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Absolution is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Muse. It was released on 15 September 2003 in Japan, on 22 September 2003 in the United Kingdom on Mushroom Records and A&E Records and on 23 March 2004 in the United States by East West Records and Taste Media. The album followed up on it's predecessor's diverse musical tendencies and elaborate sound, while also having a more focused and consistent theme and aesthetic throughout. Absolution has a noticeably darker and heavier tone musically, with a lyrical focus on the theological and apocalyptic concepts. The album reached number one in the UK Album Charts. It also yielded the band's first top 10 single hit, with "Time Is Running Out" peaking at number 8 in the UK singles chart. In 2009, it was voted by Kerrang! As the second-best album of the 21st century thus far. (Muse's previous album, Origin of Symmetry, and their subsequent release, Black Holes and Revelations, also appeared in the top fifty).

Tracks

1. Intro
2. Apocalypse Please
3. Time Is Running Out
4. Sing for Absolution
5. Stockholm Syndrome
6. Falling Away with You
7. Interlude
8. Hysteria
9. Blackout
10. Butterflies and Hurricanes
11. Small Print
12. Endlessly
13. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
14. Ruled by Secrecy

180 gram audiophile black vinyl. As one of the most influential rock groups in the late eighties, Living Colour proved that blending Hard Rock with Funk, Soul, Rap, and Punk can be a very successful undertaking. Their debut Vivid (1988) took some time to build up steam but eventually turned heads worldwide as the sheer quality of this album inevitably rose to the surface. Vivid spawned the hits "Glamour Boys" featuring Mick Jagger on backing vocals, and "Cult Of Personality", which was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1989. The single "Funny Vibe" features Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy.

• 1 Cult of Personality
• 2 I Want to Know
• 3 Middle Man
• 4 Desperate People
• 5 Open Letter (To a Landlord)
• 6 Funny Vibe
• 7 Memories Can't Wait
• 8 Broken Hearts
• 9 Glamour Boys
• 10 What's Your Favorite Color? (Theme Song)
• 11 Which Way to America?

Double magenta colored vinyl LP pressing. 3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip hop trio de la Soul and was released on March 3, 1989. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties. Critically, as well as commercially, the album was a success. It contains the singles, "Me Myself and I", "The Magic Number, " "Buddy, " and "Eye Know". The album title came from the Johnny Cash song "Five Feet High and Rising". It is listed on Rolling Stone's 200 Essential Rock Records and The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. When Village Voice held it's annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1989, 3 Feet High and Rising was ranked #1. It was also listed on the Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, de la Soul's uniquely positive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, "Me, Myself and I". Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a "hippie" group, based on their declaration of the "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" (Da. Inner. Soul. Yall). Sampling artists as diverse as Hall & Oates, Steely Dan and The Turtles, 3 Feet High and Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap).

• 1 A 1 Intro
• 2 A 2 the Magic Number
• 3 A 3 Change in Speak
• 4 A 4 Cool Breeze on the Rocks (The Melted Version)
• 5 A 5 Can U Keep a Secret
• 6 A 6 Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)
• 7 A 7 Ghetto Thang
• 8 B 1 Transmitting Live from Mars
• 9 B 2 Eye Know
• 10 B 3 Take It Off
• 11 B 4 a Little Bit of Soap
• 12 B 5 Tread Water
• 13 B 6 Potholes in My Lawn
• 14 C 1 Say No Go
• 15 C 2 Do As de la Does
• 16 C 3 Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend)
• 17 C 4 de la Orgee
• 18 C 5 Buddy (With Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip from a Tribe Called Quest)
• 19 D 1 Description
• 20 D 2 Me Myself and I
• 21 D 3 This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Full Time Era (L.I.F.E.)
• 22 D 4 I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)
• 23 D 5 D.A.I.S.Y. Age

Eleventh Studio Effort Harkens Back to Stripped Down Blues-Rock Roots and features Collaborations with Billy F. Gibbons, Greg Cartwright and Angelo Petraglia!

