A thread for the Siouxsie reissues

Some of these are going to be must haves though. I agree about "Kiss In The Dreamhouse".

I'm a Hyaena fan too.

"Remasters Clarification. All studio albums and Nocturne to be remastered. Not Once/Twice Upon A Time. Only The Scream and Juju have the go ahead for the deluxe double editions at present, the rest will be single CDs with three to four bonus tracks which is likely to include non album singles.

Remaining BBC Sessions are not set to appear on any other albums with the possible exception of Juju.

Early next year sees the release of Join Hands, Kaleidoscope and the deluxe double Juju provisionally all set for release in February."

Slow release schedule! Kaleidoscope et al early next year? It'll be forever before the magical tri-fecta of Tinderbox/Looking Glass/Peep Show.

That was a problem with me for the Cure re-issues. I still haven't bought the last 3 because I already have those albums in so many formats I couldn't get myself to spend that much money. Should I?

I've been holding off on The Cure albums, because they're so damn expensive, and Boys Don't Cry is missing key tracks like "Killing An Arab" and "Plastic Passion." Has anyone compared the remasters with the originals side-by-side?

As for The Cure, I would skip Three Imaginary Boys, but Seventeen Seconds and Pornography are both stunning with great extras. Faith is an album I never really appreciated, but hearing it spun remastered with Carnage Visors on the end is excellent listening.

As for Siouxsie, if you've heard any of the B-Sides boxset, you'll know firsthand how much better the albums will potentially be when remastered.

I put most of it down to remater technology available now as opposed to 15+ years ago when record companies were rushing everything out to CD bc the format took off.

Unrelated one: does anyone know if the Downside Up box is ever getting a US release?

Unrelated two: PRINCE. MUST. BE. REMASTERED. Purple Rain and (to a bit lesser extent) Around the World in a Day are acceptable, but the rest sound absolutely horrid. Sign o' the Times especially. Flat, lifeless, way too quiet...urgh.

Got mine for a decent price (like $60?) on one of those Amazon z shops. Check it out. Didn't take long to arrive either. The packaging is mint. The sound is mint. Also bought one for my brother as a b-day gift (and so I don't have to lend mine out).

I did but didn’t know Pornography could sound that good. The reasons why this process is taking so long and with delays is because Robert Smith wouldn't have it any other way. The other thing with the Cure is that the original issues are really poor. I feel that it's more than worth it money wise, but than again I'm a big fan.

I'm stunned that these are not going to be all double CD's. Than you say that it might be import only? Thought Siouxsie was a bit bigger.

A thread for the Cure reissues

Hurrah!

"# Make Up To Break Up (Riverside Session)
# Love In A Void (Peel Session)
# Mirage (Peel Session)
# Metal Postcard (Peel Session)
# Suburban Relapse (Peel Session)
# Hong Kong Garden (Peel Session)
# Overground (Peel Session)
# Carcass (Peel Session)
# Helter Skelter (Peel Session)
# Metal Postcard (Pathway Session)
# Suburban Relapse’ (Pathway Session)
# Staircase (Mystery) (Pathway Session)
# Mirage (Pathway Session)
# Nicotine Stain (Pathway Session)
# Hong Kong Garden (7” Single Version)
# Staircase (Mystery) (7” Single Version)

So once again (as with The Cure reissues) you're expected to buy the Downside Up box if you want "Voices" or "20th Century Boy"; and most importantly where's "Captain Scarlet"?!?

"Surely, the next one will have the "Live at the punk festival" version of "The Lords Prayer" etc... ?"

Logically (chronologically) I'd have thought it really should be on this one - although it really is pretty bloody dreadful and; unless there are substantially better quality recordings of it about than any IIII've ever heard; I can't imagine it ever being legitimately released.

Oh yeah, "Captain Scarlet!"

There are studio demos available for all of these!

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Yup. Completely blew me away the first time I heard it; none of the others have ever really come close.

"Tinderbox is a perfect album. The Scream is not."

Tinderbox was a predictable album. The Scream was not.

It's kind of akin to saying, "Oh, that just sounds like a typical Cure album" when none of them really sound alike (ESPECIALLY pre-1989).

Actually I've always thought that Seventeen Seconds and Faith very definitely belong together stylistically. ;~P

Be that as it may 'though, I'm not particularly saying that any particular album sounds specifically like any preceding one, just that (in the both cases) pretty much everything that either band released from, say, 1984 onwards was immediately recognisable as being by that band, and that from that point onwards the contents of each band's musical pallette was always far more familiar than it was unfamiliar.

I thought they all sounded great loud on my stereo. It's only since I put them on my mp3 and listened through headphones that I began to notice some of the drop outs etc. Like I said though, I don't have any originals to compare with so I can't speak with any authority at all really. The music is superb though. Can't believe I overlooked them for so long.

