Tracks The Big Lebowski
- Hotel California - Gipsy Kings
- My Mood Swings - Elvis Costello
- Traffic Boom - Piero Piccioni
- The Man In Me - Bob Dylan
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In) - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
- Stamping Ground - Moondog, Orchestra
- I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good - Nina Simone
- Wie Glauben - Carter Burwell
- Lujon - Henry Mancini
- Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt
- Gluck Das Mir Verblieb - Llona Steingruber, Anton Dermota, The Austrian State Radio Orchestra
- Ataypura - Yma Sumac
- Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles - Captain Beefheart
- Walking Song - Meredith Monk, Katie Geissinger
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.56
Review The Big Lebowski / Soundtrack:One of the most inspired cobbled-together-from-a-stack-of-records soundtrack albums since Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski matches the goofily ramshackle spirit of the Dude, the hero of its celluloid companion. While offering Bob Dylan's luv-addled "Man in Me" together with the Gipsy Kings' redefinitive "Hotel California" and the psychedelic era Kenny Rogers nugget "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", Lebowski also gives longer play to some cuts barely sampled in the film, including Elvis Costello's "My Mood Swings". Whether taken as a Coen Brothers mix tape, a one-album CD carousel, or an apropos souvenir of one wiggy flick, this is a smart, eclectic buy. -Rickey Wright.
Tracks Venus And Mars
- Letting Go
- Love In Song
- Crossroads
- Venus And Mars
- Lunch Box/Odd Sox - McCartney, Paul & Wings
- Spirits Of Ancient Egypt
- Call Me Back Again
- My Carnival - McCartney, Paul & Wings
- You Gave Me The Answer
- Treat Her Gently Lonely Old People
- Magneto And Titanium Man
- Venus And Mars (2)
- Rock Show
- Listen To What The Man Said
- Zoo Gang - McCartney, Paul & Wings
- Medicine Jar
Release date: 1993-06-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.46
Review Venus And Mars / Paul McCartney:Released in the glow of Wings' biggest and best album, Band On The Run, Venus & Mars found Paul McCartney in his element-a working rock star, being screamed at again, cheerfully riding the last rays of his youth. Adulation always brought the best out of him, and Venus & Mars is nearly the equal of its more lauded predecessor. McCartney never strays from his favourite themes (sex, drugs, rock & roll and marriage), but his confidence is audibly high, mixing gorgeous, airy production numbers such as "Listen To What The Man Said" and "Letting Go" with the ribald and hilarious. "Rock Show" matches The Who's "Long Live Rock" as the finest and funniest of those self-celebratory Seventies stomps. McCartney's effortless marshalling of melody and arrangement hoists the blander material out of trouble, and the best stuff's powered by genuine, rediscovered verve. Facile and frivolous, but not at all bad. And their version of the "Crossroads" theme tune is wicked. -Taylor Parkes.
Tracks Love Angel Music Baby
- What You Waiting For?
- Serious
- Hollaback Girl
- Crash
- The Real Thing
- Bubble Pop Electric - Gwen Stefani, Johnny Vulture
- Rich Girl - Gwen Stefani, Eve
- What You Waiting For?
