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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Misunderstood - Children Of The Sun The Complete...
Definitive statement on the John Peel-lauded psychedelic pioneersOn 31 December 1966, the Daily Mail's Virginia Ironside got to grips with a new trend in pop music. Under the heading “The bleeps take...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Sly & The Viscaynes - Yellow Moon The Complete Recordings...
SLY & THE VISCAYNES - YELLOW MOON THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1961-62 Sly Stone’s musical baby picturesHistorically important collection of Sly Stone’s musical baby picturesThe Viscaynes ought to have...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Be-Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY Be-Bop Deluxe's Drastic Plastic in an expanded box setBox-set edition of Bill Nelson and Co’s final album reveals the inevitability of the band’s demiseBill Nelson knew February...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Linda Smith - Till Another Time 1988-1996
LINDA SMITH - TILL ANOTHER TIME 1988-1996 A singular American sonic auteurEssential compilation celebrating the singular American sonic auteur“I See Your Face” opens with a short burst of Phil...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jon Savage's 1972-1976 - All Our Times Have Come
Tracking the route to punk without stating the obviousClose to the back of Jon Savage’s 1991 book England’s Dreaming, there’s a section titled “Discography.” In this, he goes through the records which...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker (2010➝2020)
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: TAME IMPALA - INNERSPEAKER (2010➝2020) Box-set makeover of crisp, fizzing debut albumBox-set makeover of one of the last decade or so’s greatest albumsHeard now, InnerSpeaker sounds...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Wes Montgomery - The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings
Live recordings from 1965 are a footnote in the jazz guitarist’s discographySpeaking to America’s Hit Parader magazine in August 1967, Frank Zappa said “If you want to learn how to play guitar, listen...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
T2 - IT'LL ALL WORK OUT IN BOOMLAND Multi-disc reissue of atmospheric prog-rock gemAtmospheric prog-rock gem from 1970 gets the multi-disc treatmentIt'll All Work Out In Boomland was issued by Decca at...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Jason Pierce and co’s first album reappearsLazer Guided Melodies was great. It still is. Spiritualized’s debut album built from what was already there in Jason Pierce’s previous band Spacemen 3 and...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 7
Once again, the essential series comes up with the goodsCarolyn Crawford’s “Ready or Not Here Comes Love” is a 1971 recording. It sounds like a Motown classic from 1968 or so – a confident lead voice...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: AL STEWART - YEAR OF THE CAT Box-set version of the US bestseller raises unanswered questionsBox-set version of the US best-seller raises unanswered questionsAt the end of 1976 Al...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Outsiders - Count For Something
Box set tracking Adrian Borland’s pre-Sound path through punkWith the Spiral Scratch EP, Buzzcocks became the first British band of the punk rock era to issue a do-it-yourself seven-inch. Everything...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Loft - Ghost Trains & Country Lanes
THE LOFT - GHOST TRAINS & COUNTRY LANES Ill-fated early Creation Records bandThe ill-fated early Creation Records band gets anthologised“All the best bits of Dylan and the Velvets with a post-punk...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Songs
Never mind the hiccups, it’s the songs that countEarly last month, Donovan issued his extraordinary new single “I am the Shaman”. Recorded at David Lynch’s Los Angeles studio, it was produced by the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Screamers - Demo Hollywood 1977
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: SCREAMERS First-ever official release from the Los Angeles art-punksImportant first-ever official release from the Los Angeles art-punksIn its first issue of 1979, Melody Maker...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Dungen - Stadsvandringar
The Swedish sonic adventurer’s second album resurfaces under the new title ‘II’Dungen’s October 2005 appearance on Late Night With Conan O'Brien was incongruous. Here was a Swedish band on an...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Elton John - Regimental Sgt. Zippo
ELTON JOHN - REGIMENTAL SGT. ZIPPO Reg Dwight's period as a psychedelic popster is revealedReg Dwight's period as a psychedelic popster is revealedEmpty Sky, Elton John’s first album was released in...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Yardbirds - Yardbirds
YARDBIRDS The ‘Roger The Engineer’ album reborn as a box setThe ‘Roger The Engineer’ album is made-over as a box setInstability coursed through the Yardbirds in 1966. When their first studio album...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Count Bishops - Speedball
THE COUNT BISHOPS - SPEEDBALL How pub rockers' 1975 EP helped set the agenda for PunkHow pub rockers' 1975 EP helped set the agenda for punk rockA new band called the Sex Pistols played their fifth...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Karen Black - Dreaming Of You (1971-1976)
Marvellous collection of the actor’s previously unknown recordingsKaren Black’s connection with music was never hidden. In Robert Altman’s 1975 film Nashville she played a country singer. In 1970’s...
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