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Japanese Forthcoming! Including Daryl Hall, Neu!, Daughtry, Scorpians And Tony Bennett!

Daryl Hall 'Sacred Songs' - Limited Edition Blu-spec CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Daryl Hall 'Three Hearts In The Happy Ending' - Limited Edition Blu-spec CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Tony Bennett 'All Time Greatest Hits' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Daughtry 'Break The Spell' - CD Album - Release Date: 11/01/2012

Scorpians 'Comeblack' - Limited First Pressing Edition CD Album - Release Date: 11/01/2012
Neu! 'Neu!' - CD Album - Release Date 21/12/2011

Neu! 'Neu! 2' - CD Album - Release Date 21/12/2011

Neu! 'Neu! 75' - CD Album - Release Date 21/12/2011

Thursday's Eye-Popping Top Items! Including Promotional-Only Nirvana And Smiths Items, Beck's Outstanding Mellow Gold And Nirvana's Nevermind Japanese Super-De-Duper Deluxe SHM Boxset!

NIRVANA The Songs Of Kurt Cobain

Mega rare official 2007 US Primary Wave Music Publishing promotional-only 69-track 5-CD set produced to promote licensing interest in Kurt's extensive back catalogue, acquired by Primary Wave from Courtney Love in early 2007. The five unique picture/tracklisting discs are presented in a superb custom fold-out picture sleeve.

 

THE SMITHS The Smiths Sampler

Rare official 2011 US Sire/Rhino 12-track promotional-only CD-R acetate sampler for the 8-disc remastered box set. This promo includes Hand In Glove, This Charming Man, Panic, Girlfriend In A Coma and Bigmouth Strikes Again [Live]. Custom printed disc, picture sleeve and tracklisting back insert with the catalogue number PRCD-400213. It is rumoured only 200 of these were pressed...

 

BECK Mellow Gold

Original 1994 US 12-track LP, featuring the first major label hit 'Loser'. Hard to find now on vinyl, especially in this condition. This copy remains factory sealed from new, the vinyl mint & unplayed.

 

 

NIRVANA Nevermind

2011 Japanese Super Deluxe Limited Edition 4-SHM-CD/DVD boxset - Celebrating 20 years since the album's release, it's only right that it is marked with a lavish repackaging, and sure enough a four SHM-CD-and-one-DVD sethas been assembled. Featuring the original album [plus a spread of B sides from its singles, and live versions of non-Nevermind tracks Sliver, Been a Son and School] alongside a collection of cuts from the band's Smart Sessions - when Chad Channing was still their drummer - and a number of ear-piercing rehearsal takes taped directly onto a boombox. A full live set fills one of the remaining discs, recorded live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle for Halloween 1992. This also makes up the Region 2 DVD [certain clips were taken from the performance for the band's 1994 video, 'Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!'], along with the iconic 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' music video and those for the rest of 'Nevermind''s singles. And the final CD is home to perhaps the most fascinating tracks: 'Devonshire Mixes' of 'Nevermind', running in the order of the final album, albeit without 'Polly' and 'Endless Nameless'. Butch Vig put these together as the album was coming together, so they're as much his vision as the band's - which, to fans, will be welcomed after Andy Wallace's heavy-handed mixing of 'Nevermind' wiped clean some of its rawness. A fantastic and unmissable set pressed on the Japanese-exclusive audiophile SHM [Super High Material] discs, presented in a deluxe box with a beautifully constructed accompanying 90-page booklet full of rarely and never-before-seen photos, documents and various other visual artifacts of the Nevermind era, with Japanese liner note booklet and custom stickered factory shrink.

Japanese Forthcoming! Including The Buzzcocks, Gorillaz, Michael Legrand And More!

Buzzcocks 'Operators Manual' - Limited Reissued CD Album - Release Date 21/12/2011

Gorillaz 'The Single Collection 2001-2011' - CD Album / Limited First Pressing Edition - Release Date 21/12/2011

Michel Legrand 'Noel! Noel! Noel' - CD Album - Release Date 21/12/2011

Feist 'Metals' - CD Album - Release Date 07/12/2011

Maria Callas 'The Callas Effect' - 2-CD/DVD Album Set - Release Date 21/12/2011

 

Wednesday's Top Trio! Including A Very Rare 1966 Beatles Concert Programme, Beckett's 1974 Prog Must-Have And A Led Zepplin Promo-Only Box Set!

