Best New Wave
No Description Available. No Track Information Available Media Type: LP Artist: STROKES Title: IS THIS IT Street Release Date: 09/11/2001. Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I miss good solid bands like this!"
"I can watch the DVD part of this all day, love it so much."
"Great if you like The Strokes."
"Arrived in perfect condition..."
"Excellent album and the sleeve and vinyl were in new condition."
"I think it's such a feel-good album... whenever I feel down I just play this through and it always makes me feel better."
"I was super excited to get the record, but it skips."
This is the 21st Anniversary of Cure's masterpiece.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I hadn't listened to it in over 12 years when I bought a used copy of the CD recently - and to my surprise I found that it was as moody, beautiful and wonderful as ever."
"The Cure is good to lighten moods and bring you up while still being aware of what's going on."
"Love the heavy vinyl."
"It's THE CURE!!!!"
"This is The Cure's best album: Disintegration."
"The vocals, keyboards, etc all are given their own space to breathe and it makes for a better listening experience."
"The Cure is the best band of all time."
3 1999
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Other highlights include the bouncy "Delirious", great party dance song "D.M.S.R."
"Our birthdays were separated by 2 yrs & 2 days. Favorite from this cd,..."Lady Cab Driver"."
"This was the album that started it all for me back in the 80s."
"I will continue to purchase my music from Amazon, for this very reason."
"I'm a Prince fan every since I had a record player."
"Bought this to have it available digitally easily... it really took me back."
"I love this record as it helped create a major shift in what we heard on the radio and saw on MTV."
"Another beautiful piece of work by Prince."
Best New Wave & Post-Punk
No Description Available. No Track Information Available Media Type: LP Artist: STROKES Title: IS THIS IT Street Release Date: 09/11/2001. Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I miss good solid bands like this!"
"I can watch the DVD part of this all day, love it so much."
"Great if you like The Strokes."
"Arrived in perfect condition..."
"Excellent album and the sleeve and vinyl were in new condition."
"I think it's such a feel-good album... whenever I feel down I just play this through and it always makes me feel better."
"I was super excited to get the record, but it skips."
Best Post-Punk
Palm Pictures is proud to present the groundbreaking Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense." The staging--and Demme's filming of it--builds toward an orgasmic release of music, rising from the bare-stage simplicity of Byrne, accompanied only by a boom box on "Psycho Killer," to the ecstatic crescendo of "Burning Down the House," by which time the Heads and additional personnel have all arrived on stage for a performance that seems channeled from heaven for the purpose of universal uplift.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This documentary is an electrifying thrill ride featuring one of the most original bands of all time."
"I have owned this on VHS and decided to get it on Blu Ray as the tape got hissie after a couple of viewings."
"If you are a Talking Heads fan or have the least bit of musical curiosity- you will certainly not be disappointed by perhaps, one of the greatest live concert films- ever."
"This 1984 disc is the one to get, unless you're looking for the included CD in the newer one that I understand exaggerates the Blues on the original video..."
"In particular, I love how well the editing captures the instrumentation, such as highlighting the percussion in specific parts of songs, keyboards when certain sounds come up, individual guitar sounds and everything."
"Love it!"
"I have always enjoyed the Stop Making Sense CD, but the extra material shown in the film helps to flesh out this great bands creative juices and more than just the hits."
"I can see why they call this the best concert on film."
Best British Metal
The DVD Features include: Excerpts from Danish and French television performances, Australian television interviews with Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones, fan-shot bootleg performance of "Heartbreaker", Behind the scenes footage of Knebworth, and an NBC interview with the band from 1970. Disc 2. Immigrant Song / Black Dog / Misty Mountain Hop / Since I've Been Loving You / Going To California / That's The Way / Bron-Y-Aur Stomp / In My Time Of Dying / Trampled Underfoot / Stairway To Heaven / Rock And Roll / Nobody's Fault But Mine / Sick Again / Achilles Last Stand / In The Evening / Kashmir / Whole Lotta Love. While this new set presents some previously unseen footage from the same 1973 Madison Square Garden gigs, its real wonders lie in the earlier (1970) Royal Albert Hall footage and the later Earls Court (1975) and Knebworth (1979) concerts.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The maturity that they display, not to mention the raw talent, is nothing short of remarkable!!!! Robert is singing several octaves lower than normal and boy does it work! The fact that he started out singing the blues shines as bright as the sun especially in "Dazed and Confused" and (my new personal favorite) "How Many More Times". One of the best parts is the absolute beautiful quality of the black and white film. The emotion that he lets loose for this small group of teenagers is nothing short of INCREDIBLE! After introducing the band, it's as if the music takes over and he really starts move and he does NOT stop!!! I haven't yet allowed the disc to play past my obsession, but it starts out with a kickass version of "We're Gonna Groove". He is so young, and actually looks younger than he did in the 1969 Danish clip where he is dressed in an uncustomary formal shirt AND jacket (it was probably the last time he that many clothes!)."
