![The Dark Side of the Moon [Vinyl]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ESVCFE0SL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Amazon.com essential recording Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn’t rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like “On the Run,” “Time” and especially “Money” (with sampled sounds of clinking coins and cash re (more…)
Jun 15
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Get into the groove with the fully automatic PS-LX250H turntable from Sony. Hook the turntable up to any stereo and reacquaint yourself with all of your old vinyl records. The turntable is compatible with all stereo receivers, even units without traditional phono input jacks. The PS-LX250H doesn’t require a lot of setup out of the box. A built-in preamplifier adjusts the audio output, giving you a terrific sound. The phono cartridge with a diamond stylus needle snaps r (more…)
![In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516DZMQ1MGL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album, you know it’s going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum’s intonation lends credibility even to a line like “When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers.”
Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice’s looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn’t always make sense logically, feels like the (more…)
Jun 13
![In Rainbows [Vinyl]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61gGZcwziIL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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On the deliriously satisfying In Rainbows, Radiohead returns to a more straight-ahead (though subdued) rock sound. Much hubbub has been made about this record’s innovative release. Radiohead allowed fans to pay what they wished to download fairly low-resolution tracks from the band’s own website.
Like so many innovations, it already seems funny both that it was such big news and that someone else of similar stature hadn’t done it sooner. Some pundits were appalled that it (more…)
![Siamese Dream [Vinyl]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41H62046AHL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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An introductory drum roll drops out and is replaced by a single suspended electric guitar, which is then paralleled by a snare, filled in with the bass, and–crash!–”Cherub Rock,” the opening track, is enveloped in an explosion of metal guitar. So the journey begins. This album is pre-experimentation vintage Pumpkins. Produced by Butch Vig (Garbage, Sonic Youth, Nirvana’s Nevermind), Siamese Dream is first about guitars. Lots and lots of guitars. A ve (more…)