- Harajuku Girls
- Cool
- Long Way To Go - Gwen Stefani, Andre 3000
- Danger Zone
- Luxurious
- The Real Thing
Release date: 2004-11-22
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.49
Review Love Angel Music Baby / Gwen Stefani:So long, tatty Warped Tour T-shirt, goodbye day-glo pedal pushers: Love Angel Music Baby, the debut solo album from No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, finds this former ska-punk tomboy embracing `80s electro-pop, digital R&B, and the glamorous lifestyle of the international jetsetter. Laden with special guests (Andre 3000, Dr Dre, New Order), name-dropping the likes of Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano, and packed with guilt-free references to conspicuous consumption, tracks like "Luxurious"-a cut of velvety G-Funk that sees Gwen cooing "Champagne kisses/ Hold me in your lap of luxury"-may well be an instant turn-off to fans more familiar with Gwen's punk-rock roots. Luckily, there's some fine pop crossover moments here that should pretty much appeal across the board: "Hollaback Girl" finds Gwen riding a Neptunes beat that's as minimal as anything in their oeuvre, spare boom-crash percussion and wisps of acoustic guitar undercut by floor-shaking bass whoomp, while "Rich Girl" featuring Eve, repaying the favour for 2002's "Let Me Blow Your Mind", raids Fiddler On The Roof and comes out with a great pop hook. As an album, it's not totally devoid of filler, but Love Angel Music Baby will break Gwen to a whole new fanbase, and deservedly so. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Ring Ring
- Ring, Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)
- Disillusion
- Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother
- I Saw It In The Mirror
- Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
- Nina, Pretty Ballerina
- People Need Love
- Merry-Go-Round
- He Is Your Brother
- Rock 'N' Roll Band
- I Am Just A Girl
- Santa Rosa
- Ring Ring
- She's My Kind Of Girl
- Another Town, Another Train
Release date: 2002-03-01
Run time: 44 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.27
Review Ring Ring / Abba:
Tracks The Kink Kontroversy
- When I See That Girl of Mine
- Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
- Sittin' On My Sofa
- Ring The Bells
- Gotta Get the First Plane Home
- Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
- Where Have All The Good Times Gone
- You Can't Win
- What's in Store for Me
- I'm On An Island
- It's Too Late
- I Am Free
- The World Keeps Going Round
- Milk Cow Blues
- Till The End Of The Day
- When I See That Girl of Mine
Release date: 2008-02-26
Run time: 41 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.27
Review The Kink Kontroversy / The Kinks:
Tracks Wish
- High
- Apart
- Wendy Time
- Doing The Unstuck
- To Wish Impossible Things
- From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
- Cut
- Trust
- Open
- End
- A Letter To Elise
- Friday I'm In Love
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.50
Review Wish / The Cure:
Tracks Kimono My House
- This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
- Hasta Manana Monsieur
- Equator
- Falling In Love With Myself Again
- Complaints
- Amateur Hour
- Amateur Hour
- Talent Is An Asset
- Barbecutie
- In My Family
- Thank God It's Not Christmas
- Here In Heaven
- Lost And Found
Release date: 2006-10-09
Run time: 47 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.32
Review Kimono My House / Sparks:As much as any other television moment of the 70s, everyone of a certain age remembers the moment they saw Ron Mael- as John Lennon put it "Hitler on the telly" - playing keyboards on Top of The Pops to a song both terrifying and glamourous called "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" sung by a man with an unnaturally high voice (Ron's younger brother Russell). The song was a summation of Sparks - off-the-wall, slightly sinister but very compelling - and an excellent representation of its parent album Kimono My House. Recorded by a relocated Sparks (the Maels and new recruits), the album showcases a step up in power and commerciality, but retains the band's established weirdness, the sum total of which makes this their best album. The energetic glam power-pop gems belie a lyrical black humour - "Amateur Hour's tale of adolescent sex ("It's a lot like playing the violin/ You cannot start off and be a Yehudi Menuhin"), while "Here In Heaven" portrays Romeo's monologue in a parallel tale wherein Juliet didn't follow him into the afterlife. Now equipped with attendant B-sides (including the floor-shaking "Barbecutie"), this is an essential introduction to one of rock's best-kept secrets. -Thom Allott.
Tracks The Best of OMD
- Maid Of Orleans
- Talking Loud And Clear
- If You Leave
- Enola Gay
- Souvenir
- Joan Of Arc
- Secret
- Tesla Girls
- La Femme Accident
- So In Love
- Telegraph
- Electricity
- Dreamin'
- Forever Live And Die
- Genetic Engineering
- Messages
- Locomotion
- We Love You
Release date: 1988-02-29
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.81
Review The Best of OMD / OMD:After releasing "Electricity" in 1979, OMD quickly became one of the more influential electro-pop bands to emerge from England. While the premise of a singing synthesizer duo may now be a fairly conventional concept, Andy McClusky and Paul Humphreys had very few role models when they first developed their unusual style. This package pulls together two full decades of OMD's distinctive pop craftsmanship. From the early sounds of "Enola Gay" to radio classics like "Joan of Arc" and "Souvenir", OMD's polished, dramatic readings influenced everyone from Depeche Mode to the Pet Shop Boys. Late-1980s tunes like "If You Leave" and "(Forever) Live and Die" round out this collection. While not displaying all the more offbeat aspects of OMD's music, The Best of Omd certainly delivers the hits. -Mitch Myers.