I must have cloth ears - all of this has passed me by. Will have a listen to some of this tonight. I'm not really that fussed about the odd glitch though.

Same here, actually. I didn't get the fuss about either the Siouxsie or the New Order reissues -- both sound just fine to my ears, but maybe I'm just "not listening critically enough" or what have you.

I R DUMB, I only just got the reissue of Join Hands today. HFS

I will, when I see one in Fopp for FoppPrice.

Really? Aside from the singles "Join Hands" never really grabbed me. What are you hearing that makes you react that way?

steve severin's fb page states they are doing a 20 disc mega box including a dvd and all the albums and singles.

20?? Let's see... 11 proper albums, "Nocturne", 4 discs from "Downside Up", 3 from "At The BBC", one for that 1981 gig he mentions on his page. That's 20!

first album was a double in the remasters, rest just had bonus tracks. doubt the BBC seshs 'd be in this. that's 18!

Funny, when I managed to get JoinHands for Foppcheap, I thought it a reasonably consistent album up to the Lords Prayer. Like sides 3 and 3.5 of "The Scream"...

This version of TLP seemed quite different to the muffled Roxy live version I had in song 'bits'. I nearly fell off my chair (I was driving) when her bit of "Knocking on Heavens Door" went into the Legendary Stardust Cowboy track.

It's totally mad, daftest thing they ever did. I'm assuming the original was meant to have more (um..) menace behind it.

who exactly would buy such a "megabox"?

Not me for a kickoff.

middle-aged goth bank managers.

If they hadn't been doing the reissues, I would have

FINALLY

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/07/07/siouxsie-banshees-final-four-reissue/

Due September 15th. No further track details yet.

Updated, release on Oct. 13, no tracklists yet:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/08/22/siouxsie-and-the-banshees-final-4-expanded-reissues-confirmed-for-oct-13-release/

Further:

It appears the Banshees’ archival releases indeed won’t be limited to the final four reissues. Dropping further hints on the Banshees’ Facebook group, Severin this week wrote, “Something else drops on Oct. 20th. Another thing in November. Something in the New Year and something BIG in March.”

Well, these came out! But I have yet to get them, and it turns out maybe that was a good thing in one case:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/11/01/siouxsie-banshees-peepshow-mastering-error-reissue/

Yeah that's annoying

I am really, really starting to sink into the oppressively smothering hollow shell that is Join Hands

Yeah, that was the last Siouxsie album I went back and got - 20 years after first getting into them!

Something about enduring MN-esque winter temperatures for the past 6 weeks for the first time in over 20 years combined with more concentrated snow than I've ever seen in my life has pushed me into the exact right headspace to appreciate every nook and cranny of this album, which has not kept me from looping "Icon" and "Playground Twist" for hours at a time.

that's a great album. it was unfairly maligned for a long time.

JH always seemed a bit short despite the superfluois padding (Lord's Prayer - yawn) but the highs (ICON! Premature Burial!) definitely kicked my ass as a wee goth

Join Hands was always the one that seemed the most remarkable to me. Like, Kaleidoscope has better jams, but Join Hands is just this dark vision

Yeah it shows the band that they could have been but I guess the departure of the rhytm section acted as a reset button for them

Not quite rhythm! (Guitarist/drummer.)

The Join Hands remaster is great.

And jeez, I forgot how punishing of an album it is. Squally squally distortion everywhere.

the vinyl remaster with the original artwork?

so, the new boxset.

having not heard the previous set of remasters with extra tracks, i have to say this new cheap-n-cheerful boxset of the first 6 albums (coverart by one of our own !), sounds fantastic.

or, am i not an enough of a fanboy to notice the subtle f*ck ups ?

wait who did the cover art don't make me buy this thing I have literally everything on it

in multiple formats

if they did an all-encompassing box covering the first two albums and attendant singles, and all previous....

"Oh, Ted, that would be amazin, woah yeah! Just that Ted..."

ahh : checked the post, not 'DID', but 'DIG'.
sorry to have raised excitement levels.
still, no left/right dropouts as mentioned on various s&b threads/discussion groups.
tis a very slimline boxset, no credits, nothing.
but, exactly what i wanted.
though having heard the 14 minute 'lords prayer' track, i aint so sure now !

haha

This box arrived at my house on Sunday. Ten minutes after I left for a week :(

this is exactly the kind of box set I want to replace my grocery bags full of cassettes.

thanks to thread bump for alerting me to this:

http://www.discogs.com/Siouxsie-And-The-Banshees-At-The-BBC/release/1800195

and wow, Downside Up sure needs a repress!

wow this box is cheap. i will probably buy it; I just sold almost all my cds but still.

xp yeah a Downside Up reissue for a reasonable price would be awesome. But please god not in a clamshell box.