Vinyl Me, Please HHV Records 243 Items

The War Report Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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“The Coup’s second album, 1994’s Genocide & Juice, was an emboldened level-up from their first full length. While early Coup material had moments that blossomed on later efforts, Genocide & Juice was where those ideas deepened, becoming more pronounced as their catalog grew. Production wise, it’s replete with colorful samples, thorough skits and big bass, a perfect intersection of ’90s sample-based ingenuity and West Coast funk.

Genocide & Juice is mainly two things: neighborhood tales and unapologetic worldviews bound with fisted activism — made by the group’s core members at the time — Riley, Pam the Funkstress and E-Roc. But there are voices and sound effects woven throughout that give it more texture. Killer production that was able to sound both clearly professional while retaining its edge. At a concise 14 tracks, this album is one of the best sophomore efforts by any group, in any genre.”

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Capone-N-Noreaga

2LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

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It's Dark And Hell Is Hot Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The War Report, the 1997 brilliantly militant debut from Capone-N-Noreaga, is the VMP Hip-Hop Record of the Month in December 2022. Celebrating the record's 25th anniversary, our edition is pressed on 2LP Yellow vinyl, with lacquers cut by Cicely Balston...

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DMX

By All Means Necessary Remastered Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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With a set of undeniable “it” intangibles — his look, charisma, persona, and a bass-growl of a voice — DMX was the rare artist that transcended genre. He had the attitude of a rock star, the energy of 2Pac, and a vulnerability seldom seen in a rap artist, especially one considered as hardcore as he was. For many, DMX represented the streets in the mainstream. His breakthrough album, It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot, reveals a conflicted, complicated artist and man. Earl Simmons fought many demons for much of his too-brief time on earth, but he had a spiritual side where he found solace. Beaten by his mother and her boyfriends, raised by the streets, and introduced to crack cocaine in his early teens, X spent his life in and out of prisons and rehab, but when he performed he could create concerts that felt more like a church service.

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Boogie Down Productions

LP | 1988 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Too Tough To Die Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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By All Means Necessary is often discussed like it’s some departure from Criminal Minded. The moment KRS turned into “The Teacha” and became a politically minded, socially conscious wordsmith. In reality, this is who he already was. Misunderstanding and tragedy is what compelled him to not only refocus on the role he wanted to play in hip-hop, but create an album that gave way to a very important movement in hip-hop, too.

By All Means Necessary is an essential and definitive BDP and KRS album. It marks the moment where KRS wasn’t just concerned with being a great emcee but a teacher, too, continuing his exploration of sociopolitical subjects on BDP’s following three albums, as well as throughout his solo career.

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Ramones

LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Raising Hell Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Ramones’ Too Tough To Die is often positioned as a return to form for the band, but today, forty years since its release, their eighth studio album seems worthy of a far more radical categorization. In the musical landscape of the mid-1980s, the album was incoherent — not in a pejorative sense, but in how it reflected the paradoxes of its time. Made without a steady compass, the album’s incongruity became its center, and it holds. As Joey Ramone said in a 1988 interview: “Around ’84, the world was changing drastically with Iran and Gadaffi and all this stuff. Things were getting scary. So, our songs started changing.”

Echoing the surrounding instability, the Ramones created an album so layered, complex, and challenging that it can still be hard to pin down, even after four decades to ponder its songs. Too Tough To Die’s legacy lives in its chameleon-like textures, moods, and vocal styles — from the lofty to the sneering, from the cynical to the sentimental. Too Tough to Die was a reminder that it was the Ramones who initially inspired and influenced the Sex Pistols, not the other way around. If the word could be claimed by anyone, punk belonged to them.

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Run D.M.C.

LP | 1986 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Tical Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Rap’s Big Bang, the action that made it the dominant musical force of the 21st Century, was helped along by Steven Tyler putting his mic stand through the wall in the video for ‘’Walk This Way.'' The metaphor was big and dumb and direct: the walls between rock stars and rap stars were coming down, and rappers were on the same level as rock ‘n’ rollers known for excess. But that moment doesn’t have the same kind of impact—Run-D.M.C. were immediate stars—if the album it came from wasn’t the first masterpiece rap album in the history of the music, an album so perfect, so aesthetically sharp, that it lead to everything that has come since. The shell toe Adidas sold out, Run and DMC and Jam Master Jay became legends, and Raising Hell became the first platinum rap album ever.

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Method Man

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

40oz. To Freedom Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tical calls back to an oft-romanticized period when rockin’ the mic was more than enough, with no filler in sight.

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Sublime

2LP | 1992 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Agaetis Byrjun Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For those willing to look, there was always something deeper than the fl
ip-fl
ops, Old English tattoos and shitkicker Oakleys. If the self-titled album belonged to the world, 40oz. to Freedom belonged to Long Beach, to Los Angeles, to California. It invents its own wild dialect, drunk driving with a shaggy genius often lost in translation, a goofball series of obscene surprises, soundtracking a house party that never ends, always in danger of getting busted up.

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Sigur Ros

2LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lasting two seconds short of 72 minutes, Ágætis byrjun was a seismic shift from their previous record, Von: more melody, drama and tone, more accessible and anthemic. Twenty-one years after its release, it hasn’t remotely dated, lacking any relationship to grunge, industrial, ambient, pop or any other genre — not even Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai, points of comparison that cropped up in reviews. Perhaps the album’s unique DNA is simply Iceland’s environment, the community, the people. This, after all, was not a band, just music. Or just, perhaps, a force of nature. And like the aftermath of a hurricane, the landscape out there is very rarely the same again.

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OutKast

2LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Butterfly Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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“I mean, it's all social commentary, you know what I mean? We might be some of the greatest storytellers ever when it comes to music, and you want to paint a picture and evoke certain emotions. You talk about situations you're goin' through, things that you see that affect you, and it's a testament to how you live. I like to say that every album is a diary, and it gives the listener insight into what you were doin' in-between records, you know what I mean? You just write it down and you put it down on wax.” – Big Boi, on Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

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Mariah Carey

2LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Little Queen Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Presenting the 25th Anniversary Standard Edition of Mariah Carey’s sixth studio album, Butterfly, and the album Mariah considers her magnum opus.

The VMP exclusive version of Mariah Carey's Butterfly (Standard Edition) is pressed on Champagne Wave vinyl at Independent Record Pressing (irp). The 2 LPs will arrive in a double gatefold, direct-to-board, foil-stamped jacket. It was mastered by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering at AIR.

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Heart

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

No More Mr. Nice Guy Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Red & Cream Split Vinyl. Opening with one of the most well-known guitar riffs in rock music, Heart's Little Queen starts with a growl - a burning guitar tone that sounds like it originated from deep in the belly of a colossal and untamed animal. "Barracuda" harbors the undeniable sound of rage: not the strain of anger that renders you powerless and stewing, but the kind that burns so strong that it cuts you loose, let's you run free and leaves you no choice but to win. The sound is so indisputable because it embodies Heart's origin story: one of wrath and the triumph that follows.

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Gang Starr

2LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Ta13oo Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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"?Released in the spring of 1989, Gang Starr’s debut album, No More Mr. Nice Guy, arrived right at the crucial intersection of the old school and golden age of New York rap. You cannot begin to discuss New York rap lineage without drawing a line through the first decade of Gang Starr. Should history be corrected to appropriately acknowledge Gang Starr’s influence and brilliance, it will need an origin story. No More Mr. Nice Guy is that saga. It’s a hard ridge in a changing landscape, the sound of everything shifting, the kernel of greatness germinating. It is Guru and Preemo. Preemo and Guru. An essential title not just for what it would lead to, but because of what it is."

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Denzel Curry

LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Nebraska Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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TA13OO is the most realized, calculated Denzel Curry album by a mile; where Imperial honed in on the darker tones of his music, TA13OO offers the Dark, juxtaposed with fresh lenses on Curry’s experiences. We dwell in the light indulgence of his successes and attempts to achieve clarity, and an even deeper gray to illustrate the collisions and contradictions of our world.

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Bruce Springsteen

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Don Blackman Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"“Released on September 30, 1982, Bruce Springsteen’s sixth studio album, Nebraska, came in a stark sleeve, dominated by David Michael Kennedy’s black-and-white photograph of a perfectly flat highway stretching down a barren wintertime plain. It sold enough copies to earn a Gold Record award, and if some listeners were mystified, or even disappointed, by the gloomy music, critics doubled down on their praise for Springsteen’s writerly skill and artistic daring. Other artists were inspired by the work; generations of subsequent musicians, ranging from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello to pop country singer Kelly Clarkson, cited Nebraska as a crucial influence on their careers. Forty years later, the power of Nebraska is undiminished.”

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Don Blackman

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Big Doe Rehab Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blackman came from the jazz world, but spent time in the fusion-funk hybrid that hovered around the edges of the chart in that transitional period of the early ’80s. Although it slipped between the cracks at the time, Don Blackman is a minor funk masterpiece that deserves shelf space next to Fuzzy Haskins’s A Whole Nother Thang, Bernie Worrell’s Blacktronic Science, Trey Lewd’s Drop the Line and others. Though those albums turn up on most P-Funk expanded discographies, Blackman’s record often doesn’t because there’s no playing or production from Clinton, Collins or Worrell. It might make more sense to think of it at the center of a Venn diagram whose circles include P-Funk, the jazz-funk practiced by artists like George Duke and Roy Ayers and the soul-funk of Fonzi Thornton and Garfield Fleming. Right in the middle, shining brightly, Don Blackman.

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Ghostface Killah

2LP | 2007 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Sun Ship Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Released in December 2007, The Big Doe Rehab was a technical commercial success at the time, but it endures spiritually as an essential title in [Ghostface Killah's] own expansive, 13-album discography, let alone his larger body of work with other artists. While every Wu member’s solo project inevitably serves as a stage for the Clan, with The Big Doe Rehab, the spotlight never leaves Ghostface Killah in the dark, even with so many other big-name players entering and exiting — a level of artistry that could only be achieved by one of hip-hop’s top dart spitters.

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John Coltrane

Another Earth Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"On August 26, 1965, we find John Coltrane and his quartet recording at RCA Victor Studios on 24th Street in Manhattan. In the tunes tracked for Sun Ship, we hear Coltrane revisiting ground he had covered in the past with heightened sensitivity and a deepened interest in timbre. Sun Ship is a portrait of Coltrane’s most important band during his most important year, and while it’s sometimes overlooked in Coltrane’s discography — probably because it was released posthumously — it’s a crucial document for understanding what this band had accomplished, and it also offers a glimpse of why Coltrane moved beyond it. He needed to be in places where he was less sure of himself."

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Gary Bartz

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Recession Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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During the pagan hours of an otherwise uneventful Harlem pre-dawn in 1963, Gary Bartz glimpsed a galactic mystery that conventional aeronautics could not explain. Only a few weeks prior, the nascent alto saxophone virtuoso had acquired his first telescope to pursue a newfound passion for astronomy. The purchase was already yielding dividends.

The recent Juilliard graduate’s fascination with the heavens began with astrology, but the then 22-year-old quickly realized that those celestial sketches were just photographs of the sky as captured during a specific orbit. Why bother with the rough blueprint when you could witness the entire electromagnetic spectrum in its full glory?

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Young Jezzy

2LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Lonesome Crowded West Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as a significant decline in economic activity that lasts more than a few months. Sex workers, drug dealers, boosters — anyone who traffics in illicit behavior — they don’t need official word from the government to see what’s happening. They know that when money gets tight, vices are the first to be abandoned. So it’s not surprising that Young Jeezy, one of the defining gangsta rappers of the 21st century, released his third major-label album, The Recession, on September 2nd, 2008, about three months before the Nber would declare one of the largest economic crises in U.S. history.

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Modest Mouse

2LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

T. Rex Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“What really stands out about The Lonesome Crowded West is this journey it takes you on. Less like a concept album and more like a road trip soundtrack. It meanders between feelings of grinding teeth and soothing calm, love and heartache, hope and despair, with the mood and emotion shifting like tumbleweeds on a gusty day. The words really make you think, with riddle-like complexity at times.
There’s an endearing honesty and authenticity inherent to this album that doesn’t exist in a lot of popular music. It’s similar to a piece of beautiful framed art, sculpture or metalwork that is obviously handmade, due to the fact that it exhibits noticeable imperfections. Perfectly imperfect: The Lonesome Crowded West.”

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T. Rex

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This album, a pair of gorgeous, androgynous longhairs with incredible cheekbones on its cover, showed up first. Its songs talked of girls with jewels on their lips riding zebras and a chance encounter with a wizard. The sound was a strange brew concocted from different strains of earlier rock ’n’ roll: some folk, some rock, and an undeniable debt to Eddie Cochran. Marc Bolan’s music, persona, and look were strange, beautiful, and whimsical enough that if you tried to explain his massive popularity to somebody born after the century Bolan lived in, for just shy of 30 years, it would probably sound like a story from eons ago. We know glam came after T. Rex, but it’s also just a skip to the Sex Pistols, Ramones, and more punk from there; it’s also not far from the “post” sounds that came out of New York and London around 1977 or the darkness and decadence of Siouxsie Sioux and Bauhaus either. The tarted-up heavy metal of Hanoi Rocks and Poison in the 1980s followed, and into this newer century, you can hear Bolan’s direction heeded and reimagined by Alison Goldfrapp or Devendra Banhart. All of that is because of this album, the sound of Marc Bolan turning the key to unlock his true potential. His magically strange vision took shape here, and nothing has been the same since.

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Quasimoto

2LP | 2005 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

400 Degreez Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2005 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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When the Beat Konducta and his trusty alter ego link up for the sequel, another southern California blunt cruise ensues. The Adventures Of Lord Quas consists of a slow ride through the deepest corners of the crate, leaving no genre unearthed until it claims space in the haze of one’s imagination. It’s business as unusual: Madlib funnels his most twisted impulses and comedic sensibilities into a sonic slacker flck complete with good dope, bottom-shelf liquor, and a penchant for gazing mouth agape into the great unknown. But he knows Lord Quas like a good needle on wax, and they casually strut through the loops, much ado about frontin’. (Not like fake shit ain’t a big deal, but it ain’t a big enough deal.) This record captures Madlib and his id at their most frantic, indulgent, and often confusing; they trade neatness for chaos, continuity for collage in a barrage of the finest sounds this side of the B-side. It’s hip-hop that takes every visible risk, often striking gold and proving how in control the Loop Digga truly is. Don’t hit it too hard, your other selves might pay you a visit.

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Juvenile

The Diary Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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*400 Degreez* went over 5x Platinum. Cash Money was an Army (and Navy) and Juvenile became the first breakout star.

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J Dilla

2LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

OST Euphoria 3rd Edition Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Diary, the legendary lost album and instrumentals from J Dilla, released posthumously in 2016, is the VMP Hip-Hop Record of the Month for November 2022. It's here on exclusive 2LP Purple & Orange Marble vinyl, with lacquers cut by...

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Labrinth

2LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Black Moses Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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Euphoria OST features music by chart-topping, multi-platinum artist and producer Labrinth.

Written and recorded in close collaboration with the show's writer Sam Levinson, his original compositions feature prominently throughout the series as a sonic companion to the show's angst-driven narrative. The resulting 26-track collection is a genre blending mix of gospel, soul and electronic influences, indicative both of Labrinth's imitable style as well as the show's deeply moving storyline.

Of the album, Labrinth says, "My experience with Euphoria has made me a better musician. It was a dream come true to give wings and add magic to the different storylines. It was a collaborative effort among Sam Levinson, the crew and the cast - I only added ...

Euphoria has made me a better musician. It was a dream come true to give wings and add magic to the different storylines. It was a collaborative effort among Sam Levinson, the crew and the cast - I only added ..." data-full=" Euphoria OST features music by chart-topping, multi-platinum artist and producer Labrinth.

Written and recorded in close collaboration with the show's writer Sam Levinson, his original compositions feature prominently throughout the series as a sonic companion to the show's angst-driven narrative. The resulting 26-track collection is a genre blending mix of gospel, soul and electronic influences, indicative both of Labrinth's imitable style as well as the show's deeply moving storyline.

Of the album, Labrinth says, "My experience with Euphoria has made me a better musician. It was a dream come true to give wings and add magic to the different storylines. It was a collaborative effort among Sam Levinson, the crew and the cast - I only added texture to an already phenomenal show. I hope that anyone who listens to the music embraces feeling something."

