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Buy Now	The Who Sell Out (more) »rank: 1036 by: The Who :Album Details:Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Different Cover essential recording:The Who Sell Out's pirate-radio concept goes south in the album's second half--the Who ran out of time before they could write enough faux commercials--but it still remains in many ways their best and most entertaining album. Pete Townshend and John Entwistle supply song after great song, and along with Keith Moon play them with power and focus. The classic single 'I Can See for Miles' is matched on at least a handful of tracks, including the ...	Buy Now	Some Girls (more) »rank: 1746 by: The Rolling Stones : essential recording:A fresh, uncompromising attempt to incorporate 1978 pop techniques into the band's familiar sound, Some Girls opens with the disco sass of 'Miss You' and closes with the self-destructive punk of 'Shattered.' (Both songs, especially 'Miss You,' with its distinctive Mel Collins sax solo, remain live showstoppers.) So the Stones declared credibility in the dance circuit without sacrificing their hard-rock reputation. Though the anti-love 'Beast of Burden' and the stylishly slow 'Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)' continue to rack up the most airplay, the obscurities stand up surprisingly well. Worth replaying: Keith Richards's rickety rocker 'Before They Make Me ...
Buy Now	Yellow Submarine (Soundtrack) (more) »rank: 1681 by: The Beatles :Album Description:Vinyl pressing of the 1999 reissue of the Beatles' classic 1969 album on yellow wax in a gatefold sleeve. 15 tracks, including 'Yellow Submarine', 'Hey Bulldog', 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds', 'All You Need Is Love' and more. :To the horror of their most obsessive fans, the surviving Beatles have proven more than willing to tamper with their pop legacy, as witnessed by the various facets of their massive, occasionally myopic mid-1990s Anthology projects (and the suspect notion of its faux techno-marvel 'reunions'). In boldly revamping the soundtrack to their 1968 Heinz Edelmann-designed animated fable Yellow Submarine, the Fabs ...	Buy Now	Queen - Greatest Hits (more) »rank: 2479 by: Queen : :Queen brought a whole new meaning to the phrase over the top. While rock & roll flamboyance stretched back at least as far as Little Richard, Freddie Mercury continued to camp it up, taking little seriously and smirking at the music's growing pretensions while partaking in them no small bit. Many of the band's singles hold up extremely well, such as 'Killer Queen' and 'You're My Best Friend'. The quartet's canny sense of melody and sophisticated vocal harmonies--not to mention Mercury's raised eyebrow--have traveled well through the years. --Rickey Wright
Buy Now	Hotel California (more) »rank: 1825 by: Eagles :Album Description:From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. Standard jewel case. essential recording:It's no accident that The Eagles Greatest Hits might one day pass Michael Jackson's Thriller as the best-selling album of all time-- the Eagles made great singles. By contrast, their albums could be spotty and strained by self-conscious artistry. Hotel California was arguably the band's best single album--it was certainly the Eagles' biggest original disc-- and it also underscored the band's need to make a big statement. The title tune reflected the album's theme of paradise lost in California, painting this picture ...	Buy Now	4 Way Street (more) »rank: 1984 by: Crosby Stills Nash & Young : :This is one of those albums where you'll want to cherry-pick favorites. Recorded live when the supergroup was at its commercial zenith, it's sloppy in spots where precision is called for. And the hyperbolic counterculture rants sound a bit silly these days (Bellows Stills: 'Jesus Christ was the first nonviolent revolutionary! Ah, dig it, dig it!'). On the other hand, the electric jams are enlivened by some charged guitar skirmishes between Stills and Young. Those who owned the original 2-record set will be pleased by the additional Graham Nash song ('King Midas in Reverse') and Young's acoustic 'The Loner'/'Cinnamon Girl'/'Down by the River' ...
Buy Now	Forty Licks (more) »rank: 3285 by: Rolling Stones :Album Description:This special limited collector's edition of the definitive Rolling Stones hits collection is released to coincide with the start of the band's European tour which kicks off in Munich on June 2, 2003 and concludes on September 14th taking in 38 gigs in 13 :The band that proclaimed itself 'The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World' has long since represented rock's most overarching confluence of art and commerce--with a distinct emphasis on the latter in recent decades--a notion this 40-track, five-decade-spanning anthology can't completely escape. While this is the first anthology to gather hits from the band's entire career, it's ...	Buy Now	A Night at the Opera (more) »rank: 3177 by: Queen :Album Details:Japanese Version featuring a Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only. essential recording:Nothing succeeds like excess--at least that's the case with Queen's breakthrough classic, A Night at the Opera. On one level, the title is a reference to the band's operatic pretensions, best in evidence here on the classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' which was championed by headbangers a generation before being revived by the Wayne's World set. Of course, A Night at the Opera was also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, and the reference isn't lost on Queen, who seldom scaled the heights of pomprock without a knowing ...
Buy Now	Past Masters, Vol. 2 (more) »rank: 1657 by: The Beatles : :What can you say, really? When you get right down to it, it's the greatest band in the history of pop music, the most influential, the best writers, and whatever other superlatives you can think of. Given their phenomenal output, and their huge chart success, it's no surprise that this second volume proves every bit as rich as the first. John, Paul, George, and Ringo had that rare chemistry that moved musical mountains, with more great songs than many people have had hot dinners, and they're still affecting the course of popular music. Thirty years later, all the paths they hinted at have ...	Buy Now	Obscured by Clouds (more) »rank: 3106 from: Capitol : :Commissioned as the soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder's 1972 film The Valley, Obscured By Clouds actually holds up rather well on its own terms. The title track is a trippy, cinematic instrumental that features some searing guitar work from David Gilmour, but full-fledged songs like 'Free Four' (which sounds like a morbid inversion of Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky'), and the folksy 'Wot's...Uh the Deal' are the real highlights of the set. Essentially a transitional work, Obscured By Clouds has long been dwarfed by Dark Side of the Moon, the album which came immediately after it. In fact, the funky 'Childhood's End' and ...