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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time
Handsome box set of seven-inchers celebrating the ferocious Sixties rockers“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”
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Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind
How ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ transformed a London mod-pop bandProcol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Motörhead - The Manticore Tapes
Snapshot of Lemmy and co in August 1976 proves fascinatingManticore was owned by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their manager. The organisation provided the name for the band’s label. Apart from ELP and...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Beggars Arkive - Gary Numan's 1979 John Peel session
Saying goodbye to Tubeway ArmyTubeway Army’s “Are ‘Friends’ Electric” hit the top of the UK single’s chart in the last week of June 1979. It stayed there for four weeks. Its parent album, Replicas,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Mike Taylor - Pendulum, Trio
The return of two idiosyncratic, uncompromising Sixties British jazz raritiesWheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP....
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Pale Fountains - The Complete Virgin Years
Liverpool-born, auteur-driven Eighties pop which still sounds freshThe Pale Fountains played their first live show on 12 February 1980 as the support to on-the-up fellow Liverpudlians Wah! Heat. Their...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Chip Shop Pop - The Sound of Denmark Street 1970-1975
Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley digs into British studio pop from the early SeventiesOne of the more interesting tracks on Paul Weller’s fascinating new cover versions album Find El Dorado is his...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Final Solution - Just Like Gold
Despite their idiotic name, these San Francisco psychedelic pioneers sounded astonishingThe booklet coming with Just Like Gold - Live At The Matrix frequently refers to the band as “The Solution.” It...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Residents - American Composer's Series
James Brown, George Gershwin, John Philip Sousa and Hank Williams as seen through an eyeball-headed lensGeorge & James was originally released in March 1984. Stars & Hank Forever! emerged in...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - What's The New, Mary Jane
John Lennon’s queasy, see-sawing oddity becomes the subject of a whole album“What's the New Mary Jane” is a nursery rhyme-like song, one of John Lennon’s most peculiar offerings. It was recorded for...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Outer Limits - Just One More Chance
Exhaustive anthology unearths the full story of the Sixties mod-pop band from LeedsThe Outer Limits were from Leeds. Active over 1965 to 1968, the soul-tinged mod-poppers didn’t chart but their two...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Chiswick Records 1975-1982 - Seven Years at 45 RPM
Triple-album 50th-anniversary celebration of the mould-breaking British independent labelChiswick Records 1975-1982 - Seven Years at 45 RPM is a triple album marking the 50th anniversary of the first...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Edition
Landmark Swedish pop album hits shops one more timeSometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn, had...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Sly and the Family Stone - The First Family: Live At...
Must-have, first-ever release of the earliest document of the legendary soul outfitThe remarkable The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967 represents the first-ever release of a previously...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - The Most Up Till Now
Definitive box-set celebration of the Sixties California hippie-pop band“It's a Happening Thing,” January 1967’s debut single from California’s Peanut Butter Conspiracy, is one of the year’s best....
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