After 10 albums, the last five of which have gone top 10 or better, six Grammy awards, and sold-out tours around the world, The Black Keys are back: The duo, called "one of the best rock 'n' roll bands on the planet" by Uncut, delivers its eleventh studio album, Dropout Boogie. Ushered in by lead single, "Wild Child," Dropout Boogie features collaborations with Billy F. Gibbons (ZZ Top), Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound), and Angelo Petraglia (Kings of Leon). As they have done their entire career, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material in the studio, and the new album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days making music together in Akron, Ohio, basements.

"That's always been the beauty of the thing Pat and I do. It's instant," Auerbach says. "We've never really had to work at it. Whenever we'd get together, we'd just make music, you know? We didn't know what we were going to do, but we'd just do it and it would sound cool. It's the natural chemistry Pat and I have. Being in a band this long is a testament to that. It was a real gift that we were given. I mean, the odds of being plopped down a block-and-a-half from each other in Akron, Ohio – it just seems crazy."

After hashing out initial ideas as a duo at Auerbach's Nashville-based Easy Eye Sound studio, Auerbach and Carney welcomed new collaborators Gibbons, Cartwright, and Petraglia to the Dropout Boogie sessions. Although The Black Keys previously co-wrote songs with frequent producer/collaborator Danger Mouse, this is the first time they have invited multiple new contributors to work simultaneously on one of their own albums. Both Cartwright and Petraglia can be heard on "Wild Child."

"Living in Nashville and making records here has opened both of our minds to that experience a little bit more," said Auerbach. "I knew Pat would love working with both of these guys, so we decided we'd give it a shot. It was the first time we'd ever really done that. It was fun as hell. We just sat around a table with acoustic guitars and worked out a song ahead of time." "The cool thing with Greg is that he wants to approach stuff with a story in mind – there's a plot, almost," added Carney.

The Black Keys had previously jammed with ZZ Top guitar legend Billy F. Gibbons more than a decade ago in Los Angeles, while ZZ Top was working on an album with producer Rick Rubin. "We never even really wrote one song – we just had some ideas we put down," Carney said. "We really just wanted to hang out with him. We stayed in touch, and Dan invited him to the studio once we started working on this album."

Toto IV is the fourth studio album by American pop and rock band Toto released in the spring of 1982 by Columbia Records. Toto IV received six Grammy Awards in 1983 including Album of the Year, Producer of the Year for the band, and Record of the Year for "Rosanna". It reached number four on the Billboard 200 album charts in the United States, shortly after it's release.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Rosanna
• 2 Make Believe (Album Version)
• 3 I Won't Hold You Back
• 4 Good for You
• 5 It's a Feeling
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Afraid of Love
• 2 Lovers in the Night
• 3 We Made It (Album Version)
• 4 Waiting for Your Love
• 5 Africa

From 2 To 3 is the new album from Peach Pit. This new album draws inspiration from 60s-70s rock and folk music, with the band citing Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Eagles, Glen Campbell, and George Harrison as their biggest influences.

If friendship had a sound, it would be Peach Pit. The wistful grooves, glassy guitars, and sun-kissed melodies feel like they could only be made by musicians who have spent close to a lifetime (or at least half of their lives) together. The Vancouver quartet—Neil Smith [vocals, guitar], Chris Vanderkooy [guitar], Peter Wilton [bass], and Mikey Pascuzzi [drums]—trace their union back to high school.

