It's always best to count the good things in this life:
here's some excellent music of all kinds from the first decade of the century,
with Music Players!
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BEST ALBUMS: 2000-2004
BEST ALBUMS: 2005-2010
BEST REISSUES: 2000-2010
BEST BOX SETS: 2000-2010
A L B U M S:
This player contains songs from the following albums,
in the same order.
• ELASTICA, "The Menace"
• NIKKA COSTA, "Everybody Got Their Something"
• THE HIVES, "Veni Vidi Vicious"
• HOOVERPHONIC, "The Magnificent Tree"
• FINLEY QUAYE, "Vanguard"
• FASTBALL, "Harsh Light Of Day"
• BUTTHOLE SURFERS, "Weird Revolution"
• JURASSIC 5, "Quality Control"
• PEACHES, "The Teaches of Peaches"
• ELLIOTT SMITH, "Figure 8"
• GALACTIC, "Late For the Future""
• THE SPRAGUE BROTHERS, "Forever And A Day"
• GOLDFRAPP, "Felt Mountain"
• Various Artists/Soundtrack, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• CHICKS ON SPEED, "Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All!"
• ORANGER, "The Quiet Vibration Land"
• JOHNNY CASH, "Solitary Man"
• SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED, "Thirteen Cosmic Standards By Sun Ra & Funkadelic"
• MISS LUDELLA BLACK, "She's Out There"
• R.L. BURNSIDE, "Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down"
• GILLIAN WELCH, "Time (The Revelator)"
• BOB DYLAN, "Love And Theft"
• BECK, "Sea Change"
• LADYTRON, "604"
• SAM PHILLIPS, "Fan Dance"
• SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, "Jennie Bomb"
• LOS SUPER SEVEN, "Canto"
• SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, "Rings Around The World"
• MYSTIC, "Cuts For Luck And Scars For Freedom"
• GORILLAZ, "Gorillaz"
• SLOAN, "Pretty Together"
• AIR, "10,000 Hz Legend"
• BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, "Spirit Of The Century"
• THE DETROIT COBRAS, "Life, Love, And Leaving"
• SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, "Rings Around The World"
• LE TIGRE, "Feminist Sweepstakes"
• SWAG, "Catchall"
• THE GOSSIP, "That's Not What I Heard"
• MOFRO, "Blackwater"
• TINA AND THE TOTAL BABES, "She's So Tuff"
• LOS LOBOS, "Good Morning Aztlan"
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, "Songs For The Deaf"
• JOI GILLIAM, "Star Kitty's Revenge"
• ELVIS COSTELLO, "When I Was Cruel"
• BLACKALICIOUS, "Broken Arrow"
• WONDERMINTS, "Mind If We Make Love to You?"
• RY COODER & MANUEL GALBAN, "Mambo Sinuendo"
• CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE, "A Good Tip For A Good Time"
• COMMON, "Electric Circus"
• THE FLAMING SIDEBURNS, "Save Rock'n'Roll"
• YOHIMBE BROTHERS, "Front End Lifter"
• ECHOBRAIN, "Echobrain"
• JURASSIC 5, "Power In Numbers"
• GEORGE HARRISON, "Brainwashed"
• DRESSY BESSY, "Sound Go Round"
• THE LUCKY BISHOPS, "Grimstone"
• OF MONTREAL, "Aldhils Arboretum"
• THE RAVEONETTES, "Whip It On"
• CODY CHESTNUTT, "The Headphone Masterpiece"
• THE BLACK KEYS, "The Big Come Up"
• SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS, "Dap Dippin"
• ED HARCOURT, "From Every Sphere"
• TONY ALLEN, "Homecoming"
• SUPERGRASS, "Life On Other Planets"
• THE GO, "The Go"
• KOMEDA, "Kokomemedada"
• WIRE, "Send"
• THE BANGLES, "Doll Revolution"
• AL GREEN, "I Can't Stop"
• SINEAD O'CONNOR, "She Who Dwells..."
• THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, "Electric Version"
• JANE'S ADDICTION, "Strays"
• KILLING JOKE, "Killing Joke"
• YEAH YEAH YEAHS, "Fever To Tell"
• THE JAYHAWKS, "Rainy Day Music"
• BETH GIBBONS + RUSTIC MAN, "Out of Season"
• LYRICS BORN, "Later That Day"
• DANDY WARHOLS, "Welcome to the Monkey House"
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS, "World Without Tears"
• IGGY POP, "Skull Ring"
• SHONEN KNIFE, "Heavy Songs"
• BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, "Take Them On, On Your Own"
• KELIS, "Tasty"
• THE CAESARS, "39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World)"
• ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM, "Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp"
• THE KILLS, "Keep On Your Mean Side"
• "KILL BILL", Vol. 1 soundtrack
• MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD, "Quixotic"
• WEEN, "Quebec"
• GOLDFRAPP, "Black Cherry"
• THE QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA, "Stampede"
• ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND, "Unclassified"
• BRIAN WILSON, "Smile"
• PEACHES, "Impeach My Bush"
• ANTIBALAS, "Who Is This America?"
• SAM PHILLIPS, "A Boot And A Shoe"
• THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, "Peace Love Death Metal"
• LE TIGRE, "This Island"
• LUCKY JIM, "Our Troubles End Tonight"
• MELISSA AUF der MAUR, "Auf der Maur"
• FRANK BLACK FRANCIS, "Frank Black Francis"
• AIR, "Talkie Walkie"
• ECHOBRAIN, "Glean"
• BEASTIE BOYS, "To The 5 Boroughs"
• GIBBY HAYNES, "And His Problem"
• GUITAR WOLF, "Love Rock"
• PATTI SMITH, "Trampin"
• EARLIMART, "Treble And Tremble"
• BOYSKOUT, "School Of Etiquette"
• DANIELE LUPPI, "An Italian Story"
• "KILL BILL", Vol. 2 soundtrack
• FABIENNE DELSOUL, "No Time For Sorrows"
• NICOLE WILLIS, "Be It"
• IMANI COPPOLA, "Afrodite"
• EX-GIRL, "Endangered Species"
• REIGNING SOUND, "Too Much Guitar"
• ALIF, "Dakamerap"
• THE VON BONDIES, "Pawn Shoppe Heart"
• VON IVA, "Von Iva"
• THE GO! TEAM, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"
This player contains songs from the following albums,
in the same order.
• ROBERT PLANT, "Mighty ReArranger"
• PETRA HADEN, "Sings: The Who Sell Out"
• M.I.A., "Arular"
• STEVIE WONDER, "A Time To Love"
• TRACY BONHAM, "Blink the Brightest"
• THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, "Twin Cinema"
• METRIC, "Live It Out"
• BECK, "Guero"
• NMS (NEPHLIM MODULATION SYSTEMS), "Imperial Letters of Protection"
• ELECTROCUTE, "Troublesome Bubblegum"
• PAUL McCARTNEY, "Chaos And Creation In The Backyard"
• GENERAL ELEKTIRKS, "Cliquety Kliqk"
• GRAHAM COXON, "Happiness In Magazines"
• HAIKU d'ETAT, "Coup de Theatre"
• NIKKA COSTA, "Can'tneverdidnothing"
• NIC ARMSTRONG AND THE THIEVES, "The Greatest White Liar"
• KEREN ANN, "Nolita"
• PUBLIC ENEMY, "New Whirl Odor"
• SPOON, "Gimme Fiction"
• ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, "Tree City"
• VASHTI, "Lookaftering"
• DENGUE FEVER, "Escape From Dragon House"
• LAS PERRAS DEL INFIERNO, "Intuicion Canina"
• THE WHITE STRIPES, "Get Behind Me, Satan"
• "GIRL MONSTER", various artists
• MUSE, "Black Holes And Revelations"
• ERASE ERRATA, "Nightlife"
• JAMES HUNTER, "People Gonna Talk"
• ISOBEL CAMPBELL AND MARK LANEGAN, "Ballad Of The Broken Seas"
• JENNY LEWIS & THE WATSON TWINS, "Rabbit Fur Coat"
• SEAN LENNON, "Friendly Fire"
• SLOAN, "Never Hear The End Of It"
• AUTONERVOUS, "Autonervous"
• THE HUSBANDS, "There's Nothing I'd Like More Than To See You Dead"
• GNARLS BARKLEY, "St. Elsewhere"
• CURLEE WURLEE, "Oui Oui..."
