Rock & Indie Vinyl 1984 Items

LP | 1986 | US | Reissue (Goner)

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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As anyone who worked in a record store from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s can relate, the two Shimmy Disc albums released by the Rev. Fred Lane were the weirdest, most bizarre, abstractly enigmatic releases any of them had ever heard. From the dadaist titles and surrealist cover artwork to the absurdly peculiar lyrics and dementedly brilliant musical bent that careened from country to jazz to Morricone-inspired Western soundtracks, From The One That Cut You and Car Radio Jerome bewitched listeners with Lane’s eccentric take on music and, by extension, life in general. Early internet chat rooms and message boards were devoted to solving the mystery. For decades, rumors swirled about them. “We would just stare at the album covers and kinda make up our own stories,” Eric Friedl of Goner Records says of the misleading recording notations, fictitious back catalogs, and vague artistic allusions that dropped mostly fake clues for Lane’s most astute fans to decipher. Then, in 2013, Lane himself surfaced at the University of Alabama for an exposition. Seven years later, Icepick To The Moon, a documentary about Lane by filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk, premiered. The film, which took more than twenty years to piece together, filled in most of the blanks that had stumped generations of fans. Learning the details of Lane’s albums doesn’t change their inscrutability. The alternate Alabama universe that Lane and his compatriots conjured up—in, of all places, the southern college football town of Tuscaloosa—is a metaphysical place as vast and imbued with meaning as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. As Friedl raves, “They’re still different from any other record out there.”

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Fred Lane

Car Radio Jerome

Its Hard 40th Anniversary Record Store Day 2022 Orange & Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The Who

2LP | 1982 | Reissue (Polydor)

35,99 €*

High N Dry Record Store Day 2022 Picture Disc Vinyl Edition

Release: 1982 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 6000 copies.

It’s Hard celebrates its 40th anniversary with a 2-lp expanded vinyl version, Disc One a ½Speed master (OrangeVinyl) contains a re-mastered version of the album while Disc Two (Yellow Vinyl) continues the rest of the album but also has a disc of rare and unreleased material. The set, with art by Richard Evans, comes with a poster from the era.

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Def Leppard

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Mercury)

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Virgin)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 6000 copies.

High and Dry, Def Leppard’s second album was released in 1981, and was the first produced by long term collaborator Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange, it was the album that cemented the bands status in both the UK and America.This version is presented for the first time as a picture disc

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Van Der Graaf Generator

Godbluff

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

Ravi Shankar

Shankar Family & Friends

49,99 €*

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Long Run 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set

Eagles

LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

160,99 €*

Anna Oxa Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES, PRESSED AT RTI ON MOFI SUPERVINYL, AND LIMITED TO 10,000 NUMBERED COPIES
1/4" / 15 IPS analogue master to DSD 256 to analogue console to lathe

Originally intended as a clever poke at the era's trends that critics maintained were making the band irrelevant, the title of and music on The Long Run continue to prove the Eagles got the last laugh. Created in the wake of the group's demanding tour for the blockbuster Hotel California, the 1979 record ultimately became the final record the Eagles would create for nearly three decades. Stacked with first-rate material and three mammoth singles, the seven-times-platinum effort ensured the Eagles never drifted far from the public's consciousness.

Mastered from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and limited to 10,000 copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP vinyl box set presents The Long Run in unparalleled sound. Akin to the audiophile label's prior Eagles UD1S sets, this collectible edition plays with extreme clarity, organic richness, tube-like warmth, spectacular dynamics, and microscopic levels of detail. Songs come across with an epic sweep and feature front-to-back soundstages that give the music unprecedented air, roominess, and separation.

As for the noise floor? Practically non-existent. Though the Eagles are renowned for great-sounding albums, The Long Run might be the most note-perfect work in their catalogue – the result of more than 18 months of painstaking recording sessions. This UD1S version demonstrates why. The placement of the rounded bass lines, extension of the piano accents, and golden tones of the blended harmonies are constantly identifiable and practically take you inside the arrangements.

Complementing the gorgeous sonics, the premium packaging of the UD1S The Long Run pressing befits its esteemed status. The deluxe box features foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendour of the recording. This UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artefact meant to be preserved, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, including the artwork.

