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Paranoid: Deluxe Edition

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Paranoid (1970) arrives as a 2CD or 2LP set featuring the original album as remastered by Rhino in 2012 plus a bonus disc of rare material previously available only on a 2009 U.K. release.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Black Sabbath: Deluxe Edition

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath DE

Black Sabbath (1970) arrives in a new Deluxe Edition on CD or LP as remastered by Rhino in 2012, alongside a bonus disc of rare material previously only released in the U.K.-exclusive deluxe set issued by Sanctuary Records in 2009. (The track list for the band's self-titled debut has been rearranged to reflect the original U.S. pressing on Warner Bros., swapping out "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games with Me)" for its original non-LP B-side, "Wicked World"; "Evil Woman" thus features on the

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Album Collection

January 7, 2016 By

Elvis Album Collection 2

To coincide with the 60th anniversary of his signing to RCA, Elvis Presley's The Album Collection is a whopping 60-disc box set containing 57 RCA albums released during Presley's lifetime (many with bonus tracks added) and 3 bonus discs of rarities, one disc each for the '50s, '60s and '70s.  A 300-page hardcover book accompanies this landmark set.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough: Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" To Be Reissued with New Spike Lee Documentary

January 7, 2016 By Randy Fairman 15 Comments

Michael Jackson Off the Wall

We're barely a week into 2016 and we're already seeing a lot of reissue news for this new year!  The latest comes from Legacy Recordings, who yesterday announced a massive Elvis Presley box set.  Now they've got a new reissue featuring another legendary performer:  Michael Jackson.  Due to be released on February 26 is a new edition of Jackson's landmark 1979 solo Epic Records debut Off the Wall.  The album is being paired with Spike Lee's new documentary Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Michael Jackson

Rhino Charges Into January with New Colored Vinyl Titles, CD Box Sets

January 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Monkees Cereal Box Singles

Rhino Records has quite the cure for the usual January doldrums that hit the release calendar, announcing more than a dozen new and reissued titles available exclusively through participating physical stores. The "Start Your Ear Off Right" initiative, featuring titles available January 19, encompass some of the best-known names in Rhino's back catalogue, including The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, Devo, The Cars and The Replacements. From colored vinyl variants to CD box sets, there's virtually

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bad Company, Devo, Grateful Dead, The Cars, The Monkees, The Replacements, The Velvet Underground

Hail to the King: RCA/Legacy Announces 60-Disc Elvis Presley Albums Box Set [UPDATED WITH TRACK LISTING]

January 6, 2016 By Randy Fairman 24 Comments

Elvis Album Collection 2

This Friday marks what would have been Elvis Presley's 81st birthday.  To coincide with this date, RCA/Legacy Recordings has just announced the first major box set of 2016: a 60-disc collection entitled Elvis Presley: The Album Collection due to be released on March 18, 2016. Presley, of course, needs no introduction.  He is among a short list of performers who could be among the most influential performers of the 20th century and beyond.  This new set follows similar sets Legacy has released

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

The Year In Review, Part 2 - More Of The Best Of 2015

January 5, 2016 By Ted Frank 6 Comments

Ork Records

The Second Disc is continuing its celebration of 2015's finest with today's column by Ted Frank!  Stop, do not pass GO and do not collect 200 dollars if you haven't already read our Sixth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards summation of the year's greatest releases. Here, Ted presents his very own, alternative year in review with titles new and old! I make records ... I really don't want to be about singles or anything. -Adele, The Tonight Show In recent years, the download/stream-heavy music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Cherry Red's él Label Offers Rod McKuen, Wally Stott, Bobby Scott Rarities

January 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Rod McKuen In the Beginning

Cherry Red's él imprint has a trio of recent releases continuing its commitment to truly eclectic sounds of the pre-1964 era.  Two of these are musical odes to the big city life of London and New York, from arrangers Wally Stott and Bobby Scott, respectively; the third reissues and expands a compilation from the late Rod McKuen. Singer-songwriter-poet-author-renaissance man McKuen, who died earlier this year, was recently the subject of Varese Vintage's Reflections: The Greatest Songs of Rod

