It is extremely hot here as I sit typing this out.
I have been working through replacing a few cds from one of those Five Original Albums box sets I picked up around the middle of the last decade by Cheap Trick as I found them a bit loud sounding as much as the bonus tracks are handy.
Instead I tracked down the original UK cd issue of In Color and Heaven Tonight which was part of the Sony Music low price Collectors Edition series of 1992/3 part distributed by Pickwick Group and the original US cd version of Dream Police which featured the single Voices which I still have on vinyl.
It emerged last Friday on the SuperDeluxeEditions website devoted to reissued and compilations that the popular NOW Yearbook series which sees 4 cds in card or book based packaging with a Extra 3 cd set coming out a month or so after and a selection on 3 lps is going back in time to 1979 in September.
That is interesting because it does allow for comprehensive year based collections potentially for much if not all of the 1970's because we've only had themed based compilations such as those around Glam Rock, Disco or New Wave that gather a number of popular tracks which are not in any year order or generic 70's population and as anyone who lived through that decade knows there's a big span between Dana and say Xray Specs and the Buzzcocks.
I find year based collections useful because they do tend take you back to a narrow period with the memories associated with in way those catch all decade compilations don't providing a more comprehensive feel of that year in sound.
We'll see how that pans out and how they deal with artists in disgrace who had big hits soon enough.
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