Duran Duran - Arena (Remastered)

Source: Wikipedia


Arena is a live album by Duran Duran, originally released worldwide in 1984 and reissued with two bonus tracks in 2004.


Tracklist:
"Is There Something I Should Know?" – 4:34
"Hungry Like the Wolf" – 4:01
"New Religion" – 5:37
"Save a Prayer" – 6:12
"The Wild Boys" – 4:18
"The Seventh Stranger" – 5:05
"The Chauffeur" – 5:23
"The Union of the Snake" – 4:09
"Planet Earth" – 4:31
"Careless Memories" – 4:07
"Girls On Film" – 5:59
"Rio" – 5:55


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The Dream Academy - Somewhere in the Sun (The Best of)

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Somewhere In The Sun... Best Of The Dream Academy is a compilation album released by The Dream Academy in Japan in 2000. The compilation album contains the extended version of Life In A Northern Town and an acoustic version of The Party rather than the more common versions. At the time of its release, Nick Laird-Clowes revealed that the band actually had no involvement with the album, and he went on further to say that they weren’t even informed by Warners that a compilation album was being made. His former label boss, Alan McGee, then of Creation Records, was the one who actually brought him home a copy when he was visiting Japan on business. According to Kate St John, around the same time that this album was being made, Warner Brothers were considering a US compilation album, but they and the band decided to re-issue their first album, The Dream Academy. Because of its somewhat limited availability, it is one of the more sought after Dream Academy albums.

Track listing:
Life In A Northern Town (Extended) – 5:20
Ballad in 4/4 – 3:59
Power To Believe – 5:15
Lucy September – 3:08
Twelve-Eight Angel – 4:20
One Dream – 2:33
Hampstead Girl – 3:41
This World – 5:07
The Love Parade – 3:46
It'll Never Happen Again – 3:32
Love (Hare Krishna Mix) – 7:02
Indian Summer – 4:55
In Places On The Run – 4:28
(Johnny) New Light – 4:23
The Party (Acoustic Version) – 3:32
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want – 3:07
Waterloo – 5:03
Lowlands – 3:46

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Echo & The Bunnymen - The Works (A 3-CD Retrospective)

Source: Wikipedia

The Works is a boxed set compilation album by Echo & the Bunnymen, which was released on 31 March 2008.

Tracklist:
Disc 1
01. Rescue
02. A Promise
03. Do It Clean
04. Villiers Terrace
05. All That Jazz
06. Over the Wall
07. The Disease
08. Going Up
09. Happy Death Men
10. Pride
11. The Puppet
12. Show of Strength
13. Turquoise Days
14. No Dark Things
15. With a Hip

Disc 2
01. The Killing Moon
02. The Cutter
03. The Back of Love
04. Never Stop
05. Silver
06. Seven Seas
07. Bring On the Dancing Horses
08. Clay
09. Porcupine
10. Ripeness
11. Gods Will Be Gods
12. My Kingdom
13. Crystal Days
14. Nocturnal Me

15. Thorn Of Crowns

Disc 3
01. Nothing Lasts Forever
02. The Game
03. Lips Like Sugar
04. Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
05. People Are Strange
06. Rust
07. Don't Let It Get You Down
08. I Want to Be There (When You Come)
09. All In Your Mind
10. Over You
11. All My Life
12. What Are You Going To Do With Your Life
13. When It All Blows Over
14. Get in the Car
15. Baby Rain

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Ian McCulloch - 9 Tracks (EP)

Source: Discogs

Label: WEA Music K.K.
Catalog#: WMC5-27
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Japan
Released: 1989
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, New Wave

Tracklist:
1. Proud To Fall (Long Night's Mix) 7:13
2. Faith & Healing (The Carpenter's Son Mix) 7:00
3. Toad 4:01
4. Fear Of The Known 5:49
5. Pots Of Gold 4:05
6. The Dead End 4:47
7. Everything Is Real 4:20
8. The Circle Game 4:56
9. September Song 4:12

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Fiona Apple - Across The Universe (Single)

Source: Discogs

Label: SME Records
Catalog#: SRCS8932
Format: CD
Country: Japan
Released: 1999
Genre: Pop

From Pleasantville OST.

