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Is This It, the landmark debut from the Strokes, kickstarted a garage-rock revolution that defined American music from 2001 through 2005. Featuring taut rhythms, frentic tempos, scruffy grooves, melodic hooks, cool-toned vocals, choppy riffs, backstreet attitude, and twitchy arrangements that equally reference Motown, American punk, new wave, and funk, the album is a watershed document that takes off on the influences of James Brown, Television, and the Yardbirds and creates something entirely fresh, new, and irresistible. The Platinum-certified effort is home to the name-making singles "Hard to Explain," "Last Nite" and "Someday."

1. Is This It
2. The Modern Age
3. Soma
4. Barely Legal
5. Someday
6. Alone, Together
7. Last Nite
8. Hard To Explain
9. New York City Cops
10. Trying Your Luck
11. Take It Or Leave It

It's pretty safe to say that most view The Queen Is Dead as the best full-length studio effort ever offered by the Smiths. It arrived in June of 1986 to a rapturous critical reception and its reputation has remained consistent ever since, with "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" in particular having gone on to be seen as a stone-cold classic even by those who aren't full-fledged Smiths fans. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a publication on either side of the pond that doesn't acknowledge it as one of the greatest albums of the whole decade, thanks to songs like the dance-hall fun of "Frankly, Mr. Shankly," the impeccably depressing two-fer of "I Know It's Over" and "Never Had No One Ever," the jangly fun of "Cemetry Gates," and even the silliness of "Vicar in a Tutu."

Tracks

1. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (Medley))
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It's Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetry Gates
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
8. Vicar In A Tutu
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

Vinyl LP pressing. 2016 album from the Grammy-nominated outfit. It took four years for The Lumineers to follow up their platinum-plus self-titled debut - which spent 46 weeks on the Billboard 200 and peaked at #2 - but Cleopatra is well worth the wait. During that time, The Lumineers - whose original members Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites founded the band in Ramsey, New Jersey back in 2002 - earned a pair of Grammy nominations (Best New Artist, Best Americana Album). Cleopatra proves Schultz and Fraites - along with cellist/vocalist Neyla Pekarek- are neither taking their good fortune for granted, nor sitting back on their laurels. With the help of producer Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers, The Avett Brothers), the man Wesley calls "our shaman," the band ensconced themselves in Clubhouse, a recording studio high atop a hill in rural Rhinebeck, N.Y., not far from Woodstock. The band had total artistic freedom in writing and recording the album, so Wesley and Jer pushed the envelope on experimental tracks like the stream-of-consciousness, purposely lo-fi "Sick in the Head," the yearning, piano chord build-up of "In the Light," or the closing orchestral instrumental, the aptly titled coda, "Patience." "We continue to make the kind of records we want to," says Wesley. "We believe in this music. It's a true labor of love. We just want to keep reaching more people with our songs." Given the evidence on The Lumineers' eagerly anticipated sophomore album Cleopatra, that shouldn't be a problem.

Tracks

• 1 Sleep on the Floor
• 2 Ophelia
• 3 Cleopatra
• 4 Gun Song
• 5 Angela
• 6 In the Light
• 7 Gale Song
• 8 Long Way from Home
• 9 Sick in the Head
• 10 My Eyes
• 11 Patience

In keeping with the quality of their magical, laconic music, the success of Mazzy Star's second album, So Tonight That I Might See seemingly came out of nowhere. Eventually going platinum, the record's unexpected climb to commercial prominence began on the back of the surprise success of its second single, the dreamily atmospheric "Fade Into You," which rose into the Billboard Top 50 seven months after its parent album first hit the racks in October 1993. Gloriously out of step with the zeitgeist, the introspective So Tonight That I Might See bore scant relation to the grungy guitar records dominating the alt-rock scene. Indeed, "Fade Into You" ironically began its steady ascent up the Billboard chart while the world mourned the death of Kurt Cobain.

The product of ad hoc studio sessions, So Tonight That I Might See made no attempt to hide its rough 'n' ready nature, with "She's My Baby" and the grinding, "Venus In Furs"-esque titular song sounding almost willfully loose. More often than not, however, the album nonchalantly sauntered towards genius, not least on the droning, acid-tinged "Mary Of Silence," the duo's skeletal, cello-enhanced cover of Arthur Lee's "Five String Serenade" and the strung-out blues-rock of the aptly-titled "Wasted."

The record initially sold modestly, despite attracting tuned-in critics such as Los Angeles Times' Steve Hochman, who enthusiastically proclaimed that it "may well be the best psychedelic blues album since Cream." However, just when observers were preparing to file it away as a slow-burning niche record, So Tonight That I Might See started its stealthy ascent up the Billboard chart, peaking at No. 36 and moving a million copies. Now available as a single LP on standard weight vinyl in celebration of Capitol Records' 75th anniversary.

