Every year it seems more and more of a gimmick. The same albums being released again on coloured vinyl and Picture Discs.

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Willy and the Poor Boys on Green Vinyl, I am more than happy with the CD and it cost a lot less. CCR albums were recorded on the cheap in the first place and they were rushed to some degree.


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Who cares what colour vinyl something is on eh. That's nothing new of course. Back in 1984 Duran Duran put out their hit Wild Boys in five different colour vinyls with a different face of the band on the middle of each single, or something like that. There were instances of many of the more obsessive fans going into record stores and buying 5 copies of the very same record in all the formats, when they clearly would only have bought one if produced in the normal way. It probably helped inflate the chart position of No2 somehwat above what it might have reached on that basis.

But the music industry just keeps on trying to sell the same old music in endlessly repackaged formats, they suddenly can find some old offcut that was never deemed good enough for release 40 years ago and fling it onto an old album as an added track or something and some people just fall for it for some reason.

I don't even think the UK album charts are even worth paying attention to anymore are they?

The first album I ever bought with my own money was The Works by Queen, on vinyl. But for some reason after that I started buying them on cassette tape instead.

It was always so Rick. Remember Tony Christie? Flop with Amarillo first time - repackaged (and great video thanks to Peter Kay) No1. Some of my old B sides are better, more mass appeal and commercial than most current No1s.

Swiftie has released the same album, with 35 versions. Talk about chart rigging.

Swiftie could have bundled the bonus tracks and demo takes in one box set FFS and retail it for £20. Each version is about £16 or so, there are also vinyl releases.

Talk about a waste of plastic and carbon emissions.


Rich, you have summed what anniversary sets of CCR, the current releases have live tracks or some outtakes.
The live tracks have been taken from other live albums or from very well-circulated bootlegs which you can pick cheap on German online auction sites.

Cherry Red, I do love the label but they milking it and so is Toyah, box sets of the original albums, then demos, remixes and live stuff thrown in for £25 per album set.

Luckily I still have most of her earlier albums on vinyl, which I gave to my partner. They could have released a complete Toyah set. They did release a nice Tony Banks album set, I do own a copy of it and it was a good price. They could have done it with Toyah.

I'm not against repackaging - copyright owners are entitled to make as much profit as they can. Cherry Red (who look after my back catalogue including the first and best Genesis album) do a terrific job and always ask my permission on everything. Good luck to them I say. Some will love them some not.

[quote]I don't even think the UK album charts are even worth paying attention to anymore are they?[quote]

The supermarkets have not helped apart from ASDA, who still sell media. It seems compilations rather than albums catch the public attention.