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Isaac Hayes

2LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Expressions (2012 A.U.) Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Vinyl. For all the name Black Moses conjures, for all that it confers, it was not a name Isaac Hayes gave himself; that title was bestowed by a radio DJ sermonizing an intro to one of his songs. It was not a name Isaac Hayes - raised by his god-fearing grandparents in a former sharecropper's shed after his parents died before he turned two years old - thought was even appropriate. It seemed sacrilegious to him. But that name, it meant something that even Hayes had to acknowledge. He had ascended to a plane that no Black performer before him had ever reached before. He topped the R&B charts and, eventually, the pop charts without ever having to compromise who Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. Was. He had shown his people that James Brown's "I'm Black and I'm Proud" edict was possible. He dripped in gold chains inside his album gatefolds and drove cars literally trimmed in it. Unapologetically. Black Moses towers as Hayes' crowning solo achievement. It's 14 songs stand as a 90-plus-minute testament to Hayes' nonpareil greatness, songwriting ability, singing, and arranging. A monument to authenticity, Black Moses projects a self-confidence so mammoth it feels like receiving the stone tablets of swagger down from the mountain of cool.

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Dudley Perkins

LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Visions Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Available for the first time since originally released in 2006 via Stones Throw, Dudley Perkins & Madlib are pleased for the reissue of their sophomore collaborative LP, Expressions (2012 A.U.), their acclaimed follow-up to their 2003 debut effort, A Lil’ Light. And albeit the former can be accused of being excessively avant-garde, it’s Expressions where both Perkins and the Beat Konducta find a more fluid symmetry.
In everything from his collaborations with MF Doom and the late Jay Dee to his more recent pairing with Freddie Gibbs, Madlib is easily one of hip-hop's golden revolutionaries. At times his production has been accused of being sparse, but that's not the case with Expressions. This time around, Madlib's production is hitting all the funky corners with layered grooves that evoke the attitudes and emotions of A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory.
Limited to 500 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Dudley Perkins Expressions (2012 A.U.) is pressed on Opaque Olive Green vinyl at Precision Record Pressing (PRP). The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket.

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Grimes

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Old Five And Dimers Like Me Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Wow, i can hear myself learning how to make music in this song. I remember doing the vocal over the drums and then randomly trying that baseline and being like whoa! And kinda spiralling into this experiment," — Grimes on the opening track, "Infinite Love Without Fulfillment," in our pressing's Listening Notes.

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Billy Joe Shaver

Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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There are a lot of important records in this world, but what you hold in your hands is nothing less than the blueprint for outlaw country music. Old Five and Dimers Like Me is also the semi-secret classic that marked the debut of a true Texas legend. In 1960s and ‘70s Nashville, there was the commercial boom brought on by the “Countrypolitan” sound, those lush strings and angel choirs. And then there was the opposition party. It arrived in a pick-up truck and denim, and Billy Joe Shaver occupied the corner office.

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Townes Van Zandt

2LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas, the 1977 record from troubadour Townes Van Zandt, is the VMP Country Record of the Month for November 2022. It's here on exclusive 2LP Black & White Galaxy vinyl with lacquers cut by...

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For God And Country Vinyl Me, Please Edition

2LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Stevie Ray Vaughn And Double Trouble

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dolly's 2003 star-spangled masterpiece features "God Bless The USA," "Go to Hell," "Color Me America" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." If this album doesn't make you say "MURICA" nothing will.

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Dolly Parton's For God and Country is pressed on "Red, White and Bluegrass" vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 2LPs will arrive in a widespine, reverse board, numbered jacket.

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Couldn't Stand The Weather Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Victim Of Love Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180G Red & Black Split Vinyl. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's sophomore album, Couldn't Stand The Weather, is the Rock Record of the Month for April 2024. It's here on 180g Red & Black Split vinyl, with lacquers cut from tapes (AAA) by Ryan Smith.

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Charles Bradley

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first notes Charles Bradley sings on Victim of Love, his 2013 sophomore release, are not words but moaned lamentations. A drawn out “ooh” reminds listeners who we are dealing with: The Screaming Eagle of Soul, who doesn’t simply sing. Bradley wails, pleads, begs and screeches his way through Victim of Love. Many tracks are love songs, but they’d be better described as songs of longing.

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9 To 5 And Odd Jobs Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hello, I'm Dolly Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Sextant Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'Hello, I'm Dolly' is Dolly Parton's debut album and the Vinyl Me, Parton Record of the Month for October 2023. It's pressed on 180g Flame Galaxy vinyl with AAA lacquers cut from tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Herbie Hancock

Too Hard To Swallow Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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By 1973, Herbie Hancock already had both feet planted firmly in the future — some 50 years based on the vast, electronic funk he crafted during this period. How could he have known that this music would soundtrack block parties in the ‘80s and give ground to a burgeoning hip-hop culture? How could a man so steeped in the history of jazz be so untethered to form and genre that he created a sound all his own? Did he envision a world much like we’re living in now, where smartphones dictate our lives and musical compositions co-mingle without adherence to artificial marketing terms? Herbie likely wasn’t that prescient, but I wouldn’t doubt his genius. Based on the interplanetary trance funk of Sextant, his 11th studio album, such foresight wouldn’t be surprising. Then and always, Herbie was the master of the road less traveled. He was the light guiding his peers where they needed to go.

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UGK

2LP | 1992 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

34,02 €* 45,37 € -25%

No Said Date Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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"Despite a boisterous personality from Chad “Pimp C” Butler and a steely menace from Bernard “Bun B” Freeman, the Underground Kingz rose as most men do: from gifted measures despite hard-scrabble surroundings. By the time they were 19, they crafted a crude, yet wholly Southern debut album titled Too Hard To Swallow. The genius within Too Hard To Swallow arrives when you realize it is an album of promising sonic development and two rappers wanting to find their footing as the rappers from their section of Texas."

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Masta Killa

2LP | 2004 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

At What Cost Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Wu-Tang Clan’s Masta Killa, who had been tinkering with his first solo record since the ’90s, unabashedly embraced the sounds of Wu on his debut. In the early 2000s, New York City-based gangsta rap took RZA’s style to almost cartoonish, exaggerated heights. In a way, No Said Date is a response to that: taking those shiny commercialized elements down to a more grounded level. RZA served as executive producer and more than half of the songs were produced by him or those under the Wu-Tang family tree: Allah Mathematics and True Master.

And while some of the classic ’90s Wu debuts were often epics with these great cinematic themes, No Said Date is an intimate, often lowkey tribute to Masta Killa’s childhood growing up in Brooklyn in the ’70s and ’80s — with the majority of verses centered around park jams, young love, school days and catching wreck.

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Goldlink

2LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Funkdafied Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Da Brat

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

U.F.O. Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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30 years later, Funkdafied still stands tall in the G-funk canon as a record that’s lean, mean, and a nonstop delight to listen to. Where many of her contemporaries’ albums weathered far worse with age, given the gratuitous nature of the subgenre, Da Brat and Jermaine Dupri gave us nine records that play the game without giving themselves the opportunity to grow stale or outlandish.

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Jim Sullivan

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Veckatimest Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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No one knows what happened to Jim Sullivan, but there have been various rumors floated involving the mob, police foul play, and, due to his closeness to Roswell, alien abduction. Because of the mystery of his disappearance, the lyrics on U.F.O. took on an otherworldly quality; the songs about aliens, and being in the sky, and disappearing seem like they were written to explain his disappearance, just written six years early.

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Grizzly Bear

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Tidal Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small uninhabited island called Veckatimest. The island is a physical space, but for the band Grizzly Bear, it is also a state of mind. Veckatimest is the name of the band’s third full-length record, originally released in 2009 on Warp Records. It is a stunning piece of music, one that catapulted what was once frontman Ed Droste’s bedroom project into something far grander and more publicly lauded than the band could’ve ever imagined.

Veckatimest represents a definitive, landmark sort of moment for indie rock. It moved a genre to the thing that was all the rage on blogs, to fertile grounds for pop and rap to reap from. Jay and Bey watching Grizzly Bear at a random show in Brooklyn eventually led to people like Ezra Koenig and Josh Tillman penning a track on Lemonade, and Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek on Beyoncé. Indie music, in other words, isn’t really the same thing that it once was. The summer of 2009, and Grizzly Bear, have a lot to do with that.

