Category: Reissues

Danny Elfman's 'So-Lo' album reissued on CD after more than a decade out of print

Danny Elfman’s ‘So-Lo’ album reissued on CD after more than a decade out of print

Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman’s lone solo record — 1984’s appropriately titled So-Lo — has been reissued on CD for the first time in more than a decade by the Varese Sarabande label, which has supplemented the nine-song album with a lone bonus track: the original mix of single and album opener “Gratitude.”

Simple Minds' 'Sparkle in the Rain' to be reissued as hugely expanded 5-disc box set

Simple Minds’ ‘Sparkle in the Rain’ to be reissued as hugely expanded 5-disc box set

The spate of hugely expanded box-set reissues continues next year with Simple Minds’ breakthrough sixth album Sparkle in the Rain — featuring the singles “Waterfront” and “Up on the Catwalk” — set for re-release a a five-disc set featuring B-sides, remixes, BBC sessions, a previously unreleased concert.

Andy Partridge working to restore XTC's 'Oranges and Lemons' for audiophile reissue

Andy Partridge working to restore XTC’s ‘Oranges and Lemons’ for audiophile reissue

By all appearances, XTC’s 1989 album Oranges and Lemons is next up in the band’s current series of audiophile reissues, as bandleader Andy Partridge has been tweeting in recent weeks about work on the 5.1 Surround mix, including an attempt to transfer the baked album tapes that were “in a very bad way.”

Siouxsie and the Banshees re-pressing 'Peepshow' reissue over 'minor mastering error'

Siouxsie and the Banshees re-pressing ‘Peepshow’ reissue over ‘minor mastering error’

The just-released reissue of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1988 album Peepshow is being repressed following the discovery of a “minor mastering error” at the end of “Rawhead and Bloody Bones,” the band’s bassist, Steven Severin, announced today via the Banshees’ Facebook page.

Pixies' 'Doolittle 25’ 3CD reissue to include 21 previously unreleased demos, Peel sessions

Pixies’ ‘Doolittle 25’ 3CD reissue to include 21 previously unreleased demos, Peel sessions

The Pixies will mark the 25th anniversary of their classic sophomore album Doolittle with an expanded 3CD, 50-track reissue this December that will feature, as bonus material, the record’s B-sides, two of the band’s Peel sessions in their entireties, and a full disc’s worth of demos.

Tears For Fears' 'Songs From the Big Chair' to be reissued this fall in giant 6-disc box set

Tears For Fears’ ‘Songs From the Big Chair’ to be reissued this fall in giant 6-disc box set

A year after reissuing their debut The Hurting in a bonus-stuffed box set, Tears For Fears is set to do the same for their monstrously successful second album, with an ambitious, multi-format reissue of 1985’s smash Songs From the Big Chair due out this fall.

Ministry's 'Same Old Madness' finally released on 'Twelve Inch Singles 1981-1984’ reissue

Ministry’s ‘Same Old Madness’ finally released on ‘Twelve Inch Singles 1981-1984’ reissue

One of Ministry’s earliest tracks — the oft-bootlegged “Same Old Madness,” which was recorded in 1982 and even has a video, but never was released — finally sees the official light of day on an expanded 2CD reissue of Al Jourgensen and Co.’s classic Wax Trax!-era compilation Twelve Inch Singles 1981-1984.