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The Weekend Stream: September 7, 2024

September 7, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week, there's new tracks from pop royalty (and rock court jesters), plus expansions and rarities from The 5th Dimension, The Alan Parsons Project, and a very exciting treat for fans of The New Christy Minstrels! Stevie Wonder, "Can We Fix Our Nation's Broken Heart" (Republic) (iTunes / Amazon) A gentle, unifying acoustic number from

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alan Parsons, Blink-182, Daryl Hall, Hank Snow, Stevie Wonder, Sting, The 5th Dimension, The Alan Parsons Project, The New Christy Minstrels

Shot Right Through with a Bolt of Blue: New Order Outline Definitive Edition of 'Brotherhood'

September 6, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Version 1.0.0

New Order will release the latest in their Definitive Edition series of album reissues: their fourth album, 1986's Brotherhood. Available November 22, Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) will follow the previous three release formats, offering the remastered album on CD and vinyl along with a bonus disc of material (including nine previously unreleased tracks) and two DVDs of unseen video footage, including live concerts and TV appearances. As with previous releases, the Definitive Edition will

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: New Order

Release Round-Up: Week of September 6

September 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Neil Young Archives III cover

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. Neil Young, Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (NYA/Reprise) 17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week's biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young's long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 10000 Maniacs, America, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Faces, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, King Crimson, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Marriott, Sylvester, Vince Guaraldi, Vincent Price

American Idiot: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 5, 2024 By

American Idiot 20 box

4CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2LP (red/black splatter): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set at Irving Plaza in New York City that featured the album front to back. Video extras

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

When All is Said and Done: ABBA Plot New Compilation with All the A-Sides

September 5, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

ABBA Singles 50 vinyl packshot

ABBA are set to release their latest - and as of a few years ago, truly - career-spanning compilation this fall. Available October 25 on two CDs or four LPs, The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: ABBA

Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)

September 4, 2024 By

Joni Archives 4 cover

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek through the latter half of the '70s, peeling away from her always-eclectic folk-pop sound, venturing into territory inspired by jazz and fusion. Sourced from variously assembled materials, from rare multitrack tapes to radio recordings

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop

Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings

September 4, 2024 By

Miles 54

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together.  Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Turning Back the Time

September 4, 2024 By

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a previously unreleased track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Red Roses For Me: 40th Anniversary Edition

September 4, 2024 By

Pogues Red Roses

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Red recycled LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me is being reissued by Rhino. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Long After Dark: Deluxe Edition

September 4, 2024 By

Tom Petty Long After Dark deluxe

2CD/Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray Audio (with Amazon-exclusive stickers): Amazon U.S. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Tom Petty Store (Exclusive) 1LP: Links TBD Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover.  Geffen/UMe revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP (various color variants), 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. The bonus

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Weekend Stream: August 31, 2024

August 31, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. You're not hallucinating this week - there are more Daryl Hall and U2 EPs! - but there's also some great new soundtrack scores and vintage vocal jazz to peruse, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Daryl Hall, I'm in a Philly Mood (Epic) (iTunes / Amazon) Hall's third album, 1993's Soul Alone, was more than a

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ann Gilbert, Barenaked Ladies, Charles Fox, Daryl Hall, Henry Mancini, Julie Wilson, Rita Wilson, U2

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 'Long After Dark' Gets Lucky on New Deluxe Edition

August 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Tom Petty Long After Dark deluxe

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover.  On October 18, Geffen/UMe will revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP, 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. Petty was joined by Mike Campbell (lead guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Stan Lynch (drums), and new recruit Howie Epstein (bass/backing vocals) as well as co-producer Jimmy Iovine for Long After Dark.  The third and final of Petty's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Boys from the County Hell: The Pogues' Debut Goes Deluxe for Its 40th Anniversary

August 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Pogues Red Roses

To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me will be reissued by Rhino this fall. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first time, along with a bonus disc of six B-sides and a dozen live sessions for the BBC. (Those 12 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Pogues

Release Round-Up: Week of August 30

August 30, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

A Yacht Rock Odyssey

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. Oasis, Definitely Maybe: 30th Anniversary Edition (Big Brother) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada "You'll never see them on a stage any time soon, but Oasis are putting out some unheard material on a new reissue of their debut album..."  We've rarely been so happy to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Melanie, Oasis, Paul Robeson, Rick Astley, Various Artists

Light in the Attic Compiles Lou Reed's Earliest Work for Pickwick Records

August 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Lou Reed Pickwick

For most people - let's say the 30,000 or so people who started a band after buying their debut - The Velvet Underground was the band that introduced the world to the uncompromising rock energy of Lou Reed. As the latest archival title of his released by Light in the Attic Records will illustrate, Reed's talents were first put on record in a possibly more unusual place than with The VU. Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 will serve as the first official anthology

