Your Vinyl Store (April 14-20 and Beyond)
New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past Vinyl Releases.)
APRIL 14, 2017
CHUCK BERRY
“The Singles Collection” (three-LP, 48-song collection; Not Now Music) 
BILL CONTI
“The Right Stuff (Original Movie Picture Soundtrack)” (1983 album; Varѐse Sarabande)
DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
“Rock ‘N Soul, Part 1” (1983 best-of; RCA / Legacy)
BILLIE HOLIDAY
“The Platinum Collection” (three-LP, 42-song collection; Not Now Music)
THE AHMAD JAMAL TRIO
“The Awakening” (1970 album; Be With Records)
MOTÖRHEAD
“Motörhead” (1977 album), “What’s Words Worth?” (1983 live album, recorded in 1978; Back on Black)
PROCOL HARUM
“A Salty Dog” (1969 album; Music On Vinyl)
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APRIL 21, 2017
RANDY CALIFORNIA
“Kapt. Kopter and The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds” (1972 album; limited-edition white vinyl; Drastic Plastic)
REO SPEEDWAGON
“Live: You Get What You Play For” (1977 album; 180-gram audiophile blue vinyl; Friday Music)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track” (1977 album; Capitol / UMe)
APRIL 28, 2017
ELTON JOHN
“Elton John” (1970 album), “17-11-70” (1971 album), “Madman Across the Water” (1971 album), “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” (1975 album), “Too Low for Zero” (1983 album), “Songs From the West Coast” (2001 album; Island / UMe)
THE KINKS
“One for the Road” (1980 double live album; 180-gram audiophile pink vinyl; Friday Music)
NILSSON
“Aerial Pandemonium Ballet” (1971 album; Speakers Corner)
LEON RUSSELL
“Leon Russell” (1970 album; 180-gram blue translucent vinyl with gatefold sleeve; Audio Fidelity)
U2
“How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” (2004 album; On Tour; Merch)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“2017 GRAMMY® Nominees” (double LP; Atlantic)
MAY 5, 2017
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
“Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984-2014)” (Mute)
DESCENDENTS
“Everything Sucks 20th Anniversary” (1997 album; 180-gram LP + 7″, with download card; Epitaph)
MICKEY HART
“Planet Drum (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1991 album; won the Grammy for Best World Music Album in the first year of that category’s existence; two LPs; UMe)
JANIS IAN
“Breaking Silence” (1993 all-analogue album; 200-gram, 45 rpm vinyl pressing; two LPs; Hear here; Analogue Productions)
MIDNIGHT OIL
“Complete Midnight Oil Vinyl Collection” (11 studio LPs and two 12-inch EPs on 180-gram vinyl; remastered from the original tapes by Steve Smart at Studios 301, Sydney, and then mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road Studios; See here; Legacy / Sony Music Australia)
LEON RUSSELL
“Carney” (1972 album, featuring “Tight Rope”; 200-gram vinyl mastered from the original tape by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio; Analogue Productions)
U2
“U218 Singles” (2006 compilation; eBay; On Tour; Merch; Island / UMe)
JOE WALSH
“The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get” (1973 album; 200-gram vinyl; Analogue Productions)
MAY 12, 2017
BLINK-182
“Greatest Hits” (2007 compilation; SRCVinyl)
DAVID BOWIE
“Labyrinth (Original Soundtrack)” (1986 album; Capitol / UMe)
DONOVAN
“Barabajagal” (1969 album; Sundazed)
THE BILL EVANS TRIO
“Sunday at the Village Vanguard” (1961 album; UltraDisc one-step 45rpm two-LP box set; Mobile Fidelity)
EMMYLOU HARRIS
“Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers At The Ryman” (1992 album; Nonesuch)
WANDA JACKSON
“Rockin’ With Wanda!” (1960 album; Cornbread)
MASSIVE ATTACK
“Mezzanine” (1998 album; Virgin / UMe)
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
“Send Away the Tigers: 10 Year Collectors Edition” (2007 album; Columbia / Legacy)
THELONIOUS MONK / JOHN COLTRANE
“Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings” (three LPs; Concord Craft Recordings)
PRICK
“Prick” (1995 album; Nothing)
JOHN SEBASTIAN