THE BEATLES NME Poll-Winners Concert 1966

Very rare original 1966 UK 20-page 5½" x 8¾" programme for the 1965-66 New Music Express Poll-Winners All-Stars Concert, staged at the Empire Pool, London [now Wembley Arena] on Sunday May 1st. This wasthe Beatles first live performance of the year and their last ever UK concert appearance! Other artists on the bill included the Spencer Davis Group, Cliff Richard, Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Yardbirds andWalker Brothers. This copy has handwriting in the centre pages as the original owner wrote the artist running order next to the artist list, the cover has some light foxing and stoage wear - all pages are intact with just some light creases but has no nicks, rips or tears and still a superb copy of this 45 year old programme!

 

BECKETT Beckett

1974 UK 10-track LP - a British rarity from the hard rock/progressive era. The picture sleeve has a slight sticker mark top left but is otherwise in excellent condition and complete with the lyric insert. The vinyl looks barely played.

 

 

LED ZEPPELIN Remasters

1990 UK Atlantic label 4-track promotional only CD box set sampler featuring Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song and Good Times Bad Times, housed in a custom 10" x 5" gold and blue fold-out box with shaped'airship' flap which remains factory sealed from new - still MINT and unplayed nearly two decades on!

Japanese Forthcoming! Introducing 6 Albums Released For The FIRST TIME On CD! Grab Yourself Some Rare Jazz With Placebo Or A Latin Feast With Manfredo Fest!

Placebo 'Ball Of Eyes' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Placebo '1973' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Placebo 'Placebo' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Manfredo Fest 'Brazilian Dorian Dream' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Manfredo Fest 'Manifestations' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Manfredo Fest 'After Hours' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

21/12/2011

Tuesday's Tasty Pickings! Including A Marillion Picture Disc, A Factory Sealed Ennio Morricone, Metallica's Creeping Death And A Trio Of Singles For Mylene Farmer!

MARILLION Script For A Jester's Tear

Rare and original 1983 UK limited edition 6-track picture disc LP including Garden Party, He Knows You Know & Forgotten Sons, clear PVC outer.

 

 

 

 

ENNIO MORRICONE La Battaglia Di Algeri / Queimada / Ogro

Factory sealed 1982 Italian 21-track vinyl LP featuring three immense Morricone composed soundtracks for Gillo Pontecorvo's gritty 1966 The Battle Of Algiers, the revolutionary Burn! and the Gian Maria Voloté-led Operación Ogro. The deletion notch cut picture sleeve still retains the original factory shrink and the vinyl is therefore Mint and unplayed!

 

 

METALLICA Creeping Death

Rare original 1984 UK French-pressed 3-track limited edition Music For Nations label RED VINYL 12" single, also including Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg, housed in a glossy picture sleeve.

 

 

 

 

MYLENE FARMER Lonely Lisa

2011 French set of three CD singles featuring the RedOne produced single, released from Mylene's immense eighth long player, 'Bleu Noir'. Includes both the 5-track limited edition Remix discs and the 2-track single. Features Remixes from Mathieu Bouthier & Muttonheads, Laurent Pepper, Jeremy Hills and more! The two Remix discs are housed in digipak picture sleeves and the single in a card picture sleeve.

Japanese Forthcoming! Including Edgar Winter, Avril Lavigne, Candy Dulfer And More!

 

Edgar Winter 'Roadwork' - Limited Edition 2-CD Album - Release Date: 23/11/2011

The Edgar Winter Group 'They Only Come Out At Night' - Limited Edition CD Album - Release Date 23/11/2011

The Edgar Winter Group 'Shock Treatment' - Limited CD Album - Release Date 23/11/2011

Avril Lavigne 'Goodbye Lullaby' - Limited Deluxe Edition 2-CD/DVD album - Release Date 14/12/2011

Candy Dulfer 'Crazy' - CD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Daryl Hall 'Soul Alone' - Limited Edition Blu-spec CD album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Chickenfoot 'Chickenfoot III' - Limited Tokumori Deluxe Edition CD/DVD Album - Release Date: 21/12/2011

Monday's Scorching Top Items! Including The Small Faces 'Ogden's' On Lilac Immediate Label, Olivia Newton John On Red Vinyl, Metallica Promotional-only 7" And A Fully Autographed Alice Cooper Box Set!

