RSD2025 Everything Else

The digitally remastered edition of Metallica ...And Justice for All is the fourth studio album by the heavy metal icons, originally released on August 25, 1988. It was the first Metallica studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted after the death of Cliff Burton in 1986. ...And Justice for All was recorded in early 1988 at One on One Recording Studios in Los Angeles. It features long and complex songs, fast tempos, and few verse-chorus structures. The lyrics feature themes of political and legal injustice seen through the prisms of censorship, war, and nuclear brinkmanship... And Justice for All was acclaimed by music critics. It was included in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best albums, and the single "One" earned Metallica its first Grammy Award (and the first-ever in the Best Metal Performance category) in 1990. Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. 

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Blackened (Remastered)
• 2 ... And Justice for All (Remastered)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Eye of the Beholder (Remastered)
• 2 One (Remastered)
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 The Shortest Straw (Remastered)
• 2 Harvester of Sorrow (Remastered)
• 3 The Frayed Ends of Sanity (Remastered)
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 To Live Is to Die (Remastered)
• 2 Dyers Eve (Remastered)

1989 Major Label Debut Newly Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes by Bob Ludwig

Louder Than Love, Soundgarden's second full-length studio album and major label debut (after the independently released, Grammy-nominated Ultramega OK), was originally released by A&M Records on September 5, 1989, and was the last to include bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Recorded with producer Terry Date at Seattle's London Bridge Studios, it announced the arrival of a major force on the emerging Pacific Northwest rock scene, later to include Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

The album peaked on the Billboard chart at #108, yielding the singles, "Loud Love," "Hands All Over" and the radio-only promo "Get on the Snake," the latter of which was featured in the 1989 movie Lost Angels. Guns N' Roses later paid tribute to the band by covering "Big Dumb Sex" on their 1993 album, The Spaghetti Incident? as part of a medley with T. Rex's "Buick MacKane." Q magazine named the album one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" in 2001.

Newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Bob Ludwig, UMe is pleased to reissue Louder Than Love on 180-gram vinyl in August 2016 complete with an accompanying digital download card for 320kbps MP4 AAC audio.

1. Ugly Truth
2. Hands All Over
3. Gun
4. Power Trip
5. Get on the Snake
6. Full on Kevin's Mom
7. Loud Love
8. I Awake
9. No Wrong No Right
10. Uncovered
11. Big Dumb Sex
12. Full On (Reprise)

The Smiths' eclectic 1985 release finds the band branching out into rockabilly, post-punk and flashes of funk, all while refining the guitar pop of their debut. Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr, Meat Is Murder is the band's sole studio album to reach No. 1 on the U.K. charts. "The Headmaster Ritual" and "I Want the One I Can't Have" are fine elaborations on the formula the band introduced on their debut, while "Rusholme Ruffians" is an infectious take on rockabilly. There was no other British group making music quite like this in 1985.

1. The Headmaster Ritual
2. Rusholme Ruffians
3. I Want the One I Can't Have
4. What She Said
5. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
6. Nowhere Fast
7. Well I Wonder
8. Barbarism Begins at Home
9. Meat Is Murder

Sophie Allison aka Soccer Mommy's debut Clean is an emotional album, heavy on themes of growth, isolation, and change, but balanced by a lightness of touch, and with hooks to spare. "Still Clean" is a stunner of an opening track, with the signature warmth of Allison's voice coupled with one of her best refrains. Her growth as a lyricist is most evident on "Cool," a sharply observed character study describing an aloof stoner girl, so cool and untouchable, and the agony she inflicts on her boyfriend. "Flaw" is the comedown from a song like "Cool." A melancholy ode to lovesick self-loathing that finds ecstasy in sadness. "Scorpio Rising" crystallizes these themes of identity, jealousy, and the desire to be someone else. Clean – the cohesive record Allison dreamt of making – is a true step forward, a strong and mature album from an artist just coming into her power.

1. Still Clean
2. Cool
3. Your Dog
4. Flaw
5. Blossom (Wasting All My Time)
6. Last Girl
7. Skin
8. Scorpio Rising
9. Interlude
10. Wildflowers

The Lumineers' new album III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of silence in between is emotionally charged. It's darker in tone than previous albums and is presented in three chapters, with each one centering on one main character from a fictitious family known as the Sparks, who span three generations in the album's storyline. III's concept began while the band was writing in the Catskill mountains, where producer Simone Felice works. Mixing raw emotional themes with their ear-catching melodies, expressive vocals and trademark acoustic sound, III moves masterly in artistic directions not yet traveled by the band. Regarding the cinematic new record, multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites says, "This collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way, and I feel with this album we've really hit our stride." Vocalist Wesley Schultz adds that lead single "Gloria," "is about love between an addict and her family." 180g vinyl 2LP-set with three bonus tracks. 

LP1

1. Donna
2. Life In The City
3. Gloria
4. It Wasn't Easy To Be Happy For You
5. Leader Of The Landslide
6. Left For Denver

LP2

1. My Cell
2. Jimmy Sparks
3. April
4. Salt And The Sea
5. Democracy (Bonus Track)
6. Old Lady (Bonus Track)
7. Soundtrack Song (Bonus Track)

25th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP Reissue featuring the Original Ablum Plus Three Bonus Tracks!

Initially released in April 1994, Throwing Copper cemented Live's position as one of the most instrumentally powerful and lyrically impactful bands of the modern alternative-rock era. Throwing Copper, which topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart a year after its initial release, also features a pair of No. 1 Modern Rock singles ("Lightning Crashes," "Selling The Drama") and has since been certified 8x multiplatinum by the RIAA, having sold over 8 million copies.

Produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) and recorded at Pachyderm Recording Studios in Cannon Falls, MN, Throwing Copper built upon the earnest sonic template the tight-knit four-piece band from York, PA established with their compelling 1991 debut album, Mental Jewelry. From the anthemic manifesto of "Selling the Drama" to the fervent declaration of "I Alone" to the unrelenting charge of "All Over You" to the emotional-rollercoaster journey of the epic "Lightning Crashes," Throwing Copper handily reinforced Live's drive to connect with their ever-expanding audience in as many ways as possible.

Frontman Ed Kowalczyk humbly recognizes how Throwing Copper continues to elicit indelible, deep-rooted feelings to this day, "The fact that these songs have become part of our fans' DNA – that this album still matters to them and there's still such an emotional connection – that is the real accomplishment. All of the other things are great, that there are all of these trophy moments to reminisce about. But at the end of the day, the process and the journey and the music transcend all of those."

LP1

1. The Dam At Otter Creek
2. Selling The Drama
3. I Alone
4. Iris
5. Lightning Crashes
6. Top
7. All Over You
8. Shit Towne
9. T.B.D.

LP2

1. Stage
2. Waitress
3. Pillar Of Davidson
4. White, Discussion
5. Horse (Hidden Track On Original Release)
6. Hold Me Up (Bonus Track)
7. We Deal In Dreams (Bonus Track)
8. Susquehanna (Bonus Track)

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

Double vinyl LP pressing. Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly: "honest, fearful and unapologetic". The album is the follow-up to the rapper's critically-acclaimed 2012 Effort Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The album was recorded in studios throughout the United States, with executive production from Dr. Dre and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith. Boi-1da, Flying Lotus, Terrace Martin, Pharrell Williams, Knxwledge, Sounwave, Thundercat and several other hip hop producers also contributed. It's music was influenced by aspects of funk, jazz and spoken word. To Pimp A Butterfly debuted atop the Billboard 200 and received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised it's musical scope and the social relevance of Lamar's lyrics.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Wesley's Theory
• 2 For Free?
• 3 King Kunta
• 4 Institutionalized
• 5 These Walls
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 u
• 2 Alright
• 3 For Sale?
• 4 Momma
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Hood Politics
• 2 How Much a Dollar Cost
• 3 Complexion (A Zulu Love)
• 4 The Blacker the Berry
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)
• 2 i
• 3 Mortal Man

The 25th anniversary of multi-platinum Pennsylvania alt-rockers Live's critically acclaimed full-length debut, Mental Jewelry, is being celebrated with a newly remastered vinyl reissue. Produced by Jerry Harrison from the Talking Heads, the spiritually based album was originally released in December of 1991 and includes the soul-searching singles "Pain Lies On The Riverside" and "Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)." Live followed-up on Mental Jewelry's promise with two consecutive Billboard No. 1 albums, Throwing Copper (1994) and Secret Samadhi (1997). Hear where it all started!

