Back on June 8, The Second Disc apprised its readers of a new collection being prepped by Elvis Costello for release on the Hip-o label. Entitled Pomp and Pout, it would be the first compilation of Costello’s Universal recordings, drawing on 10 years and 18 tracks. Originally scheduled for July 13 release, it was postponed to later in July, and then to late in August. Now, with the August 24 release date approaching, it appears that Pomp and Pout has either been postponed, or pulled altogether,
Reissue Theory Guest Post: Coldplay, "Parachutes"
A special guest post comes to you during this oddly-scheduled week from Eric Luecking of Record Racks, a very well-executed music blog for your perusal. Here, he gives a Reissue Theory-style look at Coldplay's debut album, some ten years later. Depending upon your location, we've either passed the 10th anniversary of Coldplay's debut LP "Parachutes" (July 10, 2000 in the U.K.), or we haven't quite made it there yet (November 7 in the U.S.). The Second Disc wants to take the time to honor one of
Visit Hollywood, 1962, with "Billy Barnes' L.A." from Kritzerland
In his interview with The Second Disc, producer Bruce Kimmel promised to reissue some long-lost musical revues among Kritzerland’s future releases; he makes good on his word with Monday morning’s announcement of the 1963 Los Angeles cast recording of Billy Barnes’ L.A. Billy Barnes’ L.A. opened on October 10, 1962 at that city's Coronet Theatre, still in use today as part of the Largo music and comedy club. It was recorded the following January at the legendary United Recording Studio on Sunset
The Madcap Laughs, Again: Barrett Anthologized by EMI
When Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett died on July 7, 2006 at the age of 60, rock music lost one of its most notorious and fascinating enigmas. A founding member of Pink Floyd, Barrett was the primary architect of the Floyd’s first studio album (1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn) and author of the band’s first three singles: “Arnold Layne,” “See Emily Play” and “Apples and Oranges.” All of these accomplishments reveal Barrett’s unique psychedelic whimsy and stellar musicianship; despite going onto
The Great Second Disc Pseudo-Hiatus
Just a quick note to our dear readers out there: from Sunday, August 15 to Thursday, August 26 I shall be taking a leave from my post at The Second Disc to go on vacation. However, I realize that reissues never sleep - so with that in mind you'll be in the capable hands of Joe Marchese for the next two weeks or so. He'll be providing you with daily news as well as his usual top-notch features (and there's at least one big, previously-announced title that's going to have some more information
News Round-Up: Release Date Changes, Hip-o Select Releases and More
A quick note that both Queensryche's 20th anniversary reissue of Empire and Morrissey's 20th anniversary reissue of Bona Drag - both from EMI - have been moved on the calendar. The latter will now street October 5 (the reissue of the "Everyday is Like Sunday" single will still street September 28) and the former will be released on September 28. MusicTAP tweeted this intriguing article from Billboard and Reuters: the Pink Floyd catalogue is now digitally out of print. There was talk for awhile
Friday Feature: The Rocky Story
Today saw the release of the widely-hyped The Expendables, in which Sylvester Stallone gathered as many action movie heroes, past and present, and shoved them all into a film. By all accounts, it doesn't seem to have worked as well as it could have. And that's more or less latter-day Stallone for you. (Seriously, have you seen Rambo?) With that in mind, this week's Friday Feature takes you to a simpler time. A time where Stallone was a young actor with a dream, which he turned into a
More Lennon Reissue Info
Apologies for the shorter posting, but there's some new chatter about some of the upcoming John Lennon reissues that catalogue enthusiasts should know about. It looks like there might be two editions of the upcoming Power to the People compilation - one single-disc compilation, and a deluxe set with a DVD of promo videos. Additionally, HMV Japan has revealed a track list for both the four-disc box set and the upcoming 11-disc anthology of all the remasters, including the two purported discs of
Is Peter Gabriel Digging in the Dirt?