"I thought the 3-CD "How the West Was Won" set was pretty good, but it is nothing compared to what is on these two DVDs, which make "The Song Remains the Same" look like a student film. One of the reasons I was never overly impressed with "The Song Remains the Same" was that I already had several bootleg albums of Led Zeppelin concerts from that same period, so I pretty much had live versions of everything that was in the film (albeit, with inferior sound). There is just so much here for fans of Led Zeppelin to treasure and for the first time since Bonzo's untimely death prematurely ended the group's existence I feel like I am once again listening to the greatest rock `n' roll band in the world."
"It sure seemed like most of the difference that I perceived between the two came from the fact that the performance that the performance that has been captured on the Who at the Isle of Wight 1970 Blu-ray disc, that I am comparing to the first DVD in 2-DVD Zep set, seemed incomplete."
Best Goth & Industrial
This is the 21st Anniversary of Cure's masterpiece.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I hadn't listened to it in over 12 years when I bought a used copy of the CD recently - and to my surprise I found that it was as moody, beautiful and wonderful as ever."
"Love the heavy vinyl."
"It's THE CURE!!!!"
"This is The Cure's best album: Disintegration."
"The vocals, keyboards, etc all are given their own space to breathe and it makes for a better listening experience."
"The Cure is the best band of all time."
"What an album!"
Best Classic Glam Rock
Includes 'Benny and The Jets', 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', 'Candle In The Wind', 'Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting' and 'Harmony'.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have Elton John's hits but you need to listen to his other music to get a real feel of his talent."
"Finally, the "revisited" versions from current day artists are a nice tribute to Elton, although I'll admit I probably won't listen to them again."
"Well, the SACD sounds much better than the standard CD."
"Great CD!"
"There's some good stuff here, with "Funeral for a Friend", "Candle in the Wind" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' being my favorites."
"I am assuming that the version with the bonus DVD (which I really wanted) is no longer in stock but Amazon never asked me, never checked to see if I would accept the substitute, they just the 30th anniversary CDs with no bonus DVD."
"If you already have the previous remastered version and don't want to hear extra songs like the live performances, then you can skip this version."
"Can see why this is one the best music albums out there!"
Best Urban Folk
This collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over thirty songs, from his own versions he gave to other artists to things recorded in the garage with his kids. Also includes Tom's unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly. Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled "Brawlers", "Bawlers" and "Bastards" to capture the full spectrum of Waits' ranging and roving musical styles. "Brawlers" is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke-joint stomp, "Bawlers" contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano, and classic lyrical Waits' songs, while "Bastards" is filled with experimental music, stories, and jokes. The set offers everything from the amped-up rockabilly hiccuping of "Lie to Me" to the breathtaking perfection of "Shiny Things," and from the outraged political reporting of "Road to Peace" to the closing-time lament of "Little Man."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"That said I think if I was to recommend something to a total Waits noob it would be this box set. I usually dont take to his maudlin stuff all that well but the tracks here are really quite beautiful, so tender and handled with a lovely delicate touch. I don't think people appreciate just how musically accomplished Waits is as a composer and conductor. The two discs together represent the yin and yang of Waits' personality perfectly. Not since Alice and Blood Money have we been so blessed with an abundance of Waits."
"For the first two discs, this doesn't sound like a collection of tracks ranging from all over Waits' career that have been sitting on the butcher's floor--at least, other artists' collections of stuff that never made it onto previous albums have come across as inconsistent, for obvious reasons. It would seem odd that Waits could overcome such shortcomings in such a collection, for the man has had such a long and artistically varying career, but there are at least two things working in Waits' favor for _Orphans_, aside from his ungodly level of talent: first, many of these tracks are not simply ones that didn't make the final cuts of his other albums. I will readily admit that Waits' work defines easy categorization, and so a disjointed collection like Bastards readily admits with its own title that this kind of disconnection should only help define this man's work, but it always seemed that Waits himself found ways to offer cohesive albums, whether through storylines as in _Frank's Wild Years_ or a simple tonal connection like there is among the songs on _Real Gone_."
"...not so much because the music reflects every single phase of Tom Waits' distinguished history (it doesn't really have anything that sounds like his first few albums), but because it's very hard to believe that such a massive and diverse collection of songs could simply be Waits' latest release."
"Essential to everyone who enjoys this "outside the box" musician."
"This cd is fabulous!"