Best Britpop
a Rush of Blood to the Head is a soulful, exhilarating journey, moving from the cathartic rock of 'Politik' to the hushed tones of 'Green Eyes' without once breaking its mesmerizing spell.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Front to back it's just a great album."
"This is where it all started."
"My favorite band and the album that first made me fall in love with them - so awesome to finally have it on vinyl!"
"These cd is awesome."
"Great CD original recording."
"Super fast shipping."
One Direction - Made In The A.M. 1. "Hey Angel" 4:002.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A few days ago I heard the song "Perfect" on the radio and I liked it so much that I told myself I would get the album when it came out."
"I love the video for "Drag Me Down", but these are the songs I like: "Angel", "End of the Day", "Long Way Down" "Olivia" and "I Want to Write You a Song"."
"This is the best 1D album yet and really demonstrates their evolving maturity and perfection in their singing skills."
"4-star ratings are items that do exactly as would be expected of the item, is of very good quality, but does not stand out significantly in any way unless I specifically state why it stands out. Some items have received lower ratings because of the way they were made or put together, and it is getting that review because of the quality of the item, which is specifically described in my review."
"There are a few songs with some repetitiveness in them, but I can appreciate this album as a whole."
"The cd itself isn't secured in place but it doesn't fall out of its sleeve and none of my other albums in the same style have ever had the cd fall out of them either."
"I love that Zahn's departure has given Louis more singing opportunities."
"Some of the songs are definitely inspired by older classic rock bands ("Olivia" is reminiscent of The Beatles, and "What a Feeling" reminds me a little of Fleetwood Mac), and it's one of those rare albums you can listen to all the way through."
180-gram vinyl LP pressing of the the British band's critically acclaimed 2000 debut album produced by Ken Nelson (Badly Drawn Boy, Gomez, Kings of Convenience) with the band.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is a very plain single pressing album and I would love to see more fan fare from the band regarding it's pressings."
"Sure, if I don't own this, then I don't know about the *COMPLETE* packaging, but not many people are...well, not crazy, but...well, *FORTUNATE* enough to have 45 bucks, just laying around to spend on a release that offers *TWO* new songs. My favorite songs are: Don't Panic. High Speed. Sparks. Trouble (nice piano). Everything's Not Lost. I now own all 3 of Coldplay's albums. I think that this album is there very, very best, and they expanded their sound, to reach the masses with A Rush of Blood to the Head. I really like the upbeat numbers that they do; Clocks, Daylight, Speed Of Sound, Fix You and Square One are amongst my favorites! So if You've had a hard day at work, kick off your shoes and socks, turn the damn phone OFF, and pop this into your CD/DVD player."
"We have an Amazon Fire stick and the tracks from the album pop up under music for this and another album I bought off Amazon, which is amazing!"
"The vinyl record comes in a nice quality satin finish sleeve that includes a standard paper inner sleeve (lined with antistatic plastic) and a secondary cardboard inner sleeve with some band pictures."
"Love it, love it, love it... fast shipping, thanks!"
"The record was poorly pressed."
"There is surface noise throughout the whole album."
"The quality of this pressing has been one of the worst I have ever heard."
Best British Ska
The Specials.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Anyway, the original album is disc one and disc two is all live tracks."
"Well, I won't debate what's the greatest ever since that is, to some extent, a matter of taste, but if you dig the Two Tone sound "Specials" is an album that you must have! This is the album that turned a lot of people on to ska in the early eighties. If you could only buy one "second wave" ska album this is the one I would recommend, even over compilations that cover more artists and sounds. I remember being envious of the few who could find the import version on vinyl (yeah, way back then before we had these new-fangled CD things)."
"I bought this in 1979 at Korvettes in Paramus, the same day I bought Pretenders 1st, and Wreckless Eric/Whole Wide World. Blank Expression a perfect winter time twilight song, You're Wondering Now fantastic closer."
"The entire band had buzz cut hairdos and dressed like thrift shop refugees complete with Sinatra type fedoras, skinny ties and ill fitting suits. Jerry Dammers was raised on the music of Prince Buster, the Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Byron Lee and the stable of ska musicians that were part of Duke Reid's venerable British label, Trojan Records. Terry Hall as the prosecuter and Neville Staples as "Judge Dread" engage in a hilarious satire of a kangaroo court in the song "Stupid Marriage." The cover of the Maytal's classic "Monkey Man" fires a hilarious shot from the hip at the Thatcher enthusiasts in the pompous chambers of the House of Lords, comparing the Britian's nobility to inbred baboons. The addition of trombonist Rico Rodriquez, who was a transplanted Jamaican with an involvment in the ska's early Sixties roots lent the Specials an authenticity that few of their peers could claim. I don't deejay much these days, but in the early Eighties no party or dance was complete until the floor was filled with estatic dancers slamming to the riddims of "Concrete Jungle.""
"My best friend and I collected all the second-wave ska coming out of the UK that we could find like Bad Manners, The Selecter, Madness and The (English) Beat but The Specials were the best of all of them."
"This is the very definition of a classic album."
Best British Punk
The Sex Pistols' only studio album, 1977's Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols was called 'just about the most exciting rock & roll records of the Seventies' in Rolling Stone's original review.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"One of my favorite punk albums growing up."
"Probably the only remaster we'll ever see of this album."
"Beautiful pressing of a beautifully amazing album!"
"I overall love the album itself, however the sound quality is subpar."
"If you love rock it's a must."
"a classic, what else?"