Rock

Remastered and Cut at Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios from Vinyl Specific Original Tape Transfers

Due to a confluence of chemistry, personnel, circumstances, and songs, there is no other album in history that sounds quite like The Rolling Stone's definite 1972 effort Exile on Main St. Weaving varying musical genres, instruments, and artists into a compelling masterpiece, the 18-track double-LP was famously recorded in various stages at multiple locations, including Olympic Studios in London, Keith Richards' mansion Nellcote in France, and in Los Angeles, where the literal 'Main Street' influenced the album's title. Atypical circumstances surrounding the recording process greatly affected the album's outcome, itself highly reflective and influenced by the socio-political turbulence that marked the late 60s and early 70s.

As detected throughout Exile and signature numbers like "Tumbling Dice," "Sweet Black Angel," "Happy" and "All Down The Line," the Stones nixed the flower-child era's influences and directed their creative process with an edgier, excessive, "more is more" approach. Consequently, Exile reveals a sprawling mix of genres peppered with blues, country, R&B, and gospel, all mixed with lyrics that fervently demand release and liberation. The album also called on an electric array of talent, including Dr. John, Billy Preston, and pianist Nicky Hopkins. Guitarist Mick Taylor, who replaced Brian Jones in the band shortly before the latter died in 1969, brings his fervent intensity and bluesy elegance to the table to go along with Richards' landmark riffs.

Remastered and cut at revelatory half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from vinyl specific original tape transfers designed to get the very best possible sound from the format. Pressed on heavyweight 180g 2LP with gatefold packaging.

LP1

1. Rocks Off
2. Rip This Joint
3. Shake Your Hips
4. Casino Boogie
5. Tumbling Dice
6. Sweet Virginia
7. Torn And Frayed
8. Sweet Black Angel
9. Loving Cup

LP2

1. Happy
2. Turd On The Run
3. Ventilator Blues
4. I Just Want To See His Face
5. Let It Loose
6. All Down The Line
7. Stop Breaking Down
8. Shine A Light
9. Soul Survivor

Double vinyl LP pressing. Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC's music is featured in Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2, which features 15 classic AC/DC songs selected from ten of the band's studio albums, ranging from 1976 to 2008.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Shoot to Thrill
• 2 Rock 'N' Roll Damnation
• 3 Guns for Hire
• 4 Cold Hearted Man
• 5 Back in Black
• 6 Thunderstruck
• 7 If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
• 8 Evil Walks
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 T.N.T
• 2 Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
• 3 Have a Drink on Me
• 4 The Razors Edge
• 5 Let There Be Rock
• 6 War Machine
• 7 Highway to Hell

The National's elegant seventh full-length album Sleep Well Beast follows-up 2013's Trouble Will Find Me and their 2015 Ragnar Kjartansson collaboration A Lot Of Sorrow. Produced by band member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger, the 12-track collection was mixed by Peter Katis and recorded at Aaron's Hudson Valley, New York studio, Long Pond, with additional sessions having taken place in Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles. The album comes preceded by the urgent lead single "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness" complete with a freewheeling Aaron Dessner guitar solo which sounds heavily influenced by his recent Grateful Dead tribute project Day of the Dead. Pressed on 2 x 12" standard weight colored vinyl LPs with accompanying folded poster and 2 inner sleeves.

Includes Bonus 7" featuring an Exclusive Acoustic Version of "Pretty Boy"

From the evocative album title to the cover art, to the lyrics themselves, Council Skies sees Noel Gallagher reclaiming his past and paying homage to his Mancunian roots. His most varied and accomplished solo record to date, Noel's fourth solo studio album is a record framed by confidence, risk-taking, surefooted creative freedom, and great emotional depth. Council Skies was recorded at Noel's own Lone Star Sound Recording Studios in London, with the album's lusciously orchestrated strings recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Produced by Noel with long-time collaborator Paul ‘Strangeboy' Stacey, the album also features performances from Johnny Marr on three tracks, including the single "Pretty Boy." Council Skies takes its title from a book by revered northern illustrator and friend of Noel, artist Pete McKee. It covers themes of youthful yearning, and unbridled ambition.

Speaking of the album, Noel says: "It's going back to the beginning. Daydreaming, looking up at the sky and wondering about what life could be ... that's as true to me now as it was in the early ‘90s. When I was growing up in poverty and unemployment, music took me out of that. Top of the Pops on TV transformed your Thursday night into this fantasy world, and that's what I think music should be. I want my music to be elevating and transforming in some way."

