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What's left to release on CD?
There's going to be a great record released in 2011.
No, straight up, I can't believe it myself!
On Cherry Red/rpm, and released on Monday 24th January, 'I'm Kiki Dee - The Fontana Years, '63-68'.
Game, most definitely, on.
I've been after these recordings for years and it got me thinking if there's anything else that is conspicuous by its absence?
Here are a few:
1. The first two Stones' British LPs (scandalous that they are not currently available).
2. The Stones at the Beeb.
3. 'Beatles '67', with the incidental music from 'Magical Mystery Tour' and the Roundhouse 'Carnival of Light'.
4. The Beatles' Christmas Album (i.e. the seven flexis).
5. The Beatles at the Beeb Volume. 2.
and, of course, 6. Bob Dylan's 'The Basement Tapes'.
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Wild Man Fischer
I love the Zappa produced double album An Evening With Wild Man Fischer. There has never been a CD release...indeed much of Zappa remains patchy ill-served and scattershot.
Fischer
I did read once that Gail Zappa is blocking the reissue of this album. One can only guess as to why.
No matter, get a vinyl rip here: - http://www.mediafire.com/?j1p0xowjlunnocw
Edit: -
Most of what is listed in this thread is available to download as vinyl rips (many of which are surprisingly good quality) or as out-of-print CDs. Go to http://www.captaincrawl.com. For instance, there's a rip of Time Fades Away doing the rounds that is so good that it might as well be a CD.
Meanwhile, Peter Skellern is very poorly represented on compact disc. The Mercury albums Skellern & Astaire are fabulous records if you're into that sort of thing; the former never on CD and the latter long out-of-print.
I might add that if you're into vinyl ripping, Groove Mechanic is bloody amazing at removing clicks & pops: - http://www.coyotes.bc.ca/DL_GM.html
The first Stones album
was available commercially for a few years. I've got it and I remember buying it in Our Price. ( I've also got the Beatles Christmas discs on CD but, er, that wasn't readily available in Our Price... )
Well...
...there's these:
* the two 1970s James Griffin LPs (one deleted on CD; one never on CD)
* a Fassbender-Russell anthology
* Focus Live At The BBC (R1 In Concert) 1973
* Quintessence studio outtakes 1969-71
And, with a bit of luck, 2011 might see some or all.
More Beatles
Live at Hollywood Bowl (I have one though ...)
And...
...there's still a VAST amount of fabulous 1970s Australian rock releases that have never been released on CD. The best are steadily being exhumed and polished with lovely packaging and bonus tracks by the laudible Aztec Music label (see www.aztecmusic.net for a list of their 60-odd releases with sound samples so far).
For example... they've done exquisite expanded issues of the first two Spectrum LPs already, 1970 - 71, and I believe 2011 will see the first CD release for the third in the series, by the band's alter ego Indelible Murtceps, which was ironically a terrific, commercial, Beatle-esque effort lurking in an appallingly ugly sleeve and title ('Warts Up Your Nose'). Success? They didn't make it easy on themselves...
Here's a track from the second LP:
On February 7...
...Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael is released properly on CD for the first time. It really is a masterpiece. Here's one of the tracks:
Perfect. Just perfect.
A wonderful record, one of the best vocal albums that I have ever heard.
It was out on CD briefly ages ago as part of a Music For Pleasure 2-for-1.
You're right
All the tracks from Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael were released on a double album called Matt Monro Sings (not the only album with that title), which was deleted some time ago.
Richard Moore, the audio engineer who works hard finding original master tapes for transfer to CD, says that he has found even better quality originals than the ones that were used for the original vinyl masters. To judge by the work that he did on the recent Matt Monro Complete Singles box set, we're in for a treat. (Are there any better sounding records than those produced at Abbey Road in the early 60s?)
I hope that this release will give a fillip to Matt Monro's reputation. To my ears, he's at least the equal of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. Unfortunately, the album is being released in a package with the audio book of the Monro biography by his daughter Michelle and, even though it will be at a budget price, I think that may mean that it sells only to hard-core Monro fans.
This Is The Life
is playing as I type. I am back in Devon, lying on the beach at Mothecombe at the age of 11, and my cool uncle Bill has just fired up his Pye Black Box transistor radio. The top twenty run-down is going to start soon, but in the meantime we've been treated to a swing with Mr. Monro. Uncle Bill is clicking his fingers along to Matt, the picnic is being opened, the sun is shining and indeed, this is the life.