Intentionally simple, the cover is designed by John Kosh, who devised the art for the Beatles' Abbey Road and The Who's Who's Next. The stark black-and-gray colour palette speaks to the exhaustion the band was feeling at the time – as well as the malaise conveyed in several songs. Kosh's creation also can be seen to reflect a gravestone, and though the Eagles would fall dormant for more than two decades, the tombstone interpretation is line with the tongue-in-cheek nature of the album title: The Eagles would return and outlast a majority of their lesser contemporaries and joyless critics.

"Who is gonna make it?/We'll find out in the long run," posits Don Henley on the album's opening track, an R&B-fuelled classic that reached No. 8 on the charts. Henley later addressed the irony of the lyrics; his group was in the process of breaking apart when he wrote it. Yet the singer-songwriter and colleague Glenn Frey clearly knew something others failed to recognize. Related themes of survival, resilience, and dark humour course throughout The Long Run, which also marks the arrival of bassist Timothy B. Schmit. His lead vocal anchors the No. 8 hit "I Can't Tell You Why," a staple he co-wrote with Henley and Frey.

That dynamic duo has a hand in all but one of the songs, "In the City," Joe Walsh's slide-guitar-appointed ode to endurance. Walsh also shares a writing credit on the closing "The Sad Cafe," a melodramatic favourite whose lineage extends to another of the band's long-time collaborators, J.D. Souther. He, along with Frey and Henley, teamed with Detroit legend Bob Seger on penning the record's signature anthem: the Grammy-winning "Heartache Tonight." Fuelled by rhythmic handclaps, a romping groove, and the band's trademark California-bred country-rock style, the chart-topper comfortably sits alongside deep cuts such as the winking shuffle "The Disco Strangler" and cinematic "King of Hollywood."

The challenges and pressures associated with making The Long Run after dealing with the unimaginable success of Hotel California ended up grounding the Eagles. Yet the album's enduring merit, performances, and melodies confirmed Henley and Frey's beliefs. The Eagles are still thriving. They made it. The long run continues.

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Anna Oxa

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (RCA)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You Know What They'll Say

Spliffs

7" | 1986 | EU | Reissue (One Way Ticket)

Suite Nihonkai Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1980’s Australia were a blistering inferno of totally great powerpop, garage- and punkrock bands. Hoodoo Gurus, Stems and Lime Spiders were on top of their game and labels like Waterfront and Citadel put out albums and 45’s that any serious music aficionado would die for.

The Spliffs formed in Townsville, a small city on the northeastern coast of Queensland in Australia. In 1986 they unleashed their debut 45. Recorded all by themselves and released DIY style they got some rave reviews and got to play Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane opening for The Saints and Hoodoo Gurus. Their debut single is fab jangly 80’s powerpop right up there with Plimsouls or The Nerves.

Housed in a deluxe picture sleeve that comes with a printed inner sleeve filled with many rare and previously unpublished photos plus an interview with Spliffs main man and guitar-slinger Jamie Forsberg conducted by power pop guru Ric Menck. Orange color vinyl.

File under: ”beyond essential to any serious rock’n’roll, powerpop, garage and punk fan”.

Sweden’s One Way Ticket Records is a sister label to On The Dole Records who gave you “Jobcentre Rejects” (and more) and to Sweet Mental Revenge Records who gave you Rodger Wilhoit. OWT is also a sub-division of Stora Skivmässan – Scandinavia’s biggest record fairs

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Chisato Yamada

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

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LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Tapete)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Limited edtion of 200 copies on transparent red vinyl.

From the meeting of the legendary Tsugaru Jamisen Maestro Chisato Yamada with volcanic mind of the composer Tasheshi Terauchi and his Oriental Fantastic Orchestra, a collaboration and a unique record, a conceptual work, is born in which innovative songs transcend the boundaries of traditional music by mixing modernity, rural and electronic atmospheres, local arias and contemporary music.
A record with strongly evocative and cinematic sounds.
Comes with OBI and a two-panel fold out sheet with original liner notes of the time translated in English that explains in an exhaustive way the inspirations from tradition and popular music and the very accurate digital recording techniques of the time that make it a record sought after by audiophiles looking for sounds unedited in the Western tradition.

