Rolling 2009 Reissues Thread

I am sure there will be lots, as the market for reissues is increasing. But other than "Odessa", I cannot say I know about anything.

How about acts whose reissue program is not yet finished? Will "The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees" and "Head" be remastered in 2009, for instance? And will Eddy Grant reissue other of his albums such as "Going For Broke"? Will there be a re-release of "Labour Of Lust" and maybe a 20th anniversary edition of "The Stone Roses". "The Unforgettable Fire"? And what about The Beatles? Anything happening in 2009?

All info (and opinions) on 2009 reissues is very much welcome in this thread.

Now that I've downloaded every re-mastered Beatles bootleg out there (Ebbets, Fabulous Sound Lab, Purple Chick), I'm sure this is the year that Capital will finally come out with their reissues.

You mean EMI? Because the Capitol ones were reissued several years ago :)

i wish liquid swords would get reissued, its really hard to find in the UK for a decent price

would be nice if it was on record one day too

No it isn't.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liquid-Swords-Genius-GZA/dp/B000000OUJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1232115558&sr=8-1

Last time I was in Fopp it was £5 there.

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You mean EMI? Because the Capitol ones were reissued several years ago :)
Whatever. I want whomever to come out with some official Beatles CDs that don't sound like crap.

ah i thought this thread was vinyl only for some reason, was it never originally released on vinyl then, that explains why its so hard to find!

I'm liking these so far:

Sigh – Imaginary Soundscape (The End reissue)
Zero Boys – Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian reissue)
Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs – Long Live Rock and Roll (Aztec Music reissue ’08)
Wicked Witch – Chaos 1978-86 (EM reissue)

Also the Flipper reissues that Water put out in December (well, three of the four -- live one is still a slog to get through.)(As for Labour of Lust, isn't it still easy to find in the dollar bins? Why anybody would want to pay money for a reissue of that is totally beyond me, especially when the "bonus" tracks on last year's Pure Pop/Jesus Of Cool reish were so bogus.)

i was going to mention the wicked witch reissue, that thing is CRAZY. we need an em records thread.

There's this of course, tee hee: http://www.amazon.com/Neil-Young-Archives-Vol-1963-1972/dp/B001B8PV4U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1232124147&sr=8-2
Still on track for Feb. 24!

I like that there are already 21 reviews of it on Amazon.

Nope! Sounds like it's pushed back yet again.

haha. yeah, i saw that new video yesterday and thought this might happen ...

Bowi was bogus?

Wicked Witch – Chaos 1978-86 (EM reissue)

This out?!? Used to have a Wicked Witch 45 (Fancy Dancer/Y Would U Call It Rock) that I picked up at Y&T in DC for a couple bucks. Awesome, fucked up psych-funk drug nonsense. Disappeared somewhere along the line, and when I tried to track it down a while back, I found it was going for upwards of 100 bucks WTF. Would love to hear more Wicked Witch stuff, or even just to have those two songs back.

Isn't "Archives" supposed to contain mainly material that hasn't been released before?

I mean, his 60s and 70s solo albums could do with some remastering too, but I haven't gotten the impression they are underway shortly.

i think it's supposed to be everything ... released albums, unreleased songs/demos, videos ... am I wrong?

OK. The bulk then. Then I guess there will be subsequent single CD releases of the remasters, at least in 2010/2011 or something.

man, that Wicked Witch is...wicked. totally schizo from track to track. Rick James recording 808s & Heartbreak? check. weird Return to Forever jazz fusion? yup.

along those same lines, this CD that Drag City is doing, Death, is killer. the story's great too:
http://www.freep.com/article/20081113/COL19/811130340/1081

"was it never originally released on vinyl then, that explains why its so hard to find!"

i had it on vinyl. but i sold mine on ebay. wu-vinyl is always pretty good to put up on ebay.

I don't think ARchives is meant to be "everything", it's mostly unreleased stuff, from what I understand.

http://neilyoungarchives.warnerbrosrecords.com/
looks like you can preorder the CD version ...

it is sort of irritating that it includes the previously released concerts ... but the Topanga and North Country discs, whatever they may be, will probably be great!

along those same lines, this CD that Drag City is doing, Death, is killer.

well, great that it's getting released. i have no idea what business DC has doing it, though.