'Nobody's Fool' by Dan Penn...
It was reissued on the Repertoire label in the mid 90s but has been long unavailable. Great record.
Not *completely* unavailable Patrick
DM me if you're struggling to get hold of a copy...
Thanks Paul...
I've got a copy of the Repertoire reissue as it happens. The only copies I've seen go for silly money on Amazon...
The Gents
80s Mod Revival Band.
Two LPs - How It All Began & Waiting To Be Seen.
According to their website, a deal was done for the release in early 2011.
It now appears that this deal has fallen through, and I will have to continue with the vinyl rips (including a couple of annoying scratches, and one great big scratch which has rendered side 2 of WTBS unplayable/un-rippable
A 5-track Joy Division EP would satisfy me...
1. At A Later Date, from the Short Circuit Live Electric Circus EP (Oct 77).
2. Digital, from the Genetic Records demos (Mar 79).
3. Atrocity Exhibition, from the Piccadilly Radio session (Jun 79).
4. Transmission, from the first Transmission session (Jul 79).
5. Novelty, also from the first Transmission session.
I'm pretty sure that would mean every thing they ever recorded was available on CD.
(Sorry, I'm in 'completist' mode at the moment as I work my way through the beautifully designed and packaged Orange Juice box-set, Coals To Newcastle, which the ever-wonderful Mrs Umpire bought me for Christmas.)
Topically
Lick My Decals Off Baby.
What the Warners beancounters see fit not to have this out there is most puzzling
Plus most of the recorded work of Nic Jones, and others. The sorry saga of Celtic Music and their treatment of their list is one of the sorrows of the catalogue.
Drop
me a line.
Times Fades Away
There are bootlegs aplenty of Neil Young's missing album (there's several unreleased ones, but this actually came out on LP), but there's never been an official CD release. Probably turn up in Archives 2 at high cost!
Time Fades Away
There are indeed loads of bootleg CD versions out there, I bought one in West Wales (of all places) a few years ago for a recession busting fiver and the quality is excellent(listening to it now). This version comes with a copy of Where the Buffalo Roams soundtrack which I think mat have been released on vinyl but I can't recall. It's a bit strange but nice to have I suppose.
Read somewhere
That Neil Young really doesn't like the album and continually vetoes any re release. Personally, I love it and wish the old goat would change his mind!
Also, am really hoping Apple get a cleaned-up DVD/album of Shea Stadium out there at some point soon...
Both Dr Strut albums.
OK. All three if you're being mega-purist.
Ultra-obscure sort of jazz-rock. They did the song Struttin', the theme to the old Alexis Korner Radio 1 show.
And let's not forget...
...Phil Jones & The Unknown Blues!
Australian 1966-67 hitmakers who are reforming (5 originals+) in April 2011 for the first time ever, for a major Aussie blues festival. A first-time CD collection of the 60s recordings is hopefully coming out next year on CD too.
And who's that on vocals? Why, of course - it's Phil 'Shiva' Jones, who ditched the Mod scene shortly after this run of homeland success and caught a boat to Notting Hill Gate where he formed... yes, you're ahead of me there, it's your old friends and mine: Quintessence!
Blue Slipper
by Helen Watson - have had to keep my cassette. Here's a sample: -
Jess Roden
in particular these two gems: Player Not the Game and Stone Chaser.
These were announced on Amazon a while back as being due in 2011, but it's a myth; in reality they're only currently available in the ghastly form of the hideous chimera that is the eastern european knock-off needle-drop. Either that or three figures secondhand and with even less provenance from some chancer.
We need the real thing please, along with the rest of the gaps in his utterly superb yet unobtainable back catalogue.
The campaign continues...
http://musiquarium.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/unsung-heroes-no1-jess-roden...
Something else that's coming out on CD in 2011...
A Deluxe Edition of Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous. "Are there any of thuh goils who want a little more oirish in 'em?" in pristine sound - *that* is what I have been waiting for.
I imagine the shelf in the tape library for that gem...
One reel of live performance, poorly recorded, with too much audience noise and several full scale deflection feedback incidents, plus twenty reels of meticulously constructed studio overdubs.
