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A3 - "Exile on Coldharbour Lane" Until recently, this album had been unjustly lost in the shuffle. A3 is made up of two guys from Scotland who love Americana- especially the Delta blues. The track "Woke Up This Morning" is the title song to the hit HBO series "The Sopranos," and it's helped gain A3 a much wider audience.

Amazing Blondel: Englishe Musicke
English mostly acoustic group 1969-76. Middle-age renaissance guitar, organ and other instruments, multipart harmony vocals, etc., bordering on the prog movement in England at the time. Related to Gryphon. The musicians had earlier played rock and thus the music cannot be termed classical either. The group was released on Island just as any other rock group at the time. Among lots of famous guest musicians can be named Boz Burrell, Jim Capaldi, Eddie Jobson, Steve Winwood and Mel Collins. All the material here is original - with lutes and crumhorns jumping headlong into massively complex arrangements brimming with joie de vivre.

Amon Düül II: Flawless An incredible album from one of the most influential German bands in the history of progressive music. Mystifying, primal, shredding, groaning, cosmic, unearthly, complex - all at the same time. Amon Düül began in the late 60's as a commune, then split into two bands Amon Düül and Amon Düül II. They started off in the early seventies with some noisy German-electro-industrial kind of music, but later graduated to prog rock. Their best output is from the early to mid 70's period, and includes the albums Yeti, Dance Of The Lemmings, Wolf City, Vive La Trance, Hijack and Made In Germany. With the double album Dance Of The Lemmings began their "classic" period: spacy intrumentals with prominent hard-rock guitar. It's similar in vein to Popol Vuh, which is no wonder as they have shared members.

Ash Ra Temple: Schwingungen / Seven-Up Ash Ra Tempel was the legendary German electronic group that spawned Klaus Schulze, though, at that time, guitarist Manuel Gottsching was the prime mover. Their music is very spacy and psychedelic, in the manner popularized by early Hawkwind and Amon Düül II . Seven-Up features Timothy Leary, with his "altered-state" interludes. Half of Seven-Up is psych-blues weirdness interspersed with acidic, spacy freakouts, while the other half is more of the echo-guitar sounds we all know and love, only this time with extra layers of sound created by flute and keyboards, and featuring a guest spot by acid-guru Timothy Leary reading some prose underneath the sheets of sound.

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

  The Beatles: (The White Album)
They had to prove that they did not need all of those overdubs, orchestration, tape tricks, or even each other. And they did it! This is one of the finest albums of all time. From the satirical "Back in the USSR" to the tender "Julia", The White Album is a timeless masterpiece that will allow future generations to discover and explore The Beatles.

 

Blur - "13" William Orbit is brought in on Blur's latest release, which sculpts blissful dance rock from its squawky space jams. The best results are in the vein of "Low"-era Bowie.

  Captain Beefheart: The Dust Blows Forward [BOX SET]

Buckcherry - "Buckcherry" Ever wonder what happened to rock & roll? Buckcherry has the answer. Hard-edged rocking melodies and straight-out references to all the debauchery that you can stand.

Wendy Carlos (a.k.a. Walter Carlos): A Clockwork Orange Wendy Carlos has been setting the standard by which all other electronic music is judged ever since her first release, Switched On Bach, in 1968. More recently Beauty In The Beast (1986) exploded the possibilities of alternate tunings and showed itself to be years ahead of the rest of the pack. And now Wendy bursts forth again, this time utilizing all of her resources -- alternate tunings, digital orchestrations, real live singers, and of course her own composing skill. The depth of field, the density of content, and the uncanny accuracy of her "synthesizing" (you can't tell real from synthesized) make this a recording to be studied for years to come.

  Wendy Carlos (a.k.a. Walter Carlos):Tales Of Heaven & Hell

Nick Cave: The Boatman's Call The Boatman's Call will surely be one of the greatest Nick Cave albums. And, we could even say, one of the best albums ever. Some of the truly remarkable tracks (for there really is no weak point on this album) are "Lime-tree Arbour", "West Country Girl", "Idiot Prayer", and "There is a Kingdom". This cd is hypnotically beautiful, eminently listenable, it is a dark dream from which to awaken with hope. Nick Cave isn't so much a fallen angel as one that has sauntered slowly downward; recording along the way the pain, torment, and struggle endured in order to come to terms with a sad and beautiful existence.

  John Coltrane: John Coltrane & John Hartman [Remastered]

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

Cranberries- "Bury the Hatchet" The music of the Cranberries expresses the sweetness and toughness common to all the people of Ireland. On "Bury The Hatchet," Dolores O'Riordan and the band revel in the fragile and the furious. Also includes "Animal Instinct," "Delilah," "Fe Fi Fo" and 10 others.

Earth, Wind and Fire  Earth, Wind and Fire - Greatest Hits Remastered

Emerson, Lake & Palmer:  Pictures At An Exhibition

  Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Trilogy

  Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery

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Falco (dead 1998): Greatest Hits

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