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Review: The Creation, "Creation Theory"

August 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Creation Creation Theory

Though The Creation only left behind roughly a couple dozen songs during their mid-'60s heyday, the story of the hard-rocking mods actually goes back further, and extends to decades later.  Earlier this year, the U.S. label Numero Group presented 46 masters, alternates and remixes on a double-disc collection entitled Action Painting.  Shortly thereafter, U.K. label Edsel unveiled an even more thorough presentation of the complete Creation story containing those 46 tracks and 33

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Shel Talmy, The Creation

All Around The World: New Box Celebrates The Jam's First Year

August 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Jam 1977 Cover

The Jam burst onto the scene in late April 1977 with the single "In the City," following it up just weeks later in May with a blazing debut album of the same name.  Later that year, This is the Modern World arrived from the prolific three-piece featuring Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, and Rick Buckler.  On October 20 of this year, UMe/Polydor will look back on one incendiary year with 1977, a new 4-CD/1-DVD box set comprising remastered editions of both albums as well as unreleased demos and live

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Jam

Everybody Sing! JSP Records Collects Four Discs of Judy Garland's "Classic Duets" on New Box Set

August 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Judy Garland Classic Duets

Throughout her illustrious, if tragically curtailed, career, Judy Garland raised her voice in song with some of the greatest artists of all time, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Gene Kelly, Kay Thompson, and many more.  Last Friday, August 4, a new 4-CD set arrived from the U.K.'s JSP Records celebrating Garland's greatest vocal collaborations with these performers and many others.  Judy Garland: Classic Duets features 109 tracks over 4 CDs, including 15 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney

Release Round-Up: Week of August 4

August 4, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Robin Hood Legacy Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Legacy Collection: Robin Hood (Walt Disney Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Disney's Legacy Collection returns with a first-ever complete soundtrack release for the 1973 animated classic Robin Hood.  Disc 1 of this 2-CD set includes the original songs and score from the film (28 tracks overall), penned by writers including Roger Miller, George Bruns, Floyd Huddleston, and Johnny Mercer. Disc 2 spotlights 13 tracks of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Def Leppard, Henry Mancini, Jaguar, Jimmy Reed, Randy Newman, Roger Miller, Samson, The Rain Parade

Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles

August 2, 2017 By

The Who Maximum As and Bs

The Who's complete singles from 1964-2015 are collected on a new 5-CD box set, which also contains a 48-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotations on each single.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

See For Miles: The Who Compile "Maximum As and Bs: The Complete Singles" on 5-CD Box Set

August 2, 2017 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

The Who Maximum As and Bs

Over the past two years, The Who have compiled their complete singles discography into a four-volume series of vinyl box sets, with each volume dedicated to one particular label and period: Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor.  Now, the band is bringing those volumes to the CD format as a 5-disc box set as part of a year-long campaign of Who-related releases. Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles is due from UMe/Polydor on October 27, collecting 86 sides (including EP tracks) from all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Who

DeShannon, Ronstadt, Baez, Nyro Featured on "Milk of the Tree: Anthology of Female Folk and Singer-Songwriters"

August 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Milk of the Tree

The new anthology Milk of the Tree, from Cherry Red's Grapefruit label, sets forth its mission statement clearly in its subtitle: An Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973.  Still, how to anthologize such a broad and powerful group of artists during one of the most creatively fertile periods in popular music history?  Grapefruit does a fine job in distilling the essence of the period - and charting the growth of artists from a pure pop framework to one in which they

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Jackie DeShannon, Janis Ian, Joan Baez, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt, Marianne Faithfull, Various Artists

Their Satanic Majesties Request - 50th Anniversary Special Edition

July 31, 2017 By

Rolling Stones Satanic Majesties Cover

The Rolling Stones' controversial 1967 immersion into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, gets a 50th anniversary box set from ABKCO containing the original album in mono and stereo on both 180-gram vinyl and hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) as newly remastered by Bob Ludwig, plus restored lenticular artwork and a 20-page booklet with new liner notes by Rob Bowman.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

She's a Rainbow: ABKCO Preps 50th Anniversary Box Set For The Rolling Stones' "Satanic Majesties Request"

July 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Rolling Stones Satanic Majesties Cover

