Your Vinyl Store (March 3-9 and Beyond)
New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past Vinyl Releases.)
MARCH 3, 2017
BOB DYLAN
“The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert!” (2016 album; Columbia / Legacy) 
THE MONKEES
“Head Alternate” (1968 album; 180 translucent gold vinyl, with rare mixes, stereo versions and alternate tracks; mastered from the Colgems tapes by Joe Reagoso; Friday Music)
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
“A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” (2005 album; Fueled By Ramen) 
THIN LIZZY
“Renegade” (1981 album; Friday Music)
PETE TOWNSHEND
“Who Came First” (1972 album; Universal)
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MARCH 10, 2017
GUY CLARK
“Guy Clark: The Best of the Dualtone Years” (two LPs, 19 songs; Dualtone)
MILES DAVIS QUINTET
“Miles Davis Quintet: Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5” (2016 compilation; three LPs; Columbia / Legacy)
ELLA FITZGERALD & LOUIS ARMSTRONG
“Complete Studio Master Takes” (six-LP box set; Green Corner)
JOHN LEE HOOKER
“That’s Where It’s At!” (1969 album; Hear here; Stax)
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
“50 Song Memoir” (five-LP box set chronicles 50 years of frontman Stephin Merritt’s life with one song per year; producers: Merritt, Thomas Bartlett, Charles Newman; Hear here; Read here; Nonesuch)
GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA
“The Glenn Miller Carnegie Hall Concert” (recorded in October 1939 and released in 1958; remastered, with six bonus tracks; Vinyl Passion)
PERE UBU
“Drive, He Said 1994-2002” (four-LP box set; Read here; Fire)
SELENA
“Dreaming of You” (1995 album; two LPs; EMI Latin)
SLY & ROBBIE
“Sly & Robbie Present Taxi Gang In Disco Mix Style 1978-87” (double album; Cree)
ELLIOTT SMITH
“Either/Or: Expanded Edition” (1997 album; remastered, with a second LP containing five live multitrack recordings from the Yo Yo A Go Go Festival in Olympia, Wash., in 1997, plus three previously unreleased studio recordings and one B-side, “I Figured You Out”; Hear here; Kill Rock Stars)
SOUNDGARDEN
“Ultramega OK (Deluxe Edition)” (1988 album, with six bonus tracks; Sub Pop)
STATUS QUO
“The Vinyl Singles Collection 1972-1979” (7-inch single box set; Read here; Island / UMe)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
“The Boston Tea Party July 11th 1969” (double album; Spyglass)
STEVIE WONDER
“Live at the Regal Theater Chicago, June 1962” (Jambalaya)
MARCH 17, 2017
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
“3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of …” (1992 album; Capitol / UMe)
JOE COCKER
“Mad Dogs & Englishmen” (1970 album; double LP; A&M / UMe)
COUNTING CROWS
“August and Everything After” (1993 album; two LPs), “Recovering the Satellites” (1996 album; two LPs; Geffen / UMe)
THE CRANBERRIES
“No Need To Argue” (1994 album; plum red vinyl; Plain)
BEN FOLDS FIVE
“The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner” (1999 album), “Songs For Silverman” (2005 album; Analog Spark)
PETER GABRIEL
“Peter Gabriel/Car (33 RPM Version)” (1977 album), “Peter Gabriel/Scratch” (1978 album), “Peter Gabriel/Melt (33 RPM Version)” (1980 album), “Peter Gabriel/Security (33 RPM Version)” (1982 album), “So (33 RPM Version)” (1986 album), “Us” (1992 album), “Up (33 RPM Version)” (2002 album; each vinyl was cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Gabriel’s main sound engineer, Richard Chappell; Real World)
LINDA RONSTADT
“Living in the USA” (1978 album; 180-gram audiophile translucent blue vinyl; Friday Music)
RUN-D.M.C.
