What CD would you like to see released?
Apparently Guy Hands of EMI has said that they plan to use the back catalogues of their artists to help generate extra profits.
While everyone else is appalled by this abuse of the music, I'm delighted. If we don't want it then we don't buy it. The possibilities of new Best Ofs, B-side collections, special editions of albums, reissues of long deleted music etc can only be a good thing surely. We're only exploited if we allow ourselves to be. It's not like a government that we all have to live with. It's a bunch of CDs we can just leave on the shop shelves.
What would you most like to see released?
I'd love the two Jane's Addiction albums to get an expanded remastered release. And this Pink Floyd Best Of http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/pink-floyd-best-1968-1972. And a Radiohead B-sides compilation.
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Smiths Boxset
I know its not EMI but I'd love a lavishly tooled book, everything included songs wise, live stuff and a decent DVD. In a smart box.
Who wouldn't buy that?
Me.
Not in a month of Sundays. I'd buy some gladdies instead.
Why??
would people be appalled at the release of back catalogues to generate extra profits? Isn't that what record companies do? Last time I looked none of them were registered charities.....
And aren't we punters always moaning about them not releasing all this old stuff? Not much point it languishing in the vaults now is there?
I think LOUD is right....we're not forced to buy them!!!!!
Steve Forbert
..has 2 albums that were never released on cd, though they do exist on vinyl. Little Stevie Orbit, Jackrabbit Slim or the self titled one. It's 2 of these 3 but I can't remember off the top of my head which 2.
He also recorded another album in the early '80s which the record company at the time didn't like and didn't release. Fans call it the 5th album, but he won't talk about it. I think "on the streets of this town" shows his anger about the whole thing.
not J. Slim
Jackrabbit Slim was out on CD, so it was the other two, both of which were great and deserve to be made available again.
The Sutherland Brothers
"Lifeboat" and "The Sutherland Brothers Band" could do with a new airing, especially when some toe-rags on Amazon are having a laugh asking three figure sums for what are only good albums, rather than life-changing works, simply because of their unavailability.
All of the See For Miles stuff
should be unearthed and re-reissued.
That would get us access to some early Kevin Coyne material, some early soft Machine, the Chillum album, several Pete Atkin albums, and shed loads more.
The continuing unavailability of major chunks of what was the SFM catalogue is a shame.
Kevin Coyne and See For Miles
The Coyne stuff on See For Miles was the Dandelion stuff and has recently been reissued in a great - and cheapish 3 CD boxset called the Dandelion years.
More importantly the Virgin back catalogue of Kevin's is being remastered as I write and a german company is releasing a DVD of a german concert performed in front of the berlin wall packaged with a TV documentary called The Unknown Famous.
Tony
ps my Coyne myspace has a couple of very obscure coyne tracks and 3 You Tube videos which together make up a TV show from the 70's of The In Living Black and White band.
www.myspace.com/kevincoynebookscom
By the way,
who are the "everyone else" who have said they are appalled at re-issuing back catalogue?
I just assumed
No one specific. I'm just assuming everyone will bitch about the evil empire raping our wallets with unwanted Best Of CDs that dare to break up whole albums into just a few songs.
Radiohead Party Album
as assembled by Jive Bunny. Just to annoy that pillock on Amazon.
Let's have...
...Soft Machine's 'Bundles' and 'Softs' back out there as they've been unavailable for years. They don't really have much to do with the sound of the original band but what I've heard has impressed me.
I still think The Rolling Stones' catalogue is in a dreadful mess, to be honest- the first few albums are still only available in US format and you have to get those ragbag albums like 'December's Children' or compilations to get hold of some EP tracks, meaning you end up with some of the hits about 3 or 4 times over and the albums only run for about 30 minutes. I think they should issue the original UK versions with EP tracks/rarities as bonus tracks or a separate disc to try and bring some coherency to one of the great bodies of work in rock music.
