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Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009.
Elektra was formed in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickholt, who both invested $300. The...
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Ride the Lightning
Ride the Lightning is the second album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984 by Megaforce Records and re-released by Elektra Records on November 19, 1984. Ride the Lightning has sold over 5 million copies in the U.S.. ...
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- Jul 7, 1984
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- 2,848.893 s (47.48155 min )
S&M
S&M; is a live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen, recorded on April 21-22, 1999 at Berkeley Community Theatre. This is the final Metallica album to feature bassist Jason...
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- Nov 23, 1999
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- 7,900 s (131.7 min )
The Doors
The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors, recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967. It features the breakthrough single "Light My Fire", extended with a substantial instrumental section mostly omitted on the...
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- Jan 4, 1967
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- 2,670.893 s (44.51488 min )
Beautiful Girls
Beautiful Girls (1996) is a film directed by Ted Demme and starring Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Mira Sorvino, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly, Natalie Portman, Martha Plimpton, Michael Rapaport and Rosie O'Donnell.
Screenwriter Scott...
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- Jun 30, 1996
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Three Imaginary Boys
Three Imaginary Boys is English rock band The Cure's debut album, released in May 1979 by Fiction Records. It was later released in the United States with a slightly different song line-up as Boys Don't Cry.
"Foxy Lady", a soundcheck with vocals...
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- May 11, 1979
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Strange Days
Strange Days is the second album released by American rock band The Doors. The album was a commercial success, earning a gold record and reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Despite this, the album's producer, Paul Rothchild, considered...
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- Oct 1, 1967
In My Tribe
In My Tribe is an album by folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant's songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986. Merchant...
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- Jul 7, 1987
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- 2,818.227 s (46.97045 min )
...I Care Because You Do
…I Care Because You Do is an electronic music album by Richard D. James, under the pseudonym of Aphex Twin. James' third studio album recorded under this moniker, the album was released on 24 April 1995.
The album is quite different from his past...
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- Apr 1, 1995
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- 3,832.027 s (63.86712 min )
Dysfunction
Dysfunction is Staind's second studio album and their first release on any label at all, in this case the Flip/Elektra label. "Just Go", "Mudshovel", and "Home" were released as singles. The song "Mudshovel" can also be found on their previous album...
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- Apr 13, 1999
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- 3,374.4 s (56.24 min )
Debut
Debut is the second studio album by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. The album was released in July 1993 on One Little Indian Records in the United Kingdom and Elektra Records in the United States. Björk worked with producer Nellee Hooper on the...
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- Jul 12, 1993
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- 2,906.093 s (48.43488 min )
Extinction Level Event
E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front is a hip hop album by Busta Rhymes, released on December 15, 1998 (see 1998 in music). It is the first album by Busta Rhymes to feature production by Swizz Beatz, as well as no contribution from...
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- Dec 8, 1998
Kill 'Em All
Kill 'Em All is the debut album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983. The album was recorded in only two weeks, between May 10 and May 27, on a small budget. Only 1500 copies were initially printed, however it has now...
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- Jul 13, 1983
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- 3,079.827 s (51.33045 min )
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan.
The film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward. Ward became...
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- Nov 25, 2003
The Cars
The Cars is the debut album by the Boston-based American new wave band The Cars, released in 1978. With the popular tracks "Just What I Needed" and "My Best Friend's Girl" getting heavy airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations, the album sold...
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- Jun 6, 1978
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- 2,113.467 s (35.22445 min )
Doolittle
Doolittle is the second studio album from the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD. The album's offbeat and dark subject material, featuring references to surrealism, Biblical violence, torture and death, contrasts...
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- Apr 18, 1989
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- 2,326.067 s (38.76778 min )
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Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week!
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! was the second album released by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes. The album was released in October 1989.
The name of the album was inspired by Mr. Toad from the famous children's book by...
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- Sep 25, 1989
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- 3,107.027 s (51.78378 min )
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Bossanova
Bossanova is the third album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in August 1990 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. All of Bossanova's original material...
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- Aug 7, 1990
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- 2,413.853 s (40.23088 min )
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The Prodigy Experience
Experience is the debut album by the English band The Prodigy. The album was released on 28 September 1992 through XL Recordings, and peaked at #12 in the charts in October.
The album artwork contains portraits and descriptions of the band members....
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England, Half-English
England, Half-English is a 2002 album by English political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, and a song from that album. The song is about racism in England and the anti-immigration feelings and racist abuse of asylum seekers fuelled by the tabloid...
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- Mar 5, 2002
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American garage rock singles released in the mid- to late 1960s. It was assembled by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, and Lenny Kaye, later lead guitarist...
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- 1972
Trompe le Monde
Trompe le Monde is the fourth and final album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in 1991 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. After the surf-pop of...
