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The Doors had one of the most extraordinary debut years in music history in 1967, releasing a string of hit singles and two platinum albums, beginning in January with the band's self-titled debut, followed by Strange Days in September. The latter peaked at #3 on the Billboard album chart and featured classics like Love Me Two Times,' When The Music's Over,' and the title track Strange Days.'

STRANGE DAYS (50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) was produced by the album's original engineer Bruce Botnick. It includes the original stereo mix of the album on CD for the first time in a decade, with sound that's been remastered for the first time in 30 years. The second disc features the album's original mono mix, which has been remastered for this set and is making its CD debut. Accompanying the set are liner notes by music journalist David Fricke, as well as a selection of rare and previously unseen photographs.

Having a larger budget for Strange Days allowed the band to spend more time experimenting in the studio. They used an eight-track recorder for the first time, which resulted in some memorable overdubs like Krieger's double-tracked guitar on When The Music's Over.' Surprisingly, the trippy keyboard sound heard on the album's title track is actually one of the earliest appearances of a Moog synthesizer in a rock song.

Strange Days mixed new songs written on the road with some written before the band's 1967 debut. In fact, the band performed Strange Days' during its 1966 residency at the London Fog in L.A., while My Eyes Have Seen You' dates back to 1965. Another early track is Moonlight Drive,' which was one of the very first songs that the band practiced together, and where the band heard Krieger's haunting bottleneck guitar playing for the first time. It's also the song Morrison sang to Manzarek at Venice Beach in 1965 when the two former UCLA film students reconnected and decided to start the Doors.

The classic 1977 punk album - remastered and repackaged for its 40th anniversary. (NB this version replaces FREUDC044E which is now DELETED.)

Now with 20-page booklet in a 'remus' card gatefold sleeve with notes and lyrics.


Sole surviving Heartbreaker Walter Lure is touring 'LAMF' with an all-star line-up.


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* In 1977 this classic punk album had a sound flaw and wasn't heard properly until 1994 - after both former New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan had died. Now songs like 'Born To Lose' and 'Chinese Rocks' are acclaimed as punk anthems. The album has been remastered and repackaged to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Includes 20-page booklet with the background story of recording in punk London, and lyrics, in a card gatefold sleeve. The sole surviving Heartbreaker, Walter Lure, has been playing the album with an all-star line-up (members of Blondie, Replacements, MC5).

* "That 'L.A.M.F.', the only album by Johnny Thunders' swaggering, smacked-up post New York Dolls outfit, The Heartbreakers, is one of New York punk's defining artefacts (despite being recorded in Britain), is beyond dispute. 12 songs that put the guitarist's abiding passions - Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Phil Spector and Shadow Morton girl groups, glam, garage, trash and junk - in perfect, speedy collision." - Damien Love, Uncut mag, 9/10.

Classic Psychedelia From Counterculture Icons On 180g Vinyl LP!
Newly Remastered Audio From Original Analog Tapes!
Original Stereo Recording!

1967's I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die, the second album from Bay Area psych-rock band Country Joe & The Fish, followed hot on the heels of their breakout debut from earlier the same year, but it represented a major step forward in both material and overall sound achieved by Vanguard Records' producer Sam Charters. Accessible and very much in tune with the alternative culture of the mid-60s, it quickly became one of the cornerstone releases of the new 'psychedelic rock' explosion. The album is opened and anchored by the live standard "The Fish Cheer" and famous anti-Vietnam protest song "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag."

Motörhead's first live album, recorded in early 1978 at The Roundhouse, less than a year after the release of their groundbreaking, self-titled debut. This is vintage, 'take-no-prisoners' Motörhead, and the band (playing a mix of originals and a few speedfreak versions of early R&B, country and British blues songs) is a fast and furious machine. Punk rock step aside...this is Motörhead!

Motörhead's first live album, recorded in early 1978 at The Roundhouse, less than a year after the release of their groundbreaking, self-titled debut. This is vintage, 'take-no-prisoners' Motörhead, and the band (playing a mix of originals and a few speedfreak versions of early R&B, country and British blues songs) is a fast and furious machine. Punk rock step aside...this is Motörhead!

The 2017 remaster of David Bowie's astonishing Heroes.

The first Bowie release to feature Robert Fripp, the incendiary and innovative Heroes was the second release in Bowie's celebrated 'Berlin trilogy'.

180g vinyl edition.

- 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
- INCLUDES INSERT
- 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
- FEATURING THE HIT SINGLES SUPERSTITIOUS', OPEN YOUR HEART' & LET THE GOOD TIMES ROCK'
- LIMITED EDITION OF 2.000, INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED,
COPIES ON TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL

Out of This World is the fourth studio album by the Swedish rock band Europe, originally released in 1988. Four singles were released from the album: Superstitious', Open Your Heart', Let the Good Times Rock' and More Than Meets the Eye'.

Superstitious' was the first single released from the album and is arguably one of Europe's most recognizable and popular songs.

Out of This World was the band's follow up album to the successful album The Final Countdown (MOVLP1424) and became Europe's best-selling album in Switzerland. Out of This World achieved platinum status in the United States, platinum status in Switzerland and gold in Canada.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary, Out of This World is now available as a limited edition, pressed on transparent blue vinyl. This limited edition of 2.000 individually numbered copies, includes a lyrics sheet.

