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The Best Years of Our Lives (50th Anniversary Edition)

May 5, 2025 By

Steve Harley Cockney Rebel Best Years of Our Lives 50

2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada One of the best-loved British albums of the mid-'70s will be revisited with a fresh new mix and a host of bonus material: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's The Best Years of Our Lives. Previously released as a 4CD/DVD set, Chrysalis' new 2CD/DVD shuffles things around a bit. The original nine-track album, featuring the national chart-topper "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)," has been newly

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

Come Up and See Me: Steve Harley's 'Best Years' Revisited in 2CD/DVD Box Set

May 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Steve Harley Cockney Rebel Best Years of Our Lives 50

One of the best-loved British albums of the mid-'70s will be revisited this summer with a fresh new mix and a host of bonus material: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's The Best Years of Our Lives. Previously released as a 4CD/DVD set, Chrysalis' new 2CD/DVD, available June 20, shuffles things around a bit. The original nine-track album, featuring the national chart-topper "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)," has been newly mixed in stereo by the album's original co-producer Alan Parsons.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Cockney Rebel, Steve Harley

Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

April 2, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

RSD 2025 best of rest

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you're wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, CHVRCHES, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

Best in Show

February 3, 2025 By

World Party Best in Show

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The work of the late Welsh musical polymath Karl Wallinger is revisited with a worldwide expanded release of the sole compilation credited to his project World Party. Originally released in certain territories (and not his native United Kingdom) to promote a tour in 2007, Best in Show was rather cynically designed in sequence with World Party's most popular tracks on digital music shops, thus kicking

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

Sweet Soul Dream: World Party's 'Best in Show' Gets Expanded

January 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

World Party Best in Show

The work of the late musical polymath Karl Wallinger will be revisited this year with a worldwide expanded release of the sole compilation credited to his project World Party. Originally released in certain territories (and not his native United Kingdom) to promote a tour in 2007, Best in Show was rather cynically designed in sequence with World Party's most popular tracks on digital music shops, thus kicking off with debut single "Ship of Fools" and originally featuring no less than seven

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Rock Tags: World Party

It's a Beautiful Day: Michael Bublé Collects Greatest Hits on "The Best of Bublé"

September 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Michael Buble Best of Buble

With nearly one dozen studio albums, three live sets, and numerous EPs, it's surprising that Michael Bublé is now announcing his first physical greatest hits collection.  With 75 million records sold and four Billboard No. 1 albums, he's the third best-selling Canadian artist of all time, behind only Celine Dion and Shania Twain. The Best of Bublé arrives tomorrow,  September 27, on CD and digital formats from Reprise Records, while 2LP vinyl editions (standard at all stores, clear at his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Michael Bublé

The Best of Ronnie Milsap

September 23, 2024 By

Ronnie Milsap The Best Of

The Best of Ronnie Milsap gathers up 12 of the artist's biggest hits from his first tenure at RCA, including "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Any Day Now," and "What a Difference You've Made in My Life." Craft's parent company, Concord Music, acquired the rights to 16 of Milsap's RCA albums from between 1977-2006 in 2019, and this is the first physical product to come from the acquisition (an expanded digital version of this compilation featuring 25 songs was released last June by Craft and is

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

The Best Gift: Barbra Streisand's Two Christmas Albums Arrive on Vinyl in October

August 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Barbra Streisand A Christmas Album

Barbra Streisand entered London's Olympic Sound Studios in June 1966 while reprising her role of Fanny Brice in the West End premiere of Funny Girl to begin work on what would become her very first Christmas album.  Four songs arranged by Ray Ellis and produced by Ettore Strata were cut at the session including "Silent Night" and the Gounod setting of "Ave Maria."  A mere two weeks following her July 14 final performance, she was onstage back in the U.S. for the first of four summer concert

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbra Streisand

It's Love I'm After: Acrobat Music Collects Judy Garland's Best and Rarest on "A Celebration"

July 5, 2024 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Judy Garland A Celebration

To our American readers, we hope you've had a very happy Fourth of July!  There aren't as many new releases as usual today, so we'll be back next Friday with our regular Release Round-Up, but today, we're spotlight a new collection which is now available. Fifty-five years ago, in June 1969, the world lost Judy Garland at the too-young age of 47.  Yet her voice lives on even today as new generations discover The Wizard of Oz, A Star Is Born, or Judy at Carnegie Hall.   Today, Acrobat Music