The Rolling Stones aren't the first band one might think of in connection with the Summer of Love and the blossoming sound of psychedelia.  Yet the Stones spent much of 1967, on and off, recording the album that became Their Satanic Majesties Request.  Wholly unique in the band's catalogue, it fused the band's gritty sensibility with psychedelic effects, more lavish instrumentation, and experimental sounds.  Underscoring its nature as a conceptual work, it was also the first album by the Stones

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Eye in the Sky: 35th Anniversary Edition

July 30, 2017 By

Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky 35th

The eye in the sky is still looking at you...Legacy Recordings has a 35th anniversary box set celebrating The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 best-seller Eye in the Sky.  The album, which yielded the APP's biggest hit single with its title track as well as the classic instrumental "Sirius," will be enhanced for this lavish and expansive 3-CD/1-BD/2-LP/1-Flexidisc release boasting high-resolution stereo and surround mixes of the original album, rare single mixes, over 30 previously unreleased tracks,

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Review: Ramones, "Leave Home: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition"

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Leave Home

The sophomore album from Forest Hills, Queens, New York's Ramones, Leave Home, arrived in January 1977 on Sire Records, just months after the April 1976 release of the band's self-titled debut.  Despite the title, however, Leave Home didn't mark a large stylistic leap or departure for the young punks out of their comfort zone.  On closer inspection, however, it continued the growth of the band.  Forty years later, it's easier to hear that progression than ever, thanks to a new, 3-CD/1-LP set

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Ramones

Review: Elvis Presley, "A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings"

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Elvis A Boy from Tupelo Cover

It's hard to believe - impossible, even - but Elvis Aron Presley once was just A Boy from Tupelo.  The once and future King's transformation from modest beginnings to international superstar has never been more vividly traced than on the new 3-CD box set from RCA and Legacy.  A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings is a trip back in time to the birth of rock-and-roll (destination: Memphis) featuring every one of Elvis' known Sun Records masters and outtakes, as well as his four

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

Release Round-Up: Week of July 28

July 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Boy From Tupelo LP

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Presley, A Boy From Tupelo - The Complete 1953-55 Recordings (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete Recordings 1953-1955 journeys back to the birth of rock-and-roll to feature, on three CDs and digitally, every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake.  In addition, the collection also contains Elvis' four earliest, privately-pressed sides, and vintage radio and concert

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: 10cc, Alice Cooper, Arthur Alexander, Elvis Presley, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Herb Alpert, Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, Pet Shop Boys, Santana, The Cars, The Delfonics, The Isley Brothers

Sirius-ly Expanded: Legacy Plans 'Eye in the Sky' Box from Alan Parsons Project

July 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky 35th

The eye in the sky is still looking at you... On November 17, Legacy Recordings will issue a 35th anniversary box set celebrating The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 Eye in the Sky.  The album, which yielded the APP's biggest hit single with its title track as well as the classic instrumental "Sirius," will be enhanced for this expansive 3-CD/1-BD/2-LP/1-Flexidisc release with rare and previously unreleased material. Perhaps the pinnacle of the collaboration between Alan Parsons and Eric

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Alan Parsons Project

Motörhead Go "Under Cöver" With New Compilation in September

July 26, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Motorhead Under Cover

The spirit of Motörhead lives on with a rockin' collection of the band's various cover songs due in September. Under Cöver compiles 11 of the band's cover songs from the last 25 years of their career--featuring the band's most consistent lineup of late frontman/bassist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee. Only a handful of the covers (including interpretations of Judas Priest, The Rolling Stones, Twisted Sister, Metallica and others) were released on studio albums,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Motörhead

Rhino Plans Plush Box Set for Stone Temple Pilots' 'Core'

July 26, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Core deluxe

Rhino Records will celebrate Stone Temple Pilots' debut album with a multi-format reissue this fall. Core introduced the world to STP's raw fusion of grunge and album-oriented rock, a combination the band said was intentional. "You know how when you listen to a Led Zeppelin album, you listen to the entire album, not just the odd song?" bassist Robert DeLeo asked of Core. "We wanted to make a record like that. We wanted to create a vibe which would run right through the whole album." DeLeo,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Stone Temple Pilots

White Punks On Disc: The Tubes' A&M Albums Collected in New Box

July 24, 2017 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

The Tubes AM Years

The U.K. Caroline label will bring together the first five albums by art-punk act The Tubes in one collection next month. The A&M Years features all the long-players recorded by the quirky San Francisco group, founded by vocalist Fee Waybill, guitarists Bill Spooner and Roger Steen, keyboardists Vince Welnick and Michael Cotten, bassist Rick Anderson and drummer Prairie Prince. Known for their off-the-wall stage shows (many directed by future choreographer to the stars/High School

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Tubes

A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982)

July 21, 2017 By

David Bowie A New Career Cover Only

The third release in Parlophone's series of chronological box sets dedicated to the music of David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) closes the book on the legendary artist's RCA career.  It follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), offering material from five major studio and live albums: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Stage (1978), Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are, of course, referred to as

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

The Queen Is Dead: Deluxe Edition

July 21, 2017 By

The Queen is Dead 2017

The Smiths' The Queen is Dead - a towering album of '80s British rock and arguably the definitive statement by the Manchester band - gets the deluxe, expanded treatment from Rhino.  This reissue has been approved by Morrissey, who offered in a statement, "You cannot continue to record and simply hope that your audience will approve, or that average critics will approve, or that radio will approve. You progress only when you wonder if an abnormally scientific genius would approve-and this is the

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Keats and Yeats Are On Your Side: The Smiths' 'The Queen is Dead' to Be Expanded

July 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

The Queen is Dead 2017

The Smiths' The Queen is Dead--a towering album of '80s British rock and arguably the definitive statement by the Manchester band--will be reissued and expanded October 20. Produced by frontman Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr with assistance from engineer Stephen Street, The Queen is Dead has become quintessential Smiths: packed with biting, witty lyrics and catchy, densely layered instrumental hooks (thanks not only to Marr but bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce). While Morrissey

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Johnny Marr, Morrissey, The Smiths

Back to the Temple of Love: Sisters of Mercy Plan Vinyl Box of "Some Girls Wander By Mistake"

July 19, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Some Girls Wander By Mistake

A quarter century after The Sisters of Mercy chronicled their early singles on the compilation Some Girls Wander By Mistake, an expanded edition will be released in September as a vinyl box set. Some Girls Wander By Mistake originally collected the band's independently-released material from 1980 to 1983. The single material on 1980's "Anaconda," 1982's "Body Electric" and Alice EP and 1983's "Anaconda," "Temple of Love" and The Reptile House EP all feature on this set, released by EastWest

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Bitter Sweet Symphony: The Verve's 'Urban Hymns' Gets Box Set Edition

July 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Urban Hymns Deluxe

The Verve's third album, 1997's Urban Hymns, may be the band's most famous in any part of the world. It's little surprise, then, that Universal is going big for the album's 20th anniversary with a multi-format deluxe edition due in the fall. Recorded after the band's first breakup and reformation (with the subsequent addition of guitarist/keyboardist Simon Tong), Urban Hymns was an ambitious piece of Britpop and balladry, recorded with producers Youth and Chris Potter. Three of its singles

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Kinda Got Lost: Omnivore Details Chris Bell's 'I Am The Cosmos' Reissue, Vinyl Box Set

July 17, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Complete Chris Bell

Omnivore's Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star Featuring Chris Bell was the first of several planned releases from the Grammy Award-winning label showcasing the talents of Big Star co-founder Bell, who passed away in 1978. The label recently announced their next two Bell projects: a new expanded edition of the quintessential Bell collection I Am The Cosmos, and a definitive archive of his work as a 6LP box set. Prior to Rykodisc's I Am The Cosmos in 1992, only two of the tracks (the title

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Big Star, Chris Bell

Adventure On Earth: "E.T." Soundtrack Album Remastered In New Blu-ray Box

July 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

E.T. 4K box

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is celebrating the 35th anniversary of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial this fall--and fans of the Oscar-winning original soundtrack are in for an unexpected treat tastier than a bag of Reese's Pieces. Steven Spielberg's masterpiece (and the author's unquestionable favorite film) will be released in several new packages on September 12, including a bow on the 4K Ultra HD format and a new deluxe gift set. Included in that set is a soundtrack release, which The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Berlin and Beyond: Third Bowie Box Set Announced

July 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Bowie Box 3

The newest career-spanning David Bowie box set chronicles the icon as he ends the '70s with some of his most experimental work yet, adding rarities to spare. A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), offering material from five major studio and live albums: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Stage (1978), Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are, of course, referred to as the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

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