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I know, we all prefer CDs. But I was trolling Amazon and found that the 2nd Roman Holliday album, [i]Fire Me Up[/i] (with "One Foot Back In Your Door") will be available from Amazon MP3 on September 3. This is where they became a random, cheesy rock band but I still kinda like the single.

But what made me really happy was also seeing that [i]No Stranger To Danger[/i] by The Payola$ will be available as a download on October 15. Again, I'd rather have a CD since none of their albums have ever been released, but this will at least suffice until reissues happen (if ever). I have the vinyl of their albums but I have no time to transfer to disc.

Anybody else find some interesting nuggets like this?

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

OK, dug in a little more and the label is RDEG, which also says "Rocshire" which I believe is the from the ashes of Renaissance. So, not sure of the quality on these, but was very excited when I did a label search in "Advanced search" on Amazon and found these:

Suzy Andrews - December 3 (I have this on pink vinyl - "interesting" covers of "Der Kommissar" and "Da Da Da")
OXO - November 12
Minor Detail - July 30 (finally!)
I Am Siam - July 9

And more from The Producers, Spoons, Strange Advance, and lots of other stuff. Linkage:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh= ... 1369071907

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

Ooooh, NICE! Finally Minor Detail - it's about time! Now they just need to release Private Lives #8206;– Prejudice And Pride and that would be too cool!!!

http://www.discogs.com/Private-Lives-Pr ... ter/345189

[quote][i]Originally posted by Surly[/i]
<br>OK, dug in a little more and the label is RDEG, which also says "Rocshire" which I believe is the from the ashes of Renaissance. So, not sure of the quality on these, but was very excited when I did a label search in "Advanced search" on Amazon and found these:

Suzy Andrews - December 3 (I have this on pink vinyl - "interesting" covers of "Der Kommissar" and "Da Da Da")
OXO - November 12
Minor Detail - July 30 (finally!)
I Am Siam - July 9

And more from The Producers, Spoons, Strange Advance, and lots of other stuff. Linkage:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh= ... 1369071907

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"
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The Private Lives album certainly needs to be on cd. Was glad to see Roman Holliday on Amazon. A cd (remastered version ) would be very welcome .

Minor Detail?!? No freaking way!! I bought that LP 3-4 times to find the cleanest version available. I love my vinyl rip but boy that would sound great on CD.

If the company's related to Renaissance I just hope they don't botch it like they did the Vitamin Z disc (with the bizarre digital fade outs on each track).

Looking forward to the Slow Children albums saw well ...

Fingerprintz! Spoons! Novo Combo! Original Mirrors! Blanket of Secrecy!

[quote][i]Originally posted by jaybag[/i]
<br>Minor Detail?!? No freaking way!! I bought that LP 3-4 times to find the cleanest version available. I love my vinyl rip but boy that would sound great on CD.

If the company's related to Renaissance I just hope they don't botch it like they did the Vitamin Z disc (with the bizarre digital fade outs on each track).
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I should amend my post - it is Renaissance. RDEG stands for Renaissance Digital Entertainment Group. Website says they are now a digital-only label (with a few exceptions).

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

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I should amend my post - it is Renaissance. RDEG stands for Renaissance Digital Entertainment Group. Website says they are now a digital-only label (with a few exceptions).
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Better than nothing, I guess. CD's would be great but obviously this is a much more tenable business model. And it'll be great to have some of these old classics available. My point stands on Renaissance's remastering, though the Vitamin Z disc was the only one that I had those funky fadeouts.

Of course there's many hidden things out there now on I tunes. Depends who you are into of course. Some rare I Tunes only tracks / mixes available for Gary Numan / Madness / Pet shop boys etc but far too many to mention. I'll come back if i think of more. The main rarish Numan track is a (he double clicks I tunes)... My dying machine (instrumental version) at 6.22. Also Caroline Munro's version of his album track Pump it up titled Pump me up 2 mixes on i tunes unreleased on CD i think possibly! Also an Enigma remix album and some further tracks scattered here and there. Also there was an A-ha and the Oslo Philharmonic orchestra concert appeared a few weeks after it took place Hunting live and low (Live at the Royal Albert Hall). 10 tracks. I was there. They also did Scoundrel Days but i kept checking and that never appeared. Found it strange that the Hunting high and low gig appeared for such a short while never understood that. I was very lucky to find it

Thanks for the link. It's nice to see Charlie back catalogue available as MP3s.