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STEVE WYNN – ” Decade ” The Box Set

Posted: October 26, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Steve Wynn is well known as a vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, beginning as part of the renowned Paisley Underground outfit The Dream Syndicate.  After the group folded, Wynn began a solo career that garnered critical acclaim and accolades from his legion of fans.  Now, his solo career is celebrated in a new, 11-CD box set from Real Gone Music called Decade.  The expansive 166-track set chronicles Wynn’s career with deluxe versions of the albums he released from 1995 to 2005, many of which have been long out of print.  From the U.S. albums “Melting In The Dark, Sweetness and Light, My Midnight, Here Come The Miracles, Static Transmission, and …Tick…Tick…Tick”, to the rarities collections like the German compilation The Emusic Singles Collection and the European set Pick of the Litter– not to mention the 57 unreleased tracks within – the Decade Box Set promises to be the definitive word on Steve Wynn’s solo output.  It’s all been compiled and sequenced by Wynn himself, alongside archivist and box set producer Pat Thomas.  

Steve Wynn first gained fame as lead singer and songwriter for The Dream Syndicate. But his post-Dream Syndicate solo career is the equal of any indie-rock singer-songwriter you’d care to name. Now, Real Gone Music and Steve Wynn have joined forces to release “Decade” (yup, the Neil Young reference is deliberate), an 11-CD set that chronicles, with lavish deluxe editions, the guitar-driven albums Wynn recorded between 1995 and 2005, most of which have been long out-of-print. The statistics on this box set are mind-blowing: 166 tracks, 57 of them totally unreleased, plus 31 other rarities! That’s right’over half of this 11-CD set consists of either hitherto unknown recordings or tracks that have been almost impossible to find!.

So, Real Gone Music has just issued (is issuing? I’m not sure about the timeline) “Decade”, an 11-CD box set of music recorded by Steve Wynn—he of Dream Syndicate, Miracle Three, Gutterball, Baseball Project, and other fames—between 1995 and 2005, and the first album in the set is Melting in the Dark, which Steve recorded with Boston band Come back in 1995. If you’ve never heard “Melting in the Dark“, I recommend you order the box set right now so you can enjoy the fruits of our labours (plus Steve’s albums Sweetness and Light, Here Come the Miracles, and more!). We basically rehearsed and recorded all of “Melting in the Dark” in two three- or four-day sessions, and there are a lot of great songs and performances therein

DAVE DAVIES – ” Decade “

Posted: October 14, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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As a founding member of The Kinks, Dave Davies is a musician who needs little introduction. After decisively solving the riddle of the first “Great Lost Dave Davies Solo Album,” 2011’s magnificent Hidden Treasures, we now have what should have been its sequel: Decade. Years prior to the issue of Dave’s first “proper” solo album, 1980’s AFL1-3603, he was working on the fascinating tracks that make up this new compilation. The tapes were unearthed by his sons and properly mixed and mastered in a way that lets these songs shimmer and shine even brighter than they did at inception. Any album recorded over the span of 10 years runs the risk of ending up wildly erratic, yet Decade is surprisingly cohesive. A real treasure.

The album, which arrives October. 12th, is a collection of unreleased songs he recorded from 1971-79. You can listen to the lead single, “Cradle to the Grave,” below.

“I am so pleased that after all this time these tracks are being released to see the light of day,” he said in a press release. “These songs have been silently nagging at me to be recognised all these years. At last I can proudly present this album Decade to the world. I do hope you all enjoy the music.”

 Dave penned several great songs, such as “Death of a Clown” from Something Else and the Arthur-era outtakes “Mindless Child of Motherhood” and “This Man He Weeps Tonight.” But as the press release notes, Dave’s songs “had no apparent place” in the concept albums Ray was creating, so these tracks remained “under beds, in attics, in storage” until they were discovered by Dave’s sons. “We were busy, and we were touring, he continued, “The Kinks were very vibrant that whole period of time. It wasn’t really until the end of the ‘70s that I started to really take my writing seriously. I should have done it anyway—because what’s ‘serious’ and ‘not serious’? Just get stuff out, you know?”