These days, it seems that more and more artists are receiving the "deluxe treatment" from their record companies. The record industry seems to be finding a niche in the marketplace of the serious uber-collectors and die-hard fan bases of these artists.
I thought I'd start a thread where we can post info about these types of sets when they become available.
To start us off, I just received notice that Rhino Records is re-releasing The Smiths' catalogue in some sets for the die-hard Smiths fans. (I'm not a Smiths fan...but I know many on this site are. So this is for you.) The albums have been remastered by Marr and are getting some special treatment in deluxe collector sets featuring vinyl sets, mini LP replica CDs, and sets with art prints, DVDs, and more.
These days, it seems that more and more artists are receiving the "deluxe treatment" from their record companies. The record industry seems to be finding a niche in the marketplace of the serious uber-collectors and die-hard fan bases of these artists.
I thought I'd start a thread where we can post info about these types of sets when they become available.
To start us off, I just received notice that Rhino Records is re-releasing The Smiths' catalogue in some sets for the die-hard Smiths fans. (I'm not a Smiths fan...but I know many on this site are. So this is for you.) The albums have been remastered by Marr and are getting some special treatment in deluxe collector sets featuring vinyl sets, mini LP replica CDs, and sets with art prints, DVDs, and more.
Well, I'm a fan (obviously), but I'm not such a hardcore fan that I need all the previously hard to find obscurities. But the remasters I am definitely interested in. This catalog has needed a makeover for a long time, so I for one am psyched! I hope you're not required to buy the deluxe set to get the remasters. That would be ridiculous.
Also, to address your original question, usually deluxe sets are for the fans to lure them into rebuying the record, but I would be willing to bet though that they don't listen to the second disc very much as the quality is usually not up to par with the main album.
Nine Lives is a box set of Robert Plant's solo work, released on 21 November 2006. It includes remastered and expanded editions of nine albums with unreleased tracks and b-sides and a DVD.
The DVD has 20 music videos, live performance footage, and a career-spanning interview with Plant, as well as interviews with friends including Phil Collins, Who lead singer Roger Daltrey, singer-songwriter Tori Amos, tennis star John McEnroe, and former Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegün, among others.
The albums are:
* Pictures at Eleven
* The Principle of Moments
* The Honeydrippers: Volume One
* Shaken 'n' Stirred
* Now and Zen
* Manic Nirvana
* Fate of Nations
* Dreamland
* Mighty ReArranger
Disc 1: Pictures at Eleven
1. "Burning Down One Side"
2. "Moonlight in Samosa"
3. "Pledge Pin"
4. "Slow Dancer"
5. "Worse Than Detroit"
6. "Fat Lip"
7. "Like I've Never Been Gone"
8. "Mystery Title"
9. "Far Post"
10. "Like I've Never Been Gone" (Live)
Disc 2: The Principle of Moments
1. "Other Arms"
2. "In the Mood"
3. "Messin' with the Mekon"
4. "Wreckless Love"
5. "Thru' with the Two Step"
6. "Horizontal Departure"
7. "Stranger Here... Than Over There"
8. "Big Log"
9. "In the Mood" (Live)
10. "Thru' with the Two Step" (Live)
11. "Lively Up Yourself" (Live)
12. "Turnaround"
Disc 3: The Honeydrippers: Volume 1
1. "I Get a Thrill" - Honeydrippers
2. "Sea of Love" - Honeydrippers
3. "I Got a Woman" - Honeydrippers
4. "Young Boy Blues" - Honeydrippers
5. "Rockin' at Midnight" - Honeydrippers
6. "Rockin' at Midnight" (Live) - Honeydrippers
Disc 4: Shaken 'n' Stirred
1. "Hip to Hoo"
2. "Kallalou Kallalou"
3. "Too Loud"
4. "Trouble for Money"
5. "Pink and Black"
6. "Little by Little"
7. "Doo Doo A Do Do"
8. "Easily Lead"
9. "Sixes and Sevens"
10. "Little by Little" (Remixed Long Version)
Disc 5: Now and Zen
1. "Heaven Knows"
2. "Dance on My Own"
3. "Tall Cool One"
4. "Way I Feel"
5. "Helen of Troy"
6. "Billy's Revenge"
7. "Ship of Fools"
8. "Why"
9. "White Clean and Neat"
10. "Walking Towards Paradise"
11. "Billy's Revenge" (Live)
12. "Ship of Fools" (Live)
13. "Tall Cool One" (Live)
Disc 6: Manic Nirvana
1. "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes on You)"
