Best Reissues 2018 - Mojo, Uncut, more

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

I'll also say I generally love the Dylan Bootleg series but I think this one's a botched job. First one that's a single disc and they don't even put all the New York Sessions on it? Don't know why they didn't do one disc of the alternate version and then one disc of outtake highlights. Isn't that what they did with the rest?

This suggestion makes so much sense that the only reason I can think of not to release a 2CD version is that it would cut into sales of the 6CD version, as very very few would want/need more than two discs worth

[Fonz]

The Metallica ‘Justice...’ set, despite its faults, is a clear omission. But I wouldn’t expect anyone here, besides the book holes, to understand.

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

Juno Records has popped up a long list of favourite reissues, recommended for those who like diverse international sounds. Lots on there I still need to hear like JD Twitch’s anthology of German post-punk stuff.
https://www.juno.co.uk/promotions/Best_ ... s_Of_2018/

The Norman Records 2018 archival list won’t be voted on till end of December but this is their long list of candidates (what an unusual concept, to actually wait for the year to finish before voting).
https://www.normanrecords.com/promos/449

Nice to see the Shoes, This Kind of Punishment and Even As We Speak there, also nice to be reminded to track down that (hideously overpriced) vinyl reish of Bagpuss.

[Pool Hall Richard]

i want the bagpuss one, pricey though.

The Coltrane lost album is curious. Came out in June, i was searching it the other night and ready to get it, the 2cd version has already been reissued as part of another 3cd set. 1963 - New Directions

• The Lost Album / Both directions at once
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• Selflessness
• Live At Birdland

[Count Machuki]

Juno Records has popped up a long list of favourite reissues, recommended for those who like diverse international sounds.

Hey, that's me!
Thanks.

[Darkness_Fish]

Juno Records has popped up a long list of favourite reissues, recommended for those who like diverse international sounds. Lots on there I still need to hear like JD Twitch’s anthology of German post-punk stuff.
https://www.juno.co.uk/promotions/Best_ ... s_Of_2018/

Ooh, I'll be adding that to my Christmas list. Dunno most of the names, but the presence of Malaria! and Mania D means it knows its stuff.

[never/ever]

Some of Bureau B's trawls through the weird and wonderful world of Germantronic music are interesting too.

Got some catching up to do.

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

i want the bagpuss one, pricey though.

The Coltrane lost album is curious. Came out in June, i was searching it the other night and ready to get it, the 2cd version has already been reissued as part of another 3cd set. 1963 - New Directions

• The Lost Album / Both directions at once
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• Selflessness
• Live At Birdland

So you can’t just get the 2CD anymore? That’s weird and doesn’t make much sense, given it’s about to get another burst of PR from all the end-of-year Best of 2018 lists.

[Pool Hall Richard]

i want the bagpuss one, pricey though.

The Coltrane lost album is curious. Came out in June, i was searching it the other night and ready to get it, the 2cd version has already been reissued as part of another 3cd set. 1963 - New Directions

• The Lost Album / Both directions at once
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• Selflessness
• Live At Birdland

So you can’t just get the 2CD anymore? That’s weird and doesn’t make much sense, given it’s about to get another burst of PR from all the end-of-year Best of 2018 lists.

You can still get it but 2cd is £12.99 whereas all the tracks from the 2cds are included in the larger 3cd set for £20. Also, all but one of the original 2cd set fits on 1cd of the 3cd set. I guess pay your money and take you choice, i've gone for the 3cd. Mad marketing tho.

[Darkness_Fish]

The Wire's Reissues of the Year:

1. Ursula K Le Guin & Todd Barton - Music and Poetry of the Flesh
2. Haruomi Hosono - The Haruomi Hosono Archival Series
3. Carl Stone - Electronic Music From the Eighties and Nineties
4. John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once
5. Various - Salm: Gaelic Psalms From the Hebrides of Scotland Vol 1
6. Catherine Christer Hennix - Selected Early Keyboard Works
7. Alice Coltrane - Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros Studio Recordings
8. Michele Mercure - Beside Herself
9. High Rise - High Rise II
10. Prince - Piano & A Microphone 1983
11. Milford Graves - Babi
12. Christoph de Babalon - If You're Into it, I'm Out of it
13. Wire - The Special Editions: Pink Flag/Chairs Missing/154
14. Black Lodge - Bitter Blood
15. Asak Maboul - Une peu de l'ame des bandits

[bobzilla77]

Why do people keep calling Coltrane's Both Directions At Once a reissue? It had never been heard before!! None of it!

Anyway it we're including "archival releases" that is one of the best of the year, as was the Miles Davis with Coltrane Live In Europe CD set.

I thought both Who vault releases this year - Live At The Fillmore East 1968 and Pete's Who Came First album - were first-rate. The former is the first release of a show that has often been bootlegged, but as a partial show and not in this quality. Just for the half hour improvisation that closes My Generation, it's pretty essential listening. And WCF is filled out with a second disc that puts almost all of his "private release" recordings dedicated to Meher Baba in one place, as well as a few contemporaneous ones I'd never heard before. And both in affordable 2-CD packages. I give them high marks.