In the release date info in today's MusicTAP post, a very interesting date is listed: September 28, it says, will see several reissues from the Peter Gabriel catalogue coming from Gabriel's own label, Real World Records. Amazon further details the picture, listing reissues of So (1986), Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats (1990), Us (1992) and Up (2002) for pre-order. These four albums make up the bulk of Gabriel's releases on Virgin Records in the U.K. (In the U.S. they were released on
Quick Note: More Beatles-Related Reissues from Somewhere Else
Not much developing on this story yet, but Wall Street Journal music critic Jim Fusilli posted this on his Twitter feed earlier today: "In October, Rhino to release Ravi Shankar-George Harrison boxed set." There was a link along with the tweet, but it just linked to a documentary about chants of India on YouTube, for which Harrison was interviewed. UPDATE (2:51 P.M.): This article has some more info. Collaborations, as it's called, looks to collate three Shankar records produced by Harrison -
Reissue Theory: Cyndi Lauper's Odds and Ends
There's nothing harder, as a reissue fan, than realizing that sometimes stuff just falls through the cracks and might have a tough time coming back up. How many times have we all bought a compilation, expanded reissue or box set only to find that a few tracks were regrettably missing from the checklist? Few feelings are worse; you don't want to hope for another reissue because that would be wasteful. You can just hope and hope that they'll come out in some way, shape or form - and with any
Barry Manilow, "Weird Al" Yankovic Upgraded to 3.0
And Legacy’s Essential train just keeps on rolling along. Upgrades to Essential 3.0 have been announced for two popular volumes in the long-running series, The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic and The Essential Barry Manilow. The new editions will expand the 2-CD releases with a third disc containing 6 and 7 tracks, respectively. While none of the tracks on the third discs appear to be rare, Essential 3.0 titles are usually priced very similarly to the original 2-CD sets (retailing for
Houston, Laws Reissues On the Way from Funky Town
Our friends at Funky Town Grooves have recently announced a pair of new reissues restoring to catalogue three LPs by two deeply soulful ladies: Thelma Houston and Eloise Laws. Earlier this year saw Soulmusic.com's reissue of Houston's 1969 baroque soul classic, Sunshower, and now Houston's fans can rejoice with the reissue of two RCA LPs dating from 1980 and 1981: Breakwater Cat and Never Gonna Be Another One. While neither made much of an impression on the album charts, both boast Houston's
In Case You Missed It: More Hendrix Details
A few days ago we mentioned a second wave of Jimi Hendrix reissues and an upcoming box set, West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology. Hendrix's Web site issued a press release on Monday adding some more detail regarding those releases. There will be a CD/DVD edition of the posthumous compilation Blues (1994), featuring an extended version of the Hendrix sequence from the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary The Blues. There's also a 2-CD/1-DVD reissue of the acclaimed BBC Sessions
More Boz Scaggs Reissues That We Apparently Missed
There are a few more Boz Scaggs reissues coming from Friday Music this month. The label had four CD reissues of Boz Scaggs titles listed on their Web site, and your humble catalogue correspondent had wrongfully assumed that the top two listings were much more recent than the bottom two. So there is more to report on than the two mentioned last week. These titles sit back-to-back in Scaggs' discography, placed right after the singer/songwriter/guitarist's first album on Columbia Records, Moments
New at La La Land: "Gunmen" and a Beach Party
La La Land announced their next batch of titles yesterday (their only two for the month), and they're a pair of appealing titles from the vault. In a bit of a teaser to October's planned box set of music from The X-Files, the label is prepping an offering of TV soundtracks composed by the same man (Mark Snow) for the same producer (Chris Carter). This CD (LLLCD 1135) will feature music from the short-lived X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen and the even more short-lived sci-fi series Harsh Realm.
