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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.
Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers,...
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Blood on the Tracks
Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 15th studio album, released by Columbia Records in January 1975. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia after a two-album stint with Asylum Records.
The album, which followed several years of...
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- Jan 20, 1975
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- 51 min 41 s
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"Love and Theft"
"Love and Theft" is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 31st studio album, released by Columbia Records in September 2001. The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception....
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- Sep 11, 2001
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- 57 min 32 s
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Wednesday Morning, 3 AM is the debut album by folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, released October 19, 1964. It was produced by Tom Wilson and engineered by Roy Halee. It initially flopped, but was re-released in January 1966 to capitalize on their newfound...
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- Oct 19, 1964
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Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits is the first compilation album from Simon & Garfunkel, released on June 14, 1972 well after the pair broke up.
The album was a unique mix of original studio recordings and four previously unreleased live...
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- Jun 14, 1972
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- 44 min 20 s
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The Paul Simon Song Book
The Paul Simon Songbook is the first solo album by Paul Simon. It was recorded in London and released in the United Kingdom in 1965 and was supposedly deleted in 1979 at Simon's request. It was made available in the USA as part of the LP box set...
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- Aug 1965
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Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the...
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- Dec 1988
Dexter's Laboratory
The central protagonist, creator and owner of the laboratory, and a junior mad scientist; red-haired, 8 years old. He speaks with an Eastern European or German accent which is not explained; none of the other members of his family have distinctive...
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- Aug 20, 2002
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The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the second album by Bruce Springsteen and the as-yet-unnamed E Street Band, and is described by Allmusic as "one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll." It was released in 1973. The...
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- Sep 11, 1973
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
The War of the Worlds stars Richard Burton as the narrator-protagonist, Justin...
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- 1978
Look into the Future
Journey's second album, Look into the Future, was released in January 1976 on the Columbia Records label.
For their second album, the members of Journey toned down the overt progressiveness of their first, self-titled release, in favor of a more...
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- Jan 1976
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Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's sixth studio album, released in August 1965 by Columbia Records. It is Dylan's first album to be recorded entirely with a full rock band, after he experimented with the approach on half of...
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- Aug 30, 1965
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- 51 min 39 s
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land (スーパーマリオランド, Sūpā Mario Rando) is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo for the Game Boy handheld game console. It and the Game Boy debuted in Japan on February 21, 1989, in the United States in July 31, 1989, and in Europe...
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- Sep 1, 1989
Animals
Animals is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. Released in January 1977, it is a concept album that provides a scathing critique of the social-political conditions of 1970s Britain and presents a marked change from their earlier...
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- 1977
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- 41 min 50 s
Ixnay on the Hombre
Ixnay on the Hombre is the fourth studio album by the American punk band The Offspring. Released on February 4, 1997 it was the follow-up to the highly successful Smash and also the band's first collaboration with record producer Dave Jerden. While...
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- Feb 7, 1997
Running Time:
- 42 min 26 s
Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. A concept album, Red Headed Stranger is about a fugitive on the run from the law after killing his wife. Sparse and jumbled, with brief, poetic lyrics, no one...
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- 1975
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- 33 min 56 s
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Raw Power
Raw Power is the third album by American rock band The Stooges, released in 1973. Raw Power was largely ignored upon its release, and the group broke up in obscurity a few years later. However, it was embraced by a small, rabid fan-base that...
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- Feb 1973
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the second studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on Def Jam Recordings in the United States on April 14, 1988.
The album is frequently cited as one of the most celebrated and...
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- Jun 28, 1988
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- 58 min
Abraxas
Abraxas is the second album by Santana, the Latin rock n' roll group led by guitarist Carlos Santana. Consolidating their live success at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and the interest generated by their first album the band took some time to...
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- Sep 1970
Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and...
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- Aug 17, 1959
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- 45 min 10 s
Piano Man
Piano Man is a rock album by Billy Joel, released in 1973. Piano Man, Joel's second album and his first with Columbia Records, emerged out of legal difficulties with his former label, Family Productions, and became his breakthrough album. However,...
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- Nov 2, 1973
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- 43 min 40 s
Bringing It All Back Home
Bringing It All Back Home is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's fifth studio album, released in March 1965 by Columbia Records.
The album is divided into an electric and an acoustic side. On side one of the original LP, Dylan is backed by an electric...
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- Mar 22, 1965
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- 47 min 29 s
The Basement Tapes
The Basement Tapes is a studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records.
As Dylan recovered from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, he summoned the Band and began to record both new compositions...
