The Runaways - The Queens of Noise - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Digitally remastered edition of the second album from the girls that turned the heads of the post punk era with the all-female rock band. Originally released in 1977, this album was hailed as a pop metal pinnacle for the band. Includes tracks like InchI Love Playin' with FireInch, InchTake It Or Leave ItInch and the ballads InchMidnight MusicInch and InchHeartbeatInch this album was seen as a concept album of sorts, about the roller-coaster ride of being a young band in decadent Hollywood. With production by Fowley and Earle Mankey (ex-Sparks guitarist), this is a glittering, driven rock album from the original girl power band with Joan Jett on rhythm guitar, Sandy West on drums, Lita Ford on lead guitar, Jackie Fox on bass and Cherrie Currie on lead vocals.

2008 repressing of the all-girl Rock 'N' Rollers' album, originally released in 1979. The album has been a continuous seller and contains nine of their best, including their version of the S*x Pistols Black Leather'. Also features 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now', 'Little Lost Girl' and more. Cherry Red.

We all envied her, because all that we had to struggle so hard to achieve seemed so natural and self-evident to her because she knew how to sing from the heart said Elisabeth Schwarzkopf of her colleague IRMGARD SEEFRIED. Collected here are Seefried's complete recital recordings for Deutsche Grammophon as well as highlights from her recordings of opera and sacred music for the tag and includes material both unpublished and new to CD. Irmgard Seefried was a revered artist among lovers of natural singing, wrote the critic Alan Blyth. 'The emotions, grave or gay, are expressed directly, unfussily, genuinely, in that peculiarly outgoing manner that was this artist's supreme gift.' This gift illuminates song repertoire from Bach to Bartók and beyond in a newly compiled and remastered set of her recital albums recorded by Deutsche Grammophon in the 1950s and 60s. 'If I were condemned to hear only one voice for the remainder of my life I think it might well be hers,' wrote Blyth on another occasion (a reissue of the 1953 'Liederabend' anthology of concert performances). 'If I wanted to be charmed, to laugh or to cry I would find her the perfect companion.' The core of the set is formed by several albums of Romantic Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf. As well as an imaginative collection of Goethe settings, there is an album of Heine and Schumann, poetry and song, in which the recited portions are reissued on CD for the first time. The set includes two appendices, both also new to CD Seefried's contribution to the DG audio documentary series 'Erzähltes Leben', and 'Erik Werba Accompanies You', in which the soprano's regular recital partner plays the piano part for famous Lieder (with the idea that the listener at home will take the sung line for themselves). Seefried also made several opera recordings as well as sacred music for Deutsche Grammophon. Generous excer