Remastered with 20 UNRELEASED DEMOS, A FULL UNRELEASED LIVE VERSION OF TOMMY and HI FIDELITY 5.1 MIX
Released November 11th 2013
Tommy, The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom is to be released in Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions this Autumn.
Originally released in May 1969, The Who were at a career crossroads, known mainly as a singles band, but this project launched them as a serious ‘albums band’ and it has now sold over 20 million copies as well as regularly turning up in lists of the most influential albums of all time.
Coming after The Who Sell Out in 1967, it marked a complete change in style with Pete Townshend’s lengthy conceptual narrative bringing exciting new opportunities to rock music. Tommy was and remains to be an ambitious, complex and controversial work, which was initially banned by the BBC.
This new Deluxe and Super Deluxe version of the album comes with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a full live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn!
18 of the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottawa, Canada on October the 15th 1969. Three others, I’m Free, Tommy’s Holiday Camp and We’re Not Gonna Take It were lost due to tape reels being changed during the show so are taken from later shows of the same era.
As discussed at length in Pete Townshend’s autobiography the tapes were all supposed to be destroyed but were kept by long time Who sound man Bob Pridden despite Pete’s instructions.
The Super Deluxe box also features a 5.1 mix featuring the complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format
As well as the music the limited edition Super Deluxe boxset comes with a hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos, memorabilia, a 20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a rare facsimile Tommy poster housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.
www.thewho.com
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Deep Purple ’70s Albums Box Set Announced
Rhino Records is scheduled to release the box set ‘Deep Purple: The Complete Albums 1970 – 1976’ on October 8th.
The 10-CD set includes studio albums and live records, and one LP that was released in 1969. The collection spans the Mark II, III and IV incarnations of the band and includes the landmark albums "Machine Head," "Burn," "Made in Japan" and more.
Deep Purple Mark II featured Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Roger Glover. Mark III featured Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice and Mark IV featured Lord, Paice, Hughes, Coverdale and Blackmore's replacement Tommy Bolin.
‘Deep Purple With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerto for Group and Orchestra’ (1969)
‘In Rock’ (1970)
‘Fireball’ (1971)
‘Machine Head’ (1972)
‘Made in Japan’ (1972)
‘Who Do We Think We Are?’ (1973)
‘Burn’ (1974)
‘Stormbringer’ (1974)
‘Come Taste the Band’ (1975)
‘Made in Europe’ (1975)
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from our friends at sundazed.com
Captain Beefheart's Debut Album Reissued By SundazedCaptain Beefheart's 1967 debut album Safe As Milk introduced the world to a one-of-a-kind visionary whose unique output had no precedent in contemporary music. Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, filtered the raw influence of the blues and R&B through his own singular musical sensibility and left-field lyrical wordplay, and surrounded himself with some of the most talented and inventive young musicians around. The result was an album that, even in the heady year in which it was released, sounded like nothing else, and the stage for one of rock's most iconoclastic and idiosyncratic careers.
With backup from the first, and perhaps finest, incarnation of Beefheart's legendary Magic Band (including future solo star Ry Cooder on guitar and teenage drum prodigy John "Drumbo" French), and production from future studio superstar Richard Perry, Beefheart unveils his fully-formed sound and vision on such landmark tracks as "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Abba Zaba," "Dropout Boogie," "I'm Glad" and "Electricity" (covered two decades later by Sonic Youth).
Now released on LP and CD by Sundazed Music, this landmark album now sounds the way it was meant to sound, thanks to the restoration of Perry's rare original — and, to most fans, superior — mono mix, which was later altered by Beefheart's label without the artist's involvement. Both the LP and CD version of this definitive edition feature authoritative new liner notes by Rolling Stone editor and longtime Beefheart enthusiast David Fricke.
"In mono, Safe As Milk is a powerful, concentrated revelation," Fricke writes, further noting, "Safe As Milk promised comfort, exotic nourishment and rude health — and delivered. Created in a year rich in historic debuts and transformative statements about rock's dynamic and expressive possibilities, Safe As Milk was so far in it was out."
