Editors Going “Unedited” with New Box Set

If you keep kicking yourself for not picking up anything by British rock group Editors, now’s your chance to get it all in one buy – and then some.

The Birmingham band has recently begun work on their fourth studio album, and has put together a massive compilation of nearly all of their work to date for release in February. Unedited collates the band’s first three albums – 2005’s The Back Room and U.K. chart-toppers An End Has a Start (2007) and In This Light and On This Evening (2009) – along with four discs of B-sides under the title You Are Fading. All of this music will be present on seven CDs and seven vinyl LPs in a 12″ box with a 100-page art book.

Pre-orders are starting now for an estimated February 28 ship date (at which point the You Are Fading compilation will be available as a digital download), and bandleader Tom Smith will provide a personalized surprise for fans in the first 200 orders.

View the full track list after the jump.

The Search is Over: Two Survivor LPs Coming Back to CD

British indie label Rock Candy Records is putting two Survivor albums back in print: 1983’s Caught in the Game and 1984’s Vital Signs.

These two LPs followed Survivor’s 1982 smash “Eye of the Tiger,” famously featured on the soundtrack to Rocky III; interestingly, only one of them had any degree of success. Caught in the Game was mostly a stiff, only managing No. 82 on the Billboard charts (the same position as pre-success LP Premonition in 1981) and the title track, the only single, did not perform well. By contrast, Vital Signs was a hit: “I Can’t Hold Back” peaked at No. 13, while subsequent singles “High on You” and “The Search is Over” fared even better, respectively charting at No. 8 and No. 4 in the U.S.

Both discs are remastered from the original tapes and feature expanded liner notes. Vital Signs is extended by one track: “The Moment of Truth,” as heard on the soundtrack to The Karate Kid (1984). Both can be ordered on Amazon U.K.; they will be available to order in the U.S. on December 7. View the track lists after the jump.

What Catalogue Titles Got Grammy Nominations?

While you may or may not be fussing over this year’s mainstream Grammy nominees (count this writer in the latter category), The Second Disc wanted to congratulate nominees for catalogue-related pursuits. One catalogue title has been nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, two got nods for Best Album Notes and Best Historical Recording is pretty self-explanatory. (Also, interestingly, the title track from posthumous Michael Jackson compilation This is It was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, alongside fresher-faced nominees Michael Bublé, John Mayer, Bruno Mars and Adam Lambert.)

See the catalogue-oriented nominees after the jump, and congratulations to all those who were nominated!