Having said that, it doesn't affect the fact that it rocks like a maniac and is in my top ten live albums of all time ever, ever, ever list.
Nail. Head.
Who cares whether there are overdubs, and lots of 'em? The record - as you say - rocks like the proverbial bastard and that's enough for me.
Felt enthusiasm
Went to Amazon
Purchased original for £4.49
Happy days
Thanks gents!
Any other Lizzy coming out?
We still need proper definitive editions with b-sides of Fighting/Jailbreak/Johnny The Fox too...all classics.
Most of the Lizzy albums...
have been or are about to be reissued as deluxe editions.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jailbreak-Thin-Lizzy/dp/B004D2XOLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Johnny-Fox-Thin-Lizzy/dp/B004D2XOKY/ref=sr_1_4?s...
Michael Marra
Mr Marra's back catalogue remains unavailable. Something of a national scandal, IMO.
Aside from gems like 'Beefheart and bones' (separating couple split record collection) 'Happed in mist' (a scene from Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song) and 'Hermless' (the alternative national anthem) and the 'Gael Blue' big band album, there are various plays, scores etc. that have never been released.
When you consider the torrent of the unexceptional that is released, it's all just bizarre.
And if that's not enough, he breathes new life into this standard, making it a thing of melancholy beauty:
Me in a'
I'm a huge fan too, Lando. EDKIB? You'll know that some of it is available to download officially but for the benefit of anyone else in the Massive, he has a fantastic website (that would put many 'stars' to shame) with loads of unreleased songs and performances.
I'd also love a cd of the original St Andrew and the Woolen Mill tape.
The latest Michael Marra CD
The latest Michael Marra CD recorded live with Mr McFall's Chamber is a true pleasure. Make sure you get it before it vanishes too!
From time to time he sells home made CDs at his gigs and generally seems astounded that the limited quantities sell out instantly. I have two of these and treasure them.
The Basement Tapes...
..is available, isn't it?
Do you mean the multi-disc gathering of odds and ends (see what I did there?) that circulates in the shadows?
They could do no worse
than give 'A Tree With Roots' an official release. Garth Hudson saw a copy and told Greil Marcus that 'They got it all'.
http://theband.hiof.no/albums/boot_tree_with_roots.html
Or maybe a deluxe 11 Cd set?
http://theband.hiof.no/albums/boot_from_the_reels_complete_basements.htm...
Depends how deep you want to go into the basement
I do like much of A Tree with Roots
However it is, to say the least, patchy. The official release gets most of the best stuff and certainly the best recorded. Given that anyone who really wants it will already have acquired it, would there be a market?
Aye there's the rub
'A Tree With Roots' sound quality is pretty great and even sprinkling some fuckin fairy dust on via remastering is unlikely to improve the original tapes much (wherever they are).
Although it already been heavily bootlegged didn't stop em putting out the Halloween 64 or Manchester 66 sets. I wonder if Mr D's 70's output is going to get an overhaul now they have done the 60's albums every which way.
True
If it came with a sort of Chronicles vol. 2 booklet, covering the relevant timescale then I'd be in.
Said it before
The Headboys - The Shape Of Things To Come. I have this on cassette and have downloaded a dodgy, er, download. I want the real thing, preferably with bonus tracks, information, photos, etc. I just love it - I think I am a bit soft in the head where Power Pop is concerned.
The Squares - This Is Airebeat. This is the only track from the Leeds band released on a USA compilation CD. They were briefly signed to Sire Records and only released singles. I want the elusive never-released CD of all their tracks, including the self-financed Buddy Holly single, in which I put 25% of the money needed to press it up.
Headboys
Thanks for that - I'd forgotten how good The Shape of Things was. I have that on 7" vinyl somewhere
The Shape Of Things To Come
is indeed a great track.
I bought the "20 Of Another Kind" Volume 2 compilation which had this on it. Alongside The Jam, Cure, Chords, Purple Hearts, Tubeway Army and others. Top compilation.
Two that I've been after for a very long time........
....and if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be much obliged - if they exist of course in CD format....
Wings Over America - my 3 lp behemoth has seen better days, likewise
Tommy - as performed by The London Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Choir with guest appearances by Rod Stewart, Sandy Denny, Maggie Bell and Stevie Winwood.
My Dad originally had it and I used pore over the fantastic and dark cover art and booklet for hours on end.
