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60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 180g Vinyl 2LP featuring Recently Uncovered Mono Version and Stereo Version, Both Mastered from the Original Tapes; Also includes Liner Notes by Ben Ratliff, Photos & Atlantic Records Ephemera

Released in 1961, My Favorite Things made John Coltrane a star with box-office pull previously reserved for the likes of Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis. The dazzling quartet treatment of the Richard Rodgers hit song features Coltrane on soprano saxophone for the first time on record and became an instant hit single in its own right. The album also became a major commercial success, receiving the Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1998 and attaining gold record status in 2018. The recently uncovered mono version of this album – once believed to be lost forever – is included in this deluxe package along with the stereo version, both having been mastered from the original tapes. This 60th Anniversary deluxe edition also includes liner notes by award-winning writer Ben Ratliff, as well as photos and Atlantic Records ephemera.

LP1

1. My Favorite Things (2022 Vinyl Remaster)
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye (2022 Vinyl Remaster)
3. Summertime (2022 Vinyl Remaster)
4. But Not For Me (2021 Vinyl Remaster)

LP2

1. My Favorite Things (2021 Vinyl Remaster)
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye (2021 Vinyl Remaster)
3. Summertime (2021 Vinyl Remaster)
4. But Not For Me (2021 Vinyl Remaster)

2016 Remasterd Edition Originally Included In David Bowie's Who Can I Be Now? 1974-1976 Box Set

"The return of The Thin White Duke..." So begins David Bowie's tenth studio album, 1976's Station To Station. In part influenced by his role in Nicolas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell To Earth, ever the innovator, Bowie became the character The Thin White Duke; a composite, part his character from the film, alien Thomas Jerome Newton, part Buster Keaton and part European cabaret artist. After the release of 1975's soul and funk-inspired Young Americans, Bowie and the album's guitarist Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick (guitar), the E-Street Band's Roy Bittan (piano), Dennis Davis (drums), George Murray (bass) and Warren Peace (backing vocals) entered Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles to record its follow up.

Touching on his love of German electronic bands, American R&B and even film music plus the talents of his American band, Bowie crafted an album drawing on both European and American sensibilities; a transition between his recent Plastic Soul period and what would become his re-acquaintance with European culture when he moved to Berlin the following year. The opening 10-minute title track leaves the listener in no doubt that another ground-breaking Bowie transformation is taking place. From the sound of a moving train and two-note intro, through the introduction and intention of The Thin White Duke - taking in Crowley, Cocaine and Kabbalah and Romanticism - the song is a piece of paranoid and dislocated electronic-funk.

This is followed by the distinctive UK and US Top 10 single "Golden Years," which hints at the funk and soul of his previous album. "Word On A Wing" is the first of the album's two ballads, with a decidedly Christian theme – a song which in later years Bowie said was something of a cry for help. The back-to-back "TVC15" and "Stay" provide the album with a funkier feel, the former having said to have been influenced by being sprawled in front of a dozen TV monitors and a dream about a girlfriend being eaten by a TV set. A great admirer of Nina Simone's version of the song, the album's second ballad and final track is a cover of Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington's ballad "Wild Is The Wind," generally considered an inspired and classic Bowie vocal performance.

Station To Station was a top 5 success in the U.K. and U.S. It would, as many authorities said, divide the decade for Bowie. He thereafter left the US for Berlin with Iggy Pop and embarked on a journey which saw the creation of his seminal Berlin Trilogy, as well as playing a major role in Iggy's acclaimed The Idiot and Lust For Life albums.

1. Station To Station
2. Golden Years
3. Word On A Wing
4. TVC15
5. Stay
6. Wild Is The Wind

I DREAM OF CHRISTMAS - Norah Jones - nine-time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist has recorded a collection of covers of seasonal classics alongside her own original Christmas-themed songs. The covers featured on the album include "White Christmas", "Winter Wonderland," and "Run Rudolph Run." Vinyl LP pressing 2021 holiday release from the acclaimed singer/songwriter.

