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“ODESSA’s all-embracing theme is the Bee Gees’ boundless creativity. Simple acoustic songs mix with orchestral overtures; humble tales of love and friendship sit alongside complex stories of fantasy and the forgotten. The end result is a collection that grows richer with every play.”
- from new liner notes by Andrew Sandoval

Originally released as a 2-LP set in 1969, ODESSA marked an early and extraordinary creative peak in the legendary career of the Brothers Gibb – Barry, Maurice and Robin. Their only double studio album, the Bee Gees’ pop masterpiece drew comparisons to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in its depth, vision and spectacular production. Reprise revisits this classic work on the occasion of its 40th anniversary with a three-disc ODESSA: DELUXE EDITION, featuring the original stereo and mono mixes as well as a full disc of previously unreleased material. The set, a milestone in the ongoing restoration of the Bee Gees historic catalog, is presented in packaging that reproduces the ‘69 release’s lavish red-flocked cover.

Disc One of the DELUXE EDITION features the original stereo mixes of ODESSA’s 17 songs. Classic tracks include the acoustic-based “Marley Purt Drive,” the orchestral “First Of May” and the epic title track, “Odessa (City On The Black Sea).”

Disc Two of the collection marks the U.S. debut of the original mono mixes of the original 17-song track listing (in 1969, the mono versions were released worldwide, but not in North America).

Disc Three introduces 22 previously unissued tracks, including demos or alternate takes for all but one cut from ODESSA, as well as two songs from the original sessions that weren’t on the album – “Pity” and “Nobody’s Fool.” Also featured is a rare 30-second spot promoting the release. Highlights include a demo and an alternate take on “Melody Fair” (the latter revealing Maurice Gibb’s Mellotron artistry) and the demo for “Odessa.”

ODESSA: DELUXE EDITION contains new liner notes and track-by-track commentary from music historian, author, and musician Andrew Sandoval. His overview sheds light on the making of the album, which was mostly recorded during one week at the legendary Atlantic Recording Studios in New York City in 1968. Encouraged by their manager/mentor Robert Stigwood to pursue a more expansive work, further sessions in London resulted in the Bee Gee’s only double studio album, a work that dramatically spotlights their genius.

• LISTEN TO [audio:BeeGees-NobodysSomeone.mp3]
  “Nobody’s Someone” Recorded in early October 1968, this haunting track took 40 years to be released as part of this box set edition of Odessa.

First box set release by The Kinks is a six-CD set in flip top box spanning 1963-92. Features singles, key album tracks, alt versions, demos and more, plus a 60 page booklet. Out on Universal, December 2008.

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Disc 1:
01 Brian Matthew Introduces the Kinks
02 You Really Got Me
03 I’m a Hog for You Baby
04 I Believed You
05 Long Tall Sally
06 I Don’t Need You Anymore
07 Stop Your Sobbing
08 I Gotta Move
09 Don’t Ever Let Me Go
10 All Day and All of the Night
11 Tired of Waiting for You
12 Come on Now (outtake with two false starts)
13 There Is a New World Opening for Me (Kassner publishing demo)
14 Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy
15 Who’ll Be the Next in Line
16 Time Will Tell
17 Set Me Free
18 I Need You
19 See My Friend
20 Wait Till the Summer Comes Along
21 I Go to Sleep
22 A Little Bit of Sunlight (Kassner publishing demo)
23 This I Know (demo)
24 A Well Respected Man
25 This Strange Effect (With Brian Matthew speaking over intro)
26 Milk Cow Blues
27 Ring the Bells
28 I’m on an Island
29 Till the End of the Day
30 Where Have All the Good Times Gone
31 All Night Stand (Demo)
32 And I Will Love You
33 Sittin’ on My Sofa

Disc 2:
01 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (alternate stereo take)
02 She’s Got Everything
03 Mr. Reporter (Ray vocal)
04 Sunny Afternoon
05 I’m Not Like Everybody Else
06 This Is Where I Belong
07 Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home
08 Too Much on My Mind
09 Session Man
10 End of the Season
11 Dead End Street (first version)
12 Village Green
13 Two Sisters
14 David Watts
15 Mr. Pleasant
16 Waterloo Sunset (mono mix)
17 Death of a Clown
18 Lavender Hill
19 Good Luck Charm
20 Autumn Almanac
21 Susannah’s Still Alive
22 Animal Farm
23 Rosemary Rose
24 Berkeley Mews
25 Lincoln County
26 Picture Book
27 Days
28 Misty Water

Disc 3:
01 Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Top Gear session with Brian Matthew intro and outro)
02 The Village Green Preservation Society
03 Big Sky
04 King Kong
05 Drivin’
06 Some Mother’s Son
07 Victoria
08 Shangri-La
09 Arthur
10 Got to Be Free
11 Lola (mono single version)
12 Get Back in the Line
13 The Moneygoround
14 Strangers
15 Apeman
16 God’s Children
17 The Way Love Used to Be
18 Moments
19 Muswell Hillbilly
20 Oklahoma USA
21 Twentieth Century Man
22 Here Come the People in Grey