SMALL FACES Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

Rare original 1968 UK 12-track MONO LP on the lilac Immediate label, superb die-cut circular fold-out picture sleeve. Ths copy is in amazing condition with very little evident wear to the sleeve & few signs of play to the disc.

 

 

OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN Great Hits

Mega rare 1975 Australian Interfusion 12-track LP pressed on RED vinyl, this rare pressing was only ever circulated in-house at Interfusion to label managers and is incredibly difficult to find! housed in it's original picture sleeve.

 

METALLICA Harvester Of Sorrow

Rare 1988 UK Vertigo injection label promotional-only 7" which plays the same track on both sides - never commercially released as 7" single anywhere in the world!, custom black & white picture sleeve.

 

 

ALICE COOPER The Life And Crimes Of ...

1999 US FULLY AUTOGRAPHED 4-CD remastered album box set featuring over 80 tracks spanning the entire career, including all the hits, album tracks & many more rarities including some previously unreleased tracks. Also includes an 80-page book featuring extensive liner notes and packed with mind-bending photographs, all housed in a superb 12" x 6½" x 2½" 'prison door' die-cut picture box. The front of the box has been signed by Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce & Neal Smith in silver and gold marker pen; the front cover of the booklet has also been signed by Alice. This item comes with an additional letter of authentication stating when and where the signatures were obtained. A fabulous item!

Strewth! Kylie To Release New Album NEXT YEAR!

Following from Kylie's recent performances at the legendary Abbey Road studios comes this news which should have all KM fans getting very VERY excited!

Music Week reports that the Australian pop star is currently in the studio and reworking some of her classic tracks for a compilation album that will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of her debut single 'The Locomotion'.

Watch this space for more information on the album, if you can't wait til then and you need a Kylie fix, then look no further - we have all you need here!

 

All in all, It's Just Another App In The Store

Today marks the release of the official This Day in Pink Floyd App available on iTunes for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

The app is packed with information about the legendary British group covering 366 days of the year, including trivia, quiz questions and song-specific profiles. It also provides a guide to all official Floyd tracks, and contains 200 quiz questions, 200 bits of trivia, 100 images, two wallpaper screen images, one ringtone ('Shine on You Crazy Diamond') and the recently restored video for 'Point Me at the Sky'.

Check it out!

http://www.thisdayinmusicapps.com/

Of course, it's not a patch on the real physical product. Browse the largest Floyd back catalogue of goodies on the web right here: 

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Japanese Forthcoming! Limited Edition Jazz Including Cecil Taylor, Joe Pass, Pepper Adams, Chet Baker, Art Blakey And More! Released On 21/12/2011

Cecil Taylor 'Love For Sale' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Pepper Adams 'Critics' Choice' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Curtis Amy 'Groovin' Blue' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Earl Anderza 'Outa Sight' - Limited CD Album

Chet Baker 'Quartet: Russ Freeman And Chet Baker' - Limited CD Album

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / The Elmo Hope Quintet - First Time On CD In Japan!

Cannonball Adderley 'Cannonball In Europe' - Limited CD Album

Roy Haynes 'People' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Les McCann 'Pretty Lady' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Gerry Mulligan 'Gerry Mulligan Quartet At Storyville' - Limited CD Album

Joe Pass 'Simplicity' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Nat Adderley & Cannonball Adderley 'Soul Zodiac' - First Time On CD In Japan!

Sunday's Best of the Bunch: Angels & Airwaves, Morrissey & Alice Cooper

ANGELS & AIRWAVES Love

2010 US 11-track promotional CD of the third album, which was only released commercially as an online  download. Custom picture CD & custom stickered card wallet picture sleeve CR61172LOVE

MORRISSEY Exit Smiling

Rare out-of-print limited edition paperback book limited to only 1000 copies written by Morrissey, issued by Babylon Books complete with unique numbered certificate of authenticity signed by the Babylon publisher John Muir. An absorbing 72 pages delve into his heroes of the cinema screen, written in typewriter text complete with corrections by Morrissey. Glossy picture cover. This book will not be issued again so this is your only chance to obtain a copy!

