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Orpheus Descending [Explicit Content]
Regular price $37.00 Save $-37.00John Mellencamp - "Orpheus Descending" - With a career spanning over 40 years musician artist and activist John Mellencamp is releasing his 25th full-length studio album Orpheus Descending via Republic Records. It was recorded at his own Belmont Mall Studio and produced by Mellencamp. The album is one of the most personal to date for the outspoken artist as he continues to show that he's one of the best songwriters of his generation focusing on social issues with standout songs "Hey God" and "The Eyes of Portland." EXPLICIT
Out Of Our Heads (UK)
Regular price $32.00 Save $-32.00ABKCO Records; ABKCO; Rock; Catalog
Artist Hometown: London, UK
1965’s Out Of Our Heads saw the Rolling Stones prove themselves capable of writing classic rock singles that mined their R&B and blues roots, but updated them into a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context. The UK version features two underrated early pop gems – “I’m Free” and the sublimely cynical “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man.” Special Pkg:180g Heavy Vinyl LP
Permanent Vacation
Regular price $33.00 Save $-33.00Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing of this album from the classic rock band. Released in 1987, Permanent Vacation marked a turning point in the band's career. Here the band worked alongside professional songwriters to craft an album chock full of hits that charted in the Top 20. This came at the suggestion of executive John Kalodner. He also pushed the band to work with producer Bruce Fairbairn, who remained with them for another two albums. It was also the first Aerosmith album to be promoted by heavy music video airplay on MTV. Though Done with Mirrors was intended to mark Aerosmith's comeback, Permanent Vacation is often considered their true comeback, as it was the band's first truly popular album since their reunion. Tracks like 'Rag Doll', 'Dude (Looks like a Lady)', and 'Angel' helped Permanent Vacation become the band's greatest success in a decade.
Piece Of Cake
Regular price $40.00 Save $-40.00Piece Of Cake is the third studio album by grunge rockers Mudhoney. It was their major label debut, being the first album to be released on Reprise Records. Songs like "No End In Sight" and "Suck You Dry" made it clear these guys were a punk band at heart. Several songs from the album, including "Suck You Dry", "Blinding Sun" and "Acetone" are still consistently featured in Mudhoney's live setlist. Colored 180g vinyl LP.
1. (UNTITLED TRACK)
2. NO END IN SIGHT
3. MAKE IT NOW
4. WHEN IN ROME
5. (UNTITLED TRACK)
6. SUCK YOU DRY
7. BLINDING SUN
8. THIRTEENTH FLOOR OPENING
9. YOUTH BODY EXPRESSION EXPLOSION
10. I'M SPUN
11. (UNTITLED TRACK)
12. TAKE ME THERE
13. LIVING WRECK
14. LET ME LET YOU DOWN
15. (UNTITLED TRACK)
16. RITZVILLE
17. ACETONE
Pink Friday (10th Anniversary) (Deluxe Pink/White Swirl 3 LP)
Regular price $62.00 Save $-62.00Deluxe triple pink and white swirl colored vinyl LP pressing housed in tri-gatefold jacket. Includes eight bonus tracks. Certified triple-platinum, Pink Friday spawned several hits including the 8x-platinum "Super Bass," and 3x-platinum "BedRock" which appear on vinyl for the first time.
Pressure Machine
Regular price $28.00 Save $-28.00Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release. For the second straight year, The Killers are releasing a new album. The follow-up to 2020's Imploding the Mirage is titled Pressure Machine.
Quickness
Regular price $22.00 Save $-22.00Vinyl LP pressing. Quickness is the fourth full-length studio album by Bad Brains, originally released by Caroline Records in 1989. At the time of it's release, it was the band's best-selling album and also landed them a featured MTV music video for the opening track, "Soul Craft." This reissue marks the fifth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
Ready for Freddie (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)
Regular price $28.00 Save $-28.00Blue Note Records is pleased to present the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series, a continuation of their acclaimed Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series which was launched in celebration of the label's 80th anniversary in 2019. The Classic Series will once again feature all-analog 180g vinyl pressings in standard packaging that are mastered by Kevin Gray directly from the original master tapes and manufactured at Optimal in Germany. The first 16 titles of the Classic Series will focus on the enduring classics of the Blue Note catalog. The Classic Series will be on-going, running alongside the Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series which is produced by Joe Harley.
