The Record Store Day round-up marches on! After covering in detail the vinyl offerings from Universal Music Group, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, BMG, Craft Recordings, Real Gone Music, Omnivore and U.K. labels Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, we've still got a few things to highlight...notably, the work of labels who are serving one of Record Store Day's least-served fans.

There are plenty of business and financial reasons why some Record Store Day titles are limited solely to vinyl, but we at The Second Disc will never stop banging the drum for those who still collect and listen to music on CD! It's still the most portable, high-fidelity, digitally-convertible physical music format; typically the best way to listen to archival bonus material; and most of all, just a personal favorite. The list of RSD-exclusive CDs is always quite small; as far as major catalogue titles, there's really just one: the unreleased live-in-studio David Bowie set that was the first title announced for release on Saturday, April 12.

Some labels understand the struggle, though, and this year, 10 of the unreleased RSD exclusives coming to vinyl this year - titles from Real Gone Music, Omnivore, Craft, Rhino and Demon - are getting widespread CD releases around the time these LPs will be available! It's a cause worth celebrating in its own post: look below for descriptions, release dates and pre-order links. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

Jackie DeShannon, Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 (Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The genre-blending West Coast sound of Jackie DeShannon was a shining point for American pop in the '60s. But the singer also blazed a trail as a songwriter, penning much of own material. (Sure, her biggest hits - "What the World Needs Now" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" - weren't from her pen, but she'd go on to write smashes for others, too, like The Searchers' "When You Walk Into the Room" and Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes," which netted DeShannon a Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 is the first collection devoted to DeShannon's time as a staff songwriter for Metric Music, where some of her most moving compositions were written. Ten of the album's 16 tracks are heard here for the first time. This one will follow Record Store Day by a few weeks, coming to stores on CD from May 9.

1. Where the Roses Go
2. Nicole
3. Children & Flowers
4. Only You Can Free My Mind
5. The Greener Side
6. More Than I Am
7. Effervescent Blue
8. Love Forever Stay
9. A Lot of Lovin'
10. Rose Colored Glasses
11. Girl in Love
12. Distraction
13. More Time in the Day
14. No, My Love
15. There Comes a Time
16. It Shines on You Too

Tracks 3 and 5 released on Laurel Canyon (Expanded Edition) - RPM Records 304 (U.K.), 2005
Track 4 released on Break-a-Way (The Songs of Jackie DeShannon 1961-1967) - Ace Records CDCHD 1208 (U.K.), 2008
Track 7 released on Imperial single 66313, 1968
Track 8 released on She Did It! (The Songs of Jackie DeShannon Volume 2) - Ace Records CDCHD 1411 (U.K.), 2014
Track 16 released on What the World Needs Now is...Jackie DeShannon: The Definitive Collection - Imperial/Liberty/EMI 72438 29786 2 6, 1994

Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Alternate Takes) (Fantasy/Craft, 2025)

One of the most exciting RSD releases around these parts is a color vinyl from Craft Recordings offering 14 unreleased outtakes from the Vince Guaraldi Trio's sessions recording for the unreleased documentary A Boy Named Charlie Brown, which spawned a 1964 album that became the pianist's first of many soundtracks for specials starring Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts characters (including the following year's landmark A Charlie Brown Christmas, which reused A Boy Named Charlie Brown's immortal "Linus and Lucy"). The recent, belated vault clearing of Guaraldi's discography isn't limited to one format, though: those 14 tracks, plus two more previously released gems, serve as the bonus disc to a newly remastered and expanded edition of the original album, which will be available from Craft on April 4. Learn all about it here!

Françoise Hardy, En Vogue: Best of 1962-1967 (Omnivore OVCD-582, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

A pivotal figure of the French yé-yé genre, Françoise Hardy's early material for the Disques Vogue beguiled audiences far beyond France or even Europe, and time has only underlined the allure of her voice. This 24-track collection, released in Europe by Legacy Recordings last fall after Hardy's passing in June, has been licensed by Omnivore for a double-vinyl release on Record Store Day, and will be available on CD the following week on April 18.

1. Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles
2. Le Temps De L'amour
3. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
4. J'aurais Voulu
5. Pourtant Tu M'aimes
6. Et Même
7. Mon Amie La Rose
8. Je N'attends Plus Personne
9. Je Veux Qu'il Revienne
10. La Nuit Est Sur La Ville
11. Dis-lui Non
12. All Over the World
13. L'amitié
14. Le Temps Des Souvenirs
15. Tout Ce Qu'on Dit
16. Ce Petit Coeur
17. Je Ne Suis Là Pour Personne
18. Il Est Des Choses
19. La Maison Où J'ai Grandi
20. Comme
21. Je Changerais D'avis
22. Rendez-vous D'automne
23. Au Fond Du Rêve Doré
24. Voilà

Tracks 1-2 from Françoise Hardy - Disques Vogue LD-600 30 (FR), 1962
Tracks 3-4 from Françoise Hardy - Disques Vogue FH 1 (FR), 1963
Tracks 5-10 from Françoise Hardy - Disques Vogue FH 2 (FR), 1964
Tracks 11 and 13-16 from Françoise Hardy - Disques Vogue FH 3 (FR), 1965
Track 12 from In English - Disques Vogue CLD-699 30 (FR), 1966
Track 17 from "Il Est Des Choses" single - Disques Vogue V.45-1338 (FR), 1966
Track 18-22 from Françoise - Disques Vogue CLD-702 30 (FR), 1966
Track 23 from Voilà EP - Disques Vogue EPL 8566, 1967
Track 24 from Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp... - Disques Vogue CLD-720 (FR), 1967

Robert Hunter, Tiger Rose Rarities (Rhino)

One of the most celebrated lyricists of his generation thanks to a long association with the Grateful Dead, Robert Hunter started putting out albums of his own in earnest in the mid-'70s. His second, 1975's Tiger Rose, featured contributions from members of that band (including Mickey Hart, Donna Jean Godchaux and Jerry Garcia, who also produced) plus members of Jefferson Starship and New Riders of the Purple Sage. It's being expanded on March 21 for its 50th anniversary, with a standalone vinyl release as well, so you can get the nine unreleased alternate takes being released for RSD as Tiger Rose Rarities as part of that collection well ahead of the big day. Learn more here!

The Mission, Neverland (30th Anniversary Edition) (Edsel EDSL0239 (U.K.), 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

One of the more unexpected reissues this spring, 1995's Neverland is not the best-known of The Mission's albums; at this point, frontman Wayne Hussey and drummer Mick Brown were the sole classic members of the Gothic rock group still participating, and they'd briefly wrap it up within a year or so. But this 2CD reissue, greatly expanded from the complementary double vinyl edition Edsel's putting out for Record Store Day, offers the definitive take on the album, newly remastered with a baker's dozen of B-sides and single tracks selected by Hussey himself. This release will trail Record Store Day by more than a month, arriving on May 30.

Disc 1: Original album (released as Dragnet Records 73 (U.K.), 1995)

1. Raising Cain
2. Sway
3. Lose Myself in You
4. Swoon
5. Afterglow (reprise)
6. Stars Don't Shine Without You
7. Celebration
8. Cry Like a Baby
9. Heaven Knows
10. Swim with the Dolphins
11. Neverland (vocal)
12. Daddy's Going to Heaven Now

Disc 2: Bonus material

1. Raising Cain (CD Single Edit)
2. Neverland (Instrumental)
3. Swoon (Full Balloon Edit)
4. Whore
5. Wasting Away
6. Swoon (Reserection Mix)
7. Swoon (Over the Moon Edit)
8. Swoon (Over the Moon Mix)
9. Swoon (Bubble Wrap Mix)
10. Swoon (Full Balloon Mix)
11. Lose Myself in You (Radio Edit)
12. Instant Karma
13. Pictures of Matchstick Men

