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Buy Now	Forth (more) »rank: 8 by: The Verve : :Something happens when the Verve are together that none of them experience when they are apart. Individually, the Verve are all highly-accomplished players. Singer Richard Ashcroft has been called the greatest singer in the world by no less a peer than Coldplay s Chris Martin. Liverpool-born Simon Jones s dub-informed bass takes the Verve s music far beyond rock and into space and dub; Peter Salisbury plays drums more like a jazz great than a conventional rock drummer and when the tag guitarist of his generation is thrown ...	Buy Now	Parachutes (more) »rank: 128 by: Coldplay : : 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, ...
Buy Now	X&Y (more) »rank: 204 by: Coldplay : : Coldplay Photos More from Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head Parachutes Live 2003 Amazon.com:Things have gone ridiculously well for Coldplay since 2002's A Rush of Blood to the Head. The group's global album sales have soared past the 10-million mark, putting it in the same stratosphere as megabands U2 and the Dave Matthews Band. People have offered up their bank accounts, cars, and even bodies for tickets to its shows. And, in a interesting twist, frontman Chris Martin married Gwyneth Paltrow and ...	Buy Now	A Rush of Blood to the Head (more) »rank: 208 by: Coldplay : : Coldplay Photos More from Coldplay X&Y Parachutes Live 2003 Amazon.com:Coldplay required a lifetime to make their wonderfully assured debut, Parachutes. But it took less than two years for the moody British quartet to deliver a masterful follow-up. As a band, Coldplay have advanced to a stage where they outshine nearly every one of their rivals in terms of imagination and emotional pull. A Rush of Blood to the Head is a soulful, exhilarating journey, moving from the cathartic rock of 'Politik' to the hushed ...
Buy Now	The Best of (Special Edition 2CD) (more) »rank: 236 by: Radiohead :Album Description:Radiohead's first-ever career retrospective, this 2 disc Limited Edition CD package includes 17 of the band's most popular tracks including 'Creep,' 'Karma Police,' 'High and Dry,' 'Fake Plastic Trees,' and 'Optimistic,' plus a bonus disc featuring 13 more standouts including tracks not featured on Radiohead's prior studio albums. The Limited Edition package also features an extended booklet and deluxe packaging.	Buy Now	22 Dreams (more) »rank: 997 by: Paul Weller : :''After As Is Now I thought the time was right to make the sort of record Iwanted to make,'' says Paul Weller of the creative process which ledto his striking ninth solo album 22 Dreams. ''Instead of worrying aboutanyone else, I wanted to really push the boat out. I think the result is goingto surprise a few people.'' Surprises have always been part of the artisticvernacular for the man who changed rock forever with The Jam, explored a host of eclectic influences with The Style Council and cemented ...
Buy Now	OK Computer (more) »rank: 395 by: Radiohead : : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead Hail To The Thief The Bends Kid A Pablo Honey Amnesiac I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings Amazon.com: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 ...	Buy Now	The Bends (more) »rank: 355 by: Radiohead : : 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 ...
Buy Now	The Seldom Seen Kid (more) »rank: 594 by: Elbow :Album Description:Acclaimed for their innovative sound and candid, evocative lyrics, Elbow has received vast critical acclaim and been endorsed by major artists Blur, R.E.M. and U2. Elbow return with a new album, 'The Seldom Seen Kid', their follow up to 2005's universally acclaimed Leaders Of The Free World and first for Fiction/Geffen Records. In support of the new set Elbow will be coming stateside kicking things off with a show in New York City April 26, 2008 at Webster Hall. 'New Elbow is sublime!!' - SUPERNOVA 'Their latest effort ...	Buy Now	(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (more) »rank: 568 by: Oasis :Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of their sophomore album, originally released in 1995, comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 12 tracks including 'Roll With It', 'Wonderwall', 'Some Might Say' and 'Cast No Shadow'. Sony. 2006. :This big rock candy mountain of an album justifies some if by no means all of the poses and pretentious statements made by Manchester's natural-born rock & roll deities. A dramatic attempt to rekindle the flames of the original British Invasion, Morning Glory rolls 30 years of Britpop tradition into one irresistible (if ...