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The Weekend Stream: November 22, 2025

November 22, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. A real grab bag for you before the Thanksgiving holiday: cut songs from Broadway comedies, rarities from a ’60s soul/rock legend, an inexplicably remastered charity single, rare 12″ mixes and remastered jazz. Have a listen, won’t you?? Various Artists, Monty Python’s Spamalot (Original Broadway Cast Recording/20th Anniversary Edition) (Decca Broadway) (Apple / Amazon) Something to (always) look on the bright side of life over: a new reissue of the music…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Life’s What They Made It: Slightly Expanded Talk Talk Compilation Gets CD, Vinyl Release

January 23, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 7 Comments

Nearly two decades after its original release, a compilation from U.K. band Talk Talk will be dusted off and reconfigured for reissue. 1997’s The Very Best of Talk Talk was, at the time, a pretty standard affair – a postmortem of the band’s evolution from New Romantic hitmakers to ambitious art-rock ensemble, six years after the band took their final bow. Modestly promoted, it missed the U.K. Top 40 but still was a gold seller in England. Now, it’s being reissued on CD and, for the first time, double vinyl, in slightly altered…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Talk Talk

Shake It Up! Rhino Announces Offering for Start Your Ear Off Right 2021

January 8, 2021 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Rhino’s annual resolve to Start Your Ear Off Right continues into 2021 with new and exclusive, limited-edition releases to be released throughout January. The campaign begins today and includes titles by a diverse lineup: Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Buffalo Springfield, The Cars, Dire Straits, Danny Elfman, Genesis, k.d. lang, Curtis Mayfield, John Prine, Talk Talk, and Talking Heads. You can find all the details about these releases below, and be sure to grab these releases from your favorite independent record shop or their online storefronts as well as select Barnes…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

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Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Buffalo Springfield, Curtis Mayfield, Danny Elfman, Dire Straits, Genesis, John Prine, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, The Cars, k.d. lang

Release Round-Up: Week of January 15

January 15, 2013 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

New Order, The Lost Sirens (Rhino) (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) A cadre of outtakes from the Waiting for the Siren’s Call sessions, this marks the last New Order material with original bassist Peter Hook. Johnny Mathis, A Special Part of Me: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) (Funkytowngrooves) FTG’s latest R&B expansion has a Michael Jackson connection: the future King of Pop co-wrote for Mathis “Love Never Felt So Good” with Paul Anka! Talk Talk, Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk 1982-1988 (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) / Natural Order 1982-1991 (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) (Virgin/EMI) Not only a CD/DVD reissue of Talk Talk’s first compilation, but…

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News, Release Round-Up

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DVD

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Michael Jackson, New Order, Paul Anka, Talk Talk, The Jackson 5