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Fiona Apple

2LP | 1996 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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According to one strain of folklore surrounding the record, Fiona insisted that the name, Tidal, was taken in part because of its phonetic proximity to the funny emptiness of “Title.” But given the wild power of the thing that had come out her, she must have known this magnetism needed proper naming. What primeval force is more fitting than the tides to preside over such a magnificent airing out of wounds?

Nothing is quite solid on Tidal anyway, and despite the ferocity, it is always a peaceful album, like the lapping of waves. The hypnotizing pull of these highs and lows make Tidal even easier to sink into; it is a record that swells and rages on an instinctual level. It remains one of the most important artistic distillations of female trauma because of the way she harnesses her pain, transforming it into a quiet source of power.

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My Tennessee Mountain Home Fully Assemble Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Musical Massage Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Released when Dolly Parton was 27 years old, the introductory track of My Tennessee Mountain Home finds her reading an old letter she wrote to her parents when she left home to chase a music career in Nashville at age 18. Her dispatch from Music City embodies a familiar feeling, no matter where you come from: going off on your own, only to find you miss all the trappings of home that you never noticed or appreciated.

‘Where I came from, people never dreamed of venturing out. They just lived and died there,’ she told Playboy in 1978. ‘To me, a little kid coming from where I did and having that ambition and sayin’ I wanted to be a star, people would say, “Well, it’s good to daydream, but don’t get carried away.”’

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Leon Ware

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

There's A Riot Goin' On Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Musical Massage is of the body, and beyond the body. Far past merely the physical or the sexual, or even the romantic—the engine of Musical Massage is a spirit, a cohesion, a rhythm, a way of life, and a shared understanding.

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Sly And The Family Stone

Where You Want To Be Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With the ’60s coming to an end, the revolutionary spirit of the times was so ubiquitous that it simply demanded more from its artists. We started to see this shift in rock ’n’ roll (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones) and in jazz (Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock); it was time that pop and soul music followed suit. Marvin Gaye would release the seminal What’s Going On in May 1971, and while What’s Going On was pivotal in allowing Black artists to deliver popular music with a message that spoke to the times, There’s a Riot Goin’ On followed Gaye’s lead, but pushed the boundaries further. Sly Stone challenged what was possible for a Black artist in popular music, both lyrically and sonically.

Sly & The Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On was synonymous with the anxiety felt by all alive at that time — how to navigate this new decade, after all the turmoil experienced in the last one. It’s a bit of a “purple haze,” really. Artistically, Sly managed to harness the confusion that not only he felt, but that most people were feeling then.

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Taking Back Sunday

LP | 2004 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Taking Back Sunday, relationships were war. Those firefights with ex-friends and ex-lovers fueled the fury of Where You Want To Be, the band’s 2004 album. Crowds didn’t sing along to Taking Back Sunday; they screamed along, pointed fingers, and projected every ounce of hormonal angst in their teenage bodies along with the words Lazzara and Mascherino scream-sang. Even after the success of Tell All Your Friends, relationships remained battlegrounds for the band, and Where You Want To Be delivered marching song after marching song.

Rock history is littered with might-have-been’s, one-album wonders, creative differences, and bands that crumbled after one member’s departure. Where You Want To Be is the sound of a band defying the doubters. It’s the sound of being young, making mistakes, and fighting on. Of forgetting differences and chasing a dream. It’s what Lazzara and Mascherino shout together throughout the chorus of “Bonus Mosh Pt. 2”: “It’s love, it’s love, it’s love… make it hurt.”

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Los Campesinos!

LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Picture the scene. It’s 2008. MySpace is still the hip social media of choice and Pitchfork, NME, MTV’s Gonzo, and ATP Festival reign supreme, all spreading the gospel of underground indie, garage pop, and art rock across the world. At the heart of it all, Cardiff-based seven-piece Los Campesinos! have finished university, giddy off the momentum of their debut album, but nervous to fulfill the conditions of their two-album record deal with Wichita Recordings too fast. So what did the plucky youngsters decide to do? They released a 10-track project and packaged it up with a bonus DVD, poster, and fanzine that included contributions from several of their friends and inspirations. Was We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed an album or an EP? Nobody really knew, but whatever it was, it seemed to work.

Nearly 16 years on from its original release, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed remains one of the most beloved albums in LC!’s arsenal — a time capsule of what it meant to be doing things your own way in the very thick of noughties indie rock.

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Joni Mitchell

2LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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By the time Joni Mitchell made The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she had already entered the pantheon of the greats, with albums that can be talked about in casual conversation without having to say the artist (Court and Spark, Blue, Ladies of the Canyon, et al.). But the pioneering work in alt-folk and self-confessional singer-songwriting done, she started pushing her music in radical directions, incorporating jazz, African music (which was hard to actually hear in the States in the ‘70s) and a new, sprawling vision of pop music into her fold. The first moment that all those styles converge and lift Mitchell off into some new vista is The Hissing of Summer Lawns, an album we believe to be her masterpiece, an album that has tendrils of influence that are still being felt today. Remastered by Ryan Smith at 2xLP 45RPM from original tapes, this edition has to be heard to be believed.

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Straight Ahead Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Straight Ahead, featuring saxophonists Oliver Nelson and Eric Dolphy, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for April 2024. It's pressed on 180g black vinyl, with lacquers cut from master tapes (AAA) by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Shabaka

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

For Those In Love Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shabaka says he's done playing saxophone--including in his beloved groups Sons of Kemet, the Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors--and his new solo album bears that out: it's filled with spiritual ruminations delivered on clarinet and flutes, a deeply felt work that is much different in tone than his firebrand sax work. I saw him play Pharoah Sanders' parts of Promises at the Hollywood Bowl in September, and wept for most of the performance; this album feels like a spiritual successor to Shabaka inhabiting the role of spiritual jazz's most revered monk. Featuring contributions from Moses Sumney--who sings his ass off--Brandee Younger, Carlos Nino, Ndudzo Makathini and a show-stopping flute performance by Andre 3000, this is my favorite album of the year so far in a walk. Can't wait for everyone to hear it.
-- Andrew Winistorfer, VMP Senior Director of Music and Editorial

Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive version is pressed on 180g Black vinyl at Furnace Record Pressing. The 2LPs will arrive in double gatefold, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. It was mastered for vinyl by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Dinah Washington

LP | 1955 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Eternity Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1955 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Dubbed the Queen of the Blues and the Queen of the Jukeboxes — titles Dinah Washington used herself — she nevertheless resisted genre orthodoxy, and was clearly resentful whenever she was asked to explain or categorize her vast catalog.
And yet, her omnivorousness has made consolidating her legacy a knottier task than most are willing to take on. Compared to Billie and Ella — inarguably her peers — Washington’s reach was broader, more challenging to sort into canons and best-of lists. Pop and blues and big band singles were recorded and released without an easily traced chronology or progressive narrative. The Queen could do it all, so why wouldn’t she?”

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Alice Coltrane

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Acid Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eternity arrived at a transitional point in Coltrane’s artistic and spiritual journey after she had founded her Vedantic Center in 1975, but before she abandoned secular performance for a quarter-century; after she had somewhat shaken the relentless comparisons to her husband’s work (and those who would use “John Coltrane’s widow” in lieu of her name), but still long before she was universally recognized as a musical luminary. Also importantly, after she released a slew of unexpected pop collaborations and as she signed to a major label pouring money into building a new jazz catalog. Secular, agnostically spiritual, and Vedic songs mingle together, as do a range of different musical textures. In this kind of middle place, Eternity showcases Coltrane’s ambition and range, offering a glimpse at sounds and styles she would rarely revisit.

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Ray Barretto

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ray Barretto’s songs are cinematic. Artfully composed, richly orchestrated, each one feels like something deserving of big-screen wonderment. And, indeed, from Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (''Ritmo Sabroso'') and Oliver Stone’s JFK (''El Watusi'') to Lee Daniels’ Precious (''Teacher of Love'') to Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight (''Cocinando Suave''), his music as a bandleader made it into movies of major importance across the decades. Of course, you don’t need to be a card-carrying cinephile to appreciate the moods and magnitudes expressed by his work, especially his seminal 1968 album Acid for Fania Records.

It takes more than a minute into ‘’Acid'' before Barretto begins showing off on the congas, leading into a nearly three-minute solo marked by fabulous flourishes that culminates with the full band, including pianist Cruz, showing their united might. Elsewhere on Acid, the group would have dutifully jumped headfirst into this mode, but here it is just a spectacular finish to a rhythmic story — Barretto’s story — told like the best film you’ve never seen.

