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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Laid-James/dp/B ... james+laid

According to Amazon UK, James' fifth and the most successful studio album "Laid", originally released on Mercury Records in 1993, will get its new reissue treatment in the form of a 2 disc deluxe set by Universal Music on March 16th 2015.
The Brian Eno produced album that peaked at Number 3 in the UK albums chart and Number 72 in the Billboard 200 chart, and spawned three singles - "Sometimes" (UK#18), "Laid" (UK#25/US#61) and "Say Something" (UK#24), got its first and only reissue treatment to date back in 2001.

At that price they can keep it.

Strange to pick just that one. Best gig of 2014 was James at Oxford o2 Academy and i should know. Saw 29 gigs! I was at the front for that one. Can't wait for tracklisting but wasn't 'Wah wah' around then i hope that's not disc 2! Just ordered that album a week ago also. Hopefully they'll fill up both discs and reduce price. I'll be there if that happens

Neil Kelly wrote:Strange to pick just that one. Best gig of 2014 was James at Oxford o2 Academy and i should know. Saw 29 gigs! I was at the front for that one. Can't wait for tracklisting but wasn't 'Wah wah' around then i hope that's not disc 2! Just ordered that album a week ago also. Hopefully they'll fill up both discs and reduce price. I'll be there if that happens

I'm a huge fan of James too and saw them several times live. They really know how to take public to the fifth, don't they? There's so much rarely seen emotion and passion to their gigs. Can't wait for the tracklisting either. Yes, you're right about "Wah Wah" being around the same time indeed. It was recorded during the same six-week session as "Laid" and released a year later. It was their first (and, thus far, only) album to be composed entirely of improvised material. Adding it to next year's "Laid" deluxe reissue really wouldn't make sense at all when there's other material to be included on around. I just hope Universal would continue to reissue all other Mercury era albums from the '90s/early 2000s of theirs as deluxe sets - "Gold Mother" (1990), "Seven" (1992), "Whiplash" (1997), "Millionaires" (1999) and "Pleased To Meet You" (2001).

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/ ... h-box-set/

Here are the whole album reissue's details in full, and I'm more than satisfied with it regardless of some left-offs.
One of the reissues of the year already for sure!