Deluxe Edition CD...what is you favorite and why?

I have several Deluxe Editions CDs in my collection, some great and some not more than average, so I wonder what are the ones your think that honors the “Deluxe” seal.

For me this is a good exemple of it:
- Blind Faith - Blind Faith (2002 Polydor) - 2 CD pack, with great booklet, amazing unreleased tracks with precious jams.

 

Its funny before I opened the thread, I thought of BF as well. honestly!

Not because I listen to the extra track a lot (some of the bonus material drags on a bit).
But because I always felt their needed to be more than a single disc of BF.

There is more and better jams they could have used though.

Still one of my favorites.

 

For me, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk is one of my favorites. A bit better sound, and it restored the full version of Sara on the Tusk album. The alternative versions, single edits and the other extras added are perfect for what in my view was this incarnation's most vital, creative and eclectic project.

 

I love the Bob Marley Deluxe of Catch a Fire b/c it has the original version of the record.

 

Some of my favourites:

dEUS – Worst Case Scenario 2xCD (early singles)
Calexico – Algiers 2xCD (Spiritoso, live album with orchestra)
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (live album)
Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come Easy Go 2xCD (8 bonus tracks)
The Slits – Cut 2xCD (Peel sessions, Rough mixes...)
The Velvet Underground & Nico 2xCD (alternate versions + Scepter Studios Sessions)
Tindersticks – The First Tindersticks Album 2xCD (demos)
Tindersticks – Working For The Man 2xCD (early singles)

 

Oh, and the Rolling Stones Some Girls Deluxe 2nd disc has great stuff on it.

 

Nine Inch Nails 'The Downward Spiral' 2CD/SACD hybrid. The original album on first disc with an SACD layer, the second disc is a good assortment of non-album tracks and overall great sound (assuming you like this style of music). The booklet isn't much different than the original CD issue but print quality is good. When I originally bought it I paid $20 for it which seemed a good deal at the time it came out, as many 2CD sets would average $30 new.

 

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die Deluxe - thanks to the Fillmore 1970 concert on disc 2!

 

Bad Company - s/t Deluxe
Black Sabbath - s/t Deluxe

 

Paul Weller-Paul Weller (wish UME would reissue this for '22 for the album's 30th Anniversary)

 

The Cure's deluxe editions are all pretty good (well, I don't have Mixed Up, but the rest are solid), but especially The Top. I'm also fond of the deluxe edition of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "The Scream," with the Peel Sessions and singles on the second disc.

 

The Marvin Gaye ones (What's Going On, Let's Get It On, I Want You, Trouble Man) were exemplary, particularly WGO and Trouble Man. The former had the two mixes, the concert version, and all the single sides. The latter had all of the album alternates, plus all the movie music. Packed packages both.

 

Tom Tom Club's debut, coupled with Close To The Bone (first time on CD)

 

I really dig the John Martyn releases, specifically One World and Solid Air. The Kinks' DEs are great but could sound better (tho they do sound much better than the standards I had before).

 

Cream-Disraeli Gears
Blues Breakers-John Mayall Eric Clapton
Both have the stereo & mono included with copious amount of bonus material.

 

I really like the Moody Blues ones!
In Search Of The Lost Chord - Bonus tracks are fantastic!
To Our Children's Children's Children - The concert's really good!
A Night At Red Rocks - Full Concert

 

Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come Deluxe
Second disc has 18 choice reggae cuts from 1968-1972. Almost the history of reggae.

I will second Catch a Fire deluxe. These are the Orginial cuts by the band done in Jamaica. Raw and powerful, my preferred version.

 

I love the Marvin Gaye ones, but the one I probably play the most is Diana Ross - Diana

Original released album, unreleased Chic Mix of the album and a disc of Diana ance (12" mixes slightly dancier/disco tunes etc)-

 

Oasis - the deluxe 3cd version of their 3 first albums.
Includes the album, all the b-sides, demos and live tracks.

 

U2 - THE JOSHUA TREE "20TH ANNIVERSARY" (2xCD DELUXE EDITION) from 2007



This is by far the BEST U2 reissue and deluxe edition release.
The remastered album + all the b-sides plus some extras

No need for extra dummy remixes...

 

The Who - Who's Next, Live at Leeds, Sell Out, Tommy. The last three were updated further with super deluxes.
The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow and Parachute
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog, Grand Hotel, Exotic Birds and Fruit, Ninth
Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish, Modern Music, Live in the Air Age
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd.
Blind Faith - s/t

 

Coincidentally I played the bonus material earlier this week ( I passed on the actual album as I prefer the MFSL disc). I don't think the jams do the band justice the way the unreleased material on the Layla re-releases has done.

 

the dexy's first two

 

Marianne Faithfull/Broken English deluxe
Magazine/Play deluxe

 

• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
• The Beatles (White Album)
• Abbey Road
• Let It Be
• Pet Sounds (50th Anniversary)
• The Smile Sessions
• Back To Mono
• The Last Waltz
• Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
• The Joshua Tree (30th Anniversary)
• The Dark Side Of The Moon
• Wish You Were Here
• The Wall