R.E.M.'s sixth studio album was a milestone for the band, marking their departure from longtime label I.R.S. Records. Featuring the singles "Stand" and "Orange Crush," 1988's Green was also their first album to be certified double platinum in the US and platinum in the UK. This 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes the remastered album, a 21-track bonus disc capturing a full live show from the 1989 Green Tour, plus 4 postcards, a foldout poster, and liner notes by Uncut's Allan Jones.

She Works Hard for the Money Review by Michael Freedberg
Donna Summer's brassy, matter-of-fact mezzo does not play the sexy sanctified diva, and her musicians' crisp, loud beats don't evoke rapture or delirium. Instead, she and her rhythm men live up to the title of "She Works Hard for the Money." Here's praise for a waitress' 12-hour workday that sums up Summer's own post-dance queen job status, as well as disco fans' own spotlighted lives and maintains the pressure, from the steel-and-synth riffs of "Stop, Look & Listen" to the impatient tenderness of "People, People." No one writes about love with as mesmeric a sense of wonder as Summer confesses in "Love Has a Mind of Its Own," "Unconditional Love," and "I Do Believe (I Fell in Love)."

Without Allen Toussaint's herculean musical contributions, New Orleans' crucial musical heritage would be a footnote confined to '50s Rock & Roll. As a producer, songwriter and artist, Toussaint defined the seminal NOLA funk genre, giving hits not only to favorite sons like Ernie K. Doe and Lee Dorsey, but to Labelle, Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart and many others. Lee Dorsey Sneakin' Sally From The Alley Curly Moore Don’t Pity Me Aaron Neville Hercules Eldridge Holmes Gone Gone Gone Maurice Williams How To Pick A Winner Betty Harris Bad Luck Erine K. Doe Here Comes The Girls Allen Toussaint Working In A Coalmine Benny Spellman If You Love Her The Rubaiyats Omar Khayyam Diamond Joe Wait A Minute Baby Etta James Wheel Of Fire Zilla Mayes All I Want Is You Warren Lee Star Revue Eldridge Holmes The Book Willie West Greatest Love Allen Toussaint We Are The People Ernie K. Doe So Good Lee Dorsey Yes We Can Etta James With You In MInd

Silicon Dream was a synthpop band formed by the German Klaus Munzert (born 14 July 1957) in 1987. Other prominent members were the dancers Angelo and Danny, who featured on the band's music videos.
Inspired by bands such as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode, the band came to life following Munzert's experimentations with samplers and his desire to have fun onstage dressed up, even though other people still managed to recognize him. The band's sound was similar to contemporary acts such as Off and 16 Bit, Silicon Dream performing live with the latter. Silicon Dream's most notable single was "Marcello The Mastroianni" which spent four weeks in the German top 20, peaking at No. 15 in September 1987. The single also tied for No. 112 on the 1987 year end chart. Another notable single "Ludwig Fun" released in 1989 merged acid house with classical music and spent several weeks in official German Top 75 singles chart by Media Control.

Ninth release in the Purple Chick collection.

The first release in Purple Chick Deluxe Edition series.

The second release in Purple Chick Deluxe Edition series.

Fifth release in Purple Chick Deluxe Edition.

Sixth release in Purple Chick Deluxe Edition series.

Fourth release in Purple Chick Deluxe Edition series.

Push the Sky Away is the fifteenth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on February 18, 2013 through the band's own label, Bad Seed Ltd.
Push the Sky Away was recorded between 2011 and 2012 at La Fabrique Studios in a 19th century mansion in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France, directed by Nick Lonet, producer of Nocturama, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!, as well as Grinderman and Grinderman. The album cover was created by French photographer Dominique Issermann and features The Bad Seeds frontman Nick Cave and his wife Susan Beek.

Discipline Review by Andy Kellman
A few lines from a couple songs and some suggestive presentation guarantees that a significant amount of the reaction to Discipline, Janet's tenth studio album, will feast upon the singer's lack of judiciousness when it comes to expressing her sexuality. Leave the teasing and explicitness to the teens and younger twenty-somethings – not the grown women – right? Janet should get back to making sunny, uncomplicated songs like "Escapade" and pretend that the occasional-to-frequent salaciousness extending back to Control never existed. She should do that and, while she is at it, act her age. (When the three years younger R. Kelly releases his next album, no protests of a similar nature will be heard; ditto whenever the Rolling Stones perform "Brown Sugar.") While Discipline is dressed up like a racy affair with track-to-track titillation, it has only a couple moments where Janet takes the S&M imagery further, and more deeply personal, than she did on The Velvet Rope; the majority of its subject matter relates to the more common elements of relationships.

Originally released in 1975, No Heavy Petting was UFO's fifth studio album and the last to be produced by Ten Years After's Leo Lyons. Stepping up from the rawer sound of Force It, the album was their first to feature a permanent keyboard player in the band and gave a nod to what was to come on future albums like “Lights Out” and “Obsession.”
No Heavy Petting features a number of tracks that became staples of their live set for many years, including "Natural Thing” and "I'm A Loser.”
This newly remastered 2CD digipak includes five bonus tracks (one previously unreleased), a poster booklet, and features the Roundhouse 1976 live set.
The triple LP gatefold edition includes the Roundhouse 1976 live set previously unavailable on vinyl.

While there was certainly little to complain about on the original issue of the soundtrack for Standing in the Shadows of Motown, for those who truly sought the magic of the Funk Brothers, this deluxe edition is what they longed for all along. This two-disc collection contains the soundtrack of the Allan Slutsky/Harry Weinger film – plus three bonus tracks – from that historic night at the Royal Oak Music Theater just outside of Detroit. It pairs what was left of the original Motown session gang and their heirs with a host of vocalists, including Joan Osborne, Chaka Khan, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Ben Harper, and Gerald LeVert interpreting the classics. The extra soundtrack cuts feature John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson, and Dennis Coffey with the Detroit Guitar Band. But on disc two, the entire grail becomes attainable. Here are 15 musical tracks, the original instrumental sides from "the Snakepit" of the Motown studios, with little or no vocal accompaniment, remixed from the ground up. The producers broke down and mapped out each verse, bridge, chorus, and vamp on paper first. Phone calls were made to the living members and then each tune was knotted together from the recorded evidence, using the input of the Funks and the added guitars of Dennis Coffey and Wah Wah Watson.

Died Pretty's magnificent 1986 debut LP: Free Dirt is one of the all-time classic Australian albums. It followed 3 excellent singles / EP’s and signalled the arrival of what would become one of our most-loved bands over their celebrated 18 year career.
This deluxe 2CD version, collected here, for the first time, are Died Pretty's first five releases: the 'Out Of The Unknown' and 'Mirror Blues' singles, the Next To Nothing EP, the Free Dirt album and the 'Stoneage Cinderella' single. PLUS an additional 10 bonus tracks – including previously unreleased demos, a live-to-air radio performance from 1986 and other live rarities.