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.
Tina Turner, Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone/Rhino)
5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
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Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Tina Turner's smash 1984 "comeback"album Private Dancer - featuring the hits "What's Love Got to Do with It," "Better Be Good to Me," the scintillating title track and more - will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare B-sides, remixes, additional studio material from the Private Dancer era (including the unreleased "Hot for You Baby"), selections from two concerts, and restored live footage and music videos. A 2CD package will include the remastered album and an expanded version of the disc of the main single edits, B-sides and remixes, adding "Hot for You Baby" and two of the live tracks originally released as B-sides. (It's all differently curated from a similar reissue from 2015, albeit utilizing the same mastering on the material from that set). Two vinyl variants will be available: the original album pressed on picture disc and pearl colored vinyl. (Both feature the album's now-standard U.K. cover art, while an art card with the pearl set offers the portrait of Tina seen on American pressings.) Read more here!
Rush, Rush 50 (Anthem/Mercury/UMe)
4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
7LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD)
Super Deluxe 4CD/7LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music
Rush 50 comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set will include both physical formats, the hardcover book, and additional material.) The set offers five tracks released on CD for the first time and five previously unreleased cuts, including both sides of the band's debut single, alternate versions of songs "Working Man" and "The Trees," live versions of songs never released on albums, and the final number of the group's last concert, featuring late drummer Neil Peart. Whew! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Get more details here.
Mike + The Mechanics, Looking Back: Living the Years (Craft Recordings)
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2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Looking Back - Living the Years is a new 16-track collection culling from nearly every one of Genesis co-founder Mike Rutherford's albums with side project Mike + The Mechanics, for which he is the sole consistent member. (Every one of the band's many vocalists will be represented on the set.) Marking 40 years since the group's self-titled debut in 1985 - the same year Genesis bandmate Phil Collins' own solo career attained critical mass with No Jacket Required - Living the Years is the first Mechanics release as part of a new Rutherford catalogue deal with Concord's Craft Recordings imprint, who purchased the publishing and recorded rights of Rutherford, Collins and Tony Banks (as well as their trio work as Genesis) in 2022. The set hits CD and digital formats on March 14, with a 2LP set to follow April 4. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Get the track listing and more here.
Vince Guaraldi, It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown: Original Soundtrack Recording (Lee Mendelson Film Productions) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Lee Mendelson Film Productions continues its series premiering the soundtracks to classic Peanuts specials on CD, LP, and digitally. Out today is Vince Guaraldi's 1974 score to It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, newly mixed from the original multitrack masters. Liner notes are by Sean Mendelson, Jason Mendelson, and Guaraldi biographer Derrick Bang; the album also includes a special bonus track, "Woodstock Medley," performed by Guaraldi disciple David Benoit in the same studio Guaraldi recorded the original 50 years earlier.
Climie Fisher, Everything (Deluxe Edition) (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Everything gets a major expansion from the Cherry Pop imprint today. The set features the remastered album and a whopping 51 bonus tracks: versions and remixes of singles "Love Changes (Everything)," "Rise to the Occasion," "I Won't Bleed for You" and "Keeping the Mystery Alive," plus B-sides, unheard demos and six previously unreleased tracks. The set, fully remastered from original tapes in the Universal vaults, is packaged in a clamshell box with individual disc wallets and a 28-page book featuring full discographical info, rare photos and full album and single credits. It's a perfect companion piece to Cherry Pop's reissue of the group's under-examined sophomore album, 1989's Coming in for the Kill, which was issued last March. That reissue was packaged similarly to the new Everything set, offering the remastered album, remixes, B-sides and demos (14 of which were previously unreleased) across four discs. Read the track listing and more here!
The Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Expanded Edition (Cooking Vinyl)
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The APP's 1976 Edgar Allan Poe-inspired debut album retuhttps://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DWXYS4N8/?tag=thesecdis02-20rns to CD and LP; the CD edition has four bonus tracks ("Dream Within a Dream/The Raven (Early Mix with Eric on Vocoder)," "The Tell-Tale Heart (Eric Guide Vocal)," "The Cask of Amontillado (Eric & Alan Guide Vocals)," and "Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (Eric Guide Vocal)." (All of these were previously included on the 2016 Universal box set.) The LP editions include a half-speed mastered clear vinyl pressing of the original album only, and a 2-LP, 45 RPM "audiophile" edition with three single versions ("The Raven," "Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," and "To One in Paradise").
The Stylistics, Falling in Love with My Girl (Greatest Music of All Time LLC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Though Airrion Love and Herb Murrell of The Stylistics parted ways long ago with original lead singer Russell Thompkins, Jr., the duo have continued to make music under the Stylistics moniker. Now, Love and Murrell have released their most high-profile release since the split with Thompkins. Falling in Love with My Girl welcomes a host of special guests including Shania Twain, Ronnie Wood, Gene Simmons, Bill Champlin, Billy F. Gibbons, Ray Parker Jr., Davey Johnstone, Nigel Olsson, Steve Lukather, Tower of Power, Jay Graydon, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, Nathan East, and others. Jason Sharp, with The Stylistics since 2011, sings lead vocals. The double album of original material, produced by Tom Cridland, is available on CD and digital/streaming.
Dave Mason, A Shade of Blues (Barham) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Dave Mason's 21st studio album features such familiar songs as "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "Born Under a Bad Sign," and also boasts guest appearances from Michael McDonald, Joe Bonamassa, and others. TSD sends out well wishes to Mason; four days ago, it was announced that the Traffic co-founder had been hospitalized for a serious infection, forcing him to cancel three months of tour dates. A Shade of Blues is available on CD, LP, and digitally.
No sign of Mike + The ‘Mechanics on digital. Maybe just overseas as the links to the CDs are imports