Spectres
Original release date: 11/77 (certified gold 1/78)Expanded reissue date: 02/07
Spectres, BOC's fifth studio album is enhanced with four tracks from the album's original recording sessions, two of which feature newly recorded vocal and lead guitar parts.
Bonus tracks:
"Night Flyer"
"Dial M for Murder"
"Please Hold"
"Be My Baby"
Some Enchanted Evening
Expanded reissue date: 02/07
Some Enchanted Evening, BOC's second live album is enhanced with seven previously unreleased live performance tracks
Bonus tracks:
"ME-262"
"Harvester of Eyes"
"Hot Rails To Hell"
"(This Ain't The) Summer Of Love"
"5 Guitars"
"Born To Be Wild"
"We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (Alternate version)
The legacy edition also includes a DVD, Some Other Enchanted Evening, the first to chronicle the 1978 tour during which the original album was recorded.
Bottom Line
The technical enhancements and the addition of new vocal and guitar tracks make both CDs a real pleasure to listen to. The previously unreleased tracks, especially on the live album, live up to their "bonus" billing.Although the performances on the DVD were filmed, they were never intended for commercial release, so there's a home video feel to them. The DVD is noteworthy as a historical documentation of the band at the height of its arena rock days.
Serious BOC fans will want to add these to the collection of reissues that Sony/BMG have been dribbling out over the past few years. Casual or new fans will get a good representative sampling of the band's studio work and its legendary live performances.
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