What are the odds? Two career-spanning box sets featuring solo material by members of Roxy Music – lead singer Bryan Ferry and guitarist Phil Manzanera – will be available this fall. Ferry’s Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 will be a 5CD overview divided into thematic collections of his work outside of Roxy Music. The first is a new 20-track collection of his best-loved singles, including the U.K. Top 10s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” “Let’s Stick Together” and “Slave to Love.” (This disc will also be available separately on CD, with a retail-exclusive clear…
Grapefruit Round-Up: Cherry Red Imprint Reissues Cult Favorite from Oberon, Collects Prog and Classic Rock Sounds on New Box Sets
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…
Wake Up You Sleepy Head: “Oh! You Pretty Things” Collects 66 Glam Rock Nuggets
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…
Bandcamp Friday Picks, March 2021: Say Hello to Tenant from Zero
Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, indie music retailer Bandcamp has waived their share of revenue for indie artists and labels using their platform to give “the little guys” a leg up in the absence of touring and other moneymaking activities for musicians. The result was more music bought by more fans than any day on the site, a record broken on the first Friday of May. The Second Disc has proudly covered Bandcamp Fridays in June, July, August, September, Octoberand November – plus the first of an annual occurrence when…
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Message to Love: Universal Prepares a Wealth of Rarities for RSD 2020
Here at Second Disc HQ, we’ve been thrilled by the news of amazing releases coming from all the labels this Record Store Day 2020, and UMe’s slate of 20+ titles is no exception. With a new definitive vinyl edition of Paul McCartney’s debut, a tenth-anniversary celebration of Ellie Goulding’s Lights, a Cat Stevens rarity making its vinyl debut, an expanded Elton John, a reissue of an impossible-to-find CTI Jazz album, and many more, fans will want to line up bright and early to secure their copies this April 18! Here’s the official word…
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Take Me To The Pilot: Elton, Lennon, Queen Among Universal’s Record Store Day 2019 Offerings
Record Store Day 2019 is just under five weeks away. In anticipation of the April 13th celebration of vinyl, The Second Disc presents a round-up of Universal Music Group’s RSD selections! The Charlatans, Us and Us Only – LP, clear vinyl – 1,000 copies Originally released in 1999, Us and Us Only was the British alt-rock group’s sixth album. It will be reissued for the first time ever for Record Store Day, pressed on limited-edition transparent vinyl. Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker With Strings: The Alternate Takes – LP, blue vinyl – 2,500 copies Previously…
Release Round-Up: Week of February 2
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane, Mahoney’s Last Stand: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Faces’ Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood teamed up to pen the score, consisting of country/folk-flavored songs and instrumental tracks, for this 1972 low-budget Canadian film. Real Gone brings it back to CD with new liner notes by Richie Unterberger. Read more here! Roxy Music, Roxy Music: Super Deluxe Edition (Virgin/UMe) 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon…
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Far Beyond The Pale Horizon: Roxy Music Expand Debut Album for 45th Anniversary in 2018
While Roxy Music essentially broke up at the start of this decade – having performed on and off since 1972 – guitarist Phil Manzanera promised a box set covering the band’s first album back in 2014. Now, it’s one of the latest reissue announcements in a rapidly-filling 2018 release schedule. UMC will release a 3CD/1DVD version of the British art-rockers’ debut on February 2. In addition to the original album (presented as mastered by Bob Ludwig in 1999), two discs of unreleased material will be included (all mastered by Frank Arkwright at…
For Your Pleasure: Roxy Music Unveil Massive Box Set, New Reissue Campaign (UPDATED 6/19)
Roxy Music, arguably the original New Romantics, are coming back in a big way on the catalogue side of things in 2012, with a new box set and additional surprises to follow. Primarily comprised of singer Brian Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, keyboardist Brian Eno, saxophonist Andy McKay and drummer Paul Thompson (with an almost-consistently shuffling lineup during their active years, including England’s greatest fill-in Paul Carrack of Ace, Squeeze and Mike + The Mechanics), Roxy combined the twin elegances of Beatlesesque rock and Bowie-ish glam to rapturous critical and commercial acclaim. None…
