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Rhino’s Record Store Day Black Friday schedule is packed with some 35 titles available as limited edition vinyl releases. But CD lovers take heart: six of these titles – most featuring previously unreleased material – will be available the same day on our favorite portable physical format! Here’s a look at each title, alphabetically by artist.

Recent years have seen Rhino acquire distribution rights to beloved British ska outfit The Beat (known in America as The English Beat), with expanded editions of the group’s studio albums distributed through the label. You may remember, back in the early days of The Second Disc, that The Beat’s material was divided between distributors depending on where you lived; Shout! Factory issued a box set of the studio albums and extras, while Edsel in the U.K. expanded each album individually with bonus material. While S!F’s The Complete Beat box offered the entirety of the band’s BBC sessions with acclaimed disc jockey John Peel, Edsel’s expansions included a little more, offering a full 1980 session with Mike Read and a one-off appearance with David Jensen in 1982. Now, The Beat At The BBC corrects the record, including on one disc all 21 tracks recorded between 1979 and 1982 and covered in those previous releases. You’ll hear some of your favorites – maybe even twice – like “Mirror in the Bathroom,” “Tears of a Clown,” “Hands Off… She’s Mine,” “Twist & Crawl,” “Ranking Full Stop,” “Too Nice to Talk To” and “Save It for Later.”

As Rhino has maintained their commitment to the music of pioneering West Coast funk rockers War, they also gave a shine to the group’s earliest efforts backing up former Animals frontman Eric Burdon, with which they scored the hit “Spill the Wine.” If you’re looking for a little less than this year’s The Complete CD Collection for your Burdon/War needs – or if you’re looking for a little extra, in the form of three bonus tracks including an unedited take on “Spill the Wine” – you’ll want to reach for the new compilation The Best of Eric Burdon & War, featuring more than a dozen tracks from those original album releases.

Five decades after he welcomed you to his nightmare, there’s a whole new way to enjoy Alice Cooper! Welcome to My Nightmare:  Live At The Forum, Los Angeles, 6/17/75 offers a fully unreleased vintage concert set of 18 tracks spanning not only his then-new solo effort but hits from his time in the band of the same name, including “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “School’s Out,” “I’m Eighteen” and more. Another unreleased live set comes from, of all bands with surprisingly still archival work to uncover, The Doors. Their Live in Copenhagen ’68 captures a mostly unreleased appearance of the group in Europe, in the wake of the release of third album Waiting for the Sun.

Another well-regarded live act with an archival concert work of more recent vintage is The Flaming Lips, who performed their commercial breakthrough Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in full at their Summer Freak Out festival in their hometown of Oklahoma City last year – a live set appropriately released as Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Live At The OKC Zoo Amphitheatre, Aug. 30, 2024). One final live release from Rhino’s RSD Black Friday batch is Live ’75, a collection of concert tracks from Fleetwood Mac in their first year as the classic quintet line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. (All these tracks were included on a deluxe edition of the band’s self-titled album in 2018, less a rendition of the Christine-sung composition “Over My Head,” because it was recorded at a concert in 1976.)

Finally, for box set fans, Love’s The Complete Elektra Albums offers a definitive selection of Arthur Lee’s inimitable late ’60s work. In addition to remastered versions of 1966’s Love and Da Capo and the landmark Forever Changes (1967), this 5CD set also includes the format debut of Lee’s original mix for 1969’s Four Sail (first released on vinyl for its 40th anniversary in 2019) plus a disc of single sides and rarities that appeared on a series of early ’00s CD reissues of several of these albums.