Also loved Neil Young Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy but again, not a reissue. A new live album. As is Songs For Judy, which will be out this month & probably also a great listen.

Of actual reissues of albums previously issued, I was quite taken by the Wire - Chairs Missing set which includes all the studio demos. This is one case where hearing the demos really informs the knowledge of the finished album. I'm anxious to get into 154 next - I know several of those songs started in radically different form than appeared on the LP.

[bobzilla77]

i want the bagpuss one, pricey though.

The Coltrane lost album is curious. Came out in June, i was searching it the other night and ready to get it, the 2cd version has already been reissued as part of another 3cd set. 1963 - New Directions

• The Lost Album / Both directions at once
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• Selflessness
• Live At Birdland

So you can’t just get the 2CD anymore? That’s weird and doesn’t make much sense, given it’s about to get another burst of PR from all the end-of-year Best of 2018 lists.

You can still get it but 2cd is £12.99 whereas all the tracks from the 2cds are included in the larger 3cd set for £20. Also, all but one of the original 2cd set fits on 1cd of the 3cd set. I guess pay your money and take you choice, i've gone for the 3cd. Mad marketing tho.

You won't be disappointed. Both Directions is a really good Coltrane album, and Live At Birdland includes my favorite track by the Quartet ever, "Your Lady."

[Pool Hall Richard]

So you can’t just get the 2CD anymore? That’s weird and doesn’t make much sense, given it’s about to get another burst of PR from all the end-of-year Best of 2018 lists.

You can still get it but 2cd is £12.99 whereas all the tracks from the 2cds are included in the larger 3cd set for £20. Also, all but one of the original 2cd set fits on 1cd of the 3cd set. I guess pay your money and take you choice, i've gone for the 3cd. Mad marketing tho.

You won't be disappointed. Both Directions is a really good Coltrane album, and Live At Birdland includes my favorite track by the Quartet ever, "Your Lady."

i was listening to Sean Rowley's BBC Kent radio show on iplayer, the show featured an autumnal playlist and he played Autumn Serenade by Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, which is on 1963: New Directions. Bloomin ace. Just waiting for it to (hopefully) arrive in my stocking on the 25th.

[bobzilla77]

Oh yeah the Johnny Hartman album is excellent too! VERY deep ballads.

I need to reacquaint myself with "Selflessness", I have the Classic Quartet 8-disc box set so I sometimes lose sight of how the tracks were originally issued.

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

Why do people keep calling Coltrane's Both Directions At Once a reissue? It had never been heard before!! None of it!

Anyway it we're including "archival releases" that is one of the best of the year...

Yeah “archival” is probably a better name. That Prince album is also a new recording (albeit one bootlegged in the past).

Those Wire demos are great, not so much the Pink Flag extras as they’re not too different from the album versions, but it’s great to hear rougher 2nd and 3rd album material done in the style of Pink Flag.

[Muskrat]

I was gonna say! I’m pretty interested in it, particularly after that Bobbie Gentry podcast talking about her later records.

Link? Or name, at least; I can look it up myself.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

I was gonna say! I’m pretty interested in it, particularly after that Bobbie Gentry podcast talking about her later records.

Link? Or name, at least; I can look it up myself.

Sorry, I’ve linked to it a bunch of times and figured if anyone cared they had already noticed!

https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/bobbi ... stage-left

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

Piccadilly Records has once again created a publication to explore its Best of 2018 lists in detail, so you’ll find a Top 100 of new stuff as well as lists of best reissues, best compilations etc.
Some good stuff here
https://issuu.com/piccadillyrecords/doc ... 7/65915714

[Twang]

Did anyone pick up the Action set?

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

Did anyone pick up the Action set?

Not me but I'm another who's curious and would like to hear it.

Okay so The Quietus has just published a list of Top 100 Reissues, Soundtracks, Compilations and Mixes. I'm going to paste the entire lot here because it's so much easier to read, as the webpages are so dominated by embedded bandcamp and youtube links that it's an arse to load (it kept crashing on my phone anyway). If your technology is better than mine you might prefer to read it here http://thequietus.com/articles/25761-re ... st-of-2018

1: Ursula K Le Guin & Todd Barton - The Music And Poetry Of The Kesh
2: Salm - Gaelic Psalms From The Hebrides Of Scotland Volume One
3: Colin Stetson - Hereditary
4: Sly & The Family Drone - Live At Cafe Oto
5: Shirley Collins - The Ballad of Shirley Collins
6: Alice Coltrane - Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings
7: Discwoman - Discwoman 52 x SPFDJ
8: Chris Carter - Miscellany
9: Various Artists - God Unknown Singles Club Volume 3
10: Throbbing Gristle – Mission Of Dead Souls
11: Objekt - RA.650
12: Various Artists - African Scream Contest Volume 2
13: Autechre - NTS Sessions
14: Various Artists - The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose: American Primitive Guitar And Banjo
15: Various Artists - Revolutionary Spirit: The Sound Of Liverpool 1976-1988
16: Michele Mercure - Beside Herself
17: Eris Drew - RA.604
18: SunnO))) - Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape
19: Call Super - The Essential Mix For BBC Radio 1
20: Various Artists - Soul Of A Nation 2: Jazz Is The Teacher, Funk Is The Preacher
21: Batu - Dekmantel Podcast 183
22: Various Artists - Venezuela 70 vol. 2
23: Barry Adamson - Memento Mori (Anthology 1978 - 2018)
24: DJ Bus Replacement Service - Live At The Quietus Tenth Anniversary Rave
25: Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
26: Various Artists - Onda de Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were, 1984-1994
27: Joy O - Cav Empt Tape
28: DJ Haram, BB Basura & Edge Slayer B2B - Rinse FM Mix
29: Kode9 & Burial - Fabriclive.100
30: Errant Monks - Monastery Of Sound
31: Rimarimba - Rimarimba
32: Mark - Crack Mix 217
33: Alan Braufman - Valley Of Search
34: Gwenan - RA.619
35: Graham Massey & Umut Çağlar - Kicked From The Stars
36: Al Namrood – 10 Years of Resistance
37: Helena Hauff - The Cover Mix, Mixmag
38: This Heat - Repeat/Metal
39: Laksa - Blowing Up The Workshop 96
40: Perc - Unpolished 2018
41: Caterina Barbieri/ELEH - Bestie Infinite/Wear Patterns
42: Helado Negro - Phonic Mirror Part 3
43: Aksak Maboul - Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits
44: Various Artists - Patina Echoes
45: Jlin - Autobiography
46: Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy
47: Paula Temple - Katharsis 2018
48: Various Artists - Music of Southern And Northern Laos
49: Lucrecia Dalt - Blowing Up The Workshop 89
50: Various Artists - Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81
51: Various Artists - Kulør 001
52: Various Artists - METAPHORS / Selected Soundworks from the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
53: Laraaji - Vision Songs Vol. 1
54: Various Artists - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From 1980-1991
55: Erland Cooper Vs William Doyle - Murmuration
56: The Fall - Kurious Oranj
57: Various Artists - Midday Moon
58: Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
59: Bruxa Maria / Casual Nun - Bruxa Maria / Casual Nun
60: Factory Floor - Soundtrack For A Film
61: Various Artists – Para Cuando En Mi Te Mueras: 20 Unearthly Sissy And Sassy Hits
62: Various Artists – Black Panther The Album (Music From And Inspired)
63: Sophie Coletta - Blowing Up The Workshop 94
64: Ben Lamar Gay - Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun
65: Christoph de Babalon - If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It
66: Dennis Coffey - One Night At Morey’s 1968
67: Lena Willikens - Selectors 005
68: Betty Davis - Nasty Gal
69: Various Artists - We Out Here
70: Various Artists - NON Worldwide Compilation Trilogy
71: Prince - Piano And A Microphone 1983
72: Various Artists - She Came From Hungary: 1960s Beat Girls From The Eastern Bloc
73: Ancient Methods - RA.645
74: Vainqueur - Reductions 1995-1997
75: Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 20th Anniversary Edition
76: Donato Dozzy - Alternate Cuts (No Boundaries Set)
77: Brian Eno - Music For Installations
78: Black Box Recorder - Life Is Unfair
79: 48 Chairs - 70% Paranoid
80:Nitzer Ebb - 1982 - 2010: The Box Set
81: Algiers - 1st November 1954
82: Denis Wize - Wize Music
83: Rendell Carr Quintet - The Complete Lansdowne Recordings 1965-69
84: Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Metaphors: Selected Soundworks
85: Various Artists - Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Music
86: Anthony Child - Unfolding Forms
87: Cosmic Invention - Help Your Satori Mind
88: Slikback - Unsound Podcast
89: Holger Czukay – Cinema
90: Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
91: Richard Horowitz - Eros In Arabia
92: Yaeji - Blowing Up The Workshop 98
93: Various Artists - JD Twitch Presents Kreaturen Der Nacht
94: Mkwaju Ensemble - Mkwaju
95: Various Artists - Don’t Mess With Cupid ‘Cause Cupid Ain’t Stupid
96: Various Artists - Turkish Ladies: Female Singers from Turkey 1974 - 1988
97: Willikens & Ivkovic - Dekmantel Sao Paulo 2018
98: Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun Alternate Takes
99: Mama Snake & Solid Blake - Dekmantel 2018
100: Various Artists - Air Texture Vol. VI

Unsurprisingly there's much I haven't heard here and not everything appeals but I am going to check out JD Twitch Presents Kreaturen Der Nacht, Onda de Amor, Salm, the Turkish Ladies comp, Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From 1980-1991 and a few others. Can't fault their inclusion of releases like the Holger Czukay set, Betty Davis, Dennis Coffey, Joe Henderson (wasn't The Elements reissued last year?), and Soul of a Nation 2.