Tracklist:
1. Across The Universe 5:07
2. Criminal 4:44
3. Sleep To Dream 4:43

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The Psychedelic Furs - Beautiful Chaos (Greatest Hits Live)

Source: Amazon

Give Richard Butler and his re-formed Psychedelic Furs credit for knowing what's expected of them. This energetic, note-perfect, live greatest-hits collection (recorded in the cozy confines of Hollywood's House of Blues on the band's 2001 reunion tour) trades on the same tastefully retro, Velvet Underground-meets-Roxy Music sensibility that the Furs displayed in their first 1980 to '91 incarnation--no trip-hop beats, samples, or techno loops for these guys. And if this is a band out of time, it's one whose hazy sense of the dramatic remains surprisingly robust. Though their later, more pop-oriented American radio staples "Pretty in Pink" and "President Gas" still pulse with '80s rock energy--as does the single new studio track, "Alive (For Once in My Lifetime)," included here--the band still seems to have a special place in its heart for the dark and dreamy songs that initially defined them, as represented by "India," the hypnotic "Sister Europe," and the chaotic splendor of "Dumb Waiters."


Tracklist:
1. India 6:36
2. Mr. Jones 4:02
3. Heaven 4:21
4. The Ghost In You 4:51
5. Alive (For Once In My Lifetime) 4:35
6. Love My Way 4:01
7. Heartbreak Beat 5:36
8. Sister Europe 6:00
9. President Gas 5:16
10. Into You Like A Train 4:49
11. Pretty In Pink 4:37
12. Dumb Waiters 6:47
13. Alive (For Once In My Lifetime) (Studio Version) 4:39


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Sade - Soldier of Love (Single) (2010)

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"Soldier of Love" is a single from the English soul and R&B group Sade. It premiered worldwide on December 8, 2009 and it was released on iTunes digitally on January 12, 2010. It is also the band's first new material in almost ten years, preceding their long awaited sixth studio album of the same name which is to be released on February 8, 2010.

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The Smiths - Singles Box

Source: Wikipedia

The Smiths Singles Box is a box set compilation album by The Smiths. It was released on 8 December 2008 on 12 7" vinyl records. The 'cover star' is Joel Fabiani.

Tracklist:
01. "Hand in Glove" - 3:16
02. "Handsome Devil" (live) – 2:56
03. "This Charming Man" – 2:43
04. "Jeane" – 3:04
05. "What Difference Does It Make?" – 3:26
06. "Back to the Old House" – 3:05
07. "Still Ill" – 3:22
08. "You've Got Everything Now" – 3:59
09. "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" – 3:36
10. "Suffer Little Children" – 5:27
11. "William, It Was Really Nothing" – 2:11
12. "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I What" – 1:52
13. "How Soon Is Now?" – 3:41
14. "Well I Wonder" – 4:00
15. "Shakespeare's Sister" – 2:09
16. "What She Said" – 2:40
17. "The Headmaster Ritual" – 4:54
18. "Oscillate Wildly" – 3:28
19. "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" – 3:52
20. "Meat Is Murder" (live) – 5:40
21. "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" – 3:18
22. "Asleep" – 4:10
23. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" – 3:14
24. "Money Changes Everything" – 4:41

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Siouxsie and the Banshees - At The BBC (DVD)

Source: Wikipedia

At the BBC is a live box set containing 3 CDs and a DVD by Siouxsie & the Banshees. It is 84-track, digitally-remastered, 4 disc hard-back book set of BBC sessions, live concert tracks and TV performances recorded between 1977 – 1991 split across 3 CDs and a DVD.

This is the audio DVD.

