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January 24, 2023 By Joe Marchese 18 Comments

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It didn't take long for The Monkees to realize that they'd experienced a level of success far beyond their wildest dreams.  Far from being mere actors on a television show portraying a band, they'd been thrust in front of capacity crowds in stadiums, arenas, and large auditoriums - a de facto band that, in reality, wasn't yet calling the shots on their own careers and music.  That changed when Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork demanded creative freedom from impresario Don

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Monkees

January 3, 2023 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

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Happy 2023!  Welcome, friends, to The Second Disc's 13th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! A lot has happened in the last twelve months, but as we look to a new year with optimism and a hopeful spirit, we recognize the many roles music has played in our lives.  With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2022's cream of the catalogue music crop - those exemplary reissues and box sets, big and small, that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers worldwide.  Despite the

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Categories: Features Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Stewart, Blondie, Culture Club, David Bowie, Elton John, Eugene Ormandy, Freddie Hubbard, Gold Bonus Disc Awards, Henry Mancini, Jimi Jamison, John Barry, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Hamlisch, The Monkees, Vince Guaraldi

November 1, 2022 By The Second Disc 17 Comments

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55 years ago, The Monkees took part in what TV Guide deemed to be "the Great Revolt of '67."  Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork demanded creative control from impresario Don Kirshner - and won it.  The group might have been brought together as actors portraying a band, but they were ready to build upon their phenomenal success and become that band in reality, too.  The Headquarters album, The Monkees' third, was the startling result.  It became their third consecutive No.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Monkees

August 12, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Jimi Jamison Rock Hard

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Jimi Jamison, Rock Hard (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic Records is now premiering Rock Hard, Survivor lead singer Jimi Jamison's previously unreleased 1990 album, in a deluxe, expanded CD edition.  Intended to be Jamison's solo debut, Rock Hard features 10 songs including three previously unreleased compositions, three previously unreleased

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Books, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Jimi Jamison, Mary Rodgers, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Survivor, The Monkees

July 19, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Michael Nesmith Different Drum Vinyl

You asked, we answered!  Since Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings premiered on CD in April 2021 from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records, we've been inundated with requests for a vinyl edition.  In a little over two weeks, on August 5, the 22-track anthology will make its debut in the format as a deluxe gatefold 2-LP set pressed on "blue smoke" vinyl. Let's fill you in with our official press release: Michael Nesmith long travelled to the beat of a "Different

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, The Monkees

July 15, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Get Back (Apple/Disney) DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After a manufacturing delay scuttled a release earlier this year, The Beatles: Get Back finally made it to DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday.  Both presentations offer director Peter Jackson's three-part, 468-minute Get Back on three discs - one part per disc.  No additional bonus features have been included, although

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Alan Parsons, Boyce and Hart, Chicago, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart, Elizabeth Ward Land, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Monkees

July 8, 2022 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Elton John Regimental Sgt. Zippo Stereo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today! George Michael, Older: Deluxe Edition (Legacy) 5CD/3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada George Michael's third solo album - and the one he believed to be his finest - returns from Legacy Recordings in a new 5CD/3LP edition and a 2LP set.  This expansion of 1996's Older features both the remastered album and the EP Upper (included with

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dio, Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart, Elton John, George Michael, Journey, Kool and the Gang, Neil Young, Nelson, Richie Furay, Sting, The Monkees

May 18, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart

The names of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart have long been inextricably linked with that of The Monkees.  The duo penned many of the band's most familiar songs including "(Theme From) 'The Monkees,'" "I Wanna Be Free," "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone," "Valleri," and the chart-topping "Last Train to Clarksville."  So when promoters were seeking a Monkees reunion in the mid-1970s, and with Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork unavailable, it's unsurprising that Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz turned to Boyce

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Boyce and Hart, Davy Jones, Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

July 19, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

More of the Monkees ROG

Following its recent deluxe LP reissue of The Monkees' debut, Run Out Groove is turning its attention to More of the Monkees, the group's sophomore LP featuring the chart-topping "I'm a Believer" and top 20 hit "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone."  More of the Monkees displaced its predecessor from the top of the Billboard 200 where it remained for a staggering 18 weeks.  A sign of the times, it became the first pop-rock LP to top Billboard's year-end sales chart.  In addition to Neil Diamond's 'I'm

