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Love Changes (Everything): Cherry Pop Expands Climie Fisher Discography

January 13, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Two reissues by Cherry Red, separated by nearly a year, collect the brief but intriguing discography of late-'80s U.K. duo Climie Fisher - including a raft of rare and unreleased bonus material totaling seven discs between them. The wait is finally over for fans of the group when Climie Fisher's 1987 debut Everything gets a major expansion from the Cherry Pop imprint on March 21. The set features the remastered album and a whopping 51 bonus tracks: versions and remixes of singles "Love

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Climie Fisher

A "Souvenir" from Sony Music Japan: An Expansion of Billy Joel's 'Streetlife Serenade'

January 13, 2025 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Streetlife Serenade 50 Japan

Here's a belated 50th anniversary present for Billy Joel fans: a new, Japan-exclusive collector's edition of his third studio album, 1974's Streetlife Serenade. Available February 19, this lavish deluxe version - which follows a similar package for its predecessor Piano Man last year - includes many similar extras. The 7" cardboard packaging includes lyrics and liner notes in English and Japanese (including a CD-sized replica of the original booklet that came with the Japanese LP), replicas

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Joel

Just Like Paradise: David Lee Roth's Solo Works Remastered for New Box Set

January 9, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

David Lee Roth box set

Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a forthcoming box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994, coming February 21, will include the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of his concluding tenure as the vocalist for Van Halen. All of the albums have been newly remastered, and will be available at general retailers as a 5CD set. (Rhino's official store will exclusively carry a vinyl version.) Roth's solo career began four decades ago

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Lee Roth, Nile Rodgers, Steve Vai

Like a Beast: W.A.S.P. Box Set Coming to CD from Madfish

January 9, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

WASP The 7 Savage CD box

After not one but two pressings on vinyl over the last two years, Madfish Music will release their collection of heavy metal band W.A.S.P.'s major label material on CD this month. The 7 Savage 1984-1992 collects all six of the L.A. shock rockers' studio and live releases for Capitol Records, along with a newly-compiled assortment of 15 non-LP tracks (three more than the equivalent disc in the vinyl box). The slipcased set also features a CD-sized version of the 60-page hardcover book that

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: W.A.S.P.

Hold On to What We've Got: Bon Jovi Expands 'Slippery When Wet'

January 8, 2025 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Version 1.0.0

After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album: 1986's Slippery When Wet. The New Jersey rockers' third LP will be reissued February 28 in a variety of formats including a 2CD expansion with seven bonus tracks (nearly all of which are previously unreleased) as well as a picture disc, cassette and - novelty alert! - a clear vinyl pressing filled with liquid. Everything aside from the 2CD is limited in quantities

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bon Jovi

In Memoriam: Peter Yarrow (1938-2025)

January 8, 2025 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Peter Yarrow Sing Along

When Bob Dylan famously took the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and "plugged in" - an event dramatized at the climax of the Golden Globe-nominated film A Complete Unknown - the friendly face serving as emcee tried mightily to calm the fiercely divided crowd. Though his screen time in director James Mangold's film is minimal, Nick Pupo makes an impression as that beleaguered host: one Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul, and Mary. The folk trio was part of the same managerial stable as Dylan

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Categories: News Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Peter Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow

Quartet's First Film Music Release of 2025 is Barry, Barry Good

January 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

John Barry Polydor Years

As if the feast of John Barry expanded film scores, from James Bond to Out of Africa, hasn't been exciting enough, Quartet Records kicked off the new year with the announcement of more rarities from the celebrated British composer. The label has issued The Polydor Years, a 3CD collection that brings together re-recordings of classic themes, unique arrangements and original music released on albums, singles and compilations in the mid-'70s in Europe. 1972's The Concert John Barry, 1974's Play

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Barry

It Might Have Been: Neil Young Premieres Lost Album "Oceanside Countryside" in February

January 7, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Oceanside Countryside packshot

Last September, Neil Young unveiled his biggest Archives collection yet. The third volume encompassed 17 CDs and five Blu-rays, boasting 15 previously unreleased songs, 121 previously unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of which were also previously unissued). On February 14, the musical iconoclast dips into Archives Vol. III - with a twist, naturally - for the premiere vinyl release of his once-lost album, Oceanside Countryside. Oceanside Countryside was recorded from May to

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Neil Young

Rhino's 2025 Start Your Ear Off Right Campaign Features Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Rush, More

January 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Rhino Start Your Ear 2025

We've already filled you in on details of Rhino's upcoming live release from WAR, but that's not all coming from the label.  Rhino's annual Start Your Ear Off Right vinyl campaign has already commenced at independent retailers and select Barnes and Noble locations.  This year's slate encompasses releases from Dream Theater, Ramones, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Rush, and others. Below, you'll find the complete list of SYEOR titles due this month, including those which arrived last

