tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8010923635709588318.post4294091712995602993..comments2024-03-25T02:59:14.613+00:00Comments on Breaking More Waves: Old Music: Win - Super Popoid GrooveBreaking More Waves Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01678542701655601547noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8010923635709588318.post-14387053562241655512017-10-28T19:34:23.556+01:002017-10-28T19:34:23.556+01:00I'm one of the few lucky enough to have picked...I'm one of the few lucky enough to have picked up the CD of this waaaay back (and even that took a search of every Edinburgh 2nd hand record store every damn week from 1988 to 1991, after the new copy that had sat in the racks in the Virgin Megastore disappeared the week before I got my first CD player), but _Uh Tears Baby_ is one that I still feels deserves a 2CD re-release, freshly remastered and with all of the appropriate B-side and 12" mixes, and a 16 page color booklet with all the single artwork, full lyrics (yeah, I know what Win lyrics are like, but still...) and a band retrospective. Will it even happen? Probably only if the rights revert to the band or something like that. I wish I had more solid links to give, but from memory, Cherry Red *did* try to get the rights to put this one out on CD after their re-release of _Freaky Trigger_ in 2012 or so but something happened to prevent it. I seem to recall it was a case of whoever held the rights at the time wanted just way too much for Cherry Red to be able to afford to license it. Might be Alan Horne (since it was on his Swamplands vanity label and Horne has a reputation for being a capricious and unpredictable outright bastard at times), might be whoever acquired the rights to London's back catalog (recent releases of Blancmange's back catalog, also on London, were limited to CD only due to licensing costs).<br /><br />I'd rather hoped 2017, being 30 years since the album came out, we might have seen some rights revert and a license and release happen, but it's getting a bit late in the year for that now. Problem is that the longer the rights-holder demands unreasonable amounts and the album stays in limbo, the fewer people are left who haven't found a clean rip of the CD somewhere. Me, I'd buy a new CD release of the album, even if it was just the basic CD, in a flash, just to insure myself against the fact that my CD is now a full 30 years old, but I'd much prefer to see somebody give the album a little "extended bonus tracks re-mastered re-release" love. I can wish...<br /><br />Al C<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com