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Her Greatest Hits
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The Man Who Invented Soul
: :\N essential recording:Sam Cooke had a voice like clover honey, and he was as ingenious a businessman as he was an artist--carefully treading the line between smooth pop and deep R&B to bring both audiences to him, as well as together. Disc 1 of this set compiles his 1957-1959 recordings for the Keen label, which had tamed the former gospel tiger into a sweet, wry songwriter with a taste for crooning standards and a signature yodel that marked every song as his property. The second and third discs do ...
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The Singles 81-85
:Album Description:UK box-set spans the height of the 80s icons career from their very first single 'Planet Earth' to their James Bond tune 'A View To A Kill'. 13 discs including all the original B-sides. The packaging is a flip top box with each single in a 'pouchette' reproduction of the original artwork. EMI. 2003. :The arrival of The Singles demonstrates perfect timing. With the impulse to treat 1980s pop with irony finally dying and cutting-edge American bands such as the Rapture and the Faint directly sourcing Brit synth-pop, this lavish ...
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The Motown Box
:Album Description:UK box-set spans the height of the 80s icons career from their very first single 'Planet Earth' to their James Bond tune 'A View To A Kill'. 13 discs including all the original B-sides. The packaging is a flip top box with each single in a 'pouchette' reproduction of the original artwork. EMI. 2003. :The arrival of The Singles demonstrates perfect timing. With the impulse to treat 1980s pop with irony finally dying and cutting-edge American bands such as the Rapture and the Faint directly sourcing Brit synth-pop, this lavish ...
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Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life
: :The 1970s produced a peculiar school of singer-songwriters whose narrative-driven lyrics set them apart from their self-reflective peers. Think of David Ackles and Randy Newman on the fringes, and far nearer the mainstream, the 'Captain Jack'-era Billy Joel and earnest-to-the-core Harry Chapin. Chapin first made a splash in 1972 with 'Taxi,' a claustrophobic little melodrama set in a cab. He made the top 20 two years later with the familial 'Cat's in the Cradle.' Though he'd never climb so high again, songs such as 'W*O*L*D' and 'Dance Band on the Titanic,' ...
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Kiss
: :Set aside the makeup, pyrotechnics, and coffin sales, and all that's left of 'the hottest band in the world' is the music. Fortunately, in the case of Kiss, the music is their strongest suit. This five-CD box set blends previously released recordings, demos, and unreleased live material. Rarities come in large part from the band's halcyon makeup period and include unheard songs from an assortment of demos. Among the curios are the Wicked Lester versions of 'She' and 'Love Her All I Can,' replete with horn kicks and hand percussion. No ...
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Old Friends
: essential recording:Perhaps sensing that their Collected Works felt a bit skimpy with only tracks from their five studio albums included, this collection features 15 previously unreleased tracks including live material, demos, and studio outtakes previously unreleased, alongside a substantial number of the duo's hits. Early demos point up Paul Simon's excellent acoustic guitar fingerpicking and emerging songwriting. 'The Sound of Silence' is featured in its original undubbed form and the later overdubbed band version that became the hit. The duo's strongest work is all here and the addition of several ...
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This Woman's Work Anthology 1978 - 1990
:Album Description:All six studio albums she cut for EMI and two CDs with 29 rarities from this time period, including mixes, B-sides & live tracks. 96 tracks total. Also contains a 28 page full color CD sized photo booklet. Each disc comes in a standard jewel case & each stores nicely in an individual slot within the sturdy 5 x 6 x 8in black cardboard box. Includes the CD albums 'The Kick Inside', 'Lionheart', 'Never For Ever', 'The Dreaming', 'Hounds Of Love' & 'The Sensual World' (released on Columbia in the ...
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Rare Masters
: :During Elton John's most commercially successful period, between 1970 and 1975, he was also at his most prolific. Usually producing two albums a year, he also knocked off a dozen or so non-LP B-sides, a handful of demos for other artists, and even a soundtrack album for 1971's obscure Friends. Rare Masters, which brings much of this work together with a handful of other odds and ends (an alternate version of 'Madman Across the Water,' John's debut single, 'I've Been Loving You'), is hardly a substitute for Greatest Hits, but its ...
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Pandora's Box
: :Aerosmith were written off by the pop pundits in the early '80s as a drug-ravaged bunch of Rolling Stones clones who would go down in music history as little more than a hard-rock footnote. The band, however, rose from the ashes to become an even mightier hit machine in the '90s, even if they ended up selling their soul to pop über-songstress Diane Warren in the bargain. This three-CD compilation is a marathon tour of their first glorious, casualty-ridden decade and a body of work that proudly wears its influences on ...
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