Top Ten Reissues & Archival Releases, 2006 Edition:

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

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

And how could we forget:

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

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?

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

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

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)!!!!

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

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)

annnnnnnd:

Denim - Back In Denim

Yes indeed.

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.

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.

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.