• 1 Christmas Calling (Jolly Jones)
• 2 Christmas Don't Be Late
• 3 Christmas Glow
• 4 White Christmas
• 5 Christmastime
• 6 Blue Christmas
• 7 It's Only Christmas Once a Year
• 8 You're Not Alone
• 9 Winter Wonderland
• 10 A Holiday with You
• 11 Run Rudolph Run
• 12 Christmas Time Is Here
• 13 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Curtis Mayfield recorded a string of hits with The Impressions before leaving the influential soul-gospel group to embark upon a solo career that produced some of his finest work. Known as the "Gentle Genius," Mayfield has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice - first as a member of The Impressions and later as a solo artist. Mayfield managed to combine some of the greatest soul ever recorded with thought provoking lyrics tackling the key social political issues of the time. Rhino Records presents the definitive collection of Mayfield's reflective, soul moving, evocative hits with the 16-track vinyl 2LP-set, The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield. Includes everything from the political to the romantic, from cuts from his genre-defining Superfly ("Freddie's Dead") to statement makers like "(Don't Worry) If There Is a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go."

Tracks

LP1

1. (Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go
2. The Makings Of You
3. Move On Up (Extended Version)
4. Get Down
5. We Got To Have Peace
6. Freddie's Dead (Theme From 'Superfly')
7. Superfly (Recorded Live by WTTW-TV Chicago)
8. Pusherman

LP2

1. Future Shock
2. Can't Say Nothin'
3. Kung Fu
4. So In Love
5. Only You Babe
6. Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here
7. Between You Baby And Me (with Linda Clifford)
8. Do Be Down (with Linda Clifford)

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Blue Note Records has announced the continuation of the Classic Vinyl Reissue Series which presents 180g vinyl LP reissues in standard packaging mastered by Kevin Gray and manufactured at Optimal. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes. While the first 16 titles of the series focused on the best-known Blue Note classics from the 1950s and 60s, the new run of titles curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman broadens its scope to span the many eras and styles of the legendary label's eight-decade history presented by themes: Bebop, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, The 70s, The Rebirth, and Hidden Gems.

Vibraphonist Milt Jackson appeared on a number of Blue Note sessions throughout the bebop era in the late 1940s and early 1950s including a 1952 date under his leadership which featured the original line-up of the Modern Jazz Quartet with John Lewis on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums, plus Lou Donaldson on alto saxophone. That year Blue Note released the 10" LP Wizard of the Vibes which included Jackson's memorable theme "Bag's Groove." In 1956, Blue Note transitioned to the 12" LP and began the fabled 1500 Series, releasing the expanded LP Milt Jackson and The Thelonious Monk Quintet – BLP 1509 – with added tracks from 1948 and 1951 dates led by Monk, including a quartet date with John Simmons on bass and Shadow Wilson on drums, as well as a quintet date with Sahib Shihab on alto saxophone, Al McKibbon on bass, and Art Blakey on drums.

Musicians:
Milt Jackson, vibraphone
Thelonious Monk / John Lewis, piano
Lou Donaldson / Sahib Shihab, alto saxophone
Al McKibbon / John Simmons / Percy Heath, bass
Art Blakey / Kenny Clarke / Shadow Wilson, drums

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

1. Lillie
2. Tahiti
3. What's New
4. Bags' Groove
5. On The Scene
6. Willow Weep For Me
7. Criss Cross
8. Eronel
9. Mysterioso (Alternate Master)
10. Evidence
11. Lillie (Alternate Master)
12. Four In One (Alternate Master)

“I feel that we’re on the brink of something. It is going to be strict and wild and pretty.” — Prince, 1986

More than any other release in his four-decade-long recording career, Prince's iconic double album Sign O' The Times captured the artist in a period of complete reinvention. Primarily recorded between the end of 1985 and beginning of 1987, the era saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the end of his engagement to Susannah Melvoin, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball. By the end of that period of transformation, Prince emerged with one of his most urgent and wide-ranging releases to date — an epochal double album that would be hailed as a creative, critical, and commercial triumph. 

