Priority Sound
- 100 selected discs -
The
essential collection
Progressive bands.
Joan Manuel Serrat & Miguel
Hernandez: Serrat
Wonderful album with lyrics in Catalan. Very enjoyable.
Shocking Blue: what a great creative set of songwriters! With a catchy guitar riff borrowed from "Pinball Wizard", this Dutch group had a worldwide hit in late 1969 with "Venus", which was later covered by Bananarama. After that they never had much success outside Europe, but they generated enough hits in enough parts of the world to warrant a compilation on Rhino Records.
SNOW PATROL: Songs
for Polarbears [extra tracks]
Snow Patrol are awesome! A post modern Nirvana. Their melodies are superb and they have a big guitar sound. A sweet, noisy, poppy, loud, soft, sad, melodic record.
Train: Drops Of Jupiter
Rod Stewart: Human
Rod is back! And sis voice-impact is stronger than ever. Ballad after ballad will bring tears to your eyes; tears of joy! Helmed by executive producer Rob Dickins, a lineup of production pros (including Mark Taylor and Brian Rawlings, the team behind Cher's Believe) keeps the sound polished, yet warm and spacious. Stewart takes on a mature, reflective slate of songs by an array of contemporary writers (including Macy Gray) and a strong cover of Curtis Mayfield's "It Was Love That We Needed."
Alan Sorrenti: Radici
Sting:
Brand New Day
Tangerine Dream: Mars Polaris
Turtle
Island String Quartet: A Night in
Tunisia, A Week in Detroit
Composer: Turtle Island String Quartet, Jeff Beal, et al. Conductor: Neeme Järvi Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Turtle Island String Quartet
James Taylor: Greatest Hits
Everybody knows Taylor's You'Ve Got A Friend. Here,
still more beautiful hits like Carolina in My Mind (in
a newly recorded version) and Steamroller, which let
us repute James Taylor as one of the best minstrels of the pop age.
Shaggy: Hotshot (Extra
tracks)
This whole album (Shaggy's fourth one) is a joy to listen to.
Trainspotting - Soundtrack The...TRAINSPOTTING album is like one long, druggy crawl through the U.K. underground, taking in subterranean techno, dance music and the pop daydreams of bands like Pulp and Blur. It's SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER for the Ecstasy generation... Including Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" and Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing".
Bruce Springsteen: Live in New York
City (Live; 2 Discs)
Various Artists - American Beauty [Soundtrack] With tracks from Peggy Lee to Elliott Smith to the Who, there's something here every member of a dysfunctional family can enjoy--making this collection the perfect soundtrack for director Sam Mendes's film American Beauty. On "Free to Go," the Folk Implosion offer a gentle coming-of-age tune with a surprisingly infectious beat and the group's unmistakable harmonies.
Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons (von Karajan, Mutter)
Tom Waits: Night On Earth -
Soundtrack
The Wallflowers: Bringing Down The Horse
Wiseguys - The
Antidote
If Fatboy Slim became the fourth Beastie
Boy, the result would sound something like the Wiseguys' album The
Antidote. Reassembling old-school beats into of-the-moment club jumpers, the sound
is a surefire formula for packed dance floors.
THE WHO
Who's Next [Original Recording Remastered]
One of the best Rock albums of the Seventies - if not all time. Listen at it making windmill air guitars...
THE WHO Quadrophenia [Original Recording Remastered]
A shining talisman in Rocks canon. "Tommy can you hear me?"
Yanni: Live At The Acropolis This album captures the unique, trademark sounds only Yanni can produce - both from his early and present years.
Neil Young: After The Gold Rush
Neil Young: Zuma
Neil Young:Comes A Time
Neil Young: Dead Man -
Sountrack. Books by and about NEIL YOUNG on
Amazon.com
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Frank Zappa: Broadway The Hard Way
Broadway revue-style comic dissection of the contemporary American cultural and political scene, with Frank Zappa naming names - Jimmie Swaggart, Pat Robertson, Oliver North, George Bush and Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms and Michael Jackson - and Ike Willis's Sammy Davis impression. Nasty and funny.
Zwan: Mary Star of the Sea (CD & DVD)
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has reinvented himself with an all-star team of mostly Chicago indie rockers at his side.
Mary Star of the Sea is a great album - a refreshing sound of things to come.
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