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The Year In Review: The 2021 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part Two

January 4, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Happy 2022! Welcome, friends, to Part Two of The Second Disc’s 12th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Once again, we’ve all faced unprecedented challenges over the past twelve months. A year that began with hope and promise has ended with further uncertainty for many of us. But music continues to fill a significant role in our lives, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other. With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2021’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box…

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Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans, Bob Dylan, Bob Wills, David Bowie, Eugene Ormandy, Frank Zappa, Henry Mancini, Kim Wilde, Olivia Newton-John, Shep Pettibone, The Beau Brummels, Trini Lopez, Various Artists

The Weekend Stream: December 18, 2021

December 18, 2021 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

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 discover! A quiet week before Christmas offers a new Bowie remix, rare soundtracks from Tangerine Dream and The Simpsons, plus a legendary funk label on Bandcamp. David Bowie, Changes (2021 Alternative Mix) (Parlophone/Rhino) (Spotify) Alongside a newly-announced 50th anniversary picture disc of Hunky Dory, slated for release January 7 (a day before what would have been Bowie’s 75th birthday), there’s now a streaming-only…

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David Bowie, Jackie Gleason, Johnny Winter, Loretta Lynn, Mac Davis, Madonna, Organized Konfusion, Tangerine Dream, The Simpsons

Release Round-Up: Week of November 26

November 26, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! It’s a smaller week than usual owing to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as well as to Record Store Day’s slate of Black Friday releases! To all those who celebrated Thanksgiving, we hope it was a wonderful one! David Bowie, Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Parlophone continues its career-spanning series of box sets for the late David Bowie. The fifth Era box set, Brilliant Adventure, includes: Five remastered studio albums (Black Tie White Noise (1993), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Outside (1995), Earthling (1997), ‘hours…’ (1999)); A remastered and expanded…

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Alison Krauss, Carla Olson, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Gordon Lightfoot, Howard Jones, Michael Bublé, Robert Plant

Your Turn to Drive: Two David Bowie Boxes, Including Expanded ‘Toy,’ Announced

September 29, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Almost two weeks ago, Warner Music Group announced the agreement that will unite David Bowie’s 2000-2016 recordings with the 1968-1999 catalogue already under the Warner umbrella. The same announcement confirmed the resumption of the series of career-spanning Era box sets. Now, it’s been revealed that the fifth Era box, Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001), will arrive via Parlophone on November 26. In addition to five remastered studio albums, a live concert, and three discs of rarities, the 11-CD or 17-LP Brilliant Adventure will also premiere 2001’s unreleased Toy. But there’s still more. On January…

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Short Takes: More David Bowie Albums Come to Warner Music, Rod Stewart Announces New Album

September 16, 2021 by The Second Disc | 12 Comments

Earlier today, Warner Music Group and the Estate of David Bowie announced a new partnership in which WMG will now have worldwide rights to Bowie’s entire career-spanning catalogue [save a few early releases such as his self-titled 1967 Deram album]. Currently, WMG’s agreement spans the period of 1968-1999, but the new deal will bring the late superstar’s 2000-2016 recordings under the Warner umbrella, too, including his latter-day triumphs Heathen, Reality, The Next Day, and Blackstar. These albums will become part of the Warner catalogue in 2023. Since WMG’s acquisition of Parlophone Records…

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Ace Round-Up, Part One: Spotlight on “The Chips Moman Songbook” and “Jon Savage’s 1972-1976”

August 31, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Ace Records has had quite a 2021, from collections spotlighting the songs of Lou Reed and Donovan through this past week’s releases from Petula Clark, late producer Norman Whitfield, and the ladies of Motown. Today, we’re taking a look at a pair of recent releases from the venerable label. Lincoln Wayne “Chips” Moman (1937-2016) may never have become a household name, but the music he helped create certainly did. A guitarist, producer, songwriter, and engineer, Moman pioneered the sound of Stax Records before forming his own American Sound Studio in Memphis. Ace…

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Alice Cooper, B.J. Thomas, Cher, Chips Moman, Dana Gillespie, David Bowie, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Lou Reed, New York Dolls, Various Artists, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono

The Weekend Stream: June 12, 2021

June 12, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Janis Joplin, Janis (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Spotify / Amazon) A surprise digital vault drop from the late blues singer, this is the double album from 1974 that offered a soundtrack to the film of the same name. You get some of her most famous singles, with Big Brother and The Holding Company and on her own, plus live cuts, interview snippets, and – for the entirety of the set’s second disc – more than a dozen early performances cut between 1963 and 1965. Part greatest hits, part, archival study, but all Janis…

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David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Mark Morrison

Release Round-Up: Week of May 28

May 28, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Get on Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia Vol. 1 (Snapper/United Souls) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Burning Shed) Get On Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Vol. 1 is the first in a series of box sets from the U.K.-based United Souls label, an imprint of Snapper Music, which will ultimately collect the entire Philadelphia International albums discography on CD. The slipcased, 8-CD/1-12″ single hardcover book-style set will feature the following eight albums, originally released between 1971 and 1973: Billy…

