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The Beach Boys

Sail On Sailor 1972

    Building on the success of 2021’s Feel Flows and the Sounds Of Summer product suite, UMe will be releasing 4 new packages based on the 1972 recordings by The Beach Boys from the albums “Carl and The Passions” and “Holland” in November.

    The project is expansive with 120 tracks, 80 of which are previously unreleased!

    The band is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and through 2023 and a number of tentpole events will build consumer excitement through next year.

    Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners

    Too-Rye-Ay, As It Should Have Sounded

      To tie in with the 40th anniversary of the multi-platinum selling album, we present ‘Too-Rye-Ay, as it should have sounded’.

      Kevin Rowland was never happy with the final mix of the album, despite its huge commercial success. So with Helen O’Hara, and Pete Schwier they decided to mix it again. In recent interviews Kevin has stated…

      “The songs and performances are great, but I always felt the mixes could be better. It’s my most successful album, but it doesn’t sound as good as the others”

      “This is the director’s cut and it’s how it should have sounded…”

      The album’s cover has also been re-modelled, using the preferred image from the Come On Eileen single sleeve. 

      TRACK LISTING

      1LP
      Side A
      The Celtic Soul Brothers
      Let's Make This Precious
      All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
      Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
      Old
      Side B
      Plan B
      I'll Show You
      Liars A To E
      Until I Believe In My Soul
      Come On Eileen

      3CD
      CD1 (The 1982 Album – ‘as It Should Have Sounded’)
      The Celtic Soul Brothers
      Let's Make This Precious
      All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
      Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
      Old
      Plan B
      I'll Show You
      Liars A To E
      Until I Believe In My Soul
      Come On Eileen
      CD2 (Bonus Tracks - B-Sides / Out-Takes)
      Show Me (Single A-side – 1981)
      Soon (B-side Of Show Me Single - 1981)
      ...And Yes We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders (B-side Of Liars A To E Single - 1981)
      Love Part 2 (B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers Single - 1982)
      Let's Make This Precious (‘Original Version’ – From Too-Rye-Ay (2CD Deluxe))
      Come On Eileen (Single Edit - 1982)
      Dubious (B-side Of Come On Eileen Single - 1982)
      T.S.O.P. (B-side Of Jackie Wilson Said.. 12” Single - 1982)
      Let's Get This Straight From The Start (Non-album Single - 1982)
      Reminisce (Part 1)(B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers 12" Single - 1983)
      Let's Make This Precious (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
      ‘Smoke Your Own’ (AKA Liars A To E, 1981) (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
      Until I Believe In My Soul (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
      CD3 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982)
      Old
      Geno
      Let's Get This Straight From The Start
      All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
      Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
      Plan B
      Let's Make This Precious
      I Couldn't Help If I Tried
      Until I Believe In My Soul
      Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
      Respect
      There, There, My Dear
      Come On Eileen
      Seven Days Too Long
      The Celtic Soul Brothers
      I'm Just Looking 

      4LP Super Deluxe Edition
      LP1 (The 1982 Album – ‘as It Should Have Sounded’) - Side A
      The Celtic Soul Brothers
      Let's Make This Precious
      All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
      Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
      Old
      LP1 (The 1982 Album – ‘as It Should Have Sounded’) - Side B
      Plan B
      I'll Show You
      Liars A To E
      Until I Believe In My Soul
      Come On Eileen
      LP2 (Bonus Tracks - B-Sides / Out-Takes) - Side A
      Show Me (Single A-side – 1981)
      Soon (B-side Of Show Me Single)
      ...And Yes We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders (B-side Of Liars A To E Single)
      Love Part 2 (B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers Single)
      Let's Make This Precious (‘Original Version’)
      Come On Eileen (Single Edit)
      Dubious (B-side Of Come On Eileen Single)
      T.S.O.P. (B-side Of Jackie Wilson Said.. 12” Single)
      LP2 (Bonus Tracks - B-Sides / Out-Takes) - Side B
      Let's Get This Straight From The Start (Single)
      Reminisce (Part 1)(B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers 12" Single)
      Let's Make This Precious (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
      ‘Smoke Your Own’ (AKA Liars A To E, 1981) (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
      Until I Believe In My Soul (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
      LP3 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 1) - Side A
      Old
      Geno
      Let's Get This Straight From The Start
      All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
      Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
      LP3 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 1) - Side B
      Plan B
      Let's Make This Precious
      I Couldn't Help If I Tried
      Until I Believe In My Soul
      LP4 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 2) - Side A
      Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
      Respect
      There, There, My Dear
      LP4 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 2) - Side B
      Come On Eileen
      Seven Days Too Long
      The Celtic Soul Brothers
      I'm Just Looking

      Roxy Music

      The Best Of - Half Speed Master Edition

        Glamorous, prolific and hugely influential Roxy Music has exceeded the sum of its considerable parts, defying definition, leaving a lasting impression on British Pop culture.

