2013

Rush har ända sedan mitten av 70-talet varit ett av de bästa och viktigaste banden inom den progressiva rocken, och albumen har hela tiden hållit en hög kvalitet. Denna underbara box innehåller samtliga studioalbum mellan åren 1989 och 2007 i snygga "mini-LP" konvolut. Som grädde på moset är det den remixade versionen av "Vapor trails" som återfinns här.

The Studio Albums 1970 - 1990 is a complete 10CD collection of ZZ Top's classic Warner Brothers years, housed in a clamshell box with CDs replicated in mini vinyl sleeves.<br/><br/>Much has been said about the quality of the CD formats of the albums released during the 1980s which use remixed audio rather than the original tapes. Fans and critics have continually complained about the bad reverb and added 80s drum sounds of these versions, rectifying this The Studio Albums presents for the first time the original audio masters on CD for First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas. It also includes the original masters for Tres Hombres and Fandango which were reissued in 2006.

Rising from the scene and sound of idyllic 1970's California, Eagles delivered six spectacular albums between 1972 and 1979- each yielding instant classics such as 'Take It Easy', 'Life In The Fast Lane', Lyin' Eyes', 'Take It To The Limit', 'Already Gone' and of course, 'Hotel California'- all of which are still in heavy rotation on radio stations worldwide, testament to the band's timeless success. Eagles have sold more than 120 million albums worldwide, scored five #1 singles, played countless sold-out tours throughout the world and earned six Grammy awards. The band look back at their career this spring with the release of a documentary called History Of The Eagles - The Story Of An American Band.<br/>Neatly packaged in clamshell box, this six disc box tells the Eagles' legendary story!

As if they need any introduction. Van Halen. One of the world's most legendary rock bands with some of the world's most unforgettable songs. This 6CD boxset documents the band's indelible history from their self-titled 1978 debut until the '1984' album, which was to be singer David Lee Roth's last record with the band until 2012. Included in this box are some of the band's best-known songs- 'Ain't Talkin''Bout Love', ' Runnin' With The Devil', 'Jump', 'Dance The Night Away', 'Unchained', 'Everybody Wants Some', 'Hot For Teacher' and 'Panama'. Van Halen have sold over 75 million albums worldwide.

Type O Negative: Complete Roadrunner collection [6 CD]

"No End" was recorded at Cavelight, Keith Jarrett's home studio, in 1986. In his liner notes he describes the setting:<br/><br/>"The Studio: Cables and cords everywhere. A drum set in the corner. Tablas and percussion, instruments of all kinds strewn around the room. A beautiful deep red Gibson solid-body on a vertical stand alongside a blond wood classic Fender bass in its stand, both in front of the same blond wood chair which was directly opposite the drums. The tablas were on my American Steinway. Microphone stands were in front of the guitars, holding (to the best of my knowledge) a Neumann stereo microphone, and I believe another identical microphone was on a boom over the tablas. All the other percussion was played using the room as the guide as to where to stand or how loud to play, though I had to do many tests to achieve some intuition about this. My studio is very small, so I didn't move the drum set at all, or the microphone while playing the drums.<br/><br/>In the control room were two Tandberg cassette recorders which were used exclusively for this project; so I would record something first, then overdub, using headphones as a guide to the volume or position I needed to use, then overdub (with headphones, always) again, each time transforming the new information to the 'other' machine. Then I would put the newly recorded tape in the first machine, start them both, and run into the studio to overdub or start the next piece. Not a single machine breakdown occurred despite the fact that no one was in the control room monitoring anything.<br/><br/>There was really, to my knowledge, no forethought or 'composition' (in the typical sense) going on; just a feeling or a rhythmic idea or a bass line concept or melody. But none of this was written down. Beginnings and endings were either hit-or-miss or just plain astoundingly intuitive.<br/><br/>I used a small mixing board and a little reverb to send the sound out to the headphones and simultaneously onto tape. I honestly can't remember a hell of a lot about the details, but somehow something happened during these days in the 80's that won't ever be repeated. I had wanted to record on drums most of my life, and when I got the tape out recently, I thought I'd better run with it.<br/><br/>(....) Drums were always with me in some way. (...) I have always been drawn to instruments that you touch directly, without a mechanism in between. Therefore, I cannot say I have ever loved the piano as much as the drums or the guitar. And, though I have a reputation for being in the acoustic world, I have always loved electric guitar."<br/><br/>.