Rolling Reissues Thread 2011

Surprised this doesn't exist yet.

Bad Manners - Ska 'n' B 80 [Feb 22]
Bad Manners - Loonee Tunes! 81 [Feb 22]
Bad Manners - Gosh It's Bad Manners 81 [Feb 22]
Bad Manners - Forging Ahead 82 [Feb 22]
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death 88 [Feb 15]
Godfathers - More Songs About Love & Hate 89 [Feb 15]
George Michael - Faith 87 [2CD]
New Musik - From A To B / Anywhere 80-81
New Musik- Dream Into Action 82
Primal Scream - Screamadelica 91 [2CD] [Mar 15]
Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive - Singles 2002-2010 [2CD]
Residents - The Residents - Not Available 74
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears 84 [Mar 1]

i just got this email -- don't know much about the guy, but it sounds cool
DRAG CITY TO REISSUE MICKEY NEWBURY AN AMERICAN TRILOGY MAY 2011

Mickey Newbury. The name may not be familiar to everyone, but the songs and the performers they are associated with should be: “An American Trilogy,” (Elvis Presley) “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition) “She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye,” (Jerry Lee Lewis), “Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings,” (Tom Jones) are just a few of the songs in the Newbury catalog.

He was a songwriter’s songwriter at the dawning of the era of the singer-songwriter, yet he was also an unknown name on the Billboard charts. His early success writing in Nashville and his selfless and relentless championing of his friends and contemporaries paved the way for Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and David Allen Coe. Newbury songs have, to date, been recorded over 1300 times by more than 1000 performers including Johnny Cash, Scott Walker, Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, the Box Tops, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Nick Cave. He is the only songwriter ever to have number one hits (with different songs) in the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts within the space of one year (and three of those songs were in the charts simultaneously!). But Mickey Newbury himself was by far the best interpreter of his own songs.

A visionary album in the vein of Love’s Forever Changes and Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, Looks Like Rain immerses the listener into a vividly-painted emotional landscape of heartbreak, madness and despair tracked by the sound of wind chimes and rain. Mickey followed this masterpiece with another, 1970’s ‘Frisco Mabel Joy—recently voted number 6 in an Uncut reader’s poll of the 50 greatest ‘lost’ albums. Here he broadened the palette, incorporating the sound of the Nash philharmonic, an ‘orchestra’ consisting of electric and steel guitars, to produce what Mojo described as “an hallucinatory suite of sad, soulful songs”. The cycle of Cinderella Sound albums ended in 1973 with a third epic, Heaven Help The Child, by which time Mickey’s increasing confidence in the studio was clear and he had definitively laid out his stall as a recording artist.

Grammy winning engineer Steve Rosenthal and mastering engineer Jessica Thompson have restored the original analog master tapes believed for many years to have been destroyed in a fire but recently re-discovered in the Elektra records vault and created stunning new remasters of each album specifically for this release, making this the first ever CD issue of these landmark albums using the original tapes.

An American Trilogy provides a rich and compelling trip to the deep space of Mickey Newbury, one of the most extraordinary and unique artists in American popular music.

wow, neat! have these records already, but i hope this encourages more widespread appreciation of him. i really liked the larry jon wilson record drag city did. their reissue/archival dept has been on a good tip lately.

Captured Tracks is doing vinyl reissues of Nick Nicely's stuff as well as The Servants in the next couple of months

Jessica Thompson transferred and mastered the Method Actors CD. She did a great job.

Pretty confidant we've got the Disco Zombies with at least 5 more releases lined up after that. Summer and spring into next year hopefully. Vinyl and download only.

Dan, as someone's who's bought every one of your releases - and gifted additional copies on occasion - please make the downloads lossless in some way. Otherwise, I'll never buy 'em!

Reissues I've liked so far this year (though some of them technically came out last year):

(Various) – Dirty Water: The Birth Of Punk Attitude (Year Zero reissue ‘10)
(Various) – Born Again Funk (Numero Group reissue ’10)
The Mixtures – Stompin' At The Rainbow (Linda/Minky reissue)
Ebo Taylor – Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 (Strut)
(Various) – Trax Records 25th Anniversary Mixtape (Trax mix)
(Various) – Sofrito: Tropical Discoteque (Strut mix)
Shemekia Copeland – Deluxe Edition (Alligator reissue)

Thanks for buying the releases. Where can you generally buy lossless files? Bandcamp has the option. The services that go along with download cards let you put up anything, but for most people that would be too much. It would be good if the download card hosting companies allowed you to select your format when you enter for the download the way Bandcamp does.

