All You Need is Now

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Album? What album?

Pur German concert shot

A lot of veteran acts are going on the road either without anything new to promote, or to promote a new album that may never sell as well or be held in the same regard as the classics except by hardcore fans. This is nothing new. The Who as far back as the late '80s would have these reunion tours that were coined as "money tours" by the press. The faithful turn out either way. Is there really any excuse to tour but to please the fans?
When I saw Yes in the past couple years, the merchandise table had solo and related CDs for sale instead of a full group album, reminiscent of their 1976 Solos tour.
Casual fans of a heritage act will only wanna hear the hits and nothing new. Even Paul McCartney acknowledges this slight of hand, but thats just how it is. No one is exempt of being pigeon-holed and slated, even newer artists will realise the honeymoons over sooner or later.
A tour can sell out before the album to be promoted is even released. The band and/or brand can turn a profit on name power alone. The road is a different arm of ones career than being in the studio or putting out a record, but since the days of Sinatra, its a three-pronged cycle.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Imports needed

Paul is Live!

I need these on import to fulfill my already vast collection:

ABBA
Greatest Hits (1976)
Thank You for the Music
Agnetha Fältskog - A (2013)+

AC/DC
'74 Jailbreak
Live at River Plate
Let There Be Rock: The Movie
Bonfire
Backtracks
Iron Man 2 soundtrack

Ace of Base
Cruel Summer
The Golden Ratio
My Story (Jenny Berggren)

a-ha
45 RPM Club
All singles except "Crying in the Rain" and "Analogue (All I Want)"
Solo Magne F(uruholmen)
Any bootlegs
The Singles 1984-2004
The Swing of Things
25 (compilation)
Hunting High and Low remaster

Jon Anderson
Song of Seven
Change We Must
Lost Tapes of Opio
The More You Know
The Lost Tapes
Live from La La Land
The Big If+
The Living Tree Live in Concert Part 2 (with Rick Wakeman)+
Survival and Other Stories
Open+
Zamran Experience+

Asia
Americana (Asia featuring John Payne)+
America - Live in the USA/Live on Air (AFJP)
Live in Buffalo
Live in Osaka
Fantasia
Live in Massachusetts
Under the Bridge
Valkyrie+

Tony Banks
A Curious Feeling
Strictly Inc (1995)

Syd Barrett
Barrett (1970)
Opel
Strange Fruit Sessions
An Introduction to Syd Barrett

The Beatles
Reel Music
Love (2006)
Love Songs (1977)
Let It Be remaster
The Alternate Abbey Road
Not for Sale
Casualties
Yesterday... and Today pirate with butcher cover
Any bootlegs including solo except Ringo Starr

Black Sabbath
Seventh Star (BS feat. Tony Iommi w/Glenn Hughes)
Live at Hammersmith
Headless Cross remaster+
Týr remaster+
Past Lives
The Dio Years (RJD RIP)
The Rules of Hell (has all Dio-era titles in boxed set)
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
13 (new album)+

Boy George
High Hat
Tense Nervous Headache
Boyfriend EP
The Martyr Mantras (Jesus Loves You)
Cheapness and Beauty
The Unrecoupable One-Man Bandit Vol 1
Yum Yum (The Twin)
Ordinary Alien

Buggles
The Age of Plastic
Adventures in Modern Recording

Bush
Deconstructed (as Bush X in Canada)
Golden State
The Best of '94-'99
The Sea of Memories
Institute - Distort Yourself
Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust

Phil Collins
Tarzan
Brother Bear
Remasters of 1981-96 albums TBA+
Love Songs
Going Back

The Cross
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Live in Germany
Blue Rock

Culture Club
Culture Club (boxed set)
From Luxury to Heartache
Vh1 Storytellers
Don't Mind If I Do
The River Sessions

Def Leppard
The Def Leppard EP
First Strike (bootleg)
Early Years (bootleg)
Warchild (bootleg)
Most singles
Yeah!
Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
Mirrorball
New studio album of re-recorded hits+

Depeche Mode
A Broken Frame
Any bootlegs
101 (complete)
Songs of Faith and Devotion (studio and live editions)
The Singles 86>98
The Remixes 81>11
Touring the Angel
The Best of Depeche Mode Vol 2+
Sounds of the Universe
Tour of the Universe
Speak & Spell CD

Jim Diamond
Bandit (1976)
Bacco - Cha Cha Me
Broadway 12"

Geoff Downes
The Light Programme
Vox Humana
The Work Tapes (w/Glenn Hughes)
Evolution
DBA - Pictures of You

Duran Duran
Greatest
Liberty
Thank You
Medazzaland
Pop Trash
Astronaut
Live at Hammersmith '82
A Diamond in the Mind
Reportage+
New album+

