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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Apollo59 7th Jun 2017		CD Album Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1990)	My copy bought on day of release from HMV, priced at a mere £44.99
Apollo59 7th Jun 2017		CD Album Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1990)	It's really not a good idea to start inventing titles for albums. Dave Lewis's 'A Celebration' book informs that the correct title is Led Zeppelin Box Set.
Apollo59 5th Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	I wouldn't argue with 1989, as according to my notes (for what they're worth) there was a reissue campaign with CD's. April 89, June 89, July 89, Nov 89, Dec 89 - all on CBS. But not every album, as a few had come out previously in 86/87/88, however, the majority were in 89. So, I'll get that Feb '91 date removed and changed to a ballpark 89, as I've no idea of the exact month. I'll also have a look at date entries I made for other Dylan CBS discs and check that they aren't listed as Feb '91 either. The next reissues out in Feb 91, were as you've rightly stated, all on Columbia
Apollo59 5th Jun 2017		CD Album Elton John - Legendary Covers From 1969/70 Vol 1&2 (2005)	Indeed, as there usually are with these newspaper freebie's. Nothing to do with Elton though, just demo's by unknowns.
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Elton John - Legendary Covers From 1969/70 Vol 1&2 (2005)	Issued 4th & 5th June 2005
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	I think you will find that there would have been a period of transition which is kinda normal for business buy-out's/mergers. Plus the fact that Sony-CBS had close business links for many decades previously. However, none of which answers the fundamental question. When was this Dylan disc re-released on CBS with this cat#? I've just remembered something. In 1988, I had bought a Sony 6-Disc CD player (one big tray that rotated to load 6 discs) and the purchase included 6 free CBS CD's from a list you got within the packaging and you filled it in in, sent it off and they'd post your free CD's back to you. With these all being CBS label CD's - before this Sony buy out and label change to Columbia - what was going on there? I still have at least 2 of them, Dylan's 'Down In The Groove' - as listed on this site, as well as Santana's 'Zebop!', also listed.
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	Righty, to summarise. I have a CBS reissue - determined by the fact it doesn't have any CBS or CBSCD blurb before the cat #. It also has a red tray - so automatically the budget priced reissue (and I certainly didn't swap trays or anything), and the fact that I bought it with others around the date I gave. Now that date I listed as Feb `91, I took from a discography listing I can't remember when and perhaps/probably is incorrect for this particular disc if you reckon the info that you have is good and why shouldn't it be providing it's not coming from Discogs, so it must be earlier, but certainly no later. The same discography listing stated it was released again on Columbia in March 1993, if memory serves. But I cannot buy this "they were not allowed to" story at all. If they have a load of discs in a warehouse they will sell them, that is guaranteed. The only thing that matters is the publishing which is already well and truly taken care of. Regards "not being allowed", you may be interested to read what I had to say about International releases on the CD forum last week - there's some serious underhand work at play and rules are for breaking. Just like what Clive Davis did at CBS!
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Jethro Tull - Aqualung Live (2010)	Date: 2010 as written on info - reissue version
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	Lastly, as I forgot to mention. You mentioned Discogs. You cannot be serious my friend. That site contains loads of very false and bogus info and should NEVER be trusted to inform you - and especially you having read that rubbish and coming on to me like I ain't got a clue. Did my list of recording venues in my Notes section not suggest anything to you? You never saw that info on Discogs for this CD, did you?
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	Are you saying they have the CBS number that I listed as a Columbia release? Automatically that suggests the catalogue is incorrect - these things often are as I've lost count on record reference books/cats I've got that are chocha-block with errors. I'll get my scanner out and scan it up and you'll see it for yourself. Another thing: Had this disc been an original CBS release it would have had a company prefix code before the cat #, like CBS or CDCBS. It doesn't. Another thing: Most of these reissues made in Austria came with Red CD trays to readily identify them as mid-priced, which is why I bought them all again despite owning the Vinyls. Not all were mid-price, such as Blood On The Tracks - a big seller.
Apollo59 4th Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	Of course it's on the CBS label. What sort of question is that? Just about every single Dylan album was reissued in Europe around then, all manufactured in Austria, some CBS, some Columbia. You obviously didn't bother yourself to check out my Dylan collection, otherwise it would be absolutely self explanatory that I do know what the score is. They were not released chronologically in the same sequence of the originals, and they released them in batches with good sellers mixed with poor sellers to encourage better sales with the poor sellers; this album most definitely being one of Dylan's all time worst sellers when it was first released in `86. But what you need to understand is how huge companies like CBS/Columbia work, as they schedule their releases way in advance, have them manufactured in advance sitting in distribution warehouses awaiting the release schedule - they don't do last minute rush jobs at the plants just because the company will be switching labels at a certain date. There's going to be a cut off point, but not with this particular one, hence, why it's on the last of the CBS's.