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Judy Garland

Best of Bruce Springsteen

March 4, 2024 By

Best of Bruce Springsteen

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Red Vinyl: Amazon U.S. The simply-titled Best of Bruce Springsteen arrives with 18 tracks on CD and LP and 31 on digital formats. The concept is straightforward, bringing together hits and favorites from 1973's Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ through 2020's Letter to You. Each of The Boss' studio albums from that span is represented on the CD/LP other than 1992's Lucky Town, 2005's

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

Living Proof: Bruce Springsteen to Release New Career-Spanning 'Best Of'

March 4, 2024 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Best of Bruce Springsteen

In late 2021, Sony Music announced the acquisition of Bruce Springsteen's entire recorded music and songwriting catalogues in a deal valued by The New York Times as an estimated $550 million.  Since then, The Boss has released one new studio album (2022's Only the Strong Survive, reported to be the first volume in a series of R&B covers albums) but no archival projects have emerged.  On April 19, Sony will release the first domestic "best-of" compilation for the artist since 2009's Greatest

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Best of All Possible Worlds: "Maestro on Record" Offers Leonard Bernstein Recordings, Photos in One Volume

November 15, 2023 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Leonard Bernstein Maestro on Record

Director-star Bradley Cooper's long-awaiting Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, featuring Cooper as the late composer-conductor (1918-1990) and Carey Mulligan as his wife Felicia Montealegre, opens next week in limited theatrical release before arriving December 20 on Netflix.  Bernstein's final label home of Deutsche Grammophon (DG) has the official soundtrack album featuring the new recordings made for the film by Yannick Nezet-Seguin leading the London Symphony Orchestra as well as a 2-CD

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Categories: News Formats: Books, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classical/Opera Tags: Leonard Bernstein

The Best of Milli Vanilli (35th Anniversary)

October 31, 2023 By

The Best of Milli Vanilli

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. One of pop music's most notorious strange-but-true tales has been memorialized in a gripping new documentary - and there's a new compilation to go with it, too. The Best of Milli Vanilli (35th Anniversary) offers 14 tracks (and three remixes) from the infamous European duo, who shot to international acclaim with a slate of classic pop

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

Get the Message: The Best of Electronic

August 28, 2023 By

Get The Message The Best Of Electronic

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino is urging fans to "get the message" by reissuing and expanding their collection devoted to British dance-pop supergroup Electronic. Get the Message: The Best of Electronic, originally released in 2006, will be revisited as a new double-vinyl pressing or a 2CD edition pairing the original 15-track compilation alongside another 15 rare remixes and B-sides.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Rock

Just My Salvation: Vinyl Me, Please Collects Best of Stax's Gospel Truth in New Box Set

February 21, 2023 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Best of Gospel Truth

When Memphis' Stax Records launched its Gospel Truth imprint in 1972, its mission was simple: to "carry the message of today's gospel to the people on the street."  The label's Al Bell worked closely with in-house radio guru/producer/songwriter Dave Clark and staffer Mary Peak Paterson to afford Gospel Truth the same level of promotion as Stax's secular releases, and accessibility was the byword.  Bell paired traditional gospel talents with young artists well-versed in rock, funk, blues, and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul Tags: Blue Aquarius, Clarence Smith, Louise McCord, Maceo Woods, The Gospel Artistics, The Rance Allen Group

An Offer You Can't Refuse: La-La Land's 2022 Black Friday Batch May Be Their Best

November 29, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Godfather 50

Black Friday isn't just a day for holiday sales and Record Store Day's second event of the year - it's also the day La-La Land Records announces their final (and often biggest) soundtrack reissues of the year. And it might not get bigger than 2022's batch of titles, which feature two underrated scores from a pair of legendary composers, two massive franchise favorites with rich themes, and the soundtrack to what some consider the greatest American film ever made. Up first is one of those

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Danny Elfman, David Arnold, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, k.d. lang, Nino Rota, Sheryl Crow

God Gave Rock and Roll to You: Edsel Compiles Best of Argent on New 2-CD Anthology

July 18, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Argent Hold Your Head Up

Out of the ashes of The Zombies came Argent, the band named for keyboardist-singer Rod and also featuring ex-Zombie Chris White as a behind-the-scenes songwriter and producer.  Joining Rod in the line-up proper was his cousin Jim Rodford on bass, Bob Henrit on drums, and Russ Ballard on guitar and vocals.  While Argent only lasted for seven studio albums and one live set between 1969 and 1975, their major hits - "Hold Your Head Up" (No. 5 U.S. and U.K.), "God Gave Rock & Roll to You" (No. 18