Emerson Lake & Palmer
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival
A Time and Place
Welcome Back My Friends...
Works Vol 1
In Concert
Greg Lake (1981)
Greg Lake and Gary Moore - King Biscuit Flower Hour
Greg Lake - Songs of a Lifetime
Black Moon
Live at Royal Albert Hall
In the Hot Seat
Live at High Voltage Festival
Live at the Mar y Sol Festival/From the Beginning boxed set

Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Any bootlegs
In the Garden (remaster)
Revenge (remaster)
Savage (my tape vanished)
We Too Are One
Greatest Hits
Live 83-89
Peace
Ultimate Collection
All Tourists albums

Fish
Internal Exile
Communion
Songs from the Mirror
Dancing Bear
Suits
Yin and Yang
Sunsets on Empire
Kettle of Fish
Raingods with Zippos
Fellini Days
Fellini Nights
Field of Crows
Bouillabaisse
13th Star
Any other live releases except Fortunes of War, and singles starting with "The Company"
A Feast of Consequences+

Fleetwood Mac
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac (1968)
Mr Wonderful
English Rose
The Pious Bird of Good Omen
Then Play On
Kiln House
Black Magic Woman (compilation)
Future Games
Bare Trees
Penguin
Mystery to Me
Heroes Are Hard to Find
Rumours expanded remaster
Live (1980)
New studio album+
The Chain
Time
The Dance
Shrine '69
Live in Boston (2003)

Peter Gabriel
Secret World Live
I/O (working title)+
Scratch My Back
Live Blood

Genesis
Fantasia (bootleg)
Most singles
Archive 1967-75
Archive #2 1976-92
Turn It On Again (1 CD)
The Platinum Collection
Live Over Europe

Gentle Giant
Out in the Woods
Scraping the Barrel
The Edge of Twilight
Pretentious
King Biscuit Flower Hour
The Missing Face
Live in Stockholm '75
I Lost My Head
Way of Life

Martin L. Gore
Counterfeit EP

GPS
Window to the Soul (bonus tracks a plus)
Two Seasons
Dreamscape+

Geordie
Any compilations and singles with Brian Johnson
The Singles Collection
Don't Be Fooled by the Name
Save the World
No Good Woman

David Gilmour
New Game (bootleg)
Live in Gdańsk

Steve Hackett
Live Archive NEARfest
Highly Strung
Time Lapse
The Unauthorsed Biography
Blues with a Feeling
Tokyo Tapes (complete)
Out of the Tunnels Mouth
Live Archive 70s 80s 90s 03 04
Wild Orchids
Somewhere in South America
Hungarian Horizons
Live Rails
Beyond the Shrouded Horizon
Genesis Revisited II

George Harrison
Wonderwall Music
All Things Must Pass LPs
Live in Japan
Early Takes Vol 1

Annie Haslam
Annie in Wonderland
Still Life
Annie Haslam (1989)
Blessing in Disguise
Live in Brasil

Justin Hayward
Blue Jays (with John Lodge)
Songwriter
Night Flight
Moving Mountains
Sings the Moody Blues Hits
The View from the Hill
Spirits of the Western Sky

Morten Harket
Wild Seed
Letter from Egypt
Any solo singles in English

Roger Hodgson
Rites of Passage
Open the Door
Classics Live

How We Live (with h of Marillion)
Dry Land

Steve Howe
Beginnings
The Steve Howe Album (1979)
The Grand Scheme of Things
Homebrew 1, 2, and 4
Portraits of Bob Dylan
Time

Michael Hutchence
Max Q (1989)
Michael Hutchence (1999) - posthumously released solo album

INXS
INXS (1980)
Welcome to Wherever You Are
Taste It: The Collection
The Very Best
Stay Young: The deLuxe Years
Greatest Hits
Stay Young
The Years
Original Sin (2010-11) (w/various artists)
The Point of a View (working title)+

IQ
Seven Stories Into Eight/'98
Nomzamo
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Ever
Subterranea (studio and live)
The Seventh House
Dark Matter
J'ai Pollette D'arnu
The Lost Attic
Frequency
The Wake Live in Concert

Eddie Jobson
Zinc/The Green Album
Any UK bootlegs and live releases

Elton John
Friends/Rare Masters
Lady Samantha
Most singles
A Single Man
The Fox
Jump Up!
To Be Continued...
The Very Best of Elton John
Love Songs (1995-96)
Greatest Hits 1976-86
The Red Piano
Number Ones/Rocket Man/Just Like Belgium
The Diving Board+
Your Songs