Tracks Hot Rocks 1964-1971
- Play With Fire
- Brown Sugar
- Get Off Of My Cloud
- Ruby Tuesday
- Wild Horses
- Gimme Shelter
- Mother's Little Helper
- Let's Spend The Night Together
- Sympathy For The Devil
- Jumping Jack Flash
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Under My Thumb
- Paint It Black
- Heart Of Stone
- Time Is On My Side
- Street Fighting Man
- You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Honky Tonk Women
- As Tears Go By
- Midnight Rambler
Release date: 2006-08-14
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £12.40
Review Hot Rocks 1964-1971 / The Rolling Stones:
Tracks B Sides and C Sides
- That's Entertainment
- The Brothels
- Endrina
- Sick Sick World
- 100 Years
- Just a Feeling
- Stranded
- Devil's Dance
- Tattoo
- Brixton (missing verse from original version)
- I Wanna Riot Kill the Lights
- Empros Lap Dog
- Blast 'Em
- Killing Zone
- Things to Come
- Stop
- Dead and Gone
- White Knuckle Ride
- Clockwork Orange
- Ben Zanotto
Release date: 2008-03-10
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.44
Review B Sides and C Sides / Rancid:
Tracks Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970
- Legend Of A Mind
- Minstrel's Song
- Question
- Never Comes The Day
- Nights In White Satin
- Tortoise And The Hare
- Are You Sitting Comfortably?
- Gypsy
- Have You Heard (Parts 1 and 2)
- Tuesday Afternoon
- Melancholy Man
- The Dream
- Ride My See Saw
- Sunset
Release date: 2008-08-25
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.45
Review Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 / The Moody Blues:
Tracks Secret Machines
- Have I Run Out
- Now You're Gone
- I Never Thought to Ask
- Atomic Heels
- Underneath the Concrete
- Last Believer, Drop Dead
- Walls Are Starting to Crack
- Fire Is Waiting
Release date: 2008-10-14
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.90
Review Secret Machines / Secret Machines:
Tracks Silk Degrees: Legacy Edition
- We're All Alone
- What Can I Say
- What Can I Say
- Georgia
- It's Over
- Jump Street
- Lowdown
- Harbor Lights
- Lido Shuffle
- What Do You Want The Girl To Do
- It's Over
- Jump Street
- Love Me Tomorrow
Release date: 2007-02-26
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.26
Review Silk Degrees: Legacy Edition / Boz Scaggs:
Tracks The Complete Peel Sessions
- Clasp Hands
- Mess Of My
- Faust Banana
- Couldnt Get Ahead
- Garden
- 01.01.90: Chicago Now
- 23.03.91: The War Against Intelligence
- The City Never Sleeps
- Jawbone And The Air Rifle
- Numb At The Lodge
- 31.03.81: Middlemass
- Reckoning
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Behind The Counter
- CnC Hassle Schmuck
- Who Makes The Nazis?
- 03.03.98: Calendar
- 15.09.81: Deer Park
- Masquerade
- 13.03.93: Ladybird (Green Grass)
- Gross Chapel GB Grenadiers
- Jungle Rock
- Blindness
- Hip Priest
- Strychnine
- Spinetrak
- 06.12.78: Put Away
- 15.02.92: Free Range
- Touch Sensitive
- 05.12.94: M5
- 22.12.95: He Pep!
