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Black Sabbath: Deluxe Edition

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath DE

Black Sabbath (1970) arrives in a new Deluxe Edition on CD or LP as remastered by Rhino in 2012, alongside a bonus disc of rare material previously only released in the U.K.-exclusive deluxe set issued by Sanctuary Records in 2009. (The track list for the band's self-titled debut has been rearranged to reflect the original U.S. pressing on Warner Bros., swapping out "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games with Me)" for its original non-LP B-side, "Wicked World"; "Evil Woman" thus features on the

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Savaloy Dip

January 7, 2016 By

Alan Price Savaloy Dip

Alan Price's 1974 Warner Bros. album Savaloy Dip came and went in the blink of an eye (on a recalled eight-track!) before disappearing for what might have been forever...but Omnivore Recordings has come to the rescue with the first-ever reissue of this 11-song lost record from the Animals founder/keyboardist!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

The Album Collection

January 7, 2016 By

Elvis Album Collection 2

To coincide with the 60th anniversary of his signing to RCA, Elvis Presley's The Album Collection is a whopping 60-disc box set containing 57 RCA albums released during Presley's lifetime (many with bonus tracks added) and 3 bonus discs of rarities, one disc each for the '50s, '60s and '70s.  A 300-page hardcover book accompanies this landmark set.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Off The Wall [CD/DVD and CD/BD]

January 7, 2016 By

Michael Jackson Off the Wall

The King of Pop's 1979 Epic solo debut Off the Wall is revived for 2016 with an additional DVD or BD of Spike Lee's new documentary about the making of the album, Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall.  No additional audio tracks are included.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough: Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" To Be Reissued with New Spike Lee Documentary

January 7, 2016 By Randy Fairman 15 Comments

Michael Jackson Off the Wall

We're barely a week into 2016 and we're already seeing a lot of reissue news for this new year!  The latest comes from Legacy Recordings, who yesterday announced a massive Elvis Presley box set.  Now they've got a new reissue featuring another legendary performer:  Michael Jackson.  Due to be released on February 26 is a new edition of Jackson's landmark 1979 solo Epic Records debut Off the Wall.  The album is being paired with Spike Lee's new documentary Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Michael Jackson

Rhino Charges Into January with New Colored Vinyl Titles, CD Box Sets

January 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Monkees Cereal Box Singles

Rhino Records has quite the cure for the usual January doldrums that hit the release calendar, announcing more than a dozen new and reissued titles available exclusively through participating physical stores. The "Start Your Ear Off Right" initiative, featuring titles available January 19, encompass some of the best-known names in Rhino's back catalogue, including The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, Devo, The Cars and The Replacements. From colored vinyl variants to CD box sets, there's virtually

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bad Company, Devo, Grateful Dead, The Cars, The Monkees, The Replacements, The Velvet Underground

Hail to the King: RCA/Legacy Announces 60-Disc Elvis Presley Albums Box Set [UPDATED WITH TRACK LISTING]

January 6, 2016 By Randy Fairman 24 Comments

Elvis Album Collection 2

This Friday marks what would have been Elvis Presley's 81st birthday.  To coincide with this date, RCA/Legacy Recordings has just announced the first major box set of 2016: a 60-disc collection entitled Elvis Presley: The Album Collection due to be released on March 18, 2016. Presley, of course, needs no introduction.  He is among a short list of performers who could be among the most influential performers of the 20th century and beyond.  This new set follows similar sets Legacy has released

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

The Year In Review, Part 2 - More Of The Best Of 2015

January 5, 2016 By Ted Frank 6 Comments

Ork Records

The Second Disc is continuing its celebration of 2015's finest with today's column by Ted Frank!  Stop, do not pass GO and do not collect 200 dollars if you haven't already read our Sixth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards summation of the year's greatest releases. Here, Ted presents his very own, alternative year in review with titles new and old! I make records ... I really don't want to be about singles or anything. -Adele, The Tonight Show In recent years, the download/stream-heavy music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Cherry Red's él Label Offers Rod McKuen, Wally Stott, Bobby Scott Rarities

