2009 Reissues
Some albums are just too good to settle for crappy sounding MP3s. Even as albums are slowly becoming available in lossless codecs, the pricing is way out of whack. At $1 a song, the deluxe reissue of Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth & Collected Works would cost $46. CDs still look just as great as books on shelves, and reissues usually have the perk of expanded album art and liner notes that are still fun to re-read now and then. Until complete catalogs become available in lossless audio at $5 an album, I'll continue to look forward to buying reissues of old favorites and lost classics.
It took them long enough, but they finally remastered the Beatles catalog, which had never been done properly. You can tell they really put time and thought into the painstaking mastering. Needless to say they sound awesome. And it also goes without saying that there's no clipping. The only annoying thing is they should have just included the mono versions, because no sane person is going to buy the whole set twice. With the Sparks and Kraftwerk catalogs also reissued, it was an expensive year for the reissue junkies.
- The Beatles - Box 63-70
- Kraftwerk - Catalogue
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (Bar/None) 80
- Emitt Rhodes - The Emitt Rhodes Recordings: 1969-1973 (Hip-O Select)
- Sparks - Kimono My House (Universal) 74
- Died Pretty - Free Dirt (What Goes On/AztecMusic) 86
- U2 - The Unforgettable Fire [2CD] 84
- Tricky - Maxinqyuaye [2CD] 95
- R.E.M. - Reckoning [2CD] 84
- Loop - World In Your Eyes [3CD]
- Guru Guru - Kanguru (Brain/Revisited) 72
- The Cult - Love (Beggars Banquet) 85
- Def Leppard - Pyromania [2CD] 83
23 Skidoo - Urban Gamelan
801 Live [2CD]
Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol 2 Pagan Love Vibrations
Mulatu Astatke New York-Addis-London: The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 (Strut)
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field [2CD] 80
Bauhaus - Mask [2CD] 81
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head [2CD]
Beastie Boys - Ill Communications [2CD]
Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky [Box]
B-Movie - Forever Running
Book Of Love [2CD]
Book Of Love - Lullaby
Book Of Love - Candy Carol
David Bowie - Space Oddity [40th Anniversary 2CD] 70
Captain Sensible - Women And Captains First 82
Captain Sensible - The Power Of Love 83
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide [2CD] 91
Patrick Crowley & Jorge Socarras - Catholic (Macro)
DAF - Das Beste Von DAF
The Damned - Phantasmagoria [2CD]
Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg 88
Dead Or Alive - Sophisticated Boom Boom 84
Dead Or Alive - Youthquake 85
Def Leppard - Adrenalize [2CD]
The Del-Lords Based On A True Story (American Beat)
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo [2CD] 78
Devo - Freedom Of Choice [2CD] 80
Thomas Dolby - Golden Age Of Wireless
The Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock (Ape) 85
Duran Duran - Rio [2CD] 82
The Feelies - The Good Earth (Bar/None) 86
Freur - Doot Doot 83/Get Us Out Of Here 84
Fun Boy Three 82
Debbie Harry - Koo Koo/Def Dumb & Blonde
Hatfield and the North 74
Hatfield and the Norht - The Rotters' Club 75
Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness And Charm [2CD] 77
Hawklords - 25 Years On [2CD] 78
Hawkwind - P.X.R.5. 79
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 [2D]
The Jesus Lizard - Head (Touch & Go) 90
The Jesus Lizard - Goat (Touch & Go) 91
The Jesus Lizard - Liar (Touch & Go) 92
The Jesus Lizard - Down (Touch & Go) 94
Laibach - Let It Be
Loop - A Gilded Eternity [2CD]
Lydia Lunch - Queen Of Siam
Barbara Lynn - Here Is Barbara Lynn (Water)
Madness - One Step Beyond [2CD] 79
Magma 70
Magma - 1,001 Degrees Centigrade 71
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh 73
Magma - Kohntarkosz 74
John Martyn - Solid Air [2CD] 73
Jean-Pierre Massiera - Midnight Massiera
Mbius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (Water) 80
Moondog - More Moondog
Nirvana - Bleach [2CD] 89
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle [2CD] 79
Ofege - Try and Love Academy LPs)
Pearl Jam - Ten [2CD]
Prefab Sprout - Swoon 84
Prefab Sprout - Protest Songs 89
Prefab Sprout - Jordan The Comeback 90
Prefab Sprout - Andromeda Heights 97
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog 69
Procol Harum - Home 70
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades 71
Procol Harum - In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra 72
Procol Harum - Grand Hotel 73
Pylon - Chomp 83
Radiohead - Pablo Honey [2CD]
Radiohead - The Bends [2CD]
Radiohead - OK Computer [2CD]
The Raincoats The Raincoats (Kill Rock Stars) 79
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts 83
Lou Reed - New Sensations 84
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Rolling Stones - Undercover
Roxette - Look Sharp! 88
Roxette - Joyride 91
Saint Etienne - Continental [Deluxe 2 CD]
The Scene Is Now Tonight We Ride (Lexicon Devil)
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun-Shy 86
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red 87
Sigh Imaginary Soundscape (The End reissue)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hyaena
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Tinderbox
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Nocturne
Sleep - Holy Mountain
The Slits - Cut [2CD] 79
Spacemen 3 - A Perfect Prescription
Sparks - Propaganda (Universal) 74
Sparks - Indiscreet (Universal) 75
Sparks - Big Beat (Universal) 76
Tom Tom Club [2CD] 81
Ultravox - Quartet [2CD]
The Undertones [2CD] 79
The Undertones - Hypnotised 80
The Units - History Of The Units
Venom - Black Metal
Wall Of Voodoo - Dark Continent 81/Call Of The West 82
Wicked Witch Chaos 1978-86 (EM reissue)
World Domination Enterprises Lets Play Domination
Neil Young 69
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 69
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush 70
Neil Young - Harvest 72
Zero Boys Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian reissue)
Various - Fire in My Bones (Tompkins Square)
Various - Fly Girls
Various - Forge Your Own Chains: Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974
Various - Ghana Special
Various - Legends of Benin (Analog Africa)
Various - Sci Fi Lo Fi: Shoegazing 1985 2007
Various - Tumbele!: Biguine Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean (Soundway)
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