Tracks 1-2 released on 1 EP - Equator/Neverland HOOK CD001 (U.K.), 1994
Tracks 3-6 released as Equator/Neverland U.K. CD single HOOK CD002, 1995
Tracks 7-10 released as Equator/Neverland U.K. CD single HOOK CDR002, 1995
Tracks 11-13 released on Dragnet German CD single 81, 1995

Pixies, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde - Live (Demon/Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

(Mostly) reunited from their original incarnation for 20 years and counting, the Pixies have now released as many albums from that second period as they did during their original, influential 1987-1991 run. But the group - frontman Black Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago, drummer David Lovering and newest bassist Emma Richardson - haven't shied away from playing classic material, as this new 2CD set showcases. Taken from their 15-date European tour last summer, it's a live reconstruction of 1990's Bossanova and 1991's Trompe le Monde; it'll be available the week after Record Store Day, on April 18.

Disc 1: Bossanova

1. Cecilia Ann
2. Rock Music
3. Velouria
4. Allison
5. Is She Weird
6. Ana
7. All Over the World
8. Dig for Fire
9. Down to the Well
10. The Happening
11. Blown Away
12. Hang Wire
13. Stormy Weather
14. Havalina

Disc 2: Trompe le Monde

1. Trompe le Monde
2. Planet of Sound
3. Alec Eiffel
4. The Sad Punk
5. Head On
6. U-Mass
7. Palace of the Brine
8. Letter to Memphis
9. Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
10. Space (I Believe In)
11. Subbacultcha
12. Distance Equals Rate Times Time
13. Lovely Day
14. Motorway to Roswell
15. The Navajo Know

All tracks previously unreleased. Recorded live on tour in Europe in 2024.

The Rembrandts, L.P. (Expanded Edition) (Omnivore OVCD-584, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The jangly L.A. duo of Phil Solem and Danny Wilde - both former members of short-lived power-pop outfit Great Buildings - actually had some measure of chart success in the early '90s. But sometimes no one tells you life was gonna be this way, and their original material was largely overshadowed by the maddeningly catchy "I'll Be There for You," the theme to the blockbuster NBC sitcom Friends for a decade. Its popularity (and status as a hidden-in-plain-sight track on third album L.P.) belies the fact that The Rembrandts were (and are!) quite good; this 30th anniversary remastered and expanded edition of that album, featuring four demos (three of which are unreleased) is a solid reminder. It, too, will hit CD a week after its Record Store Day release.

1. End of the Beginning
2. Easy to Forget
3. My Own Way
4. Don't Hide Your Love
5. Drowning in Your Tears
6. This House is Not a Home
7. April 29
8. Lovin' Me Insane
9. There Goes Lucy
10. As Long As I Am Breathing
11. Call Me
12. Comin' Home
13. What Will It Take
14. The Other Side of Night
15. I'll Be There for You (Theme from Friends)
16. Turn Me On (Demo)
17. Perfect Line (Demo) *
18. Wait for Me (Demo) *
19. You Make Me Feel (Demo) *

Tracks 1-15 released as EastWest 61752, 1995
Track 16 released on "This House is Not a Home" U.K. CD single - EastWest A4336CD, 1995
Tracks 17-19 previously unreleased

Suede, Sci-Fi Lullabies (Deluxe Edition) (Edsel (U.K.), 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

One of the most coveted Record Store Day sets for Britpop fans is a follow-up to Suede's 1997 rarities collection Sci-Fi Lullabies, this time spanning the end of their first era (up to 2003) and following their 2010 reunion. (Sci-Fi Lullabies Vol. 2 also features an unreleased track, "Blinded." That 2LP, 19-track set will be released on CD on May 23, as part of a 3CD set that will include the original Lullabies as well.

