November & December 2012
Christmas is coming, the punter's looking fat .... a whole splurge of get-your-wallet- out big productions aimed at the Christmas market and not a lot of new stuff to whet your appetite. Good old Wobble & Levene, saving the day. An almost blank December for releases has been added.
5/11 - Inca Babies - Deep Dark Blue (Black Lagoon)
Second album from Manchester's reformed Babies. Got a bit excited about this one and it's already reviewed here.
5/11 - Melody's Echo Chamber - Same (Weird World)
Another genuinely interesting new release from multi-intrumentalist Melody Prochet. Many facets to this, and worth investigating.
5/11 - Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (Sony)
The twentieth anniversary of the release of the Manic's debut album is marked with a 2CD+DVD set including the remastered double album, a demo version of every track and a DVD featuring film clips, a documentary and television appearances.
12/11 - Jah Wobble & Keith Levene - Yin & Yang (Cherry Red)
Following on from the release of their promising 'EP' earlier in the year, we now see the full album from the reunited former PiL legends. Available on CD and in a staggeringly limited white vinyl edition which has probably already sold out on pre-order.
12/11 - Rolling Stones - GRRR! (Polydor)
We've always loved the Stones but are less than enamoured by their latest corporate live rip-offs at the O2. Fifty legendary tracks over three CDs, including two brand new numbers and a 24-page book, for eleven quid; the same with a 36-page hardback book and five postcards for thirty-five quid; or eighty tracks, a seven-inch single featuring radio sessions, a bonus CD of previously unreleased first-ever recordings and a 96-page hardback book for £104. Or buy the Wobble & Levene album for a tenner.
19/11 - The Jam - The Gift (UMC)
Even The Jam are getting the treatment with a Super Deluxe version of their final album arriving in four discs with the original, remastered album, ten singles tracks, fifteen remastered demos and a complete live show from Wembley in December 1982 during the band's farewell tour. The DVD features promo clips and television appearances and is accompanied by a 72-page hardback book and a tour programme.
19/11 - Alice Cooper - Old School (Commercial Marketing)
An interesting one, this. Four CDs featuring demos, rehearsals, radio clips and interviews from the days when Alice Cooper were a band - 1964-1974. There is also a full live show from the Killer tour of 1971 and a 60-page book. All nicely housed and something pleasingly different.
19/11 - The Who - Live At Hull (Commercial Marketing)
The other concert recorded in the same week as the Live At Leeds album, and generally considered to be a better show. The tapes were given the treatment by Pete Townshend in 2010 and it now appears as a 2CD release in a six-fold digipak.
19/11 - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
The impressive debut album gets the Deluxe treatment in a 2CD+DVD package featuring seventeen bonus tracks, promo videos and US tour footage.
19/11 - The Who - The Studio Albums (Commercial Marketing)
Fourteen Who albums reissued in heavy duty vinyl in a box set. The Beatles have a similar set available six days earlier entitled 'The Stereo Albums'. Strictly limited ... and you get the drift.
26/11 - The House Of Love - Deluxe (Cherry Red)
A 3CD set containing the band's complete works for Creation (the debut album and all of the singles). There is also a raft of previously unissued bonus tracks, fresh sleeve notes and rare photographs. Fifty tracks in all, definitely worth a snuffle.
26/11 - T.Rex - The Slider (Edsel)
Limited to 2,000 sets, this is a numbered 40th Anniversary box set of the really rather good The Slider album and features:
• Two CDs, one DVD, one 180g vinyl album and three seven-inch singles
• 48 page casebound book
• Liner notes by Tony Visconti, Mark Paytress and Marc Bolan
• 105 minute filmed interview with Tony Visconti
• Top Of The Pops and other TV appearances
• 40 page book of sheet music
• Poster
• Reproductions of memorabilia and ephemera
Damn, I was doing so well, but I want this.
26/11 - Lunch & Howard - Shotgun Wedding (Cherry Red)
Loopy Lydia Lunch and the world's most unique guitarist, former Birthday Party maestro Rowland S Howard, see their 1980s collaboration reissued at long last. Anything Howard plays on is worth selling your home for.
3/12 - Blur - Parklive (Parlophone)
A range of formats for the release of Blur's post-Olympics gig at Hyde Park on 12th August. The bumper package includes four CDs plus a DVD including the band live at the 100 Club and other tracks the band had played live over 2012. The concert itself is covered by two CDs and the DVD which are also available separately.
3/12 - The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned (Sanctuary)
The first punk album to be released in the UK, the 35th anniversary of that momentous occasion is celebrated with the production of a super duper box set including four CDs, a hardback book with essays from all four original members of the band, the DDD songbook in its original hardback format, badges and the Pete Frame Damned family tree. On the four discs are the original album, live tracks, demos, Peel Sessions and an hour-long audio documentary.
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