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Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - 1979-1981

November 25, 2017 By

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada  8CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest volume of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series brings his oft-misunderstood "gospel period" into sharp focus through live and studio performances, never-before-heard songs, and much, much more.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel

Release Round-Up: Week of November 24

November 24, 2017 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Phil Collins box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! "Weird Al" Yankovic, Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic (Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The world's premier parodist celebrates his discography with a box set unlike any other: all 14 of his original albums, newly remastered; Medium Rarities, a bonus album of rare and unreleased material; and a 100+ page book of rare photos and memorabilia--all packaged

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Bananarama, Bonnie Tyler, Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Presley, INXS, Phil Collins, Ramones, The Fall, The Scorpions, Wilson Pickett, XTC, Yes

The Second Disc's Essential RSD Black Friday 2017 Release Guide

November 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Leonard Nimoy Mr. Spocks Music from Outer Space

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.  Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year's annual Black Friday - and Record Store Day's miniature cousin to April's yearly event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy and I have once again selected our top picks of the numerous titles being released tomorrow from

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Chet Atkins, Chris Bell, Chris Cornell, Danny Elfman, Leonard Nimoy, Oingo Boingo, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Queen, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Tangerine Dream, The Turtles, Tori Amos, Toto, Utopia

Star Wars: A New Hope [Vinyl Box Set]

November 23, 2017 By

Star Wars Hologram Box

Disney's first catalogue release from the Star Wars universe is here - a vinyl box set dedicated to John Williams' original soundtrack to the original 1977 classic.  The 3-LP, 180-gram vinyl set features a 48-page hardcover book with essays by Jeff Bond and Jeff Eldridge, and holograms hand-etched by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, including a 3D Death Star on Disc 1.  Disc 2 features the Star Wars 40th Anniversary logo etched into the vinyl.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

Live At Lafayette's Music Room

November 23, 2017 By

Big Star Live At Lafayettes

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Omnivore revisits a vintage Big Star gig as a first-time standalone CD release.  The set showcases the legendary power pop band kicking off 1973 at the acclaimed Memphis venue. Co-founder Chris Bell had recently departed the group, leaving singer/guitarist Alex Chilton, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens to continue as a trio. While the group would not yet commit to

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats]

November 23, 2017 By

Fleetwood Mac packshot

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD and vinyl, bonus singles, previously unreleased studio outtakes and a live concert recording,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

40 Trips Around The Sun

November 23, 2017 By

Toto 40 Trips

Celebrating Toto's 40th anniversary, 40 Trips Around the Sun consists of seventeen recordings, including three previously unreleased tracks: "Spanish Sea," "Alone," and "Struck by Lightning."  This trio is joined by fourteen classic songs including "Rosanna," "Africa," and "Hold the Line," all newly remastered for this package by Elliot Scheiner and Gavin Lurssen and his team.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

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

"BANG! The Bert Berns Story": Official Soundtrack

November 23, 2017 By

Bert Berns Story Vinyl Packshot

This 2-LP soundtrack to Brett Berns and Bob Sarles' documentary about legendary songwriter/producer/BANG Records head Bert Berns captures the late Berns' artistry through classic recordings by The Isley Brothers, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Freddie Scott, and many others!

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

With a Bang! Legacy Recordings Brings "The Bert Berns Story" Soundtrack to Vinyl

November 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bert Berns Story Vinyl Packshot

Even if you don't know the name of Bert Berns, chances are you know the songs he wrote ("Twist and Shout," "I Want Candy," "Hang On, Sloopy," "Piece of My Heart"), produced ("Under the Boardwalk," "Baby I'm Yours," "Brown-Eyed Girl," "Here Comes the Night") and oversaw as head of Bang Records ("Cherry, Cherry," "Solitary Man" and the rest of Neil Diamond's earliest recordings). Though Berns died in the final days of 1967 at just 38 years of age, a year hasn't gone by since when his songs haven't

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bert Berns, Freddie Scott, Janis Joplin, Solomon Burke, The Isley Brothers, The McCoys, The Strangeloves, Van Morrison, Various Artists

Hold the Line: Toto's "40 Trips" Collection Premieres Three Songs, Due in February

