Vinyl 174 - The Second Disc

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A Tribe Called Quest, Aretha Franklin, Buck Owens, Ellie Greenwich, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne's ELO, King Crimson, Kurt Cobain, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Neil Young, Paul Butterfield, Paul Davis, The Knickerbockers, The Staple Singers

Graceful: Legacy Premieres Lost Recordings By Jeff Buckley On “You and I”

November 12, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The countdown to 2016 has already begun! Legacy Recordings is one of the first out of the gate with big news for the New Year! On March 11, 2016, the label will release You and I, the very first studio recordings made by the late Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) for Columbia Records. This new compilation will be available on CD, DD, and LP. The recordings on this new 10-track collection (primarily recorded in Steve Addabbo’s Shelter Island Sound studio in February 1993) were discovered during the label’s research for the 20th anniversary edition of Buckley’s seminal…

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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck [Various Editions]

November 9, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Brett Morgen’s documentary film about the late Kurt Cobain arrives in a plethora of audio and video formats. The Super Deluxe Edition includes the full-length feature film and 48 minutes of bonus interviews on Blu-ray and DVD, a 31 track deluxe soundtrack on CD and cassette, a 160-page hardbound book with extended interviews and images from the Cobain archive, a puzzle with a collectible storage container, a movie poster, postcards and bookmark. The 31-track deluxe version of the soundtrack CD is exclusively available in the Super Deluxe Edition and showcases tracks from the…

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Review: Bob Dylan, “The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12”

November 6, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 16 Comments

I. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan On Wednesday, January 13, 1965, Bob Dylan recorded “Love Minus Zero/No Limit,” destined to become the fourth track on the first side of the troubadour’s fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home. The album, released on March 25, would effectively alter the course of both Dylan’s career and of pop music itself, featuring one electric side and one acoustic side. When he “plugged in” at the Newport Folk Festival months later on July 25 to the sound of boos from the crowd, it was clear…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 6

November 6, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

This week’s Release Round-Up brings the year’s most eagerly-anticipated box set, a stunning new collection from the Fab Four, a Christmas feast including two titles from Second Disc Records, and more! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series: Volume 12 – The Cutting Edge (Columbia/Legacy) The Best of the Cutting Edge 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best of the Cutting Edge 3-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge 6-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge: Collector’s Edition 18-CD: BobDylan.com Exclusive Whether you’re in for the 2-CD, 6-CD, or 18-CD edition, you…

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Bob Dylan, Bobby Vinton, Glen Campbell, Jim Nabors, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Mathis, King Crimson, Lynn Anderson, New Order, Ronnie Spector, The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, The Four Seasons, The Living Voices, Yes

One of the Lonely Ones

November 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese

UMe and Roy’s Boys premiere an album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records in 1969 but never before released. One of the Lonely Ones will be available on CD, LP and DD.

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The MGM Years

November 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese

UMe and Roy’s Boys, LLC have joined forces for this new box set chronicling Roy Orbison’s eight-year tenure at MGM Records beginning in 1965. The MGM Years is available in 13-CD, 14-LP and DD editions. The MGM Years boasts Roy’s 11 original studio albums, the long out-of-print soundtrack to The Fastest Guitar Alive and a newly-created compilation album calledMGM B-Sides & Singles that contains all 12 non-album singles and B-sides that otherwise weren’t included in any album; the box contains, in all, 152 tracks. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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Tusk: Deluxe Edition

November 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Rhino expands Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 magnum opus as a 5-CD/1-DVD-A/2-LP Deluxe Edition box set or a 3-CD Expanded Edition, while also offering a single-CD remastered edition of the original album only. Full details can be found here! Deluxe Edition box set: Amazon U.S. /Amazon U.K. Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Remastered Edition: Amazon U.S. /Amazon U.K.

