2018 CD & LP Releases-Before/After RSD

Stuff on my radar at this point:

Beatles White Album box??
Beatles Yellow Submarine 7" PD
Bowie Welcome to the Blackout 2CD
The Who Live at the Fillmore 1968
Pete Townshend Who Came First
Roger Daltrey As Long As I Have You
Pink Floyd Animals 5.1??
Paul McCartney RRS Archive??
Paul McCartney Wild Life Archive??
John Lennon Imagine book
John Lennon Imagine box??
Dylan Live 62-66 comp (Japan)
The Band Music from Big Pink 50th??
Paul Simon Alternate Tunings: Rare and Unreleased
Kinks Preservation Society 50th
Mike McGear S/T reissue
Graham Nash Over the Years demos set
Hollies 2018 Ron Furmanek mixes??
John Coltrane Both Directions at Once

 

To be released June 29 on CD !

from Ace-Big Beat records (UK)

Planet Beat - From The Shel Talmy Vaults - Various Artists

 

These just came out on June 1st, 2018
(reissued on CD on
Mowtown-Elemental label ) :

I purchased the these two titles so far :

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upc : 8435395501689
cat. no. 88525



¹⁹⁷⁰⇢ Temptations
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upc : 8435395501672
cat. no. 88529


Also reissued in this series are their 70s titles : "Sky's The Limit", "Masterpiece", and "Solid Rock".

 

I picked up MASTERPIECE today as it was touted to have the "original length songs for the first time ever on CD"--compared it to my ancient Motown CD and the track lengths are exactly the same give a second or two here and there. Maybe they were referring to the twofer of MASTERPIECE and A SONG FOR YOU from a few years back? Did they trim some MASTERPIECE tracks to get both albums onto one disc, I wonder. So far I prefer the sound of the older disc; probably a John Matousek job. Mids (vocals) clearer and realistic. Packaging on the new one is quite nice so if you can't find the original it's a perfectly acceptable alternative--no loudness wars issues on this one.

 

I've never actually heard 'Masterpiece' on CD, so good to know it is decent one,
although the title song plus 'Plastic Man' are both on disc two of the 'Psychedelic Soul' compilation from 2003. I am actually doing comparisons of the songs on 'Puzzle People' and 'Psychedelic Shack' that overlap on 'Psych. Soul', and so far I am hearing a bit more detail on the new remastering. Whether that is due to careful transfer or due to coming from a better source (first gen. analogue master reel) or both I can't be sure, but there is a cleaner sound overall with more texture. I will definitely be getting the other titles in the next week or so !

 

Released: 01 Jun 2018

(Various Artists)
The Beginning Of The End:
The Existential Psychodrama
In Country Music (1956-1972)

Barcode: 0934334406071
Catalog: OMNI-195
(Omni Recording Corporation)

30 tracks on 1 CD

• Whitey Gallagher - Searching (I'm Always Looking)
• Bobby Grove - Whistle of the Gravy Train
• Jimmy Griggs - the Beginning of the End
• Jim Ed Brown - the Enemy
• Ed Bruce - Puzzles
• Ray Sanders - My World is Upside Down
• Johnny Darrell - Jimmy Jacob
• Billy Rufus - Low Down Blues
• Sammi Smith - Saunders Ferry Lane
• George Kent - Hello, I'm a Jukebox
• Johnny Dollar - Meeting of the Bored
• Curly Putman - Talking to the Grass
• Lonnie Holt - Water Under the Bridge
• Johnny Collier - Nobody Touches Me
• Bob Fry - I'm Gonna Be Gone
• David Price - National Everybody Hate Me Week
• Clay Hart - Free
• Gene Savage - I Started at the Bottom and Worked My Way on Down
• Diane McCall - You'll Not Take Nothin 'Out
• Jimmy Griggs - Footprints in the Sands of Time
• George Kent - Running with the Wind
• Johnny Darrell - It's a Rough Old Road to Travel
• Mel Tillis - Survival of the Fittest
• Clay Hart - Wine, the River and You
• Jerry Irby - A Man is a Slave
• Johnny Skiles & The Harmony Ranch Hands - Ghosts of My Lonely Past
• Buddy Starcher - I Still Write Your Name In The Sand
• Dave Dudley - the Farmer's Prayer
• Tony Gavin - the Oldtimer
• James Gallagher - Searching

Long lost obscurities on CD for first time ever ~ absolute must have for fans of late-50s, 60s, and early-70s existential country. I've literally waited 37 years for this collection and it is absolutely extraordinary. The CD contains 16 tracks not on the L.P. edition (the L.P. contains one song not on the CD)

 

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upc : 5036436111725
cat. no. MBTCD013


A record store day release but two copies were still in the bin so I snagged one. This is the Morgan Blue Town 2018 remastered CD; not sure if it's a needle drop or what but the SQ is decent so if it is then it was surely el-minto. I used to have a CD-R sourced from a VG+ vinyl given to me by an old mate long before Akarma and Angel Air had done their reissues, when you could only get it on used vinyl. I had only played that CD-R about three times, and then after about 8 years, the media-layer dyes deteriorated and I couldn't get it to play in any disc player. Very happy to now have it on a proper aluminum-alloy disc that'll likely outlive me !

 

Based on what's assumed to be coming out this year (most of these are still unconfirmed):

GUARANTEED PURCHASE:
Elvis Costello: New CD
Dylan: Bootleg Series Volume 14 box
Dylan: Live Copyright 2CD set
Beatles: White Album box
Prince: Piano & A Microphone 1983 CD
Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction 4CD box
The Cure: Mixed Up 3CD

LIKELY:
The Band: Music From Big Pink box

MAYBE:
John Lennon: Imagine Box

And that obviously doesn't include any complete surprises that might yet be announced. Gonna be an expensive fall.

