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Songs for Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980
:Album Description:2008 four CD anthology that covers Ayers' musical career from 1969 to 1980; a period most fans and critics deem his best. Ayers remains one of Rock's oddest enigmas. He makes ordinary subjects extraordinary with his rich low vocals and inventive wordplay. He projects the image of a Prog-Rock beach bum writing about life's absurdities with a celebratory, relaxed detachment, yet he is also one of Prog- Rock's more important innovators, helping to launch the Soft Machine, and working with noted progressive musicians Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill, and Steve Hillage. ...
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Playback
: :\N :Tom Petty peaked early. In 1974, Petty's northern Florida bar band, Mudcrutch, moved to L.A., signed a deal with Shelter Records, and transformed itself into Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. By 1976, they had released their self-titled debut album, a seemingly impossible blend of the Byrds' jangly harmonies and Southern-California idealism with the Rolling Stones' bluesy punchiness and working-class grittiness. The rhythm section rocked; Mike Campbell was an effortlessly elegant guitarist, and Petty himself was a passionate singer. By the third album, 1979's Damn the Torpedoes, the band was ...
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Dreams
: :This four-CD celebration offers an incredibly comprehensive look at the Allman Brothers, adding early demos, rare live recordings, alternate takes, outtakes, remixes, and solo efforts to the already powerful 'official' catalog. Their progression from '60s Invasion-style rockers to blues cover band with a taste for B.B. King to dynamic rock & roll juggernaut is astonishing, and the inclusion of sundry oddities will make collectors happy. The booklet is thorough and lovingly produced. --Marc Greilsamer
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The Capitol Albums Vol. 1
:Album Description:*First Time Ever on CD...Meet The Beatles, The Beatles’ Second Album, Something New and Beatles ‘65....presented in both Stereo and Mono *Compiled from the original U.S. master tapes *Special packaging including original album cover artwork and 48 page collectors booklet :When the Beatles catalog was first issued on CD in the '80s, an attempt was made to standardize the releases (which often varied wildly in content internationally) by using their original British format. But this confounded many Fabs fans in the U.S. who now found CDs with track listings that ...
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The Capitol Albums Vol. 2 (Longbox)
:Album Description:THE BEATLES 'THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 2' includes the four albums released by Capitol Records in 1965: The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) & the American version of Rubber Soul. All tracks have been digitally remastered and are presented in both Stereo and Mono. Many tracks appear in stereo for the very first time on CD. Special packaging includes original album cover artwork and a 60-page collector’s booklet with rare photos. :Unless your name is Ryan Adams, you're probably not in the habit of releasing four ...
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Biograph
:Album Description:THE BEATLES 'THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 2' includes the four albums released by Capitol Records in 1965: The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) & the American version of Rubber Soul. All tracks have been digitally remastered and are presented in both Stereo and Mono. Many tracks appear in stereo for the very first time on CD. Special packaging includes original album cover artwork and a 60-page collector’s booklet with rare photos. :Unless your name is Ryan Adams, you're probably not in the habit of releasing four ...
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The Best of the Soul of Rock and Roll
:Album Description:Here is, bar none, the most all-inclusive anthology ever assembled to honor the greatest singer ever considered to be a 'Rock and Roll artist.' But Roy Kelton Orbison was so much more: behind his ever-present sunglasses and beneath his shock of raven-black hair, clad in black, he was rock's Mystery Man, the possessor of the most glorious voice ever to soar on such signature songs as 'Only The Lonely,' 'In Dreams,' 'Running Scared,' 'Crying' and 'Oh, Pretty Woman,' to cite a mere handful of his Top Ten hits. As Orbison's ...
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Storyteller: The Complete Anthology
:Album Description:Here is, bar none, the most all-inclusive anthology ever assembled to honor the greatest singer ever considered to be a 'Rock and Roll artist.' But Roy Kelton Orbison was so much more: behind his ever-present sunglasses and beneath his shock of raven-black hair, clad in black, he was rock's Mystery Man, the possessor of the most glorious voice ever to soar on such signature songs as 'Only The Lonely,' 'In Dreams,' 'Running Scared,' 'Crying' and 'Oh, Pretty Woman,' to cite a mere handful of his Top Ten hits. As Orbison's ...
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
:Album Description:Here is, bar none, the most all-inclusive anthology ever assembled to honor the greatest singer ever considered to be a 'Rock and Roll artist.' But Roy Kelton Orbison was so much more: behind his ever-present sunglasses and beneath his shock of raven-black hair, clad in black, he was rock's Mystery Man, the possessor of the most glorious voice ever to soar on such signature songs as 'Only The Lonely,' 'In Dreams,' 'Running Scared,' 'Crying' and 'Oh, Pretty Woman,' to cite a mere handful of his Top Ten hits. As Orbison's ...
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A Musical History
: :The Band: A Musical History is a labor of love, and Executive Producer/Band member Robbie Robertson has built something truly impressive in the form of this five CD, one DVD, and 108-page hardcover book collection. The book alone will impress just about any music enthusiast. From its candid photographs of artists from Bob Dylan to Janis Joplin, to a detailed history of the Bend written by Grammy Award-winning musicologist Rob Bowman, it's well worth the price of admission. The 102-song collection follows the group's progression from their earliest of days, pre-Band, ...
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