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WHITESNAKE blurb for this record repeats that hoary RORY GALLAGHER
Slip Of The Tongue: 30th myth that the songs on Country Blues came Blues CHESS/UMC
Anniversary Edition RHINO from travels that never happened, their What we said:
What we said: quality replication in the original sleeve “Following the release of
“Fittingly for such an makes a fine, genre-defining artefact.” five albums of material
overwrought piece of from the vaults, a cynic
work, a new Super CREEDENCE might expect to hear
Deluxe edition box set CLEARWATER REVIVAL barrel-scraping on
is a seven-disc bonanza Live At Woodstock CRAFT a new 36-track, three-CD Gallagher set. But
of epic proportions. The box set has the What we said: “Three no. The famously fussy Rory might have
real bounty – out-takes, jams, extended classic albums in passed on most of this, but his nephew
interviews and, in the naughtily titled a 12-month stretch, and Daniel and brother/manager Donal
Liquor And Poker, Coverdale crooning: ‘Who Woodstock should have (Daniel’s father) can be satisfied that they
gives a fucking shit?’ his tongue firmly in his been the crowning have again done the Cork man proud.”
cheek, as it’s always been.” glory. But John Fogerty
wasn’t happy with CCR’s performance and THE BEATLES
GONG pulled it from both the soundtrack album The Beatles: 50th Anniversary
Love From The Planet Gong: The Vigin and film. Fifty years on, it’s difficult to Super Deluxe Edition APPLE
Years 1973-75 UMC fathom what his problem might have been.” What we said: “The
What we said: original album,
“Seventy per cent of the VARIOUS remastered by a team
box set consists of Optimism/Reject Punk & Post-Punk co-headed by George
previously unreleased Meets D-I-Y Aesthetic CHERRY RED Martin’s son Giles, is
out-takes, alternative What we said: “The presented with
mixes, BBC radio cumulative effect of these a freshness and immediacy that makes
sessions and complete live shows, 105 songs is like an a mockery of the passage of half a century.
enhanced by lyric book and another extraordinary jukebox, each The two CDs of sessions and demos are
containing previously unseen artwork single a telegram from tiny a revealing trove.”
from Daevid Allen’s archive.” islands which linked up to
become an archipelago of musical JOHNNY THUNDERS
THE KINKS innovation. A brilliant collection that’s Que Sera, Sera Resurrected JUNGLE
Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The more like a box of grenades than an archive.” What we said: “Johnny
British Empire: 50th Anniversary Ed BMG Thunders was one of
What we said: “Along DEF LEPPARD the special ones, a pirate
with a remastered Volume Two (Vinyl Box) UMC/PARLOPHONE pocket dynamo sizzling
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version of the original What we said: with rock’s primal
album, there are 28 “Encyclopaedic boxed essence, rare charisma
previously unreleased vinyl round-up of and ferocious chops. The second disc
mixes as well as Dave a turbulent decade for presents out-takes, alternative versions
Davies’s quite brilliant ‘lost’ solo album from Leppard. Volume Two is and five live tracks. The scorching guitar
1968. Even more intriguing is a previously the sound of a band salvo on Blame It On Mom shows how
unreleased medley of Ray’s home demos. emerging through tragedy and from under dazzling Thunders could be on his night.”
Throw in two new recordings of Ray with the weight of expectations hanging over
the Doo Wop Choir, and a memorabilia- them at the end of the 80s to thrive, adapt BE-BOP DELUXE
packed 68-page book, and the result and ultimately emerge victorious.” Futurama: Expanded & Remastered
will have Kink-o-holics weeping with joy.” ESOTERIC
VARIOUS What we said: “This
MOTÖRHEAD Woodstock 50: Back To The Garden RHINO expanded edition,
Deluxe Reissues + 1979 Box Set BMG What we said: “The compiled with some
What we said: “The behemoth 38-disc version care, adds some new
new deluxe editions of comes in a plywood- stereo mixes, and also
both Overkill and Bomber and-canvas box, is limited a disc of BBC sessions
come in hardbound to 1,969 copies, and and live material which will give the
book format each with includes every complete listener not only a great deal of ear fun
a previously unreleased set from the festival, the movie on Blu-ray, but also a real sense of the world in which
concert recording from the relevant tour. Michael Lang’s book, replica memorabilia bands in 1975 operated.”
The box set has all of this and more, and more; 433 tracks lasting 36 hours.”
notably a bonus disc of rare tracks and KEITH RICHARDS
out-takes, repro memorabilia and IAN DURY Talk Is Cheap: 30th Anniversary BMG
a 40-page music mag revisiting the heady Do It Yourself 40th Anniversary EDSEL What we said: “The
days of ’79. The box itself is designed like What we said: “Forty reissue gets the works.
a black biker jacket – so very Motörhead.” years on, these more Seven hundred bucks
meditative songs have snarfs the signed version
JOHN LEE HOOKER weathered well, while in a box crafted by
The Country Blues Of… CRAFT/UMC a raft of extras, including Fender from the same
What we said: “Hooker live footage from a BBC wood as Keith’s trusty Tele (unsigned is
had never sounded like Rock Goes To College appearance from 1979 less). The deluxe presents the album on vinyl
he does on Country Blues, and a booklet where Phill Jupitus recounts and CD, unreleased extras, two 45s, 80-page
guitar unplugged for his efforts to own a copy of all 34 wallpaper hardback book, posters, laminate, lyric
pin-drop punctuation. themed vinyl editions are reasons to make sheets and guitar pick. The bonus tracks are
Even if Craft Records’ any diehard Blockheads fan cheerful.” a worthy addendum to a scorching set.”
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