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Sign O' the Times
• 2 Play in the Sunshine
• 3 Housequake
• 4 The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 It
• 2 Starfish and Coffee
• 3 Slow Love
• 4 Hot Thing
• 5 Forever in My Life
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 U Got the Look
• 2 If I Was Your Girlfriend
• 3 Strange Relationship
• 4 I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 The Cross
• 2 It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
• 3 Adore

Soccer Mommy is the project of Sophie Allison, a 19-year-old Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Sophie built her reputation as a DIY artist, recording her own songs and releasing them for free on Bandcamp over the last few years. Collection compiles the best of Sophie's Bandcamp work as well as a few new songs, written, mixed and produced herself. The songs portray an artist fully-formed, mature far beyond her age singing about toxic relationships, infatuations, and all the experiences of being a teenage girl.

Or, as Sophie describes her subject matter, "crush stuff with a hint of bad to it." There's a playfulness to the music that belies the sophisticated nature of the songcraft. The songs can be sweet, they can be happily melancholic or melancholically happy, but they always cut deep. They belong on playlists and mixes, to be shared among friends and belted out during road trips. These perfect pop gems have power.

"Allison," a gorgeous meditation on the bittersweet feeling of hurting someone you love while pursuing your own dreams, showcases Sophie's talent for home recording, with multi-tracked vocals layered to perfection while the relatable and anthemic "Out Worn," is a searing takedown of the desire for male validation which strikes the perfect balance between anger and sugary pop bliss.

1. Allison
2. Try
3. Death by Chocolate
4. Out Worn
5. 3 AM at a Party
6. Inside Out
7. Benadryl Dreams
8. Waiting for Cars

First Live Steely Dan Album in More Than 25 Years Captured at New York City's Beacon Theatre, The Met Philadelphia and More!

Steely Dan's Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and a live version of the acclaimed 1982 debut solo album by Donald Fagen – The Nightfly Live – both receive 180g vinyl releases by UMe in September 2021. The first live Steely Dan album in more than 25 years, Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!, was recorded across tour dates at New York City's Beacon Theatre, The Met Philadelphia, and more, and showcases selections from Steely Dan's extraordinary catalog of slinky grooves, sleek subversive lyrics, and infectious hits including "Hey Nineteen," "Aja," and "Reelin' in the Years." Donald Fagen's audiophile favorite The Nightfly is performed front to back live by The Steely Dan Band including the highlights "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier."

LP1

1. Black Cow
2. Kid Charlemagne
3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
4. Hey Nineteen
5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
6. Glamour Profession

LP2

1. Things I Miss the Most
2. Aja
3. Peg
4. Bodhisattva
5. Reelin' in the Years
6. A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry

Jazz writer Walter Kolovsky proclaimed that Friday Night In San Francisco "may be the most influential of all acoustic guitar albums." LPs of it have been a demonstration staple on turntables around the world for over 40 years. To celebrate the lasting impact of this singular album and the legendary concert that it represents, Impex Records proudly presents the long-awaited follow up, Saturday Night In San Francisco!

Working with hours of original 16-track live session tapes, Al Di Meola and his team have brilliantly curated this musical tour-de-force, bringing to life for the first time on 180g vinyl LP the explosively virtuosic final performance of Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco De Lucia at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, December 6, 1980. In the exclusive essay by music historian Charles L. Granata, Di Meola says of that final night: "It's exciting because the audience was right there with us, savoring every single note of music. And, we were ripping. It was crazy good!"

Impex worked carefully with Di Meola, mixing engineer Roy Hendrickson (SPIN Studio), and mastering engineer Bernie Grundman to recreate the magic of Friday Night In San Francisco so these never-before-released solos and trios burst out of your system with striking clarity, dynamics and technical brilliance. "Crazy good," indeed.