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

Free: Deluxe Edition

August 27, 2024 By

Rick Astley Free

Rick Astley's third studio album, 1991's Free, was his first not produced by the Stock-Atiken-Waterman team.  Instead, Astley and Gary Stevenson helmed the album which earned a Gold certification in the U.K. and yielded the top ten hit "Cry for Help" on both the U.S. and U.K. charts.  This 2CD reissue has a new Abbey Road remaster of the original album plus a generous 18 bonus tracks including previously unreleased tracks, single versions, B-sides, remixes, and instrumentals.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop

Last Leaf on the Tree

August 25, 2024 By

Willie Nelson Last Leaf on the Tree

Willie Nelson's 76th studio album follows his 91st birthday and recent headlining spot on the Outlaw Music Festival tour (from which he was delayed due to illness).  Last Leaf on the Tree has been produced by his son Micah Nelson and features guest spots from Daniel Lanois and The Doors' John Densmore as well as Willie's longtime bandmate Mickey Raphael.  Songs have been plucked from the catalogues of Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Nina Simone, and Keith Richards,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country

The Weekend Stream: August 24, 2024

August 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week sees digital reissues from some familiar names (Madonna, Daryl Hall and U2) as well as some new/old music from names you might not have expected, from '90s pop-whiz New Radicals(?!) to '50s piano player Cy Walter. Plus, a heartfelt recommendation for one of the week's best new albums! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 311, Ariana Grande, Cy Walter, Daryl Hall, John Williams, Madonna, New Radicals, Third Day, U2

Release Round-Up: Week of August 23

August 23, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

First Choice Love Having You Around

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. First Choice, Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980) (SoulMusic/Second Disc)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc celebrate Philadelphia girl group First Choice with Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980). This 4CD collection features

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Charlie Parker, Fanny, First Choice, George Duke, Jim Peterik, Jimi Jamison, Sheena Easton

Like the Very First Time: Foreigner Celebrate Rock Hall Induction with New Compilation and Single

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a new track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time, in stores October 4 from Rhino, brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Juke Box Hero," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Say You

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Foreigner

Miles Davis' 1954 Sessions Collected on New Craft Recordings Compilation

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Miles 54

Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and vibraphonist Milt Jackson offering their talents in Davis' ensembles. The package includes a new

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

Two Sides of Cornbread: New Compilation Plays Tribute to Unsung Minneapolis Legend

August 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Cornbread Harris Anthology

The name Cornbread Harris might only resonate with the most devoted acolytes of Minneapolis, Minnesota's rich history of R&B music. A new compilation, produced by Harris' biographer, aims to change that. Anthology is an eight-track look into the musical career of James Harris, Jr., better known as Cornbread - a key figure and forefather in the Twin Cities' contribution to America's musical landscape. Featuring a mix of rare and unreleased material spanning from the first single Harris

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Cornbread Harris, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Prince

The Weekend Stream: August 17, 2024

August 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got digital EPs from Daryl Hall and U2 and expanded albums from Dan Hartman and Akon; bet you'd never hear those artists in one sentence! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dan Hartman, It Hurts to Be in Love (Expanded Edition) (Blue Sky/Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Recently issued on CD for the first time by

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Akon, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall, U2

Whitesnake, Recoiled: David Coverdale Preps Box of Remixed, Remastered Solo Albums

August 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Whitesnake Into the Light

Having thoroughly revisited his work with Whitesnake at Rhino Records with remixes, reissues and compilations aplenty, the band's singer David Coverdale will now partner with the label to do the same for his three solo albums. Into the Light: The Solo Albums, due October 25, will collect six CDs' worth of Coverdale's solo material, including new remixes alongside remastered versions of the albums WhiteSnake (1977), NorthWinds (1978) and Into the Light (2000) as well as unissued demos and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Coverdale, Whitesnake

The More I See You: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Nancy in London"

August 13, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Nancy in London

Nancy Sinatra's third album brought the hitmaking singer to the Swingin' center of the world.  Nancy in London, originally released in 1966, was produced and arranged by her usual team of Lee Hazlewood and Billy Strange, respectively, but the setting was very different than the typical Hollywood environs.  Nancy was booked into Pye Studios on Great Cumberland Place near Marble Arch in London, the same studios in which Petula Clark had cut "Downtown" and Nancy's Reprise labelmates The Kinks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Mickie Most, Nancy Sinatra

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