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November 12, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles.  There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. This week features a new version of a pop legend's most recent compilation, great proto-Motown soul, an expanded version of Robert Glasper's breakout album, Bon Jovi in Spanish(?) and a heap of early Christmas gifts. Check it out! Elton John, Diamonds (Deluxe) (Virgin/EMI) (iTunes /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 808 State, Bon Jovi, Charlie Parker, Elton John, Lionel Richie, Marv Johnson, MC Tunes, Ne-Yo, Robert Glasper, The Beach Boys

October 2, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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 Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert Is... (Herb Alpert Presents) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Herb Alpert Is...a trumpeter, songwriter, producer, artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist.  The list goes on.  To tie in with director John Scheinfeld's documentary of that name premiering this fall, Alpert's own Herb Alpert Presents label is releasing a 3-CD or 5-LP deluxe box set tracing his

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 45 Grave, Ace of Cups, Adam Lambert, Bon Jovi, Charles Bernstein, Coven, Dolly Parton, Elizabeth Swados, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, Groovie Goolies, Herb Alpert, Mariah Carey, New Order, Nickelback, Queen, Rascal Flatts, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Shania Twain, The Munsters, Zacherle

February 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bon Jovi, The Albums (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bon Jovi's The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough Slippery When Wet; of those, six of these albums

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arthur Lee, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, Golden Earring, Kris Kristofferson, Love

November 22, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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More than 30 years after their debut, New Jersey's Bon Jovi are still going strong, and to commemorate that strength, they're releasing a heavy-hitting vinyl box set next year. The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first original album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Bon Jovi

July 1, 2014 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Bob Marley,  Legend: 30th Anniversary Edition (Tuff Gong/Island/UMe) The best-selling reggae album of all time is back with two unreleased studio rarities and, on Blu-ray, a new 5.1 surround mix. CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Pink Floyd, The Division Bell: 20th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) The 20th anniversary of the last Pink Floyd album means an Immersion-level box set with a new 5.1 surround sound mix on Blu-ray and bonus vinyl pieces. CD (2011

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets Tags: Bob Gaudio, Bob Marley, Bon Jovi, Lulu, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, The Jayhawks, The The, Vinyl

June 9, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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With the summer fast approaching, New Jersey stalwarts Bon Jovi are celebrating their 30th anniversary by, 25 years later, revisiting one of their biggest hits: fourth album New Jersey. Released in the fall of 1988, New Jersey was the follow-up to 1986's Slippery When Wet, the band's commercial breakthrough which spun off the No. 1 hits "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer," plus the Top 10 stadium classic "Wanted Dead or Alive." Working again with producer Bruce Fairbairn and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bon Jovi

October 30, 2013 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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If you can get over the shock of a good amount of holiday CDs available on the shelves at Target, you'll find a surprise new exclusive: a reissue of the classic 1987 compilation A Very Special Christmas with a brand new DVD about the long-running holiday benefit series. Produced by acclaimed engineer-turned-label impresario Jimmy Iovine, A Very Special Christmas featured the brightest stars in pop music, from Springsteen to Madonna, recording new versions of classic carols (plus one modern

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: Bob Seger, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., Stevie Nicks, Sting, The Pointer Sisters, The Pretenders, U2

March 11, 2013 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Another few batches of Universal's eye-rolling ICON series are on the way - and while they offer a few genuine surprises, there's a lot, perhaps even more than usual, to shake one's head over. The big surprise right off the bat is that the mid-price compilation series will now chronicle not only Universal-controlled catalogue artists, but EMI-controlled ones as well. This is hardly a surprise, given the past year's big story of music business restructuring that's leaving the world with three

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Poison, The Beach Boys

October 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Since its formation on April 20, 1983, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted a slate of accomplished musicians into its ranks on a yearly basis, causing excitement, consternation and everything in between.  Though the worthiness of nominees and inductees is hotly debated with each “class” and a number of distinguished artists continue to be ignored year after year, one thing can be agreed upon: a lot of great music has been played for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  It continues to host

