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The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper
: :This tribute has most of the right ingredients: fancy packaging, excellent liner notes by Sex Pistol John Lydon), and 84 tracks licensed from 21 albums spanning 1965 to 1998. The opening disc begins with four rare Yardbirds-influenced garage-band singles from the Spiders and the Nazz--the bands that geeky Vince Furnier and his pals Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, and Dennis Dunaway formed in Phoenix, Arizona. The band's subsequent L.A. years are chronicled via nine tracks from their first three albums. Suddenly, in the tracks from Killer such as 'Under My Wheels' and 'Dead Babies,' ...
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Produced by George Martin
: :Despite a long and varied career, George Martin is most celebrated for his era-defining work with the Beatles. The six-CD Produced by George Martin commemorates his 50 years behind the boards with discs that are in chronological order and loosely themed, including the early years, comedy recordings, '60s hits, and orchestral works. Those expecting an imaginative selection of Beatles tunes will be severely disappointed. A mere quartet of blindingly obvious tracks ('I Want to Hold Your Hand,' 'Yesterday')--all pre-1966--represents the Mop Top legacy. Surely, the inclusion of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' or 'A Day ...
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The Doors Box Set
: :\N :Unlike many a box-set retrospective, this 1997 four-CD collection is clearly tailored for Doors aficionados rather than those curious but not overly familiar with the legendary '60s band's career and oeuvre. The first three discs are filled with previously unreleased live tracks and other rarities, such as the band's early demos, which found them slowly building a foundation stemming from each member's clear strengths and influences: Manzarek's classical background, Densmore's jazz, Krieger's rock, and Morrison's blues. Disc 4 features 'band favorites' rather than hits, per se, and thus continues the insider ...
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Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat
: :These 83 songs go a long way toward demonstrating how Little Feat evolved their hard-to-define but infectious swamp-rock, blues, and boogie sound. The final disc in the four-disc Hotcakes & Outtakes, dubbed 'Studio Outtakes,' offers up the very first demo tapes made by Lowell George, the mastermind of the group. Backed by keyboardist Billy Payne, drummer Richie Hayward, and bassist Roy Estrada (the first player to leave the band), George's down-and-dirty slide guitar and plaintive voice blend grit, intelligence, and humor. Combining an off-center Southern California rock sensibility (George and Estrada had both ...
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Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan
: :Donovan Leitch, at his most memorable, reflected and connected the folky beginnings of Bob Dylan with the pop instincts of the Beatles, and counted both among his friends. The singer-songwriter's airy voice and whimsical songs were malleable enough to encompass wildly diverse styles, including the sparse protest-folk of 'Universal Soldier,' the smoky cabaret jazz of 'Sunny Goodge Street,' and the harder psychedelia of 'Hurdy Gurdy Man,' as well as the easygoing sunshine sound of 'Mellow Yellow' and the plush, orchestral 'Lalena.' Add some whimsical fairy tales, darker blues, and bouncy Caribbean rhythms, and ...
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We're Gonna Rock - We're Gonna Roll
:Album Details:Informed by Blues, Boogie Woogie, Jazz, R&b, Hillbilly and Country Music, Rock 'n' Roll Became the First Music to Aim Directly at a Teenage Audience, and it Hit. Rock 'n' Roll Extended an Unparalleled Influence around the World. This Box Set Presents 118 Candidates for the First Rock 'n' Roll Record Ever Recorded. Rock 'n' Roll: 'a Form of Popular Music Arising from and Incorporating a Variety of Musical Styles, Especially Rhythm and Blues, Country Music and Gospel. Originating in the United States in the 1950s, it is Characterised by Electronically Amplified ...
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Perception (6CD/6DVD, Boxset)
:Album Description:6CD/6DVD Boxed set celebrating the 40th anniversary of this legendary band: All their Jim Morrison-Era studio albums reissued in deluxe 2-disc editions with rare & previously unreleased bonus material, 5.1 mixes, bonus video content, and more! :For years, the recording industry has asked fans to purchase the same music from the 1960s and '70s over and over again, via remasterings, repackagings, and, of course, reformattings. The Doors' box Perception (get it?), cleverly packaged as... a door, does hold some astonishing music, but the thing itself is a weird hybrid beast with multiple ...
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Sun Essentials
:Album Description:Four CD box set from The Killer himself featuring 128 true Rock 'N Roll, Country, Blues and rockin' Gospel classics from his days with Sun Records. Features 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On', 'Great Balls Of Fire', 'High School Confidential', 'Breathless', 'Crazy Arms' and many many more. Charly. 2006.
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The Doors Vinyl Box [180 Gram Vinyl]
: :The ultimate collectible: a limited edition (12,500 copies worldwide), 7-disc vinyl box covered in faux lizard skin with 12-inch 180-gram HQ vinyl re-issues of the original stereo mixes of the band's six Morrison-era studio albums, plus a copy of the '67 debut ('The Doors') in mono. Includes 'The Doors', 'Strange Days', 'Waiting For The Sun', 'The Soft Parade', 'Morrison Hotel', and 'LA Woman'.
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The Long Road Home: 1963-2003
:Album Description:Subtitled - The 40th Anniversary Collection. A six CD retrospective covering their 40 year career (1963-2003). Discs one through five feature studio recordings that include classic tracks, B-sides, album tracks, rare foreign releases, & six previously unreleased tracks, 'She Said Yeah', 'Listen To Me' (Demo), 'So Lonely' (Demo), 'Bring Back Your Love To Me' (Demo), 'A Taste Of Honey', & 'Can't Lie No More'. Disc six contains live recordings including three unreleased tracks from a 1967 Swedish radio broadcast, 'The Times They Are A Changin'' (Lewisham 1968), the complete 'Hollies Live Hits', ...
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