificate system up, which
means you can buy your best bud some music from Anthology anytime! There's also a new editorial piece up on chamber psych legends Gandalf written by our pal Steve Krakow
(of GZD/Plastic Crimewave fame) along with a free MP3 from their unreleased second album 'Gandalf 2'. And, as always, Steve also cranked
out another awesome podcast (this time around
it's Prog). Lots to check out! Onto the music....

Bernard Stollman founded the seminal NYC based free jazz/avant folk
label ESP in 1966. with the motto "You never heard
such
sounds in your
life." ESP recorded and released 45 albums in it's first 18 months.
Artists who made their debuts as leaders on ESP included Albert Ayler,
Sun
Ra, Gato Barbieri, Bob James, Marion Brown, Roswell Rudd, Burton
Greene, Patty Waters, Henry Grimes, Charles Tyler, Sunny Murray,
Milford Graves,
Sonny Simmons, Ronnie Boykins and Frank Wright.
Albert Ayler - Spiritual
Unity
This, ESP's first ever recording session was on July 10, 1964, in the tiny Variety Arts Recording Studio, just off Times Square in NYC. As intimate
and intensely expressive an album as you're ever likely to hear, pure raw emotion. Albert Ayler - saxophone, Sunny Murray - drums, Gary Peacock
- bass.
Patty Waters -
Sings
Highly influential and esoteric free jazz vocalist best known for the nearly 14 minute version of the traditional song "Black is the colour of my
true love's hair" (on Sings), which is delivered in an intense, haunting, anguished wail. Recorded with the Marzette Watts Ensemble including
Marzette
Watts on Saxophone, Byard Lancaster on Saxophone, Sonny Sharrock on guitar and Clifford Thornton on Cornet.
Pearls Before Swine - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
om Rapp, an 18 year-old draft resistor and college dropout living in Eaugallie, Florida, sent a small unsolicited reel of tape to ESP. Bernard
Stollman invited him to bring his musicians to New York, where they recorded their acclaimed debut, One Nation Underground in 1967. Less than a year
later, they released the equally strong follow-up, Balaklava. Both albums have been collected hear for your listening pleasure.

The Village Thing label was the inspiration of Ian A.
Anderson, now
editor of FRoots magazine, who ran this great underground English Folk
label in
the early 70's. We can't say enough good things about the much sought
after LP's on this label, which featured the first Steve Tilston album,
two of
finest albums ever recorded by Wizz Jones, as well as outstanding work
by Sun Also Rises, Ian Hunt & John Turner, Dave Evans, Fred
Wedlock and
many more.
Steve Tilston - An Acoustic Confusion
Reissue of the 1971 debut album by the esteemed British acoustic guitarist and songwriter Steve Tilston. The album includes solo guitar and vocal
tracks, as well as group performances with The Village Thing labelmates Dave Evans and others. One can hear in this unique and original early work -
the echoes of Steve Tilston's mentors and contemporaries Bert Jansch,Wizz Jones, Nick Drake, Davey Graham, Donovan and many others. This release of
"An Acoustic Confusion" is intended to bring this long lost album from undeserved obscurity to be appropriately recognized as an important piece of
Britain's folk tapestry.
Sun Also Rises - S/T
Reissue of a lovely sought-after 1970 British acid folk rarity from The Village Thing label master tapes of SAR's only album. The Sun Also Rises were
a mystical, magical, hippie folk duo, Graham and Anne Hemingway from Cardiff, playing guitars, dulcimer, glockenspiel, vibes, bells, kazoo,
percussion, and other instruments, joined throughout by label-mate John Turner on string bass. VERY much in the creative style and delivery of the
Incredible String Band, with many similarities to Dr. Strangely Strange, COB, Comus, Forest and Tir Na Nog. Songs of wizards, dragons, death, love,
dreams and suicide. Tripped-out, spellbinding, esoteric folk collages.
Back in the mid to late 90's Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs collaborated
on this fantastic collection of avant rock and experimental titles for
their
very own re-issue imprint Dexter's Cigar
which
was manufactured and
distributed by the fine folks at Drag City. We're very happy to make
these
titles availale once again.
Folke Rabe - What?
Originally released on LP in 1970 on Wergo records in Germany and reissued by Dexter's Cigar on CD in 1997, What? is a subtley shifting drone
masterpiece that chages the listeners perception of time and place as it slowly unfolds over the course of two lengthy tracks. "About 85%
of the material is made up of
electronically generated tones, which however are never present in
their static, original form. Each partial has been specifically treated
in itself, which can at times yield a very rich result. What?? was created in the late summer of 1967, and was realized by me in the
electronic studio of the Swedish Radio" - Folke Rabe
Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt
To His Father

