The 2008 nine-disc box Albums is neither the first ABBA multi-disc set nor the first time the pop group's albums have been collected and housed in a box set, but it is the first time a set of their complete recordings has been widely disseminated (such are the perks of being a companion to an international blockbuster) and it's the best of the lot, containing all eight of the group's albums (for the record: Ring Ring, Waterloo, ABBA, Arrival, The Album, Voulez-Vous, Super Trouper, The Visitors), plus a 17-track rarities disc that rounds up non-LP singles (including "Fernando" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"), songs sung in Swedish, and plain oddities like a medley of the American folk songs "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "On Top of Old Smokey," and "Midnight Special."

Dean Rudland compiles a selection of 70s Funk for Back Beats. Nina Simone, Jimmy Castor, Shuggie Otis, Sly & The Family Stone and many more feature. Amazon Review by Donald E. Gilliland: If you can get past the stupid album title and the tacky cover photo, you will find the music on this compilation to be very good, over 65 minutes of fine funky soul tunes from 1968 to 1974. The closest thing to a hit on this collection is perhaps "Sing A Simple Song" by Sly & the Family Stone, but even without a bunch of hits the material on here is very high in quality, which one would expect from a volume in this dependable "Backbeats" series of collection. Even amongst the recognizable names such as Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, M.F.S.B., Shuggie Otis, and Al Kooper we are treated to some very tasty funk-infused material. I also love "Watts Breakaway" by Johnny Otis, "It's Just Begun" by Jimmy Castor (which sounds like it could be an early Earth, Wind & Fire track!),"It's Alright" by the legendary Bobby Rush, and "Afro Strut" by the Nite-Liters. Even more obscure artists such as Shay Holiday, Casey Jones, Jesse Gresham, and Kim Melvin turn out some cool songs. And I can't forget the drum work-out by Bernard Purdie on "Soul Drums". Feel the beat indeed! I have enjoyed almost all of the volumes in the "Breakbeats" series, and this is one of the better ones. Too bad about that horrible cover and the album title! But ignore all that and just listen to the music; there's plenty of truly great songs on here, ones that will surely please fans of early 1970s soul and funk.

UK three CD set containing a trio of albums from the Rap/Hip Hop collective: ENTER THE Wu-Tang Clan: 36 CHAMBERS, THE W and IRON FLAG.

Haydn & Myslivecek Cello Concertos features American cellist Wendy Warner and Camerata Chicago, conducted by its British-born founder, Drostan Hall. This is Warner's fifth recording for Cedille Records. A CD review in The Strad said her playing 'sizzles with virtuosity.' American Record Guide praised her 'tonal beauty and great conviction.' Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Camerata Chicago made its European concert debut in June with Warner asguest soloist in Hadyn's D Major Concerto.

A 50 CD Originals Jackets Collection celebrating the 20th anniversary of THE ORIGINALS series series, featuring the bestselling items from the serKey recordings such as Beethoven 5th and 7th by Kleiber, Mahler 5th by early Karajan, Dvorak Slavonic Dances by Kubelik, Schone Müllerin by Wunderlich, Zauberflote and Tristan und Isolde by Bohm, Dvorak Cello Concerto by Rostropovich, Pathetique by Kempff, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto by Mutter, Argerichs Debut Recital and many more of the extensive ORIGINALS catalogue, rich of artistic singularity and of commercially strong impact up to this day
Not only does the new box set showcase some well-known ORIGINALS items, but also adds TWO NEW ITEMS to the ORIGINALS catalogue, never released before within this series: Chopin Etudes opp.10 & 25 with Maurizio Pollini and Brahms Cello Sonatas Opp.38 & 99 with Mstislav Rostropovich and Rudolf Serkin (also available separately within the series from September 2014 on)ies history and highlighting the key artists and recordings from DGs LP era.

The biggest hits from the Kings and queens of the genre are brought together for The R&B Throwback. This collection showcases huge R&B classics across the eras and bring you back to your favourite songs of the genre. CD 1 features the classic’s including Fugees with ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’, LL Cool J’s ‘Ain’t Nobody’, and Jennifer Lopez with ‘Love Don’t Cost A Thing’. CD 2 continues the music with unforgettable chilled slow jams including SWV’s ‘Right Here’, Usher’s ‘You Make Me Wanna…’ and Mary J. Blige with ‘No More Drama’. CD 3 collects together huge airplay hits from Wyclef Jean’s ‘Perfect Gentleman’, Pitbull and ‘Hotel Room Service’, and The Pussycat Dolls with ‘Don’t Cha’, and still room to include Whitney Houston, P!NK, Outkast, OneRepublic, Toni Braxton, Christina Aguilera, Kelis, The Black Eyed Peas and many more.

