Release Round-Up: Week of October 16
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.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Magic Boy: Live at Berkeley – First Show (Experience Hendrix/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Magic Boy presents Jimi Hendrix’s first show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970, assembling it in the proper sequence for the first time. The set includes numerous legendary performances unearthed on early posthumous releases (“Hear My Train A-Comin’” from Rainbow Bridge; “Johnny B. Goode” from Hendrix: In the West; “Purple Haze” and “Star Banner” from the 1971 Jimi Plays Berkeley film) as well as thrilling renditions of “Fire,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” “Ezy Ryder,” and more. Eddie Kramer has remixed the entire concert from the original multitracks. Available on 1CD, 2LP, and digital formats.
Flesh For Lulu, Long Live the New Flesh: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Omnivore has remastered and expanded Flesh For Lulu’s 1987 Beggars Banquet debut, Long Live the New Flesh, on 2 CDs. All four core members of the band – Nick Marsh, Rocco Barker, Kevin Mills, and James Mitchell – contributed songs to the album (the band’s third full-length studio LP overall), including Kevin’s “Postcards from Paradise” (a U.S. Dance chart entry) and James’ “I Go Crazy,” which wasn’t included on the original U.K. release but appeared on the U.S. version (and on this expanded reissue). The latter, produced by Stephen Hague, was featured in the John Hughes/Howard Deutch film Some Kind of Wonderful and on its soundtrack. MCA issued the infectious “I Go Crazy” as a single and it charted on the Billboard Alternative survey, earning Flesh for Lulu a loyal American fan base. Omnivore’s expanded edition has been remastered by Michael Graves from the original tapes, and features a whopping 15 bonus cuts including single edits, extended versions, and non-LP rarities – among them covers of songs by The Kinks (“I’m Not Like Everybody Else”), T. Rex (“Spaceball Ricochet”), The Standells (“Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”), and The Weirdos (“Life of Crime”). TSD’s Joe Marchese has written the new liner notes, drawing on fresh interviews with Barker, Mills, and Mitchell. And that’s not all from Flesh…
Flesh For Lulu, Plastic Fantastic: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Flesh for Lulu’s Plastic Fantastic followed Long Live the New Flesh on Beggars Banquet in 1989. It both continued the band’s hit streak with three charting singles and brought the first chapter of the Flesh for Lulu story to a close. Mainly produced in Australia by Mark Opitz (INXS, Cold Chisel), the sessions were fraught with creative tensions, but that didn’t keep the band from creating a lasting and varied reminder of what made Flesh great. Kevin, James, Nick, and Rocco all contributed songs to the Sydney sessions, as did additional guitarist Derek “Del Boy” Greening (a.k.a. Del Strangefish). Mills’ thunderous “Decline and Fall” peaked at No. 15 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock chart in October 1989, solidifying the band’s college radio following. Greening’s pop-leaning “Time and Space” earned Flesh another Modern Rock hit when it reached No. 9 in December 1989. Greening also penned “Every Little Word,” a top 15 hit on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in 1990. It’s been expanded here with the bonus non-LP single “Bloodshot Moon” and Flesh’s full concert (featuring Marsh and Barker supported by a new rhythm section after the core band’s dissolution) live at Long Island’s Club Malibu on November 26, 1989. Once again, Michael Graves has mastered from the original tapes, while Joe Marchese’s liner notes feature quotes from Rocco Barker, Kevin Mills, and James Mitchell. Omnivore’s Cheryl Pawelski has produced and Greg Allen has designed both Plastic Fantastic and Long Live the New Flesh in expansive fashion. Read more about both Flesh titles here!
Mariah Carey, Daydream: 30th Anniversary Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP (iridescent gold vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP (exclusive pink vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Cassette: Official Store
Mariah Carey revisits her 1995 smash Daydream in a variety of physical formats following a deluxe digital edition released earlier this year. That version offered 21 rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks; the 2CD version drops several of those cuts (including a Spanish-language version of Carey’s cover of Journey’s “Open Arms,” three a cappella tracks (two unreleased), one of two writing demos, and a substitution of Eric Kupper’s new remix of fan favorite “Underneath the Stars” for an exclusive radio edit) for a total of 16 tracks on the second disc. The triple vinyl edition changes things up even more: one LP includes the original album, another includes nine of the previously-released B-sides and remixes, and the last offers the complete 11-track audio from Carey’s 1995 concert special Fantasy: Mariah Carey At Madison Square Garden. Four of those tracks are released on a physical format for the first time ever, and nine of these cuts only appear on this LP for the reissue campaign. A cassette version will also be available. Whew!
Tears For Fears, The Seeds of Love: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMC)
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Six years after a 4CD/1BD deluxe box, UMC is returning to Tears For Fears’ 1989 album in a slimmer 3CD edition featuring the original album plus B-sides, remixes, and more, all housed in a digipak with new liner notes. Also available as a 2LP vinyl set with a selection of bonus tracks.
Television, Marquee Moon / Adventure: Expanded Editions (Elektra/Rhino)
Marquee Moon: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Adventure: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Rhino is bringing its 2003 expanded editions of Television’s first two albums back into print. These new CD editions utilize the same 2003 remasters by Dan Hersch and feature the same bonus tracks as the earlier editions.
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