Just checked with my partner and apparently our stuff is available on boomkat which offers FLAC downloads.

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak 76 [2CD]
Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox 76 [2CD] Feb. 22

Just checked with my partner and apparently our stuff is available on boomkat which offers FLAC downloads.

Sweet! I normally just buy CDs (and tend to see downloads as a much bigger scam, cost-wise, unless they're substantially cheaper than the going CD rate), but times are changing. Wish you'd give a hint or two about other releases!

Sorry, I learned, or mostly learned, to not talk up projects too much unless the contract is signed. Not a question of boasting, just being really excited and talking about a project and having people talk about it and then having it not come to fruition then to exist for a while as a rumor. Like the awesome expanded CD version of Wanna Buy a Bridge I almost did that was serious enough that we had Geoff Travis's approval to use the title/artwork and Nikki Sudden told me he'd help with the liner notes, on the night he died. That some specific licensing woes and the general difficulty of a compilation CD with 22 or so different artists took the wind out of our sails. I mentioned that years ago and for a few years after people would ask me about it!

The Outsiders - C.Q. reissued on vinyl by Jackpot. Nice gatefold packaging.

Also on Sebastian Speaks is Vernon Wray’s Wasted, one of only several records released by Link Wray’s brother in his lifetime. Much of his career in music was spent managing and recording Link and the Ray Men, during the 60s at the infamous 3-Track Shack, where Link’s incredible early-70s albums showed the world (albeit briefly) a more spiritual side of the rumbling guitar hero. Wasted dates from the same period and was released in some fashion in ’72. It’s a laid-back country rock album than runs the gamut from lonesome to heartfelt to world-weary. A truly mellow album of with vividly real sounds of that ever-distant era.

sounds interesting, via drag city. i love the three-track-shack stuff the most, outta link's records.

been waiting for an LP reissue of CQ for ages. one of my fave sleeves ever!

This Ed Askew album "Imperfiction" that Drag City is putting out is sounding great. Kinda like Incredible String Band meets Daniel Johnston. Not sure if it really fits as a reissue, I guess it was only released on cassette in 1984.

That's a reissue! If we have to start a "Rolling Sort-of-Reissue of an Obscure Release That Nobody Heard" thread... well, let's not.

Also, yay, Ed Askew. The De Stijl one is so great. Little Eyes.

yeah, i think i've only heard a song or two from askew before this, but I'm gonna get the De Stijl album.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G98uhWpSBnw/SrTX-9XXfqI/AAAAAAAAA2o/xc8wtU0RVk8/s400/Clap+Front+CD+SZ.jpg

being reissued by "sing sing" in april!!

http://www.suede.co.uk/band/

In June 2011, Suede will release re-mastered and expanded versions of their five studio albums on Demon Records. The albums will all include previously unreleased material and unseen/rare DVD footage. Full details of the bonus audio and visual content of the album/DVD packages will be released shortly. The group – Brett Anderson, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert, Richard Oakes and Neil Codling – have been working on the album content and re-mastering with founder guitarist Bernard Butler.

I thought that Clap lp was already reissued and on sale on Rockadrome.
Know I got some form of it from Demonoid a while back too.

It gets talked about in the Acid Archives so I was aware of it recently.

Skyf Zol (I think) reissued that Clap album a while back. Probably not legit? Tracklisting was completely wrong. Great record, though!

perennial clap reissue

i think this is the first vinyl one in a while though, at least that's the impression i got

Really hoping those Suede albums make it over here in some form other than expensive imports.

Those first two Bad Manners albums are great. Never heard anything but their biggest hits before, but they held up as an albums band too.

Also, Kinks will do deluxe reissues of their first three albums shortly. Hopefully followed by "Face To Face" and "Something Else" later on, and hopefully including stereo mixes of both of those albums.