From an EMI newsletter I subscribe to, it seems that the entire back catalogue by UFO and Michael Schenker Group are being re-released. Not that I care much.....

Okay this Wicked Witch thing is way cool (and crazy!) thanks ILM!!!

Hey, I picked up the Wicked Witch LP today! Haven't listened yet, though. What's the difference between the vinyl and the CD? Notice that you get two takes of "Electric War" on the CD, but are the tracks otherwise identical? Kinda bummed that it doesn't include "Y Would U Call It Rock", which was my favorite track from that long-gone 7". Still, compared to paying $80 for a single, I'll take what I can get.

On the Wicked Witch CD, the "Electric War" takes are vocal and instrumental. No idea about on the vinyl.

Been liking these in the last couple weeks, too:

Benny – Amigo Charly Brown: Die Hits Von Gestern Und Auch Heut (Alaska reissue)
(Various Artists) – Fly Girls!: B-Boys Beware: Revenge Of The Super Female Rappers! (Soul Jazz reissue)
(Various Artists) – The Chiswick Story, Part 1 (Ace reissue ‘08)
(Various Artists) – Winter Dance Party: 50th Anniversary Special: The Day The Music Died (El Toro reissue)
The Scene Is Now – Tonight We Ride (Lexicon Devil reissue ’08)
Death – …For The Whole World To See (Drag City reissue EP)
Thin Lizzy – Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1977 (VH1 Classic reissue)
X (Australian Band) – X-Aspirations (Aztec Music reissue)

Here's a Nashville City Paper piece on Asterisk's two Caroline Peyton reissues

Death – …For The Whole World To See (Drag City reissue EP)

Just listened to this today, it's really great. Reminds of Sonic's Rendezvous Band maybe?

ah, glad to see you got that Death reissue, Chuck. not surprisingly, Pfork's review of that album was insanely off-base. who namechecks Blue Oyster Cult re: Death?
liking Fly Girls, though Soul Jazz's inability to sequence these things for front-to-back listening remains irksome. that Sarah Webster Fabio track, while historically interesting, completely interrupts the flow.
in addition to Death, really enjoying this domestic reissue of Cluster's Grosses Wasser and that Spiritual Singers LP on Mississippi.

Reposted from Rolling Hard Rock last week:

The reissue of Thunder's Back Street Symphony sound sufficiently great to make me dig out my old copy of Their Finest Hour, a sixteen tune 'best of' from '95 bought at the Tower firesale in Pasadena.

The original copy, which I'd reviewed for a newspaper around fifteen years ago, was a repackaging for the US market. Didn't look at all like the UK version. This one had a photo of Harry James, the drummer, dressed in a tutu and, I think, was made up to capitalize on the video for "Dirty Love." Anyway, the reissue is the original UK cover art.

"Dirty Love" was a tremendous party tune, even included 'na-na'-na's', and at least half the record is just about on a par with it. It probably saved Thunder from being totally wiped by grunge in the US market although they lasted here until '95 and never seemed to be able to build on what "Dirty Love" furnished them.

It's all meat-and-potatoes very hard rock and pop. Thunder could write nice hooks and not humiliate themselves in the lyric department. "Englishmen on Holiday" is fairly amusing for its story of Brit hooliganism at Euro resorts. "Distant Thunder," which closes the album is great metal boogie. "Love Walked In" was the obligatory ballad, something Thunder did well without much sop.

Along with the best of has made me consider picking up the other two from their first three.

Also great over the holidays were SPV's reissues of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, one of the pieces of the British blues boom that didn't make it. Surprisingly, four albums on two double CD sets. Sometimes they imitated all the people that did last, for a couple songs you swear it's Savoy Brown, for another Ten Years After. Cover art by Hipgnosis, production made to sound like Mike Vernon. The first album has "Chevrolet," retitled as "Watch and Chain." Foghat would get much more use out of it years later. Dr. Dunbar's Prescription was their most second and most successful album. It looks a psyche LP but it's still mid-tempo white boy blooz with a heavy Hammond sound. If you're a fanatic for this Brit stuff, these reissues hit the spot.

Aynsley Dunbar is one of the Zelig's of hard rock. He seems to have been in many really big bands just, infrequently with indifferent results, most notably Journey, I think (although he seemed to be in the right place at the right time for Whitesnake). Notable Frank Zappa sideman, also on some Jefferson Starship LPs.

