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Release Round-Up: Week of September 18

September 18, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Box set season is totally in full swing this week! Are you ready?

Michael Jackson, Bad 25 (Epic/Legacy)

The King of Pop's legendary 1987 album gets the deluxe treatment in a number of formats. The standard edition includes the remastered album and a 13-track bonus disc featuring rare and unreleased outtakes and new remixes. (That version is available with a T-shirt at Wal-Mart, and a bonus DVD with all nine original Bad-era short films - including the long performance edits of "Smooth Criminal" and "Speed Demon" from the Moonwalker film - is an exclusive at Target.) Then there's the deluxe box set, featuring those two discs and a CD and DVD of Jackson's July 16, 1988 performance at London's Wembley Stadium; that box is also available as a super-collectible version in a swag-filled box. The Live at Wembley DVD is available separately, as well. Who's bad? Well, that depends on your wallet.  Joe's review can be found here!

The Jackson 5, Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls (Hip-O Select/Motown)

Not enough MJ for you this week? How about two discs of unreleased Jackson 5 outtakes, with a collectible vinyl single to boot?

ABBA, The Essential Collection (Polydor/UMC)

While this new U.K. ABBA compilation doesn't offer much of anything new, it does offer every single the band ever released on one set, plus a bonus DVD of music videos (featuring the premiere home video release of the videos for the Spanish versions of "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Thank You for the Music").

Steve Miller Band, Children of the Future / Sailor / Brave New World / Your Saving Grace / Number 5 (Edsel)

The first five albums of The Steve Miller Band are reissued by Edsel with new liner notes, lyrics and rare photographs!

Laura Branigan, Branigan: Expanded Edition / Self Control: Expanded Edition / Grace Jones, Inside Story: Expanded Edition (Gold Legion)

The latest expansions from Gold Legion include Branigan's two biggest hit-filled discs (featuring "Gloria" and "Self Control," respectively) and Grace Jones' first post-Island album for EMI, produced by Nile Rodgers. All three are expanded with bonus 12" mixes and expanded booklets.

Angel, Angel / Helluva Band / On Earth As It Is in Heaven (Rock Candy)

You'll agree that Angel - discovered by Gene Simmons and lampooned by Frank Zappa - was one "helluva band" with Rock Candy's remastered editions, all featuring deluxe booklets with new essays, memorabilia and rare photos.

Ben Folds Five, The Sound of the Life of the Mind (ImAVeePee/Sony Music)

Our final spotlighted title isn't a reissue, but the first Ben Folds Five album in 13 years really, truly lives up to the hype. Add to that the fact that Mr. Folds was behind last year's best catalogue title of the year, and we're going to proudly present this as a future catalogue classic that certainly deserves your ears today!

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: ABBA, Michael Jackson, Steve Miller Band, The Jackson 5

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Michael Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he discovered there was more than one version of John Williams' soundtrack to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, with bylines on catalog at Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Prince and credits on titles including the Grammy-winning 'Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic.' Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with an ever-expanding collection of music.

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  1. George says

    September 21, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    Rock Candy also released this week the Angel albums in a 500 copy limited edition 180 gram white virgin vinyl. You can get them on their site.

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