Tracks You and Me
- Tamp Em Up Solid
- I Don't Believe
- So Many Roads
- Palm Trees Helicopters And Gasoline
- Bridge To Better Days
- Tea For One
- Your Funeral And My Trial
- Django
- High Water Everywhere
- Asking Around For You
- Torn Down
Release date: 2006-04-10
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.49
Review You and Me / Joe Bonamassa:
Tracks Simply the Best
- Nutbush City limits
- I don't wanna lose you
- Private Dancer
- Way of the world
- We don't need another hero
- Be tender with me baby
- I want you near me
- Let's stay together
- Addicted to love
- Love thing
- River deep - Mountain high
- Steamy windows
- I can't stand the rain
- Better be good to me
- Typical male
- It takes two
- What's love got to do with it
- The Best
Release date: 1991-09-30
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.72
Review Simply the Best / Tina Turner:Tina Turner's phenomenal reclamation of her stardom is perfectly chronicled on Simply the Best. With the exception of the Phil Spector epic "River Deep, Mountain High", everything included here comes from 1983 on. Turner's iconic voice and bluesy earnestness surface on a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together"; she brings a moody sensuality to "I Can't Stand the Rain". Equally adept at rock, soul, gospel and R&B, Turner makes ordinary songs such as "Typical Male" and "Private Dancer" into extraordinary recordings. There are actually better Tina albums than Simply the Best but it stands as a useful compilation of her comeback hits. -Steve Gdula.
Tracks Zuma
- Through My Sails
- Pardon My Heart
- Drive Back
- Don't Cry No Tears
- Stupid Girl
- Danger Bird
- Barstool Blues
- Cortez The Killer
- Looking For A Love
Release date: 1993-06-28
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.31
Review Zuma / Neil Young With Crazy Horse:If Everybody Knows This is Nowhere and Ragged Glory are the two finest studio albums Neil Young recorded with Crazy Horse, Zuma certainly qualifies as a close third. Recorded in 1975, Zuma exudes both a sense of focus and a tentative optimism, two qualities that were completely MIA from the bleak Time Fades Away/Tonight's the Night/On the Beach trilogy that preceded it. "Barstool Blues", "Don't Cry No Tears" and "Drive Back" are terse, punchy rockers, while "Danger Bird" and "Cortez the Killer" are extended guitar work-outs in the grand Crazy Horse tradition. And the two acoustic entries-"Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails" (the latter was recorded with Crosby, Stills & Nash)-are absolutely gorgeous. Ignore the terrible cover art, and treat yourself to one of Young's most underrated records. -Dan Epstein.
Tracks The Fake Sound of Progress: Remastered
- Andshetoldmetoleave
- Fiveisafourletterword
- Shinobivsdragonninja
- Thefakesoundofprogress
- Awkward
- Odetosummer
- Forsure
- Stilllaughing
- Athousandapologies
- Kobrakai
- Thehandsomelifeofswing
Release date: 2001-10-08
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.81
Review The Fake Sound of Progress: Remastered / Lostprophets:At the other end of the spectrum from the corporate-sponsored mainstream nu-metal angst of Limp Bizkit is Cardiff-based post-hardcore sextet Lostprophets, who, on The Fake Sound of Progress, frenetically prove that the fusion of disparate genres can, when done with passion, still sound like the most exciting thing on the planet. Although it may only be the group's debut record, it already sounds as accomplished as the work of their much-lauded Yank peers, Glassjaw and Incubus. Harnessing the thunderball riffage and haywire DJ scratching so beloved of the nu-metal firmament to a super-melodic new-wave instinct, tracks such as the excellent "And She Told Me to Leave" and "The Fake Sound of Progress" evoke everyone from Fugazi to The Police in a flurry of gunshot snare rattles, fleet-footed bass dynamics and fiery explosions of feedback. It takes a brave group of Brits to take on the American nu-metal hierarchy on their own turf, but if anyone's going to do it, surely this is the band. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Badmotorfinger