- 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
- ETCHED D SIDE
- FIRST TIME ON VINYL
- INCLUDES INSERT
- LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 NUMBERED PINK COPIES

In 2004, Morrissey invited the legendary band to play a very special show at the Meltdown Festival in London at Royal Festival Hall. Simply put, the results were fantastic and found the Dolls playing better than ever after 30 years.

This is Rock & Roll history. David is in top form as is the rest of the band. Arthur Kane sadly passed away just a month after this show. To all you Dolls fans out there, this is a must have.

This first time on vinyl release has a beautiful etched D-side and the first 1500 numbered copies are pressed on pink vinyl and strictly limited.

One of the most beguiling and enigmatic figures in popular music, Scott Walker (born Scott Engel) began his career in Los Angeles playing as a session bassist and recording demos. This eventually led to several singles under his birth name ranging across the popular teen sounds of the time, from rockabilly to doo wop to pure pop. Though these are decidedly of the time, you can hear in his voice the truly mind-bending work that was to come from Mr. Walker. A fascinating look at the early work of a truly brilliant cult figure. Released on 180 gram LP + download code.

The Grateful Dead forged its legend on the road, traveling countless miles between 1965 and 1995 to perform a world record 2,318 shows for millions of devoted fans. The band's refusal to ever play a song the same way twice has endeared generations of fans, many of whom prefer certain live versions of songs over their studio counterparts, and garnered the popular phrase among Dead Heads: There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.'

The live albums the band released during its 30-year career are the primary source for the collection, including tracks like Bertha' from Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971), Fire On The Mountain' from Dead Set (1981), and The Music Never Stopped' from One From the Vault (1991). A testament to its ongoing popularity, the revered double-album Europe '72 (1972), is represented by no less than five tracks, including Sugar Magnolia,' Jack Straw' and a searing rendition of Morning Dew.'

Other performances on the set were selected from the growing number of live releases that have emerged since the death of founding member Jerry Garcia in 1995. Some of those recordings include Touch Of Grey' from Truckin' Up To Buffalo (2005), a 1990 version of Eyes Of The World' with saxophonist Branford Marsalis featured on Wake Up To Find Out (2014), and Estimated Prophet,' which debuted earlier this year as part of Cornell 5/8/77, a recording of the Grateful Dead's mythic show at Cornell University in 1977, thought by many to be the band's greatest live performance.

Made for die-hard Dead Heads and new fans alike, The Best Of The Grateful Dead Live Vol. 1 1969-1977 will be available as a on 180-gram vinyl as a 2-LP set, covering the first half of the album, on March 23rd. The music will be available through digital and streaming services as well.

*Mega popular Irish band in the 90's, return after a 20-year hiatus with their first ever release on vinyl
*Strictly limited to just 300 copies.

PictureHouse were a constant fixture on Irish radio in the 90's, with a number of major hits. Remastered and now released on audiophile 180g vinyl, these songs have never sounded so good. Instantly catchy and appealing, this is a good-time album.

'Wants List 4' has been compiled in response to customer demand, ten years after Wants List 3. It features some great in demand tracks from the 70's rediscovered in the UK's Rare Groove and Modern Soul Scene's from the mid 80's onwards, several are appearing on a compilation for the first time and some are being reissued on CD or Vinyl for the first time ever. Harold Wheeler Consort 'Black Cream' is a wonderfully lush semi-instrumental funky soul cut that has been sampled many times over the last 20 years. Almeta Lattimore beautiful 'These memories' is an extremely rare 45 fetching upwards to £400. It is 70's Modern Soul at its finest!
Mary Clark's 'You Got Your Hold on Me' is another great slab of rare mid tempo soul produced by Patrick Adams and Billy Nichols which is reissued here for the first time. Tommy McGee rare 45 'Now That I Have You' that has been in demand on both the Rare Groove and Modern Soul scenes for decades, makes it's CD and Compilation debut. Dee Edwards '(I Can) Deal With That' is a wonderful record has been heralded on the Two-Step, Modern Soul and Funk scenes over the past 25 years. The 'Strings and Tambourine' version featured here is very hard to find on CD or LP. Pat Lundy jaunty Jazzy-Soul stepper 'Let's Get Down To Business', Maxine Weldon
'I want Sunday back again' and Debbie Taylor's magnificent orchestrated ballad 'I Don't Wanna Leave You' all make their CD and compilation debut on 'Wants List 4'. There is some great harmony soul from The Ebonys, Manhattans, Impressions and Natural High, plus Jazzy-soul floaters from Margie Joseph, Aretha Franklin and her sister Carolyn, plus 2-step heaven from Jocelyn Brown, Zulema and more. Every track is a winner on what is possibly the best volume in this popular 'cult' series, which is sure to receive airplay and great reviews and be sought after by Soul fans everywhere. This compilation will like the previous volumes be a strong consistent seller.

180g double vinyl with digital download insert.
A unique selection of Elvis' rock 'n' roll tracks. 32 prime slices of Memphis rockabilly, country, rock and pop from the King.