The Indianapolis-born trumpeter Freddie Hubbard introduced his prodigious talent on Blue Note Records with a run of remarkable albums recorded thru the early 1960s. At first rooted firmly in hard bop, Hubbard began to broaden his approach on his masterwork Ready for Freddie, recorded in August 1961. "The way in which I'm most interested in going is Coltrane-like," Hubbard told liner note writer Nat Hentoff. Hubbard had recorded with Coltrane earlier in the year on the saxophonist's Atlantic album Olé Coltrane and Africa/Brass for Impulse. Hubbard further explained, "I mean different ways of playing the changes so that you get a wider play of colors."
To paint with those colors Hubbard assembled a band that included three musicians from Coltrane's orbit: bassist Art Davis, pianist McCoy Tyner, and drummer Elvin Jones. The date also marked the first collaboration between Hubbard and Wayne Shorter, a startlingly original saxophonist and Hubbard's soon-to-be bandmate in The Jazz Messengers when the trumpeter replaced Lee Morgan in Art Blakey's flagship band later that year on seminal Blue Note albums including Mosaic and Buhaina's Delight. Rounding out the unique sextet on Ready for Freddie is Bernard McKinney on euphonium, a mellow-toned brass instrument that enhanced the ensemble's tonal palette.
The album opens with Hubbard's sprightly tune "Arietis," a nod to his astrological sign Aries, before down-shifting into the sublime ballad "Weaver of Dreams," a stunning performance by Hubbard where both his brilliant tone and awe-inspiring technical command of his horn are on full display. Following Shorter's jaunty tune "Marie Antoinette," the band pays homage to Charlie Parker with Hubbard's fleet-footed tune "Birdlike." The album comes to a close with the expansive and explosive "Crisis," a Hubbard original that sought to capture some of the simmering tensions of the early-1960s.
Musicians:
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
Wayne Shorter, saxophone
Art Davis, bass
McCoy Tyner, piano
Elvin Jones, drums
Bernard McKinney, euphonium
Features:
• Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series
• All analog 180g vinyl LP
• Mastered by Kevin Gray directly from the original master tapes
• Manufactured at Optimal in Germany
• Standard packaging
Reboot
Regular price $27.00 Save $-27.00Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. With his first new album in 36 years, Reboot, Ronnie Foster returns to Blue Note Records 50 years after releasing his debut album, Two Headed Freap, on the label in 1972. Reboot is a collection of originals and covers that mark a fresh start for Foster who has whipped up an omnidirectional brew of Hammond Organ grooves that pay homage to the past but more often reflect Ronnie's restlessness for ushering in the new. The album is dedicated to the memory of his longtime friend Dr. Lonnie Smith.
Six [Transparent Red 2LP]
Regular price $38.00 Save $-38.00EXTREME return in 2023 with “SIX”, their first album of new music in 15 years. The multi-million selling hard-rockers present 12 tracks ranging from funk-tinged bangers to soaring ballads as only EXTREME can deliver. Spearheaded by the songwriting team of vocalist Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt (who blessed the world with chart-toppers like “More Than Words” and “Hole Hearted”), “SIX” is an essential addition to EXTREME’s discography. The album opener and first single “RISE” will immediately fire up legions of anxious fans with its signature riff. Elsewhere, “OTHER SIDE OF THE RAINBOW” showcases EXTREME’s gift for passionate acoustic magic. EXTREME are back with “SIX” – everything the fans have been waiting for.
Straight Out The Jungle (IEX RSD Essential Smoke Vinyl)
Regular price $26.00 Save $-26.00RSD Essential - SMOKE VINYL - De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest may have been more commercially successful, but the afrocentric, jazz political rap movement and unfadeable Native Tounge Massive started with the Jungle Brothers. Their debut full length Straight Out the Jungle opened up many doors that are walked through by artists like Mos Def, Common and even Kanye West. Their taste for jazzy horn samples helped kick-start the entire jazz-rap movement, and their James Brown fixation was one of the first. Plus, the groups groundbreaking collaboration with legendary house producer Todd Terry, Ill House You, paved the way for numerous hip-house hybrids that shot up the dance and pop charts over the next few years and appeared to be a staple on every East Coast Rap Album from 88 until 92.
