September 27: Box Mania

There are three notable deluxe releases making their way to stores on Tuesday, September 27th.  Here are the overviews of all the various versions and formats.  Some of these are limited so if you're interested in getting them please let us know either by dropping by the store or emailing us at the addresses in the sidebar.  Deposits may be required for some of the bigger ticket items.

(1) The Smiths

Versions: (prices recently revised)
(1)  8 CDs remastered in vinyl replica sleeves  $76.98
(2)  8 LPs (5 singles, 3 doubles, 180g vinyl)  $297.98
(3)  Deluxe version:  11 vinyl, 8 CD, 25 7" singles, DVD + various art work $664.98

Release Date:  September 27, 2011

(2)  Dark Side of the Moon

Versions:
(1)  Discovery Version:  2011 CD remaster  $18.98
(2)  Experience Version:  2011 CD remaster, Bonus CD 1974 Live @Wembley  $27.98
(3)  Vinyl Version: 2011 Single LP remaster  $29.98
(4)  Immersion Edition: 2CDs (as "Experience Version"), 1 DVD Audio (5.1 mix, Quadrophonic mix, PCM stereo mix), 1 DVD Audio/Video (Live Brighton 1972 [two non-Dark Side tracks], 2003 Dark Side of the Moon documentary, 3 Concert Screen Films [60 min total], all both stereo and 5.1 mixes) 1 Blu-Ray A/V (more or less the same content as DVD2 with different resolutions) 3rd CD of studio outtakes and different cuts + a variety of artwork and ephemera  $147.98

Release Date:  September 27, 2011

(3)  Nevermind

Versions:
(1)  Basic 2011 Remaster CD  $11.98
(2)  Deluxe CD Version:  2CD including B-sides,Smart Studios demo sessions, BBC sessions and boombox rehearsals  $28.98
(3)  Deluxe Vinyl Version:  4LP including same tracks as Deluxe CD version  $74.98
(4)  Super Deluxe Version:  4CD + 1DVD including Deluxe version + new album mix by Butch Vig. BBC Live Recordings, DVD of 1991 Seattle live performance, 96 page bound book.  $185.98

Release Date:  September 27, 2011

Lou Reed + Metallica = "Lulu"

"borrowed" from Uncut

Metallica and Lou Reed have spoken about their collaboration album 'Lulu', which is set for release on October 31.

'Lulu' was originally set to be Reed's musical adaptation of German playwright Frank Wedekind's 1913 play about the life of an abused dancer, but has now become a joint project with Metallica.

The San Francisco metal titans have revealed that the original plan for the joint album was to re-record some of the former Velvet Underground man's "lost jewels", before Reed proposed they record music to 'Lulu' instead.

Speaking about the project, Metallica frontman James Hetfield said: "We were very interested in working with Lou. I had these giant question marks: 'What's it going to be like?' 'What's going to happen?' So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp Metallica on it. And that's what we did."

Reed himself said of the project: "We had to bring Lulu to life in a sophisticated way, using rock and the hardest power rock you could come up with would have to be Metallica. This is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality."

Four titles from the album have also been named, with 'Pumping Blood', 'Little Dog', 'Mistress Dread' and 'Junior Dad' all set to be part of the 10-track LP.

This week's second chances

Twenty titles in our Used CD New Arrivals that should be in your collection. (If they aren't already). 

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Atlas Sound - Logos
The Band - Music from Big Pink
The Beatles - Revolver
Belle & Sebastian  - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Dennis Brown - Live at Montreux
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Metallica - Kill Em All
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (Deluxe)
Retribution Gospel Choir - S/T
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse 
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Joe Strummer  - Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
Townes Van Zandt - High Low and In Between
Various - The Trojan Story (2CD) 
Yardbirds - Smokestack Lightning (2CD)