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Singles Collection

Import exclusive compilation includes ten CD singles in individual wallet sleeves housed together within a CD bin-sized flip-top display box. Includes 3 original mono mixes never before on CD. Also includes the rare US single version of ‘Stepping Stone/Izabella’. All singles feature original sleeve and label artwork. 16 page full color booklet featuring exclusive liner notes and photos. Experience Hendrix/MCA. 2003.

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Crack a Smile & More

Crack A Smile…And More by Poison

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Poison fans will love this: unapologetic, full-on raunch ‘n roll and tongue-in-cheek power ballads. Crack a Smile consists of 12 tracks of unrequited glam-punk, including a drunken late-night rendition of Dr Hook’s “Cover of the Rolling Stone” and the anthemic “Best Thing You Ever Had.” And the More! offers bonus outtakes, the B-sides, and the self-deprecating “Tragically Unhip.” All this, plus four of Poison’s top 10 singles, as recorded live on MTV’s Unplugged in 1990. The highlight? The heavy, albeit acoustic version of “Unskinny Bop,” replete with screaming girls and loose harmonies. –Everett True

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Heathen [Limited Edition w/Bonus Disc]

Heathen is, in essence, the first “traditional” Bowie album worthy of kudos in years, as it successfully reunites Bowie with producer Tony Visconti, the man at the controls during Bowie’s Berlin period. Heathen finds rock’s greatest chameleon once again remolding his past, advancing to new vistas by moving up that metaphorical hill backward. Even more gratifying is the universally high quality of the songwriting craftsmanship on offer, where even a ditty as frivolous as “Everyone Says ‘Hi’” (“Don’t stay in a sad place where they don’t care how you are”) hits the mark. For heavyweights who like their Bowie with furrowed-brow, the monastic aura of opener “Sunday” sounds like a post-rock Enigma covering Nico’s interpretation of Tim Hardin’s “Eulogy to Lenny Bruce,” whilst the strident savagery evidenced on an apt cover of the Pixies’ “Cactus” disposes with Frank Black’s hound-dog yelp and reasserts the melody without undermining the original’s obsessional score. Tin Machine ought to have sounded like this. Watch out, too, for the Robert Fripp-impersonating flamethrowing of Pete Townshend on “Slow Burn” and the guitar of the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl lending a slacker swagger to a cover of Neil Young’s “I’ve Been Waiting for You” (again, much better than Tin Machine’s live version). Heathen proves that Bowie’s still got it. All of it. And in abundance. Awaken all ye nonbelievers. –Kevin Maidment

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