Just as Blondie's second album, Plastic Letters, was a pale imitation of their self-titled debut, Eat to the Beat, their fourth album, was a secondhand version of their breakthrough third album, Parallel Lines: one step forward, half a step back. There was an attempt, on such songs as "The Hardest Part" and "Atomic," to recreate the rock/disco fusion of the group's one major U.S. hit, "Heart of Glass," without similar success, and, elsewhere, the band just tried to cover too many...   [ read more ]

CD $11.38

VINYL FORMAT. There can only be one Bongo Joe, and that is the incredible George Coleman. Bongo Joe is perhaps the world's only virtuoso player of the empty oil drum, a man so ingenious that he could even turn petroleum refuse into something musical and sublime. Recorded on the streets of San Antonio in 1969 by Chris Strachawitz (Arhoolie Records). Bongo Joe drums on his oil cans with a thunderous, tympani-like effect, while discoursing rambling, insightful and hilariously funny lyrics that are often times...   [ read more ]

LP $14.99

Other people also bought:

Colossal Yes  Charlemagne's Big Thaw, Various Artists  Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always, Eleventh Hour  Team That Never Wins/Bulletproof

VINYL FORMAT. Triple LP. eat is compiled by Kurtis Mantronik and features a mixture of Old-School Hip-Hop, Disco, Electro and Club-tracks. They reflect the sound of the New York clubscene that Kurtis Mantronix was so much a part of in the 1980s -- where he moved between the exclusive worlds of Hip-Hop, Electro and Disco/House with ease. Kurtis Mantronix is a true legend. As well as his own material Mantronix has produced and remixed literally hundreds of other artists: Joyce Simms, EPMD, India, T La Rock, ...   [ read more ]

3xLP $26.99

Other people also bought:

Ultra Living  Transgression, Jake Mandell  Love Songs for Machines, Kill The Man Who Questions  Number One Asshole