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Japanese only SHM paper sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players.

Boris (Japan): Takeshi (vocals, guitar, bass guitar); Atsuo (drums); Wata (sound effects).Personnel: Wata (guitar); Atsuo Okubo (drums, percussion).Recording information: Sound Square (2005).Since their inception, Japanese metal trio Boris (aptly named after a Melvins song) have maintained a relatively underground status, trafficking in brutal stoner rock; mood-altering Pink Floyd-style experiments in ambient electric psychedelia; and collaborations with avant-garde artists like Merzbow and Keiji Haino. On PINK, their highest-profile release to date, the group tries its hand at all three, and largely succeeds. Playing with incredible force and a deft hand at tempo and mood changes, PINK is at once crushingly heavy ("Blackout"), relentlessly thrashing ("Nothing Special"), and incredibly tranquil ("My Machine"). And with a lead guitarist as adept as Wata (a rare female member in a band of this stature) and the pummeling, gong-smashing drummer Atsuo, it should be no surprise how well it all comes together.

Savoy Jazz (USA)

Buro ( May 01, 2007 ), Genre: Rock & Pop

Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)

Personnel: Wata (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Takeshi (vocals, guitar); Atsuo (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Soichiro Nakamura.Recording information: Sound Square.Photographer: Miki Matsushima.Translator: Yoshiko Ikeda.Attention Please is one of two simultaneously released albums by Japan's Boris on the Sargent House imprint in 2011. The other is Heavy Rocks--not related to the 2002 album. It is also one of four planned full-lengths by the group during the calendar year. (The others are a collaboration with Masami Akita -- aka Merzbow -- entitled Klatter, and New Album, which mixes tracks from Attention Please and Heavy Rocks with other new material. The latter two are available only in Japan.) Until 2008's predictable Smile, Boris was always unpredictable. One minute they would be spiraling out of control with paint-peeling guitar histrionics, while another showcased walls of feedback and distorted percussion interspersed with moments of almost total silence. Attention Please comes as a very noteworthy and

Without a doubt, 1989's NO CONTROL is one of Bad Religion's best releases. This was one of the albums that helped bridge the band's more reckless earlier direction with their more focused (but just as pissed-off) '90s-era. If you're just discovering the band, NO CONTROL is a wise first purchase, on the strength of such cuts as 'Big Bang, ' 'Automatic Man, ' the title track, and 'I Want to Conquer the World.' NO CONTROL is one of punk's greatest all-time albums and a quintessential purchase for fans of the genre.Bad Religion: Greg Graffin (vocals); Mr. Brett (guitar, background vocals); Greg Hetson (guitar); Jay Bentley (bass, background vocals); Pete Finestone (drums). Recorded at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California in June 1989.Released:1989Genre:Rock Style:Punk TracklistA1 Change Of Ideas 0:54 A2 Big Bang 1:40 A3 No Control 1:44 A4 Sometimes It Feels Like...!?*%?* 1:32 A5 Automatic Man 1:38 A6 I Want To Conquer The World 2:16 A7 Sanity 2:44 B1 Henchman 1:03 B2 It Must Look Pretty Appealing 1:21 B3 You 2:06 B4 Progress 2:12 B5 I Want Something More 0:46 B6 Anxiety 2:08 B7 Billy 1:56 B8 The World Won't Stop Without You 1:52

MULE VARIATIONS won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. 'Hold On' was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. Since 1993's BLACK RIDER album consisted of music written by Waits and William Burroughs to accompany a Robert Wilson play, hard-liners consider '92's BONE MACHINE to be the last 'official' Waits album before the seven-year wait that ended with the release of MULE VARIATIONS. Unsurprisingly, Waits lives up to the expectations engendered by that lengthy wait. In fact, there are more stylistic threads connecting MULE VARIATIONS to BONE MACHINE than to BLACK RIDER. The chugging rock drive of the opener 'Big in Japan' (featuring Primus) recalls 'Goin' Out West.' 'What's He Building?' is a wonderfully devilish spoken word piece a la Ken Nordine (one of Waits' heroes) much akin to BONE MACHINE's 'The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today.' Waits also continues BONE MACHINE's exploration/deconstruction of traditional blues and gospel, making for some of MULE VARIATIONS strongest tracks (the bluesy 'Get Behind the Mule' and 'Chocolate Jesus'). Ultimately, with a few exceptions, this is Waits' most low-key, ballad-heavy album in some time, and he's at his simplest and most affecting on tunes like 'Take It With Me, ' which represent an unprecedented level of emotional nakedness in his writing.Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, pump organ, Chamberlain, optigon, percussion); Smokey Hormel (guitar, dobro); Larry Taylor (guitar, bass); Larry LaLonde, Marc Ribot, Joe Gore (guitar); Linda Delucia-Gbidossi (violin); Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond (harmonica); Larry Rhodes (bassoon); Ralph Carney (bass clarinet, reeds, alto saxophone, saxophone, trumpet); Nik Phelps (baritone saxophone); Chris Grady (trumpet); Greg Cohen (bass, percussion); Les Claypool, Dalton Dilligham III (bass); Andrew Borger (drums, percussion); Brain Mantia, Christopher Marvin (drums); Stephen Hodges, Jeff Sloan (percussion); Jacquire Ki

The Beautiful Australian Vocalist / Actress / Model's Third Album Arrives Almost Four Years after 2001's "White Lilies Island, " which Debuted at No. 35 on the Billboard 200 Chart. Produced by Ben Hillier (Doves, Blur), Imbruglia Ventures Out to Stretch her Sound and Artistry with a Much More Layered, Mature Instrumental Backup and Remarkably Greater Confidence.

Brightside Recordings ( April 04, 2005 ), Genre: Rock & Pop