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JUDAS! Dylan's Electrifying 1966 Concerts Coming On Massive 36-CD Box Set

September 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Bob Dylan 1966 Live

On the heels of last year's groundbreaking 18-CD box set The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, Legacy Recordings and Columbia Records are returning to that golden period of Bob Dylan's storied discography with an even more massive set.  Due on November 11, Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings is a staggering 36-CD box featuring every known recording from the troubadour's 1966 concert tours of the U.S., U.K., Europe and Australia.  This follows the digital-only release last year

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan

The Second Disc's Week In Review

September 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

RGM 0531 Eddy Arnold Christmas Cover

For today's special feature, we're taking a look back at the big stories we shared with you over the past week at The Second Disc, just in case you missed 'em the first time around! Review: Fleetwood Mac, Mirage: Deluxe Edition Joe takes a look at Rhino's 4-CD/1-LP/1-DVD Deluxe Edition of the Mac's 1982 pop gem! This Could Be the Night: Shout! Factory to Release T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show on Blu-ray Two classic concert films - featuring a galaxy of stars including The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Chad and Jeremy, Crowded House, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, George Michael, Gerry Beckley, Jack Jones, Micky Dolenz, Mitch Miller, Roy Orbison

Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Mirage: Deluxe Edition"

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

When Fleetwood Mac entered the Château d'Hérouville studio outside Paris at the dawn of the 1980s, the band had one goal in mind: to create a commercial pop success in the mold of their record-breaking Rumours.  Not everyone in the quintet was sold on this goal, necessarily, especially after the quantum leap forward from Rumours into the beautiful madness that was Tusk.  But while Tusk sold four million copies, it couldn't help but be viewed as a disappointment after the world domination of its

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Fleetwood Mac

This Could Be The Night: Shout! Factory To Release "T.A.M.I. Show" and "The Big T.N.T. Show" on Blu-ray

September 23, 2016 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

TAMI Show and Big TNT Show

While we normally concentrate on CD reissues here at The Second Disc, we do occasionally like to highlight other titles which we think may be of interest to our readers.  One such project, just announced from Shout! Factory, certainly qualifies:  a 2-disc Blu-ray set entitled the T.A.M.I. Show/The Big T.N.T. Show Collector's Edition due out on December 2. Directed by Steve Binder, T.A.M.I. Show (meaning either "Teenage Awards Music International" or "Teen Age Music International") was filmed

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Donovan, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Petula Clark, Ray Charles, Roger Miller, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes

Release Round-Up: Week of September 23

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bruce Springsteen Chapter and Verse

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist's series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition.  You'll find more details here, and watch

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, My Chemical Romance, Pink Floyd, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Searchers, The Verve, Various Artists

Behind The Wall of Sleep: Rhino Expands Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" To Four Discs

September 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Black Sabbath Paranoid 1

Upon its release in September 1970, Black Sabbath's sophomore album Paranoid helped make clear the transition from "hard rock" to "heavy metal" and remains one of the most essential albums of the metal canon.  On November 11, Rhino will revisit Paranoid in a 4-CD Super Deluxe box set edition. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward followed up their self-titled debut album of early 1970 with Paranoid, recording it in London in June.  Whereas Black Sabbath placed impressively at

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Black Sabbath

Zappatite: Frank Zappa's Tastiest Tracks

September 20, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Zappatite

Zappa Records and UMe offer up a serving of Zappa's "tastiest tracks"  from "Trouble Every Day" off the 1966 Freak Out! album to 1987's "Strictly Genteel" featuring The London Symphony Orchestra.  This sampler platter includes "Valley Girl," "Peaches en Regalia," "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and more from the late musical iconoclast.