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- Jul 1, 1975
Running Time:
- 39 min 22 s
Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here is the seventh studio album by English rock group Pink Floyd, released in September 1975. Inspired by material they composed while performing across Europe, it was recorded over numerous sessions at London's Abbey Road Studios....
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- Sep 15, 1975
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- 44 min 11 s
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick is the debut album by hip hop performer Slick Rick, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music), three years after releasing his famous song with beatboxer Doug E. Fresh, "La Di Da Di". While Slick Rick's distinctive...
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- May 2, 1988
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- 50 min 23 s
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Myers plays Charlie McKenzie, a man afraid of commitment until he meets Harriet (Travis), who works at a butcher shop and may be a serial killer. In addition...
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- Jul 27, 1993
Live at Bond's Casino
The Clash played a series of 17 concerts at Bond's International Casino in New York City in May and June 1981 in support of their album Sandinista!. Due to their wide publicity, the concerts became an important moment in the history of the band....
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- 2000
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Facelift
Facelift is the debut studio album by the grunge band Alice in Chains. The album was released on August 21, 1990. The album has been certified two times platinum by the RIAA for sales of two million copies in the United States.
Local promoter Randy...
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- Aug 20, 1990
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- 54 min 10 s
The Nylon Curtain
The Nylon Curtain is the eighth studio album by Billy Joel. It was released by Columbia Records on September 23, 1982 and produced by Phil Ramone.
The Nylon Curtain peaked at number seven in the Billboard album charts, with two million sales in the...
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- Sep 23, 1982
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- 41 min 58 s
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Fear of a Black Planet
Fear of a Black Planet is the Grammy Award-nominated third album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on March 20, 1990 on Def Jam Recordings. This album debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 (in the week of May 26, 1990), and was the...
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- 1989
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- 1 h 3 min 21 s
Bitches Brew
Bitches Brew is a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in April 1970 on Columbia Records. The album continued Davis' experimentation of electric instruments previously featured on his critically acclaimed In a Silent Way album....
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- Apr 1970
Running Time:
- 47 min 2 s
Splinter
Splinter is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on December 9, 2003. It was the first album the band released without drummer Ron Welty and also the first to have a Parental Advisory label on some album covers...
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- Dec 1, 2003
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- 32 min 5 s
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a studio album by Pink Floyd released by EMI Records on 8 September 1987, in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by Columbia Records. It was the band's first release after the departure of...
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- Sep 7, 1987
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- 51 min 15 s
Almost Blue
Almost Blue is an album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was recorded May 1981 in Nashville, and released on October 23, 1981. The record's songs consist entirely of country covers, including works originally written by Hank Williams, Merle...
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- Oct 23, 1981
The Division Bell
The Division Bell is the final studio album by Pink Floyd, released in 1994 (30 March on EMI in the United Kingdom and 5 April on Columbia in the United States), and their second album without Roger Waters. It was recorded at a number of studios,...
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- Mar 30, 1994
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- 1 h 6 min 32 s
A Saucerful of Secrets
A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by Pink Floyd. It was recorded at EMI's Abbey Road Studios at various dates from August 1967 to April 1968. Due to Syd Barrett's declining mental state, this was to be the last Pink Floyd album he...
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- Jun 29, 1968
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- 39 min 31 s
This Year's Model
This Year's Model was Elvis Costello's second album and his first with The Attractions, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). It was recorded mainly at Eden Studios in West London.
It was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz &...
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- Mar 17, 1978
Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor was Billy Joel's first solo album, and was released in 1971. He had already released several albums as a member of the bands The Hassles (1966 to 1969) and Attila (1970). This was his first solo effort. It was released by Family...
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- Nov 1971
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- 30 min 14 s
Streetlife Serenade
Streetlife Serenade is Billy Joel's third album, and his second with Columbia Records.
Streetlife Serenade was released in 1974 (see 1974 in music), after the hit songs "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack" from the album Piano Man. The album did not enjoy...
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- Oct 11, 1974
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- 37 min 52 s
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Turnstiles
Turnstiles was the fourth album by Billy Joel, released in 1976. In part, the album was made to celebrate Joel's return to New York City after his sojourn in California. Three of the album's tracks reference New York: "Summer, Highland Falls", "New...
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- May 1976
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- 36 min 30 s
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Bigger and Deffer
Bigger and Deffer (Sometimes BAD or Bigger And Deffer) is the second studio album by rapper LL Cool J and is remembered most for containing the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "I Need Love". It also contains the single "Go Cut Creator Go...
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- Jul 22, 1987
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- 45 min 21 s
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records.
Dylan's debut album, Bob Dylan, had featured just two original songs. Freewheelin' contained just two covers, the traditional...