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Nappy Roots

2LP | 2002 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

40,83 €* 45,37 € -10%

Stone Cold Rhymin' Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2002 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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‘’In spite of systemic challenges, there is some glory in Nappy Roots’ humble lot—at least, as they depict it. Anthems like ‘’Country Boyz,'' the down and dirty ‘’Slums,'' and ‘’Kentucky Mud'' show a kind of refreshing solidarity with people who might not have ever heard themselves in hip-hop before. That was the Nappy movement, as its creators saw it: finding the joy and beauty, where one could, in an unfair system instead of trying to cover it up. Taking qualities and status perceived as undesirable—''nappiness,'' rural living, being part of the working poor—and finding within them a sense of community and appeal without masking all the things that make them so awful.

As a new recession hit and the U.S. slid into yet another war, ‘’Po’ Folks'' reached #21 on the Hot 100; their message of humble resilience rang out everywhere. A new dimension of hip-hop had cut into the mainstream, one that was neither preachy nor apocalyptic but simply made in solidarity. As Deville put it, by way of explaining the album’s title, it’s ‘’the refreshment, the soul food—the shit that’s going to stick to you.''''

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Young M.C.

LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

None Shall Pass Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Released on September 5, 1989, Stone Cold Rhymin’ contains 13 songs and zero curse words. The sepia-toned album cover depicts Young in profile, cradling an old broadcast microphone and looking more like a dapper doo-wopper than a hip-hop hero. In terms of playing it straight, the songs are shocking in their innocence. At the 1990 Grammy Awards, “Bust A Move” won for Best Rap Performance. It was clear that hip-hop wasn’t going to back the NY-or-nothing mentality, and New York’s ire was real. Grumpy Village Voice don Robert Christgau deigned to give Stone Cold Rhymin’ a “B+” in his letter-grade consumer guide. “His polysyllables and quick lips aren't as fresh as he thinks they are,” sniffed Christgau. Au contraire: Stone Cold Rhymin’ still sounds fresh after all these years.

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Aesop Rock

2LP | 2007 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Few Good Things Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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By 2007, Aesop Rock was a decade into a career that had firmly established him as one of rap’s unreplicable auteurs, an artist who could be bitten only insofar as he could be understood. And still, when he sat down to write hisfifth full-length album, None Shall Pass, relics of his earliest work kept popping back up: the sorrow and salvation that can each be found in rigid structures, the horror of the ordinary, the tyranny of routine. Over a series of beats constructed in near-total by himself and Blockhead (El-P furnishes one track and co-produces another; Aes’ friend Rob Sonic handles the digital-gothic “Dark Heart News”), None Shall Pass argues for Aes as the chief correspondent of an American decline so smooth that it often felt comfortable.

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Saba

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Capital Punishment Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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“The concept of Few Good Things is the realization of self after a search for exterior fulfillment,” shared Saba on the inspiration behind the album’s title. “It is the satisfaction and completeness you gain by simply living a life that is yours. Few is a small number, but few is not lonely. In the face of all adversity, a few good things is recognizing and accepting blessings. Few is to count them, one by one – an empty glass is full of air, an empty bank is full of lessons, and an empty heart is full of memories. Few good things is to grow comfortable with the empty, and despite that, finding your fullness.”

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Saba's Few Good Things is pressed on Tan vinyl at Precision Record Pressing (PRP). The 2 LPs will arrive in a gatefold, direct-to-board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket.

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Big Pun

Who I Am Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The beats on Capital Punishment, from RZA, Rockwilder, Domingo, and other A-list maestros, are grimy, radio- friendly, yet low-ley cutting-edge, affirming its status as an undisputed classic. Big Pun was as much a visionary — conceptualizing every song — as a consummate pro in the booth. Citing Picasso and Baby Jesus while purporting to “twist your temples into pretzels,” Pun made Minute Rice out of multi-syllables. There’s no way to describe Pun’s febrile liberties with the king’s English. He doesn’t really breathe; when he does, it’s a sharp gasp for air that almost mimics his Ginsu-like wordplay. Pun’s habit of sucking wind before spitting an ill verse mimics the effect of a lit grenade about to land and decimate entire sections of the population. If Pun’s dense rhymes invoke mixed metaphors, that’s likely because he’s an impossible amalgam of wanton wooer and lyrical hitman, an overweight lover with a murderous mouthpiece.

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Alan Jackson

Sweet Revenge Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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John Prine

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Ode To Billie Joe Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For all of its humor and goofiness, Sweet Revenge remains grounded in its observant reverence for humanity in all its contradictory and weird manifestations. The wild and wonderful products of Prine’s active imagination, after all, are just more ways to tell a story. Behind the self-assurance, the rock ’n’ roll attitude and the off-kilter punchlines, there’s still the same songwriter who captured the world with his debut: a poet who could build a world inside of a song, drop you inside of it, turn it upside down and, above all, make you feel like it belongs to you.

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Bobby Gentry

Euphoria Season 2 Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Few artists can say they knocked the Beatles off their pedestal, but Bobbie Gentry is one of them. The Mississippi-born singer-songwriter with the one-of-a-kind voice and similarly singular songwriting perspective scored a No. 1 album with her debut Ode to Billie Joe in 1967, temporarily ousting the Fab Four’s seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band from a weeks-long stint atop the Billboard 200.

Topping the Beatles is a remarkable feat on its own, but especially so for a debut artist who approached music stardom with a skeptical curiosity before suddenly tapping out, and eventually vanishing, while at the top of her game. Ode to Billie Joe itself is both a time capsule of its era — the turbulent and transformative late ’60s — as well as a primer for Gentry’s chameleonic artistry.

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V.A.

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Returning to create the sound of Euphoria Season 2 Official Score From The HBO Original Series, Labrinth creates a haunting portrait to accompany the angst we've come to love from the HBO Original. With chilling layered vocals, several tracks featuring Zendaya, Dominic Fike and Angus Cloud, and driving electronic beats, the world of Euphoria comes to life.

The VMP exclusive edition of Labrinth's Euphoria Season 2 Official Score From The HBO Original Series is pressed on Hazy Dawn vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing (MRP). The 1LP will arrive in a single, tip-on, foil-stamped jacket with Collector's Edition Zendaya art.

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Bright Eyes

Nina Simone Sings The Blues Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning came out in 2005, Conor Oberst’s folky foil to Bright Eyes’ concurrent release, the electronic experiments of Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. It’s distinct placement in an Americana lineage takes center stage, from the detailed, no-holds-barred vulnerability in its storytelling to gripping vocal appearances from Emmylou Harris. For many, it’s looked fondly upon as the well-worn soundtrack to a distinct coming-of-age period, much like the time of exploration Oberst chronicles across the songs on the album, where even the mundane is something worthy of marveling at."

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Nina Simone

LP | 1967 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Tougher Than Leather Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1967 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nina was singular in both her ability and the music she made. She will always be one of the best to ever do it. "Nina Simone Sings the Blues' comes on 180 gram blue vinyl.

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Run DMC

LP | 1988 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Kamaal The Abstract Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The success that Run-D.M.C. enjoyed through its first three albums is impossible to overstate — before the trio from Hollis, Queens, stomped its shell-toe Adidas through the music industry, hip-hop was completely unproven as a commercial force. Just about every ‘’first'' in the genre’s history was accomplished by Run-D.M.C.: It was the first hip-hop act to earn Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum album certifications, the first to have a music video play on MTV, the first to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, the first to nab a Grammy nomination, the first to sign a major endorsement deal.

In a previous edition of liner notes for Tougher Than Leather, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D gave the album its props and shared memories of going on the road with the group after it dropped. He geeks out over the funk and rock samples for the title track as well as the way they cut up their older songs into ‘’Soul To Rock And Roll,'' and claimed ‘’Run’s House'' was ‘’the written theme for all of hip-hop'' in 1988.

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Q-Tip

LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

First Born Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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From the moment Kamaal The Abstract begins, it’s evident that this is Tip at his most free and vulnerable, musically, up until that point. Most songs transform into (and end in) extended jams or have solos sprinkled throughout (or both). Jazz serves as the base, with Tip and his band using its colorful and intricate chord progressions to explore funk, rap, rock, R&B and soul — sometimes all on the same song. The album is an artistic statement that’s just as musically bold as it is conflicted, with a playful Tip at the center of it all, just trying to find freedom through music.

