Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music

21st September 2018

Brief news of vinyl releases from Black Sabbath and Water Music…

BLACK SABBATH ON 7

A new limited-edition 7” vinyl, pizza-style box set of 10 singles from the rock legends and the BMG label, spanning 1970-1978, it includes five rare single edits: Iron Man, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Am I Going Insane (Radio), Hard Road and Symptom Of The Universe plus 10 unique colour picture sleeves from around the world, either ultra-rare or exclusive to this box set.

ALL THE HITS!

Warner Music has released a host of Greatest Hits packages beginning with Otis Redding’s Dock of the Bay Sessions which…isn’t. Kinda. The songs have been published before elsewhere but this LP is a sort of ‘what if’ LP. If the great man had not met his accident, that is…

Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music

True blue hits packages do come from The Pogues (The Best of…; 1991), packing in 14 tracks. 

Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music

Spandau Ballet’s unsurprisingly titled Gold covers two discs and 19 tracks (two bonus tracks that weren’t featured on the original CD edition) with a marginalised Tony Hadley falling off the edge of the sleeve (ah, politics).

Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music

a-ha’s The Hits of… appears for the first time since 1991. Full of synth pop, it spans 14 tracks. 

Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music

Rod Stewart’s Greatest Hits Vol.1 (1979; who was desperate to show us his bottom during just about every pop video of the included collection) features Da Ya Think I’m Sexy and Hot Legs.

Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music

Finally, the Best of Bread (1973) includes If, Everything I Own and Make it With You.

Vinyl Releases: Black Sabbath & Warner Music