November 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Toto 40 Trips

Toto is taking 40 Trips Around the Sun on a new greatest-hits album coming from Legacy Recordings on February 9, 2018.  Celebrating the Los Angeles band's 40th anniversary, 40 Trips consists of seventeen recordings, including three previously unreleased tracks: "Spanish Sea," "Alone," and "Struck by Lightning."  This trio is joined by fourteen classic songs including "Rosanna," "Africa," and "Hold the Line," all newly remastered for this package by Elliot Scheiner and Gavin Lurssen and his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Toto

Review: "Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track" [Super Deluxe Box Set]

November 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Saturday Night Fever OST

Listen to the ground...there is movement all around... Saturday Night Fever didn't invent disco...but in many ways, it epitomized the genre.  With the December 1977 release of the John Badham-directed drama and its soundtrack album, the onetime underground dance movement which had been rising to the mainstream since at least 1974 became the mainstream.  Disco's alluring blend of the gritty and the glamorous gained a face in the form of John Travolta, whose tough yet tender Tony Manero of Bay

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: David Shire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, MFSB, The Bee Gees, The Trammps

Release Round-Up: Week of November 17

November 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

News of the World 40 front

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Queen, News of the World: 40th Anniversary Edition (UMC (U.K.) / Hollywood (U.S.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Queen's sixth album, 1977's News of the World, is being generously expanded for its 40th anniversary in a new 3CD/1DVD/1LP box set.  The original album is presented on CD and LP.  The first bonus CD, the entirely unreleased Raw Sessions, presents an alternate version of the original album from demos, outtakes and live

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Bob Seger, Carpenters, Chuck Berry, Dan Fogelberg, Diana Ross, Garth Brooks, Green Day, Jimmy Buffett, John Fogerty, Mavis Staples, Micky Dolenz, Mike Love, Paul McCartney, Queen, The Bee Gees, The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Sweet, Whitney Houston

Soldier of the Heart: Intervention Celebrates Judee Sill with Two New Reissues

November 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Judee Sill

Q: Who was the first artist to release an LP on David Geffen's Asylum label? A: It wasn't Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, or The Eagles - though all three all released albums in the label's first year of 1972.  It was Judee Sill. Who is Judee Sill?  In her all too short lifetime, the artist released just two albums, both of which revealed an unusual yet mesmerizing voice as a singer and a songwriter.  Both of those LPs, Judee Sill (1972) and Heart Food (1973), have been newly reissued on

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Judee Sill

World Turning: Fleetwood Mac To Expand Self-Titled 1975 Album

November 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Over the last few years, Fleetwood Mac and Warner Music have worked together to expand their most "classic rock" era--the albums recorded with the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood between 1975 and 1987. After deluxe editions of Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Tango In The Night, the group finally unites the chain with a new expansion of their self-titled 1975 album, the first to feature this line-up, due in January 2018. Before the album

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

Shine a Little Light: Jeff Lynne's ELO's "Wembley or Bust" Arrives In November

November 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ELO Wembley or Bust

Jeff Lynne's ELO packed London's enormous Wembley Stadium to the rafters this past June with a greatest-hits set featuring many of the band's most classic songs including "Mr. Blue Sky," "Evil Woman," and "All Over the World."  Now, that gig is getting a wide release this Friday, November 17.  Wembley or Bust will arrive on that date from Columbia Records in a variety of formats: 2CD/1DVD; 2CD/1BD; 2 CD; and 3LP. Recorded on June 24, the Wembley concert has been described by recent Rock and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

I'm a Believer: 7a Brings Micky Dolenz Concert with Orchestra to CD and Vinyl

November 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Micky Dolenz Out of Nowhere

Micky Dolenz always attracts a crowd whenever he's performing one of his hits-packed shows.  Whether Dolenz is playing a large theatre or an intimate nightclub, the consummate entertainer brings the goods.  Now, the Monkees specialists at 7a Records are unveiling a particularly exciting treat: a brand-new live album from Micky, and his first to be recorded with an orchestra.  Micky Dolenz & The American Metropole Orchestra: Out of Nowhere will hit stores on November 17 in the U.K. (and one

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry's 'The Great Twenty-Eight' Becomes Vinyl Box Set

November 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The Great Twenty Eight box

