Release Round-Up: Week of August 31

August 31, 2018 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!

The Band, Music from Big Pink [Various Formats] (Capitol/UMe, 2018)

Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2-LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2-LP Pink Vinyl: uDiscoverMusic.com

Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Band’s seminal exploration of Americana, Music from Big Pink, on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition. For its 50th, Big Pink has been spruced up by engineer Bob Clearmountain, who has produced a new stereo mix of the album from the original four-track analog masters. The 50th Anniversary Edition’s CD, digital, and box set configurations also include five outtakes and alternate recordings from the sessions and a previously unreleased a cappella version of “I Shall Be Released.” While five of the bonus tracks from previous CD reissues are here, others are absent. Clearmountain has also produced a new 5.1 surround mix for the box set. For the two new album-only vinyl editions, Chris Bellman has cut the vinyl lacquers at 45rpm at Bernie Grundman Mastering, expanding the album to two LPs for optimal sound quality. A standard CD will also be released with just the new album mix. Read our full review here!

Chicago, Chicago II: Collectors’ Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Chicago II: Collector’s Edition bundles together the band’s 2017 Soundstage performance of the 1970 classic Chicago II on CD and DVD as well as the acclaimed 2017 stereo remix of the original album by Steven Wilson on both CD and double vinyl. Read more here!

Nick Mason, Unattended Luggage (Warner Music U.K.)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason’s three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage. The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut. All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.

Depeche Mode, Speak & Spell: The 12″ Singles / A Broken Frame: The 12″ Singles (Mute/Rhino)

Speak & Spell: The 12″ Singles: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
A Broken Frame: The 12″ Singles: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Rhino is launching a series of vinyl box sets collecting the 12-inch singles of Depeche Mode, all newly remastered from the original tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios. Read more here!

Pet Shop Boys, Further Listening reissues (Parlophone/Rhino)

Behaviour / Further Listening 1990-1991

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Very / Further Listening 1992-1994

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Bilingual / Further Listening 1995-1997

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Pet Shop Boys are concluding their series of remastered Further Listening editions with this final trio of titles. Get all of the details right here!

Various Artists, King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton, Allison Krauss, Loretta Lynn, Brad Paisley, and Willie Nelson are just a few of the names who have lined up to celebrate the late, great Roger Miller on this 2-CD, 36-song tribute album.

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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.