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Bobby Scott, Rod McKuen, Wally Stott

Review: Roy Orbison, "The MGM Years 1965-1973"

January 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Roy Orbison MGM Years Cover

The Big O is back with a big box set. The MGM Years 1965-1973, recently arrived from Roy's Boys, LLC and Universal Music Enterprises, chronicles over the course of 13 CDs (or 14 LPs) the least well-known period of the late vocal titan's career.  Orbison joined MGM Records riding the crest of the "Oh, Pretty Woman" wave; the composition which he wrote with Bill Dees was a U.S. and U.K. chart-topper at the height of the British Invasion in 1964 for Fred Foster's Monument Records.  Enticed by

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Roy Orbison

Raven Has Folk and Funk With Melanie and Mother's Finest

January 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Melanie Raven

Raven Records' most recent pair of CDs certainly showcase the label's eclectic leanings!  From singer-songwriter Melanie Safka, the label has a three-for-one release of her much-loved albums Candles in the Rain, Leftover Wine and Gather Me.  The Melanie release is joined by a four-for-one title from pioneering funk-rockers Mother's Finest collecting the band's self-titled LP plus Mother's Finest Live, Another Mother Further and Mother Factor. Raven's release from Melanie follows the Morello

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Melanie, Mother's Finest

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: SECOND DISCMAS PRIZE PACKS!

January 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Second Disc Christmas

CONGRATULATIONS! The following entrants have been randomly selected to win one of our Second Discmas surprise CD grab bags!  If you see your name on the list below, sit back and relax - your prize pack will shortly be on the way to the address you provided!  Please let us know when your package arrives - and ENJOY! We were completely overwhelmed by the amount of responses to Second Discmas 2015.  Thanks to all of you who entered - and to all of you reading this - for making The Second Disc

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection

December 31, 2015 By

Star Wars Ultimate Collection

The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection contains 10 compact discs and 1 DVD celebrating John Williams' classic scores for cinema's most beloved franchise.  The six discs comprising the original Star Wars trilogy are the same as the 1997 (and 2004) releases.  The prequel trilogy is also simply the same single CDs that have been in print.  Oddly, the two-disc version of The Phantom Menace is not included.  Instead, the 10th CD is a 16-track compilation disc featuring cues from the six movies.  The DVD

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks

Star Wars: The Ultimate Vinyl Collection

December 31, 2015 By

Star Wars Ultimate Vinyl

Star Wars: The Ultimate Vinyl Collection presents versions of each soundtrack as they initially appeared on vinyl, spread across 11 LPs.  This marks the first time thatAttack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith have appeared on vinyl.  Sony describes the set as follows: "Star Wars: The Ultimate Vinyl Collection includes each of the six film soundtracks fromStar Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in deluxe gatefold sleeves faithfully replicating the

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

Reads His Poetry

December 31, 2015 By

Charles Bukowski Reads His Poetry

Charles Bukowski: Reads His Poetry captures the notorious author and libertine at a 1972 reading at which the topics included perversion, poverty, drunkenness, gambling and bodily functions. The ultimate non-PC record, Real Gone returns it to vinyl in this re-pressing: a "vomit"-colored edition limited to 1,000 copies.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else

The Red Bird Girls: Very First Time in True Stereo 1964-1966

December 29, 2015 By

Red Bird Girls in True Stereo

One of Real Gone's earliest releases is reissued in a new jewel case edition (the prior release was housed in a digipak), featuring true stereo versions of classics from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's Red Bird label.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

VI

December 29, 2015 By

Circle Jerks VI

Real Gone has one from hardcore punk band The Circle Jerks: their 1987 albumVI, which was actually the Jerks' fifth effort.  This album includes a song that was featured in the film Sid and Nancy.  The Circle Jerks, founded in 1979, had a rather tumultuous history and disbanded in 1990.  They got back together in 1994 and released one more album in 1995, which is their final release to date.  Liner notes, lyrics and memorabilia images round out RGM's newly-remastered reissue.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters

December 29, 2015 By

Barbara Mandrell This Time

Real Gone rescues Barbara Mandrell's never-on-CD third and final album for Columbia Records, and adds seven previously unreleased Columbia recordings from the country superstar.  TSD's own Joe Marchese has written the liner notes for this landmark release based upon his new interview with Mandrell herself.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

John David Souther (Expanded Edition)

December 29, 2015 By

John David Souther

J.D. Souther's eponymous 1971 album was co-produced by Souther and Fred Catero, and arrived on the Asylum label.  It introduced "How Long," revived by Eagles on 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.  Souther was joined by an all-star cast including Glenn Frey, Ned Doheny and John Barbata for the album which will be expanded by Omnivore with seven previously unissued bonus tracks including demos of "How Long" and "Run Like a Thief," covered by Bonnie Raitt.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

You and I

December 29, 2015 By

Jeff Buckley You and I

Legacy releases ten previously unreleased tracks by the late Jeff Buckley on this new collection including covers of favorite songs by Bob Dylan ("Just Like a Woman"), Sly and the Family Stone ("Everyday People") and Led Zeppelin ("Night Flight") and never-before-heard versions of "Grace" and "You and I."

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

Here Comes The Sun! Beatles Catalogue to Stream Worldwide

December 23, 2015 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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While some Beatlemaniacs will be eagerly anticipating the newly revised 1+ compilation under the tree, with remixed audio and hours of rare video performances, The Fab Four have one more present to give the world: starting December 24, the band's bestselling catalogue will be available for streaming across nine major services. The Beatles' entry into the digital landscape is, like so many events befitting the most popular rock band of all time, often an event unto itself. In 2010, a year

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A CD PRIZE PACK! IT'S TIME FOR SECOND DISCMAS!

December 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Second Disc Christmas

Christmas is almost upon us!  And here at The Second Disc, Mike, Randy, Ted and I would all like to thank you, our readers, for making our fifth year our most spectacular yet!  In 2015, we redesigned our website, welcomed new writers and new readers, and launched Second Disc Records.  And our plans for 2016 are even bigger! We believe that the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. We call our annual tradition - what else? - Second

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

How Long: Omnivore Reissues and Expands Three Albums by JD Souther

December 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John David Souther

Omnivore Recordings is kicking off 2016 with a trio of titles from one of The Second Disc's favorite singer-songwriters, the one and only JD Souther.  The label will celebrate the Michigan-born, Texas-raised and California-associated Songwriters Hall of Fame member with deluxe, expanded reissues of three unjustly-neglected classics of the SoCal scene: John David Souther, Black Rose and Home by Dawn. Though best known for the string of classics he co-wrote with his Eagles friends, including

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: JD Souther

Three Cheers and Dammit, C'est La Vie: Elaine Paige Celebrates 50 Years on "I'm Still Here"

December 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elaine Paige Im Still Here

Each evening from the first preview on August 7, 2011 to the closing performance on January 22, 2012, audiences at Broadway's Marquis Theatre were treated to the sight of one of the First Ladies of the London stage making a rare appearance across the Atlantic belting one of Stephen Sondheim's most famous songs.  The show was Follies, the star was Elaine Paige, and the song was "I'm Still Here."  Now, that anthem of showbiz survival provides the title for the superstar actress-singer's new live

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Elaine Paige

Sister Golden Hair Surprise: America Opens Its "Archives" On New Release

December 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

America Archives

The vaults are open!  The legacy of the enduring band America has received a long-overdue celebration with the recent release on compact disc and digital download of Archives Vol. 1.  Featuring the versatile, original trio of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and the late Dan Peek (as well as the talented musicians and producers who contributed mightily to the band's earliest albums), Archives is a 15-track, non-chronological collection of previously unreleased alternate versions, early mixes, demos,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America

Release Round-Up: Week of December 18

December 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Star Wars The Force Awakens

Well, Christmas is almost upon us, and the onslaught of new releases has turned into a trickle as we head right into last-minute shopping territory!  Still, selections are choice!  Enjoy, and remember - you'll see our next Release Round-Up in the New Year! John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada) Today is all about Star Wars...and we're just as thrilled as could be about a brand-new score by the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, John Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Pantera

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