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Our Big Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up Featuring McCartney, Bowie, Wilson, Queen, Ronstadt, More

October 30, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 12 Comments

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve told you about the 2015 Black Friday Record Store Day offerings from Legacy, Omnivore and Real Gone Music. Well, the full list of releases which are coming out on November 27 has been announced and we’ve got the details below including new titles from Rhino, Varese Sarabande, Hear Music and more! The entire list is over 125 items long, so we’ve just highlighted some entries below in which you might be interested. The full listing can be seen at recordstoreday.com. As usual, with so many…

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Brian Wilson, Garbage, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Queen, The Kinks, The Zombies, Wes Montgomery

Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year! The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground’s 1970 album – and Lou Reed’s swansong with the band – gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono albums plus a wealth of bonus material, two live concerts and a DVD featuring high…

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Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Orbison Way: Roy Orbison’s “MGM Years” Collected On New Box Set, Lost Album Released

October 28, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1965, Roy Orbison departed Fred Foster’s Monument Records label for MGM Records, offshoot of the famed movie studio. In his eight-year tenure at MGM, Orbison released 11 studio albums, one film soundtrack and 27 singles. On December 4, all of The Big O’s MGM recordings will be released for the first time in one package via Universal Music Enterprises in association with Roy’s Boys, LLC, the company founded by Orbison’s sons to administer their father’s catalogue. The MGM Years will be available as a 13-CD box,…

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Beach Boys’ Party! Uncovered and Unplugged

October 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The first disc of this 2-CD, 81-track set features the original 1965 Beach Boys Party! album as remixed in original, pre-overdubbed form and then chronologically begins an account of all five sessions as the band runs through the album’s familiar tracks as well as ones that didn’t make the cut including The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” Leiber and Stoller’s “Ruby Baby” and “Riot in Cell Block No. 9,” The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” and more. Dialogue from the sessions has also been included. This 2-CD and digital album also…

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You’ve Got the Touch: Legacy’s 2015 Black Friday RSD Slate includes Presley, Cash, Hendrix, Isley Brothers and “Transformers” Soundtrack

October 23, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 5 Comments

Announcements about this year’s Black Friday Record Store Day event have been trickling out. A couple of days ago we brought you news of Omnivore’s titles and before that, of Real Gone’s Dictators release! Now we can tell you about Legacy’s slate for the day after Thanksgiving. The titles run the gamut in size from 7″ singles to 12″ 2-LP sets, and also range in genre from rock to country to hip-hop. Several soundtracks are being released including a single from the 1960s Batman TV show, the film Garden State and…

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Earth Wind and Fire, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Record Store Day, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Alan Parsons Project, The Isley Brothers

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Featuring songs that “offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book,” Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day Renaissance man’s entire recorded discography, from 1977’s My Aim is True to 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots. In addition, two…

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Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks, a-ha

Let’s Get This Party Rolling: Capitol Readies “Beach Boys’ Party! Uncovered and Unplugged

October 22, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Following the release of The Beach Boys Today! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) earlier in the year, Capitol Records was eager to make yet more Beach Boys music available for the 1965 holiday season. The label urged Brian and the Boys into the studio to record Beach Boys’ Party!, an album filled with loose versions of familiar favorites, complete with laughter and background talk. Now, that LP filled with freewheeling good vibrations is getting a surprise 2-CD deluxe, expanded edition to mark its 50th anniversary. Beach Boys’ Party! Uncovered and Unplugged is…

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Review: Faces, “1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything”

October 21, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

On September 5 of this year, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones reunited publicly for the first time in 22 years as Faces, paying tribute to their fallen comrades Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan with a seven-song set benefiting a prostate cancer charity. The performance came on the heels of the release by Rhino of 1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything… (Rhino R2 550009), a box set-in-miniature collecting all four of Faces’ long players in expanded editions plus a bonus disc of B-sides and one-offs. In total, the…

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Thank You Friends: Omnivore Offers Big Star, Neil Finn and Paul Kelly For Record Store Day Black Friday

October 20, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Omnivore Recordings is looking ahead to this year’s annual Black Friday Record Store Day event on Friday, November 27, with the announcement of two special vinyl releases. The first continues in the tradition of Omnivore’s Big Star releases. The RSD 10-inch EP of Jesus Christ features the original album version of the song recorded for the band’s Third plus the demo version (which first appeared on the acclaimed Keep an Eye on the Sky box set) and five previously unissued tracks, for a total of seven cuts on the EP. “Another Time…