• LUCKY JIM, "All The King's Horses"
• THE ESSEX SEA, "Cannibal Sea"
• KASABIAN, "Empire"
• SPEKTRUM, "Fun At The Gymkhana Club"
• PUBLIC ENEMY, "How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???"
• ALICE SMITH, "For Lovers, Dreamers, And Me"
• GRINDERMAN, "Grinderman"
• FUGU, "As Found"
• TWIN PEAKS Season 2 soundtrack
• Soundtrack, "ACROSS THE UNIVERSE"
• BIKERIDE, "The Kiss"
• KAY KAY AND HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND, "Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground"
• PLASTICINES, "LP1"
• MAVIS STAPLES, "We'll Never Turn Back"
• TINARIWEN, "Aman Iman"
• DANDELION GUM, "Black Moth Super Rainbow"
• JOHN FOGERTY, "Revival"
• SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS, "100 Days, 100 Nights"
• BUDOS BAND, "Budos Band II"
• DEERHOOF, "Friend Opportunity"
• PORTISHEAD, "Third"
• THE FIREMAN, "Electric Arguments"
• GNARLS BARKLEY, "The Odd Couple"
• SUPERGRASS, "Diamond Hoo Ha"
• THE B-52s, "Funplex"
• THE EXPLORERS CLUB, "Freedom Wind"
• JESSY BULBO, "Taras Bulba"
• PANIC! AT THE DISCO, "Pretty. Odd."
• RAPHAEL SAADIQ, "The Way I See It"
• STEREOSCOPE JERK EXPLOSION, "La Panthere Pop"
• FLEET FOXES, "Fleet Foxes"
• MENAHAN STREET BAND, "Make the Road By Walking"
• TY SEGALL, "Ty Segall"
• THE DUKE SPIRIT, "Neptune"
• CHEAP TIME, "Cheap Time"
• THE KILLS, "Midnight Boom"
• BECK, "Modern Guilt"
• THE LOVE ME NOTS, "Upsidedown, Insideout"
• WENDY AND LISA, "White Flags Of Winter Chimneys"
• MICHAEL DAUGHERTY, "Metropolis Symphony"
• LEONARD BERNSTEIN, "Mass"
• HANNIBAL LOKUMBE, "Dear Mrs. Parks"
• TARA BUSCH, "Pilfershire Lane"
• THE NEW NO 2, "You Are Here"
• YOKO ONO, "Between My Head And The Sky"
• BABE RUTH, "Que Pasa?"
• CALIBRO 35, "Calibro 35"
• CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, "Signal Morning"
• ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM, "Fluorescent Black"
• BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS, "Tell 'Em What Your Name Is"
• WHITE DENIM, "Fits"
• KIM LENZ AND HER JAGUARS, "It's All True!"
• LEE FIELDS, "My World"
• THE BLACK KEYS, "Brothers"
• FISTFUL OF MERCY, "As I Call You Down"
• THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, "Together"
• ROBERT PLANT, "Band Of Joy"
• THE LIKE, "Release Me"
• LAWRENCE ARABIA, "Chant Darling"
• JANELLE MONAE, "The ArchAndroid"
• STARSTRUCK: The AudioPlay" cast recording
• MAIBELL AND THE MISFIRES, "Ride Along!"