“King of Rock” (1985 album; Get on Down)
LEON RUSSELL
“Carney” (1972 album, featuring “Tight Rope”; 200-gram vinyl mastered from the original tape by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio; Analogue Productions)
PETE TOWNSHEND
“Empty Glass” (1980 album; clear vinyl, 180-gram half-speed mastered), “All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes” (1982 album; clear vinyl, 180-gram half-speed mastered; Universal)
STEVE WINWOOD
“Back in the High Life” (1986 album), “Roll With It” (1988 album; Island / UMe)
MARCH 24, 2017
GLEN CAMPBELL
“Gentle On My Mind” (1967 album), “Wichita Lineman” (1968 album; Capitol Nashville / UMe)
GIN BLOSSOMS
“New Miserable Experience” (1992 album), “Congratulations I’m Sorry” (1996 album; A&M / UMe)
THE BILL EVANS TRIO
“Sunday at the Village Vanguard” (1961 album; UltraDisc one-step 45rpm two-LP box set; Mobile Fidelity)
THE BILL EVANS TRIO
“On a Monday Evening” (previously unreleased concert, recorded at Union Theater in Madison, Wis., on Nov. 15, 1976; Fantasy / Concord Bicycle Music)
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
“Live Album” (1970 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Friday Music)
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)
PAUL McCARTNEY
“Flowers in the Dirt” (1989 album; two LPs, with nine original demos; Capitol)
NEW YORK DOLLS
“New York Dolls” (1973 album), “Too Much Too Soon” (1974 album; Mercury / UMe)
OTIS REDDING
“Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings” (1966 performances; 180-gram double LP set; Stax)
MARCH 31, 2017
DEANA CARTER
“Did I Shave My Legs For This?” (1996 album; Capitol Nashville / UMe)
THE DOORS
“The Doors (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1967 album; three-CD, one-LP set includes the original stereo mix, original mono mix, an LP-version of the mono mix, a March 1967 concert at The Matrix in San Francisco and a hardcover book; Rhino)
JANIS IAN
“Breaking Silence” (1993 all-analogue album; 200-gram, 45 rpm vinyl pressing; two LPs; Hear here; Analogue Productions)
THE AHMAD JAMAL TRIO
“The Awakening” (1970 album; Be With Records)
REBA McENTIRE
“Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope” (2017 album; two LPs; Nash Icon / Big Machine)
JOE WALSH
“The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get” (1973 album; 200-gram vinyl; Analogue Productions)
THE WHATNAUTS
“Introducing the Whatnauts” (1970 album, featuring “I’ll Erase Away Your Pain” and “Message From a Black Man”; Music On Vinyl)
APRIL 7, 2017
THE KINKS
“One for the Road” (1980 double live album; 180-gram audiophile pink vinyl; Friday Music)
WILSON PICKETT
“The Best of Wilson Pickett, Vol. II” (1971 compilation; Friday Music)
QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS
“96 Tears” (1966 album; mastered at 45 RPM; Real Gone Music)
THE TRAMMPS
“The Best of the Trammps – Disco Inferno” (1977 compilation; Friday Music)
APRIL 14, 2017
BLINK-182
“Greatest Hits” (2007 compilation; SRCVinyl)
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)
MOTÖRHEAD
“Motörhead” (1977 album), “What’s Words Worth?” (1983 live album, recorded in 1978; Back on Black)
APRIL 21, 2017
RANDY CALIFORNIA
“Kapt. Kopter and The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds” (1972 album; limited-edition white vinyl; Drastic Plastic)
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
“Spirit” (1976 album, featuring “Getaway” and “Saturday Nite”; Speakers Corner)
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
BIG STAR
“The Best of Big Star” (two LPs; Stax)
MAY 5, 2017
DONOVAN
“Barabajagal” (1969 album; Sundazed)
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)
MAY 12, 2017
JOHN SEBASTIAN
“John B. Sebastian” (1970 album; Exhibit)
MAY 19, 2017
ANGELO BADALAMENTI
“Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1986 album; Varèse Sarabande)
ENYA
“A Day Without Rain” (2000 album), “Amarantine” (2005 album; Reprise)
GEORGE MICHAEL
“Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1” (1990 album; Columbia / Legacy)
NILSSON
“Aerial Pandemonium Ballet” (1971 album; Speakers Corner)
JUNE 2, 2017
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)
JULY 28, 2017
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
“The Doobie Brothers” (1971 album; Friday Music)
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