All of these titles will be available November 28 – also at your preferred indie record store, in far less limited quantities. Amazon links are available too with the full track lists for each disc, below. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

The (English) Beat, The Beat At The BBC (Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Tears of a Clown (John Peel Session – 11/5/1979)
2. Ranking Full Stop (John Peel Session – 11/5/1979)
3. Click Click (John Peel Session – 11/5/1979)
4. Mirror in the Bathroom (John Peel Session – 11/5/1979)
5. Big Shot (John Peel Session – 11/5/1979)
6. Hands Off… She’s Mine (Mike Read Session – 2/11/1980)
7. Rough Rider (Mike Read Session – 2/11/1980)
8. Twist & Crawl (Mike Read Session – 2/11/1980)
9. Mirror in the Bathroom (Mike Read Session – 2/11/1980)
10. Too Nice to Talk To (John Peel Session – 9/22/1980)
11. Psychedelic Rockers (John Peel Session – 9/22/1980)
12. Monkey Murders (John Peel Session – 9/22/1980)
13. Walk Away (John Peel Session – 9/22/1980)
14. Sounds Like Sorry (John Peel Session – 9/22/1980)
15. Night and Day (David Jensen Session – 4/22/1982)
16. Spar Wid Me (John Peel Session – 3/29/1982)
17. End of the Party (John Peel Session – 3/29/1982)
18. She’s Going (John Peel Session – 3/29/1982)
19. Save It for Later (John Peel Session – 3/29/1982)
20. Sole Salvation (John Peel Session – 3/29/1982)
21. Pato and Roger A Go Talk (John Peel Session – 3/29/1982)

Tracks 1-5, 10-14 and 16-20 released on The Complete Beat – Go-Feet/Shout! Factory 26663-13176, 2012
Tracks 6-9 released on I Just Can’t Stop It (Deluxe Edition) – Edsel EDSG 8016 (U.K.), 2012
Track 15 released on Special Beat Service (Deluxe Edition) – Edsel EDSG 8018 (U.K.), 2012

Eric Burdon & War, The Best of Eric Burdon & War (Avenue/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Disc 1

1. Magic Mountain
2. Spill the Wine
3. Tobacco Road
4. Nights in White Satin
5. Spirit
6. Love is All Around
7. Home Dream
8. Bare Back Ride
9. Mother Earth
10. Beautiful Newborn Child
11. A Day in the Life

Disc 2

1. Paint It Black
2. Gun
3. Pretty Colors
4. Home Cookin’
5. They Can’t Take Away Our Music
6. The King
7. Train Thing
8. Spill the Wine (Unedited Remix)
9. Paint It Black (Live @ Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA – 9/8/1969)

Disc 1, Track 1 released on “Spill the Wine” single – MGM Records K-14118, 1970 and Love is All Around – ABC Records ABCD-988, 1976
Disc 1, Tracks 2-3 and 9 released on Eric Burdon Declares “War” – MGM Records SE-4663, 1970
Disc 1, Tracks 4-5, 8 and 10 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-5 released on The Black-Man’s Burdon – MGM Records SE-4710-2, 1970
Disc 1, Tracks 6-7 and 11 and Disc 2, Track 9 released on Love is All Around – ABC Records ABCD-988, 1976
Disc 2, Tracks 6-8 previously unreleased

Alice Cooper, Welcome to My Nightmare: Live At The Forum, Los Angeles, 6/17/75 (Atlantic/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Welcome to My Nightmare
2. Years Ago
3. No More Mr. Nice Guy
4. Years Ago (First Reprise)
5. Billion Dollar Babies
6. Years Ago (Second Reprise)
7. I’m Eighteen
8. Years Ago (Third Reprise)
9. Some Folks
10. Cold Ethyl
11. Only Women Bleed
12. Devil’s Food
13. The Black Widow
14. Steven
15. Welcome to My Nightmare (Reprise)
16. Escape
17. School’s Out
18. Department of Youth

All tracks previously unreleased. Recorded live at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA – 6/17/1975

The Doors, Live in Copenhagen, 1968 (Elektra/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Applause and Introduction
2. When the Music’s Over
3. Back Door Man
4. Five to One
5. Break On Through (to the Other Side)
6. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
7. The Wasp (Texas Radio & The Big Beat)
8. Hello, I Love You
9. Wake Up!
10. Light My Fire
11. A Little Game
12. The Unknown Soldier