Catching "Pac-Man Fever" Once More
It was one of the most unusual novelty records of the decade - not to mention one of The Second Disc's first Reissue Theory posts - and now it looks like it's coming back out on CD. That's right: Fuel 2000 is reissuing Buckner & Garcia's Pac-Man Fever. Such was the mania for the classic arcade game in 1981 that Columbia released this most unusual of singles, which hit the Billboard Top 10 in 1982. An LP of other game-oriented novelty tracks followed. What added to the kitsch value was the
EMI Sees Red and Blue
For casual buyers who didn't get swept up in Beatlemania with the massive remaster/reissue project last year, EMI will reissue The Beatles' 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, arguably two of the most recognizable compilations of The Fab Four in history. Known to many as the "Red" and "Blue" albums, these double-disc sets provided a concise anthology of John, Paul, George and Ringo's hits and notable album sides. (We wouldn't be surprised if some of our younger readers cut their teeth on these sets.) While
Tartare Mega-Post: 20 More Titles Now Available
You've got to hand it to the folks at Collectors' Choice Music: when they launch a new catalogue initiative, they don't mess around. After an initial offering last month of 10 releases on the new Tartare imprint, CCM has just announced a further 20 titles to bolster the budding Tartare lineup. The genres covered in this batch are incredibly diverse: from folk songs to groovy psychedelia, polkas to 1990s jangle pop, deep soul to disco, jazz to country. In short, there really is something for
Quite a Leap of "Faith"
This morning we come closer to unraveling the mysteries of Legacy's upcoming reissues of George Michael's Faith. The Limited Collector's Box Set edition was made available to order today, and if you like George a lot, this might be the set for you. The set includes: The original album, remastered A CD of remixes and B-sides A DVD featuring a vintage Channel 4 special, George Michael and Jonathan Ross Have Words, the original EPK entitled Music Money Love Faith and seven promo videos A
Mining Audiophile Treasures: Coming Soon from Audio Fidelity and MFSL
Some of rock’s finest will be receiving the deluxe treatment from audiophile specialist labels Audio Fidelity and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) in the coming months: The Beach Boys, The Band, Gram Parsons, Deep Purple, Foreigner, The Pretenders and Billy Joel. The earliest release in this bunch is also one of the most exciting. The Beach Boys' Today! was released in 1965 and is generally remembered as one of the first albums on which Brian Wilson displayed the sensitive studio wizardry that
Syl Johnson Box Set Coming (Not Because He's Black)
A hat tip to Record Racks (who are contributing a neat guest post later this week that I'm quite excited for) for passing this one along: Numero Group is prepping a box set due October 19 devoted to unjustly forgotten soul survivor Syl Johnson. Johnson was a soul musician in the James Brown or Al Green mold. He toured with Magic Sam and Howlin' Wolf, cut tracks for the Federal label (the same one that put out "Please, Please, Please," James Brown's first hit) and had a socially conscious Top 20
Wake Up, Everybody: Edsel Reissues Seven from Philadelphia International
When Sony Music Entertainment reacquired the rights to the full Philadelphia International Records (PIR) catalog in 2007 (after losing control of the post-1976 output in 1984 to EMI), hopes were high that much of that storied hit factory’s catalogue would finally be reissued on CD. Arguably the 1970s’ answer to Berry Gordy’s Motown empire, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff’s label boasted a top-notch roster: Lou Rawls, The O’Jays, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, The Three Degrees
News Round-Up: More Morrissey, Live Dio, A Change at Disney and More
Our inimitable alt-rock flame-keeper friends at Slicing Up Eyeballs point us toward a trail of additional Morrissey rarities leading up to the 20th anniversary reissue of his excellent compilation Bona Drag. It seems that early single "Everyday is Like Sunday" is going to be reissued on CD and 7-inch vinyl, and will include some interesting bonus tracks. Both vinyl singles include live renditions of "Sunday" from the Hollywood Bowl in 2007 and The New York Dolls' "Trash" from 1991, while the CD
At What Price?
If there are any readers of The Second Disc from outside America, I'd like you to do us a favor. Go to iTunes or Amazon and download the bonus tracks included on the digital versions of the a-ha deluxe reissues. And enjoy them, please. Because American fans cannot. Not long after the release of the Web-exclusive deluxe editions of Hunting High and Low and Scoundrel Days, a-ha's official site announced that the digital editions of each title would include four additional bonus tracks, including
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