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Eyedea & Abilities

2LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

34,02 €* 45,37 € -25%

Revival Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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First Born is as integral to Minnesota rap as any album from that scene, including work from superstars like Atmosphere. It’s a perfect encapsulation of the city’s sound at a time when it was still being created. In Abilities’ own words, “It really sounds like a Minnesota winter.” While being transported to sub-zero temperatures doesn’t sound particularly appealing as we slog through a quarantined winter, the familiar sounds of First Born are a soothing balm.

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Annahstasia

Bella Donna Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Revival is a folk EP showcasing Annahstasia’s uncompromising vision, recorded live by the artist and her band over a one-week period in a Joshua Tree Airbnb. She sought a DIY recording experience in order to center the ‘’human aspect'' of her music, something she was missing in her previous work — like the less stripped-back collaborative album Sacred Bull she made with Jay Cooper (which led to her opening for Lenny Kravitz throughout Europe in 2019).

‘’Folk as a genre is rooted around the essentials, there’s no fluff, there’s just the expression of your life experience in your standing and the world and your cultural viewpoint,'' Annahstasia said in an interview with VMP. ‘’I’m borrowing aspects from places that I might not even know that are just subconsciously in my space that to me elicit power, strength, this feeling of capability and warmth. All of those things symbolize power to me, so when I’m making my music as a folk artist, my folk music is directionally guided, inspired and motivated by making people and myself feel empowered.''

Each song on Revival, recorded in a single take, is driven by that self-determination and goal of empowerment. As the title implies, it’s a sort of rebirth for the artist, whose name even translates to ‘’resurrection'' in Greek. The result is a stunning and serendipitous project built to stand the test of time.

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Stevie Nicks

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Slime Patrol 2 Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stevie Nicks' debut album is a dual-edged sword wielded by one of the most singular figures in rock and commanding voices in music history. Italian for “beautiful woman,” belladonna is also a plant, and a deadly one at that. The plant gets its name from Renaissance Italy, where women used it to increase their pupil size for a more enchanting appearance, but in witchcraft lore, it’s often cited as the poisonous additive to potions and brews. It’s here—amongst the tales of witches she’d long been fascinated by and the adrenaline-inducing stories of undaunted risk and reward—that we find Nicks entranced by her blossoming solo career, and at her most powerful. She features musical icons like Tom Petty and Waddy Wachtel and seizes collaboration with the best artists of the time. The result is a masterpiece that rings wholly with the generation-transcending sound of a woman centering herself.

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Khadija Al Hanafi

The Best Of Friends Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Her first two projects in the Slime Patrol series showcase her unique vision in blending inspirations from Chicago footwork with jazz/soul/R&B, while capturing an unpredictable energy and mixing it with lo-fi elements and juke fundamentals.

In Slime Patrol, Khadija flexes her holistic production methods, seamlessly fusing disparate styles. For its sequel, Al-Hanafi looks towards genres like Jersey club, jungle, and ghettotech as influences while retaining the muffled intimacy of her past work.

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John Lee Hooker

Corridos De Los Felix Y Los Quintero Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Late in his ‘70s, John Lee Hooker was still out grinding, bringing his blues to whoever would still hear them. By the ‘80s, that meant not a huge audience, but a loyal one. At least until his record label hit upon a winning formula: pairing the original Boogie Chile up with high profile guests who worshiped at the altar of one of the meantest guitar players to ever walk on two feet.

The best of these albums was 1998’s Best of Friends, which boasted guest stars like Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and Santana, among others. It’s never been on vinyl until now, and it’s here on exclusive color vinyl and strictly limited to 750 units.

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Chalino Sanchez

LP | 2002 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Blonde On Blonde Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2002 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Like the words of a hit song, the story of Chalino Sánchez’s life has been repeated over and over again, as well as the theories about who killed him and why; more than 30 years later, fans and reporters still obsessively analyze the clues. Corridos de los Félix y Los Quintero features songs that were not played on the radio, nor were they of commercial interest to any major label during Sánchez’s lifetime. It wasn’t until a decade after his death that they were compiled by the powerhouse Mexican label Musart Records for CD, copies of which are now collector-coveted as well. Here, they appear on vinyl for the very first time.

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Bob Dylan

2LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Here's Little Richard Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Released on June 20, 1966, Blonde on Blonde is the third entry in Bob Dylan’s so-called ‘rock trilogy’ of the mid-1960s. Following half an electric album (Bringing It All Back Home) and a romping raw rocker (Highway 61 Revisited), Dylan renewed the sound he was seeking with number three. But words can’t fully describe the music on this double LP. It’s simultaneously wiry and mercurial, skirting the border of out-of-control – too fresh to pin down with record store bin titles.”

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Little Richard

LP | 1957 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Anthem Of The Sun Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1957 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We call Little Richard “the architect of rock ’n’ roll” largely because of his very first album — the wild, frenetic, and fun Here’s Little Richard, 12 tracks of something no one had ever played before and no one had ever heard before from any recording artist, Black or white. Accompanying his own orgasmic wails and raspy coos by pounding on the piano, he invented an eight-note pattern that we now take for granted as what so much contemporary music sounds like.

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The Grateful Dead

Brown Sugar Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anthem Of The Sun is not a live album. Nor is it a studio album. It is truly a hybrid, unprecedented at the time and never replicated. It is both types of album and was created through genius production techniques, exceptional musicianship and inspiration.

There were two versions of Anthem Of The Sun and also of Aoxomoxoa, the Dead’s 1969 follow-up to Anthem. ... The original mix [of Anthem] was muddier, but to my ears this was part of its draw. It worked well with the live vibe the Dead brought to their second studio album. Now, after over 20 years of listening to both mixes quite equally, I feel they complement one another perfectly. There’s plenty of room in the sonic landscape to hear both mixes and appreciate them both for their subtle, and not-so-subtle, differences.

This new Vinyl Me, Please slab of wax is the original mix and a rare opportunity to hear the 1968 intention mastered from the original analog tape. There’s always a lot to be excited about in the Grateful Dead world, and this is certainly one of those things.

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Freddie Roach

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freddie Roach’s first three albums introduced him to the world, but Brown Sugar showed it who he was. It was the album that Roach made to capture the energy of soul jazz. To somehow take the sounds in the city, in the clubs, and bring them to a record. In his original liner notes, Roach writes that the album is an ode to late nights and loud clubs, to backs damp with sweat, arms wrapped around waists. ‘’Not caring for the moment about troubles or problems,'' he wrote of people dancing, ‘’their bodies quivering under smiles that seemed to promise ‘after the dance.’'' After talking to Alfred Lion, president of Blue Note, they decided that the album needed to be made up of standards — not the standards of the stage or screen, but the standards of the people. ‘’To get the ‘soul,’'' Roach wrote, ‘’I decided to do show soul tunes.''

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Yusef Lateef

Nuff Said! Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef, the multifaceted 1960 album from multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for December 2022. It's here on 180g black audiophile vinyl pressed at RTI, with AAA lacquers...

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Nina Simone

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Word...Life Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180G Brown Marbled Vinyl. 'Nuff Said is Nina Simone's mostly live album recorded a few days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.. Powerful, beautiful, and one of her best albums we're proud to showcase it here in celebration of her 90th birthday.

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O.C.

2LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Food & Liquor Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Word...Life is the debut studio album by O.C., released on October 18, 1994, through Wild Pitch Records. O.C. (Omar Credle), a member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), was highly regarded for his thoughtful and intricate lyricism. Word...Life is considered a classic East Coast hip-hop album, reflecting the 90s boom-bap sound with its jazzy, soul-infused beats and introspective lyrics.

The production on Word...Life was handled by prominent figures in the New York hip-hop scene, including Buckwild and Lord Finesse, both members of the D.I.T.C. collective. The beats feature a mix of jazz samples, soulful loops, and hard-hitting drums, typical of the 90s East Coast sound.
O.C.’s delivery on the album is laid-back yet razor-sharp, and his rhymes are filled with vivid imagery, social commentary, and personal reflections. The album is celebrated for its lyrical depth, with O.C. blending storytelling and wordplay seamlessly throughout.

