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Rage Against the Machine's third effort, Battle of Los Angeles is arguably the group's most focused and explosive album of their career. Tom Morello and company match Zach de la Rocha's political venom here with equal musical aplomb and they never take their foot off the gas. Battle of Los Angeles was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and the single "Guerrilla Radio" won for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Track Listing:

1. Testify
2. Guerrilla Radio
3. Calm Like A Bomb
4. Mic Check (Once Hunting, Now Hunted)
5. Sleep Now In The Fire
6. Born Of A Broken Man
7. Born As Ghosts
8. Maria
9. Voice Of The Voiceless
10. New Millennium Homes
11. Ashes In The Fall
12. War Within A Breath

Rob Zombie's fourth solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool follows-up his triple platinum 1998 release Hellbilly Deluxe which was his most successful solo outing to date.

Track Listing:

1. Jesus Frankenstein
2. Sick Bubblegum
3. What?
4. Mars Needs Women
5. Werewolf, Baby!
6. Virgin Witch
7. Death and Destiny Inside The Dream Factory
8. Burn
9. Cease to Exist
10. Werewolf Women of the SS
11. The Man Who Laughs

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'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' is the critically and commercially acclaimed solo album by female Fugee Lauryn Hill. Originally released on August 25th , 1998, it has been widely praised for its seamless fusion of R&B, Hip Hop, Reggae, Gospel, and Neo-Soul. The songs vary in style, but make for a cohesive album. In 1999, the album garnered 10 Grammy nominations at the 41st Grammy Awards. When Hill won 5 Grammies that night, her achievement made her the first female to receive that many in one night. The album includes collaborations with soul singer D'Angelo on "Nothing Even Matters"; guitarist Carlos Santana on "To Zion"; singer Mary J. Blige on "I Used to Love Him" and well as then little-known John Legend playing the piano on "Everything is Everything".

Over 10 years after its original release Hill's debut solo album has proven to stand the test of time easily. For your listening pleasure, we present the 16-track album on 180 grams audiophile vinyl.

Track Listing:

1. Intro
2. Lost Ones
3. Ex-Factor
4. To Zion
5. Doo Wop (That Thing)
6. Superstar
7. Final Hour
8. When It Hurts So Bad
9. I Used To Love Him
10. Forgive Them Father
11. Every Ghetto, Every City
12. Nothing Even Matters
13. Everything Is Everything
14. The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
15. Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
16. Tell Him

"This set of eight 45rpm LPs might be the most luxurious item I own, but it's a slice of nirvana…The sound is unbelievable, and the quality and packaging are just as wonderful." Stereophile Records To Die For – Brian Damkroger, Stereophile, February 2008

Think these classic CCR songs sounded better than ever on Analogue Productions' recent LP reissues? Well, you're right of course.

Or at least you WERE right. Now they sound even better. That's because we've cut the choicest tracks from each of these seven albums at 45 RPM. With so few songs on each side (some releases have only one song per side) and at 45 RPM, your cartridge is going to track better and ultimately SING sweeter.

With the biggest hits from each record (packaged in replicas of the original jackets), you'll get in-depth liners by rock critic extraordinare Ben Fong-Torres of Rolling Stone fame, and photos by Baron Wolman and Didi Zill, both of whom were there to document CCR "back in the day." There is also an essay by Steve Hoffman, who along with Kevin Gray, remastered these gems at AcousTech Mastering. We've also included a bonus record that includes rare mixes of "Bad Moon Rising" and "Proud Mary," cut at 45 of course.

Track Listing:

Creedence Clearwater Revival

1. Suzie Q.
2. I Put A Spell On You

Bayou Country

1. Born On The Bayou
2. Bootleg
3. Good Golly Miss Molly
4. Penthouse Pauper
5. Proud Mary

Green River

1. Green River
2. Commotion
3. Bad Moon Rising
4. Lodi

Willy And The Poorboys

1. Down On The Corner
2. It Came Out Of The Sky
3. Cotton Fields
4. Fortunate Son
5. Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me)
6. The Midnight Special

Cosmo's Factory

1. Lookin' Out My Back Door
2. Run Through the Jungle
3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Pendulum

1. Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
2. Hey Tonight

Mardi Gras

1. Sweet Hitch-Hiker
2. Someday Never Comes

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50 of Elvis Presley's greatest hits in one heavyweight triple LP package on 180 gram audiophile vinyl, completed with a stylish black and white info sheet. Covering all the hits from 1954's 'That's All Right' up until 'Way Down' in 1977.

Track Listing:

A1 That's All Right 1:58
A2 Mystery Train 2:24
A3 Heartbreak Hotel 2:11
A4 Blue Suede Shoes 2:00
A5 Lawdy, Miss Clawdy 2:07
A6 Hound Dog 2:14
A7 Don't Be Cruel 2:02
A8 Love Me Tender 2:41
A9 Too Much 2:33

B1 All Shook Up 2:00
B2 (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear 1:48
B3 (Let's Have A) Party 1:26
B4 Loving You 2:12
B5 Jailhouse Rock 2:25
B6 Don't 2:49
B7 Trouble 2:16
B8 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck 2:16
B9 King Creole 2:08

C1 Hard Headed Woman 1:56
C2 One Night 2:33
C3 (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I 2:40
C4 A Big Hunk O' Love 2:12
C5 Stuck On You 2:21
C6 The Girl Of My Best Friend 2:21
C7 It's Now Or Never 3:15
C8 Are You Lonesome Tonight? 3:06

D1 Wooden Heart 1:58
D2 Surrender 1:51
D3 (Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame 2:10
D4 Can't Help Falling In Love 3:01
D5 Good Luck Charm 2:26
D6 She's Not You 2:08
D7 Return To Sender 2:09
D8 (You're The) Devil In Disguise 2:23

E1 Viva Las Vegas 2:24
E2 Crying In The Chapel 2:23
E3 Love Letters 2:50
E4 Guitar Man 2:15
E5 If I Can Dream 3:11
E6 In The Ghetto 2:45
E7 Suspicious Minds 4:29
E8 Don't Cry Daddy 2:48

F1 The Wonder Of You 2:35
F2 I Just Can't Help Believin' 4:34
F3 An American Trilogy 4:31
F4 Burning Love 2:50
F5 Always On My Mind 3:41
F6 Suspicion 2:34
F7 Moody Blue 2:50
F8 Way Down 2:37

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This 2007 triple vinyl LP set, the first official release of this amazing show, was recorded and filmed at the Montreal Forum on July 21, 1982 during their Rock In America tour. This was Queen's last North American tour with their original lineup Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. Recorded for posterity, this concert features the world-class band at the top of their game. Under the eagle eyes of the band, the album has been sequenced, mixed and mastered to the highest possible contemporary standards. Rock Montreal now stands in the pantheon, of not just great Queen live albums, but of the great live albums of rock n' roll.

Track Listing:

LP1

1. Intro
2. We Will Rock You
3. Let Me Entertain You
4. Play The Game
5. Somebody To Love
6. Killer Queen
7. I'm In Love With My Car
8. Get Down Make Love
9. Save Me

LP2

1. Now I'm Here
2. Dragon Attack
3. Now I'm Here
4. Love Of My Life
5. Under Pressure
6. Keep Yourself Alive
7. Drum And Tympani Solo
8. Guitar Solo
9. Flash
10. Hero

LP3

1. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
2. Jailhouse Rock
3. Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Tie Your Mother Down
5. Another One Bites The Dust
6. Sheer Heart Attack
7. We Will Rock You
8. We Are The Champions
9. God Save The Queen

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2008 was quite a year for Vampire Weekend. After the release of their eponymous debut album in January, the New York quartet graced the cover of Spin Magazine, played on almost every television program from Saturday Night Live to David Letterman, and toured the world several times over including stops at the Coachella and Bonnaroo festivals. They regrouped in early 2009 to begin the recording of their sophomore album, Contra. Like their first, Contra was produced by keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and is the realization of a whole and unique musical vision that sees the band stretching out and adding new textures, instrumentation, and rhythms into their sound. Primarily recorded in New York with a springtime sojourn to Mexico, Contra feels altogether fresh, joyous, and like nothing else, but is immediately recognizable as the sound of Vampire Weekend.

Track Listing:

1. Horchata
2. White Sky
3. Holiday
4. California English
5. Taxi Cab
6. Run
7. Cousins
8. Giving Up The Gun
9. Diplomat's Sun
10. I Think UR A Contra

TV on the Radio excels brilliantly at crafting slowly evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics, all with a genuine and distinct songwriting ability. Return To Cookie Mountain was consistently ranked as one of the top rated and most lauded albums of 2006, and for good reason. Dense, artistic, meaningful, this is truly a one of a kind masterpiece from a groundbreaking band. Here on 180g Double Vinyl with Bonus Tracks!

Track Listing:

1. I Was A Lover
2. Hours
3. Province
4. Playhouses
5. Wolf Like Me
6. A Method
7. Let The Devil In
8. Dirty Whirl
9. Blues From Down Here
10. Tonight
11. Wash The Day Away
12. Snakes and Martyrs
13. Hours (El-P Remix)

For the first time ever, Ringo Starr produces himself on his most personal album yet. Ringo is joined on Y Not by old and new friends including Paul McCartney, with whom Starr sings on Y Not’s stunning first single, “Walk With You,” a moving new song about the power of friendship.

