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U.S. 120gm vinyl LP pressing. 2004 sophomore album from the Al-Rockers. A more optimistic take on the dark musical landscapes they've explored in the past - no less brooding and intense, but charged with flashes of color and romance.

Tracks

Following on the heels of the massively successful Punk Rock Christmas (released in 2015) comes another collection of holiday favorites performed by an even larger gathering of punk rock all-stars including Tsunami Bombs, The Rumjacks, The Members, The Vibrators, Reagan Youth, Down By Law, Naked Aggression, Johnny Thunders and more. Available here on colored vinyl LP, Punk Rock Christmas 2 is the perfect gift for the punk rock lover in your life.

1. Tsunami Bomb – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
2. The Rumjacks – Christmas In Killarney
3. Naked Aggression – What We Buy
4. The Members – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
5. Pulley – O Holy Night
6. Dave Smalley & The Bandoleros – Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
7. MDC – (Merry Christmas) World's On Fire
8. The Queers – Ramones Christmas
9. The Vibrators – Santa Had To Go Into Rehab
10. Ship Thieves – Who Put The Gum In Santa's Whiskers
11. Amber Pacific – Merry Christmas Happy Holiday
12. Reagan Youth – Punk Rock Christmas
13. Down By Law – Merry Christmas (Feels So Right)
14. Bankrupt – When Johnny Saved Christmas
15. Punchline – Christas (Baby Please Come Home)
16. Johnny Thunders – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release. For the second straight year, The Killers are releasing a new album. The follow-up to 2020's Imploding the Mirage is titled Pressure Machine.

• 1 West Hills
• 2 Quiet Town
• 3 Terrible Thing
• 4 Cody
• 5 Sleepwalker
• 6 Runaway Horses
• 7 In the Car Outside
• 8 In Another Life
• 9 Desperate Things
• 10 Pressure Machine
• 11 The Getting By

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Blue Note Records is pleased to present the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series, a continuation of their acclaimed Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series which was launched in celebration of the label's 80th anniversary in 2019. The Classic Series will once again feature all-analog 180g vinyl pressings in standard packaging that are mastered by Kevin Gray directly from the original master tapes and manufactured at Optimal in Germany. The first 16 titles of the Classic Series will focus on the enduring classics of the Blue Note catalog. The Classic Series will be on-going, running alongside the Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series which is produced by Joe Harley.

Time and troubles seem to melt away during the 15 enrapturing minutes of Idle Moments, the opening track of Grant Green's sublime 1963 album of the same name. As the piece unhurriedly unfurls all the unique colors of the ensemble present themselves with Green's soulful guitar joined by Duke Pearson's elegant piano, Bobby Hutcherson's crystalline vibraphone, Bob Cranshaw's reassuring upright bass, Al Harewood's subtle drums, and lastly Joe Henderson's magnificent tenor saxophone. The pace quickens for the rest of this set including the Green original "Jean de Fleur," a bluesy take on John Lewis' MJQ standard "Django," and Pearson's original "Nomad."

Musicians:
Grant Green, guitar
Duke Pearson, piano
Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone
Bobby Hutcherson, vibes
Bob Cranshaw, bass
Al Harewood, drums

Features:
• Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series
• All analog 180g vinyl LP
• Mastered by Kevin Gray directly from the original master tapes
• Manufactured at Optimal in Germany
• Standard packaging

1. Idle Moments
2. Jean De Fleur
3. Django
4. Nomad

Life In Bed was the first single from the ‘Vanity’ record.  It includes the title track + the demo version of the track. 

180-gram pressing. The band's 1997 includes the hit singles, Barrel of a Gun, Home, It's No Good and more. Sony. 2017.

• 1 Barrel of a Gun
• 2 Love Thieves
• 3 Home
• 4 It's No Good
• 5 Uselink
• 6 Useless
• 7 Sister of Night
• 8 Jazz Thieves
• 9 Freestate
• 10 Bottom Line
• 11 Insight
• 12 Junior Painkiller

Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing including insert. Shangri-La Dee Da was the fifth studio album by American Hard Rock band Stone Temple Pilots. It was produced by Brendan O'Brien and released in 2001. The album was certified Gold. While recording the album, the band also worked on a documentary and coffee table book. Neither was released, however, and limited footage was made available through the band's official website in the form of live performance-based music videos. The album's most successful song 'Days of the Week' was only being performed at a handful of dates on the supporting tour for the album. However, the album's second single 'Hollywood Bitch' has become a staple of the band's live set ever since their 2008 reunion.

