Uprising would be the final studio album featuring Bob Marley & the Wailers to be released during Marley's lifetime. Prophetically, it also contains some of the band's finest crafted material, as if they were cognizant that this would be their final outing. The album's blend of religious and secular themes likewise creates a very powerful and singular quest for spirituality in a material world. Although it is argued that an album's graphic design rarely captures the essence of the work inside, the powerful rebirthing image of a rock solid Marley emerging with his arms raised in triumph could not be a more accurate visual description of the musical jubilation within. Musically, the somewhat staid rhythms often synonymous with reggae have been completely turned around to include slinky and liquid syncopation. "Work," "Pimper's Paradise," and the lead-off track "Coming in From the Cold" are all significant variations on the lolloping Rasta beat.

MACKS CREEK BAND out of Missouri are a working band still ripping it up decades after this rare private press LP was unleashed. This is primarily a live band, the scorching dual guitar action and propulsive rhythms captured here leave zero doubt they can jam your mind right out of your body at a show. Laid down at Parallax Recording Studios in Willow Springs, Missouri in 1980, the LP contains all original material loaded with riverboats, reefer, catfish, nasty ladies dressed to kill, characters like Diamond Jim and Bertha Bryan… southern rock potent enough to up the ante for the Allmans and other southern rockers they shared the stage with back in the day. They primarily worked the St. Louis / Southern Illinois area and are a reminder that some regional bands who made their bread and butter killing it live with cover versions of classic southern rock made the smart move to do all original material when it came time to make their own record.

The Best Of The Carpenters (1980 UK mail-order only 54-track Four LP box set, with each part housed in its own picture sleeve, all housed in a superb gold embossed 12" box with guarantee slip.

I believe Rave On was Artful Dodger's best LP. I have all their albums and Rave On is a listen from beginning to end every time. I was lucky enough to receive the CD release from the Cleveland Agora back in the day. When I say lucky I mean really lucky! The first copy was blank, nothing was recorded on it and after I contacted the Cleveland Agora and they sent me a replacement. I've had the pleasure of listening to it ever sense. I also have the LP for when I want to hear this great album on vinyl. Forty three years and it never gets old.

Limited edition 40th anniversary version of the band’s second and final studio album, pressed on 180g crystal clear vinyl.
Originally released in July 1980 on Factory Records, the album reached number 6 in the UK Charts. In the same year, the album was voted number 1 in NME’s 1980 Albums of the Year poll. Closer was recorded in March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London. It was produced by the highly praised Martin Hannett whose distinctive production style utilised unorthodox sound recording and technology.

About Time is a 1980 album by Daevid Allen and Gong offshoot New York Gong. The basic line-up of New York Gong would continue without Allen as Material.

Experience the majestic cosmos through Holst's timeless masterpiece, "The Planets," as brought to life by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Seiji Ozawa.

Reissue of the 1980 album by Jay Graydon and David Foster, remastered by Jay Graydon. With Tommy Funderburk, Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, etc. First-pressing-only edition, comes in a paper sleeve with a replica "obi" strip.

Diane Pfeifer is a former country music singer from the early ’80s. During her high school years, she was the lead guitarist in an all-girl rock band called Sweet Young Things. In later years, she worked as a pharmaceutical chemist and was a backup singer for Tammy Wynette.

A Jazz Dance Favourite that Jazz Room Records Head Honcho Paul Murphy was hepped to by Brownswood and 6Music Jazz Supremo Gilles Peterson at the 20th Birthday Bash of London's most Underground of Clubs: Shiftless Shuffle.

Toto’s well-honed musical craftsmanship helped sell more than 40 million albums in four decades together. In 1980, the band embarked on their first tour of Japan, forming a lifelong bond with fans in that country who adored their polished West Coast rock style.

Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality.

Stewart Copeland's Klark Kent was the first solo project by a member of The Police. Beginning with a series of singles in 1978 and culminating in a 1980 self-titled debut album (recently reissued as a limited Record Store Day vinyl release), Klark Kent's innovative music has not been widely available since 1995's 'Kollected Works'.

Aided by a colorful cast of players including Nathan East, Patrice Rushen, Harvey Mason, and Leon "Nduga" Chancler, soulful siren Donna Washington's debut album is an unaffected smattering of equal parts up-tempo R&B-funk grooves and mellow ballads.

With two of the Alan Parsons Project's best songs, the lovely ballad "Time" and the wavy-sounding "Games People Play," The Turn of a Friendly Card remains one of this group's most enjoyable albums.