2. "Big Love"
3. "S S S & Q"
4. "I Cried"
5. "She Said"
6. "Nirvana"
7. "Tie Dye on the Highway"
8. "Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night"
9. "Anniversary"
10. "Liars Dance"
11. "Watching You"
12. "Oompa (Watery Bint)"
13. "One Love"
14. "Don't Look Back"
Disc 7: Fate of Nations
1. "Calling to You"
2. "Down to the Sea"
3. "Come into My Life"
4. "I Believe"
5. "29 Palms"
6. "Memory Song (Hello Hello)"
7. "If I Were a Carpenter"
8. "Promised Land"
9. "Greatest Gift"
10. "Great Spirit"
11. "Network News"
12. "Colours of a Shade"
13. "Great Spirit" (Acoustic Mix)
14. "Rollercoaster" (Demo)
15. "8.05"
16. "Dark Moon" (Acoustic)
Disc 8: Dreamland
1. "Funny in My Mind"
2. "Morning Dew"
3. "One More Cup of Coffee"
4. "Last Time I Saw Her"
5. "Song to the Siren"
6. "Win My Train Fare Home"
7. "Darkness Darkness"
8. "Red Dress"
9. "Hey Joe"
10. "Skip's Song"
11. "Dirt in a Hole"
12. "Last Time I Saw Her" (Remix)
Disc 9: Mighty ReArranger
1. "Another Tribe"
2. "Shine It All Around"
3. "Freedom Fries"
4. "Tin Pan Valley"
5. "All the King's Horses"
6. "The Enchanter"
7. "Takamba"
8. "Dancing in Heaven"
9. "Somebody Knocking"
10. "Let the Four Winds Blow"
11. "Mighty ReArranger"
12. "Brother Ray"
13. "Red White and Blue"
14. "All the Money in the World"
15. "Shine It All Around (Girls Remix)"
16. "Tin Pan Valley (Girls Remix)"
17. "The Enchanter (UNKLE Reconstruction)"
Disc 10: Nine Lives (DVD)
1. "Nine Lives" (Documentary)
2. "Burning Down One Side" (Video)
3. "Big Log" (Video)
4. "In the Mood" (Video)
5. "Rockin' at Midnight" (Video)
6. "Sea of Love" (Video)
7. "Little by Little" (Video)
16. "Calling To You" (Video)
17. "I Believe" (Video)
18. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Video)
19. "Morning Dew" (Video)
20. "Darkness, Darkness" (Video)
21. "Shine It All Around" (Video)
PINK FLOYD gets the DELUXE treatment. The first album out of the gate will be Dark Side of the Moon It arrives on 9-27-2011! There will be a bonus disc of unreleased material and an expanded booklet.
It will also be released in the multi-disc "Immersion Box Set" with alternate takes, live tracks and demos. Also included will be DVD or Blu-Ray tour films, live performances, and behind-the-scenes footage.
All 14 Pink Floyd albums have been newly remastered. (All 14 albums will be available as a "Discovery Box Set Collection")
Coming up next...
Wish You Were Here - 11-08-2011
The Wall - 2-28-2012 _________________ Speakers of the House DJ
So the Smiths back cat is getting re-mastered is it? Quelle Surprise! What's the event - 30th anniversary of Morrissey's haircut?!
In fact Morrissey saw this coming years ago... what were the lyrics to Paint A Vulgar Picture again...?
REISSUE! REPACKAGE! REPACKAGE! RE-EVALUATE THE SONGS! DOUBLE-PACK WITH A PHOTOGRAPH, EXTRA TRACK AND A TACKY BADGE... BEST OF! MOST OF! SATIATE THE NEED! SLIP THEM INTO DIFFERENT SLEEVES - BUY BOTH AND FEEL DECEIVED!
Remastering is all well-and-good, and from time-to-time essential (c.f. the 40th anniversary edition of Court Of The Crimson King), but regardless of how you dress it up, good music is good music, whether it be digitally enhanced to within an inch of its life or from the most crackly of vinyl on your 40 year-old record deck. I adore The Smiths - they made my adolescence bearable. The albums are fine as they are.
I hate bonus material that was recorded years ago and never before released. Most of the "bonus tracks" like this suck. There's a reason why they never released it years ago. It's not up to par with the album that came out.
Very, very rarely do previously unreleased tracks not suck. If they were so good, where were they years ago?
I don't need to have 10 song albums that I love "enhanced" by the crap they threw on the floor and turned into 18 song albums that I have to turn off half way through. I don't want to pay for crap tracks. Record companies should, if they have to release every scrap that was recorded during a recording session, offer them as completely seperate albums and cut the price in half. Instead of ripping people off with offers of your favorite album "enhanced" by several scraps of garbage at the end.
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Things like T-shirts, pens, vinyls, postcards and notebooks.
