Release Round-Up: Week of February 27

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. Paul McCartney, Man on the Run: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (MPL/Capitol) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Morgan Neville’s newest documentary, which received a limited theatrical engagement before landing on Prime Video, details how Paul McCartney found new life after the break-up of The Beatles with his new group Wings. On the documentary’s streaming release date, a companion album will include favorites (and a…

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No Time for Tears: Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Potemkin’ Score Set for Reissue

A lesser-known detour in the Pet Shop Boys’ discography is being reintroduced this year: the duo’s score penned for the legendary film Battleship Potemkin. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s compositions for Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent picture, first performed in 2004 and released a year later, will be remastered on CD (as well as released for the first time on vinyl) on September 5. The release will follow a theatrical exhibition of the film in the U.K. beginning August 22; a Blu-ray release from the British Film Institute will also be available alongside the…

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The Weekend Stream: April 25, 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 from a forthcoming West End musical by one of…

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That’s the Way (I Like It): Edsel Collects “More Sin,” “More Deep ’70s”

Edsel has recently continued a pair of box set series with the release of Disco Discharge Presents More Sin (1980-1989) and David Hepworth: More Deep ’70s. In late 2023, Edsel revived the long-dormant Disco Discharge series with the first Box of Sin.  This second volume, More Sin: Full Length Gay Clubbing, follows the template of the first, taking listeners on a journey through the gay club scene of the 1990s and tracing the development of dance music from disco to house.  As Ian Wade puts it in his introductory note, “These are…

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The Weekend Stream: November 9, 2024

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 brings new remixes from Pet Shop Boys, old remixes from INXS, plus rare folk, jazz and alt-rock favorites – plus another bounty of unusual Christmas albums and EPs! Pet Shop Boys, New London boy / All the young dudes EPs (x2/Parlophone) Standard: iTunes / Amazon Remixes: iTunes / Amazon A new double A-side single from Pet Shop Boys’ 15th album Nonetheless – released earlier this year – is physically due…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 26

Welcome to this week’s post-Record Store Day Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, What’s Love Got to Do with It: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll, Parlophone and Rhino will reissue another one of the late Queen’s classic albums in several deluxe formats: 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do with It.  The companion album to the biopic…

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Feel Every Beat: Electronic Add Rarities to ‘Get the Message’ Collection

Rhino will next month urge fans to “get the message” by reissuing and expanding their collection devoted to British dance-pop supergroup Electronic. Get the Message: The Best of Electronic, originally released in 2006, will be revisited as a new double-vinyl pressing or a 2CD edition pairing the original 15-track compilation alongside another 15 rare remixes and B-sides. The acclaimed sound of the group was almost tailor-made to surprise fans who came across early U.K. hits like “Getting Away with It” and “Get the Message” at the tail end of the ’80s. Though…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 16

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today. The Weather Girls and Martha Wash, Carry On: The Deluxe Collection 1982-1992 (SoulMusic/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Hallelujah!  Carry On: The Deluxe Collection 1982-1992 is a long-overdue assessment of Martha Wash and Izora Armstead’s unlikely journey toward the top of the pop charts, some fascinating music that came before it – and a triumphant second act by Wash following some truly bizarre situations that only could have happened in the music industry. This 4CD box set, compiled and produced…

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The Message is Love: Demon Preps Box Set of Arthur Baker Remixes

Demon Music Group scored a real coup in 2021 with the release of Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone (The Classic Master Mixes), a box set devoted to the stellar late ’80s and early ’90s remixer. The branding on the set indicated that Dance Masters was to be a series, presented by another remixing great: American DJ/producer Arthur Baker. Now, two years later, another Dance Masters set is forthcoming, focused on the work of Baker himself. Dance Masters: Arthur Baker (The Classic Dance Remixes), due July 7, will bring Baker’s work behind the mixing…

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Love Comes Quickly: Pet Shop Boys Collect 35 Years of Singles on “Smash”