January 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Rod McKuen In the Beginning

Cherry Red's él imprint has a trio of recent releases continuing its commitment to truly eclectic sounds of the pre-1964 era.  Two of these are musical odes to the big city life of London and New York, from arrangers Wally Stott and Bobby Scott, respectively; the third reissues and expands a compilation from the late Rod McKuen. Singer-songwriter-poet-author-renaissance man McKuen, who died earlier this year, was recently the subject of Varese Vintage's Reflections: The Greatest Songs of Rod

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Bobby Scott, Rod McKuen, Wally Stott

Review: Roy Orbison, "The MGM Years 1965-1973"

January 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Roy Orbison MGM Years Cover

The Big O is back with a big box set. The MGM Years 1965-1973, recently arrived from Roy's Boys, LLC and Universal Music Enterprises, chronicles over the course of 13 CDs (or 14 LPs) the least well-known period of the late vocal titan's career.  Orbison joined MGM Records riding the crest of the "Oh, Pretty Woman" wave; the composition which he wrote with Bill Dees was a U.S. and U.K. chart-topper at the height of the British Invasion in 1964 for Fred Foster's Monument Records.  Enticed by

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Roy Orbison

Raven Has Folk and Funk With Melanie and Mother's Finest

January 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Melanie Raven

Raven Records' most recent pair of CDs certainly showcase the label's eclectic leanings!  From singer-songwriter Melanie Safka, the label has a three-for-one release of her much-loved albums Candles in the Rain, Leftover Wine and Gather Me.  The Melanie release is joined by a four-for-one title from pioneering funk-rockers Mother's Finest collecting the band's self-titled LP plus Mother's Finest Live, Another Mother Further and Mother Factor. Raven's release from Melanie follows the Morello

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Melanie, Mother's Finest

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: SECOND DISCMAS PRIZE PACKS!

January 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Second Disc Christmas

CONGRATULATIONS! The following entrants have been randomly selected to win one of our Second Discmas surprise CD grab bags!  If you see your name on the list below, sit back and relax - your prize pack will shortly be on the way to the address you provided!  Please let us know when your package arrives - and ENJOY! We were completely overwhelmed by the amount of responses to Second Discmas 2015.  Thanks to all of you who entered - and to all of you reading this - for making The Second Disc

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

The Year in Review - The 2015 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Happy New Year, and welcome to The Second Disc's Sixth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year's awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year's most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in an increasingly-challenging retail landscape.  The labels you'll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there's still a demand for physical

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Gold Bonus Disc Awards

Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection

December 31, 2015 By

Star Wars Ultimate Collection

The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection contains 10 compact discs and 1 DVD celebrating John Williams' classic scores for cinema's most beloved franchise.  The six discs comprising the original Star Wars trilogy are the same as the 1997 (and 2004) releases.  The prequel trilogy is also simply the same single CDs that have been in print.  Oddly, the two-disc version of The Phantom Menace is not included.  Instead, the 10th CD is a 16-track compilation disc featuring cues from the six movies.  The DVD

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks

The Red Bird Girls: Very First Time in True Stereo 1964-1966

December 29, 2015 By

Red Bird Girls in True Stereo

One of Real Gone's earliest releases is reissued in a new jewel case edition (the prior release was housed in a digipak), featuring true stereo versions of classics from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's Red Bird label.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Vehicle (Expanded Slipcase Edition)

December 29, 2015 By

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Real Gone reissues its own Expanded Edition of The Ides of March's classic debut Warner Bros. LP in a new, slipcased (and lower-priced) edition.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Dick's Picks Vol. 2: Columbus, OH - 10/31/71

December 29, 2015 By

DIcks Picks 2

The only single-disc release in Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks series is reissued by Real Gone.  This crackling concert features a transcendent "Dark Star" as well as a spirited "Sugar Magnolia," a rare, early-'70s performance of "St. Stephen" (the final live version until 1976) and a great "Not Fade Away"/"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" closer to round out the 59-minute program.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

