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April 26, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Strap in for a killer line-up of titles this week: two more Record Store Day debuts, an incredible posthumous collaboration between two '80s icons, the return of one of glam's most beloved bands, new music by some of our favorite pop girls, a hotly anticipated new take on a Broadway favorite, exciting moments in gospel/soul, an exciting new song

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aimee Mann, Air, Alice Cooper, Arthur Laurents, Bill Champlin, Bob Bailey, Bryan Adams, Foreigner, Gary Clark, HAIM, Hole, Jule Styne, Lena Hall, Lorde, Pet Shop Boys, Queen, Radiohead, Stephen Sondheim, The Cars, Thompson Twins, Tina Turner

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

January 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Version 1.0.0

The album that unquestionably coronated Tina Turner as the Queen of Rock and Roll will be celebrated with a new deluxe box set this spring: 1984's blockbuster Private Dancer. Available March 21, the album - featuring the hits "What's Love Got to Do with It," "Better Be Good to Me," the scintillating title track and more - will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare B-sides, remixes, additional studio material from the Private Dancer era (including the unreleased "Hot for You

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Tina Turner

December 8, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Dan Hartman It Hurts to Be in Love

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dan Hartman, It Hurts to Be in Love (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today, Dan Hartman would have turned 73.  Sadly, the singer-songwriter-producer-musician-engineer's life was cut short by an AIDS-related brain tumor on March 22, 1994.  He was just 43.  The immense musical legacy of the "I Can Dream

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, Dan Hartman, Mott the Hoople, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, The Killers

September 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Tina Turner Queen 5LP

Even before but especially after her explosive pop comeback in the 1980s, Tina Turner more than earned the mantle of Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. This fall, a new career-spanning compilation from Rhino will reaffirm that title, with 55 of her singles (and a few rarities) on one album. Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, due November 24, spans Tina's 1975 cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" - issued on Acid Queen, her second solo album (and last before escaping her physically and emotionally abusive

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner

June 24, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week, we're changing things up with a triplicate of great new songs out digitally, from favorite bands, up and comers and living legends alike - plus the latest digital catalogue and Joe's tribute to a Broadway original. John Williams & Anne-Sophie Mutter, Helena's Theme (for Violin and

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Joel, Bryan Adams, Cass Elliot, Charles Fox, John Williams, Katy Perry, Mac Miller, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Damnwells

May 12, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Rick Springfield Springfield

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: 10th Anniversary Edition (Columbia) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Daft Punk's final album, 2013's disco-flavored, multiple Grammy-winning Random Access Memories, welcomed such all-time luminaries as Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Jackson, Jr., Nathan East, John "J.R."

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: APB, Bryan Adams, Cal Tjader, Celine Dion, Daft Punk, Michael Martin Murphey, Miles Davis, Rick Astley, Rick Springfield, The Kingsnakes, The Moody Blues

October 28, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Beatles Revolver Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! The Beatles, Revolver [Various Editions] (Apple/Capitol/UMe) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP + 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Picture Disc) The Beatles' seventh studio album - and the bridge

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, Foo Fighters, INXS, Neil Diamond, Rocky Burnette, The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, The Damned

March 11, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

KISS Off the Soundboard Virginia Beach

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

November 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes' 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Cliff Martinez, Connie Smith, Debbie Gibson, Desmond Dekker, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Josh Groban, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Percy Faith, Roy Orbison, Sepultura, The Ames Brothers, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Supremes

October 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Bryan Adams Ultimate

Bryan Adams is releasing a new compilation encapsulating the best of his 35-plus-year career into one disc. Ultimate, available November 3, features 21 tracks including two new recordings, the single "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love." The Canadian singer/songwriter/photographer's biggest hits are here, including some of his biggest breakthrough singles during the '80s ("Cuts Like a Knife," "Heaven," "Summer of '69"), soundtrack smashes from the '90s and '00s and two tracks from his most

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting, Tina Turner

November 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

simon and garfunkel albums cover

Simon and Garfunkel, The Complete Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 12-CD box includes all five of Simon & Garfunkel's stereo studio albums released between 1964 and 1970, newly remastered from first-generation analog sources plus first-time remasters of The Graduate soundtrack and 1981's The Concert in Central Park; 1972's Greatest Hits album (which contained some unique performances unavailable elsewhere); and the live concert albums from 1967, 1969

