Weekend Wround-Up: The Smiths, The Beatles, Pearl Jam and More!

Happy Friday! We’ve got some tidbits to tide you over till we return on Monday, with much, much more!

If you’re eagerly awaiting that complete Smiths box set but are worried about the falling American dollar, worry no more! Thanks to fine folks at MusicTAP for the heads-up that Rhino will be releasing The Smiths – Complete in the U.S. on October 18! The American edition will be available in the same configurations as in the U.K.: a gigantic Limited Edition Super Deluxe Box set, a vinyl LP box, and a CD-only set. In all forms it includes all eight of The Smiths’ long-players: studio albums The Smiths (1984), Meat is Murder (1985), The Queen is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987); non-LP singles compilations Hatful of Hollow (1984), The World Won’t Listen (1987) and the U.S.-only Louder Than Bombs (1987) and the live album “Rank” (1988). Read our full post here and mark your calendar for October 18, just a few weeks after the U.K. release date!

The only surprise about Apple and EMI’s Beatles 1 remaster is that it took so long to happen! But for those interested, September 13 will bring a reissue of 2000’s massively successful Beatles 1 compilation utilizing the 2009 remasters from Abbey Road Studios.

Items on Pearl Jam and Jefferson Starship are waiting for you after the jump!

On September 20, Columbia will bring out the soundtrack recording to Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty documentary. Though a pre-order link is active, the finalized track listing hasn’t been released yet. Crowe promises, however, that the 2-CD set will “have quite a few rarities and some demos from a few different eras in the band’s history.” Stay tuned for more updates, naturally.

This week’s vinyl reissue of Red Octopus wasn’t the only release by Friday Music aimed at fans of Jefferson Starship! The label has announced a 2-CD deluxe remaster of Freedom at Point Zero (1979) and Winds of Change (1982) which will include the bonus track “Jane” in its rare mono single edit. This will be housed in an 8-panel digipak, and it’s due on October 18.

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Peggy Lipton, Doris Day, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and his work still appears with frequency in the magazine. In 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as The Supremes, Melissa Manchester, Laura Nyro, Bobby Darin and Johnny Mathis, legendary producer Bob Crewe, soul legend Wilson Pickett, and many others. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Weekend Wround-Up: The Smiths, The Beatles, Pearl Jam and More!

Joe Marchese

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