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Not Under the Thumb of the Cynical Few: Early, Unreleased Howard Jones Set Unearthed by Cherry Red

January 27, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Cherry Red, longtime home for Howard Jones’ catalogue, will release an unheard set from the beginning of his career this month. Live At The Marquee, available January 30, finds the inimitable singer/songwriter/keyboardist wowing a crowd at the late London venue just before his commercial breakthrough in 1983. The wholly unreleased show, available on CD and yellow vinyl, was unearthed from master tapes when the label began compiling bonus material for reissues of his former Warner catalogue in 2018, and remixed by Jones himself for this release. (It appears from the metadata that three…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 23

May 23, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Sheena Easton, Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings Volume 1 (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Sheena Easton’s latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that covers the bulk of the Scottish singer’s first five albums – Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983), and the…

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Chicago, Don Felder, Green Day, Howard Jones, Melanie, Sheena Easton, Sparks, Suede

Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

August 2, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Van Morrison, Live at Orangefield (Orangefield Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Christmas 1959 saw Van Morrison take the stage of Orangefield Secondary School in Belfast for his very first live performance. Van, on guitar and vocals, joined his fellow students John McCullough on tea-chest bass, Cyril Downey on guitar, Billy Ruth on guitar, and Walter Blakely on washboard for a skiffle show. In August…

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Drive-By Truckers, Howard Jones, Jeremy Jordan, Melanie, Sam Smith, Van Morrison, Warren Smith, Ween

Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Salsoul Orchestra It's Good for the Soul

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 Salsoul Orchestra, It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) is the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra’s groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.! The vibraphonist came into his own when he moved from Philadelphia International Records to the upstart Salsoul label and founded…

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Black Sabbath, Crowded House, Cyndi Lauper, Howard Jones, Lowell George, Richard Thompson, Ringo Starr, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Silver Convention, The Rascals, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, Willie Nelson

Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones’ First Two Albums Receive New Mixes by Cherry Red

April 9, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

And what could Cherry Red possibly do further with the sterling synth catalogue of Howard Jones? Some seven years into the label’s acquisition of Jones’ Warner-era material from 1983 to 1993, the U.K. label has found a way: to celebrate the 40th anniversary of debut album Human’s Lib, it and follow-up Dream Into Action will be newly remixed for new CD/Blu-ray editions available May 31. This early portion of Jones’ discography – which includes hits and fan favorites like “New Song,” “What is Love,” “Hide and Seek,” “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life in…

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The Weekend Stream: March 23, 2024

March 23, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. This week’s lineup includes something for everyone: pop, rock, hip-hop, classic vocals, country, cast recordings, and more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Howard Jones, Celebrating Together (The 40th Anniversary EP) (Cherry Red) (iTunes / Amazon) Cherry Red continues its long association with Howard Jones (whose former catalogue for Warner is now in the U.K. label’s repertoire) with a new EP of hits (“Things Can Only Get…

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Howard Jones, Jim Nabors, Matt Dennis, Matthew Sweet, Max-a-Million, Michael John LaChiusa, Olivia Rodrigo, The Browns, Trillion

The Year In Review: The 2023 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part One

January 15, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Happy 2024! Welcome, friends, to The Second Disc’s 14th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As we yet again look to a new year with optimism and a hopeful spirit, we recognize the many roles music has played in our lives. With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2023’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box sets, big and small, that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers worldwide. After much deliberation, we’re excited to unveil our favorites. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill Top…

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Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Blossom Dearie, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Eugene Ormandy, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Green Day, Howard Jones, John Williams, Matt Monro, Rose Marie, The Beatles, The Darkness

Release Round-Up: Week of October 6

October 6, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) (Asylum/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The third volume of Joni Mitchell’s remarkable Archives series continues with an exploration of the period that yielded such groundbreaking albums as For the Roses (1972), Court and Spark (1974), the live Miles of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975). The new 5CD, 96-track box – also available digitally or in 4LP “highlights” form –…

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Danny Elfman, Duke Jupiter, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Heatmiser, Howard Jones, J.J. Cale, Joni Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Olivia Newton-John, Reba McEntire, Roger Waters, Steve Cropper, Sylvester, The Darkness, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Ophelias, The White Stripes, Tom Waits, Van Halen