Tracklist:
01. "Metal Postcard" (The Old Grey Whistle Test: 07/11/1978 Stereo)
02. "Jigsaw Feeling" (The Old Grey Whistle Test: 07/11/1978 Stereo)
03. "Playground Twist" (Top of the Pops: 12/07/1979 Stereo)
04. "Love in a Void" (Something Else 03/11/1979 Stereo)
05. "Regal Zone" (Something Else 03/11/1979 Stereo)
06. "Happy House" (Top of the Pops Date: 10/04/1980 Stereo)
07. "Israel" (Something Else: 15/12/1980 Stereo)
08. "Tenant" (Something Else: 15/12/1980 Stereo)
09. "Israel" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
10. "Spellbound" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
11. "Arabian Knights" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
12. "Halloween" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
13. "Night Shift" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
14. "But Not Them" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
15. "Voodoo Dolly" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
16. "Eve White/Eve Black" (Rock Goes to College: 09/03/1981 Stereo)
17. "Spellbound" (Top of the Pops 04/06/1981 Stereo)
18. "Fireworks" (Top of the Pops Date: 03/06/1982 Stereo)
19. "Melt!" (The Old Grey Whistle Test 12/11/1982)
20. "Painted Bird" (The Old Grey Whistle Test 12/11/1982)
21. "Melt!" (Oxford Road Show 03/12/1982 Stereo)
22. "Overground" (Oxford Road Show 03/12/1982 Stereo)
23. "Dear Prudence" (Top of the Pops 29/09/1983 Stereo)
24. "Swimming Horses" (Top of the Pops 29/03/1984 Stereo)
25. "Cities in Dust" (Whistle Test Date: 29/10/1985 Stereo)
26. "Lands End" (Whistle Test Date: 29/10/1985 Stereo)
27. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Top of the Pops 22/01/1987 Stereo)
28. "Peek-a-Boo" (Top of the Pops 28/07/1988 Stereo)
29. "Kiss Them for Me" (Top of the Pops 30/05/1991 Stereo)

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Foo Fighters - Five Songs and a Cover (EP)

Source: Wikipedia

Five Songs and a Cover is an EP released by the Foo Fighters in 2005. Released on November 20, 2005, it was exclusively distributed to Best Buy retail stores.

The E.P. is a collection of B-sides that come from the band's 2005 album, In Your Honor. The title simply refers to the fact that it contains five songs, and a cover song. The cover song is of Cream's song, "I Feel Free", which features drummer Taylor Hawkins on vocals, and lead vocalist Dave Grohl providing the drums.

Tracklist:
1. "Best of You" (live at The Quart Festival, Kristiansand, Norway, July 7, 2005) – 4:41
2. "DOA" (demo, appears on the "Resolve" single) – 4:11
3. "Skin and Bones" (appears on the "DOA" single) – 3:37
4. "World" (demo, appears on the "Resolve" single) – 5:40
5. "I Feel Free" (appears on the "DOA" single, originally performed by Cream) – 2:56
6. "FFL" [Fat Fucking Lie] (appears on the "Best of You" single) – 2:29

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Midnight Oil - Scream in Blue Live

Source: Wikipedia

Scream in Blue is a live album by Midnight Oil that was released in 1992 under the Columbia Records label.

Tracklist:
1. Scream In Blue 2:55
2. Read About It 3:52
3. Dreamworld 3:41
4. Brave Faces 4:59
5. Only The Strong 5:42
6. Stars Of Warburton 5:00
7. Progress 6:19
8. Beds Are Burning 4:04
10. Sell My Soul 4:10
11. Sometimes 3:29
12. Hercules 4:47
13. Powderworks 5:59
14. Burnie (Acoustic Version) 5:05

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Morrissey - Viva Hate (Limited Edition)

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Viva Hate is Morrissey's debut solo album, released on March 14, 1988. The album was considered Morrissey's very strong foray into a solo career, as he utilized his traditional lyrical style and retained the basic sound that The Smiths had developed by the time they broke up.

In 1997, EMI, in celebration of their 100th anniversary, released a special edition of this album in the UK. It features different cover work, and a different booklet, and features 8 bonus tracks - only one of which was contemporaneous with the album. "Hairdresser on Fire" does not appear on this version despite originally added to the North American version of the album as a bonus track.


Tracklist:
1. Alsatian Cousin 3:12
2. Little Man, What Now? 1:48
3. Everyday Is Like Sunday 3:34
4. Bengali In Platforms 3:53
5. Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together 1:38
6. Late Night, Maudlin Street 7:40
7. Suedehead 3:56
8. Break Up The Family 3:53
9. The Ordinary Boys 3:09
10. I Don't Mind If You Forget Me 3:16
11. Dial-A-Cliché 2:15
12. Margaret On The Guillotine 3:53
13. Let The Right One Slip In 2:26
14. Pashernate Love 2:17
15. At Amber 2:43
16. Disappointed (Live) 3:25
17. Girl Least Likely To 4:50
18. I'd Love To 4:48
19. Michael's Bones 3:08
20. I've Changed My Plea To Guilty 3:42

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Guns N' Roses - EP (Live from the Jungle)

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The second EP by Guns N' Roses was released in Japan only. The cover of the EP states Guns N' Roses, hence it is often called as such. It is also known as Live from the Jungle, named so because part of the large red text on the album's obi strip reads "raibu furomu za janguru", meaning "live from the jungle". This is a reference to the song Welcome to the Jungle, even though the song itself doesn't appear on the EP. The record has been released in LP, cassette, and CD format.

