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Every Great Motown Hit of Marvin Gaye
: :This compilation includes 15 of Marvin Gaye's signature songs, including 9 No. 1 soul-chart hits. It's a handy compression of his Motown career, but those who want a deeper understanding of the artist should opt at the very least for the packed double-disc Best of Marvin Gaye. --Rickey Wright
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
:Album Description:Japanese special edition of this classic original album re-released on CD and packaged in a 12 x 12 inch album sized LP replica sleeve with all the original artwork and tracks. Universal. 2005. essential recording:Rarely mentioned as one of the great double albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had to settle for ending up in a few million record collections. So sprawling that it doesn't quite measure up to the earlier, more laid-back Honky Chateau or the later, pushy Rock of the Westies, this ...
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Stay Positive
:Album Description:Stay Positive is the fourth studio album from The Hold Steady and follows their hugely popular 2006 release Girls And Boys In America. Working once again with producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.), the album sees the band continue in the same direction their previous release took them, mixing classic bar-room style Rock with Craig Finn's half spoken/half sung lyrical tales of drinking, partying and love. Features the single 'Sequestered In Memphis'. Amazon.co.uk:The Hold Steady's ascent and eventual breakthrough with 2006's Boys & ...
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Disraeli Gears
: :Fresh Cream, the album that introduced this seminal super-blues trio to America, was perhaps a bit too blues-based to do the advance hype ('Clapton is God!') justice. Two of its three best-known tracks, after all, were blues covers. It was Disraeli Gears that turned Cream into a 'supergroup.' Here they pursue the psychedelic ideals of the era with total abandon (the LP cover art still stands as one of the 1960s' most striking designs), merging these ideals with their take on the blues and adorning ...
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The Very Best of Otis Redding
: :No other Otis compilation quite satisfies the way the old double-LP best-of does, but never mind: any way you hear Redding's many great moments is a good one. The Very Best splits ballads and up-tempo stuff half-and-half, letting you hear the great one's humanity in every mood--the pile-driving rock of 'Respect,' the preaching fervor of 'Try a Little Tenderness,' the nascent reflection of 'Dock of the Bay.' A record collection with no Otis is a poor thing: here's yours. --Rickey Wright
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Who's Next
: :\N essential recording:A mix of old favorites and buried treasures makes this edition of Who's Next a definite must. One of the defining albums of 70s hard rock from one of the 60s most successful bands, the original album includes some of The Who's best-known work, such as the anthemic 'Baba O'Riley' and 'Won't Get Fooled Again', the by turns sorrowful and angry 'Behind Blue Eyes', and perennial favorite 'My Wife'. The new tracks on this album are equally worth hearing, including 'Pure ...
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The Best of Bread
: :If they are to believed, David Gates and the other members of Bread never intended to become the enduring icons of a subgenre they virtually invented: soft rock. Indeed, scattered throughout this expanded edition of a perennial bestselling catalog album are tuneful evidence of their original intent, as one band mate said, 'to make the '60s last a little longer.' But it's the familiar, largely Gates-penned and -sung hit singles that remain the band's legacy, from 'Make It with You' through the reunited band's last ...
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Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: PINK FLOYDTitle: ECHOES-BEST OF PINK FLOYDStreet Release Date: 11/06/2001DomesticGenre: ROCK/POP :Echoes is a double-CD collection of some of Pink Floyd's best songs. It's also a fascinating document of the band's history. They began life as Syd Barrett's phantasmagoric plaything before clasping the wings of Icarus and ascending toward the sun on an epic space-rock odyssey, eventually turning left once they reached the dark side of the moon and burning up on reentry, crash-landing on every earthlings' ...
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Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits
: :This compilation repeats seven tracks from 1988's Money For Nothing anthology. Given that Mark Knopfler and crew have recorded one new album during the decade between best-of collections, how different could Sultans of Swing be? For one thing, CD dominance has made for longer compilations, and this one is fleshed out by singles, three tracks from 1991's On Every Street, and Knopfler's solo 'Local Hero' theme, performed live. More importantly, the second track here is the band's terrific second single, 'Lady Writer,' previously only available ...
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Pet Sounds
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: BEACH BOYSTitle: PET SOUNDSStreet Release Date: 02/05/2001DomesticGenre: ROCK/POP essential recording:If you need some pointy-headed pundit to sell you on the merits of Pet Sounds, your money might be better spent on an ear specialist. Brian Wilson's gift to 20th-century music elevated this pop album into a beguiling musical and emotional cogency that still operates outside pop culture's fickle space-time continuum--and limited critical lexicon. There's never been another record to compare (Rubber Soul, its inspiration, is ...
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