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Dream Theater, Eddie Hazel, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Lindsey Buckingham, Ramones, Rush, The Cult, The English Beat, Yes, ZZ Top

Southern Part of Japan: Archival Live Album from War Due Soon

January 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

War Live in Japan 1974

Following some heavy-duty offerings from West Coast funk masters War, including an expansion of The World is a Ghetto and a box set of latter-day studio work for last year's Record Store Day Black Friday - Rhino kicks off 2025 with a release of previously unheard live material from the band's tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and featuring the band's classic line-up. Live in Japan 1974 will be available worldwide as a 2CD or 2LP set on February 5. The set includes 14 tracks (three

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: War

Eternity: Cherry Pop Reissues Sheena Easton's "No Sound But a Heart"

December 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sheena Easton No Sound But a Heart

Following the deluxe 2CD expansion of Do You earlier this year, Cherry Pop has continued its upgrade and overhaul of Sheena Easton's discography with a remastered vinyl edition of her 1987 album No Sound But a Heart.  For her eighth album and final set with EMI, Easton turned to the prevailing "multiple producers" approach so prevalent in the 1980s.  As those producers included Narada Michael Walden, Phil Ramone, Nick Martinelli, and Keith Diamond, the Scottish singer was in good hands on 1987's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Eugene Wilde, Kenny G, Prince, Sheena Easton

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada's Last 2024 Score Reissues Include 'Out of Africa,' 'The Old Man and the Sea' and More

December 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Out of Africa Intrada

If the holidays are a time to release the biggest archival film scores on CD, Intrada certainly got the memo! Among their last reissues of 2024 include an expanded version of an Oscar winner by John Barry, a premiere release of a Maurice Jarre favorite, a reissue of a stalwart album by Jerry Goldsmith and a new recording of a beloved work from Dimitri Tiomkin - plus a soundtrack to a documentary on one of the better-known songwriters/scorers of the '70s. While Barry certainly gets accolades

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Charles Fox, Dimitri Tiomkin, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Maurice Jarre

It Had Better Be Tonight: Quartet Records Celebrates Henry Mancini with "Pink Panther" Premiere Plus "Darling Lili" and More

December 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pink Panther 2024

April 16, 2024 marked what would have been the 100th birthday of Henry Mancini (1924-1994).  With over 125 films and 90 albums to his credit (not to mention television shows, stage productions, and more!), the late composer's richly melodic music is still very much a part of the American cultural tapestry.  Spain's soundtrack specialist label Quartet Records wasn't about to let the Mancini centennial go unnoticed.  The label has delivered four new Mancini releases just in time for the holidays,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, Julie Andrews

Release Round-Up: Week of December 13

December 13, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

It's Friday the 13th, but it just might be your lucky day for reissues!  Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest Hits (Epic/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with a new documentary film, Legacy Recordings issues a new double-disc anthology of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Anais Mitchell, David Grisman, Foghat, Jason Robert Brown, Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia, Luther Vandross, Stephen Sondheim, The Doobie Brothers, The J. Geils Band, Wham!, Yachtley Crew

Meet Danny Wilson! Cherry Red Revisits Scottish Pop Heroes in New Box Set

December 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Complete Danny Wilson

One of the most underrated pop acts of the late '80s will get the deluxe treatment in a new box set coming from Cherry Red next year: Scottish pop trio Danny Wilson. Complete Danny Wilson, due out February 28, will live up to its name across five discs comprising the band's two studio albums - Meet Danny Wilson (1987) and Bebop Moptop (1989) - along with two discs of B-sides and rarities and a live show featuring several unreleased performances. The set was assembled with the participation of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Danny Wilson, Gary Clark

Whistlin' Tunes That You Know: Rhino Launches 'Reserves' Audiophile Series with Allen Toussaint and Eddie Hazel

December 11, 2024 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Rhino Reserves

Rhino has announced the launch of new audiophile vinyl series: Rhino Reserves. The series kicks off on January 31, 2025 as part of the label's annual Start Your Ear Off Right campaign available exclusively through Rhino.com and select retail outlets (typically independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations) with Allen Toussaint's Southern Nights and Eddie Hazel's Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs. Going forward, each Rhino Reserves title will be pressed locally by the California-based

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Eddie Hazel

And If the Sun Comes Up Tomorrow: Hootie & The Blowfish Plan New Box Set

December 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Hootie Atlantic Years packshot

More than 30 years after enjoying one of the most successful debut albums of all time, Hootie & The Blowfish will kick off 2025 with a new career-spanning box set on Rhino Records. The Atlantic Years 1994-2003, available January 25, brings together all four studio albums the quartet recorded for the label in their first decade - the chart-toppers Cracked Rear View (1994) and Fairweather Johnson (1996), Musical Chairs (1998) and their self-titled 2003 effort - plus the 2000 covers