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- Oct 7, 1991
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film and is the brain-child of Cameron Crowe. It was adapted from Crowe's 1981 book where, as a freelance writer for Rolling Stone magazine, he went undercover at a California...
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- 1982
Stick Around for Joy
Stick Around For Joy released in February 1992 was the third and final album released by the Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes. In terms of quality fans usually rate the album somewhere between the band's acclaimed debut, Life's Too...
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- Feb 18, 1992
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- 2,264 s (37.73 min )
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Life's Too Good
Life's Too Good, released in April 1988, was the first album by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes, which brought fame to lead vocalist Björk. Through the first single, "Birthday", the Sugarcubes received attention in Europe and...
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- Apr 1988
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- 2,000 s (33.33 min )
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Candy-O
Candy-O is the second studio album by American new wave band The Cars, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music).
The album cover was painted by artist Alberto Vargas, known for his paintings of pin-up girls that appeared in Esquire and Playboy magazines...
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- Jun 12, 1979
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- 2,193.227 s (36.55378 min )
Ballbreaker
Ballbreaker is the 13th studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in September 1995. It was the band's first studio album in five years, since The Razors Edge (1990). The album featured the return of former drummer Phil Rudd, who...
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- Sep 26, 1995
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- 2,994.893 s (49.91488 min )
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Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Live Shit: Binge & Purge is a live box set by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1993. It contained three CDs or Cassette tapes as well as three VHS tapes, while a newer version contains two DVDs from concerts in San Diego on the...
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- Nov 23, 1993
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- 4,601.693 s (76.69488 min )
Stiff Upper Lip
Stiff Upper Lip is the 14th album by Australian band AC/DC; it was released in 2000. The album was recorded at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City. The album was produced by George...
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- Feb 28, 2000
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- 2,827.8 s (47.13 min )
Hampton Comes Alive
Hampton Comes Alive is a six-disc live album by the jam band Phish, released November 23, 1999. It consists of two full live concerts recorded on November 20-21 1998 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. The album title is a play on Peter...
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The Way I Am
The Way I Am is the debut studio album from West Coast hip hop artist Knoc-turn'al. It was released on March 23, 2004 by Elektra Records.
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- Mar 23, 2004
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Four Rooms
Four Rooms is a 1995 anthology film telling four stories set in a Los Angeles hotel on New Year's Eve. Tim Roth stars as the principal character of the frame tale; he also takes part to a greater or lesser degree in the four stories, which feature...
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- 1995
Kick Out the Jams
Kick Out the Jams is the first album by Detroit protopunkers MC5, released in 1969. It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween, 1968. In 2003, the album was ranked number 294 on Rolling Stone...
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- Feb 1969
Door to Door
Door To Door is the sixth and final studio album by American new wave band The Cars, released in 1987. While it was a mild commercial success, the album was critically panned.
Curiously, while the original album bears the credit "Produced by Ric...
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- Aug 11, 1987
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- 2,757.267 s (45.95445 min )
Live!! New York City 10/14/94
Live!! New York City 10/14/94 is a 1994 live album by They Might Be Giants which reproduced a concert given by the band on October 14 of the same year.
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- Nov 1994
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Scenes from a Memory
Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is the fifth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1999. It is a concept album that deals with the story of a man named Nicholas and the discovery of his past life, which...
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- Oct 26, 1999
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- 4,634.493 s (77.24155 min )
Floodland
Floodland is the second album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1987. Composed and produced by Andrew Eldritch, it marked a change of direction from guitar-oriented rock towards synthesizer-based productions. The record peaked at #9 in UK album...
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- Nov 13, 1987
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- 3,647.467 s (60.79112 min )
First and Last and Always
First and Last and Always, the debut album by UK band The Sisters of Mercy was released as a vinyl record on March 11, 1985, on band's own label Merciful Release under distribution contract with Eastwest/WEA. It has been described by songwriter and...
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- Mar 1985
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- 2,811.267 s (46.85445 min )
Vision Thing
Vision Thing, the third and last album by British gothic rock band The Sisters of Mercy, was released in 1990, on band's own label Merciful Release (under distribution contract with EastWest).
The album was designed by songwriter and singer Andrew...
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- Oct 1990
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- 2,557.733 s (42.62888 min )
A Slight Case of Overbombing
A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits Vol.1 is collection of all A-sides of The Sisters of Mercy singles released since the band was signed to Time Warner. It was released on August 23, 1993, on the band's own label Merciful Release (under...
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- Aug 23, 1993
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- 4,422.867 s (73.71445 min )
A Live One
A Live One is a live album by Phish. It was released on June 27, 1995 by Elektra Records and was the band's first live release, and the only "traditional" live album, mixing songs from several different shows into one composite set. The album was...