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Stand Up: The Elevated Edition

September 18, 2016 By

Jethro Tull Stand Up Elevated Edition

For the past several years, Jethro Tull has been releasing expanded editions of their albums featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson.  Coming on November 18, just under a year after the release of the last reissue in the series of 1976's Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, is a 2CD/1DVD version of 1969'sStand Up, entitled Stand Up: The Elevated Edition.  It includes: Original album and bonus tracks (including the previously unreleased "Bouree") remixed in 5.1 surround and stereo by

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic/Swan Song/Rhino) 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3 CD/5 LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Rush, Jim Steinman, Led Zeppelin, Meat Loaf, Pete Townshend, Petula Clark, Shirley Horn, Various Artists, Willie Nelson

Don't Walk On By: Legacy To Release Single-Disc Roy Orbison Career Retrospective

September 14, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Roy Orbison Ultimate

This last April marks what would have been Roy Orbison's 80th birthday had he not sadly died in 1988 at the age of 52.  As one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll, there have been numerous compilations and reissues devoted to Orbison's career.  Just this last year, Universal released a 13-CD box set chronicling his tenure at MGM Records.  But, despite all of the collections over the years, there hasn't been one that rounded up selections from most stages of his career from his time at Sun Records 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys

Review: The Beatles, "Live at The Hollywood Bowl"

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

And now...here they are...The Beatles! The summers of 1964 and 1965 are now more than fifty years in the rearview mirror, yet the music made by four lads from Liverpool over three evenings at Los Angeles' famous Hollywood Bowl now sounds so fresh and so immediate, you could believe it was recorded yesterday.  Such is the work of the sonic wizards on Capitol/Apple/UMe's first-time-on-CD, retitled, remixed and expanded reissue of The Beatles' Live at the Hollywood Bowl (B0025451-02,

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Faith No More, Herb Alpert, John Phillips, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Ramones, The Beatles, The Connells

Rock My Soul: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Collect Early British Hard Rock On "I'm a Freak, Baby"

September 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Im a Freak Baby

What do Deep Purple, The Move, Hawkwind, Fleetwood Mac and The Yardbirds all have in common?  Though each of those five bands carved out distinct musical identities, all incorporated elements of psychedelia in their early hard-rock explorations.  A new 3-CD box set from Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint offers an in-depth chronicle of the music that planted the seeds of progressive rock and metal.  I'm a Freak, Baby is, as per its subtitle, A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, The Mickey Finn, The Yardbirds, Third World War, Uriah Heep, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of September 2

September 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Robert Goulet Definitive

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up highlighted by the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! The Isley Brothers, Groove with You...Live! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We're incredibly excited and proud to bring this sizzling, swooning and immersive double-album document of The Isley Brothers at the peak of their powers to CD for the very first time!  Groove with You...Live! features powerful renditions of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Freddie Mercury, Porter Wagoner, Robert Goulet, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Isley Brothers, The Meters

It Was A New Day Yesterday: Jethro Tull Continues Reissue Series with "Stand Up" In New Stereo, Surround Mixes

September 1, 2016 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Jethro Tull Stand Up Elevated Edition

For the past several years, Jethro Tull has been releasing expanded editions of their albums featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson.  Coming on November 18, just under a year after the release of the last reissue in the series of 1976's Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, is a 2CD/1DVD version of 1969's Stand Up, entitled Stand Up: The Elevated Edition. The sophomore album by the band, Stand Up was the first to feature music written completely by Ian Anderson (with the exception of

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With Their New Face On: RPM Collects Spencer Davis Group's "Complete Recordings 1967-1969"

August 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Spencer Davis Group Taking Out Time

Cherry Red's RPM Records has just celebrated the legacy of The Spencer Davis Group with a new 3-CD box set.  Taking Out Time: Complete Recordings 1967-1979 brings together two complete albums with a host of singles, soundtrack performances, BBC sessions and rarities to paint a full portrait of the group's "Mk. II" years in which Eddie Hardin, Phil Sawyer, Ray Fenwick, Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray all passed through its ranks.  This release can be considered an expansion of RPM's 2000 release of

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 26

August 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Becoming The Beach Boys

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beach Boys, Becoming The Beach Boys: The Complete Hite and Dorinda Morgan Sessions (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 2-CD set, a tie-in with Jim Murphy's recent book Becoming The Beach Boys 1961-1963,  chronicles the earliest years of America's Band.  Featuring 62 tracks (over 40 previously unreleased), Omnivore's CD is released in conjunction with The Beach Boys' Brother Records, and features all of the extant

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barbra Streisand, Dusty Springfield, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Todd Rundgren, Twisted Sister

It Had To Be You: Real Gone's October Slate Features Eddie Money, Keely Smith, Mahalia Jackson, John Hammond, Percy Faith and More