Tracks

• 1 Dumb Love
• 2 Days of the Week
• 3 Coma
• 4 Hollywood Bitch
• 5 Wonderful
• 6 Black Again
• 7 Hello It's Late
• 8 Too Cool Queenie
• 9 Regeneration
• 10 Bi-Polar Bear
• 11 Transmissions from a Lonely Room
• 12 A Song for Sleeping
• 13 Long Way Home

Urban Hymns is the third studio album by English alternative rock band The Verve, released on 29 September 1997 on Hut Records. It earned nearly unanimous critical praise upon it's release, and went on to become the band's best-selling release and one of the biggest selling albums of the year. It is currently ranked the 17th best-selling album in UK chart history and has sold over ten million copies worldwide.

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

Mastered by George Horn and Anne-Marie Suenram at Fantasy Studios!

The band that helped sonically define alternative rock, Collective Soul combined grunge, soul, and Southern-style hard rock on their breakout 1993 debut full-length, Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid, which spawned the indelible No. 1 rock radio smash "Shine" and the follow-up hit "Breathe." Named from a lyric in Paul Simon's 1986 hit "You Can Call Me Al," Allegations and Things Left Unsaid was a collection of frontman Ed Roland's demos that spread like wildfire through the Atlanta, Georgia college circuit and its popularity locally spurred Atlantic Records to pick it up for a major-label release. In one fell swoop, Collective Soul was cemented as the jukebox heroes of a new generation.

Tracks

1. Shine
2. Goodnight, Good Guy
3. Wasting Time
4. Sister Don't Cry
5. Love Lifted Me
6. In A Moment
7. Heaven's Already Here
8. Pretty Donna (Instrumental)
9. Reach
10. Breathe
11. Scream
12. Burning Bridges
13. All

The fourth full-length studio album from alt-rock icons Alice in Chains. Released in 2009, Black Gives Way To Blue is the band's first record to feature William DuVall sharing vocal and guitar duties with founding member Jerry Cantrell, alongside bassist Mike Inez and drummer/founding member Sean Kinney. Includes the singles "A Looking In View," "Your Decision," and the Grammy-nominated "Check My Brain." 2 LP set on standard black vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 All Secrets Known
• 2 Check My Brain
• 3 Last of My Kind
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Your Decision
• 2 A Looking in View
• 3 When the Sun Rose Again
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 When the Sun Rose Again
• 2 Acid Bubble
• 3 Lesson Learned
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Take Her Out
• 2 Private Hell
• 3 Black Gives Way to Blue

Reinventing the wheel of alternative pop, Icelandic group Sugarcubes (that boasted the mighty Björk within its ranks) burst onto the international music scene with their debut, featuring the unforgettable track ‘Birthday’.

It’s sometimes hard to recall now just how much of an impact The Sugarcubes debut single ‘Birthday’ made when it’s magical off-kilter melody first hit the airwaves via John Peel’s show in the latter part of 1987 (it took the number one spot in his ‘Festive 50’ that Christmas).

In particular, the song’s extraordinary singer/ narrator, Björk Guðmundsdóttir was the subject of much wild speculation in the UK music press. “Can she possibly be human?” wondered Melody Maker’s foaming Single of the Week review (mirrored in NME). “A record of debilitating beauty,” it continued. “Nothing this year has had us more thoroughly vanquished.”

And when the singles ‘Coldsweat’ and later, ‘Deus’ followed it, the somewhat more visceral tones of one Einar Örn Benediktsson introduced an electric counterpoint to Björk’s lustrously divine howl.

Over 1988, The Sugarcubes – courted by a UK press hungry for the scoop on Iceland’s first bona-fide indie rock sensations – thrilled, confounded, irritated and intrigued in equal measure, the band regularly pushed to explode the patronizing attitudes and expectations they encountered from the get-go.

Whatever, the band were undisputedly, breathtakingly different and when Life’s Too Good dropped in April ’88, its wild jumble of raucous pop, skewed jazz, punk, absurdist rock’n’roll, menace, sarcasm and sublimity lived up to expectations. By the end of the year it had clocked up nearly half a million sales and The Sugarcubes had almost singlehandedly established Icelandic music in the popular consciousness. It still sounds fantastic today.

By the end of ‘88 all three singles had charted in the year’s Independent Top 40 best-sellers, the album going into the national Top 40 and the band making appearances in the top five of most categories in the ‘indies’ end of year polls.

