CD 19 - The Second Disc

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Tags:

Flo and Eddie, Mark Volman, The Turtles

Release Round-Up: Week of September 5

September 5, 2025 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Joni Mitchell, Joni’s Jazz (Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada What is jazz? The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer. The legendary singer-songwriter’s Archives series is continuing with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni’s Jazz. These 61 selections – available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs – draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography…

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock

Tags:

Adam Guettel, Bread, Carly Simon, David Byrne, Jeremy Jordan, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, NRBQ, The New Seekers

Elton John Raises Curtains on ‘Captain Fantastic’ with New 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 11 Comments

In the 2020s, Elton John started offering 50th anniversary deluxe editions of classic albums in his catalogue that hadn’t been expanded to multi-disc sets yet. After Madman Across the Water and Honky Château, expansions of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player and Caribou were only made available as vinyl expansions for Record Store Day activations. That changes with a new general retail expansion of Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy arriving this fall with a bonus disc of unreleased material. Due October 24 on CD and purple/white swirl vinyl, the album (remastered in…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Tags:

Elton John

The Last Record Album: Deluxe Edition

September 4, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Little Feat The Last Record Album Deluxe

5CD: Rhino.com 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Little Feat’s The Last Record Album (1975), the group’s fifth LP and penultimate studio release in Lowell George’s lifetime, has been expanded by Rhino in multiple formats. The 4CD set pairs the original album (which doffed its hat to the acclaimed film The Last Picture Show in its title and artwork) with a bonus disc of studio rarities (half of which are previously unreleased) and adds an unissued live set at Boston’s Orpheum Theater recorded on Halloween of 1975. A 2LP set includes all the studio material…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Tags:

Nebraska ’82

September 4, 2025 by Joe Marchese

4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood prepares to tell the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release, a box set is coming to tell the tale of the (literal) tape. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are releasing Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most stark collection of songs and the attempts to record them in a way befitting of their haunting qualities. The set – four CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray – will offer two…

Categories:

Formats:

Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Tags:

Open All Night: Bruce Springsteen Reissues ‘Nebraska’ with Mythic Electric Recordings and More

September 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood prepares to tell the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release, a box set is coming to tell the tale of the (literal) tape. On October 17, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most stark collection of songs and the attempts to record them in a way befitting of their haunting qualities. The set – four CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray – will offer two discs of almost entirely unreleased outtakes,…

Categories:

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Tags:

Bruce Springsteen

On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits

September 3, 2025 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In advance of the October 7 release of his memoir of the same name, Yusuf, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, is looking back on his discography with On the Road to Findout. This newly-curated collection spanning 1967-2023 will be available as a 1CD or 2LP highlights set, as well as a deeper-dive 2CD or 4LP collection. It’s the first time an album will feature both the cream of his work as one of the top British folk songwriters…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

Tags:

All That You Dream: Rhino Sets Expansion of Little Feat’s ‘Last Record Album’

September 3, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Another Little Feat deluxe album is making the rounds from Rhino. 1975’s The Last Record Album, the group’s fifth LP, will be expanded by the label in multiple formats, all available October 24. The 4CD set will pair the remastered album with a bonus disc of studio rarities (half of which are previously unreleased) along with an unissued live set at Boston’s Orpheum Theater recorded on Halloween of 1975. A 2LP set includes all the studio material in the CD box, and an exclusive bundle, available only at Rhino.com, will add a fifth…

Categories:

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

Little Feat, Lowell George

Tags:

Compilation Watch: New Hits Sets from Devo, Kool & The Gang, Boomtown Rats

September 3, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Three very different bands with venerable catalogues are getting new greatest hits collections added to their discographies. First up is a new set documenting Irish post-punkers The Boomtown Rats. The First Fifty Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory is a non-chronological compilation covering all seven of the Dublin group’s studio albums – the majority released between 1979 and 1984, before frontman Bob Geldof pivoted largely to pop-rooted activist causes including the spearheading of Band Aid and Live Aid. The tracks were jointly selected by the group as well as online fan polling, and include U.K….

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul, Rock

Tags:

Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Devo, Kool and the Gang

Honest Dollar: Expanded Edition

September 2, 2025 by Joe Marchese

NRBQ’s 1992 live album Honest Dollar brought together performances recorded between 1981-1991, capturing the zany energy and impeccable musicianship of an NRBQ concert. Among the treats here: two versions of the You’ve Got Mail favorite “The Dummy Song,” John Sebastian guesting on The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Amy’s Theme,” plus covers of Little Richard’s “Lucille,” Len Barry’s “1-2-3,” and Neil Hefti’s indelible “Batman Theme.” Omnivore adds two more fun covers to the proceedings: Duke Ellington’s “Rockin’ In Rhythm” and the Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman gem “Turn Me Loose,” following Omnivore’s release of Pomus’ demos as You…

Categories:

Formats:

CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

Everything Else, Pop

Tags:

Horses (50th Anniversary Edition)

September 2, 2025 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings, pairs Patti Smith’s classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the others here – including the preview track “Snowball” and a cover of The Marvelettes’ “The Hunter Gets Captured by…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Tags:

Music Must Change: The Who Expand ‘Who Are You’ with Outtakes, Live Tracks and Remixes

September 2, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 18 Comments

Following such previous super deluxe album box sets as Who’s Next, The Who Sell Out, My Generation, Tommy, and Quadrophenia, the band has just announced that 1978’s Who Are You will receive similarly lavish treatment on October 31. The band’s eighth album, Who Are You was also its final studio LP to feature drummer Keith Moon. The centerpiece of the multi-format release is a 7CD/1Blu-ray set which will offer the following: CD1: The original 1978 album as newly remastered by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge; CD2: Glyn Johns’ original, shelved…

Categories:

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Tags:

The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of August 29

August 29, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Deep Purple, Rapture of the Deep: 20th Anniversary Edition (earMusic) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A 20th anniversary edition of Rapture of the Deep, Deep Purple’s 18th studio album, offers a remix and resequencing of the album by Roger Glover, with two non-LP tracks (“MTV” and “Things I Never Said”) now added into the sequence. This was the second album from the band’s longest-tenured line-up, the…

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

Harry Nilsson, Jimmy Webb, Joni Mitchell

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock

Tags:

Belinda Carlisle, Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Evie Sands, Marshall Crenshaw, Rodney Crowell

As Tears Go By: Marianne Faithfull’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” Collects Her Decca Recordings

August 28, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Marianne Faithfull Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Marianne Faithfull didn’t have to open her mouth to receive a recording contract. As the story goes, so vividly recounted in the liner notes to the new box set Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The U.K. Decca Recordings, the young woman was so striking in beauty and presence that impresario Andrew Loog Oldham didn’t hesitate to sign her on sight. (Even her name was made for stardom!) But it was just as clear that she was no ordinary pop starlet chasing dreams in Swingin’ London. Faithfull was remarkably clear-eyed, quipping to…

Categories:

News, Reviews

Formats:

Box Sets, CD

Genres:

Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

Tags:

Marianne Faithfull

Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine: Cherry Red Collects Jimmy Webb’s 1970s Albums on “A Life in Words and Music”

August 27, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

“Freddy, those songs killed me.” Jimmy Webb once confessed to longtime musical collaborator Fred Mollin that the songs on which he made his name – “Up, Up, and Away,” Didn’t We,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” among innumerable other classics – placed him at a personal crossroads. He yearned to be accepted as a singer-songwriter like his contemporaries, but the fact that he began his career writing songs for others (and massive hit songs, at that) made acceptance in that field an uphill battle. Over the years, the…

Categories:

News, Reviews

Formats:

Box Sets, CD

Genres:

Classic Rock, Pop

Tags:

I Went Looking for You: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ to Be Expanded with Unreleased Material

August 26, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Five decades after it became a landmark of a sea change of ’70s rock, Patti Smith’s debut Horses will be expanded with previously unheard material. Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings on October 10, will pair the classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Tags:

Patti Smith

This Shark’ll Swallow You Whole: New ‘JAWS’ Soundtrack Reissues Rise from the Depths (UPDATED)

August 26, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams’ acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg’s JAWS is being reissued for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams’ longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release now available digitally through Universal Pictures’ Back Lot Music and on a new 180-gram, 45 RPM 2LP vinyl pressing from Mondo (available on marbled red and blue “blood and water” vinyl). These original tracks heard in the…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Soundtracks

Tags:

John Williams

Review: Nick Drake, “The Making of ‘Five Leaves Left'”