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Carambolage

Eilzustellung-Exprès

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Repertoire Entertainment Gmbh)

Frijid Pink

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eat A Peach Colored Vinyl Edition

The Allman Brothers Band

2LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Lovers)

34,99 €*

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Kosmische Kuriere)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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reissue with original insert on 180g vinyl plus three bonus tracks

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Cosmic Jokers

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Campo Di Marte Clear Vinyl Ediition

Campo Di Marte

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

LP | 1988 | UK | Reissue (Neon)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Campo di Marte self-titled album is considered to be one of the best italian progressive records of the Seventies. This Italian prog classic is now available from AMS Records in a new limited deluxe LP reissue on 180gr. crystal vinyl.

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Television

Double Exposure

Release: 1988 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Dialogo)

Piero Umiliani

Continente Nero

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Audio Platter)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Released in 1975, “Continente Nero” is the perfect flip side of “Africa” (1972), an album that significantly expanded Piero Umiliani’s music perspectives, incorporating partially explored rhythmic variations already used in “Percussioni ed Effetti Speciali” and “To-Day’s Sound”. It does so by taking inspiration from a tradition that starts from the divine Fela Kuti and reaches the amateur and field recordings by musicologists such as David Toop, but also from the Afro-American jazz history of Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Max Roach and hundreds of others.

Continente Nero (1975) Released via the Omicron label in 1975, three years after Africa, Continente Nero is the perfect flip side of an album that significantly expanded Piero Umiliani’s music perspectives, incorporating partially explored rhythmic variations already used in records such as Percussioni ed Effetti Speciali and To-Day’s Sound or experimenting new solutions that drew from a musical heritage little known at the time such as the African one. Without bothering with the usual alias M. Zalla, Umiliani reveal his birth name and surname for a second foray into a territory that pays homage to an entire continent. And it does so by taking inspiration not only from a tradition that starts from the divine Fela Kuti and reaches the amateur and field recordings by musicologists such as David Toop, invaluable documents of an artistic heritage still today almost impossible to map in its complexity, but also from the Afro-American jazz history by Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Max Roach and hundreds of others. It sounds clear in tracks such as Nuovi Fermenti, Rivoluzionari, Riscossa or Ultimo Stregone that show Umiliani’s extraordinary ability to grab a distant tradition essential traits and put them effortlessly into a personal imaginary world, as much exciting as the original one.

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Dead Kennedys

In God We Trust

Vietato Ai Minori Di 18 Anni Clear Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dead Kennedy's 'In God We Trust' Available Again On Vinylin God We Trust Is A Hardcore Punk Ep By The Dead Kennedys And The First Of The Group's Albums With Drummer D.H. Peligro. The Record Is A Screed Against Things Ranging From Organised Religion And Neo-Nazis, To The Pesticide Kepone And Government Indifference That Worsened The Effects Of Minamata Disease Catastrophes. In God We Trust, Inc. Is Also The First Dead Kennedys Album Released After The Presidential Election Of Ronald Reagan And Features The Band's First References To Reagan, For Which They_and Hardcore Punk As A Genre_would Become Notorious.

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Jumbo

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Magic)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Michael Franks

The Art Of Tea

33,99 €*

Gorilla Biscuits Turquoise Vinyl Edition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Michael Franks is a master of words. Not only did he study American Literature, he is also a song writer and a composer of film music, which he demonstrates in his début album with a major label, where music and language are on a par. Originally a jazz musician, Franks reached out to pop and rock fans with "The Art Of Tea". Sensually inspiring and playful numbers such as "Popsicle Toes" and "Eggplant" are full of crafty wordplay and almost Henry Mancini-like, airy jazz-pop. With a similar approach as Steely Dan, Franks’ singing and songwriting creates the basis for a sound that is founded on the support of top-notch musicians, many of whom are among the finest studio jazz musicians on the scene. The allstars line-up blazes with names such as Dave Sanborn and Michael Brecker on the saxophone. Guitar guru 'Mr. 335' Larry Carlton on the semi-acoustic guitar, Joe Sample at the keyboard, along with Wilton Felder on the bass contribute their Crusaders touch to the recording. Responsible for this impressively meticulous recording is, a.o. chief recording engineer Bruce Botnick, who also expertly taped the Doors and Beach Boys. The present production occupies the highest status in Franks’ discography, and has seldom been surpassed.

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under www.pure-analogue.com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

Recording: May and June 1975 at Capitol Recording Studios, Los Angeles, by Al Schmitt, Bruce Botnick and Lee Hershberg Production: Tommy LiPuma

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Gorilla Biscuits

7" | 1988 | US | Reissue (Revelation)

13,99 €*

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Apollon)

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gorilla Biscuits’ first classic record by one of the most influential bands from the New York straight edge hardcore scene. Features Anthony Civarelli (civ) on vocals and Walter Walter Schreifels (quicksand, CIV, Rival Schools) on guitar.

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De Press

Product

Isn't Anything Deluxe Edition

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Product of the ‘80s “Product” (1982) was the sequel to “Block To Block”, the breakthrough album by DE Press (Andrej Nebb, Ola Snortheim and Jørn Christensen). Like its predecessor, “Product” was produced by John Leckie and De Press. Both albums are now being re-released by Apollon Records on vinyl and CD. What is it about these two records? They still sound like nothing else from the Norwegian music scene. Both albums were on par with anything from the wider world, and this in a time were international New Wave and Post Punk classics were being released on an almost weekly basis. They encapsulate the sound of an entire era and may mirror the contemporary zeitgeist of its time so brilliantly that we still see ourselves in them. If its predecessor was the party before the proverbial bomb goes off, their sophomore album was the sound of the seconds leading up to the explosion. It sounds exciting and full of vitality—and fascinatingly dangerous. Like a Polish-Norwegian Joy Division from the underground of some forsaken city. Just listen to the intensity of songs like “The Fatal Day”, “Passages”, “In A Crowded Room”, and the title cut.

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my bloody valentine

LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Domino)

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blizzard Of Ozz Colored Vinyl Edition

Ozzy Osbourne

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Skull Black Vinyl Edition

Trouble

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Hammerheart)

Paul Di'anno's Battlezone

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trouble’s second album “The Skull” from 1985 is a cornerstone of Doom Metal.

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Fighting Back Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Back On Black)

17,99 €*

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Rhino)

Dire Straits

Love Over Gold

32,99 €*

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1981 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Phew

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Release: 1981 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Undoubtedly this album is one of the important discs of Japanese new wave and German krautrock history. "Phew" is Japanese female vocalist who is well known as a member of legendary punk band "Aunt Sally". She has been active in a wide range of projects and collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Seiichi Yamamoto, DAF, and Neubauten etc. This was originally released in 1981 as her solo debut album, made in legendary Conny's Studio with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit from CAN. Not only highly demanded by vinyl collectors worldwide, but also this album is outstanding in the dimension of the music. By Plank's engineering, their never fading sound-making is still innovative and no one can stand next. Now we present it as reissued LP with OBI, you can listen to the monumental work of her career in vinyl after more than 30 years since the last time it was reissued for the first time.

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Die Ärzte

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stone Roses Clear Vinyl Edition

The Stone Roses

LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (BMG/Sanctuary)

Black Sabbath

Sabotage

25,99 €*

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 1983 | JP | Reissue (EM)

Kiyoaki Iwamoto

Sougi +

Black Merda Clear Beer Vinyl Edition

Release: 1983 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Forty years ago this summer, Joy Division released what became their only chart hit, Love Will Tear Us Apart.

December 1982, Tokyo. Kiyoaki Iwamoto has a guitar, a simple rhythm box, a friend with a bass guitar, and some stripped-down songs, brazen in their post-punk simplicity, irritation and controlled aggression, yet full of sadness and resignation. Five songs, including a rearranged version of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” are recorded and released on a now extremely rare 7” record. This release, available on 10” vinyl or CD, features those five songs, along with a previously unreleased 1980 live performance by his duo Birei, as well as a 2020 reworking of “Love ...” , by the Japanese duo Chisato and Junta. Iwamoto was an enigma, active in the post-punk scene in Japan in the late 70s and early 80s, a member of Birei and founding member of Guys & Dolls with Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz); in the mid-80s he cut contact with his friends, disavowing his name and later performing under a different moniker. Liner notes written by Koki Emura, with English text & lyrics.