1. traitor
2. motorcrash
3. birthday
4. delicious demon
5. mama
6. coldsweat
7. blue eyed pop
8. deus
9. sick for toys

Smash is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring. After touring in support of their previous album, Ignition (1992), The Offspring began recording Smash in October 1993 at Track Record in North Hollywood, California. Recording and production were finished two months later, and the album was released on April 8, 1994 on Epitaph Records. Smash incorporates elements of punk rock and grunge. In the United States, Smash has sold over six million copies and has been certified 6x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Peaking at number four on the US Billboard 200, it has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling independent label album of all time. It was also the first album released on Epitaph Records to obtain gold and platinum status. Smash was The Offspring's introduction into worldwide popularity and critical acclaim, and produced a number of hit singles including the hugely successful "Come Out and Play", "Self Esteem" and "Gotta Get Away" singles. Alongside Bad Religion's Stranger than Fiction, Green Day's Dookie and Rancid's... And Out Come the Wolves, Smash was responsible for bringing punk rock back into mainstream, and helped define the sound of the emerging pop punk scene in the 1990s. As a fan-favorite, the album received generally positive reviews from critics and garnered attention from major labels, including Columbia Records, with whom The Offspring would sign in 1996. Smash is the only release where the band was referred to as "Offspring".

• Nitro (Youth Energy)
• Bad Habit
• Gotta Get Away
• Genocide
• Something to Believe in
• Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)
• Self Esteem
• It'll Be a Long Time
• Killboy Powerhead - the Offspring, Didjits
• What Happened to You?
• So Alone
• Not the One
• Smash
• Smash

Limited 180gm transparent red colored vinyl LP pressing. In October 2005, British metal mainstays Bullet for My Valentine laid solid foundations with their epochal debut album, The Poison. An unparalleled and enduring career followed, and in doing so changed the landscape and supercharged the trajectory of alternative music. Celebrating the 20th anniversary sees the album remastered and released on limited exclusive products including this LP with original core album pressed onto 180gm transparent red vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Intro (Featuring Apocalyptica)
• 2 Her Voice Resides
• 3 4 Words (To Choke Upon)
• 4 Tears Don't Fall
• 5 Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)
• 6 Hit the Floor
• 7 All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Room 409
• 2 The Poison
• 3 10 Years Today
• 4 Cries in Vain
• 5 Spit You Out
• 6 The End

60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 180g Vinyl 2LP featuring Recently Uncovered Mono Version and Stereo Version, Both Mastered from the Original Tapes; Also includes Liner Notes by Ben Ratliff, Photos & Atlantic Records Ephemera

Released in 1961, My Favorite Things made John Coltrane a star with box-office pull previously reserved for the likes of Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis. The dazzling quartet treatment of the Richard Rodgers hit song features Coltrane on soprano saxophone for the first time on record and became an instant hit single in its own right. The album also became a major commercial success, receiving the Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1998 and attaining gold record status in 2018. The recently uncovered mono version of this album – once believed to be lost forever – is included in this deluxe package along with the stereo version, both having been mastered from the original tapes. This 60th Anniversary deluxe edition also includes liner notes by award-winning writer Ben Ratliff, as well as photos and Atlantic Records ephemera.

LP1

1. My Favorite Things (2022 Vinyl Remaster)
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye (2022 Vinyl Remaster)
3. Summertime (2022 Vinyl Remaster)
4. But Not For Me (2021 Vinyl Remaster)

LP2

1. My Favorite Things (2021 Vinyl Remaster)
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye (2021 Vinyl Remaster)
3. Summertime (2021 Vinyl Remaster)
4. But Not For Me (2021 Vinyl Remaster)

The Deftones have already established themselves nationally as one of the hardest and most powerful new bands to arrive in years; now they return with their much-anticipated 2nd album, a furious, hard-hitting blast of confrontational sound. As with their debut album, the band collaborated in the studio with producer Terry Date (White Zombie, Pantera). Featured tracks: "My Own Summer (Shove It)," "Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)" and "Around the Fur."

• 1 My Own Summer (Shove It)
• 2 Lhabia
• 3 Mascara
• 4 Around the Fur
• 5 Rickets
• 6 Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
• 7 Lotion
• 8 Dai the Flu
• 9 Headup
• 10 MX

Vinyl LP pressing. A year after the runaway success of At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash took his stellar live concert behind the walls of California's oldest penitentiary. The resulting album, At San Quentin, was The Man In Black's first to top both Billboard's country and pop charts, and spun off his biggest pop hit, "A Boy Named Sue." Released alongside the premiere of his successful television show and featuring classic renditions of "I Walk The Line" and the Bob Dylan-penned "Wanted Man," this album is a must for vinyl collectors seeking to discover the legend of Johnny Cash.

Tracks

1. Wanted Man
2. Wreck of the Old 97
3. I Walk the Line
4. Darlin' Companion
5. Starkville City Jail
6. San Quentin
7. San Quentin (Reprise)
8. A Boy Named Sue
9. (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley
10. Folsom Prison Blues