Peach Pit gained traction with their 2017 full-length debut album, Being So Normal, and graced the bills of festivals such as Shaky Knees Festival, Bonnaroo, Firefly Festival and many more. In 2020 Peach Pit revealed You and Your Friends, which DIY Mag hailed as “12 tracks of infectious indie-pop gems” while Atwood Magazine described the band as being “at the cutting edge of the alternative music scene.” And now Peach Pit carry this momentum into 2022, and kick off the next chapter of the band and their friendship with From 2 To 3.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Up Granville
• 2 Vickie
• 3 Lips Like Yours
• 4 Pepsi on the House
• 5 Look Out!
• 6 Everything About You
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Give Up Baby Go
• 2 Last Days of Lonesome
• 3 Drips on a Wire
• 4 2015
• 5 From 2 to 3

2003 remastered reissue of their 1977 third studio album produced by Harry Vanda & George Young. Key tracks include "Dog Eat Dog", "Let There Be Rock", "Bad Boy Boogie" & "Whole Lotta Rosie". This was the last abum featuring bass player Mark Evans. The iconic lightning bolt AC/DC logo designed by Gerard Huerta made it's first appearance on the international cover of this album.

Tracks

• 1 Go Down
• 2 Dog Eat Dog
• 3 Let There Be Rock
• 4 Bad Boy Boogie
• 5 Problem Child
• 6 Overdose
• 7 Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
• 8 Whole Lotta Rosie

John Mayer Heavier Things on 180g LP

John Mayer followed up his Grammy-winning 2001 debut Room for Squares and hit single "Your Body Is a Wonderland" with the Jack Joseph Puig-produced Heavier Things in 2003. Debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Heavier Things is a more sophisticated record than its predecessor in every way with deeper songwriting and ambitious pop-jazz arrangements. The album legitimized Mayer's talent and set the tone for the rest of his career, yielding a trio of successful singles with "Bigger Than My Body," "Clarity" and "Daughters," the latter serving as the blossoming singer/songwriter's first No. 1 single as well as 2005 Grammy winner for Song of the Year.

1. Clarity
2. Bigger Than My Body
3. Something's Missing
4. New Deep
5. Come Back To Bed
6. Home Life
7. Split Screen Sadness
8. Daughters
9. Only Heart
10. Wheel

Limited vinyl LP pressing. Cosmic Thing is the fifth studio album by new wave band The B-52's, released in 1989. It contains the singles "Love Shack" and "Roam". The success of the album served as a comeback after the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985. Six of the album's songs were produced by Nile Rodgers in New York City, and the remaining four by Don Was in upstate New York. The band embarked on the Cosmic Tour to promote the album.

Tracks

• 1 Cosmic Thing
• 2 Dry County
• 3 Deadbeat Club
• 4 Love Shack
• 5 Junebug
• 6 Roam
• 7 Bushfire
• 8 Channel Z
• 9 Topaz
• 10 Follow Your Bliss

Pearl Jam - Dark Matter - Rock LP

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, Pearl Jam, return with their highly anticipated new album Dark Matter. The band’s 12th studio album was produced by Grammy® Award-winning producer, Andrew Watt.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Sacred of Fear
• 2 React, Respond
• 3 Wreckage
• 4 Dark Matter
• 5 Won't Tell
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Upper Hand
• 2 Waiting for Stevie
• 3 Running
• 4 Something Special
• 5 Got to Give
• 6 Setting Sun

The Claypool Lennon Delirium - "South Of Reality" The Claypool Lennon Delirium's sophomore album, South of Reality, is just the antidote this sick world needs. With music so potent it could repel an asteroid impact from space, these seasoned warriors of psychedelia have crafted timeless songs that may as well be chiseled in stone. Produced by Les Claypool and Sean Lennon and mixed/engineered by Les at his own Rancho Relaxo studio in Sonoma County, California. Amethyst Edition 2 LP set pressed on cloudy blue/purple vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Little Fishes
• 2 Blood and Rockets: Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons - Movement II, Too the Moon
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 South of Reality
• 2 Boriska
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Easily Charmed By Fools
• 2 Amethyst Realm
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Toady Man's Hour
• 2 Cricket Chronicles Revisited: Part I, Ask Your Doctor - Part II, Psyde Effects
• 3 Like Fleas

