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Cat Stevens, Gentle Giant, Josh Groban, Mary Rodgers, Pink Floyd, Sutton Foster, Todd Rundgren, Wilco

Hero of the Day: Metallica Unloads Massive ‘Load’ Box Set

April 30, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

We’ll spare you additional ribald jokes and puns in sharing that Metallica have announced their latest sprawling box set reissue, this time dedicated to their sixth studio album – 1996’s Load. Available June 13, the centerpiece of the Load reissue campaign is a box that’ll offer 15 CDs, six LPs and four DVDs featuring the remastered album, rare single material, scores of unreleased outtakes (from demos to rough mixes), audio or video of five full shows and plenty additional concert recordings, music videos, TV appearances and more. Weighing in at 10 pounds, with…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 4

April 4, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Elton John and Brandi Carlile Who Believes in Angels

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. Elton John and Brandi Carlile, Who Believes in Angels? (Rocket/Mercury/EMI) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD / EltonJohn.com (U.S.) Tri-Color LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Alternate Cover “Neon Angel” CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: EltonJohn.com (U.S.) Elton John has teamed with Brandi Carlile as well as Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt for his first studio album since…

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Classic Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Guy Clark, Joan Sutherland, Liza Minnelli, Melanie

Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII

February 28, 2025 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd’s arresting 1972 concert film – recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii – will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben’s original film in 4K quality from recently located original footage, with new audio mixes by Steven Wilson. All versions – a 2CD, a 2LP, a DVD and a Blu-ray – will be released May…

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Echoes Through the Ruins: Pink Floyd’s Pompeii Gig to Be Remixed and Reissued

February 27, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd’s arresting 1972 concert film – recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii – will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben’s original film in 4K quality from recently located original footage, with new audio mixes by Steven Wilson. All versions – a 2CD, a 2LP, a DVD and a Blu-ray – will be released May 2, shortly after public screenings of the film on April 24, set to run in…

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Who Believes in Angels?

February 11, 2025 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD Tri-Color LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Alternate Cover “Neon Angel” CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John has teamed with Brandi Carlile as well as Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt for his first studio album since 2021’s COVID-era The Lockdown Sessions and first with Taupin since 2016’s Wonderful Crazy Night. Who Believes in Angels? features the epic title track as well…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 29

November 29, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! While most labels are concentrating today on Record Store Day’s Black Friday releases, we’ve chosen to spotlight a few non-RSD titles out today, as well. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tommy Steele, On Air (Stage Door Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Stage Door Records’ Pop imprint celebrates The Happiest Millionaire and Half a Sixpence star Tommy Steele with On Air, a collection of 31 tracks culled from his 1964 U.K. radio series The Tommy Steele Show. None of these tracks have been released since their original broadcast sixty…

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Dorsey Burnette, Eric Clapton, Heather Nova, Leo Sayer, Mercury Rev, Sparks, Taylor Swift, Todd Rundgren, Tommy Steele, War

Release Round-Up: Week of November 22

November 22, 2024 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today including a Christmas classic from Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music and a whole bunch of massive box sets! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sings Christmas Carols (Expanded Edition) (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real Gone Music on an array of Christmas releases from such evergreen artists as Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Chet Atkins,…

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Shattered: The Rolling Stones’ 1999 Shepherd Bush Gig Arrives in November from Mercury Studios

October 31, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Rolling Stones Welcome to Shepherd's Bush

The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their “secret shows.” One of those took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb. In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff just days before two sold-out shows at the 70,000-seat Wembley Stadium. …

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Live at 55

October 23, 2024 by Joe Marchese

4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band’s long career. Now, the film of those concerts – featuring a number of special guests including Steve…

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Can You Dig It? Yes, I Can: Chicago’s “Live at 55” Features Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Chris Daughtry, Judith Hill, More

October 23, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band’s long career. Now, the film of those concerts – featuring a number of special guests including Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, and Judith Hill – is coming to a variety of formats almost one year to the day, on November 22, 2024. Mercury Studios will release Chicago & Friends’ Live at 55 on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2CD,…

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Chicago, Chris Daughtry, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph, Robin Thicke, Steve Vai, Voiceplay

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

September 6, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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 not port over all the extra material from bonus discs in the 2008 reissue of the same album, but many of…

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Smalltown Boy: Bronski Beat’s Debut Goes Deluxe for 40th Anniversary

July 25, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

One of the most striking (and oft-reissued) albums in U.K. ’80s pop gets its biggest look this fall, with a new box set edition of Bronski Beat’s The Age of Consent. The new 4CD/1DVD edition, available October 18, packages the original 1984 album with 1985 remix album Hundreds and Thousands, plus 19 remixes, edits and B-sides as well as three unreleased remixes and a disc of 19 never-before-released studio outtakes and radio sessions. The DVD features both restored music videos and Top of the Pops performances for the four singles: “Smalltown Boy,” “Why,” “It Ain’t…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 21

June 21, 2024 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums 1976 1980 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. Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (Rhino/Asylum) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell’s extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell’s hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode. Following the tour for 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery…

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Avril Lavigne, Brownie McGhee, Celine Dion, Daryl Hall, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Joni Mitchell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Melanie, Olivia Newton-John, Sonny Terry, Tom Petty

Release Round-Up: Week of April 26

April 26, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Tina Turner What's Love Got to Do with It Cover

Welcome to this week’s post-Record Store Day Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, What’s Love Got to Do with It: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, Parlophone and Rhino will reissue another one of the late Queen’s classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do with It. The companion album to the biopic…