Pet Shop Boys are looking back on 35 years of music with a newly remastered singles collection to be released on June 16 in a variety of formats.  Synthpop duo Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe released their debut single in 1984 with “West End Girls.”  The strikingly original song melding catchy pop and irresistible dance rhythms was generally well-received but Tennant and Lowe suspected it hadn’t met its full potential.  The following year, they re-recorded a new version with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please.  That version shot to…

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Dance Out of My Head: Demon Collects Shep Pettibone Mixes from Whitney, Elton, Lionel, More on New Box Set

Producer-DJ Arthur Baker has brought his magic touch to recordings by everybody from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Tina Turner and Diana Ross, turning pop, rock, and R&B hits into dance floor-fillers.  Now, Baker is looking back and taking stock of his fellow Dance Masters with a new series from Demon Music Group.  Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: The Shep Pettibone Master Mixes is an expansive salute from one legendary remixer to another.  Available on 4 CDs (47 songs in one box set) or 2 LPs (32 tracks across two releases),…

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Revved Up Like a Deuce: “Blinded by the Light” Soundtrack Premieres Springsteen Song, Rarities on CD and LP

August 14 sees the theatrical release of Blinded by the Light, a new coming-of-age film inspired by Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll.  Both book and movie chronicle the story of a young man’s life-changing experiences with the music of Bruce Springsteen, so it’s only appropriate that a soundtrack filled with Boss tunes would be on the way.  On August 9, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Blinded by the Light: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in CD and digital configurations) as well as 2-LP 12″…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 31

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Band, Music from Big Pink [Various Formats] (Capitol/UMe, 2018) Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Pink Vinyl: uDiscoverMusic.com Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Band’s seminal exploration of Americana, Music from Big Pink, on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition.  For its 50th, Big Pink has been…

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A Red Letter Day: Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Further Listening’ Series Completes With Remastering of Three Titles

Pet Shop Boys’ remastered Catalogue: 1985-2012 series is drawing to a close on August 31 with the fourth and final round of albums.  This batch includes Behaviour (1990); Very (1993); and Bilingual (1996).  All three albums from Messrs. Tennant and Lowe have been newly remastered and will be accompanied by Further Listening discs of bonus tracks such as demos, extended mixes, and remixes.  (Note that these three albums were released with the Further Listening discs in 2001, and those track listings have been retained for these remastered editions.) Composer-producer Harold Faltermeyer was…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 2

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis’ 1970 album – featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others – gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music.  And that’s not all.  We’ve added four bonus non-LP singles from Johnny’s return to…

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Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys Go Back to the Beginning with Remasters of Original Reissue Campaign

Almost a year after the Pet Shop Boys announced their Catalogue 1985-2012 reissue series – which, over the course of 2017, saw the expansion of the remaining un-reissued albums from the duo’s Parlophone years – they will restart things with new remasters of the first three entries in the series. The band’s debut album Please (1986) and follow-ups Actually (1987) and Introspective (1988) will all be remastered and reissued March 2. These 2CD sets faithfully replicate the Further Listening bonus discs that accompanied each title when they were first remastered and expanded…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 20

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice 25 (Columbia/Legacy) 2-CD (Disc 1 & 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy is delivering a deluxe edition of George Michael’s classic 1990 album.  Listen Without Prejudice 25 sees release in several formats.  The biggest is a 3-CD/1 DVD box set.  The first CD contains a remastered version of the original album.  The second disc is the CD premiere of…

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Review: Liza Minnelli, “Results: Expanded 4-Disc Edition”

The list of Liza Minnelli’s musical partners reads like a “Who’s Who” of popular culture: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charles Aznavour, Donna Summer, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, and of course, her mother Judy Garland, to name a few.  Yet one of Minnelli’s most cherished collaborations was also one of her most unexpected. 1989’s Results was the superstar’s first studio album in over a decade, and teamed her with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, a.k.a. the British dance-pop duo Pet Shop Boys.  Marrying her powerful theatrical style with throbbing dance beats and…

