Dire Straits - The Studio Albums 1978-1991 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Breakthrough Debut Launched Heart's Hall of Fame Career Dreamboat Annie Blends Electric and Acoustic Elements, Includes the Classics 'Magic Man' and 'Crazy on You'50th Anniversary Edition of 1975 Album Features Audiophile Sound Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Revealing Clarity and Broad DynamicsHeart's breakthrough debut, Dreamboat Annie, has often been framed in the context of a female-led band successfully matching the moves of it's male counterparts during an era when women weren't associated with rocking out - particularly on a mainstream level. While that take is true - Ann and Nancy Wilson practically stood alone amid a commercial age dominated by testosterone - it undersells the appeal, scope, and craftsmanship of an album that deserves to be revered strictly because of it's merit, not because of the gender of the group's principal members. Fueled by alluring arrangements that balance electric and acoustic elements, Dreamboat Annie went platinum and spawned three hit singles within a year of it's . It all foreshadowed a Hall of Fame career guided by the Wilson sisters' toughness and determination.Mastered at MoFi's in-house studio, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set puts the record's artistic significance in proper perspective. Presented in definitive sound, it invites you to hear with stellar clarity the diverse architecture, passionate playing, and fervent emotions that help make Dreamboat Annie an all-time classic. This 50th anniversary edition marks the first time Heart's opening salvo has been available in audiophile quality on vinyl in more than four decades. Drop the needle and experience the textures of the guitars, full range of Ann Wilson's voice, spacious backdrops, and rhythmic momentum free of veiled tones and artifici

Eight CD set. This Dire Straits - Live 1978-1992 set features remastered, extended, and unreleased recordings from some of their most coveted live albums and performances. The collection includes Live At The Rainbow, Alchemy, On The Night, Encores, Live At The BBC, plus artwork prints and exclusive 16-page booklet. Album Tracks 1. Once Upon a Time in the West (Live) 2. Industrial Disease (Live) 3. Expresso Love (Live) 4. Romeo and Juliet (Live) 5. Love Over Gold (Live) 6. Private Investigations (Live) 7. Sultans of Swing (Live) 1. Twisting By the Pool (Live) 2. Two Young Lovers (Live) 3. Portobello Belle (Live) 4. Tunnel of Love (Live) 5. Solid Rock (Live) 6. Telegraph Road (Live) 7. Going Home (Theme from Local Hero) [Live] 1. Calling Elvis (Live) 2. Walk of Life (Live) 3. Heavy Fuel (Live) 4. Romeo and Juliet (Live) 5. Private Investigations (Live) 6. Sultans of Swing (Live) 7. Fade to Black (Live) 8. Your Latest Trick (Live) 9. When It Comes to You (Live) 10. I Think I Love You Too Much (Live) 1. You and Your Friend (Live) 2. On Every Street (Live) 3. Two Young Lovers (Live) 4. Tunnel of Love (Live) 5. Telegraph Road (Live) 6. Money for Nothing (Live) 7. Brothers in Arms (Live) 1. Down to the Waterline (Live 1978) 2. Six Blade Knife (Live 1978) 3. Water of Love (Live 1978) 4. Wild West End (Live 1978) 5. Sultans of Swing (Live 1978) 6. Lions (Live 1978) 7. What's the Matter Baby (Live 1978) 8. Tunnel of Love (Intro The Carousel Waltz) [Live 1981] 1. Down to the Waterline (Live) 2. Six Blade Knife (Live) 3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Live) 4. Lady Writer (Live) 5. Lions (Live) 6. Sultans of Swing (Live) 7. Les Boys (Live) 8. Portobello Belle (Live) 9. News (Live) 10. What's the Matter Baby (Live) 1. Down to the Waterline (Live) 2. Six Blade Knife (Live) 3.

A minor audio complication with Kind of Blue has been addressed with our UHQR edition, and now with this 331/3 RPM double LP reissue.The motor on the studio's 3-track master recorder was running slowly the day of the album's first session. This speed issue affected the album's first three tracks, 'So What, Freddie Freeloader' and 'Blue in Green,' making them a barely perceptible quarter-tone sharp. Before now, it was only addressed in 1995 for the Classic Records edition and by Columbia Records - or their latter-day parent, Sony Music - on a CD reissue in the late '90s. This edition also contains on Side 4 'Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)' cut at 45 RPM.Legends have a way of sticking around. If there was ever an album awaiting a high-fidelity, custom-pressed vinyl treatment of the level you now hold in your hands, it is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. The top-selling jazz album of all time, it has been lauded, entered into 'Best Of' lists and Halls of Fame, and universally acknowledged as a landmark recording - a five-track masterpiece of melancholy mood and melody.It continues to be one of the most listened-to and studied recordings of all time, a required primer for many young musicians, and one of the most transcendent pieces of music ever recorded. Davis played trumpet sublime with his ensemble sextet featuring pianist Bill Evans, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley with Wynton Kelly playing piano on 'Freddy the Freeloader.'Kind of Blue is more than Miles Davis's most enduring recording, it's a testament to Miles' experimental approach, drastically simplifying modern jazz by returning to melody unlike the chord complexity more often heard at the time. 'The music has gotten thick,' Davis complained in a 1958 interview for The Jazz Review. '... There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities