Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Picture Disc: Official Store
Liquid-Filled LP: Official Store
Cassette: Official Store
After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album: 1986's Slippery When Wet. The New Jersey rockers' third LP (featuring "Livin' on a Prayer" and "You Give Love a Bad Name") will be reissued in a variety of formats including a 2CD expansion with seven bonus tracks (nearly all of which are previously unreleased) as well as a picture disc, cassette and - novelty alert! - a clear vinyl pressing filled with liquid. Everything aside from the 2CD is limited in quantities - 1500 for the picture disc, 1300 for the "liquid disc" and 500 for the cassette - and available through the band's official store. (The 2CD will be available at general retailers including Amazon.) Read more here.
Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at The Coliseum (Verve/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Verve has unearthed Ella Fitzgerald's June 30, 1967 concert at Oakland, California's Coliseum at which she was backed by members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra and combined classic standards with such then-contemporary material as "Alfie" and "Music to Watch Girls By." The concert has been newly mixed and mastered from producer Norman Granz's original tapes. Available on CD, LP, and digitally. Get the track listing and more here.
A Complete Unknown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Columbia)
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
The soundtrack to director James Mangold's critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, arrived January 24 on vinyl in a 16-song edition featuring such highlights as "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Girl from the North Country," "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." The full 23-song soundtrack hits stores today on CD, with unique cover artwork.
The Beckies, Good to Know: The Beckies Story (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore)
Omnivore is expanding the lone album from The Beckies, the band formed by Michael Brown (The Left Banke, Stories) and Scott Trusty along with Jimmy McAllister and Gary Hodgden (a.k.a. Gary West). The Beckies Story brings together a remastered version of the original Sire LP and a cache of 13 previously unreleased demos including songs which didn't make the album. Good to Know: The Beckies Story has been freshly mastered by Michael Graves. The new liner notes by compilation co-producer Daniel Coston features interviews with surviving band members. Get more details here.
Sex Pistols, Live in the U.S.A. 1978 (Virgin/UMC)
3CD (April 25): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Live at South East Music Hall, Atlanta, GA - 1/5/1978 Red LP (February 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Live at Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas, TX - 1/10/1978 White LP (March 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Live at The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA - 1/14/1978 Blue LP (April 26): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Sex Pistols' Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of three of the punk quartet's seven American concerts in January 1978. Presented for the first time in sequence are the tour's opener at the South East Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia on January 5, a particularly raucous performance at Dallas, Texas' Longhorns Ballroom five days later, and the premature conclusion of both the tour and the band at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on January 14, which ended with an essential onstage resignation by frontman John Lydon. The 3CD set features each album individually packaged in its own cardboard wallet, with a booklet of rare photographs. Each album will also have staggered standalone releases on vinyl (pressed on red, white and blue vinyl, respectively) as well as digitally, available today (February 28), March 28 and April 25 - the latter day also being the street date for the CD box. Read more here.
Eugene Ormandy, The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983 (Sony Classical) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Sony Classical continues its definitive series of box sets chronicling the long and extraordinary career of The Philadelphia Orchestra's longtime leader, Eugene Ormandy, with this new 94-CD set. Featuring over 85 hours of music and numerous new-to-CD titles included, The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983 follows the mono box set The Columbia Legacy as well as the first stereo volume covering 1958-1963. This massive treasure trove brings Ormandy's tenure with Columbia to a close (a future box will, presumably, reissue his 1968-1981 RCA recordings; a smaller 21-CD collection due later this spring brings together his 1935-1942 RCA platters). The Columbia Stereo Collection showcases the splendor of Ormandy's "Philadelphia Sound," with its lush strings and rapturous sonics.
Gene Clark and Carla Olson, So Rebellious a Lover (Sunset Blvd.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
After a brief, one-week delay, Sunset Blvd. Records is returning Gene Clark and Carla Olson's 1987 collaborative album to print on a new CD edition that contains eight bonus tracks, two of which are new-to-CD.
Godley & Creme, Parts of the Process: The Complete Godley & Creme (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Between their time as half of the head-turning British rock band 10cc and a whole new career as innovative music video directors, Godley & Creme carved out a unique discography as a duo. It's one that Edsel is revisiting in a new box set called Parts of the Process: The Complete Godley & Creme. The 11CD set offers the duo's seven studio releases - Consequences (1977), L (1978), Freeze Frame (1979), Ismism (1981), Birds of Prey (1983), History Mix (Vol. 1) (1985) and Goodbye Blue Sky (1988) - along with two newly curated collections of their 7" singles, B-sides, and remixes. Each original album sleeve is faithfully reproduced at CD size, and a booklet includes a newly-penned intro from Kevin Godley and a lengthy essay from Liam Newton, author of the 10cc biography The Worst Band in the World. Get the track listing and more here!
Supertramp, Live in Paris '79 (Mercury Studios)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Mercury Studios reissues Supertramp's 1979 hits-packed concerts from the Pavilion de Paris on 3 LPs or 2 CDs, featuring such favorites as "The Logical Song," "Take the Long Way Home," "Breakfast in America," and "Goodbye, Stranger." Read more here.
John Lee Hooker, The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The Standard School Broadcast Recordings is the first official commercial release of John Lee Hooker's 1973 electric blues set, performed direct-to-tape at Coast Recorders in San Francisco. He was accompanied by the rhythm section of bassist Gino Skaggs and drummer Ken Swank, plus his son Robert on piano. This release preserves the entire original session (including two bonus tracks, "Sallie Mae" and an instrumental jam) and also boasts new liner notes from Charles Shaar Murray. Available on CD and LP.
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