Motown celebrates their 50th anniversary this year and has already released several compilations and "best of"s. Any idea if they will actually re-release any actual albums too. Stevie Wonder's "Where I'm Coming From" has been unavailable for a while, and I'd also love to be able to pick up the Commodores' 70s back catalogue, which seems mostly deleted. Plus I believe the three DeBarge albums have never been released on CD (Personally I'd also love to see the two El DeBarge solo albums reissued, but I am not counting of any realistic hope there).

I have posted about it on the Rolling Vinyl thread, but the company I work for has just re-issued an album by Afro-rock legends Ofege. It is their debut LP form 1973, it is upbeat, has epic fuzz guitar & amazing vocal harmonies. Recorded while the kids were in high school. Ofege means "hoodlum" or the equivalent thereof. Anyone wanting more info can check out www.academyannex.com, and anyone wanting promo copies should shoot me an e-mail at academylps at gmail; the number of promos I have is kinda limited so be quick and earnest.

on CD & LP, should be making its way to stores soon as we began shipping to distributors last week.

okay, all done.

Supposedly the Beatles catalog will be out for x-mas. Should be mega (every mono & stereo mix).

amoeba has all these copies of a sonic youth EVOL LP reissue -- the cover looks a little weirdly printed, though. anyone seen these? LOL maybe it's a MS reissue

oh i see its a UK blast first reissue

Available now:
B-Movie - Forever Running
The Damned - Phantasmagoria [2CD]
Ultravox - Quartet [2CD]
The Undertones [2CD]

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head [2CD] Mar 24
Pearl Jam - Ten [2CD] Mar 24
Radiohead - Pablo Honey [2CD] Mar 24
Radiohead - The Bends [2CD] Mar 24
Radiohead - OK Computer [2CD] Mar 24
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity [CD+DVD] Apr 7
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead [CD+DVD] Apr 7
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks [CD+DVD] Apr 7
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial [CD+DVD] Apr 7
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss In The Dreamhouse Apr 7
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hyaena Apr 7
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Tinderbox Apr 7
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Nocturne Apr 7

I managed to pre-order Kiss In the Dreamhouse last week at 1.40 exchange rate, about $9.73 USD. It's up to 1.47 now, ugh.

Looks like March 12 was the best time to order imports, with rates at 1.3769. On July 17, 2008 it was 2.0028.

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head [2CD] Mar 24

this can't be true

pretty sure that EVOL is a Subterranean boot? Could be wrong.

Also, Schlump, next time I see a copy of Liquid Swords on LP it's got yer name on it...

Check Your Head date was changed to Apr 7. http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=5099969422522

lol deluxe grunge reissues

what are on these Nick Cave double CD affairs?

Some bloke growling.

Also, Schlump, next time I see a copy of Liquid Swords on LP it's got yer name on it...

i did not know this existed so: yes please. i'm treating academy as a one trick pony and just picking up mississippi stuff, so it's probably good to branch out.

Check Your Head date

Wow, figured they wouldn’t do this so close to the no-extras Paul’s Boutique reissue. Looks like I’ve missed the boat on ebaying my Japanese CD.

what are on these Nick Cave double CD affairs?

I would guess roughly the same as on other Mute reissues: a DVD with the a 5:1 mix of the album, a few bonus tracks, videos and a documentary. But then, I am only basing this upon what Depeche Mode and Yazoo have come up with (and Erasure are also supposed to come up with)

Anyone know of a list of what else Island is reissuing? Their site is pretty vague.

Wouldn't be too surprised if a remastered "Unforgettable Fire" pops up before the end of the year.

I like the Harbinger LP a LOT more than the Dave Bixby, which sounds to my ears a LOT like Dino Valenti meets Leonard Cohen in a snoozefest of epic proportions. But the Harbinger one has some nice stuff and is a lot more varied--backing vocals! effects!

Within the next few months our label will be putting out two more Nigerian reissues--SJOB Movement "A Step In The Right Direction" and Mebusas "Blood Brothers." Afro-rock/funk rarities woo. There are sound clips on the myspace page-- http://myspace.com/academylps

Love most of the Afro-rock reissues, especially when they aren't $23.