Vinyl LP pressing. Remastered Duran Duran Duran's second album, Rio, was released in 1982 following the success of their debut album. Rio electrified the already-rising 'second British invasion', dominating the American charts with singles such as 'Rio', 'Hungry Like The Wolf' and 'Save a Prayer'. All of which remain as some of Duran's biggest streaming songs to this day.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Rio (2009 Remaster)
• 2 My Own Way (2009 Remaster)
• 3 Lonely in Your Nightmare (2009 Remaster)
• 4 Hungry Like the Wolf (2009 Remaster)
• 5 Hold Back the Rain (2009 Remaster)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 New Religion (2009 Remaster)
• 2 Last Chance on the Stairway (2009 Remaster)
• 3 Save a Prayer (2009 Remaster)
• 4 The Chauffeur (2009 Remaster)

Warp Riders is The Sword’s first concept album, a science fiction maelstrom put to the storming, relentless riffage and pounding rhythms upon which the band has staked its reputation. It’s also their most flat-out, supercharged, adrenaline-pumping work yet, a chrome-plated war machine that lords over the blackened sky. From the street-prowling anthems “Night City” and “Lawless Lands” to the two-part showdown of “The Chronomancer,” to the furious mechanics of closing track “(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire,” The Sword forces eminent domain ruling over heavy metal for the next decade, and welcome all challengers for an ill-fated shot at the title.

Warp Riders tells the tale of Ereth, an archer banished from his tribe on the planet Acheron. A hardscrabble planet that has undergone a tidal lock, which has caused one side to be scorched by three suns, and the other enshrouded in perpetual darkness, it is the background for a tale of strife and fantasy, the battle between pure good and pure evil. How it’s told – through the dueling lead guitars of J.D. Cronise and Kyle Shutt, and the concussive rhythm section of bassist Bryan Ritchie and drummer Trivett Wingo – underscores the narrative with molten steel and unreal precision.

Guitarist and lead vocalist J.D. Cronise explains the lineage of Warp Riders: “I’m pretty sure the first concept album I ever heard was Operation: Mindcrime by Queensrÿche when I was a kid, which I was way into. Even though I never really understood the whole story, I was nonetheless enthralled by how the album created its own world. I wanted to create a setting for our songs that would be unique and different, but still a place where epic sagas unfold in proper Sword fashion.” Inspiration took hold from “lots of things … the legend of Atlantis, old Heavy Metal magazines, the films of René Laloux, a childhood dream, and The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda to name a few.”

Tracks

• 1 Acheron/Unearthing the Orb
• 2 Tres Brujas
• 3 Arrows in the Dark
• 4 The Chronomancer I: Hubris
• 5 Lawless Lands
• 6 Astraea's Dream
• 7 The Warp Riders
• 8 Night City
• 9 The Chronomancer II: Nemesis
• 10 (The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire



Limited edition of 3000 individually numbered copies on cherry coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. American glam metal band Warrant released their second studio album Cherry Pie in 1990, which became their best-known and highest-selling release. It peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 and featured two hit singles, "Cherry Pie" and "I Saw Red".

• 1 Cherry Pie
• 2 Uncle Tom's Cabin
• 3 I Saw Red
• 4 Bed of Roses
• 5 Sure Feels Good to Me
• 6 Love in Stereo
• 7 Blind Faith
• 8 Song and Dance Man
• 9 You're the Only Hell Your Mama Ever Raised
• 10 Mr. Rainmaker
• 11 Train Train
• 12 Ode to Tipper Gore (Explicit Content)

Blonde on Blonde: A double album that transcends time, defies space, suspends reality, and looks through the human soul and tells the listener characteristics about themselves they didn't know. Forever prized for a unique sound, Blonde on Blonde is to music, production, prose, and performance as what hydrogen is to water. The secret to its inimitable aural character partially stems from Dylan's request in Nashville to producer Bob Johnston to remove the baffles from the studio room, allowing the musicians to interact as well as the music to assume a more organic quality that drifts from one microphone to another.