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Black Merda

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Lilith)

2LP | 1981 | DE | Reissue (David Volksmund)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hailing from late-'60s Detroit, Black Merda (pronounced "Murder") were both aesthetically and musically way ahead of their time. When most black groups (including Parliament/ Funkadelic) were still sporting suits, singing about love and using a horn section, Black Merda had already become a tight guitar-heavy freak-funk four piece. By weaving guitar rock and psychedelia into soul and R&B they were the gods of the underground "black rock" movement which fell somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Parliament and MC5. But it wasn't just about the music, the message was just as important.

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Ton Steine Scherben

25,99 €*

Release: 1981 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Psalm 9 Grey Vinyl Edition

Trouble

LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Hammerheart)

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trouble’s classic debut album from 1984 with faithfully restored audio represents everything that Doom Metal should be.

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Bob Dylan

Saved

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Bob Dylan

Desire

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Love Will Tear Us Apart Remastered Edition 2020

Joy Division

12" | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Warner Bros.)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Zuma

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emotional Rescue Half Speed Remastered Edition

The Rolling Stones

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1977 | CA | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Morse Code

Je Suis Le Temps

Release: 1977 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Metal Blade)

Cannibal Corpse

The Wretched Spawn

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

Def Leppard

On Through The Night

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Warren Zevon

Stand In The Fire

33,99 €*

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Warren Zevon had toured for quite some time as a songwriter in the rock scene, released a few singles and landed a flop with his debut LP in 1969 before the tide finally turned. Roughly ten years later, his live album – put together from a five-day residency at the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood – entered the annals of vinyl history as one of the best live albums of all time and was awarded four stars by the magazine Rolling Stone. Ambiguously entitled by the comprehensively educated Zevon, who had been confronted with the tough side of show business, "Stand In The Fire" delivers genial simple pure and straightforward rock right from the start, which hit the public with a vengeance. Full of vim and elation, the band pours out the significant, biting verses with fire ("Jeannie Needs A Shooter") and fuels the emotional inferno with high-speed bursts of rock ("Excitable Boy"). Zevon proves his skills as a singer and songwriter in the ballad-like yet powerful "Mohammed’s Radio". In a direct comparison to this number we have the forthright, no-nonsense hit "Werewolves Of London" with its close harmonies. Just how Zevon manages to succeed in getting his delicate voice and lyrics over to the public is shown in the powerful mix of heavy and honky-tonk ("I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead") and finally in the thunderous final number – "Bo Didley’s A Gunslinger" – with its percussive and metrically complicated antiphony.

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under www.pure-analogue.com.
All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

Recording: August 1980 live at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, CA., by Billy Youdelman and Greg Ladanyi
Production: Greg Ladanyi & Warren Zevon

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Toto

33,99 €*

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anyone who gives the dull name “Four” to their rock album must either be very sure of success or already have resigned. The group Toto may well have experienced such extremes as there was an enormous cleft between their amazing financial success and the crushing negative opinions voiced by the critics. Billboard criticised the superficial lyrics as being void of any sort of emotional weight while the Los Angeles Times aimed their fire at the musicians themselves, slamming them as dubious artists with a commercialised mentality.
To this Toto struck back with their fourth album, which was an unparalleled success and brought them six Grammy awards. For a whole ten months "Africa" reigned at Number 1 on the charts and together with the super-hit "Rosanna" the two smash hits were a constant presence, backed up by a collection of impressive rock classics. A trip to the record shop is all that is needed to prove that this is unlikely to change in the near future. The bright red cover with its depiction of a sword will catch your eye, as though saying: It’s got to be the Fourth!

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under www.pure-analogue.com.
All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

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I Love Rock N Roll

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Sony Legacy)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

Dolly Parton

Jolene

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Dark Entries)

Zru Vogue

25,99 €*

The Gospel According To Zeus

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Zru Vogue is a two man post punk avant-pop group from Palo Alto, California, combining the talents of Andrew Finkle and Rick Cuevas. The band began in 1980 as a four member group: Rick, Andy, Tom Sanders and Nancy Miller. Tom and Nancy left the group shortly after the first single, "Nakweda Dream", was released by independent San Francisco label Adolescent Records in February 1981. Inspired by rave reviews and heavy airplay on alternative radio stations, Andy and Rick went back into the studio, now as a duo, to record some new ZRU tracks. The self-tilted LP was released on the band's Zero Risk Records in 1982. It contains eight compositions blending African tribal and Middle Eastern rhythms, avant-garde rock, minimal electronics, and funk-rock guitars. The duo's sound is inspired by the art and anti-art movements of Dada and Surrealism. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. Each copy is housed in a replica of the original jacket, which features artwork by the group members, and includes the original 2-sided lyric sheet.

