RSDBF2025 Everything Else

2019 marks the 30th anniversary of The Cult's seminal album SONIC TEMPLE. On September 13th, Beggars Arkive will reissue the album. Now cut onto two pieces of black vinyl, the audio is improved and contains 16 tracks total, which comprise the original album plus 6 B-sides. In addition to the reissue, a box set and 5-CD set are also being released. Originally released in 1989, Sonic Temple proved to be a pivotal moment for both band and the wider rock scene. Produced by the legendary Bob Rock, Sonic Temple had four chart-topping singles; "Fire Woman", "Edie (Ciao Baby)", "Sun King" and "Sweet Soul Sister". In a recent interview about the album, Ian Astbury explained how the band brought together hard rock and indie rock to create the unique, game-changing sounds on Sonic Temple. "We wanted to retain our core DNA as we went deeper into psych and hard rock influences. It was a complete immersion for me into art, film, music, poetry and literature, weaving those influences into what was to become Sonic Temple. The band was becoming more popular. We were in uncharted waters. Most of the bands we had come up with had split up or fallen off. We were accelerating. There was no real time to breathe. We were forming new allegiances and breaking the glass ceiling of 'the indie outsider.'" The album catapulted The Cult into superstar status and remains their most commercially successful release. It has sold over 1.5 million copies in the US alone, and was declared platinum in 1990. It made it to #10 on the Billboard charts, and the above mentioned songs are all rock-radio staples to this day. The Cult continues to record and tour and they have released six albums since Sonic Temple, the most recent being Hidden City in 2016. They've been spending 2019 celebrating this album by performing all over the world on a tour they've billed as A Sonic Temple, paying homage to the album.

Tracks

1. Sun King
2. Fire Woman
3. American Horse
4. Edie (Ciao Baby)
5. Sweet Soul Sister
6. Soul Asylum
7. New York City
8. Automatic Blues

1. Soldier Blue
2. Wake Up Time For Freedom
3. Medicine Train (From the Edie (Ciao Baby) single)
4. The River (From the Sweet Soul Sister single)
5. Bleeding Heart Graffiti (from the Edie (Ciao Baby) CD EP)
6. Messin' Up The Blues (from the Fire Woman single) 
7. Fire Woman (NYC Rock Mix) (from the Fire Woman CD EP)
8. Edie (Ciao Baby) (Acoustic) (From The Heart Of Soul CD single)

First New Album from Original Line-Up Since 1985's Ain't Love Grand!

On the 40th Anniversary of the landmark, Los Angeles, and 35 years since the original line-up have released an album – X, one of the greatest punk rock bands in music history, delivers Alphabetland! It finds Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake embodying the same spirit they did when they began in 1977. "When your heart is broken you think every song is about that. These songs were written in the last 18 months and it blows my mind how timely they are," says Doe.

Tracks

1. Alphabetland
2. Free
3. Water & Wine
4. Strange Life
5. I Gotta Fever
6. Delta 88 Nightmare
7. Star Chambered
8. Angel On The Road
9. Cyrano de Berger's Back
10. Goodbye Year, Goodbye
11. All The Time In The World

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1981, now 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. This album features the singles 'Start Me Up', 'Waiting On A Friend' and 'Hang Fire'.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Start Me Up
• 2 Hang Fire
• 3 Slave
• 4 Little T&A
• 5 Black Limousine
• 6 Neighbours
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Worried About You
• 2 Tops
• 3 Heaven
• 4 No Use in Crying
• 5 Waiting on a Friend

Foo Fighters Greatest Hits on 2x Vinyl LP! 

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) 

Twenty One Pilots shook the world with the release of their 2015 LP Blurryface, an album that would go on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide and earn the band their first ever Grammy Award as they shattered longstanding chart records, and captivated audiences worldwide on sold-out arena runs and at international festivals. Now three years later, the duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have returned to write the next chapter of their story with Trench, the band's highly anticipated new studio album. Trench finds Twenty One Pilots fearlessly reimagining the possibilities of their music through the same candid expression and genuine identity that helped to cement their place as one of the largest bands in the world. The album is introduced by the dub-inspired "Jumpsuit" and reggae rap cut "Nico And The Niners."