        Released for the first time on vinyl The Best Of Roxy Music amalgamates no less than eight studio albums spanning a decade of innovative style and enduring substance.

        Released on double 180g black vinyl, The Best Of Roxy Music has been re-issued with a fresh half-speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio the artwork has also been revised, complete with a gloss laminate gatefold finish.

        To coincide with the band celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, Roxy Music’s classic career-encompassing collection from 2001 is available for the first time on vinyl. Containing all of the classic singles including ‘More Than This’, ‘Jealous Guy’, ‘Love Is The Drug’ and ‘Virginia Plain’, and classic album cuts, it’s a definitive testament to one of the most influential and daring artist catalogues of all time. This beautifully presented album includes enhanced artwork and full song lyrics.

        TRACK LISTING

        2LP
        Side A
        Avalon
        More Than This
        Jealous Guy
        Over You
        Side B
        Same Old Scene
        Oh Yeah
        Angel Eyes
        Dance Away
        Both Ends Burning
        Side C
        Love Is The Drug
        Out Of The Blue
        All I Want Is You
        Mother Of Pearl
        Side D
        Street Life
        Do The Strand
        Pyjamarama
        Virginia Plain
        Re-Make/Re-Model

        Blondie

        Against The Odds 1974 - 1982

          There’s a certain un-assuming barn just outside Woodstock, New York. It’s easy to picture; the deep mythology of pop music history assures that much. For nearly two decades, the bulk of Blondie’s audio and visual archive sat inside.

          One hundred reel-to-reel tapes, half a dozen cassettes, a few storage tubs crammed with records, bits of promotional flotsam, flyers, a stray Warhol print, and mirrored dressing room signage from four sold-out January 1980 nights at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. All of it lay silent through twenty humid summers, twenty frigid winters, and 20,000 rodents.

          There were knives collected in Asia and sex worker advertisements pilfered from the UK’s red telephone boxes of the late 1970s. In a corner, a dust-caked RIAA-certified gold record for Eat To The Beat reclined against a wall, its protective glass scarred by a bullet hole.“Iggy and I were shooting guns at a wall in my basement one night,” guitarist Chris Stein told us. “This was a casualty.”

          From this chaotic hoard of ephemera, this long-gestating project was born.

          Over the years, Blondie’s many partner record companies have done an exemplary job archiving the band’s recorded legacy, given the miles it’s logged and the oceans it’s had to cross. From Larry Uttal’s Private Stock Records to Terry Ellis and Chris Wright’s Chrysalis, which was absorbed by Capitol and then Universal, the band’s reels have been moved, transferred, baked, re-boxed, remixed, and barcoded more than a few times. We pored over every foot of magnetic tape and, thanks to our brand new 24-bit, 192KHz transfers, have expanded the dynamic range of Blondie’s six LPs.

          We’ve scoured the earth for era-appropriate photos, pic sleeves, lyrics sheets, fan club newsletters, postcards, jukebox strips, and even eight-track tapes. There will always be more to find. Whether it’s a mislabeled cassette tape squirrelled away in a New Jersey garage, a previously unknown Thai 45 variant, or a roll of film excavated at the Long Beach flea market, slivers of Blondie will continue to poke into our collective unconscious until there ceases to be any consciousness to poke.

          What the seven members of Blondie set to tape over those first eight years remains among the most timeless music of its era, or any era. This is not hyperbole. Walk into a grocery store and Rapture fills the air. Spend an hour with any classic rock, ’80s throwback, LITE FM easy listening, or rockin’ oldies station and you will rediscover Heart of Glass.