Y Not is a groovy and deeply felt song cycle that finds Ringo leading a smaller core group of old and new friends including longtime pal and recent brother-in-law Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart and longtime “Roundheads” member Steve Dudas on guitar, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on keyboards, Don Was and Mike Bradford on bass. The album also features Starr’s engineer and co-producer Bruce Sugar on keyboards, as well as some special guests like Joss Stone, Ben Harper and Richard Marx on vocals, Ann Marie Calhoun on violin and Tina Sugandh (aka Tina The Tabla Girl) on tabla and chanting.

Starr’s songwriting collaborators on Y Not also include familiar and new names like Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Glen Ballard, Richard Marx, Van Dyke Parks, Gary Nicholson plus Gary Wright and former Roundhead band member, Gary Burr. Yet no collaborator featured on Y Not is likely to receive as much attention as Starr’s former bandmate and longstanding mate Paul McCartney, who adds a characteristically brilliant bass part to the inspiring “Peace Dream,” Starr’s latest heartfelt plea for peace and love and even more notably provides his unmistakably fabulous vocals to “Walk With You,” an exquisite new composition by Starr and Van Dyke Parks.

Indeed, there’s a whole lot of genius on display throughout Y Not. Highpoints here include “Fill In The Blanks,” the album’s rocking opening track written, played and sung only by Starr and Walsh. Then there’s “The Other Side Of Liverpool,” a revealing autobiographical song that explores Starr’s earliest and darkest days.

Track Listing:

1. Fill In The Blanks
2. Peace Dream
3. The Other Side Of Liverpool
4. Walk With You
5. Time
6. Everyone Wins
7. Mystery Of The Night
8. Can’t Do It Wrong
9. Y Not
10. Who’s Your Daddy

Recorded live at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre in March 2008, the Black Crowes run through their entire album Warpaint as well as 5 other classics and covers.

1. Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution (Live)
2. Walk Believer Walk (Live)
3. Oh, Josephine (Live)
4. Evergreen (Live)
5. Wee Who See the Deep (Live)
6. Locust Street (Live) 7. Movin' On Down the Line (Live)
8. Wounded Bird (Live)
9. God's Got It (Live)
10. There's Gold In Them Hills (Live)
11. Whoa Mule (Live)
12. Medley: Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson (Live)
13. Darling of the Underground Press (Live)
14. Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye (Live)
15. Don't Know Why (Live)
16. Torn and Frayed (Live)
17. Hey Grandma (Live)

The Grammy nominated, Love Scenes features Diana Krall's mastery of the romantic ballad in an intimate piano trio setting with Russell Malone on guitar and Christian McBride on bass. Now in this magnificent sounding 180g Double Vinyl LP Set!

"When my producer, Tommy LiPuma, and I were deciding on the songs for my newest record, it never occurred to me that the songs we ultimately chose would be all about love. I selected songs that I personally liked, and that had a special meaning for me. However, as is often the case during the creative process, a connection among the songs just seemed to organically appear. The songs are indeed about romance. But to me there is a broader and more personal attachment to each of the songs than the standard definition of romantic love might imply. I think that these songs represent the strength of love, including the love of family and friends. But rather than describing my own thoughts about each song, it is my hope that all of you who listen to the music and read the lyrics will discover and imagine your own personal "love scenes" among the mountains, oceans, rain and gardens of these songs." - Diana Krall

1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Peel Me A Grape
3. I Don't Know Enough About You
4. I Miss You So
5. They Can't Take That Away From Me
6. Lost Mind
7. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
8. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
9. Gentle Rain
10. How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky)
11. My Love Is
12. Garden In The Rain

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Prince has never shied away from ambitious projects, and 2009's Lotusflower/Mplsound is just the latest in a long, illustrious string. The new collection builds on the variety evident throughout Prince's career, mixing up rock, funk, R&B, silky-smooth balladry, and left-field genre influences. Lotusflower takes a page from psychedelic rock, and it's a pleasure to hear Prince bring his guitar to the fore and let his Hendrix-influenced playing loom large (right down to the distortion-drenched cover of "Crimson and Clover"). Mplsound finds the icon looking back to his funk-fueled earlier work, throwing in some falsetto ballads like "U're Gonna C Me."

Track Listing:

1. From The Lotus...
2. Boom
3. Crimson And Clover
4. 4ever
5. Colonized Mind
6. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful
7. Love Like Jazz
8. 77 Beverly Park
9. Wall Of Berlin
10. $
11. Dreamer
12. ...Back 2 The Lotus
13. (There'll Never B) Another Like Me
14. Chocolate Box
15. Dance 4 Me
16. U're Gonna C Me
17. Here
18. Valentina
19. Better With Time
20. Ol'skool Company
21. No More Candy 4 U

Ranked #1 in Kerrang magazine's "100 Gigs That Shook The World" and voted as "Nirvana's #1 Greatest Moment" by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana's historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the UK's Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock 'n' roll. Now, fans finally can own a pristine copy of that entire performance complete with remastered audio.

While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until a year later on In Utero: "All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and, in its first ever public performance, “Tourette’s." The career-spanning set list also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep,” and the band's first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back for “Spank Thru.”

Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound: “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7” by The Wipers.

Track Listing:

1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. Tourette's
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. The Money Will Roll Right In
23. D-7
24. Territorial Pissings

This one is a must. Decades in the making and culled from hundreds of hours of live concert recordings covering every era of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ tours, The Live Anthology spans 1978-2007 and represents the best tracks as personally chosen by producers Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Ryan Ulyate. The Live Anthology comes on the heels of two sold out tours, the Grammy-winning documentary Runnin’ Down A Dream (directed by Peter Bogdanovich), and a headline performance at the Super Bowl XLII halftime show. Now, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, one of rock and roll’s greatest touring bands, mark their unparalleled string of successes with the release of this landmark collection of live recordings that is unlike anything previously available. This is the band’s story told through the music alone.

The producers made no fixes or overdubs, letting the newly-mixed original recordings showcase the invention, spontaneity, craft, and the musicianship that has made Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers among the most celebrated live performers of their time. Along with powerful interpretations of their own classic hits and originals, The Live Anthology features the band tackling some of their best-loved cover material, from classics to obscure beauties to unexpected adaptations including the theme from Goldfinger, the Zombies’ “I Want You Back Again,” the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil,” early Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well,” Booker T. and the MGs’ “Green Onions,” James Brown’s “Good, Good Lovin’” and many more. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers travel wide, paying their musical debts through song and showing just how confidently the band moves across genres and over time.

The Live Anthology features artwork and packaging by renowned contemporary artist Shepard Fairey. All 51 tracks were mastered specifically from the original live performance recordings and pressed onto 7 x 180g audiophile-quality vinyl LPs. An accompanying deluxe book with liner notes offering personal perspective on the band and their music by Tom Petty, Warren Zanes, Bill Flanagan, Robert Hilburn, Joel Selvin, Austin Scaggs, and Phil Sutcliffe rounds out this once-in-a-lifetime set.

Track Listing:

Ladies And Gentlemen... Nightwatchman Even The Losers Here Comes My Girl I Need To Know A Thing About You I'm In Love I'm A Man Straight Into Darkness Breakdown Something In The Air I Just Want To Make Love To You Drivin' Down To Georgia Lost Without You Refugee Diddy Wah Diddy I Want You Back Again Wildflowers Friend Of The Devil A Woman In Love [It's Not Me] It's Good To Be King Angel Dream [No. 2] Learning To Fly Like A Diamond Mary Jane's Last Dance Jammin' Me The Wild One, Forever Mystic Eyes Green Onions Louisiana Rain Melinda Goldfinger Surrender Dreamville Spike Any Way You Want It American Girl Runnin' Down A Dream Oh Well Crawling Back To You My Life/Your World I Won't Back Down Square One The Waiting Have Love Will Travel Free Fallin' Southern Accents Don't Come Around Here No More Good, Good Lovin' Century City Alright For Now

The Element of Freedom is 12-time Grammy award winner Alicia Keys’ 4th studio album and it features production from Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, Jeff Bhasker and Keys herself. Alicia has garnered 11 Billboard Music Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 3 World Music Awards, 3 BET Awards, 14 NAACP Image Awards, 7 Soul Train Awards and was just awarded the ASCAP Golden Note Award at the 22nd Annual Rhythm and Soul Music Awards, along with the Humanitarian Award from the BET Awards 2009.

Track Listing:

1. The Element Of Freedom
2. Love Is Blind
3. Doesn't Mean Anything
4. Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
5. Wait Til They See My Smile
6. That's How Strong My Love Is
7. Unthinkable (I'm Ready)
8. Love Is My Disease
9. Like The Sea
10. Put It In A Love Song
11. This Bed
12. Distance And Time
13. How It Feals To Fly
14. Empire State of Mind (Part II)

This platinum selling album marks Diana Krall's first break from the piano trio and includes several tracks backed with beautiful orchestrations arranged by Johnny Mandel. When I Look In Your Eyes boasts some of Diana's best known recordings including "Let's Face The Music and Dance" and "I've Got You Under my Skin." Features Krall on piano and vocals with long-time trio mate Russell Malone on guitar, Ben Wolfe and John Clayton on bass and Jeff Hamilton and Lewis Nash on drums. Mastered by Bernie Grundman on premium HQ-180g vinyl.

Track Listing:

1. Let's Face The Music And Dance
2. Devil May Care
3. Let's Fall In Love
4. When I Look In Your Eyes
5. Popsicle Toes
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
8. I'll String Along With You
9. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
10. Pick Yourself Up
11. The Best Thing For You
12. Do It Again
13. Why Should I Care?

