Rejoice, Supremes fans! Hip-o Select today announced the release of the next expanded album package by Motown's most famous girl group, a double-disc edition of More Hits by The Supremes with tons of exciting bonus content. By 1965, the years of the "no-hit" Supremes at Motown Records were history. The previous year had seen three consecutive No. 1 hits - "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby Love" and "Come See About Me" - and another two consecutive chart-toppers would be added to the list with
Archives for October 14, 2011
Friday Feature: "The Thing"
Our enjoyment of music takes many shapes and sizes, from the most basic of digital files to the vast quantities of reissues and box sets we all enjoy around The Second Disc. Part of the nervous excitement in being a collector is really never knowing what your latest musical obsession will look or sound like - and that's, I think, what keeps us coming back. Now, replace "music" with "an alien virus from another planet" and "nervous excitement" with "crippling terror" and you have the subject of
Practice, Practice, Practice: Frank Zappa, Flo and Eddie Get to Carnegie Hall
Eddie, are you kidding? Is the Zappa Family Trust finally liberating Frank Zappa’s October 11, 1971 concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall from the vaults? What’s that? Four discs, you say? Remastered in mono? Yes, it’s all true. When Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention took the stage at Carnegie Hall forty years ago, the performances were recorded for future release on Warner Bros. Records, the label with which Zappa was often at war. Well, forty years later, that release is here.
Rush To A "Sector" With Band's Remastered and Boxed Mercury Catalogue
Rush may be Canadian, but the classic rock trio has the perfect soundtrack for your Thanksgiving! On November 21, Universal Music Enterprises will follow their acclaimed reissue earlier this year of 1981’s Moving Pictures with the release of three separate six-disc box sets. Collecting the entire Rush output between 1974 and 1989, including both live and studio albums, the Rush Sector box sets span the entire historic Mercury Records tenure of Geddy Lee (bass, keyboard, vocals), Alex Lifeson