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October 30, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Karate Kid Part II

October is thick with not only great archival horror soundtracks, but favorites from all genres! Let's dive in to eight great film score reissues from this past month. Intrada rolled out titles from three iconic composers. This week sees an expansion of the late James Horner's score to The Land Before Time (1988). The second collaboration between animator Don Bluth and producer Steven Spielberg (this time with George Lucas in tow) told the story of a group of juvenile dinosaurs roaming the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bill Conti, Dave Davies, Diana Ross, Harry Manfredini, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Carpenter, John Powell, John Williams

October 14, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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The Kinks last revisited their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One back in 2014 as a 2-CD set incorporating the soundtrack to Percy.  The band's eighth album, Lola yielded the now-famous U.S. top 10 title track and the U.K. top 5 hit "Apeman" as well as earning to 40 status in America.  Now, on December 18, it's returning in a variety of formats from BMG: Limited Edition, Deluxe 10" Slipcased book pack (containing 60 page book, 3 CDs, 2 x 7" singles, 4 color

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Dave Davies, Ray Davies, The Kinks

July 30, 2019 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

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50 years ago, The Kinks released Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, a concept album which continued in the quintessentially British vein of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society but carved out its own musical identity.  Building on the success of last year's Village Green box set, BMG has just announced a similarly expansive - make that Kink-size - set for Arthur, loaded with previously unreleased tracks and mixes and incorporating "the great lost Dave Davies

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Dave Davies, The Kinks

October 12, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

David Bowie Loving the Alien Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 15LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  The fourth annual volume of Parlophone's ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988), arrives on 11 CDs or 15 vinyl LPs.  This lavish set is filled with more exclusive material than any of its predecessors, as only three studio albums are

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alex Chilton, Burt Bacharach, Dave Davies, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Engelbert Humperdinck, Eric Clapton, Michael McDonald, Peter Holsapple, The Monkees, Vince Guaraldi

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