1. Bill Graham Introduction
2. Splendido Sundance
3. One Word
4. Trilogy Suite
5. Monasterio de Sal
6. El Pañuelo
7. Meeting Of The Spirits

Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes' 'A Very Lonely Solstice,' a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY's St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church. Now being released for the first time on vinyl, CD and digital formats, 'A Very Lonely Solstice' captures a poignant moment in time. The recording was originally broadcasted as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency tightening restrictions again in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. Pecknold describes the set as "me by myself on the longest night of the year... honoring the loneliness of 2020 with a nylon string and some songs new and old." Fans worldwide tuned in while quarantined at home, finding solace and a sense of community in a period of extreme isolation. Much of 'A Very Lonely Solstice' showcases a solo focus on Pecknold who offers up acoustic arrangements of fan-favorite songs spanning Fleet Foxes' catalog. Selections cover all four of the band's studio albums, including their 2008 self-titled debut album ("Tiger Mountain Peasant Song") to 2011's Helplessness Blues ("Blue Spotted Tail") and 2017's Crack-Up ("If You Need To, Keep Time On Me"), all the way to their latest release, Shore. Resistance Revival Chorus joins Pecknold on Shore tracks "Wading In Waist-High Water" and "Can I Believe You." Also featured: a cover of Nina Simone's "In The Morning" and a rearrangement of the traditional "Silver Dagger."

• 1 Wading in Waist-High Water (Solstice Version)
• 2 Sunblind (Solstice Version)
• 3 In the Morning (Solstice Version)
• 4 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Solstice Version)
• 5 Maestranza (Solstice Version)
• 6 Helplessness Blues (Solstice Version)
• 7 Silver Dagger (Solstice Version)
• 8 Featherweight (Solstice Version)
• 9 A Long Way Past the Past (Solstice Version)
• 10 Blue Spotted Tail (Solstice Version)
• 11 If You Need to, Keep Time on Me (Solstice Version)
• 12 I'm Not My Season (Solstice Version)
• 13 Can I Believe You (Solstice Version)

Piece 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

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, released on 23 November 1981 by Harvest Records. The title is facetious, given that Pink Floyd are not known for making particularly danceable music. This is perhaps evidenced by the album art, which featured a photograph of ballroom dancers anchored to the ground so they cannot move. The album contains alternative mixes of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (which comprises parts 1, 2, 4 and 7) edited down for time reasons, and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (which combines the intro from the single mix with the album version). Also, the track "Money" was re-recorded as Capitol Records refused to license the track to Columbia/CBS Records. David Gilmour re-recorded the track himself, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar and vocals and co-producing the song with James Guthrie. Dick Parry reprised his saxophone role on the track. There are some differences between the re-recorded version and the original; mainly in the saxophone and guitar solos and the overall use of reverb. The drumming is noticeably different from Nick Mason's, especially during the guitar solo, with very little of the tom-tom fills heard on the original.

Tracks

1. One of These Days
2. Money
3. Sheep
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-4)
5. Wish You Were Here
6. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

To celebrate a decade since the arrival of My Head Is An Animal, Of Monsters and Men present a 10th Anniversary colored vinyl 2LP reissue. Originally released in Iceland in 2011, this edition has four bonus tracks that were not on the 2012 U.S. version, including two never-before-heard songs: "Phantom" and "Sugar in a Bowl." Both songs were written at the same time as the rest of the songs on My Head Is An Animal, yet were only newly recorded. The band first performed "Phantom" in 2010 for the renowned Icelandic music competition Músíktilraunir, and their eventual win helped to jump-start their career. Meanwhile, "Sugar In A Bowl" was never recorded or performed in any capacity. "This album is how most of you got to know us and how we got to know you and for that we are forever grateful," said the band regarding the special release. "Thank you to everyone that listened to and supported us this past decade. Here's to another ten years!"

LP1
1. Dirty Paws
2. King And Lionheart [2011 Iceland Release Version]
3. Numb Bears [2011 Iceland Release Version]
4. Sloom
5. Little Talks
6. From Finner
7. Six Weeks 

LP2
1. Love Love Love
2. Your Bones
3. Lakehouse [2011 Iceland Release Version]
4. Yellow Light
5. Sinking Man [2011 Iceland Release Version]
6. Phantom
7. Sugar in a Bowl

Limited colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Seventh album from hard rockers Asking Alexandria. Their nearly 2M Spotify followers, 6 Billboard 200 charting albums (3 appearing in the top 10) and past success at radio (singles on last album reached #3 and #7 on US Active Rock) have primed the band for success. Asking Alexandria is returning with a revival and a rebirth after spending the winter of 2021 living in the studio, the first time band had spent a period alone together writing and recording in over a decade. The product is the truest album by the band yet.