• LOS PEYOTES, "Garaje o Muerte"
• GEMMA RAY, "It's A Shame About Gemma Ray"
• THE YOUNG VEINS, "Take A Vacation!"
• ADRIAN YOUNGE, "Something About April"
• THE DIRTBOMBS, "Party Store""
• FABIENNE DELSOUL, "On My Mind"
• CHERRY TESS AND HER RHYTHM SPARKS, "Roc-a-Chicka"
M U S I C
R E I S S U E S :
This section includes remasters of classic albums, reissues of rare albums, and recordings from the vault previously unreleased.
This player contains songs from the following albums,
in the same order.
- "MARTIN SCORSESE Present THE BLUES" , seven CDs covering the documentary series
- THE JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO, "The Train Kept A Rollin"
'50s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "THE ROOTS OF ROCK'N'ROLL: 1946-1954"
• "THE GOLDEN ERA OF ROCK'N'ROLL: 1954-1963"
• "WHISTLE BAIT! 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups"
• "AIN'T I'M A DOG! 25 More Rockabilly Rave-Ups"
• "GOOD GIRLS GONE BAD: Wild, Weird, And Wanted", Rockabilly women
• THE LUV'D ONES, "Truth Gotta Stand"
• BOB DYLAN, the catalog remasters and all Bootleg Series
• THE MERRY GO ROUND, "Listen, Listen"
• THE SHANGRI-LAS, "Myrmidons Of Melodrama"
• BILLY NICHOLLS, "Forever Is No Time At All"
• VASHTI BUNYAN, "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967"
• BOOKER T & THE MGs, "The Definitive..."
• SAM & DAVE, "The Definitive..."
• WILSON PICKETT, "The Definitive..."
• THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND, "Melts In Your Brain...Not On Your Wrist - The Complete Recordings"
• THE TEMPTATIONS, "Psychedelic Soul"
• SHARON TANDY, "You Just Gotta Believe It's..."
• DEAN CARTER, "Call Of the Wild"
• THE DAISY CHAIN, "Straight Or Lame"
• THE AEROVONS, "Resurrection"
• SHE, "Wants A Piece Of You"
• JOHN BARRY, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" soundtrack
• ENNIO MORRICONE, "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Expanded)" soundtrack
• PIERO PICCIONI, "Colpo Rovente" soundtrack
• NORA ORLANDI, "Il Dolce Corpo Di Deborah (The Sweet Body Of Deborah)" soundtrack
'60s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "Beatlemaniacs: The World Of Beatles Novelties"
• "The British Invasion: 1963-1967" • "Le Beat Bespoké: 25 Tailor Made Cuts", (French Funk/ soul)
• "We Love The Pirates: Charting The 'Big L' Fab 40"; British pirate radio
• "Eccentric Soul", ongoing series of rare Soul/Funk
• "Girls With Guitars"
• "Destroy That Boy!: Girls With Guitars 2"
• Dream Babes 5: Folk Rock And Beautiful"
• SLY STONE, "Listen To The Voices: In The Studio 1965-1970"
• GEORGE HARRISON, "All Things Must Pass"
• NITRO FUNCTION, "Billy Cox's Nitro Function" (guitarist Char Vinnedge, leader of The Luv'd Ones)
• MILES DAVIS, "On The Corner"
• HERBIE HANCOCK, "Sextant"
• SHUGGIE OTIS, "Inspiration Information"
• BETTY DAVIS, "Betty Davis", "They Say I'm Different", "Nasty Gal", "Is It Love Or Desire?"
