Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Bauhaus
RELEASE: 5 Albums
BACKSTORY: This Beggars box set collects 1980′s In the Flat Field, 1981′s Mask, 1982′s The Sky’s Gone Out and 1983′s Burning From the Inside, plus a 20-track fifth disc featuring singles, mixes and B-sides (full tracklist).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Peter Murphy
RELEASE: Love Hysteria: Expanded Edition
BACKSTORY: The Bauhaus leader’s second solo album gets a 25th anniversary expanded 2CD reissue that pairs the remastered nine-track album with 13 home demos, B-sides and single edits and remixes (full tracklist).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
The Jam
RELEASE: The Studio Recordings
BACKSTORY: Paul Weller and Co. are treated to an eight-LP vinyl box set featuring all six studio album plus two brand-new records of non-album singles and B-sides, plus a 44-page hardback book with new liner notes.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Soundgarden
RELEASE: Screaming Life/Fopp
BACKSTORY: Sub Pop reissues the first two EPs from Soundgarden, originally released in 1987 and 1988, with bonus tracks from the Sub Pop 200 compilation. It’s their first digital release, plus new vinyl and CD pressings.
BUY: Amazon.com
Fields of the Nephilim
RELEASE: 5 Albums
BACKSTORY: The new Beggars box collects 1987′s Dawnrazor, 1988′s The Nephilim and 1990′s Eliziuim plus the 1991 live album Earth Inferno and a new 13-track collection of singles and remixes (full tracklist).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Gene Loves Jezebel
RELEASE: 5 Albums
BACKSTORY: The new Beggars box collects 1983′s Promise, 1985′s Immigrant, 1986′s Discover, 1988′s The House of Dolls and 1990′s Kiss of Life), each with bonus singles, mixes, demos and more (full tracklist).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Simple Minds
RELEASE: Classic Album Selection
BACKSTORY: This new 5CD box set collects the albums Sparkle in the Rain (1984), Once Upon a Time (1985), Street Fighting Years (1989), Real Life (1991) and Good News from the Next World (1995).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Regarding the Bauhaus 5 albums box:
It is missing the following tracks which were released on the expanded CD reissues:
In the Flat Field
Untitled 1.24
God in an Alcove (flexi version) 4.08
Mask
Harry 2.47
1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash 6.37
Satori 4.36
The Sky’s Gone Out
Patry of the First Part 5.26
Burning From The Inside
Here’s The Dub 3.19
Departure 4.49
It does include a handful of tracks that weren’t on those reissues. Most are included in either ‘1979-1983 Volume Two’ or the ‘Crackle’ best of comp.
‘Poison Pen’ is included. Not sure if it is the BBC version from the Swing The Heartache comp.
‘Spirit in the Sky’ is included which is rare.