- Jesus Christ Pose
- Drawing Flies
- Slaves & Bulldozers
- Outshined
- New Damage
- Searching With My Good Eye Closed
- Holy Water
- Face Pollution
- Mind Riot
- Room A Thousand Years Wide
- Rusty Cage
- Somewhere
Release date: 2000-12-15
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.47
Review Badmotorfinger / Soundgarden:
Tracks The Ramones: Remastered and Expanded
- Judy Is A Punk
- You Should Never Have Opened That Door
- Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
- I Don't Wanna Go Down In The Basement
- Beat On The Brat
- Blitzkreig Bop
- Today Your Love Tomorrow The World
- Havana Affair
- Judy Is A Punk
- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
- I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed
- 53rd And 3rd
- Listen To My Heart
- I Don't Care
- Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
- I Can't Be
- I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
- Loud Mouth
- Chainsaw
- Let's Dance
- Blitzkrieg Bop
Release date: 2001-06-25
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.97
Review The Ramones: Remastered and Expanded / Ramones:
Tracks Science: Limited Edition
- Favourite things
- Idiot box
- Vitamin
- Deep inside
- New skin
- Glass
- Redefine
- Summer romance (anti gravity love song)
- Certain shade of green
- Nebula
- Calgone
- Magic medicine
Release date: 2002-01-14
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.38
Review Science: Limited Edition / Incubus:
Tracks Smash It Up: the Anthology 1976-1987
- New Rose
- Plan 9 Channel 7
- Melody Lee
- Wait For The Blackout
- I Fall
- Curtain Call
- In Dulce Decorum
- Dozen Girls
- Don't Cry Wolf
- In Dulce Decorum
- Lovely Money
- Anything
- Curtain Call
- Your Eyes
- Idiot Box
- Generals
- Feel The Pain
- History Of The World
- Dozen Girls
- Under The Floor Again
- History Of The World
- See Her Tonite
- Life Goes On
- Eloise
- Anything
- Generals
- Help
- Under The Floor Again
- Machine Gun Etiquette
- Wait For The Blackout
- Grimly Fiendish
- Problem Child
- I Just Can't Be Happy Today
- Drinking About My Baby
- Life Goes On
- I Feel Alright
- Lovely Money
- Fan Club
- Silly Kids Games
- Grimly Fiendish
- Neat Neat Neat
- Love Song
- Drinking About My Baby
- Creep (You Can't Fool Me)
- Smash It Up
- Silly Kids Games
- Eloise
- Smash It Up
- Stretcher Case
Release date: 2008-02-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.97
Review Smash It Up: the Anthology 1976-1987 / The Damned:Smash It Up revisits the decade-long career of the Damned, who famously hitched a ride on the early Sex Pistols bandwagon and then beat them to releasing the first UK punk single, a crazed little beat ditty called "New Rose", in November 1976. Based visually around Dave Vanian's (aka Dave Letts) proto-goth vampire trappings and Captain Sensible's (aka Ray Burns) tutu-wearing wackiness, and musically around Rat Scabies's (aka Chris Miller) Keith Moon-like drum mania and Brian James's (aka Brian Robertson) high-speed thrash guitar, they followed up with the even better "Neat Neat Neat", a punk high point. Artistically, it was also The Damned's, as James left, Sensible moved to guitar, and they embarked upon a career of pub-metal anthems and cabaret punk nostalgia. The critics ignored them, but the hits kept on coming, including "Love Song", "Smash It Up" and their biggest, a ludicrous cover of the Paul and Barry Ryan's 1960s MOR hit "Eloise", which reached No. 3 in January 1986. They spilt the following year, leaving behind a legacy of making a little go a long, long way, the salient parts of which are all included on this two-CD, 35-track set. -Garry Mulholland.