Another thing: Following the reissue of the 80s catalogue by U2 a couple years ago, I guess a 20th anniversary edition of "Achtung Baby" is not very unlikely this year, no?

I see that "Labour Of Lust" by Nick Lowe will finally become reissued, which is surely good news. Been waiting for this ever since the reissue of "Jesus Of Cool".

Oh, that 'fold-out' version? I have it here...

Not supposed to be released in three days yet here, but I believe you may have it there.

How did I not know that today saw the release of Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966-1968. Finally, all 23 of the recordings cleaned up and in glorious mono.

xpost no I was meaning the "Jesus of Cool" one, rereading it yes that's confusing.

This album is getting reissued next month (with a much cooler cover):

http://incessantnoise.blogspot.com/2009/08/dickie-landry-fifteen-saxophones.html

And if you like that description, get this thing.

There is also a (rather pointless) reissue of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" out now. I mean... unless they manage to remove the annoying hiss from the beginning of the title track, something which is apparently tehnically impossible, then I don't see the point in more issues of that one as it was already remastered with state of the art technology a few years back.

isn't there a dvd/live bonus trax included in the S&G reish? not that it makes it terribly necessary, but there's a little bang for your buck. that album is so good. never noticed the hiss on the title track tbh.
neil diamond bang years comp looks great!

There is, but by its very definition, I always find live bonus CDs or DVDs to be pointless. :)

A Flock Of Seagulls 82 Mar 22
A Flock Of Seagulls - Dream Come True 86 Mar 22
Charlatans - Us And Us Only 99 Mar 22
Icicle Works - Small Price Of A Bicycle 84 [3CD] Mar 22
Nick Lowe - Labour Of Lust 79
Queens Of The Stone Age 98 Apr 19
Sparks - Music You Can Dance To 86

Bill Dixon's legendary Intents and Purposes is being issued on CD for the first time ever, out 4/19.

anyone else into Gary Higgins? his '73 studio album Red Hash is fantastic, Seconds is a bit of a snooze in parts but underrated, and the new Drag City collection of his early '70s pre-Red Hash demos is really good as well, a nice companion to RH-- expanded thoughts here. one of my fav "reissues" of the yr (though since it's newly issued, never-before-heard archival material, i guess its not necessarily a reissue, right?)

comes out formally this wk on Drag City btw

yeah i like this new higgins disc. might even like it better than red hash!

Derek & the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 70 [2CD 40th Anniversary] Apr 26
Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow 91 [20th Anniversary] Apr 5
Primal Scream - Screamadelica 91 [20th Anniversary 5CD Deluxe or 2CD] Mar 29
Queen 73 [2CD]
Queen II 74 [2CD]
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 74 [2CD]
Queen - A Night At The Opera 75 [2CD]
Queen - A Day At The Races 76 [2CD]
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die 70 [2CD]

The upcoming April releases from the Cherry Red family are now available at http://www.cherryred.co.uk/newreleases.php

Good lord! There goes my paycheck for April.

Crass - Feeding Of The 5000 78 [The Crassical Collection]
Crass - Stations Of The Crass 79
Crass - Penis Envy 81
Crass - Christ, The Album 82 May 3

1st 3 of those all came out last year (in the UK at least)

Some of the band are not very pleased about it.

ooh more dirt please!

I've kinda been drooling over those but I want to wait until I hear some opinions about the remastering and what exactly is in the big booklets - are they all the same or do theu have different liner notes for the different releases? Also they are like $18 US which seems really lame.

http://crassunofficial.com

More dirt than you probably want, unless you have a lot of time on your hands

U.S. dates were Jan 25 for the first two and Mar 8 for Penis Envy. I picked the latter up yesterday for $15 at Saki records. It has four bonus cuts, a nice booklet with liner notes by Penny Rimbaud and I forget which other member, complete lyrics and a separate fold-out replica of the original art. It sounds much better than the 90s version I had. I'll use my credit at Reckless to pick up Stations tonight ($17). Looking forward to Christ, The Album, as I lost the tape over a decade ago.

disco zombies reish sounds killer.
spiral jetty is pretty good, tho i've just heard tour of homes.