"Time's Up" – This is O.C.’s most famous track and a standout from the album. The song addresses the fakeness in the rap industry, calling out rappers who portray false images of success and street life. The production, courtesy of Buckwild, is minimal yet powerful, with its heavy bassline and sparse drums giving space for O.C.’s sharp lyrics.
"Born 2 Live" – A reflective and nostalgic track where O.C. looks back on his youth, reminiscing about childhood experiences and the loss of friends. The beat, produced by Buckwild, is soulful and smooth, underscoring the bittersweet tone of the lyrics.
"Word...Life" – The title track is a declaration of O.C.’s philosophy and approach to hip-hop. His rhymes are thoughtful and reflective, addressing real-life struggles, growth, and staying true to one’s self. The beat features a jazzy piano loop, characteristic of the album’s overall production style.
"O-Zone" – A track that showcases O.C.’s lyrical prowess, where he delivers intricate wordplay and multisyllabic rhymes. The beat is more aggressive, with a harder bassline and sharp drum patterns, complementing the confident tone of O.C.’s verses.
"Ga Head" – This track has a more laid-back vibe, with O.C. discussing the realities of life in the streets, success, and staying grounded. The production is smooth, and the track has a reflective quality similar to “Born 2 Live.”

Authenticity in Hip-Hop: A major theme on the album, especially on tracks like "Time's Up", where O.C. critiques rappers who fabricate stories about their street credibility or success.
Reflection and Growth: O.C. often reflects on his life, past experiences, and the journey of growing up in a tough environment. "Born 2 Live" is one of the best examples of this theme, where he revisits childhood memories and the impact of losing friends.
Intellectual and Philosophical Insights: O.C.’s lyrics often touch on deeper, more philosophical ideas about life, the challenges of success, and the importance of staying true to oneself.

Buckwild, Lord Finesse, and O.C. himself contributed to the production on Word...Life. The beats are built around soulful and jazz-infused samples, and the production maintains a gritty, underground feel. The album’s production fits well within the aesthetic of 90s boom-bap hip-hop but is elevated by the thoughtfulness and precision of the samples and drum programming.

Word...Life was praised for its lyrical depth and intellectual approach to hip-hop, standing out in a year when many classic albums were released. Critics and fans alike admired O.C.’s smooth flow and ability to tackle both personal and broader social issues in his rhymes.
The album did not achieve massive commercial success upon release, but it has since been recognized as a cult classic and a staple of 90s underground hip-hop.
"Time’s Up" in particular became a defining moment in O.C.’s career and has been used in various hip-hop compilations and media over the years.

Word...Life has influenced many artists, particularly in the underground and conscious hip-hop scenes, where lyricism and authenticity are highly valued.
O.C. has continued to be an important figure in hip-hop, and his work on Word...Life is seen as a critical contribution to the legacy of East Coast rap, alongside artists like Nas, Big L, and other members of the D.I.T.C. collective.

Word...Life is a cornerstone of 90s underground hip-hop, showcasing O.C.’s lyrical prowess and commitment to authenticity. The album's introspective themes, sophisticated wordplay, and soulful production make it a classic that continues to resonate with fans of conscious and lyrical rap.

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Lupe Fiasco

2LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

43,10 €* 45,37 € -5%

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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There was no other rapper like Lupe Fiasco making this much of a splash in the mainstream in 2006. Here was this bookish kid from the ’hood who could rap circles around Jay-Z and had the gall to pose with trinkets — a Wee Ninja doll, a Nintendo DS, a copy of the Quran, a copy of his first Fahrenheit 1/15 mixtape, a toy robot — on the cover for his debut. He may have been an anachronism in his time, but looking back, it’s easy to see how he laid the groundwork for other high-minded emcees with crossover potential.

There’s moments of brilliance packed into every Lupe Fiasco album, but the equilibrium of Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor has been difficult for him to recreate. To this day, it remains the most potent and well-balanced of Lupe’s work, a case of the corner boy and the scholar living in an otherworldly talented rapper’s brain working in perfect harmony.

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Those Were The Days Vinyl Me, Please Edition

The Taker/Tulsa Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Waylon Jennings

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette & Dolly Parton

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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If there is a single album nexus point between what Waylon’s early career was like, and what his Imperial King of Country era was like, it’s The Taker/Tulsa: The one album from his pre-outlaw period that stands above the rest, a record that would help break an outsider songwriter to the Nashville mainstream, prove Waylon had instincts that couldn’t be taught and was maybe onto something that would
flower into all his commercial success later on.

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Honky Tonk Angels Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1993 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

For My Broken Heart Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1993 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hot on the heels of Waylon, Kris, Johnny and Willie's The Highwaymen supergroup, three of the biggest names in vintage country, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette, joined up in the early 90s for an album. Named after a Kitty Wells song, Honky Tonk Angels captures all 3 performers playing off each other, clearly having a blast in the studio. It's making its US vinyl debut with VMP.

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette's Honky Tonk Angels is pressed on 180g Blue & Pink vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing (MRP). The 1LP will arrive in a single, reverse board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket.

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Reba Mcentire

Dawn Richard And Spencer Zahn

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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These are stories without redemption, without a cheerful twist or upbeat perspective. If country music so often pulls from the blues’ signature blend of pathos and humor, For My Broken Heart doesn’t shy from expressing heartfelt, deep sadness without an easy antidote. It’s most potent on the album’s closer, ‘’If I Had Only Known'' — a song so gutting McEntire has rarely performed it live. In the studio, she could barely get through it. The understandable emotion in her usually strong, unwavering voice is audible throughout; there are shakes that don’t sound intentional, words that trail off instead of being hit with her typical punch. It is a song seemingly written for the occasion, one that might have sounded maudlin without the simple arrangement and the raw emotion that Reba put into it.

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Pigments Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

OST Jules Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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This debut collaboration between Dawn Richard and producer Spencer Zahn is, as Richard describes, ‘’what it means to be a dreamer and finally reach a place where you’ve decided to love the pigments that you have.'' As Richard’s lyrics outline this emotional journey, the rest of the narrative is told by the instruments that ebb and flow around her tender introspections. Pigments strives to be a deeply empathetic and compassionate project that brings with it both reflection and connection.

Limited to 500 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn's Pigments is pressed on Bone & Baby Blue Splatter vinyl at Precision Record Pressing (PRP). The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket with a download code. It was mastered by Shawn Hatfield at AudibleOddities.

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Volker Bertelmann

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

30,85 €* 36,29 € -15%

Hideous Bastard Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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The original score by Academy Award winner Volker Bertelmann that is the soundtrack to Jules, starring Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List), Harriet Sansom Harris (Licorice Pizza, “Hacks”), Jane Curtin (Coneheads, I Love You, Man) and Jade Quon (Transformers: The Last Knight, The Hunger Games) is set for release by ABKCO Records. Written by Gavin Steckler (“Review”, “Playing House”), Jules made its world premiere at the Sonoma International Film Festival where it was the opening night film, and won the Stolman Audience Award for Best Feature. The film is produced by Michael B. Clark, Andy Daly, Deborah Liebling and Alex Turtletaub alongside Marc Turtletaub.

Produced and directed by Marc Turtletaub (Puzzle, The Farewell, Little Miss Sunshine), Jules, a Bleecker Street release of a Big Beach production, was filmed in Morris County, NJ and follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town. His day is upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.”

Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly inventive ride as the three neighbors find meaning and connection later in life – thanks to this unlikely stranger.

The film’s score is the work of composer/pianist Volker Bertelmann who was a 2017 Academy Award nominee for his score to Lion. Last year he received both an Academy Award and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for his score for All Quiet on the Western Front. The Budapest Art Orchestra performs Bertelmann’s music for the Jules score. Recording under the name Hauschka, Bertelmann is a prolific artist in his own right and, beyond soundtracks, has released 20 full length albums of original music to date. The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan wrote, “In the end, Jules performs a magical, if tiny, bait-and-switch: It’s less a sci-fi parable — “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” for the AARP demographic — than a fairy tale reminding us that the tribulations of getting old are more natural than sad, and best done in the company of loved ones.”

The VMP exclusive version of Jules (Original Score) is pressed on 180g Honey Crisp vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board jacket with an 8x10 insert and art by Sara Deck. It was mastered by Carl Rowatti at Trutone Mastering Labs.