LP1

1. Jumpsuit
2. Levitate
3. Morph
4. My Blood
5. Chlorine
6. Smithereens
7. Neon Gravestones

LP2

1. The Hype
2. Nico And The Niners
3. Cut My Lip
4. Bandito
5. Pet Cheetah
6. Legend
7. Leave The City

Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Among the English language's premier phrase-turners with music relevant to any age, the late great John Prine delivered songs that are both literate and personal. The skilled and compassionate storyteller enjoyed widespread critical acclaim in the wake of his groundbreaking eponymous debut and continued to write and perform songs that became central to our American musical heritage for nearly five decades. Dedicated to his mother Verna Prine, the intimate and playful John Prine Live was largely recorded during a three-day stint at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, California and released in 1988 on the singer/songwriter's own label Oh Boy Records. As he explained to David Fricke in 1993: "We didn't have another artist to put out. The idea was to have me and my guitar, telling stories and doing songs - and buying me some time until I could get into the studio again."

Tracks

1. Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard
2. Six O'Clock News
3. The Oldest Baby in the World
4. Angel from Montgomery
5. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
6. Blue Umbrella
7. Fish and Whistle
8. Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
9. Living in the Future
10. Illegal Smile
11. Mexican Home
12. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
13. The Accident (Things Could Be Worse)
14. Sam Stone
15. Souvenirs
16. Aw Heck
17. Donald and Lydia
18. That's the Way That the World Goes Round
19. Hello in There

Quentin Tarantino's all-time classic Oscar nominated 1994 film Pulp Fiction features an equally as impressive soundtrack that includes famous dialogue from the movie by the likes of John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis along with iconic musical selections from none other than Chuck Berry, Maria McKee, Al Green, The Statler Brothers, Kool & The Gang, Ricky Nelson, Dusty Springfield, Dick Dale, Peter Green and Urge Overkill. The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul while the soundtrack is as equally untraditional, consisting of nine songs from the movie, four tracks of dialogue snippets followed by a song, and three tracks of dialogue alone. Seven songs featured in the movie were not included in the original 41-minute soundtrack.

1. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (Dialogue)/Misirlou - Dick Dale, Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth
2. Royale With Cheese - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta
3. Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
4. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
5. Bustin' Surfboards - The Tornadoes
6. Lonesome Town - Rick Nelson
7. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
8. Zed's Dead, Baby [Dialogue] - Centurian, Maria De Medeiros, Bruce Willis
9. Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest (Dialogue)/You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry, Jerome Patrick Hoban
10. Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
11. If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags) - Maria McKee
12. Bring Out the Gimp (Dialogue)/Comanche - Peter Green, , Duane Whitaker
13. Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers
14. Personality Goes a Long Way [Dialogue] - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta
15. Surf Rider - The Lively Ones
16. Ezekiel 25:17 [Dialogue] - Samuel L. Jackson 

Amy Winehouse Frank on 2LP

Much can be said about the late Amy Winehouse, one of the U.K.'s flagship vocalists during the 2000s. The British press and tabloids seemed to focus on her rowdy behavior, afflictions and tragic end, but fans and critics alike embraced her rugged charm, brash sense of humor, and distinctively soulful and jazzy vocals.

Her platinum-selling breakthrough album, Frank (2003), elicited comparisons ranging from Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan to Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill. Interestingly enough, despite her strong accent and vernacular, one can often hear aspects of each of those singers' vocal repertoire in Winehouse's own voice. Nonetheless, her allure had always been her songwriting - almost always deeply personal but best known for its profanity and brutal candor.

With contributions from hip-hop producer/keyboardist Salaam Remi, Winehouse's amalgam of jazz, pop, soul, and hip-hop received rave reviews. The album was nominated for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize as well as two Brit Awards, and its lead single, "Stronger Than Me," won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. In 2007 Frank re-entered the charts in the wake of the phenomenal success of her sophomore release, the five times Grammy Award winning chart-topper, Back To Black.