Wings Over america certainly
Wings Over america certainly exists on CD. I bought a copy from a library sale a while back. No extra bits or remastering just transferred to CD.
Tommy
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=9...
Tommy is widely available (see above), but Wings Over America appears to be deleted at present though there are some copies available here:
http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?currency=UK&filt_skip=1&search_detailed=...
Tommy's even cheaper
up the Amazon.
Wait for WOA
The current version sounds terrible (vinyl much better), and it is expected to be part of the Macca reissue campaign that started with a deluxe Band on the Run.
There is a Japanese version out there,
done by Toshiba I think, that's split over 3 CDs to mimic the original vinyl, rather than jammed onto 2 like the crappy version we got over here; it's alleged to have far superior sound. The only things stopping you grabbing a copy is an almost total lack of availability and the corresponding effects via the Yen exchange rate!
Thanks all..........
Some of the prices for WOA on Amazon Marketplace and eBay are just insane. £86.01!! I will wait for Macca to get his arse in gear for the remastered version.
Cheers for the heads up on Tommy. I'm thrilled that the CD comes with the original (albeit miniaturised) artwork!
Buckingham Nicks
The "Buckingham Nicks" album that lead to Mick Fleetwood asking them to join. Some of the tracks made it to the Fleetwood Mac / Fleetwood Mac album.
I remember hearing Lindsey Buckingham on probably Johnny Walker's Saturday afternoon show when he was promoting "Out Of The Cradle" (which must have been 1992) saying it would be out the next year..... I have an MP3 copy ripped from the original LP, but would be nice to get it on CD.
Try this
There's an interesting write-up on the album's history plus an exceptionally high quality vinyl rip here. It seems that tape deterioration plus reluctance on Mr Buckingham's part are delaying the official re-release of the CD.
http://retrovinylcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/12/buckingham-nicks-deluxe-e...
Philip Goodhand-Tait
Does anyone know if his 70's output is available on CD. I have a vinyl single called 'Almost Killed A Man' is this available on a CD ?
Also is Jeff Lynne's excellent solo album 'Armchair Theatre' available ? Thanks.
Philip Goodhand-Tait
I can't hear his name w\o visualising that OGWT VH1 reunion when Whispering Bob mentioned him and Hep n Mark repeated it while applauding as Kershaw collapsed into hysterics
For me
I'd love nice shiny cd reissues of -
Misty In Roots - Live At The Countereurovision 79
Bob Andy - Songbook
Champion Doug Veitch - The Original
The Windbreakers - Terminal
The Mighty Wah! - A Word To The Wise Guy
Johnny Mathis/Chic - I Love My Lady
Miracle Legion - The Backyard
Jerry Harrison - The Red And The Black
Seconded With Great Enthusiasm
Seconded with great enthusiasm your "Misty In Roots Live At the Counter Eurovision 79". A superb album.
I have it on vinyl - a bit scuffed and crackly - and would love a pristine CD copy. I saw them live once at Acklam Hall, along with The Passions (in an early pre-German Filmstar incarnation). Misty were sensational, The Passions so-so.
I'm told clean vinyl copies of "Live At the Counter Eurovision" sell for fortunes these days.
Joni Mitchell
About 18 months ago Amazon were showing expanded deluxe editions of Court and Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Hejira. The listings disappeared without the releases ever seeing the light of day. Anyone shed any light on this?
The one that is irritating me
Van Morrisons Hymns to the Silence. When he started doing the remastered series he fell out with the record label before this one got released. You can't get it anywhere now unless you want to spend a fortune on a used copy. I had this album on cassette and although not considered to be among his top albums I love it. Come on Van, stop arsing about and get it released.
Street Choir
His lovely 1970 "Street Choir" has only ever been available on a low-fi dull mastered version. One of those that, when tracks are added to a compilation, make the volume drop flatly.
Yes I'd like a cd of that too.
A few tracks have turned up on compilations but not the whole album. I love Hynford street.
Night after night by Nils Lofgren would be very welcome too.
Great album, much overlooked.
Hymns to The Silence? Drop me a line. I, uh, may be able to help...
Michael Smith / Nic Jones
1. One record that I've already mentioned on a couple of threads now is the late Michael Smith's sole album of fiery, righteous dub poetry, "Mi C-yaan Believe It." This has never been released on CD anywhere.