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: The Monkees

June 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Biohazard Urban Discipline

The votes are in, and the next title to be released by Run Out Groove will be a 2-LP, 30th anniversary deluxe vinyl edition of metal band Biohazard's 1992 sophomore album Urban Discipline.  Pre-orders are open now for this set which will feature bonus tracks making their debut on vinyl as well as an exclusive fold-out poster. The Brooklyn-formed band came together in 1987 and is now recognized as one of the earliest groups to fuse hardcore metal, punk, and rap/hip-hop.  The four-piece line-up

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Biohazard, Flotsam and Jetsam, Mance Lipscomb, The Monkees

March 11, 2021 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Monkees Day By Day DE Slipcase

Since its publication in 2005, author Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story has been an indispensable reference tool for fans of Davy, Micky, Peter, and Michael - not to mention one helluva read.  But as the years passed, the guide to all things Monkees went out of print, with secondhand copies fetching in the three-figure range.  Happily, Sandoval has returned to the book for a completely new edition due this June.  We were thrilled to have the chance to speak with the author

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Categories: Interviews, News Formats: Books Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, The Monkees

March 11, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Micky Dolenz Dolenz Sings Nesmith

Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith have shared a musical journey together since 1966 when The Monkees first hit the NBC airwaves and the group's chart-topping debut album arrived in stores on the Colgems label.  When COVID-19 unexpectedly struck one year ago, Dolenz and Nesmith were preparing to take to the road once again for An Evening with The Monkees; once the virus rendered that impossible, Dolenz got to work on a celebration of his dedicated friend's classic songs.  The result is Dolenz

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

March 9, 2021 By The Second Disc 28 Comments

Michael Nesmith Different Drum The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

The Second Disc is proud to announce the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 - and it's one that's been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a "Different Drum"-whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre.  In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, The Monkees

October 13, 2020 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Peter Tork Stranger Things Have Happened

7a Records has already delivered a treasure trove of releases from Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith on CD and vinyl.  Is anyone missing from that list?  Now, 7a has just announced its first release from the late Peter Tork: the first-time reissue of his only solo album, 1994's Stranger Things Have Happened, in a deluxe, expanded edition.  It's due on December 4 in the U.K. and December 11 in the U.S., and will feature a generous nine bonus tracks on CD - including several seeing

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, The Monkees

October 9, 2020 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

The Monkees The Monkees

The Monkees are coming back to vinyl with the next release from Run Out Groove!  Today, the label announced that its next fan-voted title will be the 1966 debut of Micky, Davy, Michael, and Peter.  It will arrive as a deluxe 2-LP set featuring an entire disc of new-to-vinyl bonus tracks (including two previously unissued tracks and four previously unissued mixes).  Kevin Gray and Andrew Sandoval have cut the lacquers directly from the original analog master tapes. Though The Monkees didn't

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: The Monkees

August 27, 2020 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Warren Zevon Stand in the Fire

Get ready to howl!  Run Out Groove has announced its latest fan-voted release, and it's from the late singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.  The label will press a limited and numbered Deluxe Edition of Zevon's live album Stand in the Fire - Recorded Live at The Roxy in a generously expanded format.  The original LP was originally released at the tail end of 1980 and was recorded over a five-night stand in August of that year at the famed West Hollywood venue.  It boasted ten tracks - including

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Lenny Kravitz, Louis XIV, The Monkees, Warren Zevon

July 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Micky Dolenz Live in Japan

Even today, the name Kodak is synonymous with photography.  But in 1980 Japan, Kodak was synonymous with The Monkees.  The venerable company had scored a popular commercial there with the group's recording of "Daydream Believer," leading to a fresh wave of Monkeemania.  Word spread, and soon, Davy Jones and Peter Tork were touring the country as solo acts.  Micky Dolenz was third to arrive, having comfortably reestablished himself as not only a stage star but a theatrical and television

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

July 10, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead Workingmans Dead