Nick Heyward - North of a Miracle Jul 7
Loop - A Gilded Eternity [2CD] Jun 23
Loop - World In Your Eyes [3CD] Jun 23
Sparks - Japanese reissues

Mœbius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (Water) 80

This came out in April. I totally didn't know about it 'til I stumbled on it at Reckless after work. I love this.

The Water web site leaves off at #177, and Rasta... is 238. It's like they don't want anyone to know what they're putting out.

whoa, this reissue of the victims (NY) "real wild child" album from '78 is pretty nice.

Sad Lovers And Giants - Feeding The Flame (1983) Jul 21
From AMG - "They should be one of their generation's more celebrated discoveries, but sat out time on a label much less fashionable than, say, Factory. The intricacy of Garel-Funk's guitar on "Big Tracks Little Tracks" certainly puts them on a par with the Durutti Column. "Your Skin and Mine" has an innate grandeur that, keeping indulgence at arm's length, conveys a sense of pain and isolation that echoes Joy Division. It's an album that argues for a reappraisal of one of the '80s' best-kept secrets."

Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun-Shy (1986) Jul 7
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red (1987) Jul 7
From me - "Aside from The Fall and The Pogues, few English bands in 1986 really rocked. It's like the Screaming Blue Messiahs were created out of sheer, desperate necessity. Arising from the ashes of former band Motor Boys Motor, punk, blues and rockabilly, they gave Britain the proper bludgeoning they've been asking for. Bill Carter, resembling something between a Sufi whirling dervish and Uncle Fester, piled blistering rhythm guitar chords that escalated into a torrid fever dream. It's no wonder their show was billed with the Who-like descriptor, "wall of sound rhythm and blues." With dark songs about Kennedy's assassination, serial killers and creepy invitations to play in the woods, this band was so much damn cooler than their peers."

Too bad the SBM are on the bare-bones Wounded Bird, which skimps on bonus tracks and liner notes, but I'll take what I can get.

Captain Sensible - Women And Captains First (1982) Jul 21
Captain Sensible - The Power Of Love (1983) Jul 21
Dead Or Alive - Sophisticated Boom Boom (1984) Jul 14
Dead Or Alive - Youthquake (1985) Jul 14
Dead Or Alive - Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know (1986) Jul 14
Dead Or Alive - Nude (1989) Jul 14
Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness And Charm [2CD](1977)
Hawklords - 25 Years On [2CD] (1978)
Hawkwind - P.X.R.5. (1979)

Any info on the Dead Or Alive bonus tracks? You know, the singles from "Youthquake" had, like, completely different mixes than the album ones, and those mixes (apart from extended ones) are available nowhere.

Looks like Dead Or Alive are Japanese remasters, xpensive with no bonus tracks. Annoying, I know. http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=4547366047356

Le Chant Du Monde reissued French prog band Magma's back catalog. Amazon.co.uk has them for sane prices (under £10).

Magma (1970)
1,001 Degrees Centigrade (1971)
Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (1973)
Kohntarkosz (1974)

whoa, about time!

Neil Young (1969) Jul 14
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) Jul 14
After The Gold Rush (1970) Jul 14
Harvest (1972) Jul 14

This is great...

http://flamingtunes.com/

Like a more industrial/noise version of Another Green World.

Looking forward to those Feelies reissues too.

this one is for ian:

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs034/1101382621048/img/65.jpg?a=1102645284001

coming out on tompkins square

<3 the red fox chasers. have a volume of their stuff on County, but I don't know how complete it is.

Died Pretty - Free Dirt (What Goes On/AztecMusic) 86
Died Pretty's magnificent 1986 debut LP: Free Dirt is one of the all time classic Australian albums. It followed 3 excellent singles & EPs and signaled the arrival of what would become of our most loved bands over their celebrated 18 year career. Collected here, for the first time, are Died Pretty's first five releases: the Out Of The Unknown and Mirror Blues singles, the Next To Nothing EP, the Free Dirt album and the Stoneage Cinderella single. Plus an additional 10 bonus tracks -- including previously unreleased demos, a live-to-air radio performance from 1986 and other live rarities. This deluxe 2CD version is packaged in an 8 panel digipak, with a 28-page booklet containing many previously unpublished photos. It has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes.