Agreed on Pink Floyd, that's another catalogue that needs an overhaul. I also feel Queen's catalogue has not been too well exploited on the CD format- various B sides and BBC sessions that are not available officially.
Seconded Softs
I think you'll find that "Softs" and "Bundles" are two of the unwitting victims of the See For Miles debacle.
How about
A box set celebrating the work of Dan Penn? You've got early songs like Conway Twitty's Is A Bluebird Blue or Arthur Conley's I Can't Stop (No, No, No), then you could throw in some of his productions with The Box Tops, and round it off with songs from out of print obscurities like his solo album Nobody's Fool and even better, his original demos of the songs he wrote - which everyone who's heard them claims are proof that Penn was, as well as being a hell of a songwriter, the greatest white soul singer of them all.
Call my cynical but...
Is LOUDSPEAKER blogging on behalf of EMI? This is the second post concerning Mr Guy Hands...
On the EMI payroll?
I've just been going through the web sites complaining about the Radiohead Best Of when I came across a comment about them planning to exploit the old music they already made money on years ago. The question of what would you like to see released popped into my head and so I posted it here. That and the fact his funny name makes me think dirty thoughts : )
And I would also like to see the Nashville film soundtrack released on CD. In a box set with the movie on DVD.
And a no bulls**t 4CD pop music compilation of all the biggest hits of the naughties. With all the tracks selected by a panel of distinguished critics who normally hate pop so that we only get the really good stuff and no insubstantial fluff.
Buckingham Nicks
I would love to see the Buckingham Nicks album released on CD (the pre Fleetwood Mac one). Unfortunately, I don't think they are EMI......
I vaguely remember Lindsey Buckingham on either Richard Skinner / Jonny Walker show one Saturday afternoon (it would be back in 92 / 93) saying that it was going to come out shortly.... 15 years later.....
One day, one day......
Given that Pacific Ocean Blue (+ Bambu) is out and Fotheringays 2nd is pending, according to Jerry Donahue, I guess eventually it will appear. Copyright is apparently owned currently by the couple, who pulled an intended release in 2005.
The Pointer Sisters!
Am I on the right site? Yes, really. They did some early stuff with covers of "The Shape I'm In" and the like. Can't even find 'em on Limescale, if I was looking.
Are Battle of the Field and The Prospect Before Us by the Albion Country Band and Albion Dance Band respectively currently available, my vinyl is scratched to nothing.
And please, please, please will someone put out Julie Covingtons RT produced and featuring record, with her version of Bright Lights amongst many other good folk/country/Brechtandweilly songs: I had it on cassette, copied from the record library, which disappeared in my remake and remodel in the early noughties. It is megabucks on e-bay or amazon marketplace.
So Jackrabbit Slim/Steve Forbert is again available on CD? Where? It is one of my all time favourites
I've got a pristine vinyl copy of the eponymous one.
I may back it up to CD-R, just in case. Of something.
I wasn't very clear...
...on my original post, but it was cleared up.
Jackrabbit Slim is available on cd. Self titled and Little Stevie Orbit are not.
A good friend copied my vinyl to cd a while ago, but it'd be nice to have the real thing.
Prince Buster Boxset
Most of his stuff is almost impossible to get, or are on really crappy compilations. There is a standard "best of' which keeps on getting released every couple of years with totally different songs on it and then going out of print.
It might be finally time to get him back on his feet.
Neil Young
I'd like some nice remasters of Journey Throught The Past and Time Fades Away.
Cd - not blu-ray please.
time Fades away
I could be wrong, but I believe that Time Fades Away cannot be remastered because of the experimental way it was recorded. An experiment that sadly didn't work very well. So we would be stuck with the murky sound. The same might apply to JTTP.
Still would be nice to have them on CD so that I could rip them to the ipod where the sound would hardly matter.
well...
..you can track down mp3s of them both. Either way I'd still buy them if they got re-released.