Drag City's Mickey Newbury box is a wildly uneven space cowboy extravaganza (in its basically spare, basement galaxy way). But overall, it leaves quite an afterglow (though I got it as a promo; dunno what I would have thought as a customer, or if I knew the original LPs--some darn good prev. unreleased tracks, I know that much)

newbury set is incredible. CDs just came wayyyyy down in price, you can get it for just about $30 now, I think. Worth it.

Newbury brings the rain, while he ponders, way after midnight. Grim hallways, railways, but incense too. Kind of a dustbowl Donovan, if Donovan had been through Texas cotton fields and the Army, before getting back to the rabbit tobacco. But more of a personal darkness, however filtered through Music Row plot twists. Oh yeah, and Yep Roc's having a big sale on their 25th Anniversary series of Giant Sand deluxe and remastered reissues.It's a big sale in the sense you gotta buy all the albums to get a bargain, but I didn't know they'd been putting these out. From 1985's Valley of Rain to 1994's Purge & Slouch. Now I'm gonna watch the Webcast portion of FarmAid, with worth-checking comparative youngsters Lukas Nelson and Will Dailey, plus of course Willie-Neil-Mellen-Dave.

i have pondered that newbury set since they reissued it in a standard slipcase format for a lot less $$, but just concerned it may be a bit too country music for me.

you know, there is a dedicated website which if you given an email addy, they send you 4 tracks for free.

http://anamericantrilogy.com/splash/

Well, as Tyler says upthread, they've marked it down to 30 bucks, which seems fair, and it does have some good (and bad) prev unreleased tracks. But if you think it might be too country for you, it probably is. Not being snarky, just how it works, in my experience. Have you tried those four freebies? Reminds me: his original version of "American Trilogy" (his combination and setting, for those unfamiliar, of "Dixie", "All My Trials" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic") is even better than Elvis's, in terms of calm gravitas and lucid overview (of experience, vs. what Elvis makes into a grand vision/illusion, although both versions def signify

Already out:

Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle (Merge, 1994)
Bunnydrums - PKD (Metropolis, 1983)
David Coverdale - White Snake (Eagle Rock, 1977)
Family - A Song For Me (Snapper, 1970)
Family - Fearless (Snapper, 1971)
Family - Anyway... (Snapper, 1971)
Family - Bandstand (Snapper, 1972)
Family - It's Only A Movie (Snapper, 1973)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Motown, 1971) [2CD]
Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark, 1965)
Nona Hendryx - The Heat (Funky Town Grooves, 1985)
Megadeth - Peace Sells (But Who's Buying?) (EMI, 1986) [8CD]
Stetsasonic - On Fire (Tommy Boy, 1986)
Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous (Universal, 1978) [2CD+DVD]
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose (Universal, 1979) [2CD]
Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (Universal, 1980) [2CD]

Grace Jones - Hurricane (PIAS, 2008) [2CD w/ dubs] Aug 30
The Undisputed Truth - Method To The Madness (Wounded Bird, 1977) Sep 6
Bob Seger - Live Bullet (Capitol, 1976) Sep 13
Bob Seger - Nine Tonight (Capitol, 1981) Sep 13
Queen - News Of The World (Hollywood, 1977) Sep 13
Queen - Jazz (Hollywood, 1978) Sep 13
Queen - The Game (Hollywood, 1980) Sep 13
Queen - Hot Space (Hollywood, 1982) Sep 13
Superchunk - Foolish (Merge, 1994) Sep 13
Neurosis - Sovereign (Neurot, 2000) Sep 20
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation (Universal, 1977) [2CD] Sep 20
Hank Crawford - Don't You Worry Bout A Thing (CTI/Masterworks, 1975) Sep 27
Nirvana - Nevermind (Geffen, 1991) [2CD & Super Deluxe] Sep 27
Pink Floyd - Entire Freakin' Catalogue after Piper (EMI) Sep 27
Esther Phillips - Performance (CTI/Masterworks, 1974) Sep 27
U2 - Achtung Baby (Island, 1991) [2CD] Nov 1