LP1
1. Intro / Stronger Than Me
2. You Sent Me Flying / Cherry
3. Know You Now
4. Fuck Me Pumps
5. I Heard Love Is Blind
6. Moody's Mood For Love (Teo Licks)
7. (There Is) No Greater Love
8. In My Bed

LP2
1. Take The Box
2. October Song
3. What Is It About Men
4. Amy Amy Amy / Outro

In 1994, hip-hop was going through an at-times painful growth spurt. Since N.W.A.'s and Ice-T's ascent in the late '80s, the rap game was no longer owned by the East Coast. After the worldwide popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, things were looking even worse for hip-hop's hometown. The East Coast / West Coast feud that would later indirectly claim the lives of Biggie and 2Pac was still in its infancy, but New York needed a shot in the arm. The hype behind young Queensbridge native Nasir "Nas" Jones had been in full swing months before his smash debut album Illmatic, thanks to Columbia Records' promo machine. From his earliest appearance on Main Source's "Live at the BBQ," to his own accomplished debut "Half Time" (as Nasty Nas, on the Zebrahead soundtrack in late 1992), it was clear that this kid was something special.

In fact, the pressure on him must have been overwhelming at times. April 19, 1994 couldn't have come soon enough. And as soon as the first lines of "N.Y. State of Mind" kick in, bolstered by perhaps DJ Premier's darkest beat of all time, the entire East Coast breathed a collective sigh of relief. God's Son had arrived. Backed by an absolute all-star cast of New York's top-shelf producers – Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Q-Tip and a youngster named L.E.S. – the album never lets up. Serious to a fault, and lyrically dense to an extent that has possibly never been matched, the 20-year old Nas stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and proudly proclaimed, "Don't fuck with the East...we are back."

Illmatic was actually a slow-burn, which might surprise fans that have come to its genius more recently. Despite an unheard-of "5 Mics" in The Source – despite an unwritten rule of never awarding classic status to debuts – it didn't go gold until early 1996, and didn't hit platinum status until late 2001. But when you dive deeper that shouldn't be a shock: like Black Moon and Wu-Tang's debuts, it was a dark, hard record, tailor-made for heads in New York. There were no dance beats, no crossover love songs. Just boom-bap and rhymes, skills and heart.

1. The Genesis
2. N.Y. State of Mind
3. Life's A Bitch
4. The World Is Yours
5. Halftime
6. Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
7. One Love
8. One Time 4 Your Mind
9. Represent
10. It Ain't Hard To Tell

Accessible and ambitious, Tears for Fears' phenomenal 10-million-selling second album, Songs From The Big Chair, marked a transition in the band's sound and catapulted them into international prominence. As a group, Tears for Fears led the "Second British Invasion" of pop music in the mid-'80s in both the U.S. and Europe with songs from the album dominating the radio airwaves. In the U.S., "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" led the Songs from the Big Chair single releases, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. "Shout" was the band's second single and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. The album inevitably went straight to No. 1, selling 5-million copies in the U.S. alone. Songs from the Big Chair peaked at No. 2 on the U.K. album charts and remained in the Top 10 for over six months. The album went on to yield the hit singles "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (which spent 14 weeks in the U.K. Top 5 and peaked at No. 2) and "Shout," which reached No. 4 and remained on the chart for 16 weeks. Both became global smash hits.

1. Shout
2. The Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels
8. Listen

Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 album from the enormously popular singer/songwriter. The first single 'Shake It Off' debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It was officially certified Platinum in only three weeks. 13 tracks.

Tracks

• 1 Welcome to New York
• 2 Blank Space
• 3 Style
• 4 Out of the Woods
• 5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
• 6 Shake It Off
• 7 I Wish You Would
• 8 Bad Blood
• 9 Wildest Dreams
• 10 How You Get the Girl
• 11 This Love
• 12 I Know Places
• 13 Clean

Some albums define an era, a place, a certain time in one's life. The Beastie Boys Check Your Head practically defined the summer of 1992 for those who were wary of the mainstreaming of rap and the insurgency of grunge. It was here that MCA, Adrock and Mike D. created a musical montage that defied genre, one with the swagger of punk and the rootsy earthiness of early-'70s soul-jazz, all layered with a hip-hop consciousness. Lo-fi, garagy, guitar-riff-loaded tracks like "Pass Da Mic" and "Gratitude" made it clear that the Beasties could be taken as serious musical forces, even innovators. Yet they still brilliantly tempered the proceedings with romps like "Professor Booty" and "Funky Boss." One of the best albums of the '90's, Check Your Head was a turning point for the band and the genesis of a new musical hybrid. 