2. Two more albums that should have been released on CD decades ago are Nic Jones's two late 70s English folk masterpieces, "The Noah's Ark Trap" and "From the Devil to a Stranger". The person who has the rights to these two albums has consistently and inexplicably prevented their re-release, thereby denying a valuable source of income to Nic, who has been unable to record for 28 years following a car crash.
The only Nic Jones album that most folk fans know is the admittedly brilliant "Penguin Eggs". But it's only one-third of the story...
I did my own needle-drop of the Michael Smith album,
from my own vinyl copy. Drop me a line if you'd like a CD-R.
Nothing needs to be 'out of print'
in this digital age and yet a hell of a lot is.
A lesser music mag did a feature on this not long ago and included:
Brian Wilson's 'Spring' project
Pretty much everything by The KLF/Bill Drummond
All the pre-Autobahn Kraftwerk stuff
and Er...Tin Machine II (perhaps best left where it is!)
I'll also add all the Microdisney albums apart from 'Best Of's
All of My Bloody Valentine's singles, EPs and everything not on Creation.
All the Happy Mondays early singles (which would fit nicely on a remastered '24 Four Hour Party People...' LP)
Yeah right
And my Keith Harris & Orville LP will soon be worn down.
How come the Tony Blackburn LPs have never been re-issued on CD? I have a Jimmy Young CD...
Microdisney
If the good Doctor needs a copy of Crooked Mile or the Microdisney Peel Sessions then I may be able to arrange something for the next time the NW Massive meet...
Kraftwerk
You can get Kraftwerk 1 and 2 on a twofer from
www.soundsoftheuniverse.com - was £14.99 when I saw it on there.
Ralf Hutter is reportedly...
... remastering the 3 pre-Autobahn albums for release this year, but in Kraftwerk-time that could be anytime in the next 5 years.
I wouldn't bother with the early Kraftwerk stuff
Bloody awful. Certainly the first two eponymous albums were, anyway. Not heard Tone Float but I'm not holding out for much.
Bill Drummond's
deleting of the KLF back catalogue has me suspecting he's probably burnt the master tapes too. The White Room made it on to CD though.
With p2p piracy and blogs dedicated to 'preserving the memory of' out of print recordings record companies must question whether there's any point in re-releasing older material.
Microdisney
Try this...
http://digivinyltal.blogspot.com/search?q=microdisney
Virginia and the Bicycles
Virginia Astley's two albums from the early 1980s; "From Gardens Where We Feel Secure' is surely overdue for a reappraisal in this year of nu-weird folk.
Any official collection from The Desperate Bicycles, although I believe any unavailability is an entirely deliberate choice by the band.
PS Will we finally get the My Bloody Valentine reissues next year?
"From Gardens..."
is available, though it's listed as temporarily out of stock here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gardens-Where-We-Feel-Secure/dp/B00005Q58Y/ref=s...
You can however get it on (legal) download here:
http://www.hmvdigital.com/artist/virginia-astley/from-gardens-where-we-f...
Time is a fluid and flexible thing in the world of Kevin Shields
Those MBV remasters were supposed to come out around the time of their comeback gigs in summer 2008. They've been 'experimenting with new packaging materials' or whatever ever since.
I'm not eagerly awaiting those to be honest, the two albums are readily available on CD/DL and Vinyl and apparently (there were reviews in the music press last year before the plug was pulled again) the differences between the remaster and the original are virtually inaudible.
What would have been interesting, and has been on the cards for years, is a box set of all the singles and EPs a lot of which have never been available on CD and collecting various other bits and pieces.
There is also supposedly at least an albums worth of material recorded after 1991 which MBV claimed they were polishing up for release in 2008. Ahem.
Primal Scream are also supposed to have a remastered issue of 'Screamadelica' coming out in 2011, and apparently the engineers face fell to the floor when who should turn up to undertake the remastering but old Bagpuss himself. Delays expected.
Looking for a Ghost
The Distractions - Nobody's Perfect (Island, 1980)
Room for the mandatory extra tracks (Time Goes By, You're Not Going Out etc).
Wouldn't mind a few "lost singles" from the late 70s being compiled - The Table, Brainiac Five, Mike Spenser & the Cannibals...
