‘Tis the season! The big guns for the fourth quarter are starting to be drawn.
Elvis Presley, The Young Man with the Big Beat / Elvis Presley: Legacy Edition (RCA/Legacy)
The newest Elvis box set is all about 1956: five CDs of complete studio masters, outtakes, vintage audio interviews and live material. For the casual fan, the Elvis Presley Legacy Edition includes the Elvis Presley and Elvis LPs with the hit non-LP singles of that era. (Official site)
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon: Experience and Immersion Editions / Discovery Remasters (EMI)
So you have all the basic remasters of every album, and the deluxe and mega-hyper-deluxe editions of Dark Side. Merry early Christmas! (Official site)
Nirvana, Nevermind: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (DGC/UMe)
A lot of ways to celebrate the definitive grunge album for its 20th anniversary. Which one are you getting? (Official site)
The Smiths, Complete (Rhino U.K.)
The most mega of mega-boxes for The Smiths is out now in the U.K., and will be out in October in the States. (Rhino U.K.)
Sting, 25 Years (Cherrytree/A&M/UMe)
A 3-CD/1-DVD overview of Sting’s solo career. If you have all his albums, you’re probably going to want to wait until the price dips below its current Amazon price tag of $110. Like, way below. (Official site)
Wes Montgomery, Movin’: The Complete Verve Recordings (Hip-o Select/Verve)
Did Wes record it for Verve? If yes, it’s here, five discs’ strong. (Hip-o Select)
Davy Jones, David Jones: Deluxe Edition (Friday Music)
No Monkee-ing around here! Jones’ Colgems solo LP, exapnded and remastered. (Sorry about the pun back there.) (Amazon)
Barenaked Ladies, Hits from Yesterday & The Day Before (Reprise/Rhino)
A simple best-of for the Canadian rockers. (Official site)
The Jesus & Mary Chain, Automatic / Honey’s Dead: Deluxe Editions (Edsel)
The next links in the chain of 2-CD/1-DVD reissues! (Another pun! See what I did there?) (Official site)
Buck Owens, Bound for Bakersfield 1953-1956: The Complete Pre-Capitol Recordings (RockBeat)
Another fun one from RockBeat! (Amazon)
Setting Sail to the Island of Souls: Sting’s ‘The Soul Cages’ Receives Digital Expansion
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Release Round-Up: Week of November 20
“(Sorry about the pun back there.)”
You are not.
Between today’s reissues and new releases, this is the most Super-Super Tuesday I have seen in a while…which basically meant there were two other people, besides me, perusing the aisles at my local BB.
Agreed, this was definitely a most Super-Super Tuesday. Interesting that most of the releases were reissues or compilations, by some of the most groundbreaking, most popular and best-selling artists in the history of music: Elvis, Pink Floyd, Nirvana and Sting.