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Post by dougs on Sept 17, 2020 16:40:48 GMT
JEWEL BOX: Elton has just released a massive collection of songs in package form. The series is called JEWEL BOX and features everything from the big 9-LP and 8-CD collection to other LP and CD and digital options. The rarest of rare songs including the album before EMPTY SKY that was never released are now available. So are most of the B-sides to the singles from the 80s and the list goes on. The songs are from 1965 to 2019. There are 148 songs in the full CD and LP packages! www.eltonjohn.com/stories/jewel-boxNovember 13, 2020 is the release date. Lots of cool stuff! Doug |
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Post by newloneranger on Sept 17, 2020 18:25:58 GMT
I think i'm gonna get this. Is it available as CD only or do you get both LP and CD? I don't have a turntable so LPs are pretty much useless to me.
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Post by dougs on Sept 17, 2020 18:32:55 GMT
newloneranger:
Regarding EJ's new JEWEL BOX sets; there are many options including the complete 9-LP box or 8-CD box or other options such as a 2-LP, 3-LP, or 4-LP package. The entire box package is also available digitally on every platform, I believe..
As of today, the "Sing Me No Sad Songs" Elton & band demo is available digitally such as on iTunes and is now on YouTube. It is the first song to be released. The packages are to be released November 13.
Doug
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Post by rocketman on Sept 19, 2020 17:37:20 GMT
Rather interesting that this package is to be released nearly 25 years to the day that To Be Continued, Elton's previous Box Set, was released (Nov 8, 1990).
This new set certainly looks to be a fascinating look at Elton's career, especially, it seems, the earliest years.
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Post by dougs on Sept 19, 2020 19:08:48 GMT
rocketman:
This JEWEL box is massive. I really enjoyed TO BE CONTINUED but this JEWEL BOX one has large numbers of rare and never released songs including songs between 1965 and 1969. There was apparently an album of EJ songs (including "Regimental Sgt. Zippo") to be released before EMPTY SKY and most or all of those are in the box set. Lots of 80s B-sides that have never appeared anywhere digitally. I ordered the 8-CD box set plus the 2-LP called JEWEL BOX: AND THIS IS ME which is a collection of songs that EJ has a real strong affection for. It has a couple of hits.
Put it on your Christmas list!
Doug
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Post by newloneranger on Sept 20, 2020 7:19:21 GMT
I pre-ordered the 8 disc CD package on Amazon. Looks like a nice package. It will be nice to have all these songs in high quality. Still alot of rarities left off it though.
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Post by dougs on Sept 20, 2020 21:29:56 GMT
From the JEWEL BOX: "Snow Queen"
In addition to the digital release of "Sing Me No Sad Songs" on September 17th is also the digital release of "Snow Queen" which was a BLUE MOVES outtake which initially showed up as the B-side of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" in 1976. The song is apparently a not so enthusiastic Bernie commentary on Cher at the time.
The JEWEL BOX is likely to have a number of songs released digitally (possibly weekly) running up to the box set release on November 13.
Doug
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Post by BiteUrLip on Sept 21, 2020 13:00:42 GMT
If it will be available on mp3million.com I will be happy.  |
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Post by nix on Sept 22, 2020 17:30:18 GMT
Where are 'Across the River Thames', '5th Avenue' etc?
It's interesting, but pretty much weird compilation. Too many discs. I would be only interested in CD's 6 and 7. Though I have all those songs, I would like to have them with better sound. Also way too expensive for me.
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Post by dougs on Sept 22, 2020 18:46:41 GMT
nix:
Remember, you can buy digitally (eg. iTunes, etc.) just the select tracks that you wish from whatever disks starting November 13 or you can buy one of the three LP collections; one is a 2-LP album, another is a 3-LP album, and the last is a 4-LP album.
I actually have a lot of the 80s and other rarities (eg. "Hey Papa Legba") because I bought so many of the 45s (singles) when they first came put. Almost all of these, however, were never released digitally until now.
For me, I am looking forward to the songs that had been assembled as an album prior to EMPTY SKY and lots of others. Nice not to see another "hits" package, for sure.
Doug
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Post by AGR82 on Sept 23, 2020 8:25:36 GMT
Where are 'Across the River Thames', '5th Avenue' etc? It's interesting, but pretty much weird compilation. Too many discs. I would be only interested in CD's 6 and 7. Though I have all those songs, I would like to have them with better sound. Also way too expensive for me.
Well...They weren´t b-sides but outtakes. And no outtakes on this compilation.
But i understand your point. If these songs were included, songs as Red or Mandalay Again for example should have been included too.
Strange thing is that they haven´t included Hey Armadillo & Perect Love which were available as B-Sides on an australian edition of Someday Out Of The Blue...
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Post by nix on Sept 24, 2020 17:49:07 GMT
I also find it somehow sad that he didn't include here 'You Gotta Love Someone' - one of my most favorite songs ever that also turned me into his fan back then. It's not anymore on any hit collection and now he had opportunity to put it here and he didn't. He probably doesn't care about song. Strange.
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Post by dougs on Sept 25, 2020 2:34:38 GMT
nix:
Good point about "You Gotta Love Someone." It has never shown up anywhere other than on its initial release. It was so popular here in Canada, that it went #1. Maybe it was the time in his life that the song came out that EJ doesn't like to revisit; those were tough days for him. Regardless, it is a good song.
Doug
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Post by newloneranger on Sept 26, 2020 8:29:01 GMT
One reason why is because Elton abandoned the volumes on the Greatest Hits packages, He switched to a new compiliation with the same songs. So alot of the songs starting with IDWGOWYLT till present have been ignored. I agree with Nix that You Gotta Love Someone should have been on at least one of these albums. People in most cases won't buy the same album with a different cover. Elton John Greatest Hits Volume 4 still has not been released. What great hits have been abandoned?
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Post by dougs on Oct 9, 2020 13:24:45 GMT
JEWEL BOX - update October 9, 2020:
Elton released digitally (eg. iTunes) 4 songs from the JEWEL BOX today plus a video for "Regimental Sgt. Zippo" onto YouTube:
* "Regimental Sgt. Zippo" - from 1968's unreleased album before EMPTY SKY
* "Stone's Throw From Hurtin'" - from 1989's SLEEPING WITH THE PAST
* "Les Aveux" - 1981's single with France Gall
* "Meal Ticket" - from 1975's CAPTAIN FANTASTIC AND THE BROWN DIRT COWBOY
Doug
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