Elvis Costello’s remarkable My Aim Is True announces the arrival of a singular talent. Having long ago secured its status as one of the greatest debut albums ever recorded, the 1977 set hasn’t lost any of the vibrant urgency, lyrical edge, or biting wit that made Costello the pin-up model for new-wave music.

Blending punk-fueled motivation with pub-rock, reggae, and classic American rock n’ roll strains, the landmark effort includes many of the singer’s best-known and most beloved tunes: the poisoned ballad “Alison,” voyeuristic “Watching the Detectives,” slinky “(The Angels Want to Wear My) Red Shoes,” and rave-up “Mystery Dance” included. There isn’t a bad note here.

The history behind My Aim Is True is as rich as the songs. Before landing at then-fledgling English indie label Stiff Records, Costello had been laboring as a computer operator housed next door to a lipstick factory. The conditions couldn’t be riper for the cynical blue-collar observations and fierce humor that pierce tracks like “Welcome to the Working Week” and “Less Than Zero.” Costello took inspiration from London subway rides, venomous politics, and surrounding vanity. Having been rejected by what he estimated amounted to every other label in the city, Costello began calling in sick to his day job in order to record material for what become My Aim Is True.

Made for just 1000 pounds and over the course of four six-hour sessions, the experience found Costello recording his parts in a room the size of a telephone booth. His backing band—Clover, not the Attractions (save for on “Watching the Detectives,” left off the original UK release)—rounded out the slinky, melodic songs with spare details such as fuzztone pedal steel guitar and organ. The minimal budget ensured that nothing extra or fancy was employed. Overdubs weren’t really an option; what was played is basically what you hear.

Notorious for being reissued umpteen times, Mobile Fidelity is thrilled to present the one edition of My Aim Is True that every fan needs to own. Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes—not from copies as so many other versions are—and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, this numbered limited-edition LP is the definitive My Aim Is True. No compromises, no tricks. Just the music delivered with peerless clarity, purity, and transparency. The rawness of Costello’s voice, jangle of the rhythms, hum of the organs, and even the impact of the drumsticks have never been experienced with such realism. This is what organic-sounding albums are supposed to sound like. You will hear this again for the first time. And of course, there's the iconic cover art, presented in full-scale perspective.

Track Listing:

1. "Welcome To The Working Week"
2. "Miracle Man"
3. "No Dancing"
4. "Blame It On Cain"
5. "Alison"
6. "Sneaky Feelings"
7. "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes"
8. "Less Than Zero"
9. "Mystery Dance"
10. "Pay It Back"
11. "I'm Not Angry"
12. "Waiting For The End Of The World"
13. "Watching The Detectives

Embryonic is The Flaming Lips' 12th studio album and first double LP. According to ringleader Wayne Coyne, Embryonic was conceived as a double album as a means of forcing the band to become more free and uninhibited. “I believe I was stuck thinking of us as being a group of reckless, sloppy freaks,” he explains “and that, if we weren’t constantly trying to be more disciplined or more refined or more together, maybe our creative luck would elude us.” As the title suggests, Embryonic has an air of being a work in progress rather than a completed action and it makes for some very exciting and liberating music from one of music's most enigmatic performers.

"It sounds like John Lennon but if he got together with Miles Davis and they went back in time, but there was a supercomputer that they could figure out how to work." - Wayne Coyne/NME on Embryonic

Track Listing

1. Convinced Of The Hex
2. The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine
3. Evil
4. Aquarious Sabotage
5. See The Leaves
6. IF
7. Gemini Syringes
8. Your Bats
9. Powerless
10. The Ego's Last Stand
11. I Can Be A Frog
12. Sagittarius Silver Announcement
13. Worm Mountain
14. Scorpio Sword
15. The Impulse
16. Silver Trembling Hands
17. Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast
18. Watching The Planets

Dire Straits’ self-titled debut arrived in the midst of punk’s reign but couldn’t have been further removed from the era’s slash-and-burn style. Here is tasteful, jazz-inflected rock, all smoothly skating on virtuoso guitarist Mark Knopfler’s winding guitar lines and the band’s laidback rhythms. Equally drawing from country, roots, and folk influences, the British quartet’s stripped-down music knew no peers in the 70s, and has never been matched to this day.

Part of the reason for the band’s uniqueness owes to its clean, vibrant sound. Just as Knopfler’s narratives reflect poetic and surrealist texts, the group’s arrangements, an intoxicating combination of easygoing shuffles, bluesy boogies, and pop-honed ballads, mirror the old-fashioned soulfulness and spaciousness inherent in the classic recordings of the late '50s and early '60s. It’s no wonder why Dire Straits has long been a favorite of audiophiles the world over. When it comes to sonic purity, transparent soundstages, and rich tonalities, few, if any bands sound better.

And now, thanks to the meticulous efforts of Warner Bros., Dire Straits’ 1978 breakthrough debut can be experienced like never before. Remastered and cut from the original analog tapes and pressed on high-quality 180g vinyl, Dire Straits is simply out-of-this-world good. Knopfler’s mesmerizing guitar textures and cool vocals appear as if they’re right in front of you. Details, imaging, and presence are on a level associated with the finest audiophile recordings.

As it’s proven for the last few years, Warner Bros. treats vinyl with the ultimate respect, and this must-have Dire Straits record is no exception. Listeners with original copies of the LP, or Simply Vinyl’s pressing, will be absolutely stunned upon hearing the improvements. And the rest of us can simply rejoice in knowing that low-key songs such as “Sultans of Swing” and “Southbound Again” resonate with an airiness, openness, and palpability they’ve never claimed prior. A five-star pressing!

Track Listing:

1. Down to the Waterline
2. Water of Love
3. Setting Me Up
4. Six Blade Knife
5. Southbound Again
6. Sultans of Swing
7. In the Gallery
8. Wild West End
9. Lions

12" LP with Bonus 7"

Track Listing:

1. Tne Beginning
2. Gone Man
3. In My Younger Days
4. Mansions of Los Feliz
5. A Line In The Dirt
6. End Times
7. Apple Trees
8. Paradise Blues
9. Nowadays
10. Unhinged
11. High And Lonesome
12. I Need A Mother
13. Little Bird
14. On My Feet

Rickie Lee Jones Pirates On Numbered Limited-Edition 180-gram LP From Mobile Fidelity. Singer-Songwriter’s gorgeous-sounding 1981 album finally remastered!

Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates arrives like a cloudburst in the desert of Eighties formula pop music and recycled heavy-metal rock.” So wrote Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone in his five-star review of the eclectic artist’s sophomore album, a set that continues to defy eras and styles. While less-well known than her 1979 self-titled debut, the ambitious 1981 record remains Jones’ definitive statement—an effort steeped in biographical details, fictional circumstances, and classic literary elements.

Narratively blending West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet while also exploring spirit worlds and her breakup with Tom Waits, Pirates is at its core an idiosyncratic fusion of possibilities. And does Jones deliver! Accompanied by an all-star lineup that includes trumpeter Randy Brecker, Steely Dan icon Donald Fagen, drumming colossus Steve Gadd, session pro Victor Feldman, and legendary jazz arranger Ralph Burns, the singer-songwriter achieves a musical nirvana that encompasses post-bop, coffeehouse folk, bohemian pop, romantic soul, Beat poetry, and Broadway showtunes.

Harmonized vocals and jive talking bring the piano-based record’s rich characters to life, making it seem as if listeners are overhearing conversations between strangers. In more than one way, Pirates is a self-contained theatrical production in which Jones’ singing is the star attraction. Her moody whispers, cries, and coos are the voices of spurned lovers, alienated outcasts, and unlikely heroines. Albums with this kind of stylistic magnitude, close-up intimacy, and emotional intensity come around only once or so a decade.

Mobile Fidelity is proud to have had the opportunity to remaster Pirates from the original analog master tapes and produce a version that captures every nuance of this great-sounding studio masterpiece. Co-produced by Russ Titelman and Lenny Waronker (whose long list of credits include Randy Newman, James Taylor, and Eric Clapton records), trust us when we say that this 180-gram LP is one of the finest-sounding pop records you’ll hear. Fans of Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Carole King, and Sarah Vaughan should consider this requisite listening. MoFi’s mini-LP style packaging only adds to the allure.

So don’t hesitate: Be the “Lucky Guy” that Jones sings about on the record by securing your lowest-numbered copy of Mobile Fidelity’s half-speed mastered LP of Pirates today!

Track Listing:

1. We Belong Together
2. Living It Up
3. Skeletons
4. Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking
5. Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)
6. A Lucky Guy
7. Traces of the Western Slopes
8. The Returns

Madonna has racked up a record 37 Top 10 hits as well as seven # 1 albums (including her last four) on the Billboard Pop Charts. The ultimate compilation Celebration covers the expanse of the Material Girl's extraordinary career, all remastered and selected by Madonna and her fans. Features the classics "Everybody," "Express Yourself," "Vogue" and "4 Minutes" among others.

Track Listing:

1. Hung Up
2. Music
3. Vogue
4. 4 Minutes
5. Holiday
6. Everybody
7. Like A Virgin
8. Into The Groove
9. Like A Prayer
10. Ray Of Light
11. Sorry
12. Express Yourself
13. Open Your Heart
14. Borderline
15. Secret
16. Erotica
17. Justify My Love
18. Revolver
19. Dress You Up
20. Material Girl
21. La Isla Bonita
22. Papa Don't Preach
23. Lucky Star
24. Burning Up
25. Crazy For You
26. Who's That Girl
27. Frozen
28. Miles Away
29. Take A Bow
30. Live To Tell
31. Beautiful Stranger
32. Hollywood
33. Die Another Day
34. Don't Tell Me
35. Cherish
36. Celebration

Court And Spark completed Joni Mitchell's transition from folk-singer to sophisticated rock auteur. In addition to her meticulously crafted melodies and evocative, image-rich lyrics, the songs here are breezy and immediately appealing. This is in part due to Tom Scott's L.A. Express, a sinuous jazz-based combo, but also to Mitchell's knack for pop hooks. The album's accessibility made it Mitchell's most commercially successful, yet the personal intensity and insight of her songwriting never wavers. Court And Spark confirmed her standing as one of the most important and subtle talents of the rock era.

Track Listing:

1. Court And Spark
2. Help Me
3. Free Man In Paris
4. People's Parties
5. Same Situation
6. Car On A Hill
7. Down To You
8. Just Like This Train
9. Raised On Robbery
10. Trouble Child
11. Twisted

In the late '90s, 15-year-old Jay Lindsey, living right outside Memphis, played all of the instruments on a demo tape by his newly-minted performing moniker of “The Reatards.” This cassette was sent to Eric Friedl of the Oblivians, who had used the “Goner Records” imprint on a couple of releases. His next would be a 7” by The Reatards, followed shortly by a full length LP, Teenage Hate (Goner, 1998).

After quickly building a reputation for an anything-goes live set, and releasing another excellent full length Grown Up, Fucked Up (Empty, 1999), Jay Reatard shoved what was previously a side project to the forefront and started raising eyebrows with something other than live mayhem: songwriting and an ear for breaking ground.

Jay’s first title under the solo “Jay Reatard” moniker, Blood Visions was released in early 2006 on In The Red, and it politely sat on the shelves for over six months until the live act brought up the rear and things started to happen. More singles for more labels, a handful of mind-bending SXSW performances, nonstop touring, a bidding war…and the first quarter of 2008 found Jay Reatard on Matador Records.

Track Listing:

1. Blood Visions
2. Greed, Money, Useless Children
3. It's So Easy
4. My Shadow
5. My Family
6. Death Is Forming
7. Oh It's Such A Shame
8. Not a Substitute
9. Nightmares
10. I See You Standing There
11. We Who Wait
12. Fading All Away
13. Turning Blue
14. Puppet Man
15. Waiting For Something

A special limited edition vinyl collectors’ package with 15 Classic CCR 45 RPM vinyl singles with rare picture sleeves housed in a collectible box!

The definitive singles collection on 15 vinyl 45 RPM discs presented in their original mixes for the first time in over 40 years.

Special multi-page booklet featuring all-new liner notes by noted rock historian Ben Fong-Torres.

Track Listing:

Portervill
Call It Pretending

Suzie Q (part 1)
Suzie Q (part 2)

I Put A Spell On You
Walk On The Water

Proud Mary
Born On The Bayou

Bad Moon Rising
Lodi

Green River
Commotion

Fortunate Son
Down On The Corner

Travelin' Band
Who'll Stop The Rain

Run Through The Jungle
Up Around The Bend

Long As I Can See The Light
Lookin' Out My Back Door

Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Hey Tonight

Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Door To Door

Someday Never Comes
Tearin' Up The Country

I Heard It Through The Grapevine (single edit)
Good Golly, Miss Molly

45 Revolutions Per Minute (part 1)
45 Revolutions Per Minute (part 2)

For Bob Marley, 1975 was a triumphant year. The singer's Natty Dread album featured one of his strongest batches of original material (the first compiled after the departure of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer) and delivered Top 40 hit 'No Woman No Cry.' The follow-up Live set, a document of Marley's appearance at London's Lyceum, found the singer conquering England as well. Upon completing the tour, Marley and his band returned to Jamaica, laying down the tracks for Rastaman Vibration (1976) at legendary studios run by Harry Johnson and Joe Gibbs. At the mixing board for the sessions were Sylvan Morris and Errol Thompson, Jamaican engineers of the highest caliber. Though none of these cuts would show up on Legend, Marley's massively popular, posthumous best-of, some of the finest reality numbers would surface on the compilation's more militant equivalent, 1986's Rebel Music set. 'War,' for one, remains one of the most stunning statements of the singer's career. Though it is essentially a straight reading of one of Haile Selassie's speeches, Marley phrases the text exquisitely to fit a musical setting, a quiet intensity lying just below the surface. Equally strong are the likes of 'Rat Race,' 'Crazy Baldhead,' and 'Want More.' These songs are tempered by buoyant, lighthearted material like 'Cry to Me,' 'Night Shift,' and 'Positive Vibration.' Not quite as strong as some of the love songs Marley would score hits with on subsequent albums, 'Cry to Me' still seems like an obvious choice for a single and remains underrated. Though record buyers may not have found any single song to be as strong on those terms as 'No Woman No Cry,' Rastaman Vibration still reached the Top Ten in the United States.

1. Positive Vibration
2. Roots, Rock, Reggae
3. Johnny Was
4. Cry To Me
5. Want More
6. Crazy Baldhead
7. Who The Cap Fit
8. Night Shift
9. War
10. Rat Race
11. Jah Live

On this salute to pianist/vocalist extraordinaire Nat King Cole, Diana Krall has a lot to live up to, presenting a group of compositions that are ingrained in the public's memory as part of a lasting legacy of both jazz and pop music. It's to her credit that she went about this intimidating task with a resourcefulness and quiet grace that makes All For You an exceptional tribute. A majority of All For You features Krall in an appropriately unadorned trio setting wonderfully capturing the essence of the Cole trio's arrangements. Krall swings hard with guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Paul Keller on "I'm An Errand Girl For Rhythm" and "Hit That Jive Jack," often employing Cole trio devices such as repeated unison figures and on-top-of-the-beat eighth notes on bass. Krall's own sultry, understated singing and crisp, straightforward piano is distinctive enough to cast a fine new light on these classic songs. Here on 180g Double Vinyl!

1. I'm An Errand Girl For Rhythm
2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
3. You Call It Madness
4. Frim Fram Sauce
5. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
6. Baby Baby All The Time
7. Hit That Jive Jack
8. You're Looking At Me
9. I'm Thru With Love
10. Deed I Do
11. A Blossom Fell
12. If I Had You

Them Crooked Vultures a.k.a Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme and John Paul Jones are set to release their self-titled debut. The self-produced 13-song record will feature the debut of the studio versions of the material Them Crooked Vultures unveiled at its August 9 debut at Chicago's Cabaret Metro and played on a first series of shows throughout a handful of UK and European cities and portions of the eastern U.S., wrapping up with an October 15 appearance at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Features the single "New Fang."

Track Listing:

1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser
3. New Fang
4. Dead End Friends
5. Elephants
6. Scumbag Blues
7. Reptiles
8. Interlude With Ludes
9. Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up
10. Caligulove
11. Gunman
12. Spinning In Daffodils

Picture disc LP of Lady Gaga's highly anticipated release The Fame Monster. Features 8 new tracks. Blonde image on A side, brunette on B side.

Track Listing:

1. Bad Romance
2. Alejandro
3. Monster
4. So Happy I Could Die
5. Speechless
6. Dance In The Dark
7. Telephone
8. Teeth

The Thelonious Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse lasted 11 years. October 31 and November 1, 1964 at the It Club in Los Angeles showcase Monk at particular high point pianistically; in fact, he went into a Los Angeles studio and recorded the album Solo Monk on the afternoons preceding and following the live taping. He is in full force throughout, but his playing is particularly superb on the standards "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and the previously unreleased "Sweet And Lovely."

The band plays standards, many of Monk's famous tunes, a few lesser known items like "Gallop's Gallop" and "Blues Five Spot" and the recent compositions "Teo" and "Bright Mississippi." Propelled by Gales and Riley, Monk and Rouse deliver amazing 10-minute excursions on such Monk classics as "Nutty," "Rhythm-a-ning" and "Blue Monk."

Rouse in his sixth year with Monk had hit his stride, truly becoming Monk's musical alter ego. Remarkably, drummer Ben Riley had joined the quartet at the beginning of 1964 and bassist Larry Gales had only logged in a month at the time of this taping; yet they already show the first signs of collective greatness on these evenings.

Mosaic has returned to the original three-track tapes and mixed them down to beautiful sounding analog stereo masters, presenting the six sets they played that night as they happened.

Track Listing:

1. Blue Monk
2. Well, You Needn’t
3. ‘Round Midnight
4. Rhythm-a-ning
5. Epistrophy (theme- Saturday set one)
6. Blues Five Spot
7. Bemsha Swing
8. Straight No Chaser
9. Epistrophy (theme – Saturday set two)
10. Evidence
11. Sweet And Lovely
12. Nutty
13. Epistrophy (theme – Saturday set three)
14. Teo
15. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
16. Epistrophy (theme – Sunday set one)
17. Misterioso
18. Gallop’s Gallop
19. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are
20. Epistrophy (theme – Sunday set two)
21. Bright Mississippi
22. Just You, Just Me
23. All The Things You Are
24. Epistrophy (theme – Sunday set three)

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Live In Paris is Frank Sinatra’s definitive concert album. Yes, there are many good ones—Sinatra at the Sands is also among the finest—but none better captures the essence of the singer’s voice, showmanship, and command than this 1962 session, which remained unreleased until 1994. Backed only by a sextet, the main focus here is on Sinatra’s peerless singing, phrasing, and style. Needless to say, the iconic crooner doesn’t disappoint.