Disc 1-2: Sci-Fi Lullabies (released as Nude Records 9CD (U.K.), 1997)

1. My Insatiable One
2. To the Birds
3. Where the Pigs Don't Fly'
4. He's Dead
5. The Big Time
6. High Rising
7. The Living Dead
8. My Dark Star
9. Killing of a Flash Boy
10. Whipsnade
11. Modern Boys
12. Together
13. Benstwood Boys
14. Europe is Our Playground

1. Every Monday Morning Comes
2. Have You Ever Been This Low?
3. Another No One
4. Young Men
5. The Sound of the Streets
6. Money
7. W.S.D.
8. This Time
9. Jumble Sale Mums
10. These Are the Sad Songs
11. Sadie
12. Graffiti Women
13. Duchess

Disc 1, Tracks 1-2 released on "The Drowners" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 1T/CD, 1992
Disc 1, Tracks 3-4 released on "Metal Mickey" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 3T/CD, 1992
Disc 1, Track 5 released on "Animal Nitrate" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 4T/CD, 1993
Disc 1, Track 6 released on "So Young" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 5T/CD, 1993
Disc 1, Tracks 7-8 released on "Stay Together" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 9T/CD, 1994
Disc 1, Tracks 9-10 released on "We Are the Pigs" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 10T/CD, 1994
Disc 1, Track 11 released on "The Wild Ones" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 11T/CD1, 1994
Disc 1, Tracks 12-13 released on "New Generation" U.K. 12"/CD single - Nude Records NUD 12T/CD1, 1995
Disc 1, Track 14 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-3 released on "Trash" U.K. CD singles - Nude Records NUD 21CD1/2, 1996
Disc 2, Tracks 4-6 released on "Beautiful Ones" U.K. CD singles - Nude Records NUD 23CD1/2, 1996
Disc 2, Tracks 7-9 released on "Saturday Night" U.K. CD singles - Nude Records NUD 24CD1/2, 1997
Disc 2, Tracks 10-11 released on "Lazy" U.K. CD singles - Nude Records NUD 27CD1/2, 1997
Disc 2, Tracks 12-13 released on "Filmstar" U.K. CD singles - Nude Records NUD 30CD1/2, 1997

Disc 3: Sci-Fi Lullabies Vol. 2

1. The Sadness in You, The Sadness in Me
2. Dawn Chorus
3. Let Go
4. Crackhead
5. Cheap
6. Simon
7. What Violet Says
8. Still Waiting
9. Manipulation
10. You Don't Know Me
11. Days Like Dead Moths
12. Since You Went Away
13. Heroin
14. Leaving
15. God's Gift
16. There is No Me If There is No You
17. Darkest Days
18. The Prey
19. Blinded *

Tracks 1, 8, 10-11, 16 and 18 released on Autofiction (Deluxe Edition) - BMG 538959550, 2023
Track 2 released on Bloodsports (Box Set Edition) - Warner Bros. SUEDBSX001, 2013
Tracks 3 and 12 released on "Can't Get Enough" U.K. CD single - Nude Records NUD 47CD1, 1999
Tracks 4 and 14 released on "Everything Will Flow" U.K. CD singles - Nude Records NUD 45CD1/2, 1999
Tracks 5-6 released on "Positivity" U.K. CD single - Epic 672949 2/5, 2002
Track 7 released on "Hit Me" digital single - Warner Bros. (no cat. #), 2013
Track 9 released on The Blue Hour (Box Set Edition) - Warner Music U.K. WEA504, 2018
Track 13 released on "Attitude" U.K. CD single - Epic 674358 5, 2003
Track 15 released on "She's in Fashion" U.K. CD single - Nude Records NUD 44CD2, 1999
Track 17 released on "For the Strangers" U.K. single - Warner Bros. SUESX004, 2013
Track 19 previously unreleased

T. Rex, Bolan B-Sides (Edsel EDSL0233 (U.K.), 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Long a dependable home for reissues of the T. Rex catalogue, Edsel will follow up last fall's new 2CD compilation Bolan Boogie with a companion set offering more than two dozen non-album tracks from Marc Bolan's short but influential career, including fan favorite "Born to Boogie," a pair of sides released under the name "Big Carrot," and a cover of the Phil Spector standard "To Know You is to Love You" that Bolan recorded with original "Tainted Love" singer Gloria Jones, his partner at the time of his death and mother to their son Rolan.