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Slip Stitch and Pass
Slip Stitch and Pass is a live album by Phish. It was released on October 28, 1997 by Elektra Records and features nine tracks from March 1, 1997, at the Markthalle Club in Hamburg, Germany, during Phish's European Tour. The album's title stems from...
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Train of Thought
Train of Thought is the seventh full-length studio album by progressive metal band Dream Theater.
Inspired by the audience response to Dream Theater's heavier songs while on tour, Train of Thought is widely considered their heaviest album to date....
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- Nov 11, 2003
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- 4,164.267 s (69.40445 min )
Galore
Galore is the second singles compilation by The Cure. It contains singles from the years 1987–1997. The song Wrong Number is the only new song on the album.
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- Oct 28, 1997
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Awake
Awake is the third studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1994. It is the last Dream Theater album to feature keyboardist Kevin Moore.
After the relative commercial success of Images and Words, the band went back...
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- Oct 4, 1994
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- 4,503 s (75.05 min )
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Falling Into Infinity
Falling into Infinity is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1997. It was recorded in 1997 at Avatar Studios in New York, a return from their previous release, the EP A Change of Seasons. It...
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- Sep 23, 1997
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- 4,699.293 s (78.32155 min )
Live at the Marquee
Live at the Marquee is a live album recorded at London's Marquee Club by progressive metal band Dream Theater.
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- 1993
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- 2,732.8 s (45.547 min )
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Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001
Join the Dots: B-sides & Rarities is a box set of The Cure, released in January 27, 2004 by their former record label Fiction (Elektra in North America). This box set is a four-disc compilation of b-sides and rarities, digitally remastered from...
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- Jan 27, 2004
Running Time:
- 17,698 s (294.97 min )
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg, is a three CD collection of Billy Bragg's greatest hits and b-sides, released on October 28, 2003. It consists of a double album and a disc of ten extras. Subscribers to Billy's website voted on...
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- Oct 28, 2003
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Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Visual Audio Sensory Theater is the debut album by the band VAST, released on April 28, 1998 by Elektra Records. The album mixed samples of Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur and Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, with an 18-piece orchestra,...
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- Apr 28, 1998
Running Time:
- 3,100 s (51.67 min )
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen. The record, released on November 2, 1981, is Queen's best-selling album globally, and the UK's all-time best-selling album. Combined with Greatest Hits II, it became the definitive...
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- Nov 2, 1981
Paintin' The Town Brown
Paintin' the Town Brown was the first Ween live album, released by Elektra Records on June 22, 1999.
Paintin' the Town Brown serves as a live retrospective for the group, a 2 CD set containing songs from Ween's very first live shows (which were...
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- Jun 22, 1999
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- 4,060.16 s (67.6693 min )
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Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is a 1980 album by English rock band Queen. It is the soundtrack album to the science fiction movie Flash Gordon, and features lyrics on only two tracks. The track "Flash's Theme" was the only single to be released from the album, under...
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- Dec 8, 1980
Running Time:
- 2,120.933 s (35.34888 min )
Istanbul
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a swing-style song, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. The tune is similar to and possibly based on the music for "Puttin' on the Ritz", written by Irving Berlin in 1929.
The lyrics refer to the...
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- May 14, 1990
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Eagles Live
Eagles Live is the first live album by the American rock band Eagles, a two-LP set released in 1980. The Eagles broke up on July 31, 1980 after their concert at Long Beach. However, the band still owed Warners a live record from the tour. Eagles...
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- Nov 7, 1980
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Heads and Tales
Heads & Tales is the first studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. (see 1972 in music). "Taxi" went to #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
All songs by Harry Chapin
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- Mar 11, 1972
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Greatest Stories Live
Greatest Stories Live is the first live album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1976, (see 1976 in music). Certain elements had to be re-recorded in the studio due to technical problems with the live recordings. The...
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- Apr 23, 1976
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Living Room Suite
Living Room Suite is the eighth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1978. (see 1978 in music).
All songs by Harry Chapin
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- Sep 10, 1977
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- 2,506.16 s (41.7693 min )
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Legends of the Lost and Found
Legends of the Lost and Found: New Greatest Stories Live is the second live album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). It featured ten new songs plus live versions of six tracks from recent albums....
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Their Greatest Hits
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is the fifth album by the American rock band the Eagles, a compilation of singles released on Asylum Records in 1976. As of November 2009, 29,000,000 copies have been shipped in the domestic market, making it the best...
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- Feb 17, 1976
Friction, Baby
Friction, Baby is Better Than Ezra's second album. It was released on August 13, 1996. After this album was released, they took the year off in 1997 after touring.
The album's title comes from a television interview with Keith Richards of the...
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- Aug 13, 1996