Boyz N The Hood is the critically acclaimed story of three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of street life where friendship, pain, danger and love combine to form reality. "The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony coexists with adversity, especially for three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitious drug dealer; his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college-bound teenage father; and Ricky's best friend Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond "The Hood." In a world where a trip to the store can end in death, the friends have diverse reactions to their bleak surroundings. Tre's resolve is strengthened by a strong father (Larry Fishburne) who keeps him on the right track. But the lessons Tre learns are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse. The Oscar-nominated 1991 film's gold-certified soundtrack peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and is comprised of '90s hip-hop (Ice Cube, 2 Live Crew) and R&B (Tevin Campbell, Tony! Toni! Toné!) plus a few score pieces from Quincy Jones and Stanley Clarke.

Tracks

LP1

1. Ice Cube - How To Survive In South Central
2. Tevin Campbell - Just Ask Me To
3. Yo-Yo - Mama Don't Take No Mess
4. CMW - Growin' Up In The Hood
5. Main Source - Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball (Remix)
6. Tony! Toni! Toné! - Me & You
7. Monie Love - Work It Out

LP2

1. Kam - Every Single Weekend
2. Hi-Five - Too Young
3. The 2 Live Crew - Hangin' Out
4. Too Short - It's Your Life
5. Force One Network - Spirit (Does Anyone Care?)
6. Quincy Jones - Setembro
7. Stanley Clarke - Black On Black Crime

Hits to The Head gathers all your favorite Franz Ferdinand singles in one handy album. 18 stone cold classics with brand new future hits "Billy Goodbye" & "Curious."

Tracks

LP1

1. Darts Of Pleasure
2. Take Me Out
3. The Dark Of The Matinée
4. Michael
5. This Fire
6. Do You Want To
7. Walk Away
8. The Fallen
9. Outsiders
10. Lucid Dreams

LP2

1. Ulysses
2. No You Girls
3. Right Action
4. Evil Eye
5. Love Illumination
6. Stand On The Horizon
7. Always Ascending
8. Glimpse Of Love
9. Curious
10. Billy Goodbye

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 2007 studio release that was certified 7x platinum. Includes "No More Cloudy Days," which is still performed as part of their current set.



• - Disc 1 -
• 1 No More Walks in the Wood
• 2 How Long
• 3 Busy Being Fabulous
• 4 What Do I Do with My Heart
• 5 Guilty of the Crime
• 6 I Don't Want to Hear Any More
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Waiting in the Weeds
• 2 No More Cloudy Days
• 3 Fast Company
• 4 Do Something
• 5 You Are Not Alone
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Long Road Out of Eden
• 2 I Dreamed There Was No War
• 3 Somebody
• 4 Frail Grasp on the Big Picture
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Last Good Time in Town
• 2 I Love to Watch a Woman Dance
• 3 Business As Usual
• 4 Center of the Universe
• 5 It's Your World Now

Book is a new phase They Might Be Giants album presented on 180-gram audiophile vinyl LP with package design by Paul Sahre. Featuring "I Broke My Own Rule," "I Lost Thursday," and "I Can't Remember the Dream," Book is billed as a beacon of light amid a pretty unanimously rough period of time with the band's John Linnell describing its songs as "humorously germane to the catastrophe going on around us."

1. Synopsis for Latecomers
2. Moonbeam Rays
3. I Broke My Own Rule
4. Brontosaurus
5. Lord Snowden
6. If Day for Winnipeg
7. I Can’t Remember the Dream
8. Drown the Clown
9. Darling, the Dose
10. I Lost Thursday
11. Part of You Wants to Believe Me
12. Super Cool
13. Wait Actually Yeah No
14. Quit the Circus
15. Less Than One