Four Factory Records
We are very pleased to annouce that our next project is a six CD limited edition box set celebrating the first four albums by The Durutti Column.

Entitled Four Factory Records, the set comprises:

Four fully remastered albums

1. The Return Of The Durutti Column
2. LC
3. Another Setting
4. Without Mercy

Plus two very limited bonus CDs

5. Demos/Studio - demos, versions and outtakes from the period
6. Live - recordings from London, Glasgow, and Brighton 82/84

All this plus a package of interviews with the key protagonists from the period including Vini Reilly, Bruce Mitchell, John Metcalfe, Keir Stewart and Tim Kellett.

Advance copies will be available for sale at the Manchester International Festival shows 15-17 July 2009. It will then be available in all good record shops (actual and virtual) and direct from Kooky from September 2009. The project will be a total edition of 1,000 copies of which a limited number will include the two bonus discs.

We've tried to make this lavish package available at a sensible price. If you can't make the MIF shows, please check back at the end of July when we will start taking pre-orders for mail order through Kooky.

http://kookydisc.co.uk/

The Cult - Love (Beggars Banquet) 85
The expanded edition of The Cult's Love is a two disc set featuring the album remastered for the first time from the original studio digital tapes. The bonus disc features all the tracks from their 1985 UK singles, many of which were only previously available in the USA on the limited Rare Cult box set issued in 200. Also included are all the 1985 remixes of "She Sells Sanctuary."

I remember when a friend got the tape of this in high school. I was a bit thrown off super glossy production, but played my copy pretty often. I wonder if Electric will get the deluxe treatment. I always preferred its shameless AC/DC coppin'. Under Rick Rubin's knob(s), Astbury sounded just like Danzig.

They're also releasing an Omnibus edition - the 2cd expanded edition plus a demos disc and a live disc. Beggars Banquet apparently has plans to do this for some other key postpunk albums.

David Bowie - Space Oddity [40th Anniversary 2CD] (1970) Nov 3
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide [2CD] (1991)
Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg (1988)
Devo - Freedom Of Choice [2CD] (1980) Nov 3
Duran Duran - Rio [2CD] (1982)
Sheena Easton - Take My Time (1981)
Freur - Doot Doot (1983)/Get Us Out Of Here (1984) Oct 27
Fun Boy Three (1982)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
Kraftwerk - Radio Activity (1975)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (1977)
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (1978)
Kraftwerk - Computer World (1981)
Madness - One Step Beyond [2CD] (1979)
Nirvana - Bleach [2CD] (1989) Nov 3
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle [2CD] (1979)
Prefab Sprout - Swoon (1984) Oct 27
Prefab Sprout - Protest Songs (1989)
Prefab Sprout - Jordan The Comeback (1990)
Prefab Sprout - Andromeda Heights (1997)
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades (1971)
Procol Harum - In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (1972)
Procol Harum - Grand Hotel (1973)
Pylon - Chomp (1983)
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts (1983) Nov 10
Lou Reed - New Sensations (1984) Nov 10
Roxette - Look Sharp! (1988)
Roxette - Joyride (1991)
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire [2CD] (1984) Oct 27

Devo - Freedom Of Choice [2CD] (1980) Nov 3

!?!
details ?
did they do 'Are We Not Men' in 2 cd set ?
those old Virgin 2-fer-1 cds are ok, but the sound is dreadful, so would love the whole lot to be done properly.

Indeed, Are We Not Men comes out the same day on 2CDs, remastered. I missed that.
http://www.amazon.com/Q-Devo-Deluxe-Remastered-Version/dp/B002RBNNS6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1256322690&sr=8-1

ahhhh amazon.com.
other than imports, i doubt these make it to the uk.
i love the US sleeve for Are We Not Men so much more than the crappy UK version.

