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Abbey Road [Vinyl](more) »rank: 664by: The Beatles
Our review: essential recording:The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, 'Come Together' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ('Golden Slumbers'/'Carry That Weight'/'The End') is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's ... Detail |
OK Computer [2 LP] [Limited Edition](more) »rank: 1893by: Radiohead
Our review:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Gatefold jacket/2 discs Printed sleeves :Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British 'new wave of new wave' band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning 'We hope that you choke.' Sluggish, understated, and hard to ... Detail |
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl](more) »rank: 5503by: Neutral Milk Hotel
Our review: 's Best of 1998:Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like 'When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers.' Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice's looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn't always make sense logically, feels like the home you never had. --Randy Silver Amazon.com essential recording:Led by Jeff Magnum, In the Aeroplane over the Sea finds the Neutral Milk Hotel ... Detail |
The Dark Side of the Moon [Vinyl](more) »rank: 5314by: Pink Floyd
Our review:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008. essential recording:Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn't rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like 'On the Run,' 'Time' and especially 'Money' (with sampled sounds of clinking coins and cash registers turned into rhythmic accompaniment) are impressive, especially when we ... Detail |
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Siamese Dream [Vinyl](more) »rank: 8398by: Smashing Pumpkins
Our review: essential recording:An introductory drum roll drops out and is replaced by a single suspended electric guitar, which is then paralleled by a snare, filled in with the bass, and--crash!--'Cherub Rock,' the opening track, is enveloped in an explosion of metal guitar. So the journey begins. This album is pre-experimentation vintage Pumpkins. Produced by Butch Vig (Garbage, Sonic Youth, Nirvana's Nevermind), Siamese Dream is first about guitars. Lots and lots of guitars. A very close second is Jimmy Chamberlain's unquestionably excellent power drumming. Throughout each song, Billy Corgan delivers angsty lyrics in his signature breathy whine. 'Disarm' is a nice intermission halfway though ... Detail |
The Bends [Vinyl](more) »rank: 3847by: Radiohead
Our review: : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead OK Computer Amnesiac Kid A Pablo Honey Hail To The Thief I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings Amazon.com:While Radiohead saw its stock rising in 1994, it wasn't until 1995's The Bends that it really became a blue chip band. And for good reason. The quintet honed its talent for bombastic Brit Rock, yet still preserved an edge of unpredictability. Even singles like the title track didn't give in to the kind of swooning guitar clichés usually embraced by commercial radio. If the CD proved anything, it was that Radiohead could find solid ground ... Detail |
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Master of Puppets (2 LP Vinyl)(more) »rank: 6767by: Metallica
Our review: :Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kill Em All, the debut album from Metallica and in anticipation of the band's ninth studio albumlater this year Warner Bros. Records, under direct supervision from the band, are reissuingtheir early albums, Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And JusticeFor All, and Metallica (aka The Black Album) as both standard and deluxe vinyl editions. Ranked eighth on the list of the biggest sellinggroups in history, and one of the most influential bands in music, Metallica provedits mettle with these groundbreaking albums. Master Of Puppets was Hailed as a masterpieceby critics far outside heavy metal ... Detail |
FUNERAL [Vinyl](more) »rank: 18545by: ARCADE FIRE
Our review:Album Description:Montreal's Arcade Fire brings a theatricality, an intensity, an insanity, and a penchant for amazing hooks to their debut full-length. You've never heard such energy, beauty, and emotion from such a young band. Fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, Broken Social Scene, and Roxy Music's first two albums will have a new favorite band. Detail |
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GIVE UP(more) »rank: 23997by: THE POSTAL SERVICE
Our review:Album Description:The collaboration between Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello is an album of breezy electronic pop that updates classic 80s synth-pop with contemporary beats. The line-up also features Jenny Lewis from the band Rilo Kiley. Sub Pop. 2003. :Give Up, the debut release by this indie supergroup composed of Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel, is a smart, quaint, and often transcendent little pop record. The roots of the album lie in '(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan,' a woozy, gorgeous song recorded for the rad 2001 Dntel album Life ... Detail |
Hail to the Thief [Vinyl](more) »rank: 5297by: Radiohead
Our review: : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead OK Computer The Bends Kid A Pablo Honey Amnesiac The Astoria London Live Amazon.com:Filling the gulf between OK Computer's epic progressive rock and Kid A's skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. Its title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995's The Bends. Instead, they use eloquent metaphors and complicated arrangements to express the uncertainty, fear and anger arising from the 2000 U.S. presidential election and a post-9/11 world. ... Detail |