Very disappointing-nothing new rarities-wise and a useless DVD with overplayed music videos and recent live clips that are great but have nothing to do with the 1987 lineup and are on a DVD I and most fans alreday own. Lame. And it's a frickin' digipack! Not even sure if this is remastered or not, but with all the vintage albums getting the treatment recently, I assume it is.

From Blabbermouth.net:

EMI has set a May 31 North American release date for WHITESNAKE's "1987: 20 Anniversary Collector's Edition". This collector's edition CD and DVD, released to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary, is beautifully packaged in a fold-out digipack with PVC slipcase with extensive sleeve notes written by Geoff Barton of Classic Rock magazine.

Originally released in 1987, the album hit No. 8 in the U.K. charts and went on to sell a phenomenal eight million copies worldwide. The LP spawned three hit singles — the LED ZEPPELIN-influenced "Still of the Night", the anthemic "Here I Go Again", and the power ballad "Is This Love". The CD features the original European album (with two more tracks than its American counterpart) and four bonus tracks taken from "Live...In the Shadows of the Blues". The DVD features four videos, all of which got huge airplay on MTV at the time of release — which may have been influenced by the appearance of David Coverdale's then-wife Tawny Kitaen — and four live performances from the "Live ...In the Still of the Night" concert.

"1987: 20 Anniversary Collector's Edition" (view artwork at this location) track listing:

CD:

01. Still of the Night
02. Bad Boys
03. Give Me All Your Love
04. Looking for Love
05. Crying in the Rain
06. Is This Love
07. Straight for the Heart
08. Don't Turn Away
09. Children of the Night
10. Here I Go Again '87
11. You're Gonna Break My Heart Again
12. Still of the Night (Bonus Track) *
13. Here I Go Again (Bonus Track) *
14. Is This Love (Bonus Track) *
15. Give Me All Your Love Tonight (Bonus Track) *

* Taken from "Live in the Shadow of the Blues"

DVD:

01. Still of the Night
02. Here I Go Again '87
03. Is This Love
04. Give Me All Your Love
05. Give Me All Your Love *
06. Is This Love *
07. Here I Go Again *
08. Still of the Night *

* Taken from "Live... In the Still of the Night"

I have heard a European mini LP sleeve remastered version of the cd that sounds quite a bit better then the original US cd.

Agreed. I already have the Here I Go Again collection, which has all the b-sides and rarities in addition to the album itself, so I'll skip this one.

As for the DVD, they should have either included with the classic videos a classic concert from that era or some vintage interviews and clips from that time.

Not much of a way to commemorate a classic release and the album that finally broke Whitesnake in the states.

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