Disc 1: Volume 1 - 1972-1973

1. Cadilac
2. Baby Strange
3. Lady
4. Thunderwing
5. Jitterbug Love
6. Sunken Rags
7. Born to Boogie (Single Mix)
8. Free Angel
9. Midnight
10. Sitting Here
11. Blackjack - Big Carrot
12. Squint Eye Mangle - Big Carrot

Disc 2: Volume 2 - 1974-1977

1. Satisfaction Pony
2. Explosive Mouth
3. Space Boss
4. Chrome Sitar
5. Do You Wanna Dance?
6. Dock of the Bay
7. Solid Baby
8. Baby Boomerang
9. Life's An Elevator
10. All Alone
11. Groove a Little
12. Tame My Tiger
13. Ride My Wheels
14. To Know You is to Love You - Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones
15. City Port - Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones

Disc 1, Tracks 1-2 released on "Telegram Sam" U.K. single - T. Rex 101, 1972
Disc 1, Tracks 3-4 released on "Metal Guru" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 1, 1972
Disc 1, Tracks 5-6 released on "Children of the Revolution" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 2, 1972
Disc 1, Track 7 released on "Solid Gold Easy Action" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 3, 1972
Disc 1, Track 8 released on "20th Century Boy" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 4, 1973
Disc 1, Track 9 released on "The Groover" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 5, 1973
Disc 1, Track 10 released on "Truck On (Tyke)" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 6, 1973
Disc 1, Tracks 11-12 released as EMI U.K. single 2047, 1973
Disc 2, Track 1 released on "Teenage Dream" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 7, 1974
Disc 2, Track 2 released on "Light of Love" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 8, 1974
Disc 2, Track 3 released on "Zip Gun Boogie" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 9, 1974
Disc 2, Track 4 released on "New York City" U.K. single - EMI MARC 10, 1975
Disc 2, Tracks 5-6 released on "Dreamy Lady" U.K. single EMI MARC 11, 1975
Disc 2, Track 7 released on "London Boys" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 13, 1976
Disc 2, Track 8 released on "I Love to Boogie" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 14, 1976
Disc 2, Track 9 released on "Laser Love" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 15, 1976
Disc 2, Track 10 released on "The Soul of My Suit" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 16, 1976
Disc 2, Tracks 11-12 released on "Dandy in the Underworld" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 17, 1977
Disc 2, Track 13 released on "Celebrate Summer" U.K. single - T. Rex MARC 18, 1977
Disc 2, Tracks 14-15 released as EMI single 2572, 1977

Talking Heads, Live on Tour '78 (Sire/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Moving forward from last year's deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77, Rhino next releases a remastered version of a show the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers put on at Cleveland's Agora Ballroom at the end of 1978, in promotion of that year's sophomore release More Songs About Buildings and Food. The set was released on vinyl a few months later as part of Warner Bros.' Live on Tour promotional series, but this edition, working from the original analogue tapes, unearths a previously unreleased version of "Thank You for Sending Me An Angel." This one is set to reach stores April 11, meaning you can possibly pick up a copy if you're out for Record Store Day!

1. The Big Country
2. Warning Sign
3. The Good Thing
4. Artists Only
5. The Girls Want to Be with the Girls
6. Electricity (Drugs)
7. New Feeling
8. Found a Job
9. Thank You for Sending Me An Angel *
10. Psycho Killer
11. Take Me to the River

All tracks recorded live at the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH - 12/18/1978. All tracks issued as Live on Tour promo LP - Warner Bros. WBMS 104, 1979 except * (previously unreleased)