Mayo Thompson's (Red Crayola) ultra-rare solo album. The album was produced in Houston,
Texas in 1970 by Thompson, Frank Davis and Roger 'Rocket' Romano for
the short-lived but nonetheless legendary Texas Revolution label of
Walt Andrus. Though pressed and advertised in the pages of Rolling Stone,
the demise of the label meant the album went largely undistributed
until the mid 1980s when Glass Records (London) gave it its first
proper release. Coming as the sun set on the first psychedelic rock
era, Corky's Debt evokes the early days of acoustic blues, but
is already in the maelstrom from which punk rock would emerge just a
few years later. The
line between genius and madness is very thin. The line between a
million dollars and nothing is also very thin. Had Corky's Debt been heard back then, today, if someone mentioned Astral Weeks, you
might say, 'It does?' The beat lives on."
Arnold Dreyblatt - Nodal Excitation
Originally released on India Navigation in 1982 and reissued by Dextar's Cigar in 1998 'Nodal Excitation' finds Dreyblatt and his 'Orchestra Of
Excited Strings' hammering away at his uniquely hypnotic compositions that center around double bass strung with piano wire in combination with
modified piano, hurdy gurdy, violin, horns, percussion, modified guitars etc.
Lyrichord is one of the oldest independent labels out there having existed since
1950 and features some of the finest Traditional World Music
Recordings,
Early Music, and classical music recordings from all over the globe. Music from
around the world and throughout history. Here are some selections from
the World
Music Archive.
Leaders And Members Of The Ketu Cult - Afro-Brazilian Religious Songs
The music on this recording was selected from a large collection gathered in and around Salvador, Bahia, during the period 1967-1975. All selections
were recorded in the context of the actual ceremonies studied, all in Ketu or Geg-Nago cult houses. Recorded and edited by Gerard Behague.
V/A - Middle Caste Religious
Music From India
This intriguing recording made in 1973 by internationally acclaimed ethnomusicologist Dr. Rosina Schlenker, is a comprehensive journey through the
music in the Indian caste system. The history of Indian culture is determined by the caste system which gradually developed since the invasion of the
Aryans, the "nobly-born". The middle castes are the actual center of the Indian music culture, represented by highly developed and refined classical
ragas and talas.
We're very pleased to anounce a new collaboration with the fine folks at Light In The Attic. They've proven with just a
handful
of releases that its company mission is simple: put out great music,
wherever it may be found, however it may sound. It's this dedication to
music - first and foremost - that has already created a diverse and
respected catalog of releases in a relatively short period of time.
Betty Davis - S/T
For the first time, Betty's critically adored first two albums are
being lovingly re-mastered from the original master tapes by Light In
The Attic
Records to sound as ferocious and revolutionary as they did when they
first sprung on an unsuspecting world. In 1973, Davis would kick off
her cosmic
career with this amazingly progressive hard funk and sweet soul
self-titled debut. The album was recorded with Sly & The Family
Stone's rhythm
section, sharply produced by Sly Stone drummer Greg Errico, and
featured backing vocals from Sylvester and the Pointer Sisters.
Karen Dalton - In My Own
Time
Karen Dalton was a timeless, aching, blues-soaked, Native American
spirit. Recorded over a six month period in 1970/71 at Bearsville, 'In
My
Own Time' was Dalton's only fully planned and realized studio album.
Known as a great interpreter of choice material, Dalton could master
both
country
and soul genres with hauntingly pining covers of George Jones' "Take
Me" and Holland-Dozier-Holland's "How Sweet It Is.Free Design - Kites Are
Fun
Fans of the Beach Boys, the 5th Dimension and other seminal pop artists
have a gaping hole in their music collections if it doesn't contain
Kites Are
Fun, the 1967 soft-psych-pop masterpiece from The Free Design. The
perfect soundtrack for your blazing summer.
Noel Ellis - Noel
Ellis

Noel is the son of legendary Studio One/Treasure
Isle recording artist Alton Ellis, and this self-titled debut was
recorded in Toronto in 1979 by studio wizard Jerry Brown for the
pioneering Summer Records -- often cited as Canada's answer to Lee
Perry's Black Ark Studios. Noel Ellis features six dub-loved, heavy yet
ethereal tracks, with contributions from OG reggae maestros Jackie
Mittoo, Willi Williams, and Johnny Osbourne. Tasteful keys, varied percussion, essential echo, conquering dub
changeovers, and Noel's impeccable mic control gave an otherworldly
twist to Summer's remarkable drum and bass sound. It was an end-to-end
burner for midnight tokers and cool rulers alike.

that's a lot of text.

COLD SUN's "dark shadows" got reissued on world in sound. featuring the autoharp player from roky's band the aliens. jello biafra liner notes, for some reason.

jello is an insane 45 collector.
also, very very annoying.