Tracks On a Storyteller's Night - 20th anniversary expanded edition
- Just Like An Arrow
- Endless Love
- All England's Eyes
- Les Mort Dansant
- On A Storytellers Night
- How Far Jerusalem
- Steal Your Heart
- Two Hearts
- Before First Light
- Les Morts Dansant
- Endless Love
- Come On Young Love
- Before First Light
- Last Dance
- How Far Jerusalem
- Last Dance
- All England's Eyes
- Interview
Release date: 2008-02-26
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.98
Review On a Storyteller's Night - 20th anniversary expanded edition / Magnum:
Tracks The Rising
- Lonesome Day
- Nothing Man
- Worlds Apart
- Fuse
- Empty Sky
- Paradise
- Mary's Place
- My City Of Ruins
- Let's Be Friends (Skin To Skin)
- You're Missing
- Further On (Up The Road)
- Waitin' On A Sunny Day
- Rising
- Into The Fire
- Countin' On A Miracle
Release date: 2002-07-29
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.23
Review The Rising / Bruce Springsteen:The Rising is Bruce Springsteen's much-anticipated first full-length album with the E Street Band in 18 years. Although it seemed the Boss had put writing rock anthems behind him following Born in the USA, his long-time fans knew if any artist could write anthems addressing September 11, 2001 and not make them sound jingoistic, it would be Bruce Springsteen. The numerous anthems on The Rising are subtler than those of the Born to Run era. But the elements are all there-be it the joyous rocking strains of "Countin' on a Miracle", "Mary's Place" and "Waitin' on a Sunny Day"; the dark overtones of "Further on Up the Road"; or the stunning guitar solo that closes "Worlds Apart", a dramatic Arabic-tinged piece detailing star-crossed love between a Muslim and an "infidel. " While most of these songs deal with death and tragedy, they still inspire. But while the lyrics are intriguing, what's more remarkable is how well The Rising works as epic rock & roll as it draws from rockabilly, soul, doo-wop hard rock, country and even industrial. To skewer an old cliche, when The Rising is good, it's great. And even when it's not great, it's still awfully good. -Bill Holdship.
Tracks Sonic Firestorm
- Soldiers Of The Wastelands
- My Spirit Will Go On
- Prepare For War
- Fields Of Depair
- Once In A Lifetime
- Dawn Over A New World
- Fury Of The Storm
- Above The Winter Moonlight
Release date: 2008-04-28
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.76
Review Sonic Firestorm / Dragonforce:
Tracks Those Who Are About To Die Salute You (Expanded version)
- Beware The Ideas Of March
- A Whiter Spade Than Mayall
- Plenty Hard Luck
- Walking In The Park
- Mandarin
- Beware The Ideas Of March
- Those About To Die
- I Can't Live Without You
- Backwater Blues
- Walking In The Park
- The Road She Walked Before
- Walking In The Park
- Debut
- Plenty Hard Luck
Release date: 2008-02-26
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.85
Review Those Who Are About To Die Salute You (Expanded version) / Colosseum:
Tracks Crush
- Thank You For Loving Me
- Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
- Say It Isn't So
- Two Story Town
- I Got The Girl
- She's A Mystery
- Save The World
- It's My Life
- Say It Isn't So
- It's My Life
- It's My Life
- I Could Make A Living Loving You
- Mystery Train
- Just Older
- Next 100 Years
- Say It Isn't So
- One Wild Night
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.94
Review Crush / Bon Jovi:The growling, choppy guitar sample that opens the first track here, "It's My Life", is a virtual declaration of intent for the first Bon Jovi album in five years, a statement that they're updating the sound without abandoning the traditional virtues that made them one of the biggest bands on the planet. So make way for a hi-tech parade of smooth-but-gutsy rock anthems, almost any one of which will gladden the heart of every AOR radio programmer in the land. Unless the world has changed irredeemably, cuts such as the mid-paced heartbreak chugger "Say It Isn't So" are destined to become Bon Jovi standards, while an outbreak of scarf-waving and lighter-flicking is certain to accompany any live performance of the big weepy, "Thank You For Loving Me". Arguably, everything on Crush is done by the numbers, but with consummate pros like Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora at the helm, these are the kind of numbers you have to take seriously, because by the second time they kick into the chorus of any song it's damn near impossible not to sing along. -Johnny Black.
Tracks Odds & Sods
- Long Live Rock
- We Close Tonight
- Postcard
- Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
- Summertime Blues
- Little Billy
- Baby Don't You Do It
- Pure And Easy
- Young Man Blues
- Put The Money Down
- Time Is Passing
- I'm The Face - The High Numbers
- Faith In Something Bigger
- Under My Thumb
- Water
- Naked Eye
- Leaving Here
- Cousin Kevin Model Child
- Glow Girl
- Love Ain't For Keeping
- Now I'm A Farmer
- My Way
- Too Much Of Anything - Nicky Hopkins, The Who
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.97
Review Odds & Sods / The Who:By the mid-1970s, even The Who's leftovers had more interest than most rock best-of albums-"Glow Girl" is a concise blueprint of 1969's "Tommy"; "Naked Eye" and "Pure and Easy" were victims of the doomed Lifehouse project; "I'm the Face" was the band's mod-obsessed first single; and even "Little Billy," an anti-smoking advertisement, still rocks hard. John Entwistle's faux country "Now I'm A Farmer" was contemptible, but the closing anthem "Long Live Rock" redeemed such missteps. The CD reissue adds studio versions of "Young Man Blues" and "Summertime Blues," among many others, and re-orders the tracks. -Steve Knopper.