Tracks one, four and five were recorded live at the Marquee Club in London on June 28, 1987. Track two and three sound like live recordings, but are actually studio recordings with overdubbed crowd noise. Track 6 is the studio version from Appetite for Destruction. The cover features the banned Robert Williams artwork also used (but very briefly) for Appetite for Destruction.

Tracklist:
1. It's So Easy (Live) 3:55
2. Shadow Of Your Love (Live) 3:06
3. Move To The City (Live) 3:44
4. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Live) 4:40
5. Whole Lotta Rosie (Live) 4:30
6. Sweet Child O' Mine 5:57

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Live - Live at the Paradiso-Amsterdam

Source: Wikipedia

Live at the Paradiso – Amsterdam is Live's first live concert DVD. Chad Taylor has described it as "15 years of heartfelt love and dedication to our music... captured in high def, surround sound." Originally set to be filmed in Brazil, the material was finally recorded over a period of two nights at the Paradiso venue in Amsterdam. Two studio recordings, "Forever" and "Purifier", were recorded just before the album was to be completed.

Tracklist:

1. Simple Creed
2. All Over You
3. The River
4. The Dolphin's Cry
5. I Walk The Line
6. Selling The Drama
7. Lightning Crashes
8. Turn My Head
9. I Alone
10. Heaven
11. Lakini's Juice
12. Overcome
13. Operation Spirit
14. Dance With You
New Studio Tracks -
15. Forever
16. Purifier

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Keane - Live Recordings 2004 (EP)

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The EP Live Recordings 2004 was the first live album by English alternative rock band Keane, first released in late spring 2005. Six songs are featured on the record, recorded during the first part of the Hopes and Fears Tour. All tracks appear on the band's debut album, Hopes and Fears, excepting "Allemande" which appeared on the "This Is the Last Time" first version single.

Tracks:

1. "Somewhere Only We Know" (performed at The Forum, London, England on May 10, 2004)
2. "We Might as Well Be Strangers" (performed at Columbiafritz, Berlin, Germany on May 19 2004)
3. "Allemande" (performed at the BNN That's Live! session, Amsterdam, Holland on July 7 2004)
4. "This Is the Last Time" (Acoustic) (performed at Mill Streets Brewery, Toronto, Canada on September 20 2004)
5. "Everybody's Changing" (performed at Airwaves Festival, Reykjavic, Iceland on October 23 2004)
6. "Bedshaped" (performed at Brixton Academy, London, England on November 17 2004)

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The Fray - You Found Me (Single)

Source: Wikipedia

"You Found Me" is the first single from Denver-based piano rock band The Fray from their eponymous second studio album. The single has been digitally released in the U.S., Canadian, UK, Australian and French iTunes Stores. The song became the group's third single to sell 2,000,000 downloads in the United States, after "How to Save a Life" and "Over My Head. The song was ranked #13 on Billboard's Hot 100 Songs of 2009.

The video was shot in Chicago with Josh Forbes as the director and premiered on December 9, 2008, on VH1 and on the VH1 website. It depicts scenes of the band members in different roles- playing the song in the rafters of a steel building, unknown people, and the members of the band are standing on top of skyscrapers looking towards the sky, and at a car accident at which the band oversees those involved, somehow being their own "guardian angel". The video ends with all material objects being lifted into the air.

Tracks:

01. You Found Me 4:02 / 02. The Great Beyond 4:38

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Samu't saring araw

Sa aking titulo ay magtataka kayo, ano na naman kaya ito? Hindi po Linggo ng Wika pero aking mailalahad ng maayos itong entry na ito sa ating wikang Filipino, at siyempre mas inyong ikakasiya at ikakagalak.