Jon and Vangelis
Private Collection
The Best of Jon and Vangelis
Page of Life

Kajagoogoo/Kaja
Islands/Extra Play (North America)
Crazy Peoples Right to Speak
Gone to the Moon
Death Defying Headlines EP
Too Shy: The Very Best of Kajagoogoo or other compilations

King Crimson
The Night Watch
Epitaph

Denny Laine
Holly Days
Anyone Can Fly
Hometown Girls
Wings on My Feet
Lonely Road
All I Want is Freedom
Birmingham Boy
Wings at the Sound of Denny Laine
Arctic Song
Blue Musician
Spreading My Wings

John Lennon
Sometime in New York City (John & Yoko Plastic Ono Elephants Memory Band)
Peace, Love and Truth
Live in New York City (same as Sometime)
Gimme Some Truth
Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack (1988)
The John Lennon Anthology
Wonsaponatime
The US vs John Lennon
Double Fantasy Stripped Down (John & Yoko)
Signature Box

Julian Lennon
Mr Jordan
Help Yourself
VH1 Behind the Music collection
Everything Changes

Annie Lennox
Diva
Any solo singles
Bare
Songs of Mass Destruction
The Annie Lennox Collection
A Christmas Cornucopia

Limahl
Don't Suppose
Colour All My Days
Love is Blind
The Best of Limahl
1983 (2012 single)

Marillion
Brief Encounter**
Early Stages**
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Madra)**
Live in Montréal (2009)
A Singles Collection/12 of One, Six of the Other***
Brave
Afraid of Sunlight
Made Again
The Best of Both Worlds***
This Strange Engine
Radiation
marillion.com (1999)
Anoraknophobia
Anorak in the UK
Somewhere Else
Happiness is the Road Vol 1-2
Recital of the Script**
Live from Lorelai (1987)**
Less is More
Live at Cadogan Hall
Sounds That Can't Be Made

All with h except **Fish and ***both.

Brian May
Star Fleet EP
Singles
Live at Brixton Academy
Another World
Furia soundtrack

Paul McCartney
New album in 2013.+
Paul is Live! (pictured)
Wingspan: Hits and History
Back in the US (CD)/World
Band on the Run remaster
Good Evening New York City
Any solo bootlegs
McCartney II remaster

Christine McVie
Christine Perfect [maiden name] (1970)
Christine McVie (1984)
In the Meantime

Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy
Barcelona (original mix)
The Freddie Mercury Album
Solo boxed set (includes the above)
Lover of Life, Singer of Songs

George Michael
Five Live EP
Older
Ladies and Gentlemen
Songs from the Last Century

Mike + the Mechanics
Beggar on a Beach of Gold
Favourites
Rewired

Modern English
Most singles
Stop Start
Pillow Lips
Life in the Gladhouse
Everything is Mad
Soundtrack

The Moody Blues
Any bootlegs
Icon
Hall of Fame
Natural Avenue (John Lodge)
The Promise (Mike Pinder)
Ray Thomas solo albums
The Very Best of Moody Blues
Prelude
Live at the BBC: 1967-1970
Say It with Love
A Night at Red Rocks
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
December
Collected
Time Traveller
Lovely to See You
Endless Flight

Patrick Moraz (formerly of the above and Yes)
Out in the Sun
Patrick Moraz (1978)
Timecode
Change of Space

Alanis Morissette
Alanis (1991)
MTV Unplugged
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
The Collection
Flavours of Entanglement
Most singles
Live at Montreux 2012+

Mystery
One Among the Living
The World is a Game

Naked Eyes
Naked Eyes (US/Canada 1983)/Burning Bridges (UK)
Fuel for the Fire
The Best of Naked Eyes
Fumbling Under the Covers
Piccadilly+

Stevie Nicks
Buckingham Nicks (1973) (w/Lindsey Buckingham) - official edition
Rock a Little
The Other Side of the Mirror
Timespace
Street Angel
Enchanted
Soundstage Sessions
In Your Dreams

oasis
Any singles except a few
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Familiar to Millions
Lord, Don't Slow Me Down
Dig Out Your Soul
Time Flies: 1994-2009
Beady Eye - BE (2013)+
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds (2011)

Ozzy Osbourne
Just Say Ozzy
Live and Loud
The Ten Commandments
Down to Earth
Prince of Darkness

Pallas
The Sentinel
Arrive Alive
The Wedge/Knightmoves
Moment to Moment
Blinding Darkness
The Dreams of Men
The River Sessions 1-2
XXV
New album+

Anthony Phillips
The Geese and the Ghost
Wise After the Event
Sides
Invisible Men
Radio Clyde

