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Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d. City [ TDE / CD - released 26/Jul/2013 ] Kendrick Lamar's debut album 'Good Kid, m.A.A.d City' tells the story of young black males trying to escape the influences of Compton. Growing up in that merciless city, it wasn't long before 25 year-old Kendrick Lamar, formerly known as K. Dot,... |
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Patti Smith
Easter [ Arista Records / CD - released 18/Jun/1996 ] Patti Smith came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the art-versus-commerce argument that had marred her second album, Radio Ethiopia. In fact, that argument was in some ways... |
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Sade
Diamond Life [ Epic Records / CD - released 29/Jan/2008 ] 'Diamond Life' is Sade's dazzling debut album, which was originally released in 1984 and features super numbers, such as "Smooth Operator" and "Your Love is King". In 1984, while British new romantics like Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet filled... |
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Various Artists
Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (Soundtrack) [ Hollywood Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is a collection of 12 songs that featured in the soundtrack to the Marvel blockbuster 'Guardians of the Galaxy. Classic radio hits including Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc, Red |
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Abba
Waterloo [ Polydor Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Digitally remastered reissue of second ABBA album (1974) |
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ABC
The Look Of Love: The Very Best Of ABC [ Mercury / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] |
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The Allman Brothers Band
Live at the Fillmore East [ Polydor Records / CD - released 12/Jul/1998 ] 'Live at Fillmore East' captures the band inter-playing at the peak of their abilities, delivering stunning, lengthy pieces of southern blues / jazz / rock. "This is one of the greatest live albums of all time. The band's first major hit album,... |
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The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band [ Polydor Records / CD - released 25/Apr/2000 ] This might be the best debut album ever delivered by an American blues band, a bold, powerful, hard-edged, soulful essay in electric blues with a native Southern ambience. Some lingering elements of the psychedelic era then drawing to a close can be... |
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Anika Moa
Stolen Hill [ Warner Music New Zealand / CD - released 2/Aug/2005 ] Anika's second album "blends the personal and the political in ways Moa has never attempted, resulting in the best songs she's written. Poignant and original" - Sunday Star Times (4 stars) |
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Barry White
All Time Greatest Hits [ Mercury / CD - released 9/Jun/1994 ] A compilation by American Soul & R n B legend Barry White. Featuring his seductive vocal tracks as well as the US chart-topping instrumental Love's Theme, which Barry had to argue to release as an instrumental concept album, this collection shows the... |
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The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds - Special Edition [ Capitol Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] This digitally re-mastered edition of of the 1966 perennial pop masterpiece 'Pet Sounds' contains the original mono version of the album, as well as a stereo version and a bonus track! The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s.... |
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The Beta Band
The Beta Band (Deluxe Edition) [ Because / 2 CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] The Beta Band were a Scottish group formed in 1996. Their style was described as being "folktronica", mainly a blend of folk, psychedelia, electronica, post-rock and trip hop, often involving stylistic experimentation and occasional humour. They were... |
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Bob Dylan
Self Portrait [ Sony / CD ] |
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Bruce Springsteen
The Rising [ Columbia Records / CD - released 11/Apr/2002 ] Released in the wake of 9/11, 'The Rising' offered messages of healing and redemption with the help of all the members of The E Street Band, in studio for the first time in nearly a decade. The many voices that come out of the ether on Bruce... |
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The Byrds
The Very Best of The Byrds [ Sony / CD - released 7/Jul/2006 ] This ultimate Byrds compilation contains 24 classic tracks, including "The Times they are a Changin'", "Eight Miles High", "You Ain't Going Nowehere", "Dolphin's Smile", "This Wheel's on Fire" and "Mr Tambourine Man". |
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Carpenters
Gold - Greatest Hits [ A&M Records / CD - released 21/Mar/2001 ] The best collection of all the Carpenters hits, digitally re-mastered - featuring "Yesterday Once More", "Rainy Days & Mondays", "Goodbye To Love", "Jambalaya", "We've Only Just Began", "Top of the World" and more. |
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The Cars
The Cars [ Elektra / CD - released 8/Feb/1984 ] The Cars' 1978 self-titled debut, issued on the Elektra label, is a genuine rock masterpiece. The band jokingly referred to the album as their "true greatest-hits album," but it's no exaggeration -- all nine tracks are new wave/rock classics, still... |
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Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler
Neck & Neck [ Columbia / CD ] Originally released in 1990, two generations of leading and groundbreaking guitarists combined their efforts to create this legendary album. American Country music legend Chet Atkins and British singer-songwriter, guitarist and Dire Straits front man... |
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Chicago
The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997 [ ESP / CD - released 10/Feb/1994 ] According to Billboard chart statistics, Chicago are second only to The Beach Boys in terms of chart success by an American band. That may seem hard to believe, likely because the Illinois natives didn't really court mainstream celebrity. A mix of... |
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Cowboy Junkies
The Trinity Session [ RCA / CD - released 7/Feb/1994 ] Cowboy Junkies: Margo Timmins (vocals); Michael Timmins (guitar); Alan Anton (bass); Peter Timmins (drums). Additional personnel: John Timmins (guitar, background vocals); Kim Deschamps (guitars, dobro); Jeff Bird (fiddle, mandolin, harmonica);... |