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Collectors Box
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Clash on Broadway
: :They were one the Only Band That Matters! Of course, that was when punk rock had to raise a ruckus to get noticed and restless youth turned to pop stars for political perspective. In retrospect, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon (the latter occasionally supplanted at the drum kit by Terry Chimes) didn't have all the answers. But they posed apt questions and had the grand sense of scale that their punk pathfinder rivals lacked--save accidental nihilists the Sex Pistols. Clash on Broadway encases 63 tracks on three discs and ...
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Bowie at the Beeb: The Best of the BBC Radio Sessions
: :Comprehensiveness isn't always a virtue, as this three-CD set proves. It gathers together everything David Bowie recorded for the BBC between the years referenced in its title, plus a third disc taken from a June 2000 London concert for the famed British radio broadcasting company. Head first to disc two, which focuses on Bowie's in-studio recreations of material from Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust, and marvel at the glam-rockabilly heat generated by Bowie's Spiders from Mars band. By comparison, the other two discs are a disappointment. The first reveals a musical chameleon uncomfortably ...
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Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-1982 [ENHANCED CD]
: :Grow Fins is an impeccably assembled, lavishly produced, epic fanboy love poem to one of popular music's least popular and most influential geniuses, Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart. Packaged in a hardcover accordion folio that recalls the 78-rpm era, five CDs of demos, acetates, concert recordings, video footage, and radio broadcasts are packaged alongside 112 densely annotated, highly illuminating pages of previously unpublished text and photos that leap from trainspotting minutiae to insider revelation. The sound has been cleaned up considerably, but the set is essentially the world's coolest bootleg. The upshot ...
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10 Year Anniversary Box Set (22 CD-singles, booklet, & case)
:Album Description:Special anniversary box with 22 CD singles! Packaged in a 'Case-Logic'-like box with a 28 page color booklet, each disc comes in a separate slipcase sleeve. Each single includes all of the B-sides that first graced it, for a total of 127 tracks. Hits incl
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Circus Live
:Album Description:2007 three disc live set (two CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) by former Velvet Underground member and the ringmaster of the avant-garde, Mr. John Cale. The album is virtually a career retrospective, recorded live on John's 2006 European tour. Cale felt like he'd finally found the personnel to interpret his songs with new twists, new dimensions and new emotions. None more so evident than the track 'Gun', originally appearing on 1974's Eno & Manzanera produced Fear but now sounding akin to a heavy arsenal of crunching weaponry. Inspired, Cale recorded the dates ...
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Singles Box
: : Blondie Photos More from Blondie Blondie - Greatest Hits Parallel Lines Blondie Autoamerican Plastic Letters The Hunter
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2½ Years
: :Elvis Costello issued his first three albums within a 16-month span; 2 1/2 Years compiles them, with bonus tracks, in one of the greatest bargains of all time. These are the Rykodisc remasters of My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, and Armed Forces--as revelatory as ever--combined with Live at El Mocambo, a document of a show on Elvis and the Attractions' second U.S. tour (1978) that is available only here. --Rickey Wright
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Hardcore UFOs Box Set: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere
: :Elvis Costello issued his first three albums within a 16-month span; 2 1/2 Years compiles them, with bonus tracks, in one of the greatest bargains of all time. These are the Rykodisc remasters of My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, and Armed Forces--as revelatory as ever--combined with Live at El Mocambo, a document of a show on Elvis and the Attractions' second U.S. tour (1978) that is available only here. --Rickey Wright
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Lazy Line Painter Jane
:Album Description:Fans who missed out on the 3 import EPs between 'If You're Feeling Sinister' and 'The Boy With the Arab Strap' should pick up this set that puts them all in 1 box, as it's quality work and all non-LP material. A Matador Records release. :The three four-song EPs that Belle and Sebastian released on their own Jeepster label in 1997 are regarded by many fans to be their most enjoyable artifacts, and it's hard to argue. Like a Peel session, there is a looser feel to these recordings; they're less perfectionist ...
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