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Reissue CDs Weekly: Losing Touch With My Mind
Mostly mind-melting box-set compendium of ‘Psychedelia in Britain 1986-1990’It begins with The Stone Roses’ “Don’t Stop”, the fourth track from their 1989 debut long player. A backwards though...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Marvin Gaye - You’re The Man
Essential archive trawl, but not the unreleased album it’s touted asThe sticker on the sleeve says “Marvin Gaye’s Lost Album.” A prime internet sales site states “You’re The Man was the album that was...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Terry Allen
‘Pedal Steal + Four Corners’: outstanding collection of the Texas-born polymaths’s aural playsTorso Hell tells the story of an American soldier whose limbs were blown off in Vietnam. Amazingly, he and...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Crass
The anarcho-punk legends back catalogue is treated with appropriate respectAbbey Road Studios and the anarcho-punk legends Crass seem an unlikely pairing. The new, vinyl-only reissues of The Feeding of...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Bill Evans - Evans in England
Fan-friendly collection of previously unissued 1969 live recordingsThe Bill Evans Trio played London’s Ronnie Scott’s from 1 to 27 December 1969 as a co-billing with Blossom Dearie. The season would...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Manfred Mann, The Searchers, The Yardbirds
Three of Britain’s greatest Sixties bands are overhauled - yet againRepackaging and resuscitating the catalogues of endlessly reissued bands is fraught. By their nature, completists already have...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Ronnie Lane
The ‘Just For a Moment’ box set tracks what happened after Faces It was inevitable that Rod Stewart’s distracting solo adventures would eventually kill off Faces, the band he fronted. Less predictable...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Bernard Herrmann
The music for Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie’ finally gets the treatment it deservesDebates about whether 1964’s Marnie presaged Alfred Hitchcock’s downslide as a force will run and run. It is however...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jeanette
The Anglophone world is given a taste of ‘Spain's Silky-Voiced Songstress’Jeanette’s “Porque Te Vas” is a prime example of a type of Europop which – beyond a brief flirtation around 1968 to 1971: think...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Marty Wilde
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: MARTY WILDE 'A Lifetime in Music' is a worthy tribute to a British pop great‘A Lifetime in Music’: eye-opening box-set tribute to a British pop greatAlthough Marty Wilde will...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: R.E.M.
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: R.E.M. The surprise return of ‘In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003’The surprise return of ‘In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003’In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 was issued...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Pink Fairies
‘The Polydor Years’ offers an unexpectedly low freak factorLike Lemmy, the bassist with their fellow London-based freaks Hawkwind, Pink Fairies crossed the bridge between the late-Sixties underground...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jambú e os Míticos Sons da Amazônia
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY Jambú e os Míticos Sons da Amazônia - portrait of Brazilian city BelémTop-notch aural portrait of Brazilian city BelémBelém’s population is one-and-a-half million. Located 100km...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jon Savage's 1965–1968, Modern & Kent Northern Soul
Comps showing how it should be doneLast month, this column pondered a vinyl-only R.E.M. reissue. Despite the mystifyingly high sales price of original pressings, reissuing a best-of mostly collecting...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: John Renbourn
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: JOHN REDBOURN The great guitarist's pre-Pentangle magpie-mindednessThe ‘Unpentangled’ box set captures the great guitarist's pre-Pentangle magpie-mindednessAlthough British...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Peter Laughner
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: PETER LAUGHNER Tribute to the American underground catalystMajor box-set tribute to the important American underground catalyst“As much as I love New York City, it’s all too obvious...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: 1977 The Year Punk Broke, Optimism / Reject
Box-set reportage on the malleable world of Brit-punk and what came nextBritain’s musical eruption of 1977 wasn’t just about the now. As the new box set 1977– The Year Punk Broke amply demonstrates,...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Fernando Falcão - Memória das Águas
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY Fernando Falcão - The rediscovery of a Brazilian musical auteurThe rediscovery of a Brazilian musical auteurMemória das Águas hasn’t figured in lists of great Brazilian albums....
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Come On Let's Go!
Thrill-packed compendium of ‘Power Pop Gems From the 70s & 80s’The core paradox with powerpop is that most of those who sought to create the perfect guitar driven, hook-laden pop song failed to...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: PHIL MANZANERA Roxy Music man’s overlooked first solo album 'Diamond Head'Roxy Music man’s overlooked first solo album is a winnerDiamond Head was Roxy Music guitarist Phil...
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