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ELP Reissue Series: Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Tarkus; Pictures at an Exhibition
Welcome back, my friends… well, you know the rest. That opening line—made famous in “Karn Evil 9 – 1st Impression, Part 2” from 1973’s Brain Salad Surgery—certainly applies to the re-emergence of the...
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Temple of the Dog: 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition
PerformanceSound The Seattle music scene was devastated. Andrew Wood, the promising and charismatic frontman of Mother Love Bone, was found dead of a heroin overdose in March 1990. His bandmates and...
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The Band: The Last Waltz, 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition
PerformanceSound If The Band didn’t slow down and get off the road—and get off the road soon—they were going to wind up killing themselves, to a man. “It’s a goddamn impossible way of life,” says Band...
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Lou Reed: The RCA & Arista Album Collection
PerformanceSound“Isn’t that amazing? I mean, there it actually is. I can’t believe it. I lived long enough to hear it right.” That’s Lou Reed, lifelong audiophile, commenting to his longtime friend and...
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Paul McCartney: Flowers in the Dirt Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound Paul McCartney was on quite the rollercoaster ride as an artist in the 1980s. He started the decade strong with the mostly one-man effort McCartney II and its on-the-mark hits like the...
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Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
PictureSoundExtras The heart of I’m Your Man is a celebratory concert of the recently passed Leonard Cohen’s songs performed by an oddball assortment of top talent at the Sydney Opera House. Between...
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U2: The Joshua Tree – Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound“Outside, it’s America.” That’s U2 vocalist Bono, setting the stage for the explosive climax of “Bullet the Blue Sky,” one of the pivotal tracks on the band’s 1987 masterpiece, The...
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The Brain Box: Cerebral Sounds of Brain Records 1972-1979
PerformanceSound Let there be Kraut! So goes the Kampfschrei, or battle cry associated with the Krautrock movement of the 1970s. If you’re unfamiliar with this relatively experimental musical form, it...
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Midnight Oil: Full Tank: The Complete Album Collection
PerformanceSound It was one of the most galvanizing live experiences of my life. The instant WNEW-FM announced Midnight Oil would be performing live on a flatbed truck on Sixth Avenue in the heart of...
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Jethro Tull: Songs From the Wood: 40th Anniversary Edition
PerformanceSoundExtras These days, when it comes to surround sound mixing, most in-the-know producers and musicians’ respective collective first thought inevitably turns to the maxim, What would Steven...
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Marillion: Misplaced Childhood: Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound I hate to admit it, but I didn’t “get” Marillion when I saw them open for Rush at the Rosemont Horizon just outside of Chicago on March 21, 1986, playing their 1985 breakthrough album...
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Bob Dylan: Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 Deluxe Box...
PerformanceSound No other artist in the rock era has followed his own muse as deliberately and as singularly as Bob Dylan has. Right from the dawning of his career at the outset of the 1960s, Dylan has...
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Def Leppard: Hysteria: 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound When the phrase “beast mode” entered the vernacular, it was intended mainly as a descriptor for a singularly focused level of energy and drive as exhibited by certain football players....
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Eagles: Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound Ah, the ’70s—the literal age of excess, as documented by the “everything, all the time” lifestyle credo personified by pop-music superstars like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. And yet,...
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The Alan Parsons Project: Eye In the Sky 35th Anniversary Collector's Edition
PerformanceSound It’s quite fitting that when Alan Parsons—the well-respected English producer and engineer whose enviable behind-the-board C.V. includes the likes of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The...
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INXS: Kick - 30th Anniversary Edition
PerformanceSound INXS were riding high as the calendar got deeper and deeper into 1987. The alt-rocking Australian sextet had truly come into their own following the wider international penetration of...
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Love: Forever Changes - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound Always the pauper, never quite the prince. Such was the case for Love, the racially integrated Los Angeles psychedelic/folk-rock hybrid who were always on the cusp of breaking through...
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Classic Yes on Vinyl: The Steven Wilson Remixes
PerformanceSound Calculating how many times key entries in the Yes catalog have been remastered, remixed, repackaged, and reissued can sometimes feel akin to tallying how many official live albums The...
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Remaster Class: Music From Big Pink
2018 50th Anniversary Capitol CD Right in the swirling midst and mists of psychedelia, hard rock, and acid rock, The Band’s July 1968 debut, Music From Big Pink, was a literal breath of rustic fresh...
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Ladyland Deluxe Edition
PerformanceSound The nomenclature of the key line that appears within the credits of the original October 1968 double-vinyl release of Electric Ladyland tells quite the prescient tale: “Produced And...
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