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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
:Album Description:Lavish 11 inch x 11 inch CD box set housed in a hard-back book from classic Universal artists featuring around 100 pages of essays, beautiful photographs and memorabilia. This repackaging of the beloved Police box features 78 tracks spread across four CDs by one of the most successful bands of the New Wave era. Includes every album track, b-side and single released by this Sting-led band during their successful career. Universal.
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Threesome No. 1
: :The first three Mothers albums, released between June 1966 and March 1968, come packaged as a ruthless, mind-bending, (and now, midline) monster. During this period of remarkable and unprecedented creativity, Zappa and the Mothers produced ambitious, far-ranging, unsettling, provocative, and wholly original psychedelic rock--simultaneously ridiculing psychedelic rock as they raised it to a completely new level. The musical trail brilliantly meandered (bulldozed?) through garage rock, groovy R&B, avant-garde jazz, blissful pop, and patchwork sonic experimentalism. Lyrically, Zappa delivered serious political and social commentary in ways that were completely nonsensical; he delivered utter nonsense ...
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The Collection: The Clash/London Calling/Combat Rock
: :The first three Mothers albums, released between June 1966 and March 1968, come packaged as a ruthless, mind-bending, (and now, midline) monster. During this period of remarkable and unprecedented creativity, Zappa and the Mothers produced ambitious, far-ranging, unsettling, provocative, and wholly original psychedelic rock--simultaneously ridiculing psychedelic rock as they raised it to a completely new level. The musical trail brilliantly meandered (bulldozed?) through garage rock, groovy R&B, avant-garde jazz, blissful pop, and patchwork sonic experimentalism. Lyrically, Zappa delivered serious political and social commentary in ways that were completely nonsensical; he delivered utter nonsense ...
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In Your Honor
:Album Description:The DVD side of disc one contains a ‘making of the album’ documentary video and an enhanced stereo version of disc one. The DVD side of disc two features a hi-res DVD audio surround sound version of disc two. :It’s likely that a decade after its debut record this band now has fans who might ask, 'You mean Dave Grohl was in a band before the Foo Fighters?' But they, or any Foo followers who pine for the increasingly refined vocals and polished pop-punk uniformity of the first four albums, will swallow ...
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The Stiff Records Box Set
: :Understand from the get-go that label retrospectives are spotty affairs. Rare is the label that's free of stiffs, and Stiff Records' raison d'état was to serve as a refuge for castoffs, including a fair share of flaccid acts. The off-center likes of Nick Lowe (having recently fleed the misbegotten Brinsley Schwarz), Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Larry Wallis, and a very young Elvis Costello found a home with Stiff in the '70s. It wasn't a punk label, though it boasted the Damned; it wasn't a ska imprint, though Madness and Desmond Dekker recorded for ...
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A New High in Low
: :Understand from the get-go that label retrospectives are spotty affairs. Rare is the label that's free of stiffs, and Stiff Records' raison d'état was to serve as a refuge for castoffs, including a fair share of flaccid acts. The off-center likes of Nick Lowe (having recently fleed the misbegotten Brinsley Schwarz), Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Larry Wallis, and a very young Elvis Costello found a home with Stiff in the '70s. It wasn't a punk label, though it boasted the Damned; it wasn't a ska imprint, though Madness and Desmond Dekker recorded for ...
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Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology
: :It's hard to fault this three-CD collection, since Reed himself was so heavily involved with the project. Yet it presents the same problem posed by 'authorized' biographies. Coming after the success of New York, this anthology offers the more literary, politically correct side of Uncle Lou, neglecting the 'fuckin' faggot junkie' (his self-characterization, from Street Hassle's 'Gimme Good Times'--not included here) image he cultivated so effectively early in his immediate post-Velvet Underground years. Yes, he's an amazing rock poet, but he was also a rock & roll animal. There are just too many ...
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Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
: :It's hard to fault this three-CD collection, since Reed himself was so heavily involved with the project. Yet it presents the same problem posed by 'authorized' biographies. Coming after the success of New York, this anthology offers the more literary, politically correct side of Uncle Lou, neglecting the 'fuckin' faggot junkie' (his self-characterization, from Street Hassle's 'Gimme Good Times'--not included here) image he cultivated so effectively early in his immediate post-Velvet Underground years. Yes, he's an amazing rock poet, but he was also a rock & roll animal. There are just too many ...
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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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Remixes 81-04
:Album Description:This is the stuff true Depeche Mode fans have sought after for years! These mixes are the 'holy grail' of DM recordings! The set is a compendium of Depeche Mode classics remixed by some of the best remixers in the world, including Adrian Sherwood, William Orbit, Portishead, Air, Underworld, Goldfrapp, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Timo Maas and Depeche Mode themselves. This version is the limited edition triple disc set, featuring the bonus third disc with even more highly collectable and rare remixes.
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