“John B. Sebastian” (1970 album; Exhibit)
MAY 19, 2017
ANGELO BADALAMENTI
“Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1986 album; Varèse Sarabande)
BOX CAR RACER
“Box Car Racer” (2002 album; Geffen / UMe)
ROSANNE CASH
“Black Cadillac” (2006 album; Capitol / UMe)
CHILDISH GAMBINO
“Awaken, My Love!” (2016 album; double LP; Glassnote)
ENYA
“A Day Without Rain” (2000 album), “Amarantine” (2005 album; Reprise)
DAN FOGELBERG & TIM WEISBERG
“Twin Sons of Different Mothers” (1978 album; 180-gram audiophile clear vinyl, gatefold cover + poster; Friday Music)
GRAND FUNK
“We’re an American Band” (1973 album, produced by Todd Rundgren; Capitol / UMe)
MC HAMMER
“Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em” (1990 album; Capitol / UMe)
IRON MAIDEN
“The Complete Albums Collection 1990-2015” (three-LP box set; BMG / Sanctary)
THE KNACK
“Get the Knack” (1979 album; Capitol / UMe)
GEORGE MICHAEL
“Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1” (1990 album; Columbia / Legacy)
LINDA RONSTADT
“Heart Like a Wheel” (1974 album; Capitol / UMe)
MAY 26, 2017
BOOKER T. & THE MG’s
“Green Onions” (1962 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
“Spirit” (1976 album, featuring “Getaway” and “Saturday Nite”; Speakers Corner)
FLEETWOOD MAC
“Mirage” (1982 album), “Tango in the Night” (1987 album; Rhino / Warner)
LAURA NYRO
“Christmas and the Beads of Sweat” (1970 album; Pure Pleasure)
OTIS REDDING & CARLA THOMAS
“King & Queen (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1967 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
RUFUS THOMAS
“Walking the Dog” (1963 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
JUNE 2, 2017
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
“The Doobie Brothers” (1971 album; Friday Music)
HUMBLE PIE
“The A&M Vinyl Box Set 1970-1975” (nine LPs; A&M / UMe)
WILLIE NELSON
“The Willie Way” (1972 album; Friday Music)
STATUS QUO
“The Vinyl Singles Collection 1980-1984” (12 7-inch singles; Mercury / UMe)
U2
“The Joshua Tree” (seven-LP box set; 1987 album; remastered, with “Live At Madison Square Garden 1987,” remixes, outtakes, B-sides and an 84-page hardback book of unseen personal photography shot by The Edge during the original Mojave Desert photo session in 1986; On Tour; Merch)
JUNE 9, 2017
EN VOGUE
“Funky Divas” (1992 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
LUPE FIASCO
“Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool” (2007 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
JUNE 16, 2017
BIG STAR
“The Best of Big Star” (two LPs; Stax)
BRANDY
“Brandy” (1994 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
TIM BUCKLEY
“Happy Sad” (1969 album; red vinyl; 4 Men With Beards)
CAN
“CAN – The Singles” (three LPs; Hear here; Mute)
THE ELECTRIC FLAG
“Live 1968 (At the Carousel Ballroom)” (with guest Erma Franklin; Rockbeat)
ETTA JAMES
“The Right Time” (1992 album, produced by Jerry Wexler; Pure Pleasure)
MEAT LOAF
“Bat Out of Hell” (1977 album; Friday Music)
NAPPY ROOTS
“Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz” (2002 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
NINA SIMONE
“The Amazing Nina Simone” (1959 album; pink vinyl; 4 Men With Beards)
SLIGHTLY STOOPID
“Meanwhile … Back at the Lab” (2015 album; Stoopid / MRI)
TWISTA
“Adrenaline Rush” (1997 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
JUNE 23, 2017
JOSEPH ARTHUR
“Redemption’s Son 15th Anniversary Edition” (2002 album; remastered, with nine previously unreleased songs which formed a lost album titled “Morning Star”; Real World)
SPANDAU BALLET
“Through the Barricades” (1986 album; remastered; Epic / Legacy)
JULY 7, 2017
BETH ORTON
“Central Reservation” (1999 album; srcvinyl)
JULY 14, 2017
KYLE DIXON & MICHAEL STEIN
“Stranger Things (A Netflix Original Series) – Volume One” (two-LP box set), “Stranger Things (A Netflix Original Series) – Volume Two” (two-LP box set)
MISSY ELLIOTT
“Supa Dupa Fly” (1997 album; Rhino / Atlantic)
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