The early '50s was the heyday of pop performers whose style and image was ideally suited to the mood of the times and whose music epitomised the easy-going middle-of-the-road output of mainstream American radio stations in the years before rock 'n' roll arrived to change the face of popular music in mid-decade. Teresa Brewer was one such performer, a bright, stylish and versatile singer who was an ideal vehicle for just about kind of song her record companies wanted her to record, from ballads to out-and-out novelty songs, enabling her to rack up nearly fifty hits in her decade-long chart career, including the memorable No. 1 hits "Music! Music! Music!" and "Till I Waltz Again With You". This great-value 57-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of her singles during the era for the London and Coral labels, and naturally features her entries in the Billboard, Cash Box and UK charts from those years, including the hits "Ricochet", "Jilted", "Let Me Go, Lover", "A Tear Fell" and "A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl" and her duet hit with Don Cornell. It's a worthy showcase for an artist who provided many nostalgic memories for those who enjoyed her records during those years.

During this two-decade association with Columbia Records, Andy Williams chalked up more hit singles and sold more albums than any other traditional pop crooner of the period. Boosted by the popularity of his Emmy-winning television series The Andy Williams Show, the personable singer bridged the classic American Songbook of standards and showtunes with the modern pop-rock songs of the 1960s and 1970s. His widespread popularity saw Williams become the host of the Golden Globe Awards in the 1960s followed by annual duties fronting the Grammy Awards in the 1970s. All of which begs the question: why haven't we seen (and heard) a rarities collection from this iconic vocalist? Now, for the first time ever, Andy's immense archive of Columbia recordings has been combed through to dig up a bounty of previously unreleased tracks from his peak 1962-1972 era, including covers of familiar tunes such as You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, 'This Guy's in Love with You, Homeward Bound, Too Young, and I Don't Know How to Love Her.

Amazon Review by Mark Hughes
Part of the ROCK BALLDS SERIES. This is a DBL CD OF 39SONGS. All rock ballds you know. I like my ROCK in all of its forms, heavy, light, really heavy, and sometimes acoustic even folk. When your middle aged you don,t just want noise all the time like you did when you were 16. I have 3,000 cds, and that includes everybody from SLAYER TO TOTO and everybody else in the rock magazines. I own a few compilations as sometimes you want the hits when doing the jobs. For the pennies i paid at Zoverstocks a must.

2009 two CD compilation from the British Electronic duo. Contains hits, album tracks a few rarities and plenty of great Faithless moments guaranteed to keep you up all night. 30 tracks including 'God Is A DJ', 'We Come 1', 'One Step Too Far' (featuring Dido) and many more.

A Different Light is a look back at the career of Art of Noise member and soundtrack composer Anne Dudley. Although the album features songs from her most successful compositions, Dudley reworks them to create new pieces for her second solo album.

"I Paralyze" is the 17th studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on May 28, 1982 by Columbia Records. The album was a commercial failure and failed to chart. Following the record's release, Cher took a five-year hiatus from music to focus on her film career until 1987, when she released the Platinum-certified album "Cher".

Van der Graaf Generator were one of the most original and inspiring bands of the 1970s. This boxed set celebrates this second era of Van der Graaf Generator with all of the albums issued by the band between 2005 and 2016. Including the albums Present, Real Time, Trisector, Live At The Paradiso, A Grounding In Numbers, Alt, Merlin Atmos and the long deleted live double album and concert DVD ‘Live At Paradiso’ and the rare additional live CD previously issued only on the limited Japanese release of ‘Real Time’.

"Sweet Sensation" is the 4th album by American R&B and soul singer Stephanie Mills. Released in 1980, produced by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas. The album features her biggest hit, "Never Knew Love Like This Before" which peaked within the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100 and won two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female and Best R&B Song, the former becoming her first career Grammy win. Sweet Sensation received gold status by the Recording Industry Association of America for sells over 500,000 copies.

There was no way that Wyatt's follow-up to Rock Bottom could be as personal and searching, but this album that came barely a year later instead collects some earlier material to be revamped for this release. "Soup Song," for instance, is a rewrite of "Slow Walkin' Talk," written before the forming of Soft Machine. "Team Spirit," written with Phil Manzanera and Bill MacCormick of Quiet Sun, would turn up the same year as "Frontera" on Manzanera's Diamond Head. While some of the songs tend to plod along, the dirge-like "Five Black Notes and One White Notes," a lethargic cover of Offenbach's "Baccarole," Charlie Haden's "Song for Che," and Fred Frith's piano team-up with Wyatt on "Muddy Mouth" are magical. As usual, the assembled band, including the underrated Gary Windo on sax and Mongezi Feza on trumpet, never dissapoint.