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Bad Company
Bad Company Rock and Roll Fantasy: The Very Best of Bad Company Swan Song/Rhino by David Chiu Thirty years after the first Bad Company compilation, 10 from 6, and 16 years after The Original Bad...
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Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965-1995 Rhino By David Chiu This 4-CD set is the abbreviated version of the massive 30-CD collection, drawing a concert from each...
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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt Just One Look Asylum/Rhino by David Chiu Linda Ronstadt’s career is the focus of this latest 2-CD compilation, spanning the period from her time with the Stone Poneys in the late ’60s...
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Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition Rhino by David Chiu After three albums of mainly music that bordered on the avant garde and experimental side, the Velvet Underground...
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Beach House
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars Sub Pop By David Chiu Christmas really came early for Beach House fans this year. Not only did the Baltimore-based duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally put out...
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Love
Love Reel to Real High Moon Records by David Chiu Reel to Real, Love’s seventh studio album and released in 1974, is proof of how much Arthur Lee and Co.’s sound had evolved from the psychedelic,...
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Bob Dylan
Sony Legacy Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 Columbia/Legacy by David Chiu Of the 12 volumes in the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, The Cutting Edge may be the crown jewel of...
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The Velvet Underground
(amazon.com)The Velvet Underground The Complete Matrix Tapes Polydor/UME by David Chiu For those who grew up or were raised listening to the 1969: The Velvet Underground Live and The Quine Tapes will...
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Queen
Queen A Night at the Odeon-Hammersmith 1975 Hollywood (CD) Eagle Vision (DVD) by David Chiu The perfect companion to last year’s Live at the Rainbow, this new long-awaited Queen archival recording —...
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Van Morrison
Van Morrison Astral Weeks His Band and the Street Choir Warner Bros. by David Chiu Van Morrison’s Warner Bros. Records output from the early ’70s gets the special reissue treatment as it did for...
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Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull Too Old to Rock ‘n Roll: Too Young to Die! Chrysalis by David Chiu Perhaps it’s not in the pantheon of Jethro Tull’s greatest albums, but Too Old to Rock ‘n Roll: Too Young to Die!...
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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain (The End of Music, LLC/Courtesy of HBO) Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings UME Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck A Film by Brett Morgren UME by David Chiu The soundtrack to the...
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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac Tusk (Deluxe) Warner Bros. By David Chiu The mythology of Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 double album Tusk has been written about over time, and rightly so for what it didn’t do. The conventional...
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The Beatles’ 1+
(c) Apple Corps Ltd. The Beatles 1+ Apple/UME by David Chiu The Beatles have reissued 1, their best-selling compilation from 2000 of songs that peaked at the top spot on the U.K. and U.S. charts. It...
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The Mysteries of Life
The Mysteries of Life Bad Advice (Bandcamp) by David Chiu “1994–I’ve been here before,” sings the Mysteries of Life guitarist/bassist Jake Smith on the somewhat bittersweet title track from the...
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Black Sabbath
By Warner Bros. Records (Billboard, page 7, 18 July 1970) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsBlack Sabbath Black Sabbath Paranoid Master of Reality Warner Bros./Rhino By David Chiu The end is indeed...
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Phil Collins
Phil Collins Face Value Both Sides Atlantic/Rhino by David Chiu Throughout his long career, Phil Collins always gotten a bad rep, rather unfairly, for a couple of things: replacing Peter Gabriel in...
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JD Souther
JD Souther (Photo by Linda Ronstadt) JD Souther John David Souther Black Rose Home By Dawn Omnivore Recordings by David Chiu While singer-songwriter JD Souther never became the big-name superstar like...
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The Cars
The Cars The Elektra Years 1978-1987 Elektra/Rhino by David Chiu When they first came onto the scene, the Cars straddled the line between musical styles. As Brett Milano wrote in his liner notes for...
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Phil Collins
Phil Collins Hello, I Must Be Going! No Jacket Required Atlantic/Rhino by David Chiu 1981’s Face Value album got Phil Collins’ solo career off to a spectacular start, and the Genesis drummer/singer’s...
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