Ph.D.
Is It Safe?
New album+

Pink Floyd
Works
P*U*L*S*E*
Is There Anybody Out There?
Most singles and RoIOs

Queen
Live in Ukraine (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Return of the Champions (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Absolute Greatest
Live Magic
On Fire
Classic Queen (CD)
Live at Wembley '86
Live at the Beeb (BBC)
Queen Rocks
Queen + Greatest Hits III
Queen Rock Montréal
Deep Cuts Vol 2-3

Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin (1978)
Face to Face
Can't Look Away
90124
Live in LA

Rabbitt
Boys Will Be Boys
A Croak and a Grunt in the Night
Rock Rabbitt
Any compilations

Renaissance
Prologue
Ashes Are Burning
Live at Carnegie Hall
Azure d'Or
Camera Camera
Time-Line
Tales from Renaissance Days
Tales of 1,001 Nights Vol 1-2
Live at King Biscuit Flower Hour
Tuscany
In the Land of the Rising Sun
Live 2011
Grandine il Vento

Rush
Rush Through Time
ABC 1974
R30
Replay x 3
Chronicles
Retrospective III
Rush in Rio
Grace Under Pressure Tour
Beyond the Lighted Stage NTSC DVD
Alex Lifeson - Victor (maybe)
Snakes and Arrows Live
Working Men
Icon (2): The Best of Rush
Any bootlegs and singles
Moving Pictures Live (though the same tracks are on Time Machine: Live in Cleveland which I bought in Canada)

Sad Café
Fanx Ta-Ra
Misplaced Ideals (UK release)
Façades
Sad Café (1980)
Live (1980)
Olé
The Politics of Existing
Whatever It Takes
The Best of Sad Café

Savoy
Mary is Coming
Lacklustre Me
Mountains of Time
Reasons to Stay Indoors
Savoy (2004)
Savoy Songbook Vol 1

Supertramp
Any singles up to 1983 except "Dreamer (live)"
The Very Best of Supertramp Vol 2
Is Everybody Listening?

Talk Talk
Spirit of Eden
The Collection
History Revisited
Laughing Stock
London 1986
Mark Hollis (1998)

Roger Taylor
Fun in Space
Strange Frontier
Happiness?
Electric Fire*
The Unblinking Eye (Everything is Broken)+

Tears for Fears
Live from Santa Barbara DVD
Sowing the Seeds of Love 12"/30 cm
Pale Shelter (1982) 12"
Raoul and the Kings of Spain album
Saturnine Marital and Lunatic
Suffer the Children (1982) 12"
Secret World Live
Curt Smith - Halfway Pleased
(Curt is) Mayfield (1996)
Curt Smith - Aeroplane EP

Rick Wakeman
White Rock 1 & 2
Rhapsodies
African Bach
Cirque Surreal
Fields of Green
Themes
Can You Hear Me?
The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live
The Time Machine
Phantom Power
No Expense Spared++
Vignettes++
Classic Tracks
King Biscuit Flower Hour
Out of the Blue
Voyage
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (2013 studio version)+
Live at the BBC
In the Nick of Time
++with Adam Wakeman

Roger Waters
The Wall Live in Berlin
In the Flesh
Heartland+

John Wetton
Kings Road: 1973-80 (w/King Crimson and UK)
Wetton Manzanera (1987)/One World (w/Phil Manzanera)
Monkey Business (w/Richard Palmer-James)
Chasing the Dragon
Jack-Knife - I Wish You Would
Raised in Captivity (Japanese release)

Wetton Downes
Never in a Million Years
Acoustic TV Broadcast
Heat of the Rising Sun

Ray Wilson
Change
The Next Best Thing
Propaganda Man
She (Stiltskin)
The Minds Eye (Stiltskin)
Millionairhead (cut_)
Genesis Klassik

Yes
In a Word (1969-[2002])
YesShows
Highlights
Talk
Keys to Ascension 1-2
Open Your Eyes
House of Yes
Magnification
The Ultimate Yes
Union Live
Bootlegs of current tours
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Live at the NEC
Chris Squires Swiss Choir (Crimbo solo album)
New album in 2014+

Non-US made only (even if its just the disc or tape itself). Singles can also be thrown in if I don't have them already. Do contact me if you're interested in a trade or sale. CD-Rs do not count! Pirates are OK though. If you think somethings missing, then I have it already. Subject to change at anytime. Will make reasonable offers.  If you suggest VHS cassette or DVDs, make sure it'll play in an NTSC player.  I can possibly convert PAL and SECAM DVDs, but the tapes I'd have to go to a specialist for, so do ask first or copy it for me, please.  I may list what video titles I'd like at a later time, but it is painstaking and time-consuming.

+ Yet to be released.
* Also on Boris's list.
***On the way.