The artwork, shot by renowned Manchester photographer Kevin Cummins, sees Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' live equipment setup placed on the original center spot of what was Maine Road Football Stadium, with this year marking 100 years since the ground was opened as the former home of Noel's beloved Manchester City FC. Throughout the accompanying album artwork, Cummins captures locations poignant to Noel's formative years - culminating with a striking image of Manchester's Piccadilly train station, marking the moment Noel left his home city for London. This visual representation perfectly encapsulates the themes, journey and emotional heart of Council Skies.

Heavyweight vinyl LP with a bonus 7" featuring an exclusive acoustic version of "Pretty Boy."

LP

1. I'm Not Giving Up Tonight
2. Pretty Boy
3. Dead To The World
4. Open The Door, See What You Find
5. Trying To Find A World That's Been And Gone Pt. 1
6. Easy Now
7. Council Skies
8. There She Blows!
9. Love Is A Rich Man
10. Think Of A

7"

1. We're Gonna Get There In The End
2. Pretty Boy (Acoustic)

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Damn Yankees was the self-titled debut album by the hard rock supergroup Damn Yankees, originally released in 1990. It was certified double platinum in the US and featured such chart topping hits as "High Enough", "Come Again", and "Coming of Age".

• 1 Coming of Age
• 2 Bad Reputation
• 3 Runaway
• 4 High Enough
• 5 Damn Yankees
• 6 Come Again
• 7 Mystified
• 8 Rock City
• 9 Tell Me How You Want It
• 10 Piledriver [Explicit)

Attics have always exerted an irresistible pull on David J’s imagination. They can unveil luminous jewels that time and dust made seem lost. With Tracks from the Attic, the Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder invites us to join him and climb up the ladder. A most fascinating journey ensues: we’re looking through boxes of tapes, getting reacquainted with an artist we’ve known for a long time, yet the intimate songs he recorded in solitary over three decades reveal new sides to him.

Even while busy with his two legendary groups, David J burst with songs; this is a thrilling selection of recordings he made between 1983 and 2004, some in the studio and most at home, with only the help of his Muse, a recorder and a lighted candle. Like all good attic finds, these songs were committed to tape and almost forgotten - it wasn’t until a fan suggested he’d offer his digitizing skills that David J thought about revisiting them again. All, except deep cut “This Town”, had never been previously heard. The fact that most of these tunes didn’t end up being beloved classics (something that, once you hit play, your ears will hardly come to terms with) is but a sign of David J’s ever busy creative state. Mostly composed on acoustic guitar, they will offer unexpected revelations to long-time fans, as they bring to light facets of his musical self that couldn’t be fully expressed in a band setting. It is indeed fascinating to follow the evolution of David J’s way with songs through the decades, from the observational lyrical montages of the early days to a later, confident embrace of the deeply personal. At the same time, Tracks from the Attic can also be seen as a striking introduction for newcomers - it does feel like meeting one of the great British singer-songwriters for the first time. ‘Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!’, one of the box set’s highlights cheekily cries out. Well, this box set interjects, this is not just any songwriter. Pressed on red vinyl for RSD Black Friday.

Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent blue, white & black marbled 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Ned's Atomic Dustbin's debut album God Fodder is an often overlooked classic in the British shoegaze and alternative rock scene. God Fodder was a critical and commercial success, peaking at number 4 in the UK chart and number 91 on the Billboard 200.

• 1 Kill Your Television
• 2 Less Than Useful
• 3 Selfish
• 4 Grey Cell Green
• 5 Cut Up
• 6 Throwing Things
• 7 Capital Letters
• 8 Happy
• 9 Your Complex
• 10 Nothing Like
• 11 Until You Find Out
• 12 You
• 13 What Gives My Son?

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Top is the fifth studio album by English rock band The Cure, released on 30 April 1984. The Top contains different styles, from Spanish to Middle-Eastern and also metallic for the most violent songs. After recording a psychedelic album Blue Sunshine for the one-off project The Glove during the summer 1983, Robert Smith finished off the year composing and working on two other studio albums at the same time: The Top for The Cure and Hyæna for Siouxsie and the Banshees. Smith was still the official guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees while he wrote The Top. For The Top, Smith teamed up with another Cure founding member Lol Tolhurst who had given up drums for keyboards, and new member drummer Andy Anderson who had previously performed on the UK top 10 single "The Lovecats". Porl Thompson was credited for playing saxophone on "Give Me It". All the songs are credited by Smith bar three tracks co-written with Tolhurst, "The Caterpillar", "Bird Mad Girl" and "Piggy in the Mirror".

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Shake Dog Shake
• 2 Birdmad Girl
• 3 Wailing Wall
• 4 Give Me It
• 5 Dressing Up
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Caterpillar
• 2 Piggy in the Mirror
• 3 The Empty World
• 4 Bananafishbones
• 5 The Top

The Mercury Prize-winning, multiple GRAMMY- and BRIT Award-nominated band Alt-J have announced their eagerly-awaited fourth album The Dream, set for release February 11, 2022. The Dream is an album of intrigue, beauty and humanity - a coalescence of everything that has made Alt-J a global band with true staying power. True-crime inspired stories and tales of Hollywood and the Chateau Marmont rub shoulders with some of the band's most personal moments to-date The album was created after a period of rest for the band following their seismic world tour in support of previous record RELAXER. It is a record that is the sound of a band growing as songwriters and storytellers.

Tracks

• 1 Bane
• 2 U&Me
• 3 Hard Drive Gold
• 4 Happier When You're Gone
• 5 The Actor
• 6 Get Better
• 7 Chicago
• 8 Philadelphia
• 9 Walk a Mile
• 10 Delta
• 11 Losing My Mind
• 12 Powders

Vinyl LP pressing in a tip-on gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeve, includes digital download. Thank Your Lucky Stars is the sixth full-length effort from Baltimore, Maryland dream pop duo Beach House (Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) and second of 2015 alone following the August release of fifth album Depression Cherry. The band stated that Thank Your Luck Stars, "is an album being released the way we want. It's not a companion to Depression Cherry or a surprise or b-sides."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Majorette
• 2 She's So Lovely
• 3 All Your Yeahs
• 4 One Thing
• 5 Common Girl
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Traveller
• 2 Elegy to the Void
• 3 Rough Song
• 4 Somewhere Tonight

Limited double 180 gram Black vinyl LP pressing (no longer colored vinyl) housed in die cut wide single pocket sleeve. Includes color inner sleeves, poster and digital download. 2015 release, the seventh studio album from the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning British band. A Head Full Of Dreams is the follow-up to their 2014 album Ghost Stories. The album was produced by Rik Simpson and Stargate. Coldplay began working on A Head Full of Dreams in the summer of 2014 while they were promoting their sixth album Ghost Stories. Revitalized, they've made an album that's bursting with energy, color and big, life-affirming moments such as the deliciously ebullient first single 'Adventure of a Lifetime' and the rocket-powered 'Hymn for the Weekend.' Coldplay has never enjoyed making a record more than this one. Nor have they been happier with the results.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 A Head Full of Dreams
• 2 Birds
• 3 Hymn for the Weekend
• 4 Everglow
• 5 Kaleidoscope
• 6 Amazing Day
• 7 Up & Up
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Adventure of a Lifetime
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Fun (Feat. Tove Lo)
• 2 Army of One
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Colour Spectrum

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 debut on U.K.-based Fiction Records launched an extraordinary career and enduring worldwide popularity. The band's classic third album, 1981's Faith, took The Cure further down the road of despair they'd initiated with Seventeen Seconds in 1980. It's an album full of mournful atmospheric tracks, including their hit single, "Primary" and is often seen as the mid-point in a "Dark Trilogy" that began with Seventeen Seconds and concluded with Pornography.

1. The Holy Hour
2. Primary
3. Other Voices
4. All Cats Are Grey
5. The Funeral Party
6. Doubt
7. The Drowning Man
8. Faith

Vinyl LP pressing including insert. Medicine at Midnight is the 2021 album from Foo Fighters, and packs nine new songs into a tight-ass 37 minutes. This collection includes the smoldering single, "Shame Shame." Medicine at Midnight is produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, and is the band's 10th album. Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, and Rami Jaffee.

Tracks

Aerosmith - "Greatest Hits" - THE ULTIMATE GREATEST HITS CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF AEROSMITH! 20 tracks spanning their five-decade career on standard weight black vinyl (2 LP). Featuring "Dream On," "Walk This Way," "Sweet Emotion," "Crazy," "Cryin'," "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" and many more!

Ultimate Hits Anthology featuring 21 Career-Spanning Classics and Exclusive Annotations for Each Song!

Elton John releases the "ultimate" hits anthology Diamonds to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin. The retrospective covers all of the landmark songs from Elton's peerless career, starting with his early breakthrough "Your Song" and embracing "Rocket Man," "Candle In The Wind," "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word," "Sacrifice," "Are You Ready For Love?" and the duets "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with Kiki Dee and "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with George Michael. This gatefold 180g 2LP edition includes 21 tracks and exclusive annotations for each song.

Says Elton of his partnership with Bernie: "We are at 50 years, and our relationship is healthier than it's ever been. There have been times in our relationship when we've written with other people, but it still didn't stop the love. I love Bernie more than I've ever done and I think he probably feels the same way about me, because we've both led separate lives; we both write in separate rooms. We have an amazing respect and love for each other that's only grown." 

Adds Taupin: "We still get a kick out of what we do; it's what we do. When we come together and write something, it still has that magical quality to it. It doesn't get any better than that. That feeling hasn't aged."

LP1

1. Your Song
2. Tiny Dancer
3. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
4. Crocodile Rock
5. Daniel
6. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
7. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
8. Candle In The Wind
9. Bennie And The Jets
10. Someone Saved My Life Tonight

LP2

1. Don't Go Breaking My Heart [with Kiki Dee]
2. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
3. Song For Guy
4. Blue Eyes
5. I'm Still Standing
6. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
7. Nikita
8. Sacrifice
9. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me [with George Michael]
10. Can You Feel The Love Tonight
11. Are You Ready For Love?

1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. I'm Counting on You
3. I Got a Woman
4. One-Sided Love Affair
5. I Love You Because
6. Just Because
7. Don't Be Cruel
8. Hound Dog
9. Love Me Tender
10. Tutti Frutti
11. Tryin' to Get to You
12. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You
13. I'll Never Let You Go
14. Blue Moon
15. Money Honey
16. Shake, Rattle and Roll
17. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
18. Heartbreak Hotel

Flight Of The Conchords Flight Of The Conchords On Vinyl LP

Acclaimed Kiwi novelty band Flight of the Conchords follow the release of their six-track Grammy Award winning CD/EP The Distant Future  with their full-length record album debut, the conveniently titled Flight of the Conchords (which, not at all coincidentally is also the name of their HBO television series). Produced by Mickey Petralia (Beck Midnight Vultures, Ladytron Light & Sound) in Los Angeles, New York and Wellington, the album features fully fleshed-out and professionally recorded versions of Flight of the Conchords concert and television favorites. And its release finally renders pointless all the inexpert fan-made audio transfers (the modern day equivalent of holding a microphone up to the television speaker and shouting at your mom to be quiet), which have bloated hard drives the world over. The songs are heard here in expanded but reverent arrangements. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement’s trademark acoustic guitars lead the blitz, backed by a diverse array of instrumentation and production technique. And, the album sounds legitimate and musically, it’s incredible, but, as Shakespeare said, “Does it funny?” Happily, yes. If amazing, delightful and hilarious is your idea of funny, then prepare for undisappointment! These 15 songs pay homage to Pet Shop Boys, censorship, Marvin Gaye, sexism, Shabba Ranks, and backhanded compliments. To be blunt, if you can’t find a rire ou sourire in the FSL study guide of opening track, “Foux du Fafa”, then, please notice, vous êtes malade.

Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords Track Listing

1. Foux du Fafa
2. Inner City Pressure
3. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
4. Think About it
5. Ladies of the World
6. Mutha’uckas
7. The Prince of Parties
8. Leggy Blonde
9. Robots
10. Boom
11. A Kiss is Not a Contract
12. The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)
13. Business Time
14. Bowie
15. Au Revoir

Dokken absolutely exploded out of the hotbed that was the hard rock and heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, California in the early ‘80s. Originally issued on French label Carrere Records in 1981 and then remixed and remastered for proper distribution by Elektra in 1983, the band's solid debut album Breaking the Chains features the short lived but lively line-up of Don Dokken (vocals), George Lynch (guitar), Juan Croucier (bass) and Mick Brown (drums). The era encompassing title track "Breaking the Chains" and the Lynch starring live cut "Paris Is Burning" are the show stealers here. Colored 180g vinyl LP reissue from Friday Music, mastered by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios.

1. Breaking The Chains
2. In The Middle
3. Felony
4. I Can't See You
5. Live To Rock (Rock To Live)
6. Nightrider
7. Seven Thunders
8. Young Girls
9. Stick To Your Guns
10. Paris Is Burning