- Rebellious Jukebox
- Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
- Beatle Bones N Smokin Stones
- New Face In Hell
- Whizz Bang
- Guest Informant
- Spencer
- 31.10.88: Deadbeat Descendant
- Hey! Student
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- US 80s-90s
- Twister
- 17.12.94: Glam Racket Star
- What About Us
- What You Need
- Like To Blow
- 09.07.86: Hot Aftershave Bop
- Shake Off
- Words Of Expectation
- Antidotes
- 09.05.87: Athlete Cured
- Spoilt Victorian Child
- Contraflow
- 03.01.84: Pat Trip Dispenser
- Chilinist
- Oleano
- Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
- Gut Of The Quantifier
- This Perfect Day
- Hexen Definitive Strife Knot
- New Puritan
- Kurious Oranj
- Eat Yself Fitter
- Kimble
- Cab It Up
- The Mixer
- 15.06.78: Futures And Pasts
- Australians In Europe
- 23.03.83: Smile
- Groovin With Mr Bloe
- 12.08.04: Job Search
- I Can Hear The Grass Grow
- Look Know
- Return
- 07.10.85: LA
- Winter
- Black Monk Theme
- A Lot Of Wind
- Immortality
- 18.08.96: DIY Meat
- ROD
- 03.06.85: Cruisers Creek
- Service
- CREEP
- 13.03.03: Theme From Sparta FC
- Mere Pseud Mag Ed
- Squid Lord
- Industrial Estate
- The Man Whose Head Expanded
- Mother-Sister!
- Green Eyed Loco Man
- 2 x 4
- No Xmas For John Quays
- Hilary
- 04.11.98: Bound Soul One
- 24.09.80: Container Drivers
- Idiot Joy Showland
- Wrong Place, Right Time
Release date: 2008-04-28
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.75
Review The Complete Peel Sessions / Fall:
Tracks The Nail File: the Best of Jimmy Nail
- Cowboy Dreams
- Absent Friends
- Calling Out Your Name
- Running Man
- Ain't No Doubt
- On This Night Of A Thousand Stars
- Big River
- Crocodile Shoes
- Dragons
- Country Boy
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- Blue Roses
- Once Upon A Time
- Show Me Heaven
- Black And White
- Love
Release date: 2005-09-12
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.70
Review The Nail File: the Best of Jimmy Nail / Jimmy Nail:
Tracks Never A Dull Moment
- Italian Girls
- True Blue
- Twistin' The Night Away
- Lost Paraguayos
- Mama You Been On My Mind
- Angel
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- Interludings
- You Wear It Well
Release date: 1998-08-17
Run time: 33 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.01
Review Never A Dull Moment / Rod Stewart:The fourth Rod Stewart album to contain his trademark acoustic-electric mix of instruments and bluesy vocals, Never a Dull Moment feels anything but formulaic, kicking off with the aw-shucks modesty of "True Blue" and rollicking on through the enduring original "You Wear It Well". Some of the best tunes here are covers-Bob Dylan's searching "Mama You Been on My Mind," a soulful reading of Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," and a scorching take on Etta James's "I'd Rather Go Blind"-but, as always, Stewart manages to make them sound of a piece with his own compositions. Unlike the promises proffered by some album titles, Never a Dull Moment (ironic though it was, given the cover painting of a terminally bored Stewart) proved to be dead-on. -Daniel Durchholz.
Tracks Nude & Rude : The Best of Iggy Pop
- Kill City
- Cry For Love
- Gimme Danger
- I'm Sick Of You
- Passenger
- Lust For Life
- Search And Destroy
- Real Wild Child
- Nightclubbing
- China Girl
- No Fun
- Cold Metal
- Candy
- Home
- Funtime
- I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Wild America
Release date: 1996-10-28
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.73
Review Nude & Rude : The Best of Iggy Pop / Iggy Pop:With Lou Reed settling into a comfortable, BBC-sponsored retirement, David Bowie lapsing into a deeper coma of pretentious irrelevance by the minute, and Mick Jagger dedicating his life to the sale of Rolling Stones merchandise, it's good to see that Iggy Pop-rock & roll's original wild child-is still the consummate punk rocker. It's remarkable, also, though, that he's still alive-Nude and Rude. is surely testament to Iggy's iron constitution. A retrospective covering his career from The Stooges's eponymous 1969 debut through to 1990's Brick By Brick, Nude and Rude. can crudely be split into three parts. The Stooges' grimy "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "Search and Destroy" are magnificent howls of scuzz-rock, "Nightclubbing", "Lust For Life" and "The Passenger" are fruits of Iggy's dramatic rebirth in 1977, and, if the later work isn't as flattering to Iggy's legend, remember that it's still better than any of Reed, Bowie or Jagger's output at the turn of the century. [+]-Louis Pattison.