All tracks recorded live at Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark – 9/17/1968. Tracks 3-4, 7, 8, and 12 released on Waiting on the Sun (Deluxe Edtion) –  Elektra/Rhino R2, 537344, 2018

The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Live At The OKC Zoo Amphitheatre, Aug. 30, 2024) (Warner/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Fight Test
2. One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1
4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2
5. In the Morning of the Magicians
6. Ego Tripping At the Gates of Hell
7. Are You a Hypnotist??
8. It’s Summertime
9. Do You Realize??
10. All We Have is Now
11. Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

All tracks recorded live at the Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK – 8/30/2024

Fleetwood Mac, Live 1975 (Reprise/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Get Like You Used to Be
2. Station Man
3. Spare Me a Little
4. Rhiannon
5. Why
6. Landslide
7. I’m So Afraid
8. Oh Well
9. The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown)
10. World Turning
11. Blue Letter
12. Don’t Let Me Down
13. Hypnotized

Tracks 1 and 7-11 recorded live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975. Tracks 2-6 and 12-13 recorded live at Jorgenson Auditorium, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975. All tracks previously released on Fleetwood Mac (Deluxe Edition) – Reprise R2 559454, 2018

Love, The Complete Elektra Albums (Elektra/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Disc 1: Love (released as Elektra ESK-74001, 1966)

1. My Little Red Book
2. Can’t Explain
3. A Message to Pretty
4. My Flash on You
5. Softly to Me
6. No Matter What You Do
7. Emotions
8. You I’ll Be Following
9. Gazing
10. Hey Joe
11. Signed D.C.
12. Colored Balls Falling
13. Mushroom Clouds
14. And More

Disc 2: Da Capo (released as Elektra EKS-74005, 1966)

1. Stephanie Knows Who
2. Orange Skies
3. ¡Que Vida!
4. 7 and 7 Is
5. The Castle
6. She Comes in Colors
7. Revelation

Disc 3: Forever Changes (released as Elektra EKS-74013, 1967)

1. Alone Again Or
2. A House is Not a Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
8. Live and Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer in the Summer
11. You Set the Scene

Disc 4: Four Sail (Arthur Lee Mix) (original mix released as Elektra EKS-74049, 1969 – this mix released Elektra/Rhino RCV1 73640, 2019)

1. August
2. Your Friend and Mine – Neil’s Song
3. 3I’m with You
4. Good Times
5. Singing Cowboy
6. Dream
7. Robert Montgomery
8. Nothing
9. Talking in My Sleep
10. Always See Your Face

Disc 5: Extras

1. No. Fourteen
2. Signed D.C. (Alternate Stereo Mix)
3. 7 and 7 Is (Tracking Session Version)
4. Andmoreagain (Alternate Electric Backing Track)
5. Wonder People (I Do Wonder) (Outtake)
6. Hummingbirds (Demo)
7. Wooly Bully (Outtake)
8. Your Mind and We Belong Together
9. Laughing Stock
10. Robert Montgomery (Alternate Vocal Version)
11. Talking in My Sleep (Alternate Mix)
12. Singing Cowboy (Unedited Version)
13. Always See Your Face (Edit)

Track 1 released on “7 and 7 Is” single – Elektra EK-45605, 1966
Track 2 released on Love (Expanded Edition) – Elektra/Warner Strategic Marketing 8122 73567-2 (U.K.), 2001
Track 3 released on Da Capo (Expanded Edition) – Elektra/Warner Strategic Marketing 8122 73604-2 (U.K.), 2002
Tracks 4-7 released on Forever Changes (Collector’s Edition) – Elektra/Rhino R2 428796, 2008
Tracks 8-9 released as Elektra single EK-45633, 1968
Tracks 10-12 released on Four Sail (Expanded Edition) – Elektra/Warner Strategic Marketing 8122 73640-2 (U.K.), 2002
Track 13 released on The Best of Love – Elektra/Rhino R2 73840, 2003