| | Jan & Dean Greatest Hits CD Jan & Dean Discography of CDs
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Jan Berry and Dean Torrence took doo wop vocal techniques and grafted them on to the heavily echoed, surf-guitar style, creating, along with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, a California beach sound that dominated the pop charts for a brief time in the early '60s. Thanks to Jan Berry's songwriting abilities and considerable engineering skills (and with assistance from Wilson), Jan & Dean's singles show a high level of sophistication in both arrangement and sound that was rare for the time. Although they will always be associated with the 1960s surf boom, their best songs ("Surf City," "Dead Man's Curve," "Drag City"), have a kind of summery timelessness to them. This collection is pretty brief, but it has all the major hits by this unsung duo, and in the original versions. ~ Steve Leggett
Greatest Hits is a budget-priced, ten-track selection of some of Jan & Dean's hits, and while there are some essential items missing, it still functions as a good, affordable sampler, featuring such hits as "Surf City," "Drag City," "Linda," "Dead Man's Curve," "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena," and "Ride the Wild Surf." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Featuring these top-selling hits, 'Dead Man's Curve', 'Surf City' and 'The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)' from this surf duo along with seven more. Collectables. 2003. Greatest Hits Music Review Purchase Greatest Hits CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Ricky Nelson All Time Greatest Hits CD (1991)
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An infectious sampling of what makes this teen an idol you can really dig. With a lilting, smooth baritone that sounds confident beyond its years, Nelson's ...
| | Curtis Mayfield Curtis CD (1970) Deluxe Edition
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CURTIS is the first solo album by R&B/soul legend Curtis Mayfield. After leaving the Impressions, Mayfield began to write lyrics that were more politically charged. With the 1970 release of CURTIS, he became one of the most important socially conscious artists of his generation. The album's opener, "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go" uses racial epithets openly, as Mayfield asserts the shiftlessness of America. Set to a funky groove, with smart horn arrangements and wah-wah guitar, this song is a brazen attack on social mores, racism, the Vietnam War, religious impropriety, and Nixon-era politics.
"We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue" is another track that poignantly examines the race and class struggles of urban America. This song is made up of more than just a static groove; its tempos shift midway through and powerful brass figures, timpani punctuations, and harp glissandos soon dominate the mix. Also featuring ...
| | Suicide First Album CDs (1977)
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Seven years after the duo's inception, Suicide's debut album finally sneaked out in 1977 on the coat tails of the nascent New York punk scene. If its aim had been to confuse, startle, or repulse, SUICIDE succeeded in spades. By the same token, if a part-time sculptor and avant-garde jazz musician form a two-chord synthesizer duo and call it Suicide, commercial considerations are presumably low on their list of priorities. SUICIDE was a record destined to have future journalists reaching for words like "seminal". Synth duos start here.
SUICIDE's bleak, one-act plays of violence and sexual deviance, and that lo-fi monotone punctuated by sleazy groans and horrifying screams, still induce nervous tension despite the passing years. To hear Alan Vega, an Elvis caricature out of time, crooning "Girl" is unsettling enough. When he acts out the desperation of "Frankie Teardrop" over the strictly controlled minimalism of Martin Rev's grinding keyboard and time-bomb rhythm, you're guaranteed a listening experience quite unlike any other.
There is "difficult music," there is "difficult but rewarding music" and then there is Suicide. Rev's distinctive ...
| | Hard To Find 45'S On CD, Vol. 8: 70'S Pop Classics CD (2002)
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Numerous hit-oriented collections have focused on various styles of '70s music from disco to classic rock, but Hard to Find 45's on CD, Vol. 8 is devoted to that decade's commercial pop in the broadest sense. Where else could you find Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting," Pilot's "Magic," and Hurricane Smith's "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?" on one disc? A few songs are genuinely rare on CD, such as Boney ...
| | Gun Club Miami CD (1982)
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While the Gun Club's debut, FIRE OF LOVE, was a masterpiece of untamed punk blues, follow-up album MIAMI, produced by Blondie's Chris Stein, achieves a fuller sound and a more varied stylistic palette without sacrificing any of its predecessor's intensity. The revved-up blues of yore are still here ("Devil in the Woods," "Fire of Love"), but wild-child singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce and company also tackle ...
| | Stan Ridgway Big Heat CD (1986)
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Reissued in 1993 with six fairly disposable bonus tracks, The Big Heat has Stan Ridgway's love of film noir and Jim Thompson-style stories splashed gaudily all over it. Curiously, though, the album is tremendous fun despite its dependence on synthesizers and tick-tock drum machine work. Ridgway's cynical delivery gives everything else an edge, even in the romance-gone-wrong atmosphere of "Walkin' Home Alone." The standouts include the Ennio Morricone-influenced title ...
| | Blur: The Best Of CDs (2000)
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This Blur collection consists of a two-CD/one-DVD set that presents the revered Britpop group's BEST OF anthology, ...
| | 80'S Urban Beats And Grooves CD (2002)
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| | Igal Bashan May Heaven Smile On Me CD (2003)
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| | Radian Juxtaposition CD (2004) (Import) Japan
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$39.39
Electro-acoustic post-rock trio Radian stretches out their formula on their third album, JUXTAPOSITION.
Vienna's Radian continue with layers of electronics and instrumentation on their third release, Juxtaposition, out on Thrill Jockey Records. Radian recorded all of the electronic tracks in Vienna before bringing their set-up to Chicago to finish various tracking with the aid of John McEntire at Soma Studios, an influence at the deck that shines through on Juxtaposition. Delicate grooves reveal themselves on tracks like "Vertigo" and "Helix," stretching waves of bass tones, percussion and electronics that build on one another. Scratchy stretches of noise layered on top of the focused instrumentation of bass, guitar and drums create subtle melodies that lie underneath tracks like "Transistor" and "Tester." The influence of Tortoise is not to go unnoted here, but an influence that many may have been forgotten with Tortoise's debut -- longer, atmospheric tracks of tinny percussion on top of slow, drawn-out basslines and sprinkles of vibraphone that are definite highlights on Radian ...
| | Louis Armstrong Historic Collection CDs (2005) Boxed Set
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| | Murder One Southern Foundation Vol. 2: Young & Restless CD (2005)
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Murder One joined the click in 1987. He has been in many groups and is a vet in the rap game. Murder One was known as "Ronnie Luv" back in the days, and was in a group ...
| | Under Byen Samme Stof Som Stof CD (2006) Digipak
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With the rise of groups such as Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Sigur Rós come more textured, orchestrated bands following in their footsteps. Under Byen is such a group, although lead singer Henriette Sennenvalt's fragile delivery on "Pilot" sounds as if it's Björk or PJ Harvey fronting the Sugarcubes. Delicate and yet quite intricate, the song takes on a dreamy but gritty tone as Sennenvalt guides things along à la Nico steering a Velvet Underground number. A slow, creeping song ensues titled "Den Her Sang Handler Om at Få Det Bedste Ud Af Det" which saunters along before strings and more instruments give it a different sonic hue. While pretty, it also takes on a slightly somber tone at times, particularly thanks to the combination of Thorbjorn Krogshede's piano and Nils Grondahl's violin accompaniment, which builds and builds into a very lush and enjoyable coda. Meanwhile, the group takes on a very ethereal, innocent, child-like approach to the moody and barren "Tindrer" that is a slower, somber effort and has the feeling of music coming from a ...
| | Roger Rota Keep The Groove CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Benpo If I Aint A Hustler Who Is? CD (2007)
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