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Bryan Adams, Neil Diamond, Simon and Garfunkel, The Velvet Underground

October 7, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

bryan adams reckless box

Hot on the heels of his new studio album Tracks of My Years - a deluxe edition of which, with additional material, is due on October 27, Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is revisiting his past in another way. Tracks of My Years features Adams' recordings of classic songs from which he found inspiration as a songwriter; on November 24, he will release an expanded 2-CD/1-DVD/1-BD edition of his 1984 breakthrough album Reckless. Produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain and originally released on the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams

November 7, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

released amnesty cd1

Sex, drugs and rock and roll have been closely linked since, well, the dawn of rock and roll itself.  But those who have been lucky enough to make a living in the rough-and-tumble world of rock have also frequently given themselves over to more noble pursuits.  George Harrison’s 1971 Concert for Bangla Desh wasn’t the first time a rock superstar had performed for charity, but The Quiet Beatle’s star-studded event is rightfully considered the first benefit concert of such stature.  Since then,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Police, U2

October 30, 2013 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

a very special christmas target

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

October 7, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

released dvd box set

Since its founding in 1961, Amnesty International has endeavored “to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.”  The Nobel Peace Prize-winning international human rights organization has, naturally, attracted a number of high-profile supporters over the years.  In 1988, a number of those men and women took the road to spread Amnesty’s message and raise funds via the Human Rights Now!

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Police, U2

September 6, 2012 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

am 50

On its surface, it seems kind of crazy to make a compilation of tunes from A&M Records. There are plenty of labels with clearer narrative arcs: Columbia was a hotbed for melodic singer-songwriters in the '60s and '70s, from Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel to Springsteen and Billy Joel. Burgeoning soul fans started with Motown and graduated to Stax or Atlantic, depending on their region. ZTT was the place for avant-garde dance-pop/rock in the '80s, much like Elektra was the source for dreamy

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Categories: News Tags: Bryan Adams, Peter Frampton, Squeeze, Styx, The Police

February 14, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

kontiki

Barry White, Let the Music Play: Expanded Edition (Hip-o Select/Mercury) What's Valentine's Day without a little satin soul? Numerous bonus tracks abound on a new pressing of this underrated gem of an album. Captain Beefheart, Bat Chain Puller (Zappa) The original, intended edition of the Captain's lost album. Cotton Mather, Kontiki: Deluxe Edition (The Star Apple Kingdom) An underrated work of '90s power-pop, expanded with a bonus disc of rarities and unreleased materials that was funded

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Tags: Bryan Adams, Phoebe Snow, Pulp, The Beach Boys, Vinyl

February 1, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

dio sacred heart deluxe

It’s 1983 all over again at Audio Fidelity. The audiophile specialty label is readying two albums from that year touching on both the rock and pop ends of the musical spectrum.  Bryan Adams’ Cuts Like a Knife and Dio’s Holy Diver are both due in stores on February 14 as 24K Gold CDs playable on all CD players. Cuts Like a Knife was Adams’ third effort, eschewing the stylistic presentation of his first two albums in favor of a melodic rock style that caught on with both listeners and radio

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Categories: News Tags: Bryan Adams

July 13, 2011 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

live aid

Twenty-six years ago today, on two different continents, the music world came together for a worthy cause: to raise awareness of famine in Ethiopia. Live Aid, a pair of concerts organized by Bob Geldof in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985 and broadcasted live on the BBC, ABC and MTV, was seen in person by some 172,000 people and on television by nearly 2 billion across the globe. And, if you can believe it, none of it has ever been released on LP or CD. Granted, it's not entirely

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Nik Kershaw, Open Forum, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Queen, Reissue Theory, Run-D.M.C., Sade, Status Quo, Sting, Tears for Fears, The Beach Boys, The Who, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, U2

February 9, 2010 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

The other day I was talking about how us catalogue fans can sometimes end up wanting that one missing track to add to our collections. I used the 45 version of Billy Joel's "Sometimes a Fantasy," which runs well past the fade-out on the LP, as an example. Interestingly enough, I realized that the track also adhered to another concept I realized I'm enamored of concerning music in general. When I was a kid, I was always interested in the idea of a fade-out. You'd be listening to a song, getting

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Categories: News Tags: Bryan Adams, Michael Jackson, Open Forum, Prince, Squeeze

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