Tracks The Bedlam in Goliath
- Soothsayer
- Ouroborous
- Tourniquet Man
- Askepios
- Ilyena
- Metatron
- Aberinkula
- Wax Simulacra
- Candy and a Currant Bun
- Agadez
- Goliath
- Conjugal Burns
- Cavalettas
Release date: 2008-01-28
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.42
Review The Bedlam in Goliath / The Mars Volta:The music of The Mars Volta is probably fairly routinely dubbed "out of this world", but on The Bedlam in Goliath, you can apparently take that as literal. A loose sort of concept piece concerning Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala's dalliances with an ouija board, an occult device using which you contact spirits-specifically, the titular 'Goliath', whose pronouncements from beyond the grave inspired a lot of the album's lyrics-the fourth album from The Mars Volta finds them carving their particular niche ever deeper. The likes of "Wax Simulcra" are dynamic prog-rock jams characterised by Bixler-Zavala's high, nasally voice, screaming saxophone, and guitar solos courtesy of Chili Pepper John Frusciante. "Cavalettas", meanwhile, features flourishes of flute. But if you've been worrying The Mars Volta's voyage into the progressive is in some way at the expense of their straightforward energy, say a silent prayer for the arrival of new drummer Thomas Budgen, whose blend of technical prowess and hard hitting energy feels like a real shot in the arm; indeed, segments of "Agadez" could almost be the work of Cedric and Omar's former band, Texas hardcore ensemble At the Drive In. Now that's the spirit. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Valley Of The Damned
- Evening Star
- Disciples Of Babylon
- Black Fire
- Heart Of A Dragon
- Starfire
- Black Winter Night
- Valley Of The Damned
- Revelations
- Invocation Of Apocalyptic Evil
Release date: 2008-02-26
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.71
Review Valley Of The Damned / DragonForce:
Tracks Generation Terrorists
- You Love Us
- Stay Beautiful
- Slash N' Burn
- Love's Sweet Exile
- Motorcycle Emptiness
- Little Baby Nothing
- Damn Dog
- Nat West-Barclays-Midland-Lloyds
- Repeat (Star and Stripes)
- Repeat
- So Dead
- Crucifix Kiss
- Methadone Pretty
- Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
- Spectators of Suicide
- Born to End
- Another Invented Disease
- Tennessee
Release date: 2002-11-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.43
Review Generation Terrorists / Manic Street Preachers:
Tracks My Generation - The Very Best of The Who
- I'm A Boy
- Pinball Wizard
- 5.15
- Who Are You
- Happy Jack
- Baba O'Riley
- Substitute
- My Generation
- Pictures Of Lily
- I Can't Explain
- Squeeze Box
- I Can See For Miles
- Join Together
- Seeker
- Let's See Action
- Boris The Spider
- Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
- Won't Get Fooled Again
- You Better You Bet
- Magic Bus
Release date: 1996-08-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.86
Review My Generation - The Very Best of The Who / The Who:This fourth single-disc repackaging of the Who's hits is a definitive catalogue item with decent liner notes, brilliantly remastered sound and 19 deathless Townshend gems from "I Can't Explain" through "You Better You Bet". -Jeff Bateman This fourth single-disc repackaging of the Who's hits is a definitive catalog item with decent liner notes, brilliantly remastered sound and 19 deathless Townshend gems from "I Can't Explain" through "You Better You Bet. " -Jeff Bateman.
Tracks In Through the Out Door
- I'm gonna crawl
- South bound saurez
- Fool in the rain
- Carouselambra
- In the evening
- Hot dog
- All my love
Release date: 1997-08-25
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.53
Review In Through the Out Door / Led Zeppelin:
Tracks Strangers In The Night (Remaster)
- Mother Mary (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- I'm A Loser (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Out In The Street (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Doctor Doctor (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- This Kid's (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Too Hot To Handle (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Let It Roll (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Cherry (Live)
- Love To Love (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Hot 'N' Ready (Live)
- Lights Out (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Shoot Shoot (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Rock Bottom (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Only You Can Rock Me (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
- Natural Thing (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)
Release date: 2008-06-30
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99
Review Strangers In The Night (Remaster) / UFO:
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