Comments on: The Best Reissues of 2009

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:14:05 +0000

The Beatles? Kraftwerk – The Catalogue boxed set is a landmark re-issue in 2009!

By: philip

philip — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:04:54 +0000

Yeah no doubt. I dig Coming From Reality too plus he’s still got the goods live!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:57:53 +0000

@philip Cold Fact was definitely one of the best reissues of 2008!

By: philip

philip — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Where’s RODRIGUEZ??? Cold Fact was an amazing re-release!

By: Tandard Teve

Tandard Teve — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:00:01 +0000

Hapshash & The Coloured Coat on Sundazed is an interesting reissue I like from 2009, one that maybe fell beneath the radar a little. Also, I am interested to hear LITA’s Doug Randle reissue from early 2009.
Thanks Brendan & Jason for what a wonderful music site – it is such a
refreshment & Best Wishes to you in the new year!

By: Len Liechti

Len Liechti — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:51:57 +0000

Haven’t actually heard any of the suggested reissues yet, but anything new by Clarence White has got to be good value, likewise those rare garage/psych compilations. Amazing how much great stuff escaped notice first time round back in those oh-so-creative years.

My suggestion, late though it is, is the wonderful Refugees anthology of British progressive rock 1968-1978 from the Famous Charisma label. Tony Stratton-Smith’s imprint has only been compiled once before to my knowledge, as a horrendously expensive 4-CD coffee-table box-and-book set in 1993. This new 3-CD set has a few of the same tracks, but is IMHO actually a better compilation, being a fine balance of reasonably (but not too) well-known material and real rarities, and at a genuinely bargain price. The artists featured include some of the real Brit prog nobility: the Nice, Van Der Graaf Generator (nobody in the world was ever more “prog” than Peter Hammill’s outfit), Audience, Lindisfarne (before they became a boozy bar band), Genesis (while Gabriel was still at the helm) and Rare Bird, plus a number of surprises including two tracks from the Monty Python team. “Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam” indeed!

May I take this opportunity to thank Brendan and Jason for their sterling work in making The Rising Storm the best music website of 2009, and to wish all the other contributors and commenters worldwide the greetings of the season and the very best for 2010.

By: phil spector

phil spector — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:01:26 +0000

great list!!! but there was also thoses reissues :

- Dave Bixby “Ode to Quetzalcoalt” and his follow up Harbinger “Second Coming” both on Guerssen
- Yays & Nays eponymous Lp on Groovie Records
- the two Paupers Lps
- Pete Atkin “Driving Through America”
- William Nowik “Pan in E Minor” on Guerssen
- Mandrake Memorial “Puzzle” on Wah Wah records
- Fortune Teller “Inner City Scream” at Anasitizi
- John Palmer “Shorelines” on Void
- and two compilations on Numero
“Wayfaring Strangers : Lonesome Heroes” and “Titan! It’s all Pop”
- The Velvet Underground “Singles 1966-1969″ on sundazed
- The Raincoats first Lp
and of course (i’m Phil Spector!!!) the greatest christmas album of all time!!!!

“A christmas for You from Philles Record”!!!

happy Xmas and happy new year !!!!

By: cody

cody — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:53:57 +0000

Beatles (they did a really good job with this remaster)
Emmit Rhodes
Death
Big Star
Moby Grape

I would have put the Neil Young one, I just got the CD version and was pretty unimpressed by what I got for the price

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:56:28 +0000

i’d agree with the list and add Elvis Presley’s “From Elvis in Memphis” Legacy Edition…

By: alejandro

alejandro — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:11:55 +0000

Here some reallygreat ones that are not on your list:

1-Ghana Special (Soundway)
2-Light On the South Side (Numero Group)
3-Ghetto Brothers: Power / Fuerza (Salsa International)
4-Orchestra Polyritmo Cotonou:Echoes Hypnotiques:
5- Psych Funk 101 (Now Again)
6-Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
7-Forge Your Own Chains: Psychedelic Ballds and Dirges (Now Again)
8-Eccentric Soul: Smart’s Palace