Simula pa noong isang araw ay akin nang pinag-iisipan anu-ano ba ang gamit at saysay ng ating haring araw (in English, sun). Aking naitanong ito sa aking sarili ng isang hapon ay aking linisin ang kuwarto ng aming kasambahay na matapos magbakasyon sa kanilang probinsiya ay nagpasabi na hindi na raw babalik. Isa sa aking nilinis ay ang kanyang tulugang kama. Isa sa mga bagay na natutunan ko sa aking ina ay dapat daw laging ibinibilad ang mga kutson at unan. Ito naman ay may scientific na katutuhanan sapagkat ang init ng araw, or anumang init, ay nakakamatay/nakakabawas ng mikrobyo.

Kaya habang napapaisip ako, anu-ano pa ba ang silbi ng araw o may mga bagay ba na may kaugnayan ang araw sa ating pang-araw-araw na buhay. Eto ang mga ilan sa aking naisip (ang ibang ay pwedeng walang katutuhanan, bagkus ay kasabihan lang ng matatanda na ating namana at pwedeng pinaniwalaan):

1. Mainam daw na ibilad sa araw ang bagong silang na sanggol, dahil "may vitamin D" daw ang umagang sinag ng araw. May katutuhanan ito pero hindi ang araw ang may vitamin D.

2. Noong araw sa aming probinsiya, nakikita ko ang ilang matatanda na ang baterya ng kanilang transistor ay ibinibilad nila sa tirik na sikat ng araw sa tanghali. Ito raw ay para ma-recharge ang baterya. Okay fine, hindi pa uso nun ang rechargeable batteries, at puro Eveready pa nun. ;)

3. Sa probinsiya ulit, na huli kong nakita sa Cagayan at Isabela nung isang taon, ay ibinibilad ang palay sa national highway! Na kalahati ng kalsada ay sakop nila. Para daw mas madaling matuyo ang palay.

4. Wag daw maglalaro sa init ng araw, lalo na sa tanghali, at kukutuhin ka daw. Hayz, mga lola, hindi nyo ba alam na ang mga kalaro ng mga apo nyo ay may mga kuto na, kaya maski gabi sila mag Chinese garter at tumbang preso (meron pa ba nitong naglalaro?!) ay magkakakuto sila. Grrrr.....

5. Eto tutoo, pag may solar eclipse wag kang diretsong titingin sa araw at nakakasira ng mata. E maski naman walang eclipse e hindi ka rin makakatingin ng diretso sa araw, di ba?

6. Ang bungang araw ba ay bunga talaga ng araw?

7. Natatawa ako dati sa mga kakilala ko na nag pa-facial, takot na takot sa araw. Para silang aswang at bampira na ayaw na ayaw sa sikat ng araw. Tulad sa pelikula na matutunaw o mag-aapoy sila pag nadilaan ng araw ang mga balat at mukha nila. Pero wag ka, pagkatapos ng ilang araw e puro tagiyawat at pula pa rin ang mga mukha.

8. Eto classic, na ngayon ay may patalastas na sa TV. Pag daw umaaraw at umuulan ay may ikinakasal na tikbalang. Bata pa ako kasabihan na ito sa amin.

O sya, yan na muna, maliligo muna ako at mainit na.

The Wild Swans - Music and Talk from Liverpool

Source: Discogs

Label: Sire Records Company
Catalog#: PRO-A-3062
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1988
Genre: Non-Music, Rock
Style: Interview, Indie Rock

Tracklist:
1. Young Manhood 3:51
2. A Few Words From Jeremy Kelly 1:23
3. Mythical Beast 3:15
4. A Few More Words 0:51
5. Northern England 3:29
6. And Some More 1:00
7. Bible Dreams 3:17
8. Summing It All Up 1:21
9. Revolutionary Spirit 4:22

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The Ocean Blue - Introducing The Ocean Blue

Source: Amazon

Audio CD
Original Release Date: 1992
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sire Records/Warner Music, JAPAN.

Note: Japanese only release, issued on Sire Records/Warner Music, JAPAN, 1992, # WPCP-5146. Very scarce, out of print.

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My 88 best album covers

Shown below are 88 album covers who have left indelible marks to my consciousness. Some are simply iconic (Beatles, Scorpions, and Pink Floyd), while others are personal favourites - like Ocean Blue, Garbage, and Black Crowes.