It pays to hit the bookmark folder every now and then because the web keeps changing when we’re not looking. For instance, even though I’m on the Magazine Mailing List from having bought many fine products from their online webstore, I did not see any email touting the latest wrinkle in the Magazine saga. To wit, in “mid-November” we’ll see the reissuing of all five [plus one more] Magazine albums in a comprehensive boxed set filled with tchotchkes and sonic artifacts of a polyvinyl chloride nature.

THE WAX

Magazine: Give Me Everything – UK – 7xLP [color] [2024]

REAL LIFE

1. Definitive Gaze
2. My Tulpa
3. Shot By Both Sides
4. Recoil
5. Burst
6. Motorcade
7. The Great Beautician In The Sky
8. The Light Pours Out Of Me
9. Parade

• recoil red vinyl
• inner sleeve interview with Dave Formula
• 12″ x 12″ art print of Linder Sterlings’s front cover monoprint
• contact sheet of unpublished Adrian Boot 1978 photos

SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT

1. Feed The Enemy
2. Rhythm Of Cruelty
3. Cut Out Shapes
4. Talk To The Body
5. I Wanted Your Heart
6. The Thin Air
7. Back To Nature
8. Believe That I Understand
9. Permafrost

• permafrost green vinyl
• inner sleeve interview with Howard Devoto
• 12″ x 12″ art print of Ian Pollock’s front cover monograph
• contact sheet of unpublished Ebet Robert’s 1979 photos
• 24″ x 12″ poster of original inner gatefold sleeve image

THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP

1. Because You’re Frightened
2. Model Worker
3. I’m A Party
4. You Never Knew Me
5. Philadelphia
6. I Want To Burn Again
7. Thank You [Falettin Be Mice Elf Agin]
8. Sweetheart Contract
9. Stuck
10. A Song From Under The Floorboards

• philadelphia white vinyl
• inner sleeve interview with Malcolm Garrett
• 12″ x 12″ art print of Malcolm Garrett’s front cover design
• contact sheet of unpublished B.C. Kagan’s 1979 photos
• set of 9 oversize “Correct Use Of Soap” postcards

MAGIC, MURDER AND THE WEATHER

1. About The Weather
2. So Lucky
3. The Honeymoon Killers
4. Vigilance
5. Come Alive
6. The Great Man’s Secrets
7. This Poison
8. Naked Eye
9. Suburban Rhonda
10. The Garden

• poison pink vinyl
• inner sleeve interview with John Doyle
• 12″ x 12″ art print of Malcolm Garrett’s front cover design
• contact sheet of unpublished Jamie Morgan 1980 photos

NO THYSELF

1. Do The Meaning
2. Other Thematic Material
3. The Worst Of progress
4. Hello Mister Curtis [With Apologies]
5. Physics
6. Happening In English
7. Holy Dotage
8. Of Course Howard [1979]
9. Final Analysis Waltz
10. The Burden Of A Song

• of course orange vinyl
• inner sleeve interview with Noko
• 12″ x 12″ art print of Odilon Redon’s front cover etching
• 12″ x 12″ two sided lyric sheet
• “No Thyself” carrier back
• replica “Viva Le Rock” press advertisement

RAYS AND HAIL [1978-2011]

1. Shot By Both Sides [single version]
2. Definitive Gaze
3. Motorcade
4. The Light Pours Out Of Me
5. Parade [live from ‘Play’]
6. Feed The Enemy
7. Rhythm Of Cruelty
8. Back To Nature
9. Permafrost
10. Because You’re Frightened
11. You Never Knew Me
12. A Song From Under The Floorboards
13. I Want To Burn Again
14. Sweetheart Contract
15. This Poison
16. Naked Eye
17. Physics
18. Holy Dotage
19. Final Analysis Waltz

• burn again yellow vinyl
• New 2024 running order by Howard Devoto
• inner sleeve interview with Rory Sullivan-Burke [author of John McGeoch bio]
• 12″ x 12″ art print of Damian Wayling’s front cover CD design from 1987
• set of 21 oversize postcards featuring illustrated lyrics from the songs

THE TEES

The t-shirt commemorating the box is in two designs: cool blue and hot black. I’m betting that the box and shirts were Malcolm Garrett designs even though his name was not bandied about in the store. Because. Amazingly enough, I already have a Magazine t-shirt [it came with the “Real Life + Thereafter” DVD/CD-pack], but either of those are highly appealing, especially at a modest £20 each.

The fascinating factor here, apart from the many items only included with this boxed set [listed as bullets] was the first appearance of “Rays And Hail” on LP format as an expansive 2xLP edition. Re-compiled by Devoto himself to take in the full story, including the noble fifth album from 2011.

So you should already know and love this material. The facts on this box are that the album may be available separately at normal retail but the omnibox is only available directly from the Wire-Sound website. There are 500 copies of this being made and as of the 4th of November, 2024, there are only 135 left at a price of £200.00 per, plus signed shipping.

If you’d prefer to pick and choose, each LP [and its attendant bonus materials as shown here but not included on standard retail copies] are also available from the Wire-Sound webstore at £33.00 each. £45.00 for the 2xLP “Rays And Hail [1978-2011]” It’s all a little too rich for my blood, and already having the silver discs of this material; redundant for me. But don’t let me stop you! Anyone reading these words who has yet to hear the can’t-be-bettered songwriting of Howard Devoto and fantastic playing of Magazine should buy immediately. DJ hit that button!