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This synth-pop star charted in the U.S. with this 1986 LP, but really scored big at home in the UK, where the album went Top 10 on the strength of three hits: "You Know I Love You…Don’t You?," "Little Bit of Snow" and "All I Want." "One to One" also includes the single mix of Howard’s earlier hit "No One Is to Blame," which features drums and backup vocals by Phil Collins. Fans will be happy to see this gem remastered and arriving here on limited-edition translucent blue vinyl with an inner sleeve boasting rare photos, new notes and Howard’s commentary on each track. Expanded edition adds "Will You Still Be There" (new version), "Don’t Want to Fight Anymore" (12" mix), "No One Is to Blame" (single mix) and a heap of rare and unissued alternate versions and live recordings from Philly and Birmingham (you get the rare photos and Jones commentary, too). Deluxe edition expands on the expanded edition with a 16-page booklet (with the pix and commentary), a whole extra CD of unissued demos, instrumental mixes and alternate versions and a DVD full of promo videos and UK TV appearances on Top of the Pops, The Roland Rat Show, Saturday Superstore and more! Cherry Red.5013929180239 Riffing on the original "C86" cassette, this hugely successful series—which has already covered ’86, ’87, ’88 and ’89—now moves on to 1990, bringing you 63 tracks charting the rise to dominance of the independent music scene. Witness the ascendance of one underground band and record label after another as you hear "Polar Bear" Charlatans, "Swansong" Boo Radleys, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" Saint Etienne, "Thoughtforms" Lush, "Can’t Be Sure" Sundays, "New Art Riot" Manic Street Preachers, "Timeless Melody" La’s, "Twenty-Fifteen" Sunflowers, "Half-Life, Remembered" Pale Saints, "Dead Like You" Steamkings…63 tracks ranging from club hits to retro delights to Madchester and shoegaze classics to early rumbles of grunge and Britpop! Cherry Red.5013929186408 Brett Marvin & the Thunderbolts were one of the UK’s best country-blues bands, regularly backing visiting U.S. bluesmen and becoming a big attraction in their own right in the late ’60s and early ’70s. When they scored the out-of-nowhere 1972 #2 UK smash "Sea Side Shuffle," though, they did so as Terry Dactyl & the Dinosaurs. This collection not only brings you everything this great group recorded under both monikers for Sonet Records, but also the subsequent solo releases on Sonet by their wonderfully eccentric singer/pianist John Lewis, a.k.a. Jona Lewie. The 6 CDs take us all the way up to 1993 via the Thunderbolts’ "Boogie Street" LP financed by Sonet’s later incarnation Habana Music. A 36-page booklet chronicles it all as you hear the albums "Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts," "12 Inches Of," "Ten Legged Friend," "Rare Thunderbolts," "Boogie Street" and Jona Lewie’s "Alias Jona Lewie" plus singles, outtakes and live recordings. Jona’s "Piggy Back Sue," "Papa Don’t Go," "The Swan" and "Custer’s Last Stand" join the Thunderbolts’ "Delta on the Thames" versions of "Dust My Broom," "Walking Blues," "Don’t Start Me Talking," "Eyesight to the Blind," "Milk Cow Blues," "Come On in My Kitchen," "I’m Ready," "Spoonful," "Little Red Rooster" and more! Grapefruit.5013929186521 Before the Move, before ELO, Jeff Lynne (while still in his teens) joined this Birmingham band, who won raves for this 1968 LP full of Beatles-esque melodies, surreal vignettes and imaginative psychedelic pop. Oddly, the Liberty label released no single from the LP, though, and the album sank like a stone. It’s now considered a cult classic of UK psych-pop, and this reissue pairs the original stereo album with singles, alternate versions and the CD debut of the album’s mono mix. A 24-page booklet joins "Happy Birthday," "I Like My Toys," "Pie in the Sky," "Lucky Man," their pre-LP single "Skeleton and the Roundabout" and more! Grapefruit.5013929186606 The Beatles, Yardbirds, the Kinks…they all edged into some new, experimental territory in ’65—and ’66 saw even greater musical mind expanding in UK pop. This 84-track comp chronicles the nascent days of UK psychedelia, all within a truly dizzying 12-month period. A 52-page booklet crammed with notes, pix and memorabilia joins "Making Time" Creation, "Shapes of Things" Yardbirds, "Oriental Sadness" Hollies, "Play Down" Bee Gees, "I Unseen" Misunderstood, "I Dig Everything" David Bowie, "A House in the Country" Pretty Things, "Hippy Gumbo" (demo) