Top Ten Reissues & Archival Releases, 2006 Edition:

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Sibylle Baier "Colour Green" (Isota)
Chris Bell "I Am The Cosmos" (LP, Four Men With Beards)
The Book of AM (Wah Wah)
Karen Dalton "In My Own Time" (Light In The Attic)
The Dead C "Vain, Erudite and Stupid" (Ba Da Bing)
The Fix "Speed of Twisted Thought" (Touch & Go)
Moondog "Viking of 6th Avenue" (Honest John's)
Marconi Notaro "No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios" (Time-Lag)
v/a "Last Kind Words: 1926-1953" (Mississippi)
Neil Young "Live @ The Fillmore" (Reprise)

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

No Depression's Top Twenty Reissues 2006

1 Johnny Cash - Personal File - Columbia/Legacy
2 Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions - Rhino
3 Waylon Jennings - Nashville Rebel - RCA
4 Richard Thompson - RT: The Life and Music of Richard Thompson - Free Reed
5 Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - Legends of Country Music - Columbia/Legacy
6 Various Artists - What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves 1967-1977 - Rhino
7 James Talley - Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got a Lot of Love - Cimarron
8 Johnny Cash - At San Quentin - Columbia/Legacy
9 Gram Parsons - The Complete Reprise Sessions - Rhino
10 Bettye Lavette - Child of the Seventies - Rhino Handmade
11 Various Artists - Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly - Rhino
12 Karen Dalton - In My Own Time - Light In the Attic
13 Tony Joe White - Swamp Music: Complete Monument Recordings - Rhino Handmade
14 Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Mercury
15 Various Artists - Heartworn Highways - Shout Factory!
16 Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock - Mr. Bongo
17 Various Artists - Good God! A Gospel, Funk Hymnal - Numero Group
18 R.E.M. - And I Feel Fine: Best of the IRS Years 1982-1987 - IRS
19 Spencer Wiggins - The Goldwax Years - Kent
20 The Byrds - There Is a Season - Columbia/Legacy

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ike Yard-1980-82 Collected (Acute Records)

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

SELF-PROMOTION. It is pretty good, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I am shameless.

Manicured Noise-Northern Stories 1978/1980 (Caroline True Records)
hit or miss but even if just for compiling the 2 singles, a personal fave.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The reissues of ZZ Top's Fandango and Tres Hombres were both well done.

― earlnash (earlnash), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

They re-issued Manicured Noise!! How did I miss that!!

Yeah Dan, the Ike Yard is pretty sweet. Will there ever be a Distractions re-issue?

― Ice Ice Cream Baby (The Dirty Vicar), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

No Depression repping the Incredible Bongo Band!

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

top marks for the sound on the Cheap Trick All Shook Up re-release!

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i enjoyed the Linda Ronstadt "Capitol Years" repackaging of her first 4 albums with a few extras (one would think that would be total no depression-bait)

― bliss (blass), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"Personal File" not a reish blah blah blah.

I was really hoping the second disc of that Lucinda deluxe-edition was gonna be versions from her rejected earlier version(s?) of the album. Just to imagine her spazzin'.

― A Radio Picture (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

But I'm sure that, contractually, that couldn't happen.

― A Radio Picture (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

ND always counts archival stuff as reissues, blah, thread title, blah...

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HXDQNS.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V35833911_.jpg

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, I was really impressed by the fact that there was a Josef K compilation released in the U.S. (Entomology) and hopefully it's provided a lot of teenybopper Franz Ferdinand fans a taste of the originators of that kind of sound. This year, though, when the Scars finally release that CD remaster of Author! Author! (sometime this month), I think that will pretty much trump everything else released this year, reissue or not.

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's putting out the Scars CD?

Regarding the Distractions...far as I can tell, it's unlikely their LP or mid-period singles on Island will be reissued, however I'm still looking into seeing if something can't be done everything else, perhaps for Acute's forthcoming online only series....

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://susanscribner.com/_admin/images/nailbiting.gif

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link

dan selzer: The ex-band members themselves are working on the remaster after finally securing the master tape from EMI's vaults. Steve McLaughlin, who was the drummer at the time the album was recorded and released and has since won a Grammy for helping engineer a Tom Petty album, has done the remastering and it will soon be available for release on Paul Research's site. BTW, just so you'll know, the band themselves now have a Wikipedia article. (Self promotion there? Perhaps.)

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

cool. Heck, even their Fast single may even be available again soon via another outlet.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"Adult/ery"/"Horrorshow"?? Really?? No freaking way. Tell me more, PLEASE.

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just sayin', maybe. Cross your fingers and all that.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link

someone's selling an amazing collection of post-punk/DIY type stuff, including a few Scars records:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ200QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQsassZBarnbrook777

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

my faves:

Cravats - Land Of The Giants (although it is flawed by that incomplete-for-no-reason problem).

Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought. I just keep listening to the Instrumentals disc over and over.

and yeah, Moondog. The Josef K disc is good also.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link

STILL--UNABLE--TO STOP--LISTENING TO--TOM MOULTON THING ON SOUL JAZZ

HELP

― Douglas Wolk (Douglas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Xposts: Oh, sorry, Roy. Duh. I got back to Seattle on Saturday night; how much longer do I get to use jetlag as an excuse?

― A Radio Picture (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

No help available on Tom Moulton, Douglas. Nor on Levan Rhino thing, which made me glad even to hear "Once in a Lifetime" (kinda played out for me) again. Not to mention those three or four real percussion-heavy cuts at the end of Disc One.

― A Radio Picture (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The Dead Moon 2-CD comp is really fantastic -- I've never heard of them but for the past two months, it's my most played album.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

John Phillips - John, the Wolf King of LA
Marconi Notaro - No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios
Jackie DeShannon - Laurel Canyon
Giovani Fusco - Music for Michelangelo Antonioni
N.A.D.M.A. - Paura
v/a - Bulawayo Jazz
Allen Toussaint - Life, Love and Faith
v/a - How Low Can You Go? (granted I've only heard disc 1!)
Sandy Bull - Still Valentine's Day, 1969
Faust V

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

STILL--UNABLE--TO STOP--LISTENING TO--TOM MOULTON THING ON SOUL JAZZ

I definitely need that. But I'll play the Walter Gibbons box now to tide me over.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus you probably still have one or two records that you haven't listened to yet from the Tower closeout.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Just a couple.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

lest we forget:

John Cale - Paris 1919
Nitzer Ebb - Body Of Work/Body Remixes
Judee Sill - Abracadabra: The Asylum Years
Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
V/A - Sunday Afternoon at Dingwells
V/A - Northern Soul: The Essential Collection
Michele - Saturn Rings
Saint Etienne - Nice Price
Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
The House Of Love - Complete John Peel Sessions

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

East Village - Drop Out 2 CD set
Primitives - Buzz Buzz Buzz

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Great thread (and no sweat Rickey; even "archival" is ambiguous for ND: they treated Orphans as a new release, for instance); keep the tips coming. How is the reissue of Paris 1919?

A few more reissues that I really enjoyed from this year:

Various Artists - Hard Workin' Man: The Jack Nitzsche Story Volume 2 - Ace
Big Bill Broonzy – Amsterdam Concerts – Shout Factory!
Millie Jackson – Caught Up - Southbound

Anybody want to take a stab at jazz reissue/archival top 10? Here's a start:

Charles Mingus at UCLA - Sunnyside
Sonny Stitt - Work Done - Highnote
Donald Byrd - Royal Flush - Blue Note
Dexter Gordon - Gettin Around - Blue Note
Horace Silver Quintet - HoraceScope - Blue Note
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Blues - Epic

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

And how could we forget:

James Brown - The Federal Years 1955-1960 - Hip-O Select

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the St Et comp, like finding a box of old family photo's but everyone's hair and clothes are slightly different from what you remember.

Big recommendation for the Jake Thackray 'Jake in a Box' 4 CD set.

Anyone know if the Steve Reich 5 CD box is worth getting or should I save a bit extra and try to get the 10 CD box which came out a couple of years ago?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's an obvious choice, but the 2 disc reissues of the first two Pretenders albums are totally ace.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been very impressed with Eno/Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts all over again thanks to the reissue.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear they reissued Chapterhouse's "Whirlpool" which is a shame coz I just got it from LaLa. And the Pulp reissues happened this year I think.

Rephlex is reissuing 808 State's MASSIVELY seminal "Quadrastate" EP and ZTT is reissuing their back catalog. Get psyched, Leo (Leo)!!!!

― RIYL Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Anything on Finders Keepers, but especially the amazing Selda and Lubos Fiser's gorgeous soundtrack to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

― Stewart Smith (Stew), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Not yet mentioned:

Meic Stevens - Rain In The Leaves (Sunbeam)
Anne Briggs - The Complete Topic Recordings (Bo'Weavil)
Heron - Upon Reflection: The Dawn Anthology (Castle)
Emmanuelle Parrenin - Maison Rose (Lion Productions)
Hermine - The World On My Plates (LTM)
Harry Taussig - Fate Is Only Once (Tompkins Square)
Sachiko Kanenobu - Misora (Chapter)

― Hatch (Hatch), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

annnnnnnd:

Denim - Back In Denim

― henry s (henry s), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Count me in for that "fingers crossed" Scars single reissue, please. Throw in some live or session (?) tracks from that time period and wow...now we're cookin'! I haven't heard Author! Author! in a long while, but I don't remember it being nearly as good as previous material.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm keeping my fingers crossed too. Dan, anytime you're ready to spill, though hopefully the former band members themselves will make an announcement if/when the time is right so we'll hear it from the source. And Bimbler, I tell you -- first Ultravox, then Japan and now the Scars?? If you like Josef K, Gang Of Four, Spandau Ballet, and Duran Duran as well, I'd be well inclined to offer you a marriage proposal.

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Heheh. There definitely seems to be some musical chemistry here. We should definitely keep in touch. I confess I'm not terribly interested in Spandau Ballet or Duran Duran, though, but in the early 80's Duran were my favourite. How do you feel about New Order? Ah hell, this is the sandbox, gotta keep offa here if I can. Just email me.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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