Janet Jackson - The Second Disc

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Ann Wilson, Anthony Perkins, Bell Biv DeVoe, Bruce Springsteen, Daryl Hall, Duran Duran, Gloria Estefan, INXS, Janet Jackson, Jeff Healey, Jeff Healey Band, Leo Kottke, Luther Vandross, Miami Sound Machine, O.C. Smith, Ralph Tresvant, Ruth Copeland, Shorty Rogers, Sylvia

The Weekend Stream: September 16, 2023

September 16, 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. This week’s latest brings you a classic country centennial, remixes from Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson and The Art of Noise, a rare album from a songwriter moonlighting as a singer, hard-to-find Olivia Newton John songs and so much more! Hank Williams, Hank 100: Greatest Radio Hits (BMG Rights Management) (iTunes / Amazon) The initial puzzle piece in a planned centennial…

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Crystal Waters, Duke Ellington, Hank Williams, Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross, Mark James, Nick Cave, Olivia Newton-John, Pat Boone, Pulp, Seaweed, The Art of Noise, Veruca Salt

Release Round-Up: Week of July 7

July 7, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Pool-Pah, The Flasher: Original Soundtrack Recording (Real Gone/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate 50 years of the best album you’ve never heard: Pool-Pah’s The Flasher. In 1973, the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever closer to the mainstream. Against this backdrop, a talented New York band with the unlikely moniker of Pool-Pah teamed with up-and-coming singer-songwriter, musician, and…

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Billy Burnette, Flamin' Groovies, Hans Zimmer, Ill Biskits, Janet Jackson, Owsley, Pool-Pah, Rory Gallagher, Rupert Holmes, Suede, Taylor Swift, Wham!

The Weekend Stream: July 2, 2023

July 2, 2023 by The Second Disc | No 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. This week brings an R.E.M. classic given new life by a hit TV show, another side of one of Motown’s sultriest crooners, two Prince-related artists gone solo, dance grooves from Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul and an early version of one of the greatest epic film scores of the ’50s. R.E.M., Strange Currencies EP (Craft) (iTunes / Amazon) The…

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Bell Biv DeVoe, Bobby Hackett, Elmer Bernstein, Fishbone, Janet Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Paula Abdul, Prince, R.E.M., Ralph Tresvant, Richie Kotzen

Like a Moth to a Flame: Janet Jackson’s ‘janet.’ Gets Expanded for 30th Anniversary

May 19, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

With her fifth album, Janet Jackson took her artistry and popularity into a new gear for a new decade. Now, 30 years after janet. was released, it’s coming back into print this summer as an expanded edition featuring rare bonus material. Coming off the back-to-back critical and commercial smashes of Control (1986) and Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) – the latter of which met big brother Michael’s Thriller-era benchmark of seven Top 10 hits off one album, the youngest member of the Jackson family grabbed headlines in 1991 thanks to a record-breaking contract…

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Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

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The Weekend Stream: October 7, 2022

October 7, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend including an expanded edition from a superstar, a fun ’80s flashback, two expansions from a disco legend, some choice Motown memories, and more! Janet Jackson, The Velvet Rope (25th Anniversary Edition) (Virgin/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) A digital deluxe edition that merited its own press release? OK! Janet’s introspective sixth studio album – her first after the hits compilation…

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Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Edwin Starr, Janet Jackson, Paul Jabara, Phantom Planet, Soul Asylum, Yes

The Weekend Stream: February 20, 2021

February 20, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’re introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (Atlantic/Rhino) (iTunes /…

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Janet Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Kool Moe Dee, Maze, Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Release Round-Up: Week of January 22

January 22, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (BMG) 3CD/2 7-inch Box Set (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1LP Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 2CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks’ 1970 classic Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One arrives in a variety of formats including bonus material such as singles, B-sides, alternate mixes, session outtakes, BBC recordings, and newly-recorded commentary from Ray and Dave Davies. The box set (containing a 60-page book, 3 CDs, 2 x 7″ singles, and 4…

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Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Janet Jackson, Nicolas King, Richard Hell, Sam Cooke, The Kinks

All Rise: New Box Set Anthologizes Herb Alpert’s Discography

August 17, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 17 Comments

There are truly few in the music business like Herb Alpert. A trumpet player, songwriter, label co-founder, sculptor and philanthropist – Alpert is all these things and more, and they’re all due to be on display in a forthcoming documentary, appropriately titled Herb Alpert Is…, slated to premiere October 1. Just one day later, a new overview of his storied musical career is due. The box set Herb Alpert Is…, to be released through his own Herb Alpert Presents label, will compile 63 tracks from his storied studio output – those legendary…

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Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Hugh Masekela, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

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United ‘Nation’: Nine Digital Remix EPs Celebrate 30th Anniversary of Janet Jackson Classic

September 21, 2019 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

After putting much of Janet Jackson’s classic catalogue on vinyl out this year, UMe keeps the party going with a whopping nine new digital EPs to celebrate this week’s 30th anniversary of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. The label is premiering nearly 100 rare and digitally unavailable edits, instrumentals and remixes spanning Rhythm Nation‘s incredible run of hit singles for more than a year. Seven tracks – “Miss You Much,” “Rhythm Nation,” “Escapade,” “Alright,” “Come Back To Me,” “Black Cat” and “Love Will Never Do Without You” – all reached the Top…

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Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Shep Pettibone

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 26

July 26, 2019 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Janet Jackson, Control: The Remixes (A&M/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscover Store (color variant) Fans looking for some rare or hard-to-find content from Janet Jackson will flip for a new pressing of Control: The Remixes on 2LP and CD. Originally released in Europe and Japan in 1987, this pressing features all the tracks of the former territory’s releases (along with the original U.K. vinyl cover) plus additional mixes from the Control…

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Barbara Cook, Climax Blues Band, Ethel Merman, Janet Jackson, Jonathan Larson, Sammy Davis Jr., Soft Machine, Soundgarden, Sugar Ray, Tubby Hayes Quartet

The Pleasure Principle: Janet Jackson Albums Coming To Vinyl, Plus Expanded ‘Control: The Remixes’

July 18, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

When a new pressing of Janet Jackson’s breakthrough album Control was announced earlier this year, we speculated that perhaps the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and R&B/pop legend would finally be the subject of some catalog activity. That wish seems to be coming true: four more of Janet’s albums are coming to vinyl on July 24, along with an expanded edition of a remix album to be released in America for the first time! A&M/Virgin/UMe will press Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989), janet. (1993), The Velvet Rope (1997) and All For…

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Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from the autumn of 1975. The box includes five professionally recorded sets…

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Gimme a Beat! ‘Control’ Comes Back To Vinyl – Are More Janet Jackson Classics Coming?

April 19, 2019 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Even viewed through the incredible prism of her talented family, Janet Jackson has had one of the most formidable careers in modern music history. This year, after an impassioned fan campaign, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally inducted the youngest Jackson sibling, who’s released 10 Top 5 albums in the U.S., placed more than two dozen singles in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide of funky, engaging, conscious R&B songs. With an already exciting summer of live performances planned…

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Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

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‘Cause This Is Thriller Night: Michael Jackson’s “Scream” Arrives In October

September 6, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

On Monday evening, an animated teaser featuring black cats, a spider web, and other spooky imagery arrived on Michael Jackson’s official social media platforms, teasing the release of a project entitled Scream. Today, the details have been confirmed for this new 14-track collection. Scream, bringing together some of the late King of Pop’s darkest songs, will arrive from Epic and Legacy on September 29, giving listeners a month-plus to savor it in the build-up to one of Jackson’s favorite holidays, Halloween. Naturally, any collection of eerie Jackson material wouldn’t be complete without…

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Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, The Jacksons

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 2

October 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to our new Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Tug of War (MPL/Concord) The Paul McCartney Archive Collection continues with 1982’s Tug of War, featuring “Ebony and Ivory” and “Here Today.” The release is available in various formats: 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Special Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Check out our full feature for information on what you’ll find in each version! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Pipes of Peace (MPL/Concord) Paul…

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