 

ALICE COOPER Hello Hooray

Rare 1973 German wide centred 7" vinyl single with 'Hello Hooray' on both sleeve & label, featuring the singel edit & also including Generation Landslide, wonderful textured picture sleeve of Alice with pet Python WB16248

 

 

 

 

Saturday's Top items - Nine Inch Nails, Rolling Stones & Vangelis

NINE INCH NAILS The Fragile

Rare official US limited edition 24" x 24" artwork print featuring the full album artwork for the third studio album from 1999 by the American industrial rock act, printed on high quality grade paper and machine numbered out of 1000. This has been boldly AUTOGRAPHED by Trent Reznor in a black marker pen in the bottom right corner above the number - fantastic item and ideal to be displayed, sure to be a highlight any collection

 

ROLLING STONES 2009 Remasters - The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band In The World

2009 UK 13-track Polydor label promotional-only compilation CD produced to promote the release of the 14 re-mastered classic albums throughout 2009. Custom printed disc housed in a custom promotional glossy gatefold card wallet picture sleeve featuring superb 'tongue & lips' logo artwork, printed inside are miniature images of the album artworks that the tracks come from with the full tracklisting on the back RS2009-001

 

VANGELIS Excerpts From The Catalogue

2005 UK 24-track EMI promotional only publishing sampler 2-CD set featuring tracks taken from the back catalogue, custom picture sleeve and back title/tracklisting back insert, catalogue number VANGELIS1

 

 

Friday's top three - from The Beatles to Iron Maiden

THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour

Very Rare 1967 Original US MONO pressing 11-track vinyl LP on Capitol records rainbow rim label with 'MFD By Capitol' perimeter text. Pasted gatefold picture sleeve with intergral full colour 24-page stapled booklet. Not only is this an extremely hard to find mono edition [all subsequent issues were stereo] but this copy is in beautiful condition throughout with pristine labels and glorious <b>MINT</b> vinyl, astonishing for its age and the first MONO copy we ever had! MAL-2835

 

IRON MAIDEN The Final Frontier - Competition Sleeve

Super rare 2010 US promotional-only 2-track Enhanced picture CD-R featuring the audio soundtrack and the Director's Cut video track. Housed inside a unique gatefold 7-inch sleeve, with comic-book Sci-Fi style artwork by Melvyn Grant, made specifically for radio station prize giveaways in the USA. Each sleeve can be personalised with the recipient or owner's name but this example remains unused and undedicated. The CD-R can also be slotted into tabs on the back of the sleeve to complete the package. Incredible!

 

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & MAGIC BAND Safe As Milk

Rare 1970 US issue Buddah label promotional 12-track vinyl LP in stunning condition for its age, pasted picture sleeve with rare pasted timing stamp and suggested cuts panel for radio. This copy has been kept in wonderful shape with the vinyl remaining pristine with exceptionally clean custom labels - fabulous MINT play copy and scarce promo edition of this essential Beefheart debut! BDS5063

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excerpts from this week's R.C. Newsletter brought to you by 991.com

It's 11/11/11.  The world hasn't ended here at 991 as many predicted but the world for many did end prematurely in the fight for freedom - we remember them today.

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991 brings you snippets from this week's R.C. Newsletter.  You can subscribe to the full unedited version by emailing Anna: anna.bowen@metropolis.co.uk  [Please mention 991] 

 

What a week! There’s been so much fuss caused by our December issue’s cover story, which the national press and the BBC picked up on. At one point it was the fourth-most-read on story on the BBC News website – above the Euro crisis, curiously! That’s brilliant, and we’re indebted to everyone who read the story in the papers and online and got in touch about it. Thank you for all your interest; we think it shows that artwork really DOES matter to music fans and that despite the convenience of MP3, people still love seeing and holding a great album cover designed to suit a proper slab of vinyl.

