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March 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Rolling Stones Live at the Wiltern

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Rolling Stones, Live at The Wiltern (Mercury Studios) 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (Amazon Exclusive Black and Bronze Swirl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Black Vinyl: Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Bananarama, Carmen McRae, Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Judas Priest, Norah Jones, The Rolling Stones, The Stylistics

December 5, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Disco Discharge Box of Sin

The Disco Discharge series, dormant for over a decade, has been recently reactivated by Demon Music Group's Edsel label for one of its boldest projects yet.  The 5-CD collection Disco Discharge Presents Box of Sin (also available on 4 LPs of highlights) is a journey through the gay club scene of 1980-1989 via 54 full-length or extended tracks from artists both expected and unexpected - including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Dreamgirls Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jennifer Holliday,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bananarama, Barry Manilow, Bronski Beat, Donna Summer, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Liza Minnelli, The Communards, The Pointer Sisters, Various Artists, Whitney Houston

September 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dance Masters John Luongo CD box

Demon/Edsel's Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer - but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John "T.C." Luongo, who parlayed working in and around the Boston club scene into more than a decade of 12" remix work, first for some of the greatest R&B artists crossing over into disco,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABC, Bananarama, Billy Idol, Cher, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fine Young Cannibals, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Huey Lewis and The News, John Luongo, John Waite, Johnny Mathis, KC and the Sunshine Band, Level 42, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Marlena Shaw, Melba Moore, Patti Labelle, Peter Schilling, Rick Springfield, Shakin' Stevens, Soft Cell, Tina Turner, Visage, Wang Chung, ZZ Top

July 22, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Bob Marley and Chineke Orchestra

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available today! Bob Marley and The Chineke! Orchestra (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 10-song set, recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the aegis of producer Nick Patrick, merges Bob Marley's original vocal tracks with new orchestrations played by The Chineke! Orchestra, an adventurous ensemble dedicated to increasing diversity in music.  The album features many of the reggae

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bananarama, Bob Marley, Brian Wilson, Gilbert O'Sullivan, She and Him, The Hagers, Tony Joe White, ZZ Top

April 19, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, HONK [Various Formats] (Interscope) 1-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP standard: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Target-exclusive blue vinyl: Target.com 4-LP deluxe color vinyl: The Rolling Stones' Online Shop Various music/apparel bundles: The Rolling Stones' Online Shop Honk is a new compilation album from The Rolling Stones that

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Aaron Neville, Allen Toussaint, Bananarama, Bil Evans, Stevie Nicks, The O'Jays, The Rolling Stones, Wes Montgomery

January 25, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Kiss KissWorld Plain

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Big Star, Live on WLIR (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Omnivore has Live On WLIR, a newly restored and remastered version of Big Star's legendary 1974 radio broadcast. The 15-track collection is available on CD and 2-LP.  The release marks the vinyl debut of this raw, live set.  Read more here! Love Actually: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Real Gone

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bananarama, Barbra Streisand, Big Star, Cactus, Fred Neil, Grateful Dead, Henry Paul Band, Hunt Sales, KISS, Mother Earth, Noel Harrison, Paul Young, Santana, The Ides of March

January 4, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

BANANARAMA Viva 555x555

There were few "girl groups" as prolific and successful during the MTV era as Bananarama.  The London-formed pop group had a long string of Top 10 U.K. and U.S. singles during the '80s, including "It Ain't What You Do...," "Really Saying Something," "Shy Boy," and covers of Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and The Shocking Blue's  "Venus."  Their popularity on the charts and on the dance floor continues, with the group tallying up an impressive 28 Top 50 U.K. singles from 1982 to 2009. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bananarama

August 27, 2018 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Bananarama Bananarama

She's got it...yeah, baby, she's got it!  The first six albums by the beloved girl group Bananarama have recently been reissued in expanded editions from London Music Stream Limited.  These albums - Deep Sea Skiving (1983), Bananarama (1984), True Confessions (1986), Wow! (1987), Pop Life (1991), and Please Yourself (1993) - represent the first decade of the band, spanning 1983-1993 and including such hits as "Shy Boy," "Cruel Summer," "More Than Physical," "I Heard a Rumour," and of course,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bananarama

November 24, 2017 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Phil Collins box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! "Weird Al" Yankovic, Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic (Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The world's premier parodist celebrates his discography with a box set unlike any other: all 14 of his original albums, newly remastered; Medium Rarities, a bonus album of rare and unreleased material; and a 100+ page book of rare photos and memorabilia--all packaged

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Bananarama, Bonnie Tyler, Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Presley, INXS, Phil Collins, Ramones, The Fall, The Scorpions, Wilson Pickett, XTC, Yes

November 1, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bananarama GH

Ahead of their upcoming tour--including their first trek to America!--Bananarama will reissue their Greatest Hits Collection (1988) with a bonus disc of original material. Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward were once named the female vocal group with the most chart entries ever by the Guinness Book of World Records, and it's not too outlandish a claim. If you've been near a radio on both sides of the Atlantic since the '80s, you've probably heard at least one of their hits:

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bananarama

September 3, 2013 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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"Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around..." Summer may be over, but Edsel's given Bananarama fans quite the reason to sing and dance: on October 22, they will reissue all six of the London girl group's London Records albums as 2CD/1DVD sets. Known for their spunky, tomboyish image, powerful unison vocals and a style with one foot in both the past and the future - hits included covers of "Really Saying Something" by The Velvelettes, Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bananarama

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