Uncle Jam Wants You

Uncle Jam Wants You Review

UK deluxe digipak edition of their classic album. Almost as if Clinton and company wanted to atone for parts of One Nation Under A Groove, Uncle Jam Wants You takes not merely a more daring musical approach but a more forthright political stance. The cover art alone is brilliant, front and back showing Clinton in Huey P. Newton's famous Black Panther pose. Originally released in 1979. Charly. 2006.

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam Review

Pearl Jam Feature

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If its debut album 15 years ago made Pearl Jam apprehensive with success, the Seattle quintet better buckle in for a return to eminence. On its eighth studio release--and first since 2002--the band socks away the adventurous experimentation that dogged some of its most recent records to investigate a post-September 11, war-ravaged world overflowing with urgency and significance. "It's the same everyday in a hell manmade/What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?" lead singer Eddie Vedder wonders in "World Wide Suicide," one of several contemptuous rants on the Bush administration. Yet the album's spark is more than political. Songs like "Life Wasted," "Comatose" and "Big Wave" embrace the garage-rock past, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard play off each other with the primal lucidity of a decade ago and drummer Matt Cameron, one of rock's best, adds raw backing vocals to Vedder's polished craft. But Pearl Jam also turns up some of its most harmonious works since "Daughter," including "Marker in the Sand," with its radio-ready chorus, the tuneful "Parachutes" paced by Gossard's divine strumming, and the burning narrative and Urge Overkill punch of "Umemployable." Finally Vedder pleads for a lover's return in "Come Back," a keyboard-soaked love song complete with a chilling Gossard solo. It's got a soulfulness that begs for Sam Cooke to sing it and an originality that shows that a vibrant and cocksure Pearl Jam is back in town--and ready to retake the world. --Scott Holter

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Japanese pressing of their 2006 album with no extras.13 tracks. J Records.

Def Jam 25th Anniversary Box Set

Def Jam 25th Anniversary Box Set Review

Note: The included t-shirt size is XL

In Billboard magazine in November of 1984, a little story three-paragraphs long announced the creation of a new record label called Def Jam. "The purpose of this company," said a young artist manager named Russell Simmons, "is to educate people to the real value of real street music by putting out records nobody in the business would distribute but us."

Twenty-five years later, `the real value of real street music" can be measured not just in billions of dollars, but in the changed complexion of all of the following xpressions of creative endeavor: music, movies, television, language, dance, fine art, graphic art, fashion, advertising, automobiles, jewelry, video games, and politics...and not just in America, but globally. If any one entity can be said to have sparked these changes - and to have continued to stand for street music and the culture that birthed it, namely, hip-hop -- it is Def Jam Recordings.

The Def Jam 25th Anniversary set is a collection hits from the labels chart topping stars and cultural icons. Includes Jay-Z, Kanye West, Ludacris, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, DMX, Young Jeezy, Method Man, Redman and more!

Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Pearl Jam

Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Pearl Jam Review

Rockabye Baby transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. Guitars and drums are traded for soothing mellotrons, vibraphones and bells, and the volume is turned down from an eleven to a two. Rockabye Baby! is the perfect way to share the music you love with the littlest rocker in your life. Are new baby's cries turned up to ten? Need an alternative to the nightly riot act? When it's you vs. them, these sweet lullaby renditions of Pearl Jam's rock anthems are as comforting as a warm flannel blanket. Just breathe, Mom and Dad it's sleeptime in Seattle.

Babies Go Pearl Jam

Babies Go Pearl Jam Review

Babies Go Pearl Jam Feature

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Let's Jam! CD Blues & Rock

Let's Jam! CD Blues & Rock Review

The let's jam series will take your playing to the next level. Recorded in a state-of-the-art studio with live musicians, you'll be surrounded by the music as you create your own sound. Includes a helpful instruction booklet complete with chord progressions and soloing tips.