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Release Round-Up: Week of December 8

December 8, 2023 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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 About You” hitmaker hasn’t been forgotten, though. Iconoclassic Records has brought his 1981 solo…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Bryan Adams, Dan Hartman, Mott the Hoople, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, The Killers

Grapefruit Round-Up: Cherry Red Imprint Reissues Cult Favorite from Oberon, Collects Prog and Classic Rock Sounds on New Box Sets

May 26, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Today, we’re looking at three recent releases from Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint! Grapefruit is continuing its series of 3-CD clamshell cases with two titles spotlighting the 1970s. Riding the Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock, available now, is certainly one of the broadest such releases in Grapefruit’s series. Compiler David Wells sets out his mission statement in straightforward fashion: “[Such] is the reductive nature of radio station playlists and Spotify recommendations that it often feels as if the complete works of bands like Thin Lizzy and Status Quo – two acts who…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Argent, Electric Light Orchestra, Hawkwind, Mott the Hoople, Oberon, Roxy Music, Roy Wood, Status Quo, The Moody Blues, Uriah Heep, Various Artists, Yvonne Elliman

Takin’ Care of Business: Dutton Vocalion Reissues Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Burton Cummings, Mott the Hoople, Leonard Bernstein, More in Quadraphonic

January 25, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

The Dutton Vocalion label has announced its first batch of hybrid SACD releases (playable on all CD players) for 2021 including another group of long-out-of-print quadraphonic surround mixes. First up is a three-for-one release from Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople. The first disc of this 2-SACD set presents 1974’s The Hoople (the band’s highest charting album in the U.S.) in stereo and quadraphonic; followed by a stereo-only presentation of 1972’s All the Young Dudes (featuring David Bowie’s classic title anthem) split across both discs; and concluding with the stereo-only Mott (their…

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CD, SACD

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop

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Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Burton Cummings, Grover Washington Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Mott the Hoople, New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez

Release Round-Up: Week of January 8

January 8, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2021! Blue Oyster Cult, Live ’83 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Live ’83 presents a treasured Blue Oyster Cult concert from Perkins Palace in Pasadena on CD for the first time ever following the gatefold, 2-LP edition on blue with black swirl vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday 2020. Originally recorded for radio broadcast, tapes of this show have circulated among fans for decades and have become a go-to for fans eager to show what makes the band a…

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, Cleveland Eaton, Grateful Dead, Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople

Play Don’t Worry: Mick Ronson’s Post-Bowie Recordings Anthologized On New Box

February 10, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

The late Mick Ronson (1946-1993) was inextricably linked with David Bowie, playing with the superstar during his pre-fame days in The Hype and then as a Spider from Mars supporting Ziggy Stardust. But while Ronno’s powerful licks still reverberate from his time with Bowie – on albums including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, The Man Who Sold the World, Pin Ups, and Lou Reed’s Transformer – he left behind a rich legacy of music in other capacities, as well. He joined…

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Classic Rock, Rock

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David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople

Release Round-Up: Week of November 2

November 2, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Melissa Manchester, Mathematics: The MCA Years (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music bring Melissa Manchester’s 1985 MCA album to CD for the very first time in an expanded 2-CD deluxe edition! Mathematics: The MCA Years features the original Mathematics (produced by George Duke, Brock Walsh and Robbie Nevil, Trevor Veitch and executive producer Quincy Jones!) on the first CD, while the second disc boasts 13 bonus tracks including every period remix, the non-LP…

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Eagles, John Klein, Joni Mitchell, King Crimson, Marianne Faithfull, Melissa Manchester, Metallica, Mott the Hoople, Paul Williams, Rod McKuen, Rosanne Cash, The McGuire Sisters

Keep A-Knockin’: New Box Set Collects Mott the Hoople’s Island Years, Premieres Unreleased Tracks

September 4, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

On October 24, Universal U.K. will board the Mental Train for a trip back with some really young dudes. Mott the Hoople’s new 6-CD box set Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971 revisits the band’s earliest, pre-glam years in deluxe fashion. The set includes remastered and expanded versions of all four original Island releases; an entire disc of unheard and unreleased material; and a full disc of live and BBC performances. Ian Hunter, Mick Ralphs, Verden Allen, Pete Watts, and Dale Griffin debuted with 1969’s Mott the Hoople (so named for the…

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The Legacy of Harry Nilsson, Andy Williams, Johnny Winter, Jerry Lee Lewis and More Anthologized On “Essential” Releases

April 30, 2013 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Today, Legacy Recordings issues a number of titles from some of music’s greatest artists as part of the label’s ongoing Essential series of anthologies. We’re taking a look at the collections from Harry Nilsson, Andy Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pete Seeger, Mott the Hoople and Midnight Oil! Plus: we have track listings for all titles! A 2010 documentary posed the question, Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)? Well, if you don’t already know the answer, The Essential Nilsson will go a long way in providing it for…

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Andy Williams, Harry Nilsson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Midnight Oil, Mott the Hoople, Pete Seeger

Release Round-Up: Week of April 30

April 30, 2013 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Shalamar, Friends: Deluxe Edition / The Isley Brothers, Winner Takes All: Expanded Edition / Bootsy Collins Presents Sweat Band: Expanded Edition / The Gap Band, Gap Band VII: Expanded Edition / Billy Paul, Lately: Expanded Edition (Big Break) The Big Break titles we covered yesterday include a double-disc expansion of one of Shalamar’s most enduring LPs, plus Isleys, P-Funk and albums from Total Experience Records. Full coverage/pre-order links here! Blue Oyster Cult, Imaginos / Sea Level, Cats on the Coast/On the Edge / Wilderness Road, Sold for the Prevention of Disease Only / David Allan Coe, Texas Moon / Eddy Arnold, Complete Original #1 Hits / Johnny Lytle, The Soulful Rebel/People & Love / Allspice, Allspice / Larry Williams, That Larry…

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Mott the Hoople, Phyllis Hyman, Shalamar, The Isley Brothers, The Tubes

Cleveland (Still) Rocks: Ian Hunter “Complete Singles Collection 1975-83” Released By 7Ts

June 27, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

What do Great White, The Presidents of the United States of America and Barry Manilow have in common? Why, Ian Hunter, of course. The former Mott the Hoople frontman provided those three with enduring songs, respectively, “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” “Cleveland Rocks” and “Ships.” The career of the singer and songwriter is being celebrated by Cherry Red’s 7Ts label with the release of Ian Hunter’s Singles Collection 1975-83. This 2-CD set compiles all 29 sides released by Hunter as a solo artist during that period, including two stints on CBS and one…

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