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Abbey Road [Vinyl]
: essential recording:The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, 'Come Together' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, ...
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OK Computer [2 LP] [Limited Edition]
:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Gatefold jacket/2 discs Printed sleeves :Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British 'new wave of new wave' band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist ...
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Kid A (2-10' LPs)
:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Two 10' discs in gatefold jacket Printed sleeves 's Best of 2000:How is it that Kid A's opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering 'bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh' is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it's profound. The band's future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, but the journey traveled with Radiohead reveals them to be not only ...
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The Dark Side of the Moon [Vinyl]
:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008. essential recording:Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn't rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like 'On the Run,' 'Time' and especially 'Money' ...
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Tonight's the Night [Vinyl]
: essential recording:By 1975 Young had written some of the most enduring anthems in rock history. But from the slow, tension-building piano opening of 'Tonight's the Night,' he downshifts into darkness and Crazy Horse's folk-country melodies take on a guttural hum that would eventually speak to generations of punk and grunge musicians. Inspired by the overdose deaths of two of Young's friends, roadie Bruce Berry and guitarist Danny Whitten, the title track (and its closing reprise) is a hypnotic cry of 'why?' Even the relative ...
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl]
: 's Best of 1998:Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like 'When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers.' Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice's looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn't always make sense logically, feels like the home you never had. --Randy ...
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The Bends [Vinyl]
: : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead OK Computer Amnesiac Kid A Pablo Honey Hail To The Thief I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings Amazon.com:While Radiohead saw its stock rising in 1994, it wasn't until 1995's The Bends that it really became a blue chip band. And for good reason. The quintet honed its talent for bombastic Brit Rock, yet still preserved an edge of unpredictability. Even singles like the title track didn't give in to the kind of swooning guitar clichés ...
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Siamese Dream [Vinyl]
: essential recording:An introductory drum roll drops out and is replaced by a single suspended electric guitar, which is then paralleled by a snare, filled in with the bass, and--crash!--'Cherub Rock,' the opening track, is enveloped in an explosion of metal guitar. So the journey begins. This album is pre-experimentation vintage Pumpkins. Produced by Butch Vig (Garbage, Sonic Youth, Nirvana's Nevermind), Siamese Dream is first about guitars. Lots and lots of guitars. A very close second is Jimmy Chamberlain's unquestionably excellent power drumming. Throughout each ...
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Amnesiac (2-10' LPs)
:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Two 10' discs in gatefold jacket Printed sleeves :More song-driven and acoustic than Kid A, Radiohead's Amnesiac isn't quite 'Kid B,' but it is unquestionably cut from the same far-out cloth, as the band revels in fascinating quirks and abject nihilism. It's also the first time in Radiohead's career that a new record hasn't meant a complete shift in artistic priorities. Surely, however, regardless of which was released first, they both deserve recognition; after all, Amnesiac, like Kid A, is an ...
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Hail to the Thief
: : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead OK Computer The Bends Kid A Pablo Honey Amnesiac The Astoria London Live Amazon.com:Filling the gulf between OK Computer's epic progressive rock and Kid A's skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. Its title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995's The Bends. Instead, they use eloquent metaphors and complicated arrangements ...
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