A pair of sour notes from our friends over at Slicing Up Eyeballs. First, a source from Universal Music Group tells Cure fan site Chain of Flowers that the planned triple-disc reissue of Disintegration has been delayed a third time. The set – which features the original LP, a disc of demos and outtakes and an expanded version of the live album Entreat – was originally slated for a Feb. 16 release before being pushed back to April 6. In the U.S., where distribution is being dealt with by Rhino Records, the…
Good Enough for Me
The soundtrack community can take another “holy grail” off the list today. Varese Sarabande has announced their newest Soundtrack Club title to be the premiere release of Dave Grusin’s score to The Goonies. The Steven Spielberg-produced comedy about a group of misfits who find a pirate treasure map has been a cult classic ever since its release in 1985. Grusin’s score was grandiose, adventurous and sweet as needed, and was a highlight of the film. But the original LP release, on Epic Records, had only one cue, the score’s main theme, among a…
Late Night Release Round-Up: Motown Around the World, Arcadia Date, Soundtrack Notes
The above picture, from Hip-O Select’s Twitter page, indicates that Motown Around the World is inching ever closer to a release. The compilation, teased by the label since last year, is said to be a comprehensive set of the many foreign-language versions of classic Motown hits as well as a few international singles only available in those territories. Expect cuts from Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations and more. Another nugget from the social-networking pipeline: Duran Duran’s official Twitter feed confirmed that the long-gestating deluxe reissue of Arcadia’s So Red the Rose…
Reissue Theory: It’s Time to Play the Music
The recent announcement of E1’s Sesame Street Old School Volume 1 has got me excited, but for a slightly different reason. I am sentimental toward the Sesame Street Muppets (despite not having been much of a viewer as a child), but my favorite Muppets were always the ones in The Muppet Show – those loveable felt and fur actors singing pop standards, blowing things up and causing all sorts of mayhem. Perhaps more than any other youth-oriented entertaiment of the 1970s (aside from, say, School House Rock!), the Muppets were joined at the…
Sunny Days Indeed
It may be snowing in my part of the world, but catalogue fans should prepare themselves to be on their way to where the air is sweet. That’s right, kids (and kids at heart): E1 Records is releasing Sesame Street Old School Volume 1, a box set collating three classic albums by the Sesame Street Muppets. The box features Sesame Street: The Original Cast Recording (1970), Big Bird Sings (1974) and Bert & Ernie Sing Along (1975), all of which are making their CD debuts with remastered sound and reproduced artwork from…
I Am Spartacus
Film score fans have had a lot to sing about in the past year or so. Thanks to the Herculean efforts of independent soundtrack labels, a lot of highly sought-after soundtracks that major labels would never think to release have been put on disc to the delight of fans everywhere. The Intrada label recently scored an enormous coup by releasing Alan Silvestri’s complete score to Back to the Future, La La Land Records recently pressed limited editions of James Newton Howard’s music for the film version of The Fugitive and the first-ever…
Release News: They’re Here
A quick bit of release news for you: a classic rock title already set up for pre-order, and a pair of popular film composers with reissues in the works. Hip-O Select is taking orders for Chuck Berry’s Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969-1974. The four-disc set is the third and final such set of Berry’s recordings for the legendary label and features 22 unreleased tracks. Find it here. Legendary soundtrack catalogue label Film Score Monthly has quite a new release: the complete score to the 1977 film Black Sunday, composed and conducted by John Williams. It…
In With the Old: 2009 in Reissues
Good evening and welcome to The Second Disc! Assuming you’ve taken a look at the page where I’ve explained this blog, I’d like to present a list of some of the best catalogue titles released to the public during the past year. This year was just as full of complaints about the demise of the music industry as ever (I guess part of this can be blamed on the general economic malaise gripping us all), but this really seemed to be a great year for reissues and box sets of all sorts….
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