VI

December 29, 2015 By

Circle Jerks VI

Real Gone has one from hardcore punk band The Circle Jerks: their 1987 albumVI, which was actually the Jerks' fifth effort.  This album includes a song that was featured in the film Sid and Nancy.  The Circle Jerks, founded in 1979, had a rather tumultuous history and disbanded in 1990.  They got back together in 1994 and released one more album in 1995, which is their final release to date.  Liner notes, lyrics and memorabilia images round out RGM's newly-remastered reissue.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

The Complete Jessup Recordings Plus!

December 29, 2015 By

Ralph Stanley Jessup

Ralph Stanley and his brother Carter formed the Clinch Mountain Boys in 1946 and became big names in the bluegrass scene.  When Carter passed away in 1966, Ralph pressed on with the act and were joined around four years later by future country and bluegrass stars Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley due to a chance encounter.  The pair joined the Clinch Mountain Boys for three albums on the Jessup label, all of which are collected on the 2-CD, 34 track Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

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This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters

December 29, 2015 By

Barbara Mandrell This Time

Real Gone rescues Barbara Mandrell's never-on-CD third and final album for Columbia Records, and adds seven previously unreleased Columbia recordings from the country superstar.  TSD's own Joe Marchese has written the liner notes for this landmark release based upon his new interview with Mandrell herself.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

John David Souther (Expanded Edition)

December 29, 2015 By

John David Souther

J.D. Souther's eponymous 1971 album was co-produced by Souther and Fred Catero, and arrived on the Asylum label.  It introduced "How Long," revived by Eagles on 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.  Souther was joined by an all-star cast including Glenn Frey, Ned Doheny and John Barbata for the album which will be expanded by Omnivore with seven previously unissued bonus tracks including demos of "How Long" and "Run Like a Thief," covered by Bonnie Raitt.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

You and I

December 29, 2015 By

Jeff Buckley You and I

Legacy releases ten previously unreleased tracks by the late Jeff Buckley on this new collection including covers of favorite songs by Bob Dylan ("Just Like a Woman"), Sly and the Family Stone ("Everyday People") and Led Zeppelin ("Night Flight") and never-before-heard versions of "Grace" and "You and I."

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

Santa Claus is Comin' To Town: Bruce Springsteen Gifts Free Unreleased Concert Tracks from 1980 Tempe, Arizona Show to Fans as Addition to Box Set

December 24, 2015 By Randy Fairman 14 Comments

Bruce Tempe Concert

Bruce Springsteen is giving a Christmas gift to his fans.  Earlier this month, Springsteen released The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set which contained The River, an alternate version of the album and disc of outtakes.  Also included in the box set was a filmed concert from Tempe, Arizona, recorded on November 5, 1980.  However, not all of the concert was filmed, so the complete show was not in the box set. Fortunately, the entire audio from the concert was preserved.  Now,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A CD PRIZE PACK! IT'S TIME FOR SECOND DISCMAS!

December 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Second Disc Christmas

Christmas is almost upon us!  And here at The Second Disc, Mike, Randy, Ted and I would all like to thank you, our readers, for making our fifth year our most spectacular yet!  In 2015, we redesigned our website, welcomed new writers and new readers, and launched Second Disc Records.  And our plans for 2016 are even bigger! We believe that the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. We call our annual tradition - what else? - Second

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

How Long: Omnivore Reissues and Expands Three Albums by JD Souther

December 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John David Souther

Omnivore Recordings is kicking off 2016 with a trio of titles from one of The Second Disc's favorite singer-songwriters, the one and only JD Souther.  The label will celebrate the Michigan-born, Texas-raised and California-associated Songwriters Hall of Fame member with deluxe, expanded reissues of three unjustly-neglected classics of the SoCal scene: John David Souther, Black Rose and Home by Dawn. Though best known for the string of classics he co-wrote with his Eagles friends, including

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: JD Souther

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