1. Pain Lies On The Riverside
2. Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)
3. The Beauty Of Gray
4. Brothers Unaware
5. Tired Of Me
6. Mirror Song
7. Waterboy
8. Take My Anthem
9. You Are The World
10. Good Pain
11. Mother Earth Is A Vicious Crowd
12. 10,000 Years (Peace Is Now)

180g 2LP Edition Cut At Abbey Road Studios

R.E.M. grew up with the BBC, and this historic relationship is celebrated across an incredible collection that beautifully illustrates the career trajectory of one of modern music's greatest bands. Entitled R.E.M. At The BBC, the collection – available as a super-deluxe edition 8CD/DVD box set, as well as 2CD and 2LP editions  – comprises a treasure trove of rare and unreleased live and studio recordings culled from the BBC and band archives. This 180g 2LP edition of the best of collection offers a 20-track selection of in-studio performances and live broadcast highlights. The liner notes add yet more behind-the-scenes insight to this definitive retrospective with assorted BBC personalities reminiscing about what it was like to work with R.E.M. both on stage and off. A must-have for R.E.M. fans and an authoritative introduction for newcomers!

Features:
• 180g 2LP edition cut at Abbey Road Studios
• Includes performances from Radio 1's Peel Sessions, Live Lounge and Into the Night, as well as live broadcasts from Nottingham Rock City (1984), Milton Keynes' The National Bowl (1995) and Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage (1999)
• Featuring live versions of some of the band's most enduring hit singles, including "Losing My Religion," "Everybody Hurts," "Man on the Moon" and many more

LP1 - Sessions
1. World Leader Pretend 
2. Radio Song 
3. Losing My Religion - Recorded for Nicky Campbell Session Into The Night on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast on 13 March 1991
4. Lotus 
5. At My Most Beautiful - Recorded for John Peel Session on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast 25 October 1998
6. Bad Day 
7. Orange Crush - Recorded for Mark and Lard on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast on 15 October 2003
8. Man On The Moon 
9. Imitation Of Life - Recorded for Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 First broadcast 15 October 2003
10. Supernatural Superserious - Recorded for Radio 1 Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast 26 March 2008

LP2 - Broadcasts
1. Driver 8 
2. Radio Free Europe - First broadcast on 21 November 1984 from Rock City, Nottingham
3. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? 
4. Drive 
5. Half A World Away 
6. Pop Song 89 - First broadcast on 30 July 1995 from Milton Keynes
7. Everybody Hurts
8. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - First broadcast on 25 June 1999 from Pyramid Stage Glastonbury Festival
9. Losing My Religion 
10. Man On The Moon - First broadcast on 15 September 2004 from St. James’s Church, London

R.E.M. Reckoning on 180g Vinyl LP

Influential 1984 Classic Available For the First Time on Vinyl in Decades

Remastered from the Original Master Tapes

Whereas 1983's Murmur had been complex and painstakingly deliberate, the band’s Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, along with producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, saw Reckoning as a chance to turn up the volume, tear up the rule book, and capture instead R.E.M.’s on-stage mojo. Features the chart hit "So. Central Rain" and the college radio anthems "Pretty Persuasion," "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" and "Time After Time (Annelise)."

Reissued here on audiophile quality 180g vinyl with original packaging, this epic album has never sounded better.

R.E.M. Reckoning Track Listing:

1. Harborcoat
2. 7 Chinese Bros.
3. So. Central Rain
4. Pretty Persuasion
5. Time After Time (Annelise)
6. Second Guessing
7. Letter Never Sent
8. Camera
9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
10. Little America

R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant on LP

2016 Vinyl Reissue of 1986 Classic!

Very few albums are regularly credited with changing people's lives. R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant is one of them. For a generation that came of age in the 80s, as well almost everyone that came within earshot of its contents, the Georgia band's 1986 landmark effort remains an utterly distinctive sonic blend of elegance and whimsy, seriousness and humor, artfulness and accessibility. It's here that R.E.M. evolves beyond its college-rock identity albeit retains its youthful innocence, here where Michael Stipe's enigmatic vocals finally attain the same level of prominence as the group's potent rhythm section.

