Sales Rank:12 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $6.62 Lowest Used Price: $6.61 Artist(s):
ABBA
Tracks:
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Take A Chance On Me
Mamma Mia
Lay All Your Love On Me
Super Trouper
I Have A Dream
The Winner Takes It All
Money, Money, Money
S.O.S.
Chiquitita
Fernando
Voulez Vous
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Does Your Mother Know
One Of Us
The Name Of The Game
Thank You For The Music
Waterloo
Anyone looking for the key to Abba's enduring appeal should look no further than "Voulez Vous" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" for their answer. There was an innocence to the Swedish quartet, even when they were singing about one-night stands and the invitations to them. Gold establishes that the band, while appreciated as campy, were actually multifaceted in their execution. "S.O.S." has a raw urgency in its chorus, and "Does Your Mother Know" draws its energy from classic '50s rock & roll. Likewise, you don't have to be Priscilla to swoon over "Mamma Mia" or "Dancing Queen." And when it comes to drama, those soaring vocals on "The Winner Takes It All" turn the song into a bitter anthem of every relationship that has ever fallen apart. The much-covered "Lay All Your Love on Me" is practically epic. --Steve Gdula
Sales Rank:7 List Price: $19.98 Lowest New Price: $11.98 Lowest Used Price: $10.53 Artist(s):
New Kids on the Block
Tracks:
Click Click Click
Single (New Kids on the Block & Ne-Yo)
Big Girl Now (featuring Lady Gaga)
Summertime
2 In The Morning
Grown Man (featuring Pussycat Dolls & Teddy Riley)
Dirty Dancing
Sexify My Love
Twisted
Full Service (featuring New Edition)
Lights, Camera, Action
Put It on My Tab (featuring Akon)
Stare at You
One Song
Don't Cry
Officially Over
Looking Like Danger
You know 'em, You love 'em, you can't live without them. New Kids on The Block are back with their first new music in 14 years. This is the deluxe version of the Block CD. It comes with 4 extra songs, a fold out poster booklet. Their recent appearance on the Today Show's summer concert series drew one of the biggest crowds the network has seen for such a show.
Sales Rank:131 List Price: $19.98 Lowest New Price: $13.24 Lowest Used Price: $13.29 Artist(s):
ABBA
Tracks:
Is there anything that simply screams the 1970s' most indelible pop cultural clichés--the sunny romanticism, perfect vocal hooks, feathered hair, stacked heels, and flared sateen britches--more than the Swedish pop phenomenon Abba? And while many a pundit snootily dismissed them during their prime as some sort of prefabricated aberration, their worldwide popularity peaked somewhere just south of Beatlesmania. Indeed, Abba's music was as finely tooled and crafted as anything to come from a Volvo or IKEA factory--if occasionally more economically potent. This double-disc, 37-track anthology comes neatly on the heels of Mama Mia!, the smash, if unlikely, Broadway show based on the band's hits, and documents every single released by the band's Polar label in their home country as well as key tracks released internationally.
This is the canon from whence the term "Europop" sprang. With a continental sense of vocal neoclassicism, informed by just the right ethnic clichés (and oft wed to the era's insistent 4/4 disco beat) to make songs like "Mama Mia," "Fernando," "Chiquitita," and "Voulez-Vous" work on a global scale, the writing team of Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and their respective partners in music and life, Agnetha Faltskog and Frida Lyngstad, developed the seamless, wall-of-sound productions contained herein. The Definitive Collection features a rare single remix of "Ring, Ring" and a 1979 promo-only extended mix of "Voulez-Vous" as bonus tracks, as well as a concise, illustrated history of the band and each track. --Jerry McCulley
Sales Rank:93 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $8.75 Lowest Used Price: $7.90 Artist(s):
New Kids on the Block
Tracks:
Step By Step
You Got It (The Right Stuff)
I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
Cover Girl
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)
Please Don't Go Girl
Tonight
Valentine Girl
Let's Try It Again
Hangin' Tough
If You Go Away
Baby, I Believe In You
Games (The Kids Get Hard Mix)
My Favorite Girl
The Right Combination (Bonus Tracks Seiko with Donnie Wahlberg)
Angel Of Love (Bonus Tracks Ana with Jordan Knight)
Stay The Same (Bonus Tracks Joey McIntyre)
2008 New Kids On The Block Mega Mix (Bonus Tracks)
They rose from the streets of Boston to become one of the best-selling pop acts of all time and influenced a generation. With the upcoming announcement of a world tour and a new album, New Kids On The Block are back in a big way. This new package includes all of the biggest hits from New Kids On The Block including "Hangin' Tough," "Step By Step" and "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)" plus rare bonus material + a new Mega Mix.
Sales Rank:47 List Price: $10.98 Lowest New Price: $6.39 Lowest Used Price: $6.40 Artist(s):
Tracks:
Bamboo Banga
Birdflu
Boyz
Jimmy
Hussel
Mango Pickle Down River
20 Dollar
World Town
The Turn
XR2
Paper Planes
Come Around
THIS CD FEATURES A FREE RINGTONE AND MOBILE PHONE WALLPAPER (see insert for details)
M.I.A. is hailed as one of the most freshly creative artists to hit the scene, paving the way for fierce and adventurous females to break the mold. With KALA, she pulls even more globe-trekking, and genre bending into her musical mix.
Recorded in India, Trinidad, Australia, London, New York and Baltimore, M.I.A. has crafted an international sound that is as excitingly undefineable as it is infectious.
The first single from KALA, "Boyz" was just listed at #1 Rolling Stone's Hot List, and #1 song of the Month in Blender magazine!
Sales Rank:119 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $8.13 Lowest Used Price: $6.74 Artist(s):
Madonna
Tracks:
Candy Shop
4 Minutes
Give It 2 Me
Heartbeat
Miles Away
She s Not Me
Incredible
Beat Goes On
Dance 2night
Spanish Lesson
Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Voices
Japanese pressing of Madonna's 2008 full-length album includes one bonus track, 'Ring My Bell'. Hard Candy is a brilliant uptempo collection that adds a hip-hop beat to the cultural icon's club sensibilities, thanks to collaborations with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, and Nate "Danja" Hills. Hard Candy punctuates the first 25 years of the album career of the most successful female artist in history with a musical exclamation point. 12 tracks..
Sales Rank:148 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $8.22 Lowest Used Price: $7.93 Artist(s):
Portishead
Tracks:
Silence
Hunter
Nylon Smile
The Rip
Plastic
We Carry On
Deep Water
Machine Gun
Small
Magic Doors
Threads
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation. --Louis Pattison
Sales Rank:134 List Price: $15.49 Lowest New Price: $7.58 Lowest Used Price: $7.00 Artist(s):
Santogold
Tracks:
L.E.S. Artistes
You'll Find A Way
Shove It
Say Aha
Creator
My Superman
Lights Out
Starstruck
Unstoppable
I'm A Lady
Anne
You'll Find A Way (remix)
"The future of music, today" - Rolling Stone 10 Artists To Watch. "Singing in a haunting, sensual wail...she adds a layer of softness to an unusual mix of synthesizers, dance hall rhythms, and percolating new wave" - NY Times. "Future-pop princess...next big thing" - Spin. "Santi White is Santogold...the collaborators and players may change, the sounds may shift, but at the center is one woman's indelible vision" - The Fader. SXSW / Coachella shows, 2007 tours with Bjork, M.I.A., songs featured in Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, Grand Theft Auto.
Sales Rank:278 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $9.78 Lowest Used Price: $7.36 Artist(s):
Prince
Tracks:
I Wanna Be Your Lover
1999
Little Red Corvette
When Doves Cry
Let's Go Crazy
Purple Rain
I Would Die 4 U
Raspberry Beret
Kiss
Sign 'O' The Times
U Got The Look
Alphabet St.
Thieves In The Temple
Gett Off
Cream
Diamonds And Pearls
Money Don't Matter 2 Night
Taken literally, this album's title is sure to cause endless arguments. Nothing from Dirty Mind, not a trace of the early anthem "Controversy," no "Erotic City"--no non-LP cuts at all, save some edited single versions--and a cold shoulder to the criminally out-of-print Gold Experience. Damn. As a compendium of 17 key A-sides from 1979 to 1992, however, The Very Best of Prince is (ahem) a quick-'n'-dirty review of the days when the Artist was, in the estimation of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, one of the weirdest musicians in the Top 10. Blessed with both creative cunning and the wish to reach every listener possible, Prince revitalized rock and soul modes from the sex-crazed ("Little Red Corvette") to the cryptically spiritual ("Purple Rain"). Often he blurred lines between attitudes as surely as he did musical ones; the New Testament image of "Thieves in the Temple" became in his hands a complaint about a stolen girlfriend. Though a fine party artifact, this disc is still likely to prove too scanty even for many casual Prince fans. --Rickey Wright