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Power Of Zeus

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Teen Babes From Monsanto Limited Peak Edition

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* Record Store Day Europe / UK 2019 Exclusive Release!
* Transferred from 2 x 1/4"" analog reels at 192kHz/24-bit.
* Half-speed cut at Abbey Road Studios.
* One of the most sampled breaks in hip hop history - including KRS-One, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Cyprus Hill, Tribe Called Quest and Eminem to name a few.
* 180gm vinyl

Seminal funk-rock album originally released on Rare Earth in 1970. Featuring the monster breakbeat on 'The Sorcerer Of Isis’.

Formed in Detroit in 1968, Power of Zeus became the first rock band to be signed by Motown subsidiary label, Rare Earth. The group drew inspiration from British hard rock and heavy metal giants like Cream, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin when they created this well-produced, seminal post-hard rock album. After ‘The Gospel According to Zeus’, the group never made another album and the band slipped into obscurity, until it was discovered by the hip hop diggers. The drum beat from "Sorcerer of Isis" has been one of the most sampled in hip-hop music, including KRS-One, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Cyprus Hill, Tribe Called Quest and Eminem to name a few.

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Redd Kross

LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Merge)

19,99 €*

2LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Translucent Pink Vinyl! A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this! Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song Version Especial of Redd Kross' Teen Babes from Monsanto - all art, no filler, direct from the source, pure from the tap - reissued by Merge Records. The album features specially designed packaging that allows you to choose between two different front covers with just a flip of the wrist! Experience vintage teenaged Redd Kross as presented by Monsanto: 100% genuine, chemically inspired brilliance fueled by processed junk food.

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Metallica

And Justice For All

42,99 €*

LP | 1986 | DE | Reissue (Atlantic)

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Remastered 180g Vinyl

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Genesis

Invisible Touch

32,99 €*

Release: 1986 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nighthawks At The Diner Remastered Edition

Tom Waits

2LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Anti)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Europe

The Final Countdown

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Anti)

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Final Countdown is the third studio album by the Swedish hard rock band Europe, and one of the most glorious launches in history. Released in 1986, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 3 million units in the United States alone, peaking at number 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and reaching high positions in charts worldwide.

Pressed on 180g Vinyl

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Tom Waits

Heart Of Saturday Night

34,99 €*

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The 5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited Black Vinyl Edition

Metallica

LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

Roberto Musci / Giovanni Venosta

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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San Francisco, CA - January 25, 2018 - The Wait is over…Actually, it’s back! Nearly three decades after going out of print, Metallica will release a remastered version of The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited as part of thir ongoing remasters series via their own Blackened Recordings label.

Originally released over 30 years ago on August 21, 1987, the collection features the band covering songs by early Metallica influencers such as Diamond Head, Holocaust, Killing Joke, Budgie, and The Misfits. The five songs from the EP were later included as a part of the 1998 multi-platinum release Garage, Inc., but the band felt it was time to bring it back in the original formats!

The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited was remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA.

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Water Messages on Desert Sand

LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Rer Vinyl)

The Miracles Of The Seven Dances

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Another great release in the prestigious ReR Recommended vinyl reissue series.
Water Messages on Desert Sand was the very first sound creation from the Italian avantgarde duo of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta. A classic work in the genre, released by Chris Cutler's Recommended Records in 1987.
Back in the mid Eighties, Musci & Venosta, both on sampler, synthesizer, guitar, piano, effects and tapes were masters in overlaying and constructing rhythmic and harmonic pictures of transparent sound from electronic, acoustic and documentary source, taking ethnic field recordings (from Africa, Indonesia, Asia, India) as their thematic centre. "Water Messages" finds place In the realm of Eno-Byrne "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" but far more accomplished and developed. A rich moving and still very stimulating work and an essential purchase for anyone interested in adventurous modern art informed by ethnic music and sound explorations. In two words: Highly Recommended!

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Hany Mehanna

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Radio Martiko)

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A download code is included.