Apollo59 3rd Jun 2017		CD Album Jethro Tull - The Pine Ian's Jig (1992)	Actually recorded 12/12/80
Apollo59 3rd Jun 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded (1989)	Had I found it 1st time around I wouldn't have listed it - if you care to look at my Dylan collection, the LAST thing I'd want to do is to have to list yet another. That said, the info on the entry you highlighted is crap - there isn't any - and the issue date is incorrect. This CD was released in 1991.
Apollo59 30th May 2017		CD Album Michael Jackson - Thriller (2001)	Card slip case outer sleeve
Apollo59 29th May 2017		CD Album John Lee Hooker - Boogie Man (1994)	The UK edition (Made in England) with exact same Cat# was issued 1993
Apollo59 27th May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - Lifelines (1990)	Original retail price in UK in 1990 at £45
Apollo59 26th May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - Black Gold Volume Three (1996)	Sleeve notes mislabeled Voodoo Chile as Takes 1-5 and should be Takes 1-3, as only 3 were recorded
Apollo59 26th May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - Black Gold Volume One (1996)	Pride Of Man: correct title 'Bolero'
Apollo59 25th May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes (1991)	Reissue July 1991
Apollo59 23rd May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - Experience (1986)	Track 1 correct title as Little Wing
Apollo59 23rd May 2017		CD Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions (1998)	The version of Hey Joe on CD 1 Track 15 is the complete version. The version on CD 2 Track 11 is an edited fade-out version of the exact same take.
Apollo59 22nd May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - Jimi By Himself (1995)	Gypsy Eyes is a different song entirely from the title on Electric Ladyland
Apollo59 21st May 2017		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself Dead (1986)	Recorded 6th March 1968 Randy Hobbs - bass, Randy Zherringer - drums (both members of The McCoys), Buddy Miles - drums, 2nd guitarist - possibly Jim McCarty Trk 2: Correct title - 'I'm Gonna Leave This Town/Everything's Gonna Be Alright' Trk 6: Uranus Rock is a fake title and should be 'Tomorrow Never Knows', an incomplete section of the end of the jam
Apollo59 20th May 2017		CD Album Help Yourself - Strange Affair \| The Return Of Ken Whaley \| Happy Days (1999)	Blimey, just the two of us for this and the other 2 album one? There's no accounting for good taste is there!
Apollo59 20th May 2017		CD Album Hawkwind - Master Of The Universe (2001)	Which just about sums Castle up as many of their releases are lacking in any details.
Apollo59 19th May 2017		CD Album Hawkwind - Master Of The Universe (2001)	Thank you, Magic Marmalade.
Apollo59 19th May 2017		CD Album Roy Harper - Sophisticated Beggar (1994)	I'm afraid it does - absent, MIA, deleted from history
Apollo59 19th May 2017		CD Album Hawkwind - Master Of The Universe (2001)	This is where ready access to the Notes section would be helpful as this is actually quite an interesting compilation. Pity the original uploader didn't have a clue what they were holding in their hands. Trx 1,2,14,17: Live Nov 1982 Trk 3: Alternate version, Olympic Studios Jan 1975 Trx 4,5,7: Live at Brixton 30 Dec 1972 Trk 6: Rockfield Studios 1982 Trx 8,13: Rockfield Studios as Hawklords Trk 9: Live Dec 1979 Trk 10: Rockfield Studios Jan 1977 Trk 11: Live at Stonehenge 21 June 1977 Trk 12: Top Gear, BBC Radio 1, 18 Aug 1970 Trk 15: Live USA March 1978 Trk 16: Studio 1967 as Famous Cure
Apollo59 13th May 2017		CD Album Genesis - ...And Then There Were Three... (1994)	These first CD releases on Charisma/Virgin didn't sound too good at all, a lot of definition lost and very flat and murky, particularly with all the 1970's era albums. The later SACD remasters are superb and stuff that had been buried in the mix on the original albums comes up front. Probably also a lot to do with the fact that the original albums often ran to over 50 minutes, which would cause severe compromises. I kept this remaster because the mix is excellent. Sold off all the others when I bought the SACD box sets.
Apollo59 10th May 2017		CD Album Paul Kossoff - Koss (1987)	Trx 8,9,10: Outtakes from 'The Band Plays On' album sessions

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