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Grateful Dead/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Often hailed as one of Grateful Dead's most accessible albums along with its follow-up, American Beauty, Workingman's Dead placed its focus on tighter songcraft in a country/folk-oriented vein that would later be described as "Americana." It introduced the group's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barbara Mandrell, Burt Bacharach, Carol Channing, Daniel Tashian, Donna Summer, Elvis Costello, Gordon Anderson, Grateful Dead, John Lodge, Laura Branigan, Little Steven, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Rufus Wainwright, Tammy Wynette, The Foundations, The Monkees

April 3, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Monkees Live The Mike and Micky Show

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Andy Williams, Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has the first-ever collection of never-before-heard music from Andy Williams' Columbia Records years. Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 boasts 20 selections direct from the Columbia vault encompassing 16 previously unreleased studio outtakes and four rare singles. Every track on Emperor of Easy

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Robbie Basho, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Goodman, The Alan Parsons Project, The Monkees, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

February 24, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Micky Dolenz Live in Japan

Last year, 7a Records - the label dedicated to all things Monkees - chronicled the early 1980s rise of Monkeemania in Japan with the release of Davy Jones' Live in Japan. On May 8, 7a will celebrate another Monkee solo tour from that era with Micky Dolenz's own Live in Japan. Like Davy's entry, Micky's release will be available in CD/DVD and vinyl LP formats. Early 1982 saw Dolenz make the trip to Japan where he embarked on his first tour as a solo artist. Much as Jones had adopted the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, Paul Williams, The Monkees

November 29, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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​From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. Record Store Day Black Friday is now almost upon us, so we thought we'd spotlight a few particularly exciting releases arriving to your local brick-and-mortar record shop! Here's our round up of RSD BF must-haves!  We're kicking off with Sam's list, and then we'll follow with Randy and Joe's! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Singles Collection 1968

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Bill Conti, Bruce Springsteen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cannibal and The Headhunters, Chet Baker, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Patsy Cline, Squeeze, The Monkees, The Pretenders, Todd Rundgren, Tony Joe White, William Shatner

November 12, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

The Monkees Live The Mike and Micky Show

Hey hey, a live album from the latest tour from Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees is coming from Rhino Records - and more live dates are on the way, too! The triumphant third (but who's counting?) act of The Monkees has been a treat for classic pop and rock fans. In 2016, the three surviving members of the beloved group - Dolenz, Nesmith and Peter Tork - came together for Good Times!, an improbably great record to mark their 50th anniversary. Part archival exercise (with songs

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, The Monkees

October 9, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Monkees Christmas Party Plus

And what does Rhino have planned for this year's Record Store Day Black Friday festivities? Warner's catalog music arm has eight vinyl titles coming to indies on November 29. Expect a few vinyl debuts, some stalwarts of the label (The Monkees, Devo, The Doors) and some newly-available holiday material, appropriate for the end of the year! Learn all about it ahead. Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies Live (Warner) Originally released on a deluxe edition of Alice Cooper's bestselling 1973

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Aretha Franklin, Devo, Lou Reed, Pretenders, Rush, The Doors, The Monkees

August 13, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Davy Jones Live in Japan

Everyone's familiar with the initial wave of Monkeemania that swept America in the 1960s, not to mention the second wave spurred on by MTV's reruns of The Monkees' classic sitcom in the 1980s. But 7a Records - that tireless label dedicated to all things Monkee - has trained a well-deserved spotlight upon a lesser-known chapter of the Monkees phenomenon. The time was 1981 and the place was Japan. The late Davy Jones seized upon the popularity of a Kodak commercial there featuring "Daydream

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees

May 24, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

Summerof69 SQ

On the heels of their announcement of the expansive Woodstock 50 campaign, Rhino has announced a new series celebrating The Summer of '69: Peace, Love, and Music. Beginning on July 9, the campaign will feature a three-week-long roll-out of limited-edition vinyl releases of classic recordings from the Woodstock era by the likes of Van Morrison; The Monkees; Grateful Dead; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and many more. These LPs will be available in participating brick-and-mortar stores only.  Online

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills and Nash, Graham Nash, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Monkees, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison

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