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Prince, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Doors, The Mamas and The Papas, The Righteous Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, U2

March 30, 2011 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Now here's a surprise. iTunes, in concert with the major record labels, put together a 38-song compilation called Songs for Japan, the proceeds of which would go to relief funds for the ongoing crises in Japan following a massive earthquake and tsunami that left the country in a state of peril. And now, Amazon has a listing for the compilation on CD from Legacy. (This two-disc set actually omits some of the tracks heard on the iTunes version, namely tracks by Madonna and David Guetta.) While

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sade, Sting, The Foo Fighters, U2

November 9, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Damn the Torpedoes: Deluxe Edition (Geffen/UMe) With a bonus disc of B-sides and unreleased outtakes and an optional Blu-Ray audio version, audiophiles hopefully won't have a reason to say "don't do me like that" with this set. (Official site) Bon Jovi, Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (Island) If 1994's Cross Road isn't enough of a Bon Jovi comp for you, this career-spanning set (available in single and double-disc formats) combines all the usual hits

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bing Crosby, Bon Jovi, Pink Floyd, Poison, Queensryche, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Pointer Sisters, The Rolling Stones

September 14, 2010 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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Island Def Jam's official pre-order page finally revealed the track list to Bon Jovi's upcoming Greatest Hits package, and - well, it's exactly what you might expect. A friend said it best: for Bon Jovi, the grunge-inspired These Days (1995) was a fork in the road for the band. They could either continue down the path of rock royalty, or they could follow the newest trends in pop-rock music, no matter what the cost to their sound. They chose the latter, and it led to things like having songs

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Categories: News Tags: Bon Jovi

August 30, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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With the calendar about to turn over to September, it's definitely catalogue season. We've seen a lot of reissues, expansions and box sets announced - enough to make my post-vacation-hazed head spin - and plenty more are certainly on the way. Before we get into that, though, I want to thank not only Joe for holding the fort down expertly while I was away, but to you, the reader, for sticking with us. The rest of the year is going to be awesome for catalogue enthusiasts, and The Second Disc is

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bon Jovi, Madness, The Cure, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

June 24, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Here's something that'll get tongues wagging: gossip blogger Dr. Funkenberry, known for his commentary and scoops around the Prince camp, reported that The Artist partook in a meeting at the headquarters of former label, Warner Bros. The idea is that his upcoming album, 20Ten, will get a release with several European publications (similar to the release of 2007's Planet Earth), but will be released through WB in the U.S. PLEASE let this mean that reissues are in the cards somewhere. Pitchfork

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bon Jovi, Prince, Queens of the Stone Age

May 21, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The Star Wars saga continues at The Second Disc with a trove of often-ridiculous but always intriguing musical curios devoted to the films. It's as much a story of disco and a rock legend from New Jersey as it is about Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. And it's yours to read after the jump.

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bon Jovi, Meco, Reissue Theory

April 16, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It is with great pleasure that The Second Disc can divulge a few more details on the forthcoming Bon Jovi reissues due on May 11 from Island Records and Universal Music Enterprises. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time any of this information is coming out - something of an exclusive! Some of these details are more on the technical side, but anyone wondering for more Bon Jovi tidbits (including how much of the promised live content is unreleased) will be in for a nice surprise.

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Categories: News Tags: Bon Jovi

April 9, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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If you're from New Jersey, chances are you are (or know someone who is) a Bon Jovi fan. They were perhaps the best of the big-haired arena-rockers in the late '80s and '90s, and still know how to pack 'em in to this day. And now, it looks like they're reaching the rarified ranks of solid catalogue artists, thanks to a pretty wide series of reissues from Island and Universal Music Enterprises. Amazon is listing reissues of ten Bon Jovi albums - everything from 1984's self-titled debut to 2007's

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Categories: News Tags: Bon Jovi

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