Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!

Prince, Purple Rain: Music from the Motion Picture (various formats) (Warner Bros.)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.
3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.

At long, long last – a deluxe, expanded Purple Rain arrives in various formats, including a 2-CD iteration with 11 previously unreleased outtakes and a 3-CD/1-DVD version adding a third CD of 15 single edits and remixes and a DVD of 1985’s Prince and the Revolution Live! film. All versions, including a standalone LP, utilize the 2015 Paisley Park remaster approved by Prince before his untimely death. This may well be the most eagerly-anticipated catalogue reissue of the year! Read more here, and be sure to check back Monday for Mike’s review!

Neil Young, Decade (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Neil Young’s seminal Decade – his 1977 triple-album retrospective – returns to CD in remastered form as a 2-CD set. The 140-gram 3-LP version, previously available only as a Record Store Day exclusive, will also be available to general retail.

Radiohead, OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (XL Recordings)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Box Set: Amazon U.S.

OKNOTOK 1997-2017 celebrates Radiohead’s first U.K. No. 1 album, cited by many as one of the greatest albums of its era, with an all-new remaster from the original analog tapes and a bonus disc compiling eight remastered B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions: “I Promise,” “Man of War” and “Lift.” The set will be available as a 2CD or 3LP set. A box set version takes the three LPs and adds a C90 cassette featuring demos and session takes compiled by the band, and three books!That box will ship on July 21, but digital downloads will be available on release date (with the cassette contents also included for download within the box). Read full details here.

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory (Mobile Fidelity)

Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Hybrid Stereo SACD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach’s acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning 1998 collaborative album Painted from Memory gets the audiophile treatment from Mobile Fidelity. A first-time-on-vinyl LP is available now, and a hybrid stereo SACD edition (playable in all CD players) is on the way, though no Amazon links are yet available for that edition.

The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake, Tuned By Allen Ginsberg (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore has remastered and expanded the legendary beat poet’s 1970 MGM Records album for this new 2-CD edition, featuring the original LP (featuring his melodies to English Romantic poet William Blake’s words) and bonus tracks on Disc One, and an entire complement of rarities and previously unissued songs on Disc Two. Musicians include such jazz legends as Don Cherry, Elvin Jones, and Bob Dorough. Omnivore’s deluxe edition features new liner notes by compilation producer Pat Thomas in a 20-page color booklet, and Michael Graves has remastered all tracks (including eight previously unreleased selections)!

Various Artists, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 (Cassette) (Hollywood Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Disney rounds up Star Lord’s favorite tracks from Marvel Studios’ music-filled sequel to the 2014 blockbuster for a cassette release! This time out, the accompanying Awesome Mix soundtrack of ’60s and ’70s classics features Fleetwood Mac, Glen Campbell, George Harrison, Cheap Trick, Jay and the Americans, Looking Glass, and more! FYE and Urban Outfitters are expected to have versions with exclusive artwork!

Willie Nile, Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan (River House) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Roots rocker and singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Willie Nile straps on his acoustic guitar and joins his smokin’ band for a new 10-song tribute to the recent Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. Tracks on this lively and deeply-felt set include “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Abandoned Love,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35” and more…Everybody must get stoned! Available on CD, LP, and DD.

Glenn Morrow, Cry for Help (Bar None) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

New Jersey alt-rocker Glenn Morrow returns with a new studio effort consisting of eleven original songs fusing gutsy and brash blues-rock with Morrow’s expansive storytelling sensibility.

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock, Soundtracks

Tags:

Allen Ginsberg, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Glenn Morrow, Neil Young, Prince, Radiohead, Willie Nile

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. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

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 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.