The Distractions
Your wish is Occultation's command. A comprehensive Distractions compilation will be released mid 2011 (tracks to be confirmed), which follows last years two EPs, 'Black Velvet' (mid '90s tracks) and 'Come Home' (brand new recordings). An album of new material will follow the compilation as well. See www.thedistractions.co.uk (@DistractionsMcr) and www.occultation.co.uk for more.
Win
"Uh! Tears Baby" is still unavailable. The inferior (though not bad) follow up "Freaky Trigger" was re-issued earlier this year, so we live in hope...
How on earth was this not a hit?
Lotsa reasons
For starters I don't recall it getting much daytime airplay apart from in the advert. They were too poppy for NME readers (who would have accused them of 'selling out' anyway) and too arch and cleverclogs for Smash Hits/No.1 readers.
Probably trousered a large Gregory for the ad though?
Chewing gum for the ears, baby!
It was a hit! ... well, it was in Scotland anyways, being the best selling single there in 1986. In the UK as a whole, on its first release, I think it made it to No.41 and hence never got the TOTP appearance that would have escalated it much further. It wasn't helped by the fact that a lot of people hooked by the ad didn't know the name of the band - it was common for characters to go into a shop and ask for the latest by The McEwans!
What an ad! Selling lager, referencing Escher, Camus, Sisyphus, breaking the 4th wall - not exactly GoCompare is it now!
The first album was available on CD but only a few thousand copies were ever pressed, and there never has been any rerelease. However, I know the fella who instigated the 'Freaky Trigger' rerelease last year (I had a very peripheral role in factchecking the sleevenotes) who tells me they would like to release the bizarrely titled 'Uh! Tears Baby (A Trash Icon)' but various rights issues have to be untangled first (FT was released on Virgin, but the first album was a tie-up twixt the defunct Swamplands and London Records) - my interpretation is that there is a reasonable chance it might see the light of day this year.
If you can find an original copy on Ebay, expect to pay somewhere between £70 and £90 - I once saw one copy go for a £150!
BR
FT
Thanks
for the info FT - I had no idea it was the best selling single in Scotland that year - says a lot about chart return shops in the 80s!
Fingers crossed we see it in 2011, though I've got the vinyl & 2 12" singles to keep me going in the meantime.
Pale Fountains etc
Their LPs were reissued in Japan a couple of years ago but we're still waiting the definitive versions here.
Elton - His Blue Moves Lp could do with sprucing up in order for me to buy it again on CD.
REM - there must be stacks of unreleased stuff, yet they keep re-issuing albums with just live stuff and demos - it'll take more than that for me to repurchase.
Kit Hain
is a soft spot of mine---would like to see "Spirits Walking Out"
on CD, or even a decent legit MP3 or needledrop, but can't see it happening somehow.
At least "Coming Home" is out on various nostalgia CDs.
Oh me of little faith
Both the Spirits Walking Out album, and the Marshall Hain Free Ride album seem to have just had legit CD releases. The former is on Renaissance here:
http://cdthen.net/kit_hain.html
and the latter is on Cherry Red here
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/marshallhain.php
So I think I'll grab mine while they are going ...
Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On
All killer no filler and one of the best soul albums of all time. Never released on CD as far as I know, though some low-key demos came out on Kent a few years ago.
Also Johnnie Taylor's "Best of the Old and New" if only for this track.
Another three............
The three Alex Harvey LPs from the 60s.
Are they available on CD?
A Few More From Me
Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Sings, Rockin' & Romance
The Bathers - Unusual Places To Die, Sweet Deceit
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Peter Case - first album
Aswad - Showcase.
Peter Case
First cd was available from Amazon USA last year - not sure if it still is. Will gladly burn you a copy if you drop me an email. Also have his second one with the impossibly long title - post-modern traditional guitar etc etc.
Eels
The first E LP 'A Man Called E' album is available in the Uk on import but the 2nd 'Broken Toy Shop' is out of print. Then there is the 'Bad Dude In Love' LP from 1985.
As E seems ro despise his early stuff up to and including Beautiful Freak I wonder if they'll ever get reissued
Swans
"White Light from the Mouth of Infinity" isn't available at the minute (unless anyone better off than me fancies paying £144 for the copy on Amazon?) though most of the tracks are out there split across a couple of compilations.
Proper/Yep Roc
have made a start on re-releasing the Nick Lowe back catalogue but I'm getting a tad impatient for Nick the Knife which IMHO is one of his best albums.