The Raincoats' self-released Odyshape sounds fantastic. Don't know if they remastered it, don't have the original at hand, but jeez. Only thing (maybe irrevocable about the basic tracks, or deliberately, appropriately challenging) occasionally it seems like the words get obliterated by naked light bulbs bouncing off naked (and this promo's case, nonexistent) vinyl. Could call it virtual vinyl, combining most of the best properties associated with analog and digital.

challenging and melodious too (one's from Portugal, the music reminds me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58JseZ_meRk

This Sofrito compilation.

favourite album of the year so far, reissue or otherwise :

http://www.getondown.com/covers/GET%2053502%20-%20Willie%20Tee%20-%20I%27m%20Only%20A%20Man.jpg

willie tee, i'm only a man, lost capitol album from 1969 produced by david axelrod
album cover way too dark for computers - looks a lot better in real life.
however, it sounds amazing ..
unfortunately no credits as to musicians involved ..

Ash Ra Tempel

I'm eying (man that looks wrong) these salsa compilations:

The Best Of Wito Velez Y Su Orquesta Uno
Willie Melendez Y Su Orquesta

Unfortunately, Rareza is one of those dodgy reissue labels. I've seen a lot of bad things about it online over the last few years, but descarga.com continues to carry their CDs, so I'm not sure what to make of it all. The mastering is pretty poor on the one CD I bought from them, but this stuff is so esoteric and at the same time so much in my ballpark (overall--maybe a little too garage salsa), that I might spring for these.

Also, this collection on (perfectly legitimate) Combo records from an amazing super-group whose existence I don't think I had ever properly registered:

Puerto Rico All Stars - 35th Anniversary - 15 Greatest Hits

A lot of these individuals still appear in super-group sorts of projects today, but here they are all, or almost all, still in their prime.

Erkin Koray, often billed as the father of Turkish rock, has a new self-selected release, Mechul: Singles & Rarities (Sublime Frequencies), just out (or should be; scheduled for Aug. 30). "This collection features tracks not found in the many unauthorized Erkin compilations and LP reissues that have emerged in the West over the years." Haven't seen any of these, just EK goodies on various artists comps, so can't care this with other all-Erkin albums. But, despite what sometimes sounds like straight-from-7"-vinyl transfers and a few melancholy melodies not reaching me through the language barrier, I got into most of this pretty quickly. The opening title track, a swirling ballad with surfy untertow, non-generically recalls Lebanese-American Dick Dale's proud use of his Middle Eastern inspirations. Others cut across suggestions of, I dunno, bootlegs young Neil Young jamming with Traffic, Deep Purple's "Highway Star", Jorge Ben's (possibly misspelled, sorry)"Umbabarumba (Porto Africano"), Talking Heads. My associative illusions as much as anything, certainly not any lifts or glosses (astute assimilation, maybe). It def isn't just a course in Western Civ Rock with a Turkish mustache. See forcedexposure.com for more info.

He started "Turkey's first-ever rock and roll group in 1957.." "Over time, he began to find inspiration in folk sounds from Turkey's Anatolian interior, and radio broadcasts received from Egypt and Lebanon. He looked to the East from his Westward-leaning Istanbul perch, and began incorporating these sounds into his own work." Hence these 1970-77 tracks, and much else. Hopefully he'll bring out some more albums over here, of vintage and new music.

This in particular is awesome, but I would be very interested in hearing his selection of his own work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vZNBvLhkU

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3848975/HappyRefugees_Cover_cover_500px.jpg

The Willie Tee album is one of my favorites, too -- hadn't heard it until this year.

Autechre - EPs 1991-2002
Keith Barrow - Keith Barrow
The Brothers Johnson - Winners
Ron Carter - All Blues
Caroline Crawford - My Name Is Caroline
Andre Cymone - AC
Willie Hutch - Fully Exposed, The Mark of the Beast, Ode to My Lady
The Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets
Jackie & Roy - A Wilder Alias
Janice - Janice
Linda Lewis - Not a Little Girl Anymore, Woman Overboard
Jon Lucien - Song for My Lady
Teena Marie - Lady T, Irons in the Fire
Paul McCartney - McCartney, McCartney II
George Michael - Faith
Stephanie Mills - Feel the Fire: The 20th Century Collection
John Morales - The M+M Mixes, Vol. 2
The Nite-Liters - A-nal-y-sis
The Originals - California Sunset
Shriekback - Oil and Gold
Suede - Suede, Dog Man Star
The Supremes - Let Yourself Go: The '70s Albums, Vol. 2
Surface - Surface/2nd Wave
Switch - Switch
Deniece Williams - My Melody
Willie Tee - I'm Only a Man
VA - Disco Discharge (the third round of four)
VA - Our Lives Are Shaped by What We Love
VA - The Skip Scarborough Songbook
VA - Twenty Fucking Years of Planet E

...and several of the recent Impulse! 2-for-1s (Shepp, Alice Coltrane, etc.), which have the least ugly 2-for-1 artwork I've ever seen.