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- May 27, 1963
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- 50 min 10 s
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The River
The River is a double album by Bruce Springsteen released in 1980.
The sources of The River go back into earlier parts of Springsteen's recording career. "Independence Day", "Point Blank", "The Ties That Bind", "Ramrod", and "Sherry Darling" were...
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- Oct 10, 1980
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is a concept album by English musician Roger Waters. Some notables assisting Waters during the recording of the album were conductor Michael Kamen, actor Jack Palance, saxophonist David Sanborn and guitarist Eric...
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- May 1984
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is the eponymous debut album from the American artist of the same name. It was released on March 19, 1962 on Columbia Records, when Dylan was 20 years old. It features two original compositions, the rest being old folk standards, and was...
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- Mar 19, 1962
Running Time:
- 36 min 48 s
Head Hunters
Head Hunters is the twelfth album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 on Columbia Records. The album is a key release in Hancock's career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz fusion. It was ranked as number 498 in the book version of Rolling...
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- Oct 13, 1973
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's fourth studio album, released in August 1964 by Columbia Records.
Consistent with its title, the album marks a shift away from the more overt, issue-oriented folk music that Dylan had...
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- Aug 8, 1964
Running Time:
- 50 min 44 s
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A Collection of Great Dance Songs
A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by Pink Floyd released on 23 November 1981 on Harvest/EMI in the UK and Columbia Records in the United States. The album was released against the will of Roger Waters.
The title is facetious,...
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- Nov 23, 1981
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Switched-On Bach
Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos (then Walter Carlos) and Benjamin Folkman, produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and released in 1968 by CBS Records. It played a key role in popularising classical music performed on electronic...
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- 1968
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Americana
Americana is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring, released on November 17, 1998 (see 1998 in music). It debuted at 2 on the US Billboard 200 with around 174,000 copies sold in its first week, and has sold more than 15...
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- Nov 9, 1998
Running Time:
- 43 min 44 s
Nashville Skyline
Nashville Skyline is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's ninth studio album, released by Columbia Records in April 1969.
The album marked a dramatic departure for Dylan, previously known for his groundbreaking, poetic folk music and rock'n'roll. Nashville...
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- Apr 9, 1969
Running Time:
- 27 min 10 s
Reality
Reality is an album by the British singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in 2003. The album was well received by fans and critics and was one of Bowie's most critically acclaimed albums since Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), alongside Heathen....
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- Sep 16, 2003
Running Time:
- 49 min 26 s
Only You
Only You is Harry Connick Jr.'s 17th album from Columbia Records, released in February 2004 consisting of versions of songs from the 1920s to the 1960s. A Grammy nominated album, which has made the top ten album charts on both sides of the Atlantic...
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- Feb 3, 2004
Running Time:
- 50 min 29 s
Jar of Flies
Jar of Flies is the third studio EP by the Seattle, Washington grunge band Alice in Chains, released on January 25, 1994 through Columbia Records.
Following Alice in Chains' extensive 1993 world tour for Dirt and appearance at Lollapalooza, the band...
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- Jan 24, 1994
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- 30 min 54 s
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers is The Firesign Theatre's third comedy recording for Columbia Records, released in 1970. In 1983, The New Rolling Stone Record Guide called it "the greatest comedy album ever made" .
This was The Firesign...
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- 1970
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P*U*L*S*E
Pulse (stylized as P•U•L•S•E) is a live double album by Pink Floyd, released through EMI Records on 29 May 1995, in the United Kingdom and by Columbia Records on 6 June 1995, in the United States, containing songs from their albums The Piper at the...
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- May 29, 1995
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I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy recording made by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records. It was released in 1971 and is the last of a tetralogy, comprising their first four albums.
This album, like its predecessor Don't...
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- 1971
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Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains is the eponymous third studio album by the American grunge band Alice in Chains. Released on November 7, 1995, it was the follow-up to the highly successful Dirt. It marks the band's last studio album to feature vocalist Layne Staley...
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- Nov 7, 1995
Running Time:
- 1 h 4 min 56 s
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, is a collection of polished studio tracks and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Being unsatisfied with material recorded in the summer of 1996 and early in 1997, Buckley worked on many demos to reach...
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- May 26, 1998
Imperial Bedroom
Imperial Bedroom is a 1982 album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was the second Costello album, along with Almost Blue, not produced by Nick Lowe, the production duties handled by Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. "I wanted to try a few...
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- Jul 2, 1982
John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's eighth studio album, released by Columbia Records in December 1967.
Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to acoustic music and traditional roots, after three albums of...
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Release Date:
- Dec 27, 1967
Running Time:
- 38 min 32 s