This title will be ready to ship by the street date of September 24, 2013.
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Garage Rockers Distortions Get Vinyl Reissue From SundazedMinneapolis was their home turf. But in the decades that followed, appreciation for Distortions swelled to tidal wave proportions among fans of amped-up, ramped-up, balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll. Headlined by two red-hot, stone-cold killers, "Action Woman" and "Soul Searchin'"—both penned by producer Warren Kendrick—Distortions is arguably the greatest private-press garage band album of the era.
The Litter formed in 1966 as a merger between two popular Twin Cities combos, the Victors and the Tabs. They quickly established a reputation as the wildest, loudest band on the scene. Bill Strandlof was responsible for the incendiary, feedback-laced guitar work on "Action Woman"—a local hit for the band when released as a single in January 1967—but by the summer he'd been replaced by another fast-fingered guitar slinger, Zippy Caplan. Caplan's fiery leads helped ignite the remainder of Distortions, including smoking interpretations of the Who's "Substitute," the Small Faces' "Whatcha Gonna Do About It," an intense reading of "Codine," and a comprehensive reconstruction-destruction of "I'm A Man." Sundazed is thrilled to present the first-ever from-the-masters vinyl reissue of Distortions, housed in the dead-cool original artwork and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Pure, unfiltered '60s garage rock excitement is just a needle-drop away.
This title will be ready to ship by the street date of September 24, 2013.
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Avenged Sevenfold Vinyl Release
Avenged Sevenfold's new album "Hail to the King" is now available on vinyl. This exclusive 2-LP set in a gatefold jacket features an alternative cover artwork designed by artist Cam Rackam.
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Death Cab for Cutie to reissue Transatlanticism for 10th anniversary
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Atoms for Peace’s 9×12″ AMOK box-set made available for general sale
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Vinyl records trampled by Deadmau5 fans are transformed into sound art with Project Bootleg
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Suede announce vinyl box set of albums and B-sides
The Scorpions: Crazy World deluxe reissue delayed to October
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cool article from across the pond:
Radio Still Spins You Round, Round, Baby
Write On: Invada Records On Soundtrack Culture
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from our friends at vinylcollective.com
This Weeks Top 10 Albums – August 26th, 2013
Here are the Top 10 albums sold at Shop Radio Cast for the week of August 20 – August 26, 2013:
1. Brand New – Your Favorite Weapon LP
2. Far – Water & Solutions LP
3. Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die 2XLP
4. Moving Mountains – Moving Mountains LP
5. Into It. Over It. – Intersections (White) LP
6. Silverchair – Frogstomp 2XLP
7. Faith No More – Album of the Year (IMPORT) LP
8. The Horrible Crowes – Live At The Troubadour 2XLP
9. The Get Up Kids – Eudora 2XLP
10. The Get Up Kids – On a Wire LP
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album cover art of the day:
Details On New Album "Fire Eater" Revealed By Aska
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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 8/19-8/25, 2013
Vinyl Top 25:
1. Diarrhea Planet - I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
2. Ty Segall - Sleeper
3. The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
4. Superchunk - I Hate Music
5. The Wild Feathers - The Wild Feathers
6. Washed Out - Paracosm
7. Explosions In The Sky - Prince Avalanche OST
8. Valerie June - Pushin' Against A Stone
9. No Age - An Object
10. The Features - The Features
11. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
12. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
13. Amanda Shires - Down Fell The Doves
14. Crocodiles - Crimes Of Passion
15. Mac DeMarco - 2
16. True Widow - Circumambulation
17. Deafheaven - Sunbather
18. Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
19. Luella & The Sun - Luella & The Sun 10"
20. D Watusi - Dark Party
21. Charley Patton - Complete Recorded Works Vol. II
22. White Hills - So You Are So You'll Be
23. John Mayer - Born & Raised
24. Radiohead - OK Computer
25. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