August 24, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Eddie Money Complete Hits

Real Gone Music has just announced their October slate of titles and while only one of them will get you into the Halloween spirit, there might well be something else among the eclectic choice of genres to pique your interest! First up, Real Gone is releasing three two-disc greatest hits collections.  One of these features liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese:  Percy Faith's The Definitive Collection.  Faith was hugely in demand at Columbia Records, arranging and conducting for a large

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Eddie Money, Eden Atwood, Evelyn "Champagne" King, John Hammond, Keely Smith, Percy Faith, Sandy Bull

Release Round-Up: Week of August 19

August 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Turtles Album Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Turtles, The Complete Original Album Collection (Manifesto/FloEdCo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The definitive Turtles box set is here!  The Complete Original Albums Collection presents all six albums released by The Turtles between 1965 and 1970, expanded with rare bonus material. Each of the group's first three albums -- It Ain't Me Babe, You Baby and Happy Together -- is presented in its original mono and stereo mixes,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Chad and Jeremy, Dolly Parton, Josh White, The Heaters, The Scientists, The Spencer Davis Group, The Turtles

A Capitol Arrangement: Paul McCartney Returns To Venerable Label

August 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

paul mccartney ram

Paul McCartney is coming full circle. After years at Concord Records, successor to Hear Music, McCartney has signed a worldwide deal with Universal Music Group's Capitol Records label.  This new agreement brings all of the superstar's solo works beginning with 1970's McCartney to the Capitol fold, and also encompasses a new solo album that is currently in the works. McCartney commented in a statement: "This is genuinely exciting for me. Not only was Capitol my first U.S. record label, but

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Nice Ones: Esoteric Reissues David McWilliams, Three Man Army

August 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Three Man Army Third of a Lifetime

Folk-rock singer-songwriter David McWilliams (1945-2002) may be best known for his 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer," a hit throughout Europe except for in the United Kingdom, which Marc Almond successfully revived in 1992.  There was more to McWilliams than just that one song, however, as evidenced by Esoteric Recordings' new reissue of his fourth album and first for Dawn Records, Lord Offaly. The Belfast native began immersing himself in music in his early teen years, and he released his

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Thank You, Friends: Omnivore Presents Big Star's "Complete Third" In October

August 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Big Star Complete Third

Omnivore Recordings has kept the legend of Big Star alive with a number of projects over the years including the release of frontman Alex Chilton's Free Again: The 1970 Sessions, the soundtrack to the acclaimed documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, and Big Star: Live in Memphis.  Now, the label has turned its attention to its most expansive Big Star release yet: a definitive look into the making of the band's third album.  The 3-CD collection Complete Third, due on October 14, includes

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

Release Round-Up: Week of August 12

August 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Emerson Lake and Palmer Anthology

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Anthology (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The new 3-CD/DD release of Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Anthology rounds out this first wave of titles from BMG including reissues of Emerson Lake & Palmer, Tarkus and Pictures at an Exhibition.  Produced by Greg Lake, this career-spanning set has 39 tracks from the years 1970 to 1998, the choice of material approved by all three band members.

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Emerson Lake and Palmer, Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford, Jerry Yester, Judy Henske, The Monkees, Various Artists

Out of Their Heads: Stones Plan Mono Box Set

August 10, 2016 By Mike Duquette 47 Comments

Rolling Stones in Mono

With an expansion of their acoustic live album Stripped, a gallery exhibition and a South American documentary all bowing this year, The Rolling Stones aren't letting up in 2016. Now, it looks like we can add one more to their busy year: a box set of the band's ABKCO-controlled discography, all released in mono. The Rolling Stones in Mono captures, on 15 CDs or 16 LPs, the original mono albums released on both sides of the Atlantic between 1964 and 1969. While The Beatles waited for some time

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The Anthology

August 10, 2016 By

Emerson Lake and Palmer Anthology

The new 3-CD/DD release of Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Anthology rounds out this first wave of titles from BMG including reissues of Emerson Lake & Palmer, Tarkus and Pictures at an Exhibition.  Produced by Greg Lake, this career-spanning set has 39 tracks from the years 1970 to 1998, the choice of material approved by all three band members. It's housed in a deluxe casebound book format with Chris Welch's liner notes and rare photographs.

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