Lyrically, R.E.M. hits upon more concrete themes, and while Stipe's occasionally mumbled singing still lacks clear enunciation – a trait that adds to the songs' mystique and surrounding textures – there's no mistaking the overt political and environmental sentiments in tunes such as the hit "Fall on Me" and gorgeous "Cuyahoga." Similarly, "Flowers of Guatemala" epitomizes R.E.M.'s hallmark ability to turn allegory into dreamy poetry, the counterpoint melodies, atmospheric guitar fills, and majestic bridges all enchanting devices of a band that manages to get its point across via spiritual performances and indirect suggestiveness.

Such qualities lie at the heart of Lifes Rich Pageant, on which subtle details and concerted purposes unite to make transcendent, lasting art. Bolder, more pronounced, refined, and immediate than that on previous efforts, Mike Mills' bass lines and Peter Buck's swelling guitar passages augment the hard-driving beats as well as Stipe's increasingly upfront vocals. Disposing with the intentional murkiness and subconscious approach of earlier records, R.E.M. goes in attack mode here, with even mellow numbers resonating with an attention-getting kick. It doesn't hurt that the band covers the field with expertly executed songs that comprise garage rock, jangle pop, rustic country, and more either.

1. Begin the Begin
2. These Days
3. Fall on Me
4. Cuyahoga
5. Hyena
6. Underneath the Bunker
7. The Flowers of Guatemala
8. I Believe
9. What If We Give It Away?
10. Just a Touch
11. Swan Swan H
12. Superman

The Bends is the second studio album by Radiohead. In 1995, two years after an incredible debut in Pablo Honey, Radiohead were under tremendous pressure to deliver. Much to the delight of critics and fans the world over, they did more than deliver-they far exceeded expectations. - Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best movements of Pablo Honey, The Bends is grand and forceful; it resonates with anguish and despair. Although the influences-R.E.M., the Pixies, and U2-are still there, this is unmistakenly Radiohead maturing and defining their own sound.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Planet Telex 4:22
• 2 The Bends 3:58
• 3 High and Dry 4:17
• 4 Fake Plastic Trees 4:50
• 5 Bones 3:07
• 6 (Nice Dream) 3:51
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Just 3:52
• 2 My Iron Lung 4:36
• 3 Bullet Proof.I Wish I Was 3:28
• 4 Black Star 4:03
• 5 Sulk 3:42
• 6 Street Spirit (Fade Out) 4:13

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Known for their explorative and restless sound, taking influence from old style rock like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Pink Floyd as well as from electronica and hip hop, each of Radiohead's albums marks a cornerstone in their musical evolution. Debut album Pablo Honey (1993) was the band's warning shot and answer to grunge, a promising effort with Thom Yorke's vulnerable yet acerbic vocals already in place and a textured three-guitar dynamic that's strident one moment and wonderfully atmospheric the next. In terms of musical maturity, Radiohead was clearly years ahead of their time even at these early stages, yet the band was only scratching the surface with the strong-minded songwriting of "Stop Whispering" "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and surprise hit "Creep."

1. You
2. Creep
3. How Do You?
4. Stop Whispering
5. Thinking About You
6. Anyone Can Play Guitar
7. Ripcord
8. Vegetable
9. Prove Yourself
10. I Can't
11. Lurgee
12. Blow Out

Radiohead OK Computer on 180g 2LP + Download

XL Recordings Proudly Presents the Radiohead Album Catalog on Vinyl in 2016!

Known for their explorative and restless sound, taking influence from old style rock like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Pink Floyd as well as from electronica and hip hop, each of Radiohead's albums marks a cornerstone in their musical evolution. Granted classic album status almost immediately upon its release in 1997, Radiohead's third album OK Computer transformed the British quintet from a highly promising rock act into 'The Most Important Band in the World,' a distinction the group has wrestled with ever since. Combining elements of bombastic prog rock with alternating time signatures and traditional pop songwriting, OK Computer was a bold artistic departure from the sound of the band's well received prior efforts and it was the first true sign of the band's now legendary restless ambition.

LP1
1. Airbag
2. Paranoid Android
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
4. Exit Music (for a film)
5. Let Down
6. Karma Police

LP2
1. Fitter Happier
2. Electioneering
3. Climbing Up the Walls
4. No Surprises
5. Lucky
6. The Tourist