1. Fade Into You
2. Bells Ring
3. Mary Of Silence
4. Five String Serenade
5. Blue Light
6. She's My Baby
7. Unreflected
8. Wasted
9. Into Dust
10. So Tonight That I Might See

The first Pixies album to break into the Billboards Top 100 (peaking at 98) was a more mature sound for the band. By this time they have perfected their pop hooks that get stuck in your ear while they reel you in with the rest of their music. Acclaimed by many critics as the best Pixies album around, this is a critics’ “must have” for any serious listener of Rock ‘n Roll.

  1. Debaser
  2. Tame
  3. Wave Of Mutilation
  4. I Bleed
  5. Here Comes Your Man
  6. Dead
  7. Monkey Gone To Heaven
  8. Mr. Grieves
  9. Crackity Jones
  10. La La Love You
  11. No. 13 Baby
  12. There Goes My Gun
  13. Hey
  14. Silver
  15. Gouge Away

TWENTY ONE PILOTS / BREACH (VINYL LP) hello Clancy. Hello Blurryface. Meet Breach. Following the epic cliffhanger from the band's last record Clancy, new album BREACH brings the highly anticipated finale to the 10-year-long saga the band has crafted since 2015's Blurryface. Twenty One Pilots, one of the most influential modern acts in rock, with the #1 Rock album of the 2010s, is back with their genre-bending sound and masterful storytelling. Through themes of rebellion, freedom and healing, we meet Clancy where they are, and notice there has been a breach in the system... let's finish this. 

• 1 City Walls
• 2 Rawfear
• 3 Drum Show
• 4 Garbage
• 5 The Contract
• 6 Downstairs
• 7 Robot Voices
• 8 Center Mass
• 9 Cottonwood
• 10 One Way
• 11 Days Lie Dormant
• 12 Tally
• 13 Intentions

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Originally released in 1989, Disintegration is the band's highest selling record to date thanks to the hit singles "Lovesong," "Pictures Of You," and "Lullaby." Now, you can re-experience the groundbreaking band’s masterpiece, remastered to sound better than ever! Also includes complete lyrics and previously unreleased photos. Be prepared to get lost in a sea of sound and emotion.

The Cure Disintegration Track Listing:

1.  Plain Song
2.  Pictures Of You
3.  Close Down
4,  Love Song
5.  Last Dance
6.  Lullaby
7.  Fascination Street
8.  Prayers For Rain
9.  The Same Deep Water As You
10. Disintegration
11. Homesick
12. Untitled

Hybrid Theory is the debut album by the American rock band Linkin Park, released on October 24, 2000 through Warner Bros. Records. The album was a commercial success, having been certified Diamond for sales of over 10 million units in the United States alone as of 2010, peaking at number two on the Billboard 200, and also reaching high positions on other charts worldwide. Recorded at NRG Recordings in North Hollywood, California, and produced by Don Gilmore, the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting and divorce of his parents. Hybrid Theory takes it's title from the previous name of the band as well as the concept of music theory and combining different styles. Four singles were released from the album: "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "Paper cut", and "In the End", all of them being responsible for launching Linkin Park into mainstream popularity. While "In the End" was the most successful of the four, all of the singles in the album remain some of the band's most successful songs to date. Although "Runaway", "Points of Authority", and "My December" from the special edition bonus disc album were not released as singles, they were minor hits on alternative rock radio stations thanks to the success of all of the band's singles and the album. At the 2002 Grammy Awards, Hybrid Theory was nominated for Best Rock Album. The album is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It was ranked #11 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade.A special edition of Hybrid Theory was released March 11, 2002, a year and a half after it's original pressing. Hybrid Theory has sold 27 million copies worldwide, which makes it the best selling debut album of the 21st century. Linkin Park performed the album in it's entirety for the first time at the Download Festival on June 14, 2014.

• 1 Papercut
• 2 One Step Closer
• 3 With You
• 4 Points of Authority
• 5 Crawling
• 6 Runaway
• 7 By Myself
• 8 In the End
• 9 A Place for My Head
• 10 Forgotten
• 11 Cure for the Itch
• 12 Pushing Me Away

Vinyl LP pressing. SALAD DAYS, is the follow up to 2012's lauded Mac DeMarco 2 which saw the Edmonton local propelled into the limelight. Written and recorded around a relentless tour schedule (which picked up all over again as soon as the LP was done), SALAD DAYS gives the listener a very personal insight into what it's all about to be Mac amidst the craziness of a rising career in a very public format.

• 1 Salad Days
• 2 Blue Boy
• 3 Brother
• 4 Let Her Go
• 5 Goodbye Weekend
• 6 Let My Baby Stay
• 7 Passing Out Pieces
• 8 Treat Her Better
• 9 Chamber of Reflection
• 10 Go Easy
• 11 Jonny's Odyssey

Contested among many fans as “the best Pixies album ever,” Surfer Rosa ups the notch for the Pixies. They weave from song to song, seamlessly changing from fast paced rock to melodious pop. Any true fan of the Pixies will bite at this opportunity to own this album.

  1. Bone Machine
  2. Break My Body
  3. Something Against You
  4. Broken Face
  5. Gigantic
  6. River Euphrates
  7. Where Is My Mind?
  8. Cactus
  9. Tony's Theme
  10. Oh My Golly!
  11. Vamos
  12. I'm Amazed
  13. Brick Is Red

Blue Smoke vinyl. American Football's first album showcases cleanly picked guitars, intricate drumming, and the vocals of Mike Kinsella (Owen, Cap'n Jazz). The band, made up of Kinsella, Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos rooted itself in Champaign and recorded this album at Private Studios with Brendan Gamble (Braid). As a band, American Football dissolved into the history books almost as soon as this album was released, but it's success continued to grow in their absence and the band eventually reunited in 2014 for the record's 15th anniversary.

• 1 Never Meant
• 2 Summer Ends
• 3 Honestly?
• 4 For Sure
• 5 You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon
• 6 But the Regrets Are Killing Me
• 7 I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional
• 8 Stay Home
• 9 One with the Wurlitzer

Remastered edition of the 1989 debut album from Trent Reznor and Co. Featuring the original tracklisting and artwork. As a young musician in Cleveland, Ohio, Trent Reznor took a job at a local recording studio and employed unused studio time to develop his own material. The nascent album was later recorded with his favorite producers including Flood/Mark Ellis (U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey), John Fryer (Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil), Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire) and Keith LeBlanc (Tack head). The result was Pretty Hate Machine. All songs were written, arranged, programmed and performed by Reznor.

• 1 Head Like a Hole
• 2 Terrible Lie
• 3 Down in It
• 4 Sanctified
• 5 Something I Can Never Have
• 6 Kinda I Want to
• 7 Sin
• 8 That's What I Get
• 9 The Only Time
• 10 Ringfinger

180g vinyl cut of the Scottish rock group's sixth album from the HD masters. Includes MP3 download coupon.

• 1 Cherry-Coloured Funk
• 2 Pitch the Baby
• 3 Iceblink Luck
• 4 Fifty-Fifty Clown
• 5 Heaven or Las Vegas
• 6 I Wear Your Ring
• 7 Fotzepolitic
• 8 Wolf in the Breast
• 9 Road, River and Rail
• 10 Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer

2011 2 X vinyl LP remastered reissue of their 1994 third album. Produced by Brendan O'Brien. Three singles were released from the album, 'Spin the Black Circle', 'Not for You' & 'Immortality'.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Last Exit
• 2 Spin the Black Circle
• 3 Not for You
• 4 Tremor Christ
• 5 Nothingman
• 6 Whipping
• 7 Pry, to
• 8 Corduroy
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Bugs
• 2 Satan's Bed
• 3 Better Man
• 4 Aya Davanita
• 5 Immortality
• 6 Stupidmop

Foo Fighters is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released on July 4, 1995, by Capitol Records through Dave Grohl's label Roswell. Grohl wrote and recorded the entire album himself - with the exception of a guest guitar spot by Greg Dulli - with the assistance of producer Barrett Jones at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. Grohl claimed he recorded the album just for fun, describing it as a cathartic experience to recover from the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.

Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the death of Kurt Cobain and the resulting dissolution of his previous band. The group got it's name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as foo fighters.

• 1 This Is a Call
• 2 I'll Stick Around
• 3 Big Me
• 4 Alone + Easy Target
• 5 Good Grief
• 6 Floaty
• 7 Weenie Beenie
• 8 Oh, George
• 9 For All the Cows
• 10 X-Static
• 11 Wattershed
• 12 Exhausted

The Cure Head On The Door on 180g LP

Originally a postpunk outfit with gothic leanings, The Cure evolved into one of the most visionary, creatively satisfying and influential groups to come of age in the 1980's. From dreamy pop to moody expressionism, their signature sound is adventurous, hypnotic, and rich with texture. Formed in 1976 by Robert Smith and schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass) and Laurence Tolhurst (drums), The Cure's stunning 1979 debut on U.K.-based Fiction Records launched an extraordinary career and enduring worldwide popularity.

The Cure's 1985 album Head On The Door - their sixth full-length overall - marked another turning point for the band with its emerging pop sensibilities and talented new line-up that saw the return of bassist Simon Gallup, the re-induction of early-era guitarist Porl Thompson, and the debut of drummer Boris Williams. Co-produced with David M. Allen, the adventurous 10-track effort is still dark yet danceable and altogether infectious, home to the vibrant hit singles "In Between Days" and "Close To Me." Head On The Door was the first glimpse of the pop heights the Cure was perfectly capable of reaching.

1. In Between Days
2. Kyoto Song
3. The Blood
4. Six Different Ways
5. Push
6. The Baby Screams
7. Close To Me
8. A Night Like This
9. Screw
10. Sinking