How pop and jazz wrapped up the past in 16 boxed sets
Cream, Goodbye Tour Live 1968 Polydor; four CDs, 66-page book, $69.98.
by Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Giovanni Russonello and Lindsay Zoladz
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.- Reissues and deluxe editions of albums by PJ Harvey, Lil Peep, Charles Mingus and others provide fresh looks at familiar works, and the creative processes that birthed them.
Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Virgin/UMC; three CDs, $63.89; three LPs, $75.98
Alive with isolated, collagelike layers and exuberant ad-libs (Now, the tambourine!), Raw Like Sushi, Swedish pop artist and rapper Neneh Cherrys cult classic debut album, is a remixers dream. This 30th-anniversary set contains a vibrant remastered version of the original LP, along with two entire discs of imaginative remixes: Massive Attack transforms the synth ballad Manchild into a snaking, meditative groove, while early hip-hop producer Art
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How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets
Reissues and deluxe editions of albums by PJ Harvey, Lil Peep, Charles Mingus and others provide fresh looks at familiar works, and the creative processes that birthed them.
Iggy Pop’s “The Bowie Years” revisits the two albums David Bowie produced for the Stooges frontman, “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life,” with a host of extras.Credit.UMe
Dec. 23, 2020
(Virgin/UMC; three CDs, $63.89; three LPs, $75.98)
Alive with isolated, collagelike layers and exuberant ad-libs (“Now, the
tambourine!”), the Swedish pop artist and rapper Neneh Cherry’s cult classic debut album, “Raw Like Sushi,” is a remixer’s dream. This 30th-anniversary set contains a vibrant remastered version of the original LP, along with two entire discs of imaginative remixes: Massive Attack transforms the synth ballad “Manchild” into a snaking, meditative groove, while the early hip-hop producer Arthur Baker reworks two different extend