• EMITT RHODES, "The Emitt Rhodes Recordings, 1969-1973"
• BADFINGER, "Magic Christian Music", "No Dice", "Straight Up", "Ass" (Apple); "Wish You Were Here", "Head First" (WB)
• JOHN LENNON, "Acoustic"
• AL GREEN, catalog remasters
• FELA, catalog remasters
• LED ZEPPELIN, "How the West Was Won"
• FUNKADELIC, catalog remasters
• THE HEADHUNTERS, "Survival Of The Fittest"
• EDDIE HAZEL, "Games, Dames, And Guitar Thangs"
• ISIS, "Ain't No Backin' Up Now"
(unsung all-female Funk band)
• LEON WARE, "Musical Massage" (basis for Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You' album)
• THE RUNAWAYS, "Live In Japan"
• NIKKI AND THE CORVETTES, "Nikki And The Corvettes"
• RADIO BIRDMAN, "The Essential Radio Birdman (1974-1978)"
• THE SLITS, "Cut"
• PIERO UMILIANI, "Il Corpo (The Body)" soundtrack
• EDDA DELL'ORSO, "Voice", "Dream Within a Dream: Incredible Voice of...", soundtrack work
'70s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "Do The Pop: Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-87"; (Garage/Punk)
• "Black Power: Music of a Revolution"; (Funk/Soul)
• "Country Got Soul", Vol. 1 and 2, Country Soul artists
• "Funk Rock: Rock Breaks And Guitars For Funky People"
• "The Brazilian Funk Experience"
• "Essential Afrobeat"
• "DJ Spooky Presents: In Fine Style"; (Dub Reggae)
• "Funky Kingston: Reggae Grooves 1968-74"; (proto-Rap Reggae)
• "VAMPYROS LESBOS: Sexadelic Dance party", soundtrack
• "EASY TEMPO", ten CD series of groovy Italian film music
• BRIAN ENO/ DAVID BYRNE, "My Life In the Bush Of Ghosts"
• TALKING HEADS, the catalog remasters
• JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, "Double Fantasy -Stripped Down"
• KLEENEX/LiliPUT, "LiliPUT/ Kleenex"
• GANG OF FOUR, "Entertainment"
• IGGY POP, "New Values"
• THE KNACK, catalog re-issues
• DEFUNKT, "Defunkt/ Thermonuclear Sweat"
• AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, "Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980-1985"
• GENE CLARK & CARLA OLSON, "So Rebellious A Lover"
• PLASTICLAND, "Make Yourself a Happening Machine: A Collection of"
• MARK STEWART, "Kiss The Future"
• '80s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "New York Noise", vol. 1,2, 3; (Post Punk)
• "In The Beginning There Was Rhythm", (Post Punk)
• "Tommy Boy Essentials: Hip Hop 1"
• "Electro Sessions", (Electro Rap)
• "Rip It Up and Start Again", (PostPunk and New Pop)
• "Nao Wave: Brazil PostPunk 1982-1988"
• ELASTICA, "Radio One Sessions"
• TOM WAITS, "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, & Bastards"
• SUPRA ARGO, "Supra Argo"
'90s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "Attack Of The Terrible Boots"
(modern Japanese Garage Rock)
• "O SISTER: The Women's Bluegrass Collection", various
B O X
S E T S:
This player contains songs from the following albums in the same order.
'50s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "From Boppin' Hillbilly To Red Hot Rockabilly"
• "1954: The Year That Rocked The World"
• "We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll"
• "ROCKIN' BONES: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly"
• THE BEATLES, "Remastered"
albums collection • NINA SIMONE, "Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings"
• JOHNNY CASH, "Love God Murder"
• THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
'60s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "NUGGETS II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond"
• MOJO Magazine, "Acid Drops, Spacedust, And Flying Saucers"
• "Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970"
• "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968"
• "ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: Girl Group Sounds, Lost And Found"
• "TROJAN RECORDS, "Sixties Box Set"
, Reggae
• FANNY, "First Time in a Long Time: The Reprise Recording"
• SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, "Collection"
(first seven albums) • BLACK SABBATH, "Symptom Of The Universe"
• SEX PISTOLS, "Sexbox"
'70s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "WHAT IT IS? Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977)"
• "NO THANKS!: 70s Punk Rebellion"
• NIRVANA, "With The Lights Out"
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