 

yes it is .. already an expensive year and just over half the calendar to go !
I'm definitely down for the Beatles, Prince, The Band, and the Imagine box, and if the second half of '18 is anything like the first half, a lot more other titles as well !

 

I'm looking forward to the Prince Piano & A Microphone deluxe LP (on Pre-Order)
That's pretty much it for brand new releases. Otherwise, I'm really looking forward to the reissues of Alice Cooper's Flush The Fashion, Dada and Zipper Catches Skin as well as The Time's Ice Cream Castles from the same July Rhino campaign.

 

The Rose Garden
[ original LP artwork ]


Reissued on CD 2018
(Omnivore label)
upc : 816651011605
"Trip Through The Garden"
featuring extra material from
rare acetate transfers.

Fans of Gene Clark's post-Byrds
songwriting will find much here
to treasure. This might just be my
favourite CD reissue of 2018 so far !


[ Omnivore CD reissue cover art ]

 

Gregory Alan Isakov....signed limited release grey 180 gram vinyl.
Coming Oct 15, 2018. can't wait. Pre-ordered mine from Bull Moose.



Chemicals by Gregory Alan Isakov...a teaser

 

Having just released the 1966 lp
"Animalisms" by the Animals this year on both vinyl and CD, British label Secret Records announces the upcoming reissues of the Animals' 1977 lp "Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted" and the 1983 lp "Ark" both due out this autumn (date tba).


In Sept. 7, ABKCO is reissuing on CD the long out of print Cameo-Parkway singles As&Bs recorded in the 1960s by Bob Seger & The Last Heard.

There's a whole thread for that here :

Bob Seger - Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967

 

Coming out Sept. 7 :

• Alter Bridge, Live at the Royal Albert Hall featuring the Parallax Orchestra

• Bob Seger, Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967

• Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: Believe It If You Need It

• Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 1: Big Rock Pow Wow ’69

• Led Zeppelin, Song Remains the Same (new expanded reissue)

• Yes Featuring Anderson Rabin Wakeman, Live at the Apollo


Coming out Sept. 14 :

• The Doors, Waiting for the Sun: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

• The Guess Who, The Future IS What It Used to Be

• Hawkwind, Road to Utopia

• Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (Blu-ray)


Sept. 21 :

• Billy Gibbons, The Big Bad Blues

• Electric Light Orchestra, The UK Singles Volume One 1972-1978 (vinyl)

• Graham Parker, Cloud Symbols

• Lynyrd Skynyrd, Live in Atlantic City

• MC5, Total Assault: 50th Anniversary Collection (vinyl)

• Marillion, Live in Glasgow (reissue)

• Prince, Piano & a Microphone 1983

• Ramones, Road To Ruin: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition


Sept. 28 :

• Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther, Longbranch/Pennywhistle

• Golden Earring, Alive … Through the Years 1977-2015

• Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer 001 (two-disc set)

• Phil Collins, Plays Well With Others

• REO Speedwagon, The Early Years 1971-1977 (eight-disc box)

• Pink Floyd, A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd (vinyl)

• Tom Petty, An American Treasure (four-disc box)

 

coming out Sept 28
from Esoteric

DJABE & STEVE HACKETT: LIFE IS A JOURNEY, THE BUDAPEST LIVE TAPES, THREE DISC: 2CD/1DVD SET

 

New J. Mascis album? Yes, please!

Listen: J Mascis Shares “See You At The Movies,” The Debut Single From His New Album 'Elastic Days,' (out November 9th)

 

I finally bought this yesterday, listening to the first ('Ahead Rings Out') of two discs in the set right now.

I was a bit (and pleasantly) surprised at the price - 13 USD for 2 discs - newly remastered, on the Chrysalis label. I first thought "uh-oh, probably a slapdash reissue" .. but I was in need of these titles on CD, having heard them but for some godam reason never having managed to acquire them on vinyl or CD before, so I went ahead and grabbed it. Listening on the Bose through loudspeakers I have to say I am not yet disappointed. The packaging was sort of a cheapo job
(thin-ish cardboard digipak; immediately replaced with two new standard jewel cases at home) so that must be why the price was below average for a set of this calibre.

Disc one is a monster of rocking blues-jazz, a real vintage shredder (not 'shred' as in "guitar-shredding".. just a killer band tearing it up as few have ! )
This one is a gem.

 

Gregory Alan Isakov's new one on pre-order., Oct 15..Looks like it will be on gray vinyl and signed. Can't wait.

 

Just picked these three CDs up on my trip to the record store yesterday, along with several others. The first is reissued this year and the later titles ahead of it in 2017. All three are pretty great.

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NIRVANA ᴜᴋ

"Black Flower" (1969)
5 013929 472440
barcode must include the spaces in search field
⟴ꃥ⟴ECLEC2624
Esoteric label 2018 remaster


"Local Anaesthetic" (1971)
5 013929 468849
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⟴ꃥ⟴ECLEC2588
Esoteric label 2017 remaster

"Songs Of Love And Praise" (1972)
5 013929 468948
barcode must include the spaces in search field
⟴ꃥ⟴ECLEC2589
Esoteric label 2017 remaster




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Coming out on 09 November 2018,
the 1983 lp "Ark", the final studio album by the original lineup of The Animals.

(Secret Records CD reissue)