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The Weekend Stream: May 9, 2026

May 9, 2026 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. It may not get more eclectic than this one, folks! We’ve got catalogue classics from jazz immortals, country icons and ’80s hitmakers; new songs from legends of classic rock, R&B, adult contemporary and hip-hop; new sounds from MUNA, The Waterboys, and Crack the Sky’s John Palumbo; and a sampler of international works, from Spanish chorale to Austrian pop that won…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Andy Partridge, Barry Manilow, Chaka Khan, Clodagh Rodgers, Crack The Sky, Eddy Arnold, Gene Pitney, George Michael, Jim Reeves, John Coltrane, MUNA, Mike Finnigan, Motörhead, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Mike Sammes Singers, The Rolling Stones, The Waterboys, Udo Jürgens

Release Round-Up: Week of February 23

February 23, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Davy Jones, The Bell Records Story (7a) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones’ second solo LP, 1971’s Davy Jones as part of the artist’s The Bell Records Story. The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David…

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Davy Jones, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jools Holland, Kim Wilde, Kissing the Pink, Melissa Manchester, Michael Feinstein, Natalie Douglas, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, The Dream Academy, The Waterboys

The Weekend Stream: October 28, 2023

October 28, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. A beloved Madonna ballad, a new Journey remix and a benefit compilation for Ukranian relief all get center stage today, plus a few unheard gems for country and electronic fans alike. Madonna, You’ll See (The Remixes) (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) This emotional 1995 ballad, a collaboration between the Queen of Pop and David Foster, was the lead single off a terrific…

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Brinsley Schwarz, Crowded House, Dave Stewart, Doris Day, Jackson Browne, Jethro Tull, Journey, Madonna, Marc Almond, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Thompson, Roberta Flack, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks, The Waterboys

Waterboys Reel In “Fisherman’s Blues” Box for October, November

October 23, 2013 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

In their heyday as one of Europe’s premiere post-punk bands, there were three words associated with The Waterboys: “the big music.” The Scottish-Irish-English band, led and anchored by singer/songwriter Mike Scott, hit it big on the other side of the Atlantic with emotionally resonant rock, awash in ringing guitars and evocative lyrics. Leave it to someone like Scott to break the mold with the band’s fourth album, Fisherman’s Blues – which is the subject of an exhaustive box set released today. Recorded over two years in Dublin and Galway, Ireland and Berkeley, California, Fisherman’s…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 22

October 22, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Tears for Fears, The Hurting: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) The landmark debut album from the U.K. hitmakers celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new double-disc deluxe edition stocked with rare single-only material and a deluxe box set version with a bonus disc of John Peel sessions and the In My Mind’s Eye live concert film on DVD. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Van Morrison, Moondance: Expanded Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) Though Van would rather you not buy this box, it features his classic 1970 album (newly remastered and in a new 5.1 surround sound…

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Laura Nyro, Matt Monro, Queen, Robin Trower, Spencer Davis Group, TLC, Tears for Fears, Ten Years After, The Waterboys, UFO, Van Morrison

Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Queen, Queen / Queen II / Sheer Heart Attack / A Night at the Opera / A Day at the Races: Deluxe Editions (Hollywood) No, you’re not seeing double. The first batch of 40th anniversary Queen expanded editions, available in the U.K. since March, make their stateside debuts. There’s an Amazon-exclusive box with all of them included, too. Dear readers: any big box retailers carrying these? The only one I imagine that is would be Best Buy. (Official site) The Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Capitol/EMI) The first time this seminal album…

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Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, The Go-Go's, The Hollies, The Supremes, The Waterboys

This Was the Sea: Waterboys to Release Vintage Demos

March 17, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

in a special place the piano demos for this is the sea

Here’s another something we can share that Slicing Up Eyeballs expertly bought to our attention: a collection of demos from Scottish rock group The Waterboys. Considered the early forbearers of the “Big Music” sound – a style that would become synonymous with the band’s first three albums and would describe other bands like Big Country, The Alarm and Simple Minds – The Waterboys, led by Mike Scott, achieved some of their greatest success with This is the Sea in 1985. Bolstered by the popular single “The Whole of the Moon” (which would…

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