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Art Tatum, Billy Idol, Bonnie Tyler, Cannonball Adderley, Chet Baker, Def Leppard, Dr. John, Jack Sheldon, Jeff Larson, Laufey, Little Richard, Neil Young, Pet Shop Boys, Sonny Rollins, Tina Turner

Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition

April 23, 2024 by Joe Marchese

Jethro Tull’s first released live album, 1978’s Bursting Out, hit stores in September 1978. It was recorded just a few months earlier as Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, Dee Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow toured behind their eleventh studio album, Heavy Horses. It’s now returning from Rhino in a new 3CD/3DVD book-style edition featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson and an array of bonus material. Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition contains: CD 1: Jethro Tull Live: Bursting Out (Part 1) – A Steven Wilson stereo remix incorporating previously unreleased songs…

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Sweet Dream: Jethro Tull Expands Live “Bursting Out” In New “Inflated Edition” Remixed by Steven Wilson

April 11, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 18 Comments

Jethro Tull’s first live album, 1978’s Bursting Out, hit stores in September 1978. It was recorded just a few months earlier as Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, Dee Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow toured behind their eleventh studio album, Heavy Horses. On June 21, it will return from Rhino in a new 3CD/3DVD book-style edition featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson and an array of bonus material. Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition contains: CD 1: Jethro Tull Live: Bursting Out (Part 1) – A Steven Wilson stereo remix incorporating previously…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 8

March 8, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 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 Rolling Stones, Live at The Wiltern (Mercury Studios) 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (Amazon Exclusive Black and Bronze Swirl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones’ 2002-2003 Licks World Tour was one of The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band’s most innovative. To celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary (and the release of the career-spanning…

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Alice Cooper, Bananarama, Carmen McRae, Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Judas Priest, Norah Jones, The Rolling Stones, The Stylistics

What’s Love Got to Do with It (30th Anniversary Edition)

February 22, 2024 by Joe Marchese

4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, Parlophone and Rhino will reissue another one of the late Queen’s classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do with It. The companion album to the biopic of the same name, the 4CD/1DVD set will include the remastered original album – including two tracks left off U.S. pressings – along with a bonus disc of remixes and rarities, including an unreleased single edit of Tina’s…

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The Kind You Make Your Wishes On: Tina Turner’s ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ Gets Box Set from Rhino

February 14, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Rhino’s celebration of Tina Turner knows no limits! Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, the label will reissue another one of her classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do with It. The companion album to the biopic of the same name, the 4CD/1DVD set (available April 26) will include the remastered original album – including two tracks left off U.S. pressings – along with a bonus disc of remixes and rarities, including an unreleased single edit of Tina’s cover of The Trammps’ “Disco…

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Hand of Fate: The Rolling Stones’ 2002 “Live at The Wiltern” Comes to Audio, Video Formats

January 29, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

The Rolling Stones’ 2002-2003 Licks World Tour was one of The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band’s most innovative. To celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary (and the release of the career-spanning compilation 40 Licks), venues would come in three different sizes: small theatres, arenas, and stadiums. Setlists would be scaled to the size of each venue, with the theatre settings giving the band the most freedom to perform lesser-known gems in addition to their major hits. On March 8, Mercury Studios will release one of those intimate shows when Live at The…

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Don’t Look Down: Go West Expand ‘Dancing on the Couch’ with Remixes and Live Material

January 22, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

It was a pleasant surprise to see British ’80s duo Go West get a deluxe edition of their debut album last year. Chrysalis is making lightning strike twice early this year for fans with a follow-up: an 3CD/1DVD expansion of the duo’s 1987 release Dancing on the Couch. After Peter Cox and Richard Drummie scored a Top 5 hit in their homeland with “We Close Our Eyes” in 1985, they’d amassed a solid fan base who’d be curious to hear what a follow-up sounded like. Working again with producer Gary Stevenson and…

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Somewhere Along the Line: Japanese Expansion of Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’ Includes Quad Mix, New-to-CD Tracks

January 19, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Japan can’t get enough of the Piano Man! Shortly after Sony Music’s Japanese division released a newly-compiled collection of live odds and ends by Billy Joel, the label will next put out a deluxe edition of Joel’s sophomore album (and first in a long line of albums for Columbia Records), 1973’s Piano Man. Billed as a 50th anniversary edition (a few months late) and ostensibly meant to tie into his Japanese tour dates later this month, the 2CD/1DVD set features a few extra features for die-hard collectors. The original album will be presented…

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The Year In Review: The 2023 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part One

January 15, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Happy 2024! Welcome, friends, to The Second Disc’s 14th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As we yet again look to a new year with optimism and a hopeful spirit, we recognize the many roles music has played in our lives. With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2023’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box sets, big and small, that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers worldwide. After much deliberation, we’re excited to unveil our favorites. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill Top…

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Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Blossom Dearie, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Eugene Ormandy, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Green Day, Howard Jones, John Williams, Matt Monro, Rose Marie, The Beatles, The Darkness

UPDATE: Something Big: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Celebrated on Upcoming Public Television Special, “Ultimate Collection” CD Box Set and More

November 22, 2023 by The Second Disc | 22 Comments

“Steve and Eydie represent all that is good about performers and the interpretation of a song,” Frank Sinatra once observed. “They’re the best.” Without a doubt, anyone who’d had the opportunity to see Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme onstage – or any of their hundreds of television appearances over five decades – would agree with the Chairman of the Board’s assessment. Now, the couple’s extraordinary career is being celebrated on a remarkable new Public Television special which debuts on stations nationwide the weekend of December 2, 2023. Steve and Eydie’s composer-musician son…

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