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The Doors – Strange Days [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2017)
50th anniversary edition features the original stereo and mono mixes – both newly remastered. …Strange Days, originally issued on Elektra in September 1967, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and...
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VA – Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track [Deluxe Edition]...
Saturday Night Fever didn’t invent disco…but in many ways, it epitomized the genre. With the December 1977 release of the John Badham-directed drama and its soundtrack album, the onetime underground...
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The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2017)
…The band’s second album, Days of Future Passed paved the way for the birth of progressive rock with its overt classically-inspired elements – including its closing song, “Nights in White Satin,” which...
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Matt Bianco – Matt Bianco [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
…Released in 1986, Matt Bianco introduced a new line-up of the U.K.-based continental jazz-pop group; vocalist Basia and keyboardist Danny White had both left the group (the duo would collaborate on...
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Eagles – Hotel California [40th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (2017)
…Hotel California may be the apex of the band’s “high times and rock ‘n’ roll” attitude. Eagles’ first album without Bernie Leadon, and with Joe Walsh, Hotel California embraced a darker, more “rock”...
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Status Quo – Just Supposin’ [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
…re-mastered by Andy Pearce with Bob Young from original tapes, this 2CD release has a bonus disc of B-Sides and live recordings. Recorded side-by-side with the following year’s Never Too Late, Just...
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Status Quo – Never Too Late [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
…This 3CD Deluxe edition has been re-mastered by Andy Pearce and Bob Young from the original tapes and has a bonus disc of archive recordings as well as a concert from 1981. Never Too Late is best...
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Ramones – Rocket to Russia [40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2017)
Rhino continue their Ramones archive releases with a 40th anniversary super deluxe edition of the band’s third album, Rocket to Russia. With punk rock reaching a fever pitch in the summer of 1977, the...
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The Hoosiers – The Trick to Life [10 Year Anniversary Edition] (2017)
…expanded 2CD edition, with extra tracks, remixes, live versions, and instrumentals. Fans of the Feeling’s bright, playful, and undeniably British songcraft will get a similar buzz from The Hoosiers,...
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Bananarama – The Greatest Hits Collection [Collector’s Edition] (2017)
…this two-disc set is based on the main 16 tracks from the original CD release plus an additional five singles, along with 11 of “The Greatest Remixes” from original singles. Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey...
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Wilco – A.M. + Being There [Deluxe Editions] (2017)
…The Chicago alternative outfit was born in 1994 from the ashes of influential alt-country outfit Uncle Tupelo, following the dissolution of Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar’s creative partnership. Farrar...
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Rush – A Farewell to Kings [40th Anniversary Edition] (2017)
On 1977’s A Farewell to Kings it quickly becomes apparent that Rush had improved their songwriting and strengthened their focus and musical approach. Synthesizers also mark their first prominent...
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Ace Frehley – Anomaly [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
When all four original members of Kiss released solo albums in 1978, critics and fans alike hailed lead guitarist Ace Frehley’s disc as the best of the bunch. Additionally, Frehley was the only one to...
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Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols [40th...
40 years after Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols charged into record stores, Virgin and Universal Music Catalogue are bringing a box set version of the set back into print – and they’ve...
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Roni Size & Reprazent – New Forms [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2017)
In the U.K. music scene ca. 1997, Britpop and trip hop were in descent in the eyes of the hype happy press with the rise of the various tendrils of what would be called electronica. That point was...
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I. Benjahman – Fraction of Jah Action [Expanded Edition] (2017)
…Self-composed, produced and financed by Alex Robertson aka I Benjahman, Fraction of Jah Action, originally a 7 track album, and the handful of 12” singles that preceded were graced by the hands of...
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Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
…Born on the South Side of Chicago, Minnie Riperton was a musical pro when she released Perfect Angel in 1974. Blessed with a five-octave range and a compelling high soprano, she’d sung background...
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Wendy & Lisa – Eroica: Special Edition (2017)
…Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman were already several years removed from their split with Prince (who disbanded The Revolution in 1986); in 1987, they put their only pop single on the U.S. charts with...
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Califone – Heron King Blues [Deluxe Reissue] (2017)
…including previously unreleased live tracks and outtakes. On Heron King Blues, Califone continues to sharpen the attack they mounted on Quicksand/ Cradlesnakes: a very natural-sounding blend of folk...
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Black Moon + In the Hot Seat [Deluxe Editions] (2017)
BMG adds two more expanded titles to its collection of Emerson, Lake & Palmer reissues. Black Moon, on 2 CDs, has the remastered, original 1992 album on Disc 1 with 4 bonus single edits, while the...
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