Disc 4:
01 Skin and Bone
02 Alcohol Live
03 Celluloid Heroes
04 Sitting in My Hotel
05 Supersonic Rocket Ship
06 You Don’t Know My Name
07 One of the Survivors
08 Sitting in the Midday Sun
09 Sweet Lady Genevieve
10 Daylight
11 Mirror of Love
12 Artificial Man
13 Preservation (U.S. single)
14 Slum Kids (live)
15 Holiday Romance
16 Face in the Crowd
17 No More Looking Back
18 Sleepwalker
19 The Poseur

Disc 5:
01 Sleepless Night
02 Father Christmas
03 Misfits
04 A Rock ‘N Roll Fantasy
05 Little Bit of Emotion
06 Attitude
07 Hidden Quality
08 A Gallon of Gas
09 Catch Me Now I’m Falling
10 Nuclear Love (demo)
11 Duke (demo)
12 Maybe I Love You (demo)
13 Stolen Away Your Heart (demo)
14 Low Budget (live)
15 Better Things
16 Destroyer
17 Yo-Yo
18 Art Lover
19 Long Distance

Disc 6:
01 Heart of Gold
02 Come Dancing (demo remix)
03 State of Confusion
04 Do It Again
05 Living on a Thin Line
06 Summer’s Gone
07 How Are You?
08 The Road (live)
09 The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached
10 Down All the Days (To 1992)
11 The Informer
12 Phobia
13 Only a Dream
14 Drift Away
15 Scattered
16 Do You Remember Walter? (live)
17 To the Bone (demo)

• LISTEN TO [audio:TheKinks_MaybeILoveYou.mp3]
  “Maybe I Love You (demo)” which Ray describes as just a series of ideas he had in the studio and admits to sounding “derivative and contrived” in the booklet. It makes its first release on this box set.

October 27, 2008 saw the UK only release of the first true Move box set. THE MOVE ANTHOLOGY – Hits, Rarities & More is a deluxe 4-CD boxset. 62 career-spanning songs superbly remastered. 31 previously unreleased tracks, 72 page booklet, rare photos, 11,000-word in-depth Move history & b

and interviews plus complete track-by-track info & UK discography. Well worth your investment!

CD 1: 1966-1967
01.     You’re The One I Need *
02.     I Can’t Hear You No More*
03.     Is It True *
04.     Respectable *
05.     Night Of Fear  (alternate version) *
06.     Disturbance (undubbed alternate version) *
07.     I Can Hear The Grass Grow (full-length version) *
08.     Move
09.     Wave The Flag And Stop The Train
10.     (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree (stereo) **
11.     Flowers & Lemon Tea (Tony Visconti talks to the players) *
12.     Flowers In The Rain
13.     Cherry Blossom Clinic (enhanced stereo) **
14.     Vote For Me
15.     Fire Brigade (early piano version, rough mix) *
16.     Useless Information (stereo version)
17.     Yellow Rainbow (enhanced stereo) **
18.     Kilroy Was Here (enhanced stereo) **
19.     Fire Brigade
20.     The Girl Outside (alternate take) *
21.     Mist On A Monday Morning (enhanced stereo) **
22.     Flowers In The Rain (acoustic version; rough mix) *
23.     Simple Simon (take 6 backing track; rough mix) *

CD 2: Live at the Marquee 1968

01.     Move Bolero (live) *
02.     It’ll Be Me (live) *
03.     Too Much In Love (live) *
04.     Flowers In The Rain (live) *
05.     Fire Brigade (live) *
06.     Stephanie Knows Who (live) *
07.     Something Else (live) *
08.     So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (live) *
09.     The Price Of Love (live) *
10.     Piece Of My Heart  (live) *
11.     (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher  (live) *
12.     Sunshine Help Me (live) *
(all Marquee live tracks newly mixed to stereo from recently recovered multitrack tapes)

CD 3: 1968-1969

01.     Somethin’ Else  (EP version)
02.     Sunshine Help Me  (EP version)
03.     Wild Tiger Woman  (UK single edit) **
04.     Omnibus (enhanced stereo) *
05.     Blackberry Way
06.     A Certain Something (piano version; rough mix) *
07.     Curly
08.     Second Class (She’s Too Good For Me) (part 1) *
09.     Second Class (She’s Too Good For Me) (part 2)  *
10.     Beautiful Daughter  (reduced mix) *
11.     This Time Tomorrow
12.     Hello Susie (abridged) **
13.     Don’t Make My Baby Blue
14.     The Last Thing On My Mind (live) *
15.     Open My Eyes (live at the Fillmore West 1969) *

CD 4: 1969-1972

01.     I Can Hear The Grass Grow  (live at the Fillmore West 1969) *
02.     Brontosaurus  (U.S. promo edit) *
03.     When Alice Comes Back To The Farm
04.     Turkish Tram Conductor Blues  (take 5; rough mix)
05.     Feel Too Good
06.     Lightnin’ Never Strikes Twice
07.     Ella James
08.     Tonight (U.S. edited version)
09.     Do Ya  (edited version)
10.     Chinatown
11.     California Man
12.     The Duke Of Edinburgh’s Lettuce
LISTEN TO [audio:TheMove_Something.mp3]

One of the nice surprised was arguably a better version of “A Certain Something” presented for the first time as a piano version rough mix.