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Children of Nuggets: Original ARtyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1996
: :It would take thousands of dollars (or as many hours in download time) to hoard the most coveted songs from the eighties' top secret power pop bands, garage combos and post-new wave throngs into one collection. Or you can let Rhino Records, which masterfully conspired with writer/musician Lenny Kaye late last century to inflate and repackage Kaye's original Nuggets compilation, do the legwork. These four discs, though chaotically sequenced, scour all sides of the ponds to capture the vitality and innovation of mostly 1980-'85, introducing (or reintroducing) to-be-influential bands like San ...
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Fruit Tree (limited)
:Album Description:3CD Set. The box set consists of the three albums; Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon, a DVD of ‘A Skin Too Few’ a BBC documentary, and a premium booklet.
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The Complete Studio Recordings
:Album Description:3CD Set. The box set consists of the three albums; Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon, a DVD of ‘A Skin Too Few’ a BBC documentary, and a premium booklet.
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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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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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Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic
:Album Description:Aussie exclusive box-set featuring a collection of Disney's best-loved songs. 60 years of musical magic from 'Snow White' to the 'Lion King', from Mary Poppins' to 'Toy Story'. Five standard jewel cases housed together in a slipcase.
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At Abbey Road 1963-1966/At Abbey Road 1966-1970/At Abbey Road 1973-1989
:Album Description:All three of the top British Invasion group's Abbey Road compilations boxed up together at a special low price! As well as giving listeners more bang for the buck, this package gives them a great overview of the band's changes musically & otherwise from their start in the early '60s through their dissolution in the '80s. The first disc, 1963-66, is a 28 track collection including studio chatter, previously unreleased recordings and classics like 'Stop Stop Stop', 'Bus Stop', 'Look Through Any Window' and more. The second, 1966-70 features 24 ...
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Elvis: Close Up
:Album Description:Close up & real personal, 4-CD set-consisting of 89 tracks, all of 'em previously unreleased - zeroes in on several critical periods in The King's life & career. The first CD is pure gold, an unbelievable 19 unreleased stereo masters from Elvis' rise to fame in the '50s, including takes of 'Jailhouse Rock', 'Loving You', That's When Your Heartaches Begin', 'Treat Me Nice', 'Young & Beautiful', 'Don't Leave Me Now', 'Baby I Don't Care', 'Blueberry Hill', & more. CD two, meanwhile, examines the period when he took Hollywood by storm, ...
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British Invasion: 1963-1967
: :Two centuries after their upstart American colonies showed them the door, the British returned--first to rescue American pop music from the cuddly clutches of manufactured mannequins who'd squandered the promise of Elvis, and then to dominate it well into the '70s and '80s. The irony of this triple-disc, 54-track anthology is that the Beatles, who spearheaded the charge, are barely represented (except for a spate of successful Lennon-McCartney covers, including several the Fabs never recorded), and their shaggier, bluesier rivals the Stones are completely absent. That said, the remaining tracks do ...
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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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