The story of Blonde on Blonde is almost as compelling as the music within. Dylan, frustrated with how initial attempts fared in New York, relocating to Tennessee and pairing with Nashville's top session players as well as members of what would become the Band, feverishly chasing perfectionism while also arriving at an on-the-fly feel that remains a reference point for recorded music. The Bard sweated over lyrics, demanded his band get the exact sounds he heard in his head, and limited most takes to a handful at most. A majority of songs were recorded long after midnight, the post-A.M. vibe reflected in the nocturnal aura, woozy optimism, inversion of intervals, and spiritual soulfulness of the playing.

As for the tunes? Chapters of books and lengthy theses are dedicated to the sheer conscious-altering power, mythical weight, character cast, and convention-obscuring magnetism of the lyrics – to say nothing of the sophisticated albeit pure playing within, as arrangements touch upon gospel, R&B, pop, traditional and contemporary blues, vaudeville, folk, and more. Then there's Dylan's inventive phrasing, his manipulation of pitch and locution, helping the narratives to take on epic, inchoate, and cryptic meanings that continue to be deciphered to this day. Punch lines occur as frequently as romantic declarations, all delivered with salient references, traditional parallels, and elusive interpretations on par with those of Shakespeare.

"Visions of Johanna." "I Want You. " Rainy Day Women #12 & 35." "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." "Absolutely Sweet Marie." "Essential" doesn't even begin to cover the genius of this record!

LP1

1. Rainy Day Woman No. 12 & 35
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions Of Johanna
4. One Of Us Must Know
5. I Want You
6. Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8. Just Like A Woman

LP2

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I Go Mine
2. Temporary Like Achilles
3. Absolutely Sweet Marie
4. 4th Time Around
5. Obviously 5 Believers
6. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

2LP, 180-gram, 12-inch album cut at 45rpm with deluxe gatefold sleeve2017 marks the 25th anniversary of this release. Recompiled and remastered from the original analog master tape and recording sources by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios

• 1 Dive
• 2 Sliver
• 3 Stain
• 4 Been a Son
• 5 Turnaround
• 6 Molly's Lips
• 7 Son of a Gun
• 8 (New Wave) Polly
• 9 Beeswax
• 10 Downer
• 11 Mexican Seafood
• 12 Hairspray Queen
• 13 Aerozeppelin
• 14 Big Long Now
• 15 Aneursym

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us / The album was "inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City" and recorded in such far-flung locales as Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, and Manhattan. The album was co-produced by VW's Ezra Koenig and regular collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann, and mastered by Emily Lazar. / The album title comes from the photo on the album cover by Steven Siegel, and other photos from his "Subway Dream" series documenting a Jersey City junkyard in the late-'80s. Only God Was Above Us (Independent Retail Exclusive Alternate Cover)

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Ice Cream Piano
• 2 Classical
• 3 Capricorn
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Connect
• 2 Prep-School Gangsters
• 3 The Surfer
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Gen-X Cops
• 2 Mary Boone
• 3 Pravda
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Hope

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1987 release from the legendary British quartet, their final studio album. With producer Stephen Street, The Smiths created a subtly shaded and skilled album, one boasting a fuller production than before. Morrissey and Marr labored hard over the songs, working to expand the band's sound within their boundaries. In doing so they created the classic tracks "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish," "Girlfriend in a Coma," "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before," and "I Won't Share You". This, the highest charting of all their albums, easily offers a summary of the band's considerable strengths.

Tracks

• - Side 1 -
• 1 A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours (2011 Remastered Version)
• 2 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (2011 Remastered Version)
• 3 Death of a Disco Dancer (2011 Remastered Version)
• 4 Girlfriend in a Coma (2011 Remastered Version)
• 5 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (2011 Remastered Version)
• - Side 2 -
• 1 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (2011 Remastered Version)
• 2 Unhappy Birthday (2011 Remastered Version)
• 3 Paint a Vulgar Picture (2011 Remastered Version)
• 4 Death at One's Elbow (2011 Remastered Version)
• 5 I Won't Share You (2011 Remastered Version)