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Argent

Review: The Beach Boys, "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys"

July 1, 2022 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Beach Boys Sounds of Summer 2022

We'll be havin' fun all summer long... For nearly sixty years, the sun-drenched harmonies of The Beach Boys have provided the soundtrack for summer - from those welcome first days and first rays through the season's bittersweet final moments as autumn's chill approaches.  They're the rare band whose compilations, beginning with 1974's chart-topping Endless Summer, have become nearly as key to their legacy as the core studio albums.  2003's Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, The Beach Boys

Say A Little Prayer: Real Gone's July 1 Slate Includes Melvin Van Peebles' "Watermelon Man," "My Best Friend's Wedding" Soundtrack, and Two Rock Rarities

June 30, 2022 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Watermelon Man OST

Real Gone Music is kicking off its summer slate with another batch of eclectic titles. Tomorrow, Real Gone and Second Disc Records release Liza Minnelli's Live in New York 1979 on CD and vinyl as well as the soundtrack to Melvin Van Peebles' groundbreaking comedy Watermelon Man.  But that's not all.  Real Gone also has another soundtrack and two hard rock LPs coming your way. First, a refresher on Watermelon Man.  In an extraordinary career spanning seven decades, director and "godfather of

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Diana King, Faster Pussycat, Melvin Van Peebles, Ry Cooder, Three Man Army

Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys [Expanded Edition]

May 16, 2022 By

Beach Boys Sounds of Summer 2022

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Standard: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD (contains CD 1 only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Standard: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada All Formats (including 2LP and 6LP exclusives): The Beach Boys Official Store Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys was originally issued in 2003, peaking within the top 20 of the Billboard 200 and remaining on the charts for 104 weeks.  The 4x platinum

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

Sway: The Best of Carla Olson and Mick Taylor

March 30, 2022 By

Sway The Best of Carla Olson and Mick Taylor CD

This new 2-CD collection from singer-songwriter Carla Olson and longtime Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor is brimming with 25 tracks (five of which are previously unreleased) of rootsy Americana, blues, and rock-and-roll.  The set expands Carla and Mick's 1990 Live (at the Roxy) album with additional tracks from the duo drawn from Olson's various studio albums.  Guests include Ian McLagan, Barry Goldberg, and harmonica virtuoso John Luke Logan.  Among the unreleased material is an extended

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

The Best of Steve Goodman

October 12, 2021 By

Steve Goodman The Best of

Omnivore returns to late folk hero Steve Goodman's catalogue with a 19-track anthology of his finest songs drawn from studio cuts, live recordings, and demos.  Highlights include a previously unreleased demo of "City of New Orleans" and a John Prine co-write, "You Never Even Call Me by My Name," which has never received a commercial release.  Lee Zimmerman provides the new liner notes, and Michael Graves has mastered.

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Formats: CD Genre: Folk

Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records

June 8, 2021 By

Rip It Up The Best of Specialty Records

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings has announced a 75th anniversary campaign for groundbreaking R&B label Specialty Records.  On August 6, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records will arrive on CD, LP, and digital platforms, and Craft promises that further releases from the Specialty catalogue will arrive over the next year.  The 18 tracks on Rip It Up spotlight the incendiary R&B and, later, rock-and-roll

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You've Got Mumps

June 1, 2021 By

Mumps Rock and Roll This Rock and Roll That

Omnivore celebrates late American Family star and gay icon Lance Loud with a new collection from his band, Mumps.  The 23-track anthology produced by Mumps' pianist and primary songwriter Kristian Hoffman, drummer Paul Rutner, and Omnivore's Greg Allen brings together 21 hard-to-find sides with two previously unreleased tracks from the pre-Mumps band simply (and appropriately) called Loud.   Michael Graves has remastered the audio while Hoffman and Rutner are among the contributors to the liner

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

If You Don't Know Me By Now: Legacy Plans Philadelphia International "Best of" Series

May 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Best of Philadelphia International

The Philadelphia International Records 50th anniversary campaign kicks off this Friday, May 25, with the release of Get on Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Vol. 1 from the U.K. Snapper Music label's United Souls imprint.  The 8-CD hardcover book-style box presents the first eight albums released on PIR, and the series will eventually encompass every one of PIR's LPs on CD. On the domestic front, Legacy Recordings issues its first anniversary release this

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Billy Paul, Gamble and Huff, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Lou Rawls, Teddy Pendergrass, The Intruders, The O'Jays, Thom Bell

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