The DeBarge, Disco Inferno, and Disco Zombies comps will be WAY up there, once I buy them.

I've got a vinyl rip of the Willie Tee, would like to pick that up.

The Smiths - Complete Box Set [8CD] Oct 18
http://www.rhino.com/article/the-smiths-complete?eml=rn/091211/header

I'd be excited about this except that 2CD comp from a couple years ago has all but like two of my favorite songs on it.

Happy Refugees late November. Press people, let's get some articles out there about these awesome releases! Disco Zombies is our first vinyl/digital release! Big news.

what are the 8 albums in the Smiths box? Four studio LPs, one live album, Hatful Of Hollow and...?

You get both The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs in the Smiths box.

that...seems painfully redundant

however, it teaches me for the first time that those are both single "albums" on CD

re Erkin Koray's own collection of his tracks, which I described upthread, more backstory in Bill Meyer's review for Dusted:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6673

Oh yeah, and he's also good in Crossing The Bridge, one of the best (and most wide-ranging, yet astutely selective) music docs ever.

Goy from Collectors Choice Music label has new venture:

REAL GONE MUSIC IS NEW REISSUE LABEL
CREATED BY MUSIC INDUSTRY VETERANS
GORDON ANDERSON AND GABBY CASTELLANA

New Razor & Tie-distributed label will debut in November with Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks” albums, ? and the Mysterians 180-gram vinyl, David Rose, Ed Ames, Connie Stevens, Joanie Sommers, Shelby Flint, Cameo Parkway Holiday Hits and The Girls from Petticoat Junction

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The newly formed Real Gone Music re-issue label boasts a diverse release schedule for 2011 and 2012 drawing from both major label licensing arms and independents, featuring such artists as the Grateful Dead, Connie Stevens, Rick Nelson and, kicking off Real Gone’s licensing arrangement with ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., ? and the Mysterians.

Real Gone Music, formed and helmed by industry vets Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana, aims to establish itself as the most eclectic and prolific catalog and reissue label in the country. The label has announced distribution through by Razor & Tie.

Anderson and Castellana each started businesses in 1993 — Collectors’ Choice Music and Hep Cat Records & Distribution, respectively — that became two of the most important outlets for buyers and sellers of vintage music recordings. Now, 18 years later, they have joined forces to launch Real Gone Music, a reissue label dedicated to serving both the collector community and the casual music fan with a robust release schedule combining big-name artists with esoteric cult favorites. Real Gone Music is a music company dedicated to combing the vaults for sounds that aren’t just gone — they’re REAL gone. What makes a piece of out of print music real gone?

The label won’t limit itself to any single era or genre. Rather, as Castellana says, “We want to put out titles that, through their repertoire and packaging, inspire the kind of excitement we all felt when we bought our first album or single in a record store . . . music you can lose yourself in.”

In his previous capacity at the helm of Collectors’ Choice Music, Gordon Anderson not only produced more than 1,500 titles for release on compact disc, but also merchandised the #1 mail order music catalog in the United States. Both the Collectors’ Choice Music label and catalog were renowned for their eclectic, knowledgeable assortment of artists and titles and their dedication to quality. Real Gone Music continues the Collectors’ Choice Music tradition, with a broadening of focus to include vinyl and digital releases as well as compact disc. Co-president Gabby Castellana started and built Hep Cat into a major American distributor for the world’s most prominent and respected reissue labels, among them Collectors’ Choice Music.

