The B-52's - Cosmic Thing - VINYL LP

If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears) in 1976, you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled Inchwarm earth music for plants... and the people that love them,Inch it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the Moog. Before Brian Eno did it, Mort Garson was making discreet music. Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson wrote lounge hits, scored the 1969 moon-landing and plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell's InchBy the Time I Get to Phoenix.Inch But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls InchWhen my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn't want to do pop music anymore.Inch Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society's West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. InchMy mom had a lot of plants,Inch Darmet says. InchShe didn't believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible.Inch And she also knew when her husband had a good song. Novel as it might seem, Plantasia is simply full of good tunes. This marks the first official re-issue of the long sought-a er cult classic. Hearing Plantasia in the 21st century, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson and more an homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower around him.InchMy dad would be totally pleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,Inch Darmet says of Plantasia's new renaissance. InchHe would be fascinated by the fa

180g audiophile vinyl LP repressing of the band's 1979 album. Celebrating four decades of decibels, Kiss, Mercury Records and UMe proudly announce reissuing the legendary Kiss albums on 180g audiophile vinyl. Remastered to high definition 192kHz/24-bit audio for maximum fidelity, these albums have never sounded so amazing and now vinyl collectors will get what they've been demanding. All posters, sleeve art, stickers, etc that appeared in the original LP where applicable have been faithfully reproduced for the Kiss Army. Album Tracks 1. I Was Made for Lovin' You 2. Charisma 3. 2,000 Man 4. Magic Touch 5. Sure Know Something 6. Hard Times 7. Dirty Livin' 8. X-Ray Eyes 9. Save Your Love

Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (The Neptunes) have been the hottest producers in urban/pop music for years now. On their debut as performers they take a left turn from the hard hitting tracks they've produced for everyone from Jay-z to Britney Spears and give US a fresh, innovative, classic record. IN SEARCH OF Is the debut album from the hip-hop, rock, funk band N.E.R.D (No One Every Really Dies). The group is comprised of super producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, along with their longtime friend Shay Haley. Fusing rock and rap more forcefully and convincingly than any other album at the time, IN SEARCH OF successfully bridges the worlds of Pop/R&B and Alternative/Classic Rock into a blessed union of sound, making it one of the best albums of 2002. As part of the Respect the Classics series, UME will be putting this classic double LP back in print on white vinyl. The reissue also includes the original electronic version of 'Run to the Sun' as a bonus track. Album Tracks 1. Lapdance 2. Things Are Getting Better 3. Brain 4. Run to the Sun 5. Provider 6. Truth or Dare 7. Tape You 1. Run to the Sun 2. Baby Doll 3. Am I High 4. Rockstar 5. Bobby James 6. Stay Together