Tracks Born to Run
- Back Streets
- Born To Run
- Jungleland
- Thunder Road
- She's The One
- Night
- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
- Meeting Across The River
Release date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.10
Review Born to Run / Bruce Springsteen:Few albums are as fuelled by hope, possibility and the lure of the open road as Born to Run, a virtual concept album about small-town New Jerseyites in search of a better life via hot-rodding out on the turnpike, scoring some small-time hustle or blowing out of town altogether, either across the river to New York City or west for parts unknown. Songs such as "Jungleland", "Thunder Road", "Backstreets" and the title track are epic productions, both sonically and lyrically, borrowing from Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and West Side Story. When Born to Run was released in 1975, it earned the then-unknown Springsteen the rare honour of simultaneous covers on both Time and Newsweek in the US. The attention was warranted then, and it still is now. -Daniel Durchholz, Amazon. com.
Tracks It's a Wonderful Life
- Little Fat Baby
- Gold Day
- Babies On The Sun
- More Yellow Birds
- Sea Of Teeth
- Apple Bed
- King Of Nails
- Eyepennies
- Piano Fire
- It's A Wonderful Life
- Dog Door
- Comfort Me
Release date: 2001-06-11
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.98
Review It's a Wonderful Life / Sparklehorse:Over the course of three gloriously dream-dazzled albums, of which the irony-free titled It's A Wonderful Life is the quietest, sleekest and-despite a relative lack of pop hooks-probably Sparklehorse's best. Mark Linkous, the boy with a toy box full of ramshackle instruments, has sweetly, solemnly staked his affinity to the entire living universe. Bees, trees, birds, frogs, rabbits, ghosts, roosters, monkeys, babies, snakes, apples, ponies, dogs, the lot; wrapped in blissful, non-species-ist wonder that would do a Buddhist proud. The added extra here-besides a steel-drenched "Comfort Me", the old-time wheeze of "Babies on the Sun", Tom Waits' gleeful fee-fi-fo-fum through "Dog Door" and PJ Harvey's metallic whip of a voice electrifying "Piano Fire" and "Eyepennies"-is the realisation why it's been so long since you heard songs of such innocence and experience. And it hits you somewhere around the line "A child who spoke in tongues and smelled like the sun": William Blake is alive and well and making music in West Virginia. -Jennifer Nine.
Tracks The Very Best of Freddie Mercury
- Love Kills
- Guide Me Home
- I Was Born To Love You
- In My Defence
- How Can I Go On
- Guide Me Home
- Made In Heaven
- Foolin' Around
- There Must Be More To Life Than This
- Love Kills
- Time
- Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow
- Living On My Own
- Great Pretender
- Great Pretender
- Goin' Back
- Barcelona - Mercury, Freddie & Montserrat Caballe
- Mr Bad Guy
- I Can Hear Music
- Golden Boy
Release date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.99
Review The Very Best of Freddie Mercury / Freddie Mercury:
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The Big Lebowski, Venus And Mars, Love Angel Music Baby, Ring Ring, The Kink Kontroversy, Wish, Kimono My House, The Best of OMD, Hot Rocks 1964-1971, B Sides and C Sides, Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970, Secret Machines, Silk Degrees: Legacy Edition, The Complete Peel Sessions, The Nail File: the Best of Jimmy Nail, Never A Dull Moment, Nude & Rude : The Best of Iggy Pop, Born to Run, It's a Wonderful Life, The Very Best of Freddie Mercury |