1. Jimmy James
2. Funky Boss
3. Pass the Mic
4. Gratitude
5. Lighten Up
6. Finger Lickin' Good
7. So What'cha Want
8. Biz Vs. The Nuge
9. Time for Livin'
10. Something's Got to Give
11. Blue Nun
12. Stand Together
13. Pow
14. Maestro
15. Groove Holmes
16. Live at P.J.'s
17. Mark on the Bus
18. Professor Booty
19. In 3's
20. Namasté

Limited import reissue double 180-gram vinyl LP. All you need is love... and the greatest hits of The Beatles' later years. This classic Beatles compilation spanning the years 1967 - 1970 (A.K.A. The Blue Collection) has been cut from the original analog masters and the packaging is faithful to the original artwork. Sing along with Sgt. Pepper and the Walrus on Penny Lane or in Strawberry Fields. Get Back, Jojo, to the psychedelic sounds of The Beatles' most cutting-edge music. It's time to take that Magical Mystery Tour with John, Paul, Ringo and George with superior sounding 180-gram vinyl!

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Strawberry Fields Forever
• 2 Penny Lane
• 3 SGT. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• 4 With a Little Help from My Friends
• 5 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
• 6 A Day in the Life
• 7 All You Need Is Love
• 8 I Am the Walrus
• 9 Hello, Goodbye
• 10 Fool on the Hill
• 11 Magical Mystery Tour
• 12 Lady Madonna
• 13 Hey Jude
• 14 Revolution
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Back in the U.S.S.R
• 2 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
• 3 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• 4 Get Back
• 5 Don't Let Me Down
• 6 The Ballad of John and Yoko
• 7 Old Brown Shoe
• 8 Here Comes the Sun
• 9 Come Together
• 10 Something
• 11 Octopus's Garden
• 12 Let It Be
• 13 Across the Universe
• 14 The Long and Winding Road

New Zealand-born singer/songwriter Lorde scored her first US No. 1 album when her long-awaited second LP Melodrama topped the Billboard 200 in the summer of 2017. Co-written and co-produced with Jack Antonoff (Fun, The Bleachers), each track - including captivating singles "Green Light," "Liability," "Sober," and "Perfect Places" - is an intimate portrayal of late teenage years, which makes her wide appeal all the more impressive. The Fader called lead single "Green Light," "a true pop anthem – made for both earbud strutting and the club"; Billboard praised "Liability" as "an absolute jaw-dropper"; and SPIN hailed "Sober" as "the strangest, coolest Melodrama song yet." The universally acclaimed Melodrama was nominated for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. Featuring double sided record sleeve and double sided photo insert.

1. Green Light
2. Sober
3. Homemade Dynamite
4. The Louvre
5. Liability
6. Hard Feelings / Loveless
7. Sober II (Melodrama)
8. Writer In The Dark
9. Supercut
10. Liability (Reprise)
11. Perfect Places

All Nine Songs on New Vance Powell Co-Produced Studio Collection Previously Performed Live by the Band Dating Back to 2011!

"Sigma Oasis came to be during the first week of November 2019, but it wasn't planned that way at all. We were headed up to The Barn to rehearse for our fall tour and ended up discussing this batch of relatively recent songs that we were particularly proud of and always wished we had recorded, but hadn't had a chance to yet. Trey suggested calling up Vance Powell as he mixed and engineered Ghosts Of The Forest. Vance was very familiar with the space and the console so we set up the gear with no room dividers, no click tracks. Nothing. Just like a Phish show. Open space. We played for a couple days. We just played a bunch of songs - very quickly, a few takes, very organic, natural, live, honest. We had the best time. When we were done, our photographer Rene came up and asked us to come out on the porch and snap a photo. It took about two minutes. And that's the album cover - a snapshot of our band at that point in time.