In the credit where credit’s due department, Record Collector wants to doff its metaphorical cap to the late Jimmy Savile. (It has to be a metaphorical cap – our heads are too big to fit a real one.) Yes, I know he was a bit of a joker. No, we didn’t much like his hairstyle where one side was black and the other white. And it’s true, Jimmy would never have won a John Peel Award for promoting new music. But RC says he is important for three reasons, not all of which have been mentioned in the obituaries. One: he was the first personality jock in Britain. Before him, the style was, at best, Pete Murray and David Jacobs. No disrespect to those two legends of broadcasting, but Savile brought real personality to the microphone, making him compulsive listening across Europe on Radio Luxembourg in the late 50s and early 60s. Without his innovations, pirate jocks such as Emperor Rosko and Stuart Henry would never have made it onto the airwaves. Two: he was reputedly the first DJ to go out on the road with twin decks, rendering him able to deliver a seamless segue if he wanted to. Three, his clothing style predated street sportswear by decades. In fact the last two make him the founding father of hip hop – not that hip hop would agree. Whether you found him an irritant or a legend, he could not be ignored, and the charity sector – he gave away 90% of his income, it is said – will surely miss his input. We look forward to the biopic, rumoured to be starring Steve Coogan. RIP Jimmy, you were a pioneer…

Record Collector will have a stall at the Olympia Record Fair this weekend. If you’re there, do come up and say hello. And please don’t snap up the records on our wants lists and them wave them in our ugly faces; you wouldn’t want to see us cry, it’s not a pretty sight…

Thanks for reading

Have a good week

Ian McCann

Editor-in-Chief, Record Collector

 

The brand new issue of the monthly Record Collector magazine is on the shelves right now. Here's what you will find inside...

The Rarest Album Sleeves Ever!

R.C. Speaks to Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull on the release of the luxury edition of Aqualung.

2 Tone: A Chequered History - Posters that helped make the Ska label the distinctive brand it is

Roy Harper speaks to R.C, Lee Dorsey and Dream Theatre - and much much more.

 

 

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Japanese Forthcoming! Alice Cooper Limited First Pressing Albums On Audiophile SHM CD! Release Date 21.12.2011 / 18.01.2012

Pretties For You

Easy Action

Love It To Death

Killer

School's Out

Billion Dollar Babies

Muscle Of Love

Welcome To My Nightmare

Goes To Hell

Lace And Whiskey

The Alice Cooper Show

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Thursday's Top Items! Including An Autographed Nine Inch Nails Artwork Print, Original Mono Rolling Stones '68, Platinum Spice Girls Award And A Deluxe Edition Porcupine Tree Boxset!

NINE INCH NAILS The Fragile

Rare official US limited edition 24" x 24" artwork print featuring the full album artwork for the third studio album from 1999 by the American industrial rock act, printed on high quality grade paper and machine numbered out of 1000. This has been boldly AUTOGRAPHED by Trent Reznor in a black marker pen in the bottom right corner above the number - fantastic item and ideal to be displayed, sure to be a highlight any collection.

 

ROLLING STONES Beggars Banquet

Rare original 1968 UK 10-track MONO vinyl LP with red 'unboxed' Decca logo 'ffrr' labels, front laminated gatefold picture sleeve with the original poly-lined company inner. The sleeve is in excellent condition with just a little edge wear and a very small amount of laminate lift on the spine, but clearly legible spine print. The labels have only a few spindle marks to show it has been played and the vinyl is in near mint condition. A stunning copy of this desirable 43-year old pressing!

 

SPICE GIRLS Spice/Spiceworld

Rare official 1996 US RIAA certified NINE TIMES PLATINUM sales award issued to commemorate sales in excess of 6,000,000 of 'Spice' and 3,000,000 of 'Spiceworld'. CDs and artwork for both albums are mounted against a red shimmering effect background within a die-cut 'Spice' logo border, above a custom engraved dedication plaque with RIAA hologram. Set in a black frame with perspex 'glaze' and measuring 17" x 21". Thiselaborate award remains in perfect condition.

 

 

PORCUPINE TREE The Incident

2009 UK Limited Deluxe Edition box set for the tenth studio album by the British progressive rock band, comprising of the 2-CD album set, DVD-Audio disc featuring the 5.1 mix of entire album, all three discs housed ina 116-page Hardback Book featuring lyrics and Lasse Hoile photography, also comes with a 48-page Glossy Lyric Book featuring Hajo Mueller’s drawings of 'The Incident' - All packaged in rigid artwork slipcase measuring 11¾" x 13" x 1¼" in sizewith this copy in immaculate condition.

 

 

Japanese Forthcoming! Deep Purple Limited First Pressing K2HD Remastered On High Quality CDs! Release Date: 07.12.2011

Shades Of Deep Purple

The Book Of Taliesyn

Deep Purple

Deep Purple In Concert

Scandinavian Nights

Live In London 1974