It’s impossible to overstate the magnificence of the interpretations on this set. Looking for the ultimate renditions of “My Funny Valentine,” “In the Still of the Night,” “One for My Baby,” “Night and Day,” and “Ol’ Man River”? Search no more. Sinatra’s readings of these classics exceed his superb studio versions, as well as those that appear on other live albums. And consider the setlist: “The Lady is a Tramp,” “Come Fly With Me,” “Chicago,” “I Could Have Danced All Night.” Superb. And Sinatra is simply “on,” bringing a combination of swinging enthusiasm, reverent charm, and dignified emotion to standards. He triumphs with a powerful voice yet affected by the ravages of time and cigarettes.

Fans of Sinatra at the Sands should take note. Sinatra in Paris is much more intimate, with the scaled-down arrangements and small band allowing songs to bask in the glory of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ voice. Yes, Sinatra’s period onstage comments can seem crude. But they take nothing away from the sheer superiority of this recording.

Ever since its release, the lone drawback to Sinatra in Paris has been that of the inferior sound quality. Lament the shortcoming no more. Half-speed mastered from the original tapes and pressed onto two slabs of quiet 180-gram vinyl, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited-edition 2-LP set lifts the veil on the music and allows it to soar with a richness, texture, openness, and presence that have until now gone missing. You will swoon over the improvements.

Track Listing:

1. Introduction - Charles Aznavour
2. Goody Goody
3. Imagination
4. At Long Last Love
5. Moonlight in Vermont
6. Without a Song
7. Day In - Day Out
8. I've Got You Under My Skin
9. I Get a Kick Out of You
10. Second Time Around
11. Too Marvelous for Words
12. My Funny Valentine
13. In the Still of the Night
14. April in Paris
15. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
16. They Can't Take That Away from Me
17. Chicago
18. Night and Day
19. I Could Have Danced All Night
20. One for My Baby
21. Foggy Day
22. Ol' Man River
23. Lady Is a Tramp
24. I Love Paris
25. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
26. Come Fly With Me

While Hendrix remains most famous for his hard rock and psychedelic innovations, more than a third of his recordings were blues-oriented. This LP contains 11 blues originals and covers, eight of which were previously unreleased. Recorded between 1966 and 1970, they feature the master guitarist stretching the boundaries of electric blues in both live and studio settings. Besides several Hendrix blues-based originals, it includes covers of Albert King and Muddy Waters classics, as well as a 1967 acoustic version of his composition "Hear My Train A-Comin'." The Classic issue of this title will mark its first time on vinyl. Of course, the two LP set, cut on Bernie Grundman's all tube analog cutting system.

1. Hear My Train a Comin' [Acoustic]
2. Born Under a Bad Sign
3. Red House
4. Catfish Blues
5. Voodoo Chile Blues
6. Mannish Boy
7. Once I Had a Woman
8. Bleeding Heart
9. Jelly 292
10. Electric Church Red House
11. Hear My Train a Comin' [Electric]

The mercurial Bitches Brew is thought by many to be one of the most revolutionary albums in jazz history, having virtually created the genre known as jazz-rock fusion. Miles adds to his In A Silent Way concept here with soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, additional drums and percussion, plus African, Indian and Brazilian instruments. The result was unlike any music heard before or since. A complete rejection of traditional songs, chord progressions, or even melodic conventions, the album signified that music could be just layers of texture and sound. Bitches Brew is not just an important recording, it's an essential one!

Miles Davis Bitches Brew Track Listing

1. Pharaoh's Dance
2. Bitches Brew
3. Spanish Key
4. John McLaughlin
5. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
6. Sanctuary
7. Feio

Part 1 - Acknowledgement
Part 2 - Resolution

Part 3 - Pursuance
Part 4 - Psalm

Original packaging including stickers and posters, heavyweight virgin vinyl, plus new 30th anniversary poster.

Speak to Me
Breathe in the Air
On the Run
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

This fresh approach to stylus cleaning has saved all of us from the fear of hard bristled brushes and over applying dangerous fluids. Clean your stylus simply and effectively with the Zerodust from Japan. This space-age polymer bubble allows you to simply lower your stylus onto its surface, then quickly lift the arm lever and you’re done! Watch as the stylus tip slowly sinks into the baby soft surface, leaving behind an impression with the stylus debris left behind! This unique device will last a lifetime, can be cleaned with tap water, and can extend the life of your cartridge! Comes complete with a magnifier to inspect your stylus! Our highest recommendation!

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The D4+ Record Care System is the result of intensive scientific research on safe record cleaning. The D4+ System is a cleaning system unlike other products, which reduce record dynamics and fidelity. The more active, yet safe, D4+ fluid is actually able to lift and suspend contaminants in solution on the record surface so the D4 pad can easily and efficiently remove debris. Containing less residue than tap water, D4+ fluid will clean without depositing new residues on the record surface; it will not encourage any biological growth as do "constantly damp" cleaning methods.
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Moussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
(Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel)

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has obtained the master tapes of this landmark album and for the first time What’s Going On will be released on 180g UTLRA ANALOG LP. As with all Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab releases, meticulous attention to detail is paid during the transfer process.

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On was a landmark recording and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone named it Album Of The Year when it came out and, in 2003, it was ranked number 6, the highest for a non-rock album, in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Originally, the title cut was recorded as a single, and Motown chief Berry Gordy refused to release it, citing that it was too personal and political. "What's Going On" became Motown's fastest-selling single at that point, going to the number one spot on the R&B charts for five weeks and number two for three weeks on the Pop listings, which lead Gordy to request a full album's worth of material.

“What's Going On”, the single, was recorded in June of 1970. The remainder of the album was recorded in March-May of 1971 and was released on May 21st of that year. It was produced entirely by Marvin Gaye.

1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
4. Save The Children
5. God Is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

On Colored Vinyl!

Track Listing:

1. Crazy Mary (From Victoria Williams Tribute Album)
2. Masters Of War (From Victoria Williams Tribute Album)
3. Footsteps (From Fan Club Flexi)
4. Oceans (From MTV Unplugged, Never Broadcast)
5. Rockin In The Free World (From MTV Unplugged, Never Broadfcast)
6. Bee Girl (From Fan Club Flexi)
7. Daughter (From the Bridge School Benefit, 1999)
8. Wishlist (From the Bridge School Benefit, 1999)
9. Last Kiss (From the Bridge School Benefit, 1999)
10. Yellow Ledbetter (From the Bridge School Benefit, 1994)

Track Listing:

Come Together
Something
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
End
Her Majesty

When the band performed in 1966, Eric Clapton was already fairly well known, having performed and recorded with the Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, but it wasn't until Cream that Clapton became a global superstar. Breaking free of the traditional rock and roll song structure for a more improvisational/jazz influenced take, the band's long jams gave birth to a whole new approach to rock music. Don't miss your chance to get these amazing collector's editions of three of the four official Cream studio albums in one vinyl box set. The set includes Fresh Cream on clear red vinyl, Wheels of Fire (studio) on white vinyl and Wheels of Fire (Live) on white vinyl and Goodbye on picture disc

Track Listing:

Fresh Cream (Red Vinyl)

N.S.U.
Sleepy Time Time
Dreaming
Sweet Wine
Spoonful
Wrapping Paper
Cat's Squirrel
Four Until Late
The Coffee Song
Rollin' And Tumblin'
I'm So Glad
Toad

Wheels Of Fire (Studio Version On White Vinyl)

White Room
Sitting on Top of the World
Passing the Time
As You Said
Pressed Rat and Warthog
Politician
Those Were the Days
Born Under a Bad Sign
Deserted Cities of the Heart

Wheels Of Fire (Live At The Filmore On White Vinyl)

Crossroads
Spoonful
Traintime
Toad

Goodbye (Picture Disc)

I'm So Glad
Politician
Sitting On Top Of The World
Badge
Doing That Scrapyard Thing

In conjunction with DreamWorks Films NEW Director's Edition 2-Disc DVD release of Cameron Crowe's "ALMOST FAMOUS", Classic Records is pleased to announce the release of "Untitled" - an inspired reissue of the soundtrack for the Academy Award winning film "Almost Famous". This two LP set features bonus material by Still Water the fictitious band featured in the film. The Stillwater tracks were mastered directly by Bernie Grundman from the 1/2" analog masters (*due to time constraints with this production, digital sources were utilized for the other repertoire).

1. America - Simon & Garfunkel
2. Sparks - The Who
3. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren
4. Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
5. Feel Flows - The Beach Boys
6. Your Move - Yes
7. Mr. Farmer - The Seeds
8. One Way Out - The Allman Bros
9. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. That's The Way - Led Zeppelin
11. Tiny Dancer - Elton John
12. Lucky Trumble - Nancy Wilson
13. I'm Waiting For The Man - David Bowie
14. The Wind - Cat Stevens
15. Slip Away - Clarence Carter
16. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
17. Fever Dog - Stillwater
18. Love Thing - Stillwater
19. Chance Upon You - Stillwater
20. Love Comes And Goes - Stillwater
21. Hour Of Need - Stillwater
22. You Had To Be There - Stillwater

Import

As musical lunacy goes, things have gotten as crazy as it gets for Death Cab for Cutie since 2002's You Can Play These Songs with Chords compilation. A wildly successful tour with Dismemberment Plan, a collaboration for singer Ben Gibbard with emo-electronic guru Dntel under the Postal Service moniker, and a whole new legion of fans swooning to Gibbard's lyrics as if he were a modern day answer to Kiss Me-era Robert Smith have all amassed considerable hype around Transatlanticism. But the group proves themselves more than equal to the task, answering the call and proving the cynics wrong with their most focused and most mature work in their entire catalog. Transatlanticism wastes absolutely no time and dives in head first with "The New Year," one of the most melodramatic openings to an album since the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The mellow, mixed-meter percussion and dense atmosphere of "Lightness" is a brilliant lead into the pop-happy "Expo '86" and "The Sound of Settling" before setting up the climatic and intensely dramatic title track. Unconsciously taking a page from Blur's "Sing," the hypnotic drumming and guitar call and responses through the eight-minute climax of the album are backed with a singalong finale that unquestionably will have every audience on the next tour singing along and holding up their lighters. And while most albums would be left exhausted after such a track, the group keeps things moving, albeit at a much slower pace than compared to the anthems that packed the first half. Gibbard seamlessly makes the transition between songs that full out rock to songs that are comparable to Elliott Smith's finest hour with great ease. But it's Gibbard's poetic lyrics and signature introspection that remain a bench mark for Death Cab; and it's the group's maturity as musicians as well as songwriters that make Transatlanticism such a decadently good listen from start to finish. The band has never sounded more cohesive, the track sequencing is brilliant, and it caps off a triumphant year for not only Gibbard, but a band whose time and greater recognition is finally due. ~ Rob Theakston, All Music Guide

Track Listing:

1. The New Year
2. Lightness
3. Title And Registration
4. Expo '86
5. The Sound Of Settling
6. Tiny Vessels
7. Transatlanticism
8. Passenger Seat
9. Death Of An Interior Decorator
10. We Looked Like Giants
11. A Lack Of Color

One of the most controversial albums in Bob Dylan's remarkable catalog, the 1970 double-LP Self Portrait continues to exercise considerable fascination amongst Dylan devotees. Released on the heels of the artist's game changing Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait offered a quirky assortment of studio and live tracks, encompassing Dylan originals as well as covers of familiar pop and folk numbers, recorded with an all-star musical cast.

At the time of its original release, the sprawling, unconventional Self Portrait generated an immense amount of discussion and disagreement amonst Dylan admirers. The ongoing controversy surrounding the album has been fueled over the years by Dylan himself. At various times, Dylan has defended Self Portrait as a heartfelt artistic statement, dismissed it as a joke and described it as a concerted effort to escape the pressures of his unwanted status as the voice of a generation. Whatever the artist's actual intentions, Self Portrait retains a unique niche in the hearts of Dylan fans, and is often cited as an early landmark in the birth of alternative country.

Self Portrait's highlights include the Dylan originals "Wigwam," later featured in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums; "Living the Blues," subsequently covered by artists ranging from Leon Redbone to Antony Hegarty; and "The Mighty Quinn," which Manfred Mann had turned into a British Invasion hit in 1968. The latter song is one of a quartet of live tracks drawn from Dylan's legendary performances with The Band at the historic Isle of Wight festival, along with memorable versions of the Dylan standards "Like a Rolling Stone," "Minstrel Boy" and "She Belongs to Me." Also featured are Dylan's readings of a variety of outside material, ranging from his iconic interpretation of the rural folk song "Copper Kettle" to his distinctive takes on such familiar tunes as Paul Simon's "The Boxer," Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Mornin' Rain" and the vintage Every Brothers hits "Let It Be Me" and "Take a Message to Mary."

Sundazed has restored this one-of-a-kind release to its original double-LP format. Mastered from the original analog master tapes, the album is pressed on high-quality, high-definition vinyl, with meticulously reproduced original gatefold cover art.

Track Listing:

1. All the Tired Horses
2. Alberta #1
3. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
4. Days of '49
5. Early Mornin' Rain
6. In Search of Little Sadie
7. Let It Be Me
8. Little Sadie
9. Woogie Boogie
10. Belle Isle
11. Living the Blues
12. Like a Rolling Stone (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969)
13. Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
14. Gotta Travel On
15. Blue Moon
16. The Boxer
17. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival)
18. Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
19. Take a Message to Mary
20. It Hurts Me Too
21. Minstrel Boy (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969)
22. She Belongs to Me (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969)
23. Wigwam
24. Alberta #2

Remastered 180-Gram Pressing Cut from Original Master Tapes by Bernie Grundman and Pressed at RTI. This is THE Definitive Version of the Life-Altering 1991 Blockbuster Album!

Pressed on Dead-Quiet Blue-Colored Virgin Vinyl and Limited to Only 4000 Copies Worldwide!

Few records changed the world. Nirvana's Nevermind is one of them. Released in September 1991, the well-produced yet emotionally raw album catapulted grunge into the mainstream and forever altered the popular musical landscape, turning Nirvana into household names and singer Kurt Cobain into the reluctant spokesperson of his generation. By year’s end, Seattle-based music, fashion, and attitude consumed popular consciousness. Nevermind had restored the gritty passion, rebellious mentality, and cathartic power long missing from mainstream rock. Call it the mighty sword that in one swoop fell the excess, plasticity, and emptiness of 80s music.

The record’s impact is also be measured by the success of its singles. Named by Rolling Stone as the #9 Best Song of All Time, the anthemic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” became an institution on radio stations and MTV. Subsequent singles “Come As You Are,” “Lithium,” and “In Bloom” also testified to the genius of the soft-loud arrangements and whip-smart commentary on Nevermind, which at its core was a blockbuster pop album in punk clothing.

More than ten million copies later, the record has only picked up more accolades, having been included at or near the top of nearly every major publication’s Greatest Albums list. Nevermind is listed as:

#1 in Spin’s 90 Greatest Albums of the 90s #1 Album of the Year in Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Poll #6 in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s #17 in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time #1 in Entertainment Weekly’s Best Albums of the 90s

In addition to the groundbreaking music, sound quality has always been among the album’s finest aspects. Cleanly produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Andy Wallace, Nevermind features explosive dynamics, bursting tones, and a wide-open midrange. While Cobain later disparaged the sound as being too polished, the truth was that the room-filling sound allowed the record to grab the attention of anyone within earshot. Much imitated but never equaled, the sound became the template that nearly every band requested be put on their albums.

And it has never sounded better. Cut for ORG from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and pressed on blue-colored 180-gram virgin vinyl at RTI, ORG’s Limited Edition Collector’s Version is THE definitive edition of this masterpiece. WE GUARANTEE THIS BEATS EVERY PREVIOUS PRESSING. Dave Grohl’s titantic drumming, Cobain’s gut-wrenching screams and distortion-packed guitar riffs, and Krist Novoselic’s loopy bass lines all feature life-size imaging and incredible presence. Do not pass this up!

Track Listing:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom
3. Come As You Are
4. Breed
5. Lithium
6. Polly
7. Territorial Pissings
8. Drain You
9. Lounge Act
10. Stay Away
11. On A Plain
12. Something In The Way

Friday Music continues its extensive Yes 180g Audiophile Vinyl Series with their masterpiece Relayer. Presented for the first time on audiophile vinyl, this amazing album hit the Top 5 in 1975, and continued their trek to the world stadiums and stages for the next several years. This time around, long time members Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe and Alan White welcome superstar keyboard sensation Patrick Moraz for his one and only album with the band. Three lengthy tracks made this the LP of choice for progressive radio stations that year, with "Gates Of Delirium," "Sound Chaser" and "To Be Over" all receiving heavy airplay.

Roger Dean’s gatefold cover is also presented, as well as the sound and mastering you have come to expect from Friday Music. Mastered by Joe Reagoso from the original Atlantic tapes at Friday Music Studios and Capitol Records in Hollywood, Yes Relayer sounds fantastic and will become one of the more anticipated 180g releases of the season.

Track Listing:

1. Gates of Delirium
2. Sound Chaser
3. To Be Over

“For this record, I just had a sound in my head,” says Norah Jones. “I wanted the grooves to be more present and heavy. And I also just wanted to do something different. I’ve been hanging with the same group of musicians for a long time, and I thought it was a good time for me to work with different people and experiment a little.”

The result of these experiments is the multiple Grammy Award-winner’s new album, The Fall. The album is an exciting evolution from her previous three releases, which have sold a combined 36 million copies worldwide. The first obvious change on The Fall is a lengthy list of new collaborators. Producer Jacquire King, who has worked with Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, and Tom Waits, among others, helped Jones put together a group of musicians, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). Jones also joined forces with several notable songwriters on The Fall, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent collaborator Jesse Harris.

Track Listing:

1. Chasing Pirates
2. Even Though
3. Light As a Feather
4. Young Blood
5. I Wouldn’t Need You
6. Waiting
7. It’s Gonna Be
8. You’ve Ruined Me
9. Back To Manhattan
10. Stuck
11. December
12. Tell Yer Mama
13. Man Of The Hour

+ Full Length CD - LP Cut from Original Masters and Pressed at Pallas in Germany!

Wilco's 1996 follow-up to A.M. let's the music take center stage, making the band's overwhelming stretch into innumerable styles readily apparent. Jeff Tweedy's love of pop and the mechanics of making pop albums is clear almost immediately here, as he and his cohorts utilize the studio as never before. Chock full of unexpected sounds and styles, the sprawling Being There leaves no musical territory or influence unchartered and it offers what may be the first true glimpse at the band's artistic restlessness and uncompromising ambition.

Wilco Being There Track Listing

1. Misunderstood
2. Far, Far Away
3. Monday
4. Outtasite (Outta Mind)
5. Forget The Flowers
6. Red-Eyed And Blue
7. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
8. What's The World Got In Store (LP Version)
9. Hotel Arizona
10. Say You Miss Me
11. Sunken Treasure
12. Someday Soon
13. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
14. Someone Else's Song
15. Kingpin
16. (Was I) In Your Dreams
17. Why Would You Wanna Live
18. The Lonely 1
19. Dreamer In My Dreams

Raditude finds Weezer doing tongue in cheek tracks with goofy titles like "(If You Are Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To," "I'm Your Daddy" and "The Girl Got Hot." Raditude was produced by Jacknife Lee (Bloc Party, the Hives) and Butch Walker.

Track Listing:

1. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
2. I'm Your Daddy
3. The Girl Got Hot
4. Can't Stop Partying
5. Put Me Back Together
6. Trippin' Down The Freeway
7. Love Is the Answer
8. Let It All Hang Out
9. In the Mall
10. I Don't Want to Let You Go

Nine studio albums, thousands of live shows and nearly three decades into a career that’s made them one of the biggest and most important metal bands in the world, the members of Slayer know exactly what kind of music they make, brutal but beautiful, punishing yet precise. A fresh Slayer record is a thing of terror but also one of trust, you can depend on what you’re getting even if you’re unprepared for it. As guitarist Jeff Hanneman says, “At this point I think a Slayer album pretty much speaks for itself.”

World Painted Blood, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2006’s Christ Illusion, is one of Slayer’s most impressive efforts yet, a vicious, uncompromising look at what’s broken in our society and how frighteningly powerless we are to fix it. King says World is “more well-rounded than the last couple of albums.” Lombardo calls it “a speed metal record with emotion.” Produced by Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slipknot). Executive produced by Rick Rubin.

Track Listing:

1. World Painted Blood
2. Unit 731
3. Snuff
4. Beauty Through Order
5. Hate Worldwide
6. Public Display Of Dismemberment
7. Human Strain
8. Americon
9. Psychopathy Red
10. Playing With Dolls
11. Not Of This God

With 15 years, 6 platinum-plus albums and as many Grammys under their collective belt, the Foo Fighters now mark off yet another milestone in their ascension to quintessential American rock royalty, an eagerly awaited Greatest Hits package. Foo Fighters Greatest Hits will feature two brand new tracks; "Wheels" which made its live debut at President Obama and the USO's July 4 barbeque at the White House honoring military heroes, and "Word Forward," both recorded especially for this collection at the band's own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig. The new tracks not only hold their own alongside individual Grammy winners "The Pretender," "All My Life" and "Learn To Fly" and perennial Foo favorites "Best Of You," "Times Like These," "My Hero, "Everlong" and more, but they perfectly round out an overview of the Foo Fighters' illustrious output to date and hint at what's yet to come.

Foo Fighters Greatest Hits Track Listing 1. All My Life
2. Best Of You
3. Everlong
4. The Pretender
5. My Hero
6. Learn To Fly
7. Times Like These
8. Monkeywrench
9. Big Me
10. Breakout
11. Long Road To Ruin
12. This is a Call
13. Skin and Bones
14. Wheels
15. Word Forward
16. Everlong (acoustic)

Motley Crue's Greatest Hits features 19 of the band's finest, from albums Too Fast For Love to their most recent release Saints of Los Angeles. Double 180g vinyl LP. Motley Crue Greatest Hits Track Listing

Track Listing:

1. Too Fast For Love
2. Shout At The Devil
3. Looks That Kill
4. Too Young To Fall In Love
5. Smokin' In The Boys Room
6. Home Sweet Home
7. Wild Side
8. Girls, Girls, Girls
9. Dr. Feelgood
10. Kickstart My Heart
11. Same Ol' Situation
12. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
13. Without You
14. Primal Scream
15. Sick Love Song
16. Afraid
17. If I Die Tomorrow
18. Saints of Los Angeles
19. The Animal In Me (remix)

Space Oddity was a giant leap forward for David Bowie in terms of songwriting as compared to his eponymous debut and it is considered the first truly essential Bowie release. Noted for a list of collaborators, including session players Herbie Flowers, Tim Renwick, Terry Cox and Rick Wakeman, Space Oddity delves into psychedelic folk-rock, as well as prog, with its genre-defying template and it helped create a blueprint that over the next decade would make Bowie the most inimitable British artists.

Track Listing:

1. Space Oddity
2. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
3. Letter To Hermione
4. Cygnet Committee
5. Janine
6. An Occasional Dream
7. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
8. God Knows I’m Good
9. Memory Of A Free Festival

Track Listing:

Side One

1. Dead Skunk
2. Red Guitar
3. East Indian Princess
4. Muse Blues
5. hometeam Crowd
6. B Side

Side Two

1. Needless To Say
2. Smokey Joe's Cafe
4. new Paint
5. Trilogy (Circa 1967)
6. Drinking Song
7. Say That You Love Me

Double wax/gatefold sleeve vinyl version of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Live album released on their own label (Abstract Dragon) in conjunction with Vagrant Records. Various tracks spanning their entire career (plus a romping cover of the Pogues' "Dirty Old Town" unavailable elsewhere), recorded in Berlin, Dublin and Glasgow, and mixed by BRMC's own Peter Hayes. This is the only BRMC vinyl currently in print!

Track Listing:

1. Weapon Of Choice
2. Rise Or Fall
3. 666 Conducer
4. Ain't No Easy Way
5. Berlin
6. Red Eyes And Tears
7. Love Burns
8. Mercy
9. Dirty Old Town
10. Promise
11. Six Barrel Shotgun
12. Spread Your Love
13. Took Out A Loan
14. Whatever Happened To My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song)

The classic Primus album Frizzle Fry remastered and re-released on vinyl. Hear the legendary "Too Many Puppies" and "John Fisherman" as never before.

Track Listing:

1. To Defy the Laws of Tradition
2. Groundhog's Day
3. Too Many Puppies
4. Mr. Knowitall
5. Frizzle Fry
6. John the Fisherman
7. You Can't Kill Michael Malloy
8. The Toys Go Winding Down
9. Pudding Time
10. Sathington Willoughby
11. Spegetti Western
12. Harold of the Rocks
13. To Defy
14. Hello Skinny/Constantinople

1. Suzie Q
2. I Put A Spell On You
3. Proud Mary
4. Bad Moon Rising
5. Lodi
6. Green River
7. Commotion
8. Down On The Corner
9. Fortunate Son
10. Travelin' Band
11. Who'll Stop The Rain
12. Up Around The Bend
13. Run Through The Jungle
14. Lookin' Out My Back Door
15. Long As I Can See The Light
16. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
17. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
18. Hey Tonight
19. Sweet Hitch-Hiker
20. Someday Never Comes

March Into The Sea
Dashboard
Fire It Up
Florida
Fly Trapped In A Jar
Missed The Boat
We've Got Everything
Parting Of The Sensory
Education
Little Motel
Steam Engenius
Spitting Venom
People As Places As People
Invisible

While they last

4-180 Gram Vinyl LP Box Set
Remastered with band members' oversight
Half-Speed Mastered by Stan Ricker
Pressed at RTI

LP 1
1. Good Times Bad Times
2. Communication Breakdown
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
5. Whole Lotta Love
6. Ramble On
7. Heartbreaker
8. Immigrant Song

LP 2
1. Since I've Been Loving You
2. Rock and Roll
3. Black Dog
4. When The Levee Breaks
5. Stairway To Heaven
6. The Song Remains The Same

LP 3
1. Over The Hills and Far Away
2. D'Yer Maker
3. No Quarter
4. Trampled Under Foot
5. Houses of the Holy
6. Kashmir

LP 4
1. Nobody's Fault But Mine
2. Achilles Last Stand
3. In The Evening
4. All Of My Love

BlakRoc is the brainchild of John Peets (Q Prime) and Damon Dash (Roc-A-Fella). Think Black Keys intertwined with 11 A-list rappers (Mos Def, Ludacris, ODB, Raekwon, Qtip, RZA, Jim Jones, to name a few)… this is something totally new and in a genre of its own.

All songs feature The Black Keys

Track Listing:

1. Coochie – Ludacris, Ol’ Dirty Bastard
2. On The Vista – Mos Def
3. Hard Times - NOE
4. Dollaz & Sense – Pharoahe Monch, RZA
5. Why Can’t I Forget Him - Nicole Wray
6. Stay Off The F*%$#n’ Flowers - Raekwon
7. Ain’t Nothing Like You – Jim Jones. Mos Def
8. Hope You’re Happy - Billy Danze, Nicole Wray, Q-Tip
9. Tellin’ Me Things - RZA
10. What You Do To Me - Billy Danze, Jim Jones, Nicole Wray
11. Done Did It - Nicole Wray, NOE

John Mayer's Battle Studies was co-produced by Mayer and Steve Jordan and debuts three years after his critically acclaimed 2006 album, Continuum. Incorporating the warmth, melodies and simplicity of '70's and '80's California rock/pop, Battle Studies is a confessional, relaxed and liberated album recorded in a private home in California where Mayer lived and worked over the course of six months before wrapping at the famed Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.

The album's first single, "Who Says" challenges conventional standards of what one can accomplish or undertake despite society's constraints. Battle Studies also showcases universal themes on "Heartbreak Warfare," "Assassin," and "War of My Life," while flexing guitar chops on "Rock Song," and a reinterpretation of "Crossroads." The famously collaborative guitar player also invited one of music's brightest new talents, Taylor Swift, to appear on "Half of My Heart."

"I approach music like a director doing a period piece," says Mayer. "Where Continuum was R&B and Soul, Battle Studies was written with the timelessness of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young in mind. The melodies and message are concise and from-the-gut with the efficiency of simplicity."

Track Listing:

Heartbreak Warfare
All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye
Half of My Heart
Who Says
Perfectly Lonely
Assassin
Crossroads
War of My Life
Edge of Desire
Do You Know Me
Friends, Lovers or Nothing

1975 was a magical year for Jeff Beck. Already a rock superstar from his ground breaking guitar work with The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group and Beck Bogert and Appice, Beck’s Blow By Blow was a total artistic leap into new musical territory which netted the guitar hero massive acclaim.

Produced by the legendary George Martin, Blow By Blow features nine smokin’ tracks of instrumental genius as only Jeff Beck could provide. Smokin’ originals like "You Know What I Mean," "Air Blower" and "Scatterbrain" have all become standards in the rock/jazz fusion world, as his beautiful cover of Steve Wonder’s "Cause We’ve Ended Now As Lovers" illustrates even further the depth, technique and originality of Jeff Beck’s guitar artistry.

With stellar musicians like Max Middleton (keyboards), Phil Chenn (bass), and Richard Bailey (drums/percussion), plus beautiful string arrangements by George Martin, Beck and Co. truly delivered a historic masterpiece with this classic album.

Friday Music proudly releases Jeff Beck’s Blow By Blow for the first time on 180g Audiophile Vinyl. Reissue produced from the original Epic Records tapes by Joe Reagoso and pressed at RTI with Sony Music, this limited edition album will be one of the most important audiophile events of this year.

Track Listing:

1. You Know What I Mean
2. She’s A Woman
3. Constipated Duck
4. AIR Blower
5. Scatterbrain
6. Cause We’ve Ended Now As Lovers
7. Thelonius
8. Freeway Jam
9. Diamond Dust

Kind Of Brown is the Mack Avenue debut for dynamic composer, bandleader and musician Christian McBride. Although he’s has toured and recorded extensively with his jammy, electric Weather Report-like band, Christian felt the primordial urge to return to New York’s hallowed jazz basement, the Village Vanguard. However, since the Vanguard doesn’t allow any “rock n’ roll music” he assembled Warren Wolf, Carl Allen, Eric Reed and Steve Wilson to form Inside Straight. The quintet holed up in the famed Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, CA) to record Kind Of Brown, a release fueled by the imagination/spirit/sweat of all those whom had toiled at the fabled studio before them, a truly encyclopedic roster.

This limited edition, two LP set, 33 1/3 rpm, is 210 gram vinyl for the boomingest bass. The gatefold packaging features liner notes by famed producer Orrin Keepnews, and each LP set comes with a free digital download of Kind of Brown, plus cover art.

Track Listing:

1. Brother Mister
2. Theme For Kareem
3. Rainbow Wheel
4. Starbeam
5. Used 'Ta Could
6. The Shade Of The Cedar Tree
7. Pursuit Of Peace
8. Uncle James
9. Stick & Move
10. Where Are You?

Originally released in 1975, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns is a stunning work of art conceived graphically, musically and lyrically as a whole. Leaning even more towards the jazz idiom than her previous release, Court and Spark, the collection features the introduction of the great Burundi on drums and is highlighted by the excellent guitar playing of frequent session collaborators Larry Carlton and Robben Ford. As adventurous and lyrically deep as anything Joni Mitchell has ever done.

Track Listing:

1. In France They Kiss On Main Street
2. The Jungle Line
3. Edith And The Kingpin
4. Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
5. Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
6. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
7. The Boho Dance
8. Harry's House-Centerpiece
9. Sweet Bird
10. Shadows And Light

In 2008, Tom Waits launched a sold‐out national tour, garnering intense critical praise and thrilling fans across the country and the world, some in cities where he had never performed before. Now comes the document of those concerts, 17 performances hand‐picked by Waits from along the tour. Leaning heavily on songs from his ANTI-releases including a haunting “Trampled Rose” from Real Gone and a roaring “Get Behind the Mule” from Mule Variations, Waits also digs into the vaults for tracks like a re-imagined “Singapore” from 1985’s Rain Dogs. Glitter and Doom Live will reside in the Waits catalog alongside earlier live albums like Nighthawks at the Diner and Big Time.

Track Listing:

1. Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down (Birmingham‐07/03/08)
2. Singapore (Edinburgh‐07/28/08)
3. Get Behind The Mule (Tulsa‐06/25/08)
4. Fannin Street (Knoxville‐06/29/08)
5. Dirt In The Ground (Milan‐07/19/08)
6. Such A Scream (Milan‐07/18/08)
7. Live Circus (Jacksonville‐07/01/08)
8. Goin' Out West (Tulsa ‐06/25/08)
9. Falling Down (Paris - 07/25/08)
10. The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh‐07/28/08)
11. Trampled Rose (Dublin‐08/01/08)
12. Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville‐6/29/08)
13. I'll Shoot The Moon (Paris‐07/24/08)
14. Green Grass (Edinburgh‐07/27/08)
15. Make It Rain (Atlanta‐07/05/08)
16. Story (Columbus‐06/28/08)
17. Lucky Day (Atlanta‐07/05/08)

Orphans has been a genuine phenomenon in the storied career of Tom Waits, a collection of “songs that fell behind the stove while making dinner,” that has been greeted with open arms by thrilled Waits fans. The album quickly became his fastest‐selling release ever, his first certified gold record, and a genuine classic in the Waits cannon. The collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over 30 newly recorded songs from Waits’ own versions of songs he gave to other artists to some “things I recorded in the garage with the kids.” Over two‐thirds of the material has never been heard before now. In addition to the new work, Orphans features a number of tracks finding a home on a Waits album for the first time. They include Waits’ unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly. Now Waits is bringing Orphans to a glorious‐sounding 7 LP box set, all pressed on 180g vinyl, and housed in a deluxe pull‐out case. In addition, Waits has added six more tracks from the archives, including Tom’s irreverent take on Fats Waller’s “Crazy ‘Bout My Baby.” Longtime Waits fans and the newly converted will want to own this collector’s edition of one of Waits’ most important releases.

Features 7 full length LPs, with 56 tracks, including 6 additional bonus tracks not on the CD and deluxe 12” booklet with Lyrics.

Track Listing:

Brawlers

Side A:

1. Lie To Me
2. LowDown
3. 2:19
4. Fish In The Jailhouse

Side B

1. Bottom Of The World
2. Lucinda
3. Ain’t Goin’ Down To The Well
4. Lord I’ve Been Changed

Side C

1. Puttin’ On The Dog
2. Road To Peace
3. All The Time

Side D

1. The Return Of Jackie And Judy
2. Walk Away
3. Sea Of Love
4. Buzz Fledderjohn
5. Rains On Me

Bawlers

Side A

1. Bend Down The Branches
2. You Can Never Hold Back Spring
3. Long Way Home
4. Widow’s Grove
5. Little Drop Of Poison
6. Shiny Things

Side B

1. World Keeps Turning
2. Tell It To Me
3. Never Let Go
4. Fannin Street

Side C

1. Little Man
2. It’s Over
3. If I Have To Go
4. Goodnight Irene
5. The Fall Of Troy

Side D

1. Take Care Of All My Children
2. Down There By The Train
3. Danny Says
4. Jayne’s Blue Wish
5. Young At Heart

Bastards

Side A

1. What Keeps Mankind Alive
2. Children’s Story
3. Heigh Ho
4. Army Ants
5. Books Of Moses

Side B

1. Bone Chain
2. Two Sisters
3. First Kiss
4. Dog Door
5. Redrum

Side C

1. Nirvana
2. Home I’ll Never Be
3. Poor Little Lamb
4. Altar Boy
5. The Pontiac
6. Spidey’s Wild Ride

Side D

1. King Kong
2. On The Road
3. Dog Treat
4. Missing My Son

Exclusive Bonus Songs

Side A

1. Crazy ‘Bout My Baby
2. Diamond In Your Mind
3. Cannon Song

Side B

1. Pray
2. No One Can Forgive Me
3. Mathie Grove

Jazz has had its share of archival discoveries, not the least of which were Dean Benedetti's recordings of Charlie Parker. But the discovery of more music from the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane is made all the more extraordinary because so few knew it existed and the only official recordings by this band were made in its first weeks of existence. Now, a forgotten November 1957 Carnegie Hall concert taped by Voice of America radio has been discovered by the Library of Congress with two appearances by the quartet.

These two 25-minute, five-tune sets feature the quartet in great fidelity and unbelievable form. The empathy and invention of the group here far surpasses the Riverside session, made months earlier. Playing together every night for 18 weeks sharpened the skills and interaction of these brilliant musicians. Monk's piano playing has never sounded like this; his arpeggios are virtuosic and each note rings with clarity on the Carnegie Hall piano. Coltrane had fully mastered Monk's music by this time. In the confines of short playing times (most tunes are four to six minutes in duration), he plays with a fervid intensity trying to cram all his ideas into a brief amount of time. Ahmed Abdul-Malik and Shadow Wilson play the intricate arrangements with fluidity and push the soloists to great heights. Thanks to the clarity and presence of Wilson's drums on this recording, his work will be a revelation to anyone wh