801 Live [2CD] (1976)
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field [2CD] (1980)
Bauhaus - Mask [2CD] (1981)
Hatfield and the North (1974)
Hatfield and the Norht - The Rotters' Club (1975)
The Slits - Cut [2CD] (1979)
Tricky - Maxinqyuaye [2CD] (1995) Dec 8
Wall Of Voodoo - Dark Continent (1981)/Call Of The West (1982) Nov 10

Some 2009 reissues I've liked since the last time I posted here:

Tin Huey – Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes (Smog Veil reissue)
Winston Riley – Quintessentially Techniques : Reggae Anthology (VP reissue)
The A’s – The A’s/Woman’s Got The Power (American Beat reissue)
The Fools – Sold Out/Heavy Mental (American Beat reissue)
(Various Artists) – Ze Records 1979 – 2009 (Strut reissue)
Richard Thompson – Walking On A Wire Discs One And Two (Shout! Factory promo reissue)
Kentucky Headhunters – Live/Agora Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio May 13 1990 (Mercury reissue)
“Weird Al Yankovic – The Essential “Weird Al” Yankovic (Way Moby/Volcano/Legacy reissue)
Mondo Rock – Primal Park (Aztec Music reissue)
Fabulous Poodles – Mirror Stars/Think Pink (American Beat reissue)
Th’ Inbred – Legacy Of Fertility (Alternative Tentacles reissue)
The Scene Is Now – Burn All Your Records (Lexicon Devil reissue)
The Raincoats – The Raincoats (Kill Rock Stars reissue)
Mulatu Astatke – New York-Addis-London: The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 (Strut reissue)
Mighty Kong – All I Wanna Do Is Rock (Aztec Music reissue ’08)
(Various) – Horse Meat Disco (Strut mix album)
Chromeo – DJ Kicks (!K7 mix album)
M – Pop Muzik Remixes: 30th Anniversary (Echo Beach reissue)
The Del-Lords – Based On A True Story (American Beat reissue)
The Laughing Dogs – The Laughing Dogs/The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers (American Beat reissue)
16 Horsepower – Secret South (Alternative Tentacles reissue)
Big Star -- #1 Record/Radio City (Fantasy reissue)
Neila Miller – Songs Of Leaving (Numerophon reissue EP)

I'd be a lot more enthused about Astatke comp if it didn't duplicate so much of the other Astatke comp that everyone has. Hmmph.

Well, I'm not everyone, so I didn't mind. (Had never actually heard him before.)

What's that Walking On A Wire? Official issue of the rejected 1st mix of Shoot Out The Lights?

Really? That's probably the most well known of the Ethiopiques comp and he's all over that Jarmusch move. I'm glad that more of this stuff is available, but I wish they'd included more stuff I hadn't heard rather than 5 or 6 things I have.

What's that Walking On A Wire?

Chronologically arranged four-disc career retrospective; was originally supposed to come out in the summer, I think, but keeps getting pushed back. Thing is, I stop caring about Richard Thompson's chronology around the mid 80s, which is where the second disc ends -- and my promo advance, appropriately, is split into two two-disc sets.

The Richard Thompson box set was released on August 18.

Weird -- could have sworn I'd heard a new autumn release date. But there you go.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:GLH6Zc2__l8J:www.amazon.com/Walking-Wire-Richard-Thompson-1968-2009/dp/B002D1GNFU+richard+thompson+box+set+2009&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&ie=UTF-8

link to Thompson box set.

Rev-Ola is reissuing F.J. McMahon's "Spirit of the Golden Juice" album, awesome loner-folk rarity. Also doing the Michaelangelo record, the 60s psych-pop-sunshine one.

I really dig the FJ McMahon record. I could never keep the various Michaelangelos straight, honestly.
Locust just re-issued one of my favorite folk-rock obscurities, the Jay Bolotin LP. "It's All In That" is my fave but lots of folks swear by "Dear Father" or whatever it's called..

apparently the Yays & Nays LP has been reissued on a portugese label

this is a very good garagey/loungey record if you haven't heard it..

new Frank Sinatra reissues from the Reprise era are on the way.

The Concert Sinatra
Sintra-Basie
My Way (extra tracks)
Ring-Ding-Ding
Some Nice Things I've Missed
Swing Along With Me
Sinatra and Company
Sinatra at The Sands

These may not be up there with the Capitol era concept albums, but have to say the Basie collaboration (not Sands) sounds fantastic.

on the strength of the ones i have heard so far suspect i will have to get the lot ..

Re: the new Richard Thompson box. This is almost completely selected from the released studio recordings. If you don't have any RT albums, or just have 1 or 2, this would definitely be a good buy (though including 3 tracks from Henry The Human Fly and none of them being 'The Old Changing Way' is just fucktarded, even if RT himself did select the tracks).