August 25, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Nick Drake’s legacy is primarily built around just three albums, originally released between 1969 and 1972. Before 1974 was out, the British singer-songwriter was gone at the age of 26. Over the years, esteem for his small discography has only grown. Partly, this is because the mystique has remained; the Drake estate has only sporadically gone back to the well of unreleased material. Their cautious and curated approach has yielded a new reward with a box set dedicated to his 1969 debut. The Making of ‘Five Leaves Left,’ available on 4 LPs…

Categories:

Reviews

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Folk

Tags:

Nick Drake

Release Round-Up: Week of August 22

August 22, 2025 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Who, Live at The Oval 1971 (Polydor/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Initially available as part of the band’s revived Wholigan Fan Club, The Who’s Live At The Oval 1971 is coming to general release. The album finally canonizes the group’s celebrated performance at “Goodbye to Summer,” a British benefit concert for the people of Bangladesh. Featuring several songs from the band’s just-released Who’s Next, including “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Won’t Get…

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Tags:

John Fogerty, John Williams, Jon Batiste, Miles Davis, Oasis, Ray Charles, Terry Riley, The Who

Strut – The Complete EMI Recordings Vol. II

August 21, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Strut – The Complete EMI Recordings Vol. II picks up where its predecessor Modern Girl left off, following the same structure: most of the discs offer expanded and slightly altered programs covering the albums A Private Heaven (1984), Do You (1985), and No Sound But a Heart (1987). The inclusions of alternate versions or mixes in place of or beside some originals makes for even more unreleased tracks on this set: 40 unissued cuts to Modern Girl‘s 25, along with several tracks that have only been available on vinyl or digitally. Strut sweetens the deal by not only including a revised…

Categories:

Formats:

Box Sets, CD

Genres:

Disco/Dance, Pop

Tags:

Spike Jones in Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound!

August 21, 2025 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings The late, great Spike Jones’ side-splittingly spooky 1959 album In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! returns from Omnivore Recordings in time for Halloween as freshly remastered from the original tapes. Featuring a company including Paul Frees (Boris Badenov, The Haunted Mansion’s Ghost Host), Thurl Ravenscroft (“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” Tony the Tiger), Loulie Jean Norman (Star Trek), and George Rock (“All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”), the Spooktacular became a favorite of the likes of…

Categories:

Formats:

CD, Vinyl

Genres:

Comedy, Everything Else, Holiday

Tags:

Let It Be: Deluxe Edition

August 21, 2025 by Joe Marchese

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com Rhino’s series of deluxe Replacements reissues has continued with 3CD and 4LP expanded editions of the Minneapolis band’s seminal 1984 Twin/Tone album cheekily titled Let It Be. The deluxe Let It Be takes a different format than the previous reissues of Tim, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me, and Dead Man’s Pop (an alternative presentation of Don’t Tell a Soul), all of which included both vinyl and CD in one package. This time, the formats are split into individual releases. Both the CD and LP packages feature a remastered…

Categories:

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Rock

Tags:

Anthology Collection

August 21, 2025 by Joe Marchese

8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 12LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store The Beatles’ Anthology Collection premieres remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin’s son Giles, who remastered those albums for this release, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from archival sets released in the wake of the band’s 2009 remastering of the catalogue, with 13 unreleased tracks taken from eras that have not been covered…

Categories:

Formats:

Genres:

Tags:

Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set

August 21, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 31 Comments

The next archival project from The Beatles is a celebration of their most major archival project, with a newly reissued and (slightly) expanded edition of their Anthology series coming to audio and video formats this fall. Anthology Collection will include remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin’s son Giles, who remastered those albums, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from…

Categories:

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Tags:

George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

They Will Dare: The Replacements’ ‘Let It Be’ is Their Latest Deluxe Reissue

August 20, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Rhino’s series of deluxe Replacements reissues is continuing on October 24 with 3CD and 4LP expanded editions of the Minneapolis band’s seminal 1984 Twin/Tone album cheekily titled Let It Be. Let It Be takes a different format than the previous reissues of Tim, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me, and Dead Man’s Pop (an alternative presentation of Don’t Tell a Soul), all of which included both vinyl and CD in one package. This time, the formats are split into individual releases. Both the CD and LP packages…

Categories: