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- Last reviewJuly 20, 2015
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![Brothers in Arms [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4027/4027715_sa.jpg)
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from Woodstock, GA
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Dire Straits' landmark "Brothers In Arms" is essential listening for audiophiles. Amazing to hear how clear Mark Knopfler and company's ideas were 30 years ago, and how fresh most of those ideas sound today. Best songs? The incredible bookends of "So Far Away" and the title track, and the languorous "Why Worry."
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Slow Train Coming [Remastered] [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6630/6630327_sa.jpg)
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4
Dylan's great crossroads album
on July 5, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
"Slow Train Coming" is a terrific, eloquent bookend to Dylan's underrated 1970 classic "New Morning" and the culmination of his Seventies experiments in songcraft. A lot of listeners consider "Slow Train Coming" as the beginning of Dylan's "bizarre" gospel turn, an unfair assessment given the riches in his songwriting and the superior craftsmanship of his backing band (check out Mark Knopfler's beautiful guitar work on "Precious Angel"). All Dylan was really doing was taking his music higher. This album is the missing link between "Blood on the Tracks" and "Oh Mercy" and worth paying attention.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 [CD/DVD] [Best Buy Exclusive] [CD & DVD]](https://bestbuy.ugc.bazaarvoice.com/profiles/3545w/static/noimage70.gif)
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5
A must for serious Stones fans
on July 5, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
Here's something long overdue: a rare club show from The Rolling Stones when they were at a point where they could do no wrong and every song they released was reinventing rock music over and over again. A mandatory purchase for serious Stones fans, especially for the truly intense live versions of "Midnight Rambler" and "I Got The Blues."
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/3290/3290102_sa.jpg)
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4
The best Van Morrison album in a decade
on April 27, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
Here's a surprise: it took the long-exhausted "Duets" concept for Van Morrison to create his best album since his underrated 2005 work "Magic Time." The closest Van the Man comes to covering one of his best-known songs is his duet with Michael Buble of "Real Real Gone;" but for all intensive purposes, this is a loving resurrection of some of the finest songwriting in his catalog. If "Wild Honey," Van Morrison's duet with Joss Stone, doesn't captivate you, no song of his likely will.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Led Zeppelin [Deluxe Edition] [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6151/6151082_sa.jpg)
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5
Still sounds fresh after all these years
on February 21, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
It's Led Zeppelin I, an absolute masterpiece of heavy blues ("Dazed and Confused"), proto-punk ("Communication Breakdown") and even avant-folk ("Black Mountain Side"). Not their best album (that honor goes to Physical Graffiti) or most famous (Led Zeppelin IV, of course) though this debut is essential for any Zeppelin fan.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/8331/8331022_sa.jpg)
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4
Proof of one of rock's great visionaries
on January 11, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
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Robert Plant's "lullaby... and The Ceaseless Roar" is eloquent, streamlined rock with exploratory attitude and pan-global sonics to match the songs' rootsy fundamentals. It is a strong, visionary extension of Plant's previous 2010 album "Band of Joy" and evidence that, even after more than 4 decades of music, complacency is not a word in his musical dictionary.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Monuments to an Elegy [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9926/9926237_sa.jpg)
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4
Smashing Pumpkins 2.0 for beginners
on January 11, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
"Monuments to an Elegy" is a catchy, terrific sounding album. It is the shortest album in the Smashing Pumpkins' catalog with 9 songs in just more than 30 minutes, all succinct and radio-ready. Of all the band's music in the post-D'arcy/Iha era, this is easily the best way to get into their recorded output of the last decade. That said, for long-time fans expecting typically epic Smashing Pumpkins, "Monuments to an Elegy" will sound strangely incomplete. Hopefully that will be remedied for their next album.
Also an important note: I think the sound quality of the CD is far superior to that which you may hear through streaming and download: the guitars sound much louder in the mix on CD, while the keyboards sound much louder in the mix on iTunes.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Superunknown [Best Buy Exclusive] [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6336/6336519_sa.jpg)
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5
A monster Nineties masterpiece
on January 11, 2015
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
Soundgarden's "Superunknown" stands as one of the greatest albums of the Nineties and for good reason: it absolutely rocks like crazy, relentless in its drive, ambition and focus without losing any of the danger and edge the band was known for in its early years. This 2-CD Deluxe Edition, shockingly, was better than I even expected. It includes the original vinyl bonus track "She Likes Surprises" and liberally different takes on much of the original album's songs. Of all the format variations of this reissue, this Deluxe Edition is really the way to go: 5 CDs with the Super Deluxe Edition is costly overkill and surely for hardcore fans only, while the single CD version will certainly have you wanting more.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Songs of Innocence [Deluxe Edition] [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9301/9301121_sa.jpg)
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5
Best U2 album in 14 years
on November 16, 2014
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
U2's "Songs of Innocence" has been unfairly maligned by many music critics and the public at large, I think likely due to its controversial initial distribution. Which is a real shame, because "Songs of Innocence" is easily their strongest album since their 2000 classic "All That You Can't Leave Behind." While U2 sound no longer concerned with revolutionizing the musical landscape, they seem much more interested in revisiting the violent environment that informed their "Boy" through "War" era and drove them to be the band they became - which the band does with unsettling focus and tight attention to lyrical detail. U2 is still the ultimate postpunk band at heart, a concept mostly frowned upon nowadays but needed now more than ever. Though "Songs of Innocence" was initially distributed for free, it is well worth every penny (though this 2-CD deluxe edition is more for serious fans). Do U2 and yourself a favor and buy the album.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
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![Ryan Adams [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/8309/8309114_sa.jpg)
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5
Ryan Adams' best in nearly a decade
on September 12, 2014
Posted by: MusicNerdClub
from Woodstock, GA
Verified Purchase:Yes
Ryan Adams has been writing and recording great music for nearly 18 years now when he started with his old band Whiskeytown and went solo in 2000. His albums are consistently good, though not always consistently great. This self-titled album, his first in 3 years, is one of his greats. There is a real reason why the album is self-titled: it exemplifies everything that makes him a singular artist in modern rock and country-rock today: real moodiness, killer hooks, musicianship that is unafraid to let loose and deeply felt lyrics. A lot of his fans will point to Ryan Adams' first 2 albums, "Heartbreaker" and "Gold," and perhaps his 2-CD country-rock classic from 2005 "Cold Roses" as best entry points into his stellar catalog of albums; this album joins that specific pantheon and may actually be the best entry point of them all.
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
My Best Buy number: 0211242831
What's great about it: This album exemplifies everything that makes Ryan Adams one of the great modern singer-songwriters
What's not so great: One more song, please? You can never have enough when his music is this good
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