Now You’ve Captured Me: Howard Jones Celebrates 40 Years with New Collection

July 26, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Since 2017, Howard Jones has worked with Cherry Red to distribute his classic Warner-era back catalogue spanning 1983 to 1993. This fall, they’ll be the ones to release a lavish new multi-format collection commemorating his 40 years as a recording artist. Celebrate It Together: The Very Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023 brings together Jones’ unforgettable synth-driven hits like “New Song,” “Things Can Only Get Better,” “No One is to Blame,” “Everlasting Love” and many more, alongside the terrific independent work he’s issued through his own Dtox label since 1994, for a new…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 21

October 21, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Lou Reed, Words and Music – May 1965 (Light in the Attic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Black Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Yellow Vinyl LP: Light in the Attic Store Cassette: Light in the Attic Store CD/2LP/7″ Vinyl Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Light in the Attic Store Light in the Attic launches The Lou Reed Archive Series with Words & Music, May 1965. Available on CD, cassette, and multiple vinyl formats, Words…

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Debbie Gibson, Howard Jones, Jonathan Richman, Lou Reed, Madonna, Norah Jones, Olivia Newton-John, Ray Charles, Simple Minds, Taylor Swift, The Manhattan Transfer, The Modern Lovers

Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones’ ‘Live in Japan’ Video Gets Wider DVD/CD Release

August 17, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Howard Jones and Cherry Red are diving into the vault for another live release – a wider audiovisual issue of a 1984 concert recorded by the synthpop icon in Japan. Live at The NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan – 1984 depicts Jones a year into his major-label career, having already seen debut singles “New Song” and “What is Love?” sail to Nos. 3 and 2 on the U.K. charts a year earlier. The 15-song set features nearly every song from debut album Human’s Lib, released that same year – including favorites “Hide and…

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The Weekend Stream: April 9, 2022

April 9, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 3 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! And after a week away, you better believe we’re coming in hot! Billy Joel, 50 Years of the Piano Man (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) On the surface, this 50-track digital compilation-cum-playlist looks like a typical algorithmic survey of Joel’s five-decade career, with all the great radio hits rising to the top. But dig deeper and you’ll discover six tracks making their…

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America, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Damon Albarn, David Ruffin, Depeche Mode, Gerry Beckley, Howard Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Jim Weatherly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Format, Trace Adkins

Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Frank Zappa, The Mothers 1971 / Fillmore East – June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition / Rainbow Theatre – December 10, 1971 (Zappa Records/UMe) The Mothers 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fillmore East – June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rainbow Theatre – December 10, 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zappa Records and UMe have three releases commemorating Frank Zappa and The Mothers’ legendary 1971 shows…

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April March, Flo and Eddie, Frank Zappa, Howard Jones, Jean-Luc Ponty, Keith Richards, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Mountain, Son House, The Flamin' Groovies, Tony Hazzard

Total Conditioning: Two Howard Jones Remix Albums Reissued by Cherry Red

January 24, 2022 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Cherry Red continues their ongoing excavation of the Howard Jones catalogue with a new set that collects two remix albums from the mid-’80s: one a special early part of his discography, and one a treasured rarity for Japanese collectors. The label will issue a 2CD set on March 18 featuring the contents of The 12″ Album and 12″ers Vol. 2, which collected a plurality of mixes, some B-sides and the odd unique track from the Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action albums. 1984’s The 12″ Album featured extended versions of “Like to…

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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

Like to Get to Know You Well: Howard Jones Plans BBC Box with Cherry Red

October 5, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Howard Jones may have issued deluxe editions of all his WEA albums with Cherry Red (who now own the recordings outright), but he’s not done archiving his works with the label. They’ll issue a 5CD box set of the keyboardist’s BBC recordings this fall. Howard Jones At The BBC offers a treasure trove of rare and unreleased recordings taped by the national radio between 1983 and 1987. Aside from a handful of B-sides and bonus material – including a long out-of-print box set of Howard’s first two albums that came with a…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 30

April 30, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) For our first release of 2021, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music take a deep dive into the archives for Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings. This compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, every one of which is previously unreleased in any physical format. These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks to…

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Beryl Reid, Bob Wills, Bobby Womack, Chester Thompson, Dickey Betts, Howard Jones, Jerry Herman, Joan Turner, Jon Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Marianne Faithfull, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Michael Nesmith, Mick Fleetwood, Pink Floyd, Ronnie Milsap, The Jacksons