But I still think Ryko's 3CD Watching The Dark retrospective is ideal, even for the RT novice. In almost every case, the live versions selected for that box beat out their studio twins.

Watching the Dark has an enormous amount of awesome music -- but I was always befuddled by the weird chronology of the tracks. Here's 5 tracks from 1984! Here's 3 tracks from 1968! Here's 4 tracks from 1974! Why did they do it like that?

Haha I totally forgot about that aspect. That was weird. But then, you'd also have an awesome 1980s live performance of a song from the 70s so I guess the whole notion of chronology was bound to be a little muddled.

I do agree with the new box's presentation of 'Sloth' in the 'long Fairport jammage' slot, as opposed to the Ryko box's selection of 'A Sailor's Life'.

We just put out two new reissues of Afro-Rock/Funk/Psych from the early seventies. Both Nigerian.
SJOB Movement "A Move In The Right Direction"
and
Mebusas "Blood Brothers."

Currently available on LP, available soon on CD.
Just getting sent out to distros this week.

you can contact me personally if you want pick up copies as well.

Man, will the Afro-Rock/Funk/Psych well ever run dry? Not that I'm complaining -- I'm just way behind on a lot of this stuff ...
Has there been any talk about this?
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More
The great and highly influential Buddy Holly had a relatively brief three year professional recording career. However, because of his enormous talent, enthusiasm for music, and the fortunate emergence of recording tape while he was quite young, we have been left with a vast recorded legacy of 203 tracks that fill out the six CDs of this new limited edition Hip-O Select box set, 'Not Fade Away/The Complete Studio Recordings And More.' The 203 tracks range from his earliest recordings when 12 to 15 years old to demos with Bob Montgomery; from his earliest recordings with The Crickets and a set of garage recordings to his first studio recordings for Decca in Nashville; from the Coral and Brunswick recordings and hits that made him famous to his heralded apartment tapes. There are 6 previously unreleased tracks, including most of an August 1955 session, plus another 11 recordings previously unreleased in the U.S. Furthermore, all of the original, locatable undubbed original recordings are here as well as all 57 of the overdubbed versions recorded both in New York City and Clovis months and even years after the 'day the music died.'Many of these recordings are also hard-to-find or are making their CD debut, having only appeared on the 1979 LP/cassette box set. The music on 'Not Fade Away'is packaged in a yearbook size 80 page book, featuring numerous rare photos and session-by-session recording information. There are also two sets of liner notes: 'Legacy'by Billy Altman, which puts Buddy's career in perspective, and 'The Music'by Bill Dahl, a lengthy tome that traces the music session by session. Consultant for this project is noted Holly historian Bill Griggs, with special thanks to Maria Elena Holly. 'Not Fade Away'was produced by Universal's Andy McKaie.

I think I have an even more complete Purple Chick Buddy Holly set. Though the book sounds cool.

hey speaking of afro-funk/rock, there's a new ngozi family LP reissue on no smoke. "45,000 volts."

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31. Moondog More Moondog
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very late to comment on this, but

I have posted about it on the Rolling Vinyl thread, but the company I work for has just re-issued an album by Afro-rock legends Ofege. It is their debut LP form 1973, it is upbeat, has epic fuzz guitar & amazing vocal harmonies. Recorded while the kids were in high school. Ofege means "hoodlum" or the equivalent thereof. Anyone wanting more info can check out www.academyannex.com, and anyone wanting promo copies should shoot me an e-mail at academylps at gmail; the number of promos I have is kinda limited so be quick and earnest.

on CD & LP, should be making its way to stores soon as we began shipping to distributors last week.

okay, all done.

― ian, Friday, February 27, 2009

i love this record, and everything i've heard from this label so far. congratulations on this reissue.

Hey, thanks Daniel!! I'm not really involved with the label part of the enterprise anymore--cutting too much into my 'stoned, lazy record store dude' lifestyle but i'm glad yer enjoying the stuff! the ofege really is my fave... next up is the Psychedelic Aliens.

you're re-releasing that disc next? i looked for that disc on emusic, after i saw a write-up about it on the voodoo funk blog. hoping that it will eventually find its way to emusic (there are four academy discs there atm).

it'll be there soon enough i wager... maybe a few months? we just got the first round of promo CDs to start sending out...