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OK Computer [2 LP] [Limited Edition](more) »rank: 2066by: 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 |
In Rainbows [Vinyl](more) »rank: 2571by: Radiohead
Our review:Album Description:TENTATIVE TRACKLIST: '15 Step' – 3:57 'Bodysnatchers' – 4:02 'Nude' – 4:15 'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi' – 5:18 'All I Need' – 3:48 'Faust Arp' – 2:09 'Reckoner' – 4:50 'House of Cards' – 5:28 'Jigsaw Falling into Place' – 4:09 'Videotape' – 4:39 :On the deliriously satisfying In Rainbows, Radiohead returns to a more straight-ahead (though subdued) rock sound. Much hubbub has been made about this record's innovative release. Radiohead allowed fans to pay what they wished to download fairly low-resolution tracks from the band's own website. Like so many innovations, it already seems funny both that it was such big news and ... Detail |
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl](more) »rank: 5946by: 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 |
Viva la Vida [Vinyl](more) »rank: 3430by: Coldplay
Our review: : Coldplay Photos Amazon.co.uk:To say there has been a lot of anticipation for Coldplay’s fourth album, Viva La Vida, is an understatement. Having enlisted legendary leftfield producer Brian Eno, borrowed their album title from a painting by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and made tantalising remarks about sonic reinvention, the world has been curious (to say the least) to hear what the ‘new’ Coldplay might sound like. Viva La Vida definitely makes some departures from the band’s usual formula, which happens to be one of the most commercially successful rock-pop blueprints of recent years. The plangent chords, emotive melodies, stadium-rock rhythms and universal ... Detail |
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Siamese Dream [Vinyl](more) »rank: 8957by: 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 |
Kid A (2-10' LPs)(more) »rank: 5832by: Radiohead
Our review:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Two 10' discs in gatefold jacket Printed sleeves 's Best of 2000:How is it that Kid A's opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering 'bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh' is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it's profound. The band's future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, but the journey traveled with Radiohead reveals them to be not only rock music's greatest adventurers in 2000, but teachers as well. --Beth Massa Amazon.com:With every record, Radiohead jump off ... Detail |
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The Bends [Vinyl](more) »rank: 4178by: 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 |
Only By The ight(more) »rank: 40478by: Kings of Leon
Our review: :Double LP - both LP's are 180 gram vinyl. Beautiful gatefold sleeve with spot-varnished art. Includes the non-cd track 'Frontier City.' Starting with the haunting guitar riff of the opening track 'Closer' through the melodic, stadium friendly strains of the first single 'Sex On Fire', to the closing refrain of 'Cold Desert', 'Only By The Night' firmly places Kings Of Leon in a musical class shared by very few. US headline tour begins in mid-October. Detail |
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PARACHUTES (VINYL)(more) »rank: 13919by: Coldplay
Our review: : Coldplay Photos More from Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head X&Y Live 2003 Amazon.com:Music doesn't come more touching than this. With their debut single alone, the emotion-fortified 'Shiver,' Coldplay prove they can shift between elated and crushed in a breath, as singer Chris Martin pours out music's oldest chestnut (unconditional yet unrequited love) with the shakiest of voices and a backdrop of epic guitars. For 10 tracks on Parachutes, he adds newfound meaning to the most tired and overused rock sentiments--love found, love lost, love unrequited--over acoustic guitars and emotionally fraught rock. And for once, all ... Detail |
Sam's Town (Picture Disc)(more) »rank: 22220by: The Killers
Our review: : Coldplay Photos More from Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head X&Y Live 2003 Amazon.com:Music doesn't come more touching than this. With their debut single alone, the emotion-fortified 'Shiver,' Coldplay prove they can shift between elated and crushed in a breath, as singer Chris Martin pours out music's oldest chestnut (unconditional yet unrequited love) with the shakiest of voices and a backdrop of epic guitars. For 10 tracks on Parachutes, he adds newfound meaning to the most tired and overused rock sentiments--love found, love lost, love unrequited--over acoustic guitars and emotionally fraught rock. And for once, all ... Detail |