One of the greatest compilations of all time is going deluxe thanks to the team at UMe. A five-disc vinyl version of Chuck Berry's The Great Twenty-Eight (1982) is due in stores in early 2018. The Great Twenty-Eight may have one of the most accurate titles in compilation history: more than two dozen of the Missouri-born rock legend's best-loved singles and B-sides from his most successful period on Chess Records from 1955 to 1965. Ten of the tracks were Top 40 hits on Billboard's Hot 100,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chuck Berry

Release Round-Up: Week of November 10

November 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elton Diamonds

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elton John, Diamonds [Various Formats] (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John looks back on his extraordinary career with a new retrospective collection, available in 1-CD, 2-CD, 3-CD, and 2-LP formats.  Get all of the details right here! R.E.M., Automatic for the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Carmaig de Forest, David Heneker, Elton John, Eric Johnson, Guided by Voices, Metallica, Petula Clark, R.E.M., Ranny Sinclair, Rare Earth, Smokey Robinson, Tears for Fears, The Foundations, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

A Capitol Christmas: Volume Two

November 9, 2017 By

Capitol Christmas 2

Capitol Records follows up last year's A Capitol Christmas with a second volume collecting 24 more of the venerable label's most buoyant holiday offerings.  Glen Campbell, The Beach Boys, Nancy Wilson, The Lettermen, The Four Freshmen, Lena Horne, and more are represented on this eclectic yuletide compendium.  Available on CD on November 17, and vinyl on December 1.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Real Gone Unveils Blue Oyster Cult, Utopia Releases For Black Friday RSD; Soundtracks Coming from Mancini and More

November 9, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Utopia Different POV

Real Gone Music just released its full slate of Christmas music, including our very special trio of The Supremes, The Ames Brothers, and Connie Smith.  But the label still has more releases coming for the holiday season, which you can get for yourself or a lucky someone else!  We've told you about most of them before, including the 40th anniversary edition of Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life and the deluxe reissue of Jimmy Webb's Angel Heart, but let's take a look at some more of the label's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Harry Connick Jr., Henry Mancini, Record Store Day, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Feel The Force: Vinyl Box is Disney's First Catalogue Release For 'Star Wars'

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Star Wars 40 vinyl box shot

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...well, five years ago in California, anyway...The Walt Disney Company purchased Lucasfilm Ltd. for a staggering $4 billion, gaining the rights to George Lucas' space epic Star Wars and beginning a new sequel trilogy (as well as several film and TV spin-offs) in the $42 billion franchise. Only now, however, has Disney Music Group announced its first physical catalogue product: a triple-LP vinyl box set of John Williams' original Oscar-winning score to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Life Is Right: Omnivore Plans Standalone Release For Classic Big Star Concert

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Big Star Live At Lafayettes

Omnivore Recordings has long been the destination for all things Big Star--and next year, the label will release one of the band's few official live concerts outside of the box set it debuted in. Live At Lafayette's Music Room, to be released January 12, showcases the legendary power pop band kicking off 1973 at the acclaimed Memphis venue. Co-founder Chris Bell had recently departed the group, leaving singer/guitarist Alex Chilton, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens to continue as

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Big Star

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Vinyl Editions]

November 7, 2017 By

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2017 Remix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2017 Remix Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Fans fell in love with Sgt. Pepper all over again this year with a stunning new stereo remix overseen by Beatle producer George Martin's son Giles. It was, of course, part of a deluxe 50th anniversary box set packed with unreleased session outtakes and video footage that will

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

The Christmas Records

November 7, 2017 By

Beatles Christmas Records

Happy Christmas, Beatle people!  The Christmas Records, a seven-disc vinyl box set from the Fab Four, features colored 45 RPM recreations of the Beatles' original Christmas fan club flexi-discs (all single-sided except for the last two in 1968 and 1969). The original sleeve artwork has been recreated for each title, and an enclosed 16-page booklet offers recording notes plus reproductions of the newsletters sent with each disc!

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop

Versatile

November 7, 2017 By

Van Morrison Versatile

For his second studio album of the year, Van Morrison has turned to the classics.  Versatile features six Morrison compositions alongside jazz vocal standards written by The Gershwins ("A Foggy Day," "They Can't Take That Way from Me"), Cole Porter ("I Get a Kick Out of You"), the team of Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne ("The Party's Over"), Frank Loesser and Jimmy McHugh ("Let's Get Lost"), and other legends of the Great American Songbook.  Of the six Morrison-penned songs, three are

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

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