Reissue of the belly dance holy grail from the organ king of Cairo, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Hany Mehanna, beloved musician and composer of the greatest artists from the Arab world such as Oum Kalthoum and Abdel Halim Hafez, shows himself from a more experimental side on his solo albums. Originally released in 1973, ‘The Miracles of the Seven Dances’ is a pure work of genius: hypnotic organ grooves, psychedelic guitars, mystic strings and haunting percussion. Belly dance as good as it gets! High quality pressing. Artwork and label design by Pieter Heytens.

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Sparks

Kimono My House

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

Billy Idol

Rebel Yell

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Virgin)

Brian Eno

Another Green World

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Bob Dylan

Shot Of Love

2LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shot of Love is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, originally released in 1981.

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Bob Dylan & The Band

Before The Flood

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Parlophone)

Jethro Tull

Stand Up

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Reprise)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Rust Never Sleeps

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Reprise)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Live Rust

34,99 €*

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New Skin For The Old Ceremony

Leonard Cohen

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley / Carl Perkins / Jerry Lee Lewis / Johnny Cash)

Million Dollar Quartet (The Complete Session)

2LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Juju

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Guerssen)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in print!

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Baris Manco

Yeni Bir Gun

LP | 1981 | DE | Reissue (Bureau B)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The late '70s found Turkey in an economic slump, and there was a huge rise in political violence. Baris, who so often put out collections of singles, rose to the occasion by spending 6 months holed up with his longtime backing band the Kurtalan Ekspres. The result was this studio album of Anatolian bummer psychedelia, often unfairly overlooked because it came out in the rather un-cosmic year of 1979, but also considered his best work by many. Yep, there are still electrified versions of Turkish folk songs, and the spaceshot ARPs and Korgs of '2023' are here too, but dont expect a happy swing around the ceiling of a planetarium. The real star of the album is the keyboard player, whose name translates to Sword Agent. 'Yeni Bir Gun' is viciously funky and brilliantly arranged, with tidbits stolen out of the latest disco hits, and lean, mean synthesizers that emerge from the beats like carbonated bubbles. Melancholy maqams & catastrophic Korgs collide when the Turkish psych master glides unflinchingly into the grim late '70s!! First time ever reissue, this release comes in gorgeous gatefold cover as the original, has a repro of the original poster as well, and brings an extra insert with extensive linernotes.

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Sven Grünberg

Hingus

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Epic)

Release: 1981 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reissued on vinyl, this is a wonderful Berlin School influenced electronic album (originally from '81) with progressive and psychedelic undertones from an Estonian musician. The 23-minute title track invites us into a fascinating, futuristic world of sound, laced with Far Eastern tonality, embellished with a church organ, extremely rare synthesizers and extraordinary percussion effects. And the other two tracks are no less superb.

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The Clash

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Rhino / Warner)

Black Sabbath

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

32,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Original (Repertoire)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, originally released in December 1973. It was produced by the band and Tom Allom and recorded at Morgan Studios in London in September 1973.
For the first time in their career, the band began to receive favourable reviews in the mainstream press, with Rolling Stone calling the album ''an extraordinarily gripping affair,'' and ''nothing less than a complete success.'' Later reviewers such as AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia cite the album as ''a masterpiece, essential to any heavy metal collection,'' while also displaying ''a newfound sense of finesse and maturity''. The album marked the band's fifth consecutive platinum selling album in the United States.

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UFO!

UFO 1

Release: 1970 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1983 | US | Reissue (Blackened)

Metallica

Kill Em All

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

The Replacements

Let It Be

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Zappa)

Frank Zappa

Sheik Yerbouti

50,99 €*

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Zappa)

Frank Zappa

One Size Fits All

37,99 €*

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1987 | UK | Reissue (Back On Black)

Mayhem

Deathcrush

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: 1987 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 g Colored Vinyl Edition

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Led Zeppelin

In Through The Out Door

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Abbiamo Tutti Un Blues Da Piangere

Perigeo

LP+CD | 1973 | EU | Reissue (BTF / Schema)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Perigeo were founded in Rome in 1971: five professional musicians, all of them already largely active in the jazz and rock circuits of those years, who gathered in the studio to wisely blend together the two aforementioned music genres: this is probably the first example of jazz-rock music in Italy, admittedly influenced by Miles Davis and that legendary “Bitches Brew” that just two years earlier had shocked the jazz scene worldwide.

