USB superdrive is rejecting some music CDs

This year I purchased a new iMac (27" late 2013 running OS X 10.9.4) and a usb superdive to go with it.
Today I went to rip some music into itunes, however the superdive will not accept one of the disks. It doesnt sound like the disk is really spinning at all, the drive is making a "clicking" sound, like the laser is fully articulating. Then after about 20 seconds the disk is ejected.
The disk (Saturdays = Youth by M83) was released in 2008, so its not too new, but nor is it too old.
I tried popping the disk into my 13" late 2011 macbook pro to make sure the disk wasn't at fault, and it worked just fine on the old laptop.
I would like to get to the bottom of this issue as it is a little annoying to rip the music onto my laptop and then air drop it to the iMac (although this is the first time this has happened, I get 1 or 2 CDs a week so it could arise again)
Is there something wrong with the drive? or could it be user error somehow?
Thanks in advance

First try cleaning the CDs that are not reading
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-clean-dvd-or-cd-disc.html
and the DVD/CD drive with a lens cleaning disc.
http://www.amazon.com/Memorex-CD-DVD-Player-Laser-Lens-Cleaner
Then if that does not help, get yourself a good tray loading desktop drive.

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