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From The Vault: Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990

October 19, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The Rolling Stones are continuing their From The Vault series with this release of one of the ten shows from February 14-27, 1990 at The Tokyo Dome; these shows culminated the Steel Wheels World Tour. The footage has been restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show. Available in DVD/2-CD, Standard Definition BD and DVD/4-LP editions. DVD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/4-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1) Intro: Continental Drift 2) Start Me…

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Get Up

October 16, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Bryan Adams teams with producer Jeff Lynne (ELO, Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty) for his thirteenth studio album, a collection of new songs. Get Up features nine original tracks plus four acoustic versions.

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 16

October 16, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The dB’s and Friends, Christmas Time Again! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Omnivore revisits and revises the classic alt-rock Christmas compilation. Producer Chris Stamey has added new performances by Yo La Tengo & Jeff Tweedy, Marshall Crenshaw, Robyn Hitchcock, and Big Star’s Third (featuring Mike Mills of R.E.M. taking lead vocals on Big Star’s “Jesus Christ”) to selected tracks from past editions of the album for a total of 22 tracks! King Crimson, Thrak (CD/DVD-A) (DGM) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) 1995’s Thrak arrives as the…

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Cole Porter, Earth Wind and Fire, Glen Campbell, Judy Garland, King Crimson, Pat Boone, Ray Parker Jr., Raydio, The dB's

Hear The Bang: Lost Country-Rock Classic By Late Singer-Songwriter Denny Lile Is Rediscovered

October 15, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Singer-songwriter Denny Lile was only 21 years old when a newspaper headline proclaimed “Maybe THIS time it’s Denny Lile’s turn,” but he was already a veteran of the music business and its vagaries. A couple of singles came and went with his band Elysian Field on Imperial Records; the same fate befell Soul, Inc. and its handful of singles on the Laurie label. At the time of that headline, Lile was striking out with his own group Otis for the single release of “Hear the Bang.” A self-titled album followed shortly thereafter…

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When The Crypt Doors Creak: Disneyland’s “Haunted House” Returns On Vinyl

October 14, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Walt Disney’s Haunted Mansion didn’t open in Disneyland until 1969, but five years earlier, Disneyland Records invited listeners to visit an equally mysterious property with the release of Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House. Now, the original 1964 LP is back in print on vinyl for the first time in over 30 years – just in time for Halloween. Though exterior construction of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion was completed in 1963, and the attraction was previewed on a 1965 episode of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, the familiar coterie of grim,…

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Another Country

October 14, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Rod Stewart returns with his second consecutive album of original material after a spate of covers-oriented releases. Target has an exclusive edition of Another Country with two bonus tracks (for a total of 17 songs) also available on the U.K. Deluxe Edition (linked to below)!

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Great Scott! “Back to the Future” Trilogy Reissued on CD and Vinyl

October 13, 2015 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. Doc, ah…are you telling me that you built a time machine…out of a DeLorean?” With those words, audiences were in for the ride of a lifetime with Back to the Future, 1985’s hit sci-fi comedy about a teenager who accidentally ends up 30 years in the past and has to ensure his existence by setting up his parents before making it back to his present day. With a winning cast that included Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd as the dynamic duo of young Marty McFly…

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Real Gone “Goes Crazy” With December Releases From The Dictators, Nat King Cole, King Curtis, More

October 13, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Real Gone Music has just announced its December release slate, and the label is closing out 2015 with as dizzyingly eclectic a line-up as ever – from the proto-punk clamor of The Dictators to the velvet vocals of Nat “King” Cole. Real Gone previews its December 4 offerings on Record Store Day – Black Friday, November 27, with a special 10″ EP from The Dictators featuring previously unreleased tracks unavailable anywhere else! Then, the following week comes an expanded edition of the band’s The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! with nine previously unreleased…

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