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Pet Shop Boys Add ‘Yes,’ ‘Elysium’ to ‘Catalogue’ Series

After rebooting their reissue program last month, Pet Shop Boys will continue Catalogue 1985-2012 with expanded, remastered reissues of their final two studio albums for Parlophone Records, 2009’s Yes and 2012’s Elysium, on October 20. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s 10th and 11th studio albums continued an still-unbroken streak of U.K. Top 10 efforts. Yes‘ lead single, “Love Etc.,” was a British Top 20 hit and broke a U.S. record for most Billboard No. 1 dance hits by a duo or group. Legendary guitarist Johnny Marr appears on several tracks, including “Did…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 25

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Alex Chilton, A Man Called Destruction: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  In 1995, the late Big Star and Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton returned to Memphis’ Ardent Studios, the site of his classic work with Big Star, to record A Man Called Destruction.  Blending original songs with a host of eclectic covers from the likes of Chris Kenner (“Sick and Tired”), Jan & Dean (“The New Girl in School”),…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 28

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Presley, A Boy From Tupelo – The Complete 1953-55 Recordings (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete Recordings 1953-1955 journeys back to the birth of rock-and-roll to feature, on three CDs and digitally, every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake.  In addition, the collection also contains Elvis’ four earliest, privately-pressed sides, and vintage radio and concert performances from the period, for a total of 73 tracks – including one previously unreleased, newly-discovered recording, “I Forgot to Remember to Forget” from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport,…

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The Sun Comes Up, I Think About You: Cherry Red Expands Liza Minnelli and Pet Shop Boys’ “Results” to 3 CDs, 1 DVD

Following its recent reissues of Liza Minnelli’s Columbia albums The Singer and Tropical Nights, Cherry Red’s Strike Force Entertainment (SFE) imprint is turning its attention to Liza with a Z’s 1989 Epic album Results – an epic collaboration, if there ever was one, with The Pet Shop Boys.  The SFE edition, due in the U.K. on August 25, promises to be a definitive look at this classic pop album, stacked with 3 CDs and 1 DVD.  (Read about those past reissues right here!) When the stage and screen legend began her collaboration…

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Pet Shop Boys Announce “Catalogue 1985-2012,” Three Expanded Albums

After a 16-year break, legendary British duo Pet Shop Boys have announced a trio of expanded reissues from within their Parlophone Records discography–now part of a new initiative, Catalogue 1985-2012. On July 28, new remastered reissues of Nightlife (1997), Release (2002) and Fundamental (2006) will be issued worldwide. As with prior releases, each CD title will include a series of Further Listening discs featuring “master quality bonus tracks and demos created in the same time period as each album, as well as Pet Shop Boys’ own remixes of their tracks.” B-sides, digital…

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Nothing Has Been Proved: Cherry Red to Expand Dusty Springfield’s “Reputation”

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dusty Springfield rightfully regained her reputation as one of the best British soul singers of her generation, with the help of some famous collaborators. The fruits of that labor, 1990’s Reputation, is being expanded by Cherry Red Records this summer. While Dusty had dominated part of the ’60s with a unique brand of soul-pop on tracks like “I Only Want to Be with You,” “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” and the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-penned “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “The Look of Love” (not to…

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Getting Away with It: Sumner and Marr’s “Electronic” Gets a Confusing Expansion

It’s not enough for Johnny Marr to be one of the greatest guitarists of the modern era (one with a solo album bowing today in the U.K.); this March, his acclaimed foray into dance music with Bernard Sumner will be reissued. But brace yourself, fans: it’s a little weird. Frustrated by New Order’s resistance to a more synth-based direction, Sumner began work on the Electronic by himself, but called longtime friend Marr – whose departure from The Smiths caused the band to dissolve – to collaborate. Their first single, “Getting Away with…

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