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May 6, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Melissa Manchester Live 77

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today including a very special pair from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! Melissa Manchester, Live '77 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly present the premiere release of Melissa Manchester's Live '77, recorded by Arista Records in October 1977 at Gainesville, Florida's Great Southern

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Categories: Features, Giveaways!, Holiday Gift Guide, Interviews, News, Reissue Theory, Release Round-Up, Reviews, The Weekend Stream Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bette Midler, Darlene Love, Dusty Springfield, Graham Nash, John Fred and His Playboy Band, Les Baxter, Melissa Manchester, Neil Young, Ray Charles, Savage Republic, Sheryl Crow, The Blossoms, The Knack, Timothy B. Schmit

July 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Knack Zoom

"Pop is dead, bring a shovel!" So proclaimed The Knack in the acerbic lyric to the opening track of 1998's "comeback" album Zoom.  Of course, the song proved otherwise, as the years between 1991's Serious Fun and Zoom had been kind to the band, a.k.a. Doug Fieger (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Prescott Niles (bass) and Berton Averre (lead guitar/keyboards/vocals).  Omnivore Recordings has recently reissued Zoom and its follow-up, Normal as the Next Guy, along with 2001's Live from

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Knack

July 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Today's Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes.  Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, Roger Waters, The Doobie Brothers, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Various Artists

June 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

rolling stones sticky fingers

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, headlined by the long-awaited return of The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers in a variety of formats and editions! The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (UMe) 3-CD/1-DVD Super Deluxe Edition Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Digital Download:

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dave Edmunds, Eydie Gorme, Faith No More, Jackie Lomax, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Stephanie Mills, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Valerie Simpson

May 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Yes Progeny

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a number of rock legends! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 - the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs.  For those who don't need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP Highlights distillations are also available (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) ! Jeff Beck, Live+ (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Jeff Beck, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Rare Earth, The Knack, Thelonious Monk, Yes

January 8, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

book a trip 21

Between 1965 and 1970, Los Angeles’ Capitol Tower – standing then, as it does now, near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine - was the place to be.  Capitol Records had The Beatles, and the Beach Boys, too.  But the label that Nancy Wilson and The Lettermen called home also hosted a number of bands with groovy names like The Tuneful Trolley, The Sugar Shoppe, The Pink Cloud, The New Kick and (my personal favorite) The Unforscene.  These happening acts, and many more, take the spotlight on Book

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: The Knack, The Sugar Shoppe, The Tuneful Trolley

September 12, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

the knack rock and roll is good for you

Before there was The Knack, there was Doug Fieger and Berton Averre.  The former was a Detroit native and a member of the band Sky, the latter a working musician from the San Francisco Bay Area.  They began collaborating in 1973, beginning an odyssey that would reach its first milestone six years later when the sensibly-titled Get the Knack on Capitol Records reportedly became the fastest-selling debut album since Meet the Beatles.  But before “My Sharona” took Fieger, Averre, Bruce Gary and

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Categories: Reviews Tags: The Knack

September 11, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

english beat us

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Tarkus: Deluxe Editions (Razor & Tie) Full review coming soon, but you should know that these are 2-CD/1-DVD sets featuring unreleased alternate takes and 5.1 surround mixes for these two classic prog-rock LPs. Dio, Singles Box Set (UMC) A U.K.-made collectible box replicating all of Dio's Vertigo 12" singles, plus the Intermission live EP and a DVD of music videos. The English Beat, Live at The US Festival '82 & '83 (Shout!

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, DVD Tags: The Beat, The English Beat, The Knack

September 6, 2012 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

the knack time waits for no one

When The Knack burst onto the scene in 1979 with the album Get the Knack, allegedly the fastest-selling debut LP since Meet the Beatles, was it a case of déjà vu for Dink Kaplan, Larry Gould, Pug Baker and Michael Chain?  The "My Sharona" group was a quartet that came to prominence in Los Angeles, played the Sunset Strip, signed to Capitol Records, and was lauded for a Beatlesque pop style via a massive promotional campaign.  But Kaplan, Gould, Baker and Chain had been through it all before. 

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Knack

May 22, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Chubby Checker, It's Pony Time/Let's Twist Again/Durocs, Durocs/Terry Knight and the Pack, Terry Knight and the Pack/Reflections/The Orlons, The Wah Watusi/South Street/Various Artists, Remember Me Baby: Cameo Parkway Vocal Groups Vol. 1 (Real Gone Music) The latest group from Real Gone Music includes classics from the vaults of Philadelphia's Cameo-Parkway label plus power-pop from San Francisco's Durocs! Isaac Hayes and Dionne Warwick, A Man and A Woman/Cissy Houston, Presenting Cissy

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Neil Sedaka, Paul McCartney, The Knack, The Three Degrees

May 22, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

the knack rave up2

Not every album lives up to its title, but The Knack’s Havin’ a Rave-Up! certainly does!  The group - Doug Fieger on vocals and rhythm guitar, Berton Averre on lead guitar, keyboards and vocals, Prescott Niles on bass, and Bruce Gary on drums – had quite a number of rave-ups on Los Angeles’ famed Sunset Strip in 1978, and made quite a big noise.  The quartet was suddenly being deemed the American answer to The Beatles.  Musicians the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Ray Manzarek were

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: The Knack

May 2, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

the knack rave up1

Nobody could accuse the fine folks at Omnivore Recordings of not living up to the label's name!  After all, "omnivore" is derived from the Latin for "all" and "everything."   And Omnivore's recently announced slate of upcoming releases certainly qualifies as encompassing music from an incredibly wide variety of genres and eras.  The label's packed line-up for May, June and July takes in legends from the world of comedy and country-and-western plus new wave and power pop pioneers! Two releases

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Ernie Kovacs, Jellyfish, The Knack

March 30, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

byrds rsd

We're just three weeks away from Record Store Day on April 21, and following individual announcements from fantastic labels like Omnivore Recordings, Concord Records, Sundazed Music and Rhino/Warner Bros., we can finally reveal the full line-up of RSD-related goodies! These limited editions, available at independent music retailers across the U.S. and even internationally, are primarily vinyl releases in various formats (7-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch, etc.) and range from replicas of classic albums

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Categories: News Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Otis Redding, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul McCartney, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Paul Simon, Record Store Day, Small Faces, T Rex, The Everly Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Knack, Vinyl

March 5, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

buck owens coloring book1

We’re less than two months away from Record Store Day, and with that means the promise of major limited edition releases from many of the labels you read about each day here at The Second Disc.  Los Angeles’ Omnivore Recordings, one of our favorite new labels of 2011, is leading the pack with its announcement of two unique titles to be made available on April 21 for Record Store Day.  The more unusual of the two is, believe it or not, a coloring book!  Yes, Omnivore is offering a 2,500-copy

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Categories: News Tags: Buck Owens, Record Store Day, The Knack, Vinyl

February 14, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

the knack2

Rock fans have had some sad news to cope with today: Doug Fieger, the unmistakable lead singer for The Knack, died today after a lengthy battle with cancer. While The Knack may be seen by some as a semi-sleazy one-hit wonder (or two-hit, if you count "Good Girls Don't"), their brand of power pop was emblematic of everything the genre should be: fun, catchy and not the least bit serious. In honor of Fieger's band and their contributions to the pop-rock scene, here's a special look back at the

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Categories: News Tags: Back Tracks, The Knack

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