Real Gone Music will debut in November with 12 titles headlined by the Grateful Dead’s Dick’s Picks, Vols. 34, 35 & 36. “Dick” was Dick Latvala, the official tape archivist for the Dead until 1999, whose inspiration and encyclopedic knowledge of the band’s vaults spawned the fabled Dick’s Picks series of Dead concert volumes. Comprising 36 volumes, Dick’s Picks follows the band on its long, strange trip through a multitude of eras, tours and venues, featuring handpicked shows that display the band at its most visionary, improvisational height. Real Gone Music will bring this cache of Dead concert brilliance to record stores. Many have never been previously available at retail.

November will also bring two original albums from ? and the Mysterians, the legendary garage band known for the smash “96 Tears” on the Cameo label, available on vinyl for the first time in America since their original LP release. Real Gone will reissue the LPs, 96 Tears and Action, on 180-gram vinyl, re-mastered from the original tape sources at 45 rpm for maximum fidelity. Hailing from Saginaw, Michigan, this group of Mexican-American teenagers will forever be anointed as the garage band’s garage band by collectors of ’60s cool: the sound, an insistent three-chord beat powered by that unmistakable Vox organ; the name, taken from a Japanese horror film, and, of course, the sunglasses-donning “Question Mark” himself, who claimed to have been born on Mars and lived among dinosaurs in a past life. The debut album reached #66 on Billboard. And while the A ction album saw no chart action, it contains the nuggets “Girl (You Captivate Me)” and “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby!”

Other November highlights include singles collections from ’60s songbirds Connie Stevens, Joanie Sommers and Shelby Flint, each boasting dozens of sides yet to see release on CD. The Girls From Petticoat Junction: Sixties Sounds features sunshine pop from the Hooterville Honeys (Linda Kaye Henning, Lori Saunders and Meredith MacRae), originally released on Imperial Records and timed to coincide with the release of the series on DVD. And, finally, Cameo Parkway: Holiday Hits features 18 holiday-themed tracks (13 never on CD) from the hallowed vaults of the Philly-based indie label by such artists as Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker, Bobby the Poet, Rudolph Statler Orchestra, the Lonesome Travelers and, last but not least, Bob Seger and the Last Heard, while the label extends its holiday celebration to include long sought-after Christma s albums from composer-arranger David Rose and singer-actor Ed Ames.

REAL GONE NOVEMBER 2011 RELEASE SCHEDULE

November 8
Shelby Flint: The Complete Valiant Singles CD
Connie Stevens: The Complete Warner Bros. Singles 2-CD SET
Joanie Sommers: The Complete Warner Bros. Singles 2-CD SET
The Girls from Petticoat Junction CD

November 15
Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 34—Rochester, NY 11/5/77 3-CD set
Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 35—San Diego, CA 8/7/71, Chicago, IL 8/24/71 4-CD set
Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 36—The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 9/21/72 4-CD set
? and the Mysterians: 96 Tears 180-gram LP
? and the Mysterians: Action 180-gram LP
Cameo Parkway: Holiday Hits CD

November 22
David Rose: The David Rose Christmas Album CD
Ed Ames: Christmas With Ed Ames/Christmas Is the Warmest Time of the Year CD

http://www.realgonemusic.com

John Villemonte 'People Like Us'

Good reissue on Sebastian Speaks of mellow mood light psych/folk. More on the folk end. I like it.

Social Climbers on Drag City/Yoga

Art Yard's two songs from the Propellor Cassette on a 7" thanks to Ride the Snake Records (wish I did that one myself)

DISCO ZOMBIES AND HAPPY REFUGEES ON ACUTE

Disco Zombies release party with pre-release copies for sale at the Dazzle Ships party at Heathers tomorrow night in NYC, btw.

http://www.pitch.com/wayward/archives/2011/08/31/the-embarrassment-to-reissue-debut-7-sex-drive

fantastic vinyl grail

Oh yeah, that too! Guy putting it out is DJing my friends rock night in brooklyn tonight. Abilene in Carroll Gardens.

is that harry? or jeremy? i can never keep it straight, who runs which label.