          Watch any given documentary on the birth of punk or hip hop, read any “Best Albums of All Time” list, and the stark three-color imagery of Parallel Lines will undoubtedly flash by. Visit any sports arena in the world and count the moments before you hear Call Me.

          Blondie has transcended the realms of mere bands, evolving out of pop and punk to become a vital strand of American music’s core DNA.

          Let this box set serve as a map of the genome.

          Roxy Music

          Avalon - Half Speed Master Edition

            Avalon the final studio offering from Roxy Music would draw upon a smoother, more adult orientated sound giving us the now iconic single ‘More Than This’. Avalon would be yet another UK no’1 album staying there for more than three weeks and in the album charts for over a year. Consistently praised by critics Avalon Rolling Stone magazine wrote “Bryan Ferry stars as a remarkably expressive keyboard player and singer whose familiar mannerisms are subsumed in a rich, benevolent self-assurance. And reed man Andy Mackay shines in a series of cameos (his oboe meditation on Ferry’s “Tara” is particularly lovely). Ten years after its debut, Roxy Music has mellowed: the occasional stark piano chords in “While My Heart Is Still Beating,” for example, recall the stately mood of “A Song for Europe,” but the sound is softer, dreamier and less determinedly dramatic now. Ferry’s songwriting, however, has seldom seemed stronger.” Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record it’s a piece of art.

            Dire Straits

            Money For Nothing - 2022 Reissue

              Reissue of the first Dire Straits greatest hits collection, originally released in October 1988 and featuring songs from their first five albums.

              Fully remastered by Bob Ludwig, and cut by Bernie Grundman, this vinyl reissue includes ‘Telegraph Road (Live Remix)’ which was previously only available on the original CD format, and a brand new mix of ‘Portobello Belle (Live)’. It is cut over four sides of vinyl for the first time.

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Barry says: I remember having a copy of this on CD when I was younger, and thoroughly believed it to be a proper album. Imagine my surprise then when it turned out it's just a really good compilation. Andy and I were talking about just this the other week. I love Dire Straits, and this is the best 'album' that never was.

              TRACK LISTING

              LP1 - Side A
              Sultans Of Swing (5:46)
              Down To The Waterline (4:01)
              Portobello Belle (Live: Alternative Out-take) (4:33) – Previously Unreleased Version
              LP1 - Side B
              Twisting By The Pool (Remix) (3:30)
              Tunnel Of Love (8:10)
              Romeo And Juliet (5:56)
              LP2 - Side C
              Where Do You Think You're Going (3:30)
              Walk Of Life (4:08)
              Private Investigations (5:50)
              LP2 - Side D
              Telegraph Road (Live Remix) (11:59) – Previously Unreleased On Vinyl
              Money For Nothing (Single Edit) (4:06)
              Brothers In Arms (Edit) (4:49)

              Roxy Music

              Manifesto - Half Speed Master Edition

                In 1979 Roxy Music released Manifesto, almost four years since the last album and with it brought one of the bands biggest hits the second single and disco tinged ‘Dance Away’ and was a Top 10 selling single of 1979. The album also peaked in the UK chart at No’7 and was positively received by critics. Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record it’s a piece of art.

                Roxy Music

                Country Life - Half Speed Master Edition

                  Critically” Country Life’ is deemed to be Roxy Music’s most consistent and sophisticated album, the albums artwork is still to this day considered controversial in certain countries but is non the less iconic around the World. Musically and lyrically “Country Life” has been considered more cynical and hard rocking than previous Roxy Music albums, “Country Life” is an album that is ever present on top 100 Album charts of all time of forever will be.

                  Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record it’s a piece of art.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Side A
                  The Thrill Of It
                  Three And Nine
                  All I Want Is You
                  Out Of The Blue
                  If It Takes
                  All Night
                  Side B
                  Bitter Sweet
                  Triptych
                  Casanova
                  A Really Good Time
                  Prairie Rose

                  Roxy Music

                  Stranded - Half Speed Master Edition

                    Stranded gave Roxy Music their first UK No’1 album and brought with it an undeniable presence that would eventually see Roxy Music’s American audience take note! It was becoming all too clear that Roxy Music were indeed a band ahead of their time. Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record it’s a piece of art.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Side A
                    Street Life
                    Just Like You
                    Amazona
                    Psalm
                    Side B
                    Serenade
                    A Song For Europe
                    Mother Of Pearl
                    Sunset


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