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DECEMBER 29, 2021�JANUARY 5, 2022
SOUND CHECK
WHAT’S PLAYING AROUND
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
The best music reissues of the year
Bob Mehr’s superb 2016 band
bio, Trouble Boys.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN &
THE E STREET BAND, “THE
LEGENDARY 1979 NO
NUKES CONCERTS”
The live wire performances of
New Jersey’s $500 million man
Album
Bruce Springsteen performs in a concert scene from the 1982 musical
documentary, “No Nukes.”
By Dan DeLuca
The Philadelphia Inquirer
she moves me attracts me like a
pomegranate.”
T
THE ROOTS, “DO YOU
WANT MORE?!!!??!”
he best reissues of the year
include a total immersion
Beatles experience, a panoply
of 50th anniversary Philadelphia
International Records releases,
Joni Mitchell and John Coltrane
rarities, a Latin Soul dance
party, a Bruce Springsteen live
show, a hip-hop classic by The
Roots and a Philly jazz icono-
clast getting his due.
THE BEATLES, “LET IT BE
(SUPER DELUXE)”
After living through Peter
Jackson’s eight-hour Disney+
“Get Back” on the making of
“Let It Be,” I won’t be needing
to hear “I’ve Got A Feeling” or
“Don’t Let Me Down” again for
a while. But this six-CD box
contains plenty of rare treasure,
from fashion-plate producer
Glyn Johns’ “Let It Be” mix to
Billy Preston singing the 1929
chestnut “Without A Song” to
an early “Something” with the
lyric “Something in the way
A three-LP reissue of the 1995
sophomore release that found
the Philly hip-hop band truly
coming into its own with jazz- and
funk-textured poetic tracks like
“Proceed” and “Mellow My Man.”
HALL & OATES, “THE
PHILLY TAPES”
at Madison Square Garden with
the E Streeters at their zenith are
captured here in a DVD plus CD
package.
PHILADELPHIA
INTERNATIONAL
RECORDS REISSUES
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This vinyl-only limited-edition
release also goes under the
name Daryl Hall & John Oates,
“Fall In Philadelphia: The Defi ni-
tive Demos 1968-71,” which is
an accurate description of what it
contains.
THE REPLACEMENTS,
“SORRY ME, FORGOT TO
TAKE OUT THE TRASH”
There’s an ongoing reissue
program of the catalog of the bril-
liantly unsuccessful Minneapolis
1980s post-punk band aff ection-
ately known as The ‘Mats — short
for ‘Placements — spurred by
various ways, from an online
gallery of visual art inspired
by the company that gave the
world McFadden & Whitehead’s
“Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” to
collections compiled in all sorts
of physical confi gurations via
Sony’s Legacy Recordings and
partner labels.
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