Thanks for this Nic, gonna start owing you beers now

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Sorry to be a Mardy-Moo, but is there any chance of a Blue Oyster Cult stoooodio "Best Of" ?

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FH

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The Essential Blue Oyster Cult

01. Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
02. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters
03. Harvester Of Eyes
04. Astronomy
05. (Don't Fear) The Reaper
06. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
07. Godzilla
08. I Love The Night
09. In Thee
10. Black Blade
11. Burnin' For You
12. Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
13. Shooting Shark
14. Take Me Away

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The Black Eyed Peas - Translation

01. RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)
02. FEEL THE BEAT
03. MAMACITA
04. GIRL LIKE ME
05. VIDA LOCA
06. NO MA
07. TONTA LOVE
08. CELEBRATE
09. TODO BUENO
10. DURO HARD
11. MABUTI
12. I WOKE UP
13. GET LOOSE NOW
14. ACTION
15. NEWS TODAY

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With Angel Headed Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex as our featured Album of the Week, celebrate two artists we lost too soon - T. Rex' Bolan, the boogie glam superstar whose life was cut short by a 1977 car crash, and album producer Hal Willner, who we lost to the Corona virus in April.

Marc Bolan worked for years to become a star - arriving on the scene around 1965, just in time to hopscotch from psych pop with John's Children to spaced out hippie folk as leader of Tyrannosaurus Rex, before shortening the name and simplifying their sound to become one of England's most popular artists of the '70s, fronting T. Rex as they scored hits like Jeepster, Telegram Sam, Metal Guru, and his only US hit, Bang a Gong. Rivaling his frenemy David Bowie for the first half of the decade, "T-Rextasy" took England by storm, and while the punks, ego, and indulgences kicked Bolan off his pedestal by '76, he appeared poised for a comeback when he died in September 1977, leaving behind a young son and wife (Gloria Jones - US soul singer who released the original version of Tainted Love) - along with a clutch of songs and a sound that have inspired generations of rockers ever since. With his whimsical rhymes and "car and guitar as girl and star" metaphors, covering a T. Rex song is like a right of passage for thousands of musicians.

But it's the twist on Bolan's songs that makes Angelheaded Hipster such an interesting collection. Producer Hal Willner, who made a jump from doing music for Saturday Night Live to producing albums by the likes of Lou Reed, Marianne Faithful, and Lucinda Williams, while also gaining a reputation for his skill at crafting compilations and tribute albums, organizing an eclectic stable of artists to cut everything from tributes to Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus, and even Pirate Songs (you haven't lived til you've heard Bono sing a sea shanty).

For the T. Rex tribute Willner invited some of his usual contributors - from U2 (with Elton John on piano) to Lucinda Williams, Todd Rundgren, David Johanson, Nick Cave, and Gavin Friday, but also added in curveballs - like Peaches, Kesha, Father John Misty, Sean Lennon, King Khan, Gaby Moreno, and even Nena - of 99 Luftballoons. The results are dizzying - and pushes Bolan's music into directions he never explored. Instead of taking the songs modern or rocking, a lot of the performances bring an almost stately quality - there's definitely more vibes and stand-up bass than I expected!

Not unlike the early Velvet Underground songs of Willner's old friend Lou Reed, the childlike simplicity of T. Rex songs opens up limitless possibilities, and that's what makes Angel Headed Hipster such an enjoyable tribute record. The album veers from Kesha and Joan Jett rocking out to U2 taking us to New Orleans, Peaches to the disco, Todd Rundgren channeling Bill Murray's lounge singer, from delicately sweet performances from Devendra Banhart and Father John Misty, and dramatic readings from Soft Cell's Marc Almond and Nick Cave. Not every reinvention works, but enough do to make this final project of Willner a joy to listen to, and illustrates how much more there was to Marc Bolan's songs than what appeared at the surface.

Various Artists - Angel Headed Hipster

Ballrooms of Mars
Bang a Gong (Get It On) (Reprise)
Beltane Walk
Children of the Revolution
Cosmic Dancer
Dawn Storm
Diamond Meadows
Great Horse
Hippy Gumbo
I Love to Boogie
Jeepster
Life's a Gas
Main Man
Mambo Sun
Metal Guru
Organ Blues
Pilgrim's Tale
Planet Queen
Rock On
Scenescof
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn _ Ride a White Swan
Solid Gold, Easy Action
Teenage Dream
The Leopards
The Street and Babe Shadow

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Yo mr.a, requesting some pre op tooonz please, all upcoming releases so if not available then obviously no worries

Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism

OSees - Proteen Threat

Deftones - Ohms

Roger Waters - Us + Them

Well you did ask

Cheers nic, The Cronx will not have enough stock for you when you eventually set foot back here

What can this strange device be?
When I touch it it gives forth a sound.

Eagles fit fans squad number 21, group 2

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