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Abbey Lincoln, Belinda Carlisle, Billy Paul, David Bowie, Dick Jensen, Donald Fagen, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, John Cleese, MFSB, Moby, Nat Turner Rebellion, Pink Floyd, The Intruders, The O'Jays, k.d. lang

Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer: Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” Soundtrack Gets Mega-Expansion

May 21, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 19 Comments

Cameron Crowe, in association with Universal Music, has done the (near-) impossible. On July 9, the writer-director will revisit the soundtrack to his 2000 instant classic Almost Famous in greatly expanded, near-complete form, including five – yes, five! – Led Zeppelin songs plus tracks by other typically difficult-to-license artists including Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, and Stevie Wonder. That’s not to mention new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Todd Rundgren, The Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, The Raspberries, and…

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Cameron Crowe, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Stillwater, The Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Yes

God Knows I’m Good: Live Rarities, Singles Collected on Bowie’s ‘The Width of a Circle’

April 14, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

David Bowie’s third album The Man Who Sold the World opened with the blistering “The Width of a Circle,” an eight-minute blast of rock adrenaline culminating in the narrator’s illicit encounter with a supernatural being in the burning pits of Hell. Bowie had quickly come a long way from the music hall theatricality of his first eponymous LP and the psychedelic folk-rock of his second. The 1970 LP welcomed guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Woody Woodmansey, the first appearance on a Bowie album of the future Spiders from Mars. And the U.K….

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Wake Up You Sleepy Head: “Oh! You Pretty Things” Collects 66 Glam Rock Nuggets

April 12, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Oh! You Pretty Things: David Bowie’s 1971 song became an anthem for the glam era: “Don’t you know you’re driving your mothers and fathers insane? Let me make it plain, you gotta make way for the homo superior…” Bowie’s alien persona – androgynous, dangerous, sexy, and flamboyant – connected with youth and caused a stir among their parents. The song’s title has now been adopted by a new 3-CD box set from Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint. Alas, “Oh! You Pretty Things” doesn’t appear anywhere on the collection. If Bowie’s recording couldn’t be…

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Dana Gillespie, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, Hawkwind, Lou Reed, Mick Ronson, New York Dolls, Roxy Music, Sparks, The Kinks

Something in the Air: “David Bowie at The Kit Kat Klub” Closes Out “Brilliant Live Adventures” Series TOMORROW!

March 18, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome… Tomorrow (Friday, March 19), pre-orders will begin for the final installment of David Bowie’s Brilliant Live Adventures series of concert releases on both CD and 2LP vinyl. David Bowie at The Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99) captures his invitation-only performance at the intimate New York venue on November 19, 1999. The gig was recorded and filmed for the Liveonline.net website and later issued as a promotional CD; this release marks its commercial debut and premiere on vinyl. As with all previous Brilliant Live Adventures titles, both formats…

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: David Bowie’s ‘Brilliant Live Adventures’ Series Continues with ‘Live Paris 99’

February 24, 2021 by The Second Disc | 15 Comments

This morning, Parlophone announced the fifth – and next-to-last – volume of David Bowie’s D.I.Y. box set Brilliant Live Adventures. The new Something in the Air (Live Paris 99) was first released as a digital-only title last summer, and now makes its debut on CD and vinyl. Something in the Air (Live Paris 99) includes all 15 songs performed by Bowie and his band at the Elysée Montmartre on October 14, 1999. Earlier in the day, he was awarded the Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest artistic honor…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 19

February 19, 2021 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Zappa: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Zappa Records/UMe) 3CD/Digital: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP/Digital Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UMe and Zappa Records offer a soundtrack release for director Alex Winter’s documentary film about the iconoclastic artist. The 68-track collection is out today on CD and has been available digitally, while the 5-LP and 2-LP versions will be released May 7. The deluxe physical and digital editions of Zappa include nearly every song heard in the film including 12 previously unreleased tracks. These include performances from…

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David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Kris Kristofferson, Morrissey, Whitesnake

Short Takes: More of Frank Sinatra’s “Reprise Rarities” Compiled, Universal Reissues Peggy Lee and David Bowie

February 8, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Frank Sinatra Enterprises and UMe have released a second volume of their digital-only Reprise Rarities series, bringing together another 13 sides from Frank Sinatra‘s time at the label he founded, all of which are new to download and streaming. This baker’s dozen from the Chairman of the Board spans 1960-1995 and is arguably even more eclectic than the first collection. Reprise Rarities Vol. 2 includes single B-sides (“Tina,” “Blue Lace,” “Star!,” “It’s Sunday”) as well as the sublime 1976 A-side “I Love My Wife” (the title ballad of Cy Coleman and Michael…

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Look at the View: Cherry Red’s New Strawberry Imprint Collects Mod, Pop, Psych, and Freakbeat on “Halcyon Days”

February 3, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Last year, Cherry Red’s RPM imprint closed up shop after almost 30 years and some 600+ releases. But a new imprint was announced to pick up where RPM left off: Strawberry. Its inaugural collection, Halcyon Days: ’60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul, and Freakbeat Nuggets has proved an auspicious debut for the imprint with big shoes to fill. The 3-CD collection traces the development of ’60s British soul and R&B from the mod period to the first flowering of psychedelia featuring a blend of names both familiar (The Animals, The Kinks, David Bowie,…

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David Bowie, Katch 22, Laurel Aitken, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Plastic Penny, Rod Stewart, The Artwoods, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Spencer Davis Group, The Yardbirds, Them, Various Artists, Wynder K. Frog

Little Wonder: David Bowie’s “Brilliant Live Adventures” Series Continues with 1997 “Look at the Moon!”