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Oliver Sim

29,03 €* 36,29 € -20%

Queen Of Latin Soul / Reina De La Cancion Latina Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The xx's songwriter, bassist and vocalist Oliver Sim makes his solo debut with the album Hideous Bastard, produced by fellow bandmate Jamie xx. Written and recorded over the span of two years, Hideous Bastard explores Sim's love of horror films and his own experiences throughout life, undertaking topics such as shame, fear and masculinity.

He shared in a press release about the album, ‘’I haven’t written the record to dwell, but rather to free myself of some of the shame and fear that I’ve felt for a long time. So, I hear a lot of the music as joyous, because the experience of writing and recording it has been the complete opposite of what fear and shame have been for me.''

Limited to 1,000 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Oliver Sim's Hideous Bastard is pressed on 1LP Opaque Orange vinyl at Optimal Media Production. The album will arrive in a single direct-to-board, foil stamped and numbered jacket. The record is mastered by John Davis of Metropolis Studios.

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La Lupe

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Comedia Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There is something raw and disruptive about La Lupe and her modalities of performance, something that far exceeds tropes of so-called hysteria and all the gendered and racial scripts that come along with it. Uncontrolled expression opens up new routes; it presses against obligatory composure.

The boleros, boogaloos and salsas of Reina de la Canción Latina contain lessons about love, about a willingness to stay alive, about what it means to push against the confines. Reina de la Canción Latina asks us to listen to La Lupe outside of a binary mode — to look a little deeper, to find her personhood and to search for flashes of freedom wherever we can.

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Hector Lavoe

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

It Was A Home Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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To multiple generations of fans, [Héctor] Lavoe would become the greatest salsa vocalist of all time, a barrio poet who spoke to the kids on the street while honoring a legacy of musical traditions. Posthumously, he’d be enshrined as a popular hero throughout Latin America.

Lavoe’s third solo album, Comedia, topped Billboard’s Latin Albums chart after its release in 1978, with “El Cantante” appearing on salsa singles charts. The track remains inseparable from the story of the singer’s intense, musically influential and too-short life. He will be forever known as “El Cantante de los Cantantes” – “The Singer of Singers.”

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KAINA

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Gently Powerful, Live (As If It Were Forever) Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Find your own home in KAINA's voice. The R&B Chicago-based singer's sophomore album, It Was A Home uncovers her evolving artistic direction and her sense of self. The album includes features from artists like Helado Negro, Sleater-Kinney and Sen Morimoto (who also produced the album).

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Anna Wise

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Rejuvenation Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded inside a geodome at upstate New York's The Outlier Inn, Gently Powerful is a live reimagining of Anna Wise's debut solo LP, As If It Were Forever (and includes one track, ‘’Balance In All'' from Wise's earlier release, The Feminine: Act II). Almost exactly one year to the date of its release, Wise and some of her closest collaborators safely gathered to celebrate As If It Were Forever with these intimate live recordings.

All tracks on Gently Powerful feature performances by Anna Wise (vocals, loops), Jon Bap (drums, vocals, samples, guitar), Joy Morales (keys, synthesizer, vocals) and Juuwah (bass), recorded and mixed by Steve Vealey, and mastered by Kevin Moo. The arrangements heard on these recordings were originally conceptualized as part of Re/Birth, Wise’s February 2020 residency in Los Angeles produced in partnership with Gxrlschool.

Wise first gained recognition with her band, Sonnymoon, and through collaborations with Kendrick Lamar. Wise won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance for her collaboration on Lamar's ‘’These Walls,'' and she has appeared on each of his projects since good kid, m.A.A.d. city. In 2016, Wise independently released The Feminine: Act I, her first solo EP, and followed it up in 2017 with The Feminine: Act II. The studio version of As If It Were Forever saw a return to collaboration, featuring Little Simz, Jon Bap, Nick Hakim, Denzel Curry, Pink Siifu and more. Recently, Wise has also collaborated on records from Durand Bernarr, Mndsgn and L'Rain.

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The Meters

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Delusions Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Anchored by seamless jam sessions and syncopated grooves, which Neville would call ‘tight, sparse and funky as the fuckin’ devil,’ The Meters evolved from unfussy, mostly instrumental tracks to full-throated, expansive funk that reached an apex on their fifth album, Rejuvenation, in 1974. With deep-fried grooves, astounding musicianship and a reverence for their history both in New Orleans and in Africa, this album has only felt more vital with age. While it didn’t sell as many copies as the record deserved at the time, it’s a product of these band members’ years of hard work gigging in sweaty night clubs, backing up other artists as session players and persevering through a thankless industry. Above all, it’s a testament to New Orleans.”

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First Choice

...Into A Real Thing Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Choice was an all-women soul-disco trio from Philadelphia. Known for dancefloor-ready classics such as "Smarty Pants," "The Player," and "Armed and Extremely Dangerous," the group saw their biggest hits during the disco boom of the late 1970s. Formed at the beginning of the decade by she Rochelle Fleming, Annete Guest, and Wardell Piper, the trio quickly became a mainstay of Philadelphia labels Philly Groove Records and eventually , Gold Mind Records (distributed by Salsoul Records).
Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of First Choice's Delusions is pressed on 180g Clear vinyl at Precision Record Pressing (PRP). The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. It was digitally remastered by Philip Shaw Bova.

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David Porter

OST Beyond Blue Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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…Into a Real Thing is the first record David Porter produced by himself, and it sounds like an important checkpoint in the invention of progressive R&B as a genre, an album that bent the space-time continuum around R&B and willed it into something new altogether. It’s in conversation with Isaac Hayes’ own output of the era — Hot Buttered Soul especially — but where Hayes blew up the R&B form by throwing a bomb into it, helping create funk in the process, Porter worked more firmly in R&B’s space to build something new from within. …Into a Real Thing is a six-song powerhouse that manages to cram an 11-minute cover of a garage rock hit by the guy who’d later write Hulk Hogan’s entrance song alongside gut-bucket ballads with intricate string arrangements, and metaphorical tracks that compare grocery delivery to lovemaking. Its 33 minutes feel more like a fever dream than most other collections of 33 minutes.

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V.A.

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

30,85 €* 36,29 € -15%

Willie Nelson And Family Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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The Flaming Lips, The Marías, TOKiMONSTA, Cass McCombs, Maisey Rika, award-winning composer Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, and newcomer Sophie Gibson, are among 14 artists featured on the original soundtrack to E-Line Media’s Beyond Blue, an exciting new science-driven, ocean adventure game inspired by the BBC’s critically-acclaimed, award-winning documentary series Blue Planet II.

With an eclectic mix of psychedelic indie-pop, electronic, alt rock, and world music by established artists and indie darlings, the soundtrack also includes songs by Muthoni Drummer Queen, LIPS, doubleVee, Slow Skies, Rachelle Eve, The Edisons, Vanderocker, Sophie Gibson and Amitė. The Rachtmans curated the soundtrack to complement the unique narrative and environment of the game, where players are explorers experiencing the awesome wonder, mysteries, and creatures under the sea.

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Willie Nelson

Phases And Stages Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sound-wise, 1971’s Willie Nelson & Family is no different than the 11 studio albums that precede it: They are awash in the Countrypolitan sound, with strings, horns and backing singers. But the version of ‘’Sunday Mornin,'' complete with its guitar solo — one of the first on Nelson’s legendary Trigger guitar — feels like the first act of defiance and a statement of intent. ‘’If Kris Kristofferson can do this, I can do it too,'' Nelson seemed to be saying. Within 18 months, he’d be in New York making Shotgun Willie, free to follow his muse wherever he went, cementing Kristofferson’s outlaw country jumpoff point. And that’s why Willie Nelson & Family is such an interesting artifact: It’s the last album Willie made in his ‘’Before'' timeline; it’s the point where he started putting it all together and asserting his creative ideas in tangible ways.

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Willie Nelson

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Honky Tonk Heroes Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Willie Nelson wants it known, despite being divorced twice and married thrice before writing the album — including one that was spurred by his second wife finding a maternity ward bill from his eventual third — that Phases and Stages is and was not autobiographical. “The overall theme was not a reflection of my own life,” he said in his 2015 biography It’s A Long Story: My Life. “I was simply making up a story. Sure, I’d gone through breakups and heartaches of my own. What human soul hasn’t?” But when you make an album like Phases and Stages, the most devastating, humanistic divorce record of all time — and be beaten by an ex-wife after she sews you into your sheets — people begin to believe the album is about you and your ex-wives.

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Waylon Jennings

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)