"Vance had some stuff on his schedule so he asked as a favor if we would mind if he didn't mix until early March. Now four months might sound like a long time, but it gave all of us time to work on the tracks - Page overdubbed a lot of keyboards at home. Trey went to a studio in New York and did vocals and percussion. We had time to pick which songs we wanted to work on. We let a few of them go, which was difficult, but that's ok. When we recorded the album, we didn't plan to release it this way. But today, because of the environment we're all in, it just feels right. We don't know the next time that we're all going to be able to be together. This is an opportunity to have a moment where the Phish community can share something despite being physically separated.

"The last line of the chorus of "Sigma Oasis" sums up this point - There's no place to get. There's nothing to achieve. There's no place to be. We're here. Right here, right now is as good as it gets. "You're already there." It's a content state of mind. You're just completely in the moment. "You're already there." You already have everything you need. Sigma Oasis. It aligns with where we are in our career and as friends and musicians. There's a joy to the playing. We're not clamoring to make it. Make what? We're already there! Sigma Oasis." - Phish

Recording Details:
Produced by Phish and Vance Powell
Strings arranged by Don Hart
Vocal production and arrangements by Raab Stevenson
Recorded by Vance Powell, Michael Fahey, Ben Collette & Jared Slomoff
Mixed by Vance Powell at Sputnik Sound
Mix assisted by Michael Fahey
Mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Mastering, Nashville TN

LP1

1. Sigma Oasis
2. Leaves
3. Everything's Right
4. Mercury

LP2

1. Shade
2. Evening Song
3. Steam
4. A Life Beyond The Dream
5. Thread

It's time to celebrate the legacy of the best rapper that ever did it. Notorious BIG wasn't just a rapper, he was a storyteller, a prolific poet, and through his words, persona, life and music he opened doors and opportunies for Hip-Hop as a whole. The release of Greatest Hits denotes the commemoration of one of the most historic bodies of work in Hip-Hop.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Juicy (2007 Remaster)
• 2 Big Poppa (2007 Remaster)
• 3 Hypnotize (2007 Remaster)
• 4 One More Chance / Stay with Me (Remix) [2007 Remaster]
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Get Money (Feat. Junior M.A.F.I.A.) [2007 Remaster]
• 2 Warning (2007 Remaster)
• 3 Dead Wrong (Feat. Eminem) [2007 Remaster]
• 4 Who Shot Ya? (2007 Remaster)
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Ten Crack Commandments (2007 Remaster)
• 2 Notorious Thugs (Feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) [2007 Remaster]
• 3 Notorious B.I.G. (Feat. Lil' Kim & Puff Daddy) [2007 Remaster]
• 4 Nasty Girl (Feat. Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm) [2007 Remaster]
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Unbelievable (2007 Remaster)
• 2 Niggas Bleed (2007 Remaster)
• 3 Running Your Mouth (Feat. Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Fabolous & Busta Rhymes) [2007 Remaster]
• 4 Want That Old Thing Back (Feat. Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant) [2007 Remaster]
• 5 FNCK You Tonight (Feat. R. Kelly) [2007 Remaster]

Sublime 40oz. To Freedom on 2LP

Iconic Long Beach, CA reggae-punk/alternative-rock band Sublime was founded in 1988 by Bradley Nowell (vocals/guitar), Eric Wilson (bass/vocals) and Bud Gaugh (drums). Their self-produced debut 40 oz. to Freedom was released in 1992 via the band's label Skunk Records and has subsequently been certified double platinum. The classic double album is home to such radio hits as "Date Rape" and "Badfish," plus the band's stylized covers of the Grateful Dead's "Scarlet Begonias," The Toyes' "Smoke Two Joints," Bad Religion's "We're Only Gonna Die for Our Arrogance" and The Descendents "Hope."

Tracks

LP1
1. Waiting for My Ruca
2. 40oz. to Freedom
3. Smoke Two Joints
4. We're Only Gonna Die for Our Arrogance
5. Don't Push
6. 5446 That's My Number / Ball and Chain
7. Badfish
8. Let's Go Get Stoned
9. New Thrash
10. Scarlet Begonias
11. Live at E's
12. D.J.s

LP2
1. Chica Me Tipo
2. Right Back
3. What Happened
4. New Song
5. Ebin
6. Date Rape/Rawhide
7. Hope
8. KRS-One
9. Rivers of Babylon
10. Thanx Dub