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Darius Rucker, Hootie and The Blowfish

Touchin' The Wind: Iconoclassic Expands Dwight Twilley's "Scuba Divers" with Long-Lost "Blueprint" Sessions

December 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Dwight Twilley Scuba Divers

Iconoclassic Records is ushering in 2025 with the newest addition to its ongoing Dwight Twilley reissue series - and this one's a doozy, with a whopping 25 tracks (eleven of which are previously unreleased).  On January 31, the label will reissue the late artist's 1981 album Scuba Divers as Scuba Divers: Blueprint Edition, with the subtitle nodding to Twilley's much-coveted unreleased album. Twilley, the singer-songwriter's first solo album following two acclaimed albums with The Dwight

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Johnny Remember Me: Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes Series Continues with John Leyton Box Set

December 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

John Leyton Lone Rider

Cherry Red's series of Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes has been rolling along prolifically in 2024. Do the Strum! collected, on 3 CDs, many of the late Meek's productions for girl groups and female artists including Billie Davis, Glenda Collins, The Honeycombs, and many more.  The Cryin' Shames' Please Stay, a 2-CD set, chronicled Meek's work with the Liverpool group that scored a U.K. hit with a cover of Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard's Drifters oldie "Don't Go (Please Stay)."  Now, the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Joe Meek, John Leyton

Forty Year Ache: Rosanne Cash Collects Favorites for New Compilation

December 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Rosanne Cash Essential Collection

Rosanne Cash, the oldest child of a country music icon and a superb, genre-hopping performer in her own right, will commemorate a museum exhibit of her life and career with a new career-spanning 2CD retrospective. The Essential Collection brings together 40 of Cash's most treasured recordings - half from her tenure on Columbia Records and the other from mostly 21st century work on the Capitol, Manhattan and Blue Note labels. The non-chronological set, curated by Cash herself, features all 10

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Rock Tags: Bobby Bare, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy, Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash

Soundtrack Watch: Varese and La-La Land Bow Their Final Score Surprises, from Blade to Bond

December 2, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The Man with the Golden Gun LLL

When La-La Land Records announced a bunch of big archival score titles for the beginning of November instead of their usual calendar-closing Black Friday announcement, it was safe to assume there were no more surprises coming from the label this year. Once again, that turned out to be quite untrue: in a reprise of last year's Christmas Day shocker and a follow-up to their reissue of Goldfinger in October, the label has announced two more titles for 2024: a pair of lovingly-restored John Barry

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Barry, Lulu, Marco Beltrami, Mark Isham, Paul Williams, Shirley Bassey

The Second Disc's Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2024

November 29, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. (And with plenty of delicious food, too!)  Now, Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event is upon us, so we're spotlighting a dozen of the most eagerly anticipated releases arriving to your local independent brick-and-mortar record shop! Here are our personal picks for RSD BF must-haves; visit Record Store Day's official website for a list of

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billie Eilish, Carl Stalling, Christopher Cross, Curtis Mayfield, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jack Urbont, Jesse Ed Davis, Leon Russell, Olivia Rodrigo, Phil Collins, Record Store Day, Steve Martin, Utopia, War, Whitney Houston

Mellow as a Shower on a Summer's Day: SoulMusic Celebrates Nancy Wilson on "You're as Right as Rain: The Capitol Albums 1970-1980"

November 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 12 Comments

Nancy Wilson SoulMusic

For over 20 years, Nancy Wilson was a mainstay of the Capitol Records label.  Deftly blending jazz, pop, soul, and rhythm and blues, the late chanteuse's distinctive tone anchored collaborations with the illustrious likes of Billy May, George Shearing, Cannonball Adderley, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Thom Bell, Eugene McDaniels, and numerous others.  A sprawling new box set from Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records in association with The Second Disc brings her second decade with Capitol into sharp

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Nancy Wilson

May the Funk Be With You: Cherry Red's Robinsongs Boxes Up Five Discs of George Duke

November 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

George Duke From Me to You

George Duke (1946-2013) wore many hats throughout his long and varied career: keyboardist, composer, producer, arranger, singer.  His solo discography encompassed 40 albums while his collaborations included LPs with such jazz luminaries as Jean-Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham, Stanley Clarke, and Dexter Gordon.  He produced records for A Taste of Honey, Sister Sledge, Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, and Smokey Robinson.  Jazz was only part of the George Duke story, as his

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Flora Purim, George Duke, Stanley Clarke

'A Ghost' is Re-Born: Wilco Expand 2004 Album Into New Box Set

November 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Wilco A Ghost is Born deluxe

Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco's mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team will assemble a similar set for 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born. The deluxe set - made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs - packages the album alongside 65 previously unreleased tracks, including two sets of studio outtakes, a live concert and seven "fundamentals" from the band's recorded workshops during this same period. A 48-page hardcover book

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jeff Tweedy, Wilco

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