Didn't know Dark Shadows was just reissued (2nd time??). Never heard it, but I had it pegged as a psych obscurity that might actually live up to it's reputation.

i think it's the second time... i don't know, i know there was the rockadelic version and a cd a few years back. i got the world in sound cd, don't know if they're doing one of their awesome-looking but overpriced vinyl jobs.

gottpunchhh, have you ever heard the Hamana album that world in sound put out? the record store here still hs a vinyl copy but 30+ buxx always makes me pause. i could probably get it in trade or whatever, but i won't bother unelss i hear that it's amazing or something. solo american indian psychloner dude.

haven't heard it, it's down my list a ways. if i saw it i might buy it just based on the cover, but the reviews i've read make me think it wouldn't be worth a whole lot. ($30 is a whole lot to me, i'm cheap.)

Dark Shadows is good - Hamana sort of disappointed me though.

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Anyone familiar with J.T. IV?
Drag City is putting out a record with all his singles from the 80s. The free mp3 they have on the site sounds pretty awesome.

He also covers Waiting for the Man but changes it to Waiting for the CTA. You can hear it on his myspace page, even though I believe he is dead.

Well, it's harder to be more obscure and unheralded than JT IV. He barely even tried to sell his own music, almost always giving copies away of his impossibly rare loner-punk 45's. Interest arose recently in his short career due to his inclusion on the "Staring Down The Barrel" rare punk compilation, but information was sorely lacking. He can in fact be revealed to be one John Henry Timmis IV, who attended New Trier high school and moved around Evanston, Winettka, Northbrook, and spending his late teens in east Rogers Park idolizing Bowie, Zappa and Lou Reed. Those influences couldn't really prepare one for JT's 1st impossibly rare 45 that was released in 1980-- the basement-blasting assault of "Death Trip" (not the stooges' number) or the aptly titled 'Waiting For The CTA" (a bit of a Velvet Underground take-off though). His second single was actually recorded in Odyssey studios on Michigan ave., but still shares a similar home-recorded feel and scuzz, but beyond the squall of "Destructo Rock", sensitive downer acoustic odes surface--on "In The Can" and "Out Of The Can", Timmis's quavering voice tells tales of prison, junkies, trick-turning, madness, and an all-encompassing yearn for escape. Intense indeed, as session-percussionist John Sudler tells tales of JT hanging from the rafters screaming during the sessions! Yes, Timmis was quite an interesting character, performing live in a hockey mask (it was rumored he'd been disfigured in a motorcycle accident), and also being quite involved with film--directing the longest movie in history--"The Cure For Insomnia", clocking in at 85 hours, and starring local visionary artist Lee Groban reading his 4000+ page poem!! Still, John's next few 45's are barely rumored to exist, though his fourth from 1987 was recorded at Soto Sounds in Evanston, featuring fuzzy delayed psych-punk on "The Monitors" and containing Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra and Velvet Underground covers. An LP collecting all his tracks (featuring JT IV giving you the finger in a military outfit) brilliantly entitled "Cosmic Lightning" also hit in 1987, but was mastered poorly and contains songs sped up. Sadly Timmis died in 2002, from complications resulting from alcoholism, after suffering from the degenerative ear/skull disease mastoiditis-- his potential hardly tapped... (from the Secret History of Chicago Music by Plastic Crimewave)

"Death Trip" is on the Killed By Death-style comp Staring Down The Barrel that came out a few years ago. That's a great comp btw.

sundazed is reissuing the wendy and bonnie "genesis" album as a double cd with demos and more crystal fountain material. i'm psyched.

neat. i love the few demos on the first sundazed issue

Edsel's homepage says they will continue their Thompson Twins program, so the late autumn will now see the first ever CD released of their first ever albums, "A Product Of" and "Set", in a 2 CD package a bit similar to the Godley & Creme ones they did a couple years ago.

Alternative Tentacles have reissued the Canadian Subhumans singles and EPs as Death Was Too Kind. It's about time! Now someone pls reissue the albums as well (I guess they're tied up with licensing problems? One of them was on SST)

Not reissues per se, more archival is this list from a soul Yahoo list

Archive new releases. James Brown Productions various artists The Godfather's R&B BGP
Sandra Wright/James Govan The Broadway Sound Sessions Soulscape
Kim Tolliver Come & Get Me I'm Ready Reel Music
Mary Gresham Voice from the Shadows Soulscape
Luther Ingram Koko Singles Vol 2 Kent Soul
Eddie Bo In The Pocket with EB Vampisoul
Ovations The XL & Sounds of Memphis Recordings Kent
Mitty Collier Shades of Chess Singles Kent
Judy Clay/Veda Brown the Stax Solo recordings Kent
Bonnie Bramlett Piece of My Heart best of 67 - 78 Raven
Hank Ballad You can't keep a good man down Soul Brother