A1. Straight Out The Jungle A2. What's Going On A3. Black Is Black A4. Jimbrowski A5. I'm Gonna Do You A6. I'll House You B1. On The Run B2. Behind The Bush B3. Because I Got It Like That B4. Braggin And Boastin B5. Sounds Of The Safari B6. The Promo B7. Ultimatum Ultramix
Tattoo You-40th Anniversary Edition (2xLP)
Regular price $38.00 Save $-38.00Tattoo You celebrates 40 years with a deluxe gatefold 180g vinyl 2LP reissue of the chart topping, multiplatinum 1981 album featuring Stephen Marcussen's newly remastered original album alongside Lost & Found, a brand new collection of nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album's original release, newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band. Among these, "Living In The Heart Of Love" is a quintessential Stones rock workout with all of the group on top form, complete with urgent guitar licks and fine piano detail. Other highlights include a killer version of "Shame, Shame, Shame," first recorded in 1963 by one of the band's blues heroes, Jimmy Reed; their reading of Dobie Gray's soul gem "Drift Away;" and a fascinating reggae-tinged version of "Start Me Up."
The Tattoo You (40th Anniversary Edition) follows the 2020 reissue of the Stones' 1973 landmark Goats Head Soup, which took the album back to No. 1 in the U.K. Remarkably, this marked the second time their peerless catalog had produced a U.K. chart-topper twice over, after 2010's deluxe edition of their 1972 staple Exile On Main St. On first release, Tattoo You, produced by the Glimmer Twins with associate producer Chris Kimsey, topped the charts in the U.S. (where it went quadruple platinum), Canada, Australia and across much of Europe, with gold and platinum awards around the world. Tattoo You introduced such enduring Stones favorites as "Hang Fire," "Waiting On A Friend" (showcasing jazz saxophone giant Sonny Rollins) and of course the opening track that's been a band signature ever since, "Start Me Up."
Features:
• 40th Anniversary deluxe 180g vinyl 2LP reissue
• Original 1981 album remastered in 2021 by Stephen Marcussen
• Lost & Found: a brand new collection of nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album's original release, newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band
• Gatefold packaging
LP1 - 2021 Remaster
LP2 - Lost & Found
The Lady Killer (Hot Pink Vinyl)
Regular price $41.00 Save $-41.00The Last Amen
Regular price $42.00 Save $-42.00The Original Recordings (Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics)
Regular price $47.00 Save $-47.00The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings covers a historic period when the band were rarely out of the news or the charts. The collection soundtracks the period and features key singles 'Anarchy In The UK', 'God Save The Queen', 'Pretty Vacant' and 'Holidays In The Sun', essential tracks from Never Mind The Bollocks, further originals and covers from The Great Rock & Roll Swindle soundtrack album and some essential B- sides.
The Other Side Of Make-Believe
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Coming July 15th: the first album from Interpol in four years, The Other Side of Make-Believe. If fate didn't quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol's seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of 30 thousand-odd Peruvian fans. Rather than be sent scrambling like so many other musicians on tour or promoting new music, when lockdown clamped in March 2020, Interpol quickly got into a productive mood.
Coming from a group whose early work was characterized by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expect Interpol's pandemic record to be an emotional tar pit - doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duo Flood and Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode) on the boards. But Banks felt the call to push in a "counterbalancing" direction, with paeans to mental resilience and the quiet power of going easy. "The nobility of the human spirit is to recover and rebound," he says. "Yeah, I could focus on how f***ed everything is, but I feel now is the time when being hopeful is necessary, and a still-believable emotion within what makes Interpol Interpol."
Toast
Regular price $36.00 Save $-36.00For the past two decades, Toast has been whispered about in collectors' circles in hushed tones, as Neil Young has dropped pieces of information about it here and there, especially as it contains three never-before-released songs. In 2021, in his online daily newspaper, The Times Contrarian, Young wrote about the album in-depth. "The music of Toast is about a relationship," he said. "There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the breakup, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it's over. This was that time."
In 2001, Crazy Horse was in San Francisco, south of Market street, at an old studio called Toast. Coltrane had recorded there, among many other jazz greats, known and unknown. The Dot Com boom was happening and buildings were being bought and turned into lofts or torn down completely and rebuilt. New money was everywhere. Toast was a target. The place was a little run down and sort of on its last legs. If you asked Crazy Horse about these sessions, you would learn that it was a depressing atmosphere and things were not going well. The band recorded there for months and came up with very little. Nothing, other than one song, "Goin' Home" was ever finished. But a lot was started. Several of the songs written at Toast showed up on the Are You Passionate album with Booker T. and the MGs. But that album met with mixed reaction.
