Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Josh Hathaway
I’ve been waiting for the Deluxe Re-issue announcements to start pouring in for Christmas 2008. Of course if you watch TV or read the news, you’re probably under the impression that Christmas has been canceled this year. You lot isn’t going to buy anything, so why bother celebrating?
Anyway, I’ve been waiting for an announcement from [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Josh Hathaway
U2 continues its “Season of Churn” by confirming rumors that Live at Red Rocks will make its DVD debut and that the “accompanying” live album Under a Blood Red Sky has been remastered for re-release. Both the CD and the DVD will be available Sept. 29.
Let’s start with the Live at Red Rocks film, originally [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Josh Hathaway
I’ve been waiting all summer for a week like this. There are five essential titles being released this week, making up for what has been an otherwise dry summer release schedule.
Even with an active week like this, it says something that four of my five targeted purchases are re-issues and the lone album [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Josh Hathaway
To everything churn, churn, churn,
there is a season churn, churn, churn
U2 is ready to make like Tony Kornheiser: back for more cash!
I’m actually pretty happy about this. The band is set to re-release their first three records in remastered form, complete with rarities and bonus tracks. Let’s take a look at what they [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Josh Hathaway
With apologies to the very nice reissue of Odelay, the first great re-issue of 2008 is unquestionably Johnny B. Goode: His Complete ’50s Chess Recordings.
Once again, TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried comes through in a big way. She bought this set for me as a little gift and I am already crazy about it through one disc of [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
Minutes tick away and I have planned and re-planned this day at last count at least six counts. I’m now writing about an album I had no plan to write about, listening to an album I had no plan on buying yet somehow it wound up underneath the doormat of my Huntsville apartment. [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
Don’t Believe The Truth is a great album and a great album title. It also sums up my feelings after doing a bit of research into the supposed deluxe versions of those four Unplugged albums I mentioned last week.
I knew something was up when I started doing some digging on the AiC release. [...]
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Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
For those of you who couldn’t get all the way to the bottom of my earlier indulgent-yet-charming piece, Sony/Legacy is preparing to re-release four classic Unplugged albums Sept. 18.
Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, and Mariah Carey’s Unplugged albums will all be re-released accompanied by a DVD with bonus features.
Here is [...]
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Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
Among the many cool ideas that emerged from the ’90s was the whole Unplugged phenomenon. The list of atrocities perpetrated by MTV is staggering, but I tip my cap to them for one of the few good things that came from their reign.
[PAUSE]
“Yes, I’m aware that MTV did not invent acoustic music [...]
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