Back ‘In the Running’: Next Howard Jones Reissue Coming from Cherry Red in April

April 16, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Cherry Red’s ongoing Howard Jones reissue campaign hits its next marker on April 30, with an expanded CD/DVD and vinyl reissue planned for In the Running, Jones’ fifth album and final release for a major label. In the Running continued the artistic and commercial trends that had been a part of Jones’ career since 1989’s Cross That Line sold modestly outside of the U.S. Top 20 hit “Everlasting Love.” With a new decade in full bloom, Jones consciously moved away from the densest electronics of his ’80s work into more “organic” sounding soft-rock. Along for…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 9

October 9, 2020 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! John Lennon, Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes [Various Formats] (Capitol/UMe) 2CD/Blu-ray Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Today would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, Capitol and UMe have released a new multi-format collection entitled Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes after his still-relevant 1971 protest single of that name. But this set – out on John’s birthday – won’t resemble the 2010 box of nearly the same…

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Dire Straits, Howard Jones, John Lennon, Kacey Musgraves, Linkin Park, Loudon Wainwright III, Sade, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Slade, Tears for Fears, The Doors, The Replacements, Ultravox, Vince Guaraldi

Everlasting Love: Cherry Red Expands Howard Jones’ ‘Cross That Line’

July 29, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Cherry Red’s latest reissue in their ongoing Howard Jones campaign is one of the series’ most expansive yet, offering a deeper look at the singer/songwriter/synthsmith’s fourth LP, Cross That Line. Released in 1989, Cross That Line found Jones in an introspective, experimental mood. His first mostly self-produced album, it featured meditations on lost relationships (“Last Supper”) and extended polemics on power (“Guardians Of The Breath”) nestled within its tracks. There were also classic Jones pop songs augmented by strong horn sections (“Cross That Line,” “Wanders To You”), strong rhythmic programming (“Powerhouse,” a collaboration…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 31

January 31, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Rod McKuen, New Ballads (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone celebrates the late Rod McKuen with a slate of releases this week. For the 1970 album New Ballads, the singer-songwriter teamed with renowned arranger-conductor Don Costa for this remarkable collection of songs including “As I Love My Own,” the dramatic Jacques Brel collaboration “I’m Not Afraid,” “Thank You for Christmas,” and a composition which could have been McKuen’s credo: “Hit ‘Em in the Head with Love.” New Ballads showcases…

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Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright and the 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Howard Jones, Jacques Brel, Jefferson Airplane, Kim Wilde, Melody Federer, Neneh Cherry, Richard Adler, Rod McKuen, Scott Walker

Deluxe Edition of Howard Jones’ ‘One To One’ Rolls Right Up From Cherry Red

December 9, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

In 2017, Howard Jones took his scintillating synthpop catalogue from Warner Music to U.K. indie Cherry Red Records, releasing a new compilation as well as expanded editions of his first two albums. After releasing the new album Transform earlier this year, Jones will continue revisiting his discography alongside the label early next year with a deluxe edition of his third LP One To One. Released at the end of 1986, One To One followed Jones’ biggest-ever hit in America: a re-recording of the previous year’s “No One Is To Blame” featuring production,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 10

May 10, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Cilla/In My Life (SFE/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red’s Strike Force Entertainment imprint has two more reissues in the ongoing series of definitively remastered and expanded Cilla Black albums. First up is the late vocalist’s debut album Cilla (1965) with In My Life (1974), the latter of which is making its premiere on CD in full. This 2-CD set adds 26 bonus tracks, three of which are new to CD. Cilla Black, Sher-oo!/Modern Priscilla (SFE/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. /…

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Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Cilla Black, David Newman, Howard Jones, Professor Longhair, Rare Earth, The Neville Brothers, Thomas Newman

Release Round-Up: Week of November 30

November 30, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Neil Diamond revisits a 50+-year career with a new 6-CD, 115-song retrospective box set featuring hits, rarities, and 15 previously unreleased tracks including the original demos of “America” and “I Am…I Said.” Everything is packaged within a deluxe hardcover book-style format. 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition expands upon 2017’s 3-CD 50th Anniversary set and is the first comprehensive Diamond career overview in more than 20 years. Read the track listing here, and…

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