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Einstürzende Neubauten

Halber Mensch

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1986 | US | Reissue (Goofin)

Sonic Youth

EVOL

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Warner)

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The third studio album by Sonic Youth, originally released in May 1986 on SST Records, shows the first signs that the band was ready to transform their no wave past into a greater alternative rock sensibility. “EVOL … mark[s] the true departure point of Sonic Youth’s musical evolution,” says Pitchfork, who place the album in the #31 slot of their Top 100 Albums of The 1980s. “In measured increments, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo … bring form to the formless, tune to the tuneless, and with the help of Steve Shelley’s drums…, [impose] melody and composition on their trademark dissonance.”
Stereogum likewise praises the album as one that is “full of suspense…, the cornerstone [of] the Sonic Youth sound…, ground zero for the combination of chiming guitars and atonal skronk… [and] muggy delirium…. The virile ‘Tom Violence’ sounds less written than coaxed from a cauldron, the sort of song that fogs windows. The off-kilter [droning love song] ‘Starpower’ … is sung [by Kim Gordon] in a frosty [Nico-evoking] monotone. ‘In The Kingdom #19,’ featuring Mike Watt on bass and … vocals [by Ranaldo]…, is a harrowing story of a highway wreck over a suitably edgy instrumental backing punctuated by … live firecrackers into the vocal booth.”
“EVOL slithers into the unconscious,” notes Popstache. “Once the [detuned melodies and haunting riffs and] final whispers of feedback [of ‘Expressway to Yr. Skull’] depart from the speakers…, the music [leaves] a faded footprint, forever reeling the listener back for another strange trip.”

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The Velvet Underground

Loaded

24,99 €*

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Potomak)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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UK reissue of this classic Velvet Underground album (their fourth), originally released on Cotillion in 1970. Edition on 180-gram vinyl.

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Einstürzende Neubauten

Kollaps

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Kicking Against The Pricks

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Mute)

30,99 €*

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Zappa)

Frank Zappa

Apostrophe

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

Lewis

Romantic Times

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Earlier this year, Light In The Attic released the mysterious, bewitching L’Amour, a 1983 private press record thought to be the only release by one of music’s true lost talents: Lewis.

So lost, in fact, was Lewis, he eluded every effort to track him down. Scant details were known: just a series of possibly apocryphal stories about a sports car-driving Canadian with a model on his arm and a habit of skipping town when there were bills to be paid.

Deciding that Lewis’ spider web-delicate songs demanded to be heard, we put the album out anyway, offering to present the due royalties to anyone who could prove they were Lewis.

One sure thing was this: Lewis was a man of many names: Randall A. Wulff among them. Now we have either found another alias – or perhaps even his real name – on the sleeve of a completely unknown album.

Sourced soon after the re-release of L’Amour, Romantic Times is the 1985 follow-up to L’Amour – and it’s released as Lewis Baloue. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats.

Remastered from a sealed, vinyl copy of the ultra-rare album, the album was discovered in the vaults of DJ and collector Kevin “Sipreano” Howes in Vancouver, BC. It’s so rare that what is, at present, the only other known copy – found in the same Calgary store where Aaron Levin discovered a batch of sealed copies of L’Amour – is presently soaring into quadruple digits on eBay.

Even engineer Dan Lowe, credited for working on the album at Calgary’s Thunder Road Studios, remembered little about the session other than that Lewis seemed to be “under the influence”. Yet the music is utterly captivating.

The album further fleshes out the Lewis myth – we see him pictured in that white suit with his famous white Mercedes and a private jet too; we hear him focussing more intently on matters of the heart, and appearing to unravel in the process. “I felt like I was witnessing a full-blown exorcism of a phantom clad in the finest linen,” writes filmmaker and historian Jack D. Fleischer in his brand new liner notes. “This record went further [than L’Amour ]. It was a personal plea, of sorts. Something had gone wrong. Nerves were clearly exposed.”

It paints Lewis, then, as being more like a David Lynch character than even his debut did, exposing the darkness beneath the sheen. The album is presently being readied for release to the throng of new fans Lewis has found, willingly or not. The man himself remains a total enigma.

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Ministry

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