Harry Howes. Too busy to go unfortunately. Same friend knows a bklyn guy through fmu who put out this great AA single and is doing more Belgian coldwave. Sacred bones has UV Pop and captured tracks is doing a nick nicely comp. Add the recent styrenes and mirrors singles (which I bought at academy) and I'd say the late 70s/early 80s reissue scene is pretty vibrant.

dunno if this alb has been mentioned on this thread already, but this is def my reissue rec of the year and has been a hit even w non-stoner friends i have played it to - certainly hits that sweet gospelised-dub spot of the congos alb, say, but plus w a great psychedlic edge:

http://www.riddim.nl/PHPDVD/pictures/dadawahKlein.jpg

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=14925

Sweet Exorcist and LFO reissues!

Love that Dadawah album - everyone should check it out.

Didn't that come out last year (it is great... although it's entirely on the Trojan Nyabinghi boxed set so I felt no need to repurchase.)

http://www.goldminemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Philles-Records-boxed-set.jpg

Just got the Philles Album Collection set for review. Lots of overlap between the albums, but it's great to finally have these nonetheless.

although it's entirely on the Trojan Nyabinghi boxed set so I felt no need to repurchase.)

Thought they left off one song, added another that wasn't on the album? Anyway it's a great record. It kind of reminds me of Trad Gras och Stenar and related bands. In a reggae way.

Yeah it made a lot of lists last year. I finally picked it up last month at Amoeba.

I've been on a big stoner/doom rampage, and was pleased to see this finally get reissued:

UFOMAMMUT - Snailking (Supernatural Cat, 2004)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K9bTpIRSsRQ/TTEyix2-d4I/AAAAAAAAAPE/7S3UGWwHtmI/s1600/3045697691_6f29180808.jpg

I've been enjoying some of the extras on the Nirvana deluxe set too.

http://www.tompkinssquare.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TSQ2639_TMBMLTS_mini1-300x300.jpg

i just got this in the mail & it is really a thing to behold

"Thought they left off one song, added another that wasn't on the album?"'

There is another Dadawah song on their (which is not much like the other four--or at least its much shorter) but yeah everything else is on there.

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/448529-talk-talk-laughing-stock-2011-edition

Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979 (Analog Africa, 10/25) "...cosmopolitan as it was raw, the sound of Burkina Faso (Sahelian state, formerly Haute Volta)was organized and nurtured during the country's time as part of a vast patchwork making up French colonial West Africa." By the time independence was declared, a rising tide of musos and labels surged all over, looking for gigs, better studios, brains to pick, etc. So here we get the results of studying Afrobeat, rock, local traditions, also "traditional Isalmic rhythms, and subtle Afro-Latin sounds brought over by visiting Cuban ensembles. Mandingue melodies and guitar techniques from Guinea and Mali, however. were by far the most defining traits.." Well, maybe my simple rockhead ears just foreground the most familiar bits, but anyway I'm digging most of it.

email from Boomkat I got about upcoming Throbbing Gristle reissues

For the first time in 30 years Throbbing Gristle are now back on their own original Industrial Records label and their first five albums have been restored and remastered specifically for each format by Chris Carter from 24bit 'baked tape' digital transfers of the original first generation analogue master tapes.

The Vinyl editions have been cut to 180-gram vinyl including painstakingly restored cover artworks, using original source material from the Industrial Records visual archive. In addition each of the vinyl releases includes an exclusive large format 8-page colour booklet featuring an abundance of Throbbing Gristle archival material, including some previously unpublished photos of the band. Each vinyl release is limited to 2000 copies.

Each of the CD special-editions is presented in a gatefold sleeve featuring restored and remastered cover artworks and an integrated 8-page booklet (the booklets feature different artworks and content to the vinyl editions). The CD versions also include an exclusive bonus CD each, containing rare and previously unheard TG material alongside live tracks and remastered singles from the year of the albums' original release.

This is really great (a given from Light in the Attic):

“Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974”

http://lightintheattic.net/system/wordpress_uploads/2011/09/ShinJoongHyun_450.jpg

Drag City's reissuing Pete Shelley's "Sky Yen" album of primitive synth noise! I'm excited! Possibly the only person who is!

Okay this Hot Knives thing on Grown Up Wrong is sounding pretty great. Mid-70s but total 60s-sounding folk-rock with a couple of Flamin' Groovies, male/female vocals. Yeah!

http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=751

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL8jgcxh7Ts&f