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Release Round-Up: Week of February 27

February 27, 2026 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

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Mountain, Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Split Enz, Steve Porcaro, The Colourfield, The Ian Gillan Band, Todd Rundgren, Tom Kitt, Willie Nelson

Stranger Than Fiction: Split Enz’s ‘Enzyclopedia’ Series Receives ‘Second Thoughts’ Vinyl Interlude

January 22, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

When Split Enz started their new archival series Enzyclopedia Volumes One and Two last year, there was a bit of a difference across formats. The 5CD box set included new remasters of debut Mental Notes and Second Thoughts, a new mix of the latter by longtime keyboardist Eddie Rayner, a tweaked version of early odds-and-ends compilation The Beginning of The Enz, and a new rarities set, Wide Angle Enz. The equivalent 3LP box, however, only had the remastered Mental Notes, the remixed Second Thoughts and the retooled Beginning. While fans await any news on another volume of Enzyclopedia, the band (soon…

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News

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Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Split Enz, Tim Finn

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Split Enz, ‘Encyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2’

November 17, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

It’s kind of a minor miracle that Enzyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2 (Chrysalis CRC/CRV1899) – the first in what we hope is an ongoing reissue campaign for Antipodean rock icons Split Enz – exists at all. Their catalogue is probably a tough sell if you live outside of Australia or New Zealand (none of their discography is consistently available worldwide), and their best-known work, where they became a razor-sharp, New Wave-adjacent ensemble, doesn’t come until years after what’s covered in this collection (available as a 5CD or 3LP set). And that’s before you get…

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Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Split Enz, Tim Finn

The Weekend Stream: October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 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. There’s much to cover: digital box sets, anniversary editions, new remixes, old stand-up comedy – and a quartet of memorials to musicians and more. Neil Young, Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (Reprise) (Apple / Amazon) One of the biggest box sets of last year is now available in a slightly more compact form. The digital release of Archives Vol. III includes nearly 200 tracks, 121 of which are unreleased….

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Comedy, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Ace Frehley, Bob Mould, Britney Spears, D'Angelo, Emo Philips, Fall Out Boy, HAIM, John Williams, KISS, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Split Enz, Sugar

The Enz is Near! Split Enz Announce Start of Archival Series

August 19, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

Some time after Crowded House frontman Neil Finn indicated potential work being done with the catalogue of Split Enz – the cult-hero pop band co-founded by his older brother Tim – fans finally have some development on that front, with the first in a planned series of archival sets covering the group’s early, avant-garde years. Enzyclopedia Volumes One and Two will focus on the group’s early years, coalescing around the material leading up to 1975 debut Mental Notes, which celebrates a half-century this year. The 5CD set will feature remasters of Mental Notes…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Split Enz, Tim Finn

The Weekend Stream: March 29, 2025

March 29, 2025 by The Second Disc | 5 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. Classic Motown in concert, long-lost favorites from a country icon, a live country take on a Fab Four favorite, Gary Numan’s mid-’80s works, new music from Bachman-Turner Overdrive and a documentary on a late, great Australian musician…there really is a lot of ground to cover, and that’s not even all of it! Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye Live! (Deluxe Edition) (Motown/UMe) Original LP: Apple / Amazon Deluxe: Apple / Amazon To…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Give It a Whirl: Rubellan Plans CD Debut of Rare U.S. Pressing of Split Enz’s ‘Frenzy’

July 17, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

Not long after Neil Finn suggested that Split Enz’s catalogue affairs could be shaping up in the year to come, a very welcome CD premiere has been announced by Rubellan Remasters. They’ll release the U.S. version of the New Zealand group’s fourth album, Frenzy. The Enz recorded Frenzy with the core line-up that appeared on 1977’s Dizrythmia: founding members Tim Finn on vocals, keyboardist Eddie Rayner and Noel Crombie on percussion, along with bassist Nigel Griggs, drummer Malcolm Green and Tim’s younger brother Neil, an additional guitarist who would earn his first songwriting credits…

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Pop, Rock

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Neil Finn, Split Enz, Tim Finn

Back Tracks: Split Enz

June 3, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

It’s always a good time when Neil Finn has something to say. The legendary New Zealand singer-songwriter has been making the rounds promoting Gravity Stairs, the newly released album from Crowded House – and in an hourlong chat with countryman Zane Lowe for Apple Music, he said some exciting things for fans of Finn’s first band Split Enz, which he was a part of with his older brother Tim. “There’s various things happening with Split Enz at the moment, which I’m really happy about,” he revealed. “We’ve finally found somebody that has got…

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Features

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Pop, Rock

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Neil Finn, Split Enz, Tim Finn

Release Round-Up: Week of August 7

August 7, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, Live Reissues 1972-2018 (Capitol/UMe) Hot August Night (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / uDiscoverMusic.com) Love at the Greek (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com) Hot August Night II (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com) Hot August Night/NYC (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscovermusic.com) Hot August Night III (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscovermusic.com) All-Time Greatest Hits (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com / Target.com) Capitol and UMe are reissuing five classic Neil Diamond live albums as 2-LP vinyl editions beginning with 1972’s seminal Hot August Night and continuing with the unofficial sequel Love at the Greek (1977) as well as Hot August Night…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Collective Soul, Deep Purple, Grateful Dead, Joe Bonamassa, Joel McNeely, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Neil Diamond, Split Enz, The Stooges

Split Enz’s ‘True Colours’ Shine Bright On New Reissue

June 16, 2020 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

The album that introduced most of the world to New Zealand pop band Split Enz, True Colours is getting a new mix and expanded reissue for its 40th anniversary. The album now features a brand-new mix of the record by Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner, who’s often overseen the sonic quality of the band’s catalogue. “I have both the original stereo masters from the 1979 mixing sessions, and the versions currently held in repositories such as Spotify…and they are radically different, sonically,” Rayner said in a statement. “The original masters are mixed, but unmastered,…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Crowded House, Neil Finn, Split Enz, Tim Finn