Rolling Reissues 2016

Saturday Night In America, and what am I doing here, with my sort of life?
Oh yeah:

The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, will make their debut appearance on vinyl in December 2016, packaged together as a two-LP set.

Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later noted that “this tinny and intimate recording, in quiet defiance of the reigning roar of pop music, recalls both the early, scratchy field recordings of folk music and the first experiments in electronic music—precisely the sort of stylistic balance the Magnetic Fields liked to achieve.” The album includes the early-’90s college radio single “100,000 Fireflies” which had earlier appeared as a single on Harriet Records and was later covered by Superchunk.

The album artwork on both Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus was created by watercolorist Wendy Smith. Her beautiful wrap-around paintings, now printed in a larger format, along with remastered audio make this two-LP set an exciting addition to the Magnetic Fields discography.

TRACK/SONG TITLE ARTIST DURATION
When You Were My Baby The Magnetic Fields 2:42
The Saddest Story Ever Told The Magnetic Fields 2:13
Lovers From the Moon The Magnetic Fields 2:53
Candy The Magnetic Fields 2:32
Tokyo Á Go-Go The Magnetic Fields 3:13
Summer Lies The Magnetic Fields 2:59
Old Orchard Beach The Magnetic Fields 2:54
Jeremy The Magnetic Fields 3:01
Dancing in Your Eyes The Magnetic Fields 2:57
Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave The Magnetic Fields 3:19
Railroad Boy The Magnetic Fields 3:00
Smoke Signals The Magnetic Fields 3:29
You Love to Fail The Magnetic Fields 2:30
Kings The Magnetic Fields 2:15
Babies Falling The Magnetic Fields 3:19
Living in an Abandoned Firehouse With You The Magnetic Fields 3:59
Tar-Heel Boy The Magnetic Fields 2:26
Falling in Love With the Wolfboy The Magnetic Fields 4:06
Josephine The Magnetic Fields 3:08
100,000 Fireflies The Magnetic Fields 3:20

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The Magnetic Fields On Tour
11/19 North Adams, MA MASS MoCA
12/02 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Academy of Music
12/03 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Academy of Music
03/15 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
03/16 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
View All Tour Dates (and other info)
http://www.mergerecords.com/the-magnetic-fields-the-wayward-bus-distant-pl

trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obm4CNfyAzE

Let Them Eat Vinyl and Rock Classics is proud to announce the official North American release date for the following vinyl titles. Pick up these titles on December 2 at your favorite retailer.
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DIAMOND HEAD / All Will Be Revealed is the 2005 comeback album by the NWOBHM legends. It was the band's first release since their 2002 Acoustic First Cuts EP and the first studio album since 1993's Death and Progress. It was first album to feature vocalist Nick Tart. RCV204LP

Track Listing: 1. Mine All Mine, 2. Give It To Me, 3. Nightmare, 4. Fallen Angel, 5. Alimony, 6. Lost At Sea, 7. Broken Pieces, 8. All Will Be Revealed, 9. Dead Or Living, 10. Drinking Again, 11. Come Alive, 12. Muddy Waters

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DIAMOND HEAD / What's In Your Head? is the second and final album with singer Nick Tart. The album was produced by Dave Nicholls (Slipknot, Stone Sour). RCV203LP

Track Listing: 1. Skin On Skin, 2. I Feel No Pain, 3. This Planet And Me, 4. Reign Supreme, 5. Killing Me, 6. Tonight, 7. Pray For Me, 8. What’s In Your Head, 9. Nothing To Lose, 10. Calling Out, 11. Victim

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CHELSEA / Traitors Gate is the band's seventh studio originally released 1994. LETV499LP

Track Listing: 1. Streets Of Anarchy, 2. Be What You Want To Be, 3. Traitor's Gate, 4. Power For A Day, 5. Fireworks, 6. S.A.D., 7. My Hotel Room, 8. Guns In Paradise, 9. We Dare, 10. Floating In The Dark, 11. This Is Now, 12. Nightmares, 13. Be What You Wanna Be, 14. Fireworks, 15. Floating In The Dark, 16. Guns In Paradise, 17. Power For A Day, 18. Build An Ark, 19. Streets Of Anarchy, 20. My Hotel Room, 21. We Dare

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CHELSEA / Faster, Cheaper and Better Looking is the band's eighth studio album originally released in 2005. It was their long awaited new release since reuniting in 1999. LETV501LP


Track Listing: 1. Living In The Urban UK, 2. SOD The War, 3. Bad Advice, 4. New Utopia, 5. Cosy Family Way, 6. Sliding Down A Stream, 7. K.X.L.U., 8. We Don't Want It, 9. 45 RPM, 10. Ritalin Kid, 11. And I Love You, 12. If We Knew Then, 13. Mr. Ferry's Son, 14. Home, 15. Answer To The Question (bonus), 16. I Fought The Law (bonus), 17. White Riot (bonus), 18. Do We Really Care (bonus), 19. Linoleum (bonus)

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LAST IN LINE / Heavy Crown features guitarist Vivian Campbell, drummer Vinny Appice, bassist Jimmy Bain, and renowned vocalist Andy Freeman. The debut from this mega-group takes its name from Dio's 1984 fan-favorite album.

Track Listing: 1. Devil In Me, 2. Martyr, 3. Starmaker, 4. Burn This House Down, 5. I Am Revolution, 6. Blame It On Me, 7. In Flames (bonus track), 8. Already Dead, 9. Curse The Day, 10. Orange Glow, 11. Heavy Crown, 12. The Sickness

Watch for announcement on new vinyl titles for early 2017 shortly!

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New compilation by legendary Colombian cumbia/vallenato accordionist Andrés Landero, Yo Amanecí, coming on Vampisoul. Track listing:

1. La cigarrona
2. Mara del Carmen
3. Tambó tambó
4. Virgen de la Candelaria
5. Perdí las abarcas
6. Mi machete
7. La muerte de Eduardo Lora
8. Marta Cecilia
9. Cuando lo negro sea bello
10. Así se goza
11. Cumbia en la India
12. Que te vaya bien
13. Por ahí es que va la cosa
14. La mochila terciá
15. Rosa y Mayo
16. La pava congona
17. Yo amanecí
18. Las mellas
19. Mercedes Elena
20. La Sanjacintera

http://www.fatbeats.com/collections/frontier-records/products/lilys-in-the-presence-of-nothing-2xlp-reissue

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Couple of interesting end-of-the-year items:

Punk 45: Les Punks, The French Connection (The First Wave Of French Punk 1977-80): https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/the-first-wave-of-french-punk-197780
- The best review of French punk I've heard

Kollektion 06: Cluster 1971-1981: https://shop.tapeterecords.com/records/bureaub/kollektion-6-cluster-compiled-by-john-mcentire.html
- Single disc career overview

Also, this lovely 4CD box covering underground UK punk:
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/action-time-vision-a-story-of-uk-independent-punk-1976-1979/

out today:
WAXWORK RECORDS ANNOUNCES DELUXE VINYL RELEASE OF
THE HOWLING ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE
COMPOSED BY PINO DONAGGIO
won't let me paste the artwork here for long, but link leads to that and other details of a lavish edition (a la others posted about upthread):
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a&id=f55057ec3c&e=32e64a6326

Thanks for those links, Gerald. Would esp. like to check that French comp; the only ones I've heard on there are Metal Urbain and Metal Boys (when they featured China), both ace.

"others posted about upthread"--others on Waxwork Records.