Now, years later, John Hanlon, the original co-producer with Neil, mixed all of the Toast material. Many songs share a bluesy, jazz-tinged vibe as a common thread. Three solid rockers are interspersed in the mix. Other songs are long with extensive explorations between verses, a Crazy Horse trademark, kind of like a down-played Tonight's the Night, except these songs deal directly with love and loss, not drugs. The ambient atmosphere, foggy, blue and desolate, pervades many of the tracks, if not all, with Tommy Brea's muted trumpet and dusky male and female counter-part BGs occasionally surfacing from Poncho and Ralph on one side, Nancy Hall and Pegi Young on the other. A cool and sleepy lounge piano rises in the fog occasionally.
The result of this is perhaps one of the most under-estimated and deceptive Crazy Horse records of all time, with many songs originally discarded, and then re-recorded with Booker T. and the MGs. The original performances now surface again through a foggy past. Like an abstract painting, lyrical images of a love lost and maybe even destroyed forever just refuse to die, creating a landscape littered with half-broken dreams and promises. Toast is finally here, a dark Crazy Horse classic for the ages!
Aptly, Toast is heavy and distressed, brimming with electrifying tension. Even its sweet-sounding opening track, "Quit," features the refrain, "Don't say you love me." "Standing In The Light of Love" and "Goin' Home" let the Horse off the tether in fields of overdriven guitar; an out-of-work logger grapples with his faith on the breakneck "Timberline;" and on "Gateway of Love," Young dreams of a less painful future over a hypnotizing 10 minutes, leading into the somber, brokedown "How Ya Doin'?" The songwriter sums up the album best during its shadowy finale "Boom Boom Boom": "All I got is a broken heart, and I don't try to hide it when I play my guitar."
Trouble Is... 25 - 2LP - Black Vinyl
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00Provogue Records is proud to announce the 25th anniversary re-issue of Kenny Wayne Shepherd's highest selling album to date, 'Trouble Is...', which has been re-recorded for a new physical product run. The re-issue will be available on CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray, Earbook, and for the very first time, a 2LP vinyl configuration that wasn't part of the initial 1997 release.
The initial run of 'Trouble Is...' sold 1 million copies, and was certified platinum in 1999. The album had 4 Top 10 hits including "Slow Ride", "Somehow, Somewhere, Someway", "Everything is Broken", and the No. 1 hit, "Blue On Black". Additionally, the song "Blue On Black" won the award for Rock Song of the Year at 1998 Billboard Music Awards. 'Trouble Is...25' is available everywhere December 2nd, 2022.
True Believer
Regular price $30.00 Save $-30.00Untitled
Regular price $42.00 Save $-42.00Limited edition deluxe 2LP Black Vinyl packaged in a Glow-In-The-Dark gatefold jacket featuring two bonus tracks: “Sing Sorrow” and “Overture Or Obituary”. Originally released in 2007, Untitled was the band’s eighth studio album, featuring songs such as “Evolution,” “Hold On,” and “Kiss.”
Vibrating (Blue Vinyl)
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Collective Soul's long-awaited 2022 album release Vibrating sends the band's artistic spirit into the next stratosphere. All ten songs that comprise Vibrating positively pulsate with the boundless energy that has been Collective Soul's aural calling card for going on three full decades. From the propulsively gnarly kiss-off of "Cut the Cord" to the reflective midtempo jangle of "Take" to the heart-wrenching reality check of "Rule No. 1" - replete with a soaring string section, no less! - to the choir-backed emotional crossroads of "Where Do I Go," Vibrating contains 42 minutes of irrefutable sonic evidence of a band wholly uninterested in sitting still. "I think we're on a roll," observes Ed Roland, Collective Soul's frontman and chief songwriter. "We're not afraid to stretch the boundaries - but we do know how to stay in our lane when we need to. Sometimes, though, we just have to go faster." The many good vibrations embedded within the deep-rooted grooves of Vibrating await your endless enjoyment. -Mike Mettler, official Soulographer.