January 29, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The fourth installment of David Bowie’s six-concert Brilliant Live Adventures build-it-yourself box set is now available for pre-order. On February 12, Look at the Moon! (Live Phoenix Festival ’97) will arrive from Parlophone Records in 2-CD and 3-LP versions. Both formats are one-run-only releases. Look at the Moon! was recorded on July 20, 1997 at the Phoenix Festival at Long Marston Airfield near Shakespeare birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Bowie was backed by Zachary Alford on drums; Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, vocals, and keyboards (and lead vocals on the cover of Laurie Anderson’s…

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Rumbling in the Skies: David Bowie’s Unreleased Covers of John Lennon and Bob Dylan Collected on New 7″ Single

December 16, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

On January 8, Parlophone will celebrate what would have been David Bowie’s 74th birthday with a special 7″ single featuring his covers of John Lennon’s “Mother” and Bob Dylan’s “Tryin’ To Get To Heaven.” “Mother” had been prepared for a Tony Visconti-led John Lennon tribute album that went unreleased, while “Tryin’ To Get To Heaven” was recorded at Sony Music Studios during the mixing sessions for the LiveAndWell.com compilation (itself recently announced for release, find out more here). The Dylan cover will be featured on the physical edition, appropriately enough, in a…

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Jump They Say: David Bowie’s “Brilliant Live Adventures” Series Continues with “No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham ’95)”

November 9, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Last month, Parlophone Records announced Brilliant Live Adventures, a new series of releases from the late David Bowie collecting six rare and previously unreleased live albums from the 1990s to be released in limited-edition, one-time pressings on both CD and vinyl. The first three albums have all been promised for release before Christmas, with the remaining trio due early in 2021. Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas ’95) was the first volume; today, the second has been announced. No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham ’95) was recorded at Birmingham’s NEC (National Exhibition Centre) on…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 6

November 6, 2020 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces: Super Deluxe Edition (UMe) uDiscoverMusic Store: black / color Elvis Costello is revisiting his 1979 album in super-sized format. Armed Forces arrives today as a deluxe, slipcased 9-disc vinyl set with three 12-inch LPs, three 10-inch LPs, and three 7-inch singles including 23 previously unreleased live tracks and the complete contents of the previous Rhino/Edsel deluxe edition (with many tracks making their debut on vinyl). It contains a new remaster by Bob Ludwig and EC of Armed Forces from the original tapes; Sketches for Emotional…

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Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, Felix Slatkin, Harvey Schmidt, Kylie Minogue, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Pylon, SVT, Shirley Bassey, The Uptones, Whitesnake, Wilco

Still Afraid of Americans: New Bowie Live Series Collects ’90s Tour Dates

October 2, 2020 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Brilliant Live Adventures. That’s how Parlophone is describing the latest catalogue initiative for the late David Bowie. This series will encompass six live albums from the 1990s which will be released in limited edition, one-time pressings on both vinyl and CD. The first three albums will all be released before Christmas, with the remaining three early in 2021. The first Brilliant Live Adventure, coming on October 28 on single-CD and double-vinyl formats from Bowie’s official webstore, is Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas ’95). (The English translation of the title is “Open the…

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Short Takes: Bowie Box, Covering ’90s and Early ’00s, Planned for 2021

September 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

David Bowie’s official website has announced plans for a fifth epoch-covering box set to release next year, after delaying an alternate version of said collection for a 2020 release. In a brief post, the late singer’s website confirms that the follow-up to the four career-spanning album boxes – 2015’s Five Years (1969-1973), 2016’s Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), 2017’s A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) and 2018’s Loving The Alien (1983-1988) – will cover the widest span of time yet: 1993 to 2001, considered by some to be his…

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Oh No, Not Me: Tony Visconti Remixes David Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ For 50th Anniversary (UPDATED WITH ORDER LINKS)

September 8, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

David Bowie’s third album The Man Who Sold The World will be remixed and reissued for its 50th anniversary this fall. The album will be re-released November 6 – two days after its exact anniversary – with a new mix of nearly the entire album by original producer Tony Visconti, available on CD, LP and high-resolution digital formats. (The sole exception: Side 1 closer “After All,” which Visconti felt he could not improve on.) This release will feature a new version of the album’s original American sleeve, featuring not only the original…

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