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The Chess Box :Chuck Berry
: :We may not know who wrote the book of love, but the author of the rock & roll dictionary was Charles Edward 'Chuck' Berry. You've got a signature guitar riff that other giants (think Rolling Stones) have based entire careers on. Songs such as 'School Day' told teen tales as though they were novels. 'Too Much Monkey Business' in where Bob Dylan discovered poetry and rap music found a contemporary starting point. 'Johnny B. Goode,' 'Sweet Little Sixteen,' 'Roll Over Beethoven,' 'Back in the USA'--the titles alone evoke unparalleled rock atmosphere. ...
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Thirty Years of Funk: 1969-1999
: :Leave it to music critics to completely miss the train. Despite a uniformly bad reception from the press and initial cold shouldering from radio DJs, Grand Funk Railroad became the ultimate word-of-mouth legend, emerging from a nonpaid opening gig at the Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4, 1969, to rack up 10 platinum albums and a host of Top-40 singles. The chemistry between Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher percolated into a soulful, heartland rock & roll style that made them one of the quintessential American bands in the post-Woodstock ...
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Last Train to Hicksville
: :Leave it to music critics to completely miss the train. Despite a uniformly bad reception from the press and initial cold shouldering from radio DJs, Grand Funk Railroad became the ultimate word-of-mouth legend, emerging from a nonpaid opening gig at the Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4, 1969, to rack up 10 platinum albums and a host of Top-40 singles. The chemistry between Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher percolated into a soulful, heartland rock & roll style that made them one of the quintessential American bands in the post-Woodstock ...
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Selected Works: 1972-1999
: :It's tough to forecast which bands are built for the long run. The Eagles emerged as part of a genre (country rock) that proved to be a passing fancy. And with two talented frontmen sharing the spotlight, how could artistic differences be fended off for long? But, of course, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and the boys had a juggernaut on their hands, generating a dozen top 10 hits in their initial eight-year spurt. Selected Works: 1972-1999 gathers all the highlights from the group in all of its '70s and early '80s ...
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Live with a Little Help from Our Friends
: :Gov't Mule's arsenal of endless jams that somehow perpetually build in intensity make it natural that this Southern power trio has so quickly returned to the live-record format. The Mule's second concert recording in four years is as virile as the title is impotent. Recorded in Atlanta on New Year's Eve, 1998, this four-disc collector's edition will please fans who weren't satiated by the original 145-minute two-CD set. With a Little Help serves as a road map through their array of influences, as the band wends its way through Black Sabbath, ...
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Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72
: :Gov't Mule's arsenal of endless jams that somehow perpetually build in intensity make it natural that this Southern power trio has so quickly returned to the live-record format. The Mule's second concert recording in four years is as virile as the title is impotent. Recorded in Atlanta on New Year's Eve, 1998, this four-disc collector's edition will please fans who weren't satiated by the original 145-minute two-CD set. With a Little Help serves as a road map through their array of influences, as the band wends its way through Black Sabbath, ...
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Johnny Cash - Love, God, Murder
: :More than a few novelists and literature professors have cited the troika of love, god, and death as the basic subjects of all literary works. It just so happens that most music is about the same stuff, and Johnny Cash's music is especially so. Except in Cash's music, you can tease from the general (peculiarly American?) idea of death the more dramatic, intentional, cruel strain of murder. The distinction is crucial for Cash--and this 48-track, three-CD collection--as the struggle presented throughout this set is to understand the subject of a person's ...
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Real Life Permanent Dreams: A Cornucopia of British Psychedlia 1965-1970
:Album Description:Subtitled: A Cornucopia Of British Psychedelia. The ultimate collection of tracks taken from the British Psychedelic boom, 1965-70. The drugs may have finally worn off, but the music lives on forever. Features 99 swirly bits of Psyche music by the bands who really knew how to mix Acid and music including Smoke, Screaming Lord Sutch, Status Quo, the Nice, the Kinks, Marc Bolan, Incredible String Band, Donovan, Small Faces, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, and many, many more. Castle. 2007.
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The Seekers Complete
:Album Description:Australian box for Australia's premier folk group, featuring 126 digitally remastered tracks from the '60s to the present, including hits, classics, studio & concert rarities, B-sides, new recordings & previously unreleased tracks. Well over five hours of music! Contains all of their U.S. hits, including 'Georgy Girl' and 'A World Of Our Own'. Available at this low price for a limited time. EMI / Australia 1995. Five standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase.
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As Long as I'm Singing: The Bobby Darin Collection
:Album Description:Australian box for Australia's premier folk group, featuring 126 digitally remastered tracks from the '60s to the present, including hits, classics, studio & concert rarities, B-sides, new recordings & previously unreleased tracks. Well over five hours of music! Contains all of their U.S. hits, including 'Georgy Girl' and 'A World Of Our Own'. Available at this low price for a limited time. EMI / Australia 1995. Five standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase.
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