Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
U2
RELEASE: The Joshua Tree: 30th Anniversary Edition
BACKSTORY: U2’s massive 1987 album gets a massive multi-format reissue this week in the following formats: 7LP Vinyl Super Deluxe Box Set, 4-disc Super Deluxe CD Box Set, 2-disc Deluxe CD Edition and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, PledgeMusic, iTunes
Bob Marley & The Wailers
RELEASE: Exodus 40
BACKSTORY: Bob Marley’s classic album receives a 40th anniversary reissue this week in a variety of formats with a variety of bonus material, including a live set and a “restatement” of the album by Ziggy Marley.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, PledgeMusic, iTunes
Erasure
RELEASE: Love You to the Sky EP
BACKSTORY: Andy Bell and Vince Clarke this week release an 8-song remix EP of the lead-off single from their recently released 17th studio album, World Be Gone. Includes non-album B-side “Nothing I Could Say.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- New releases: Box sets from Kraftwerk and Midnight Oil, new The Charlatans album
- New releases: Erasure’s ‘World Be Gone,’ plus ‘Singles’ soundtrack, Buffalo Tom, Haircut 100
- New releases: Paul Weller’s ‘A Kind Revolution,’ plus The Mission, David Bowie reissues
- New releases: Robyn Hitchcock’s new self-titled album, plus Big Star’s ‘Third’ live
Another reissue of The Joshua Tree?
Fan comes into the record shop (assuming one can find one)…
And he’s peeling off those dollar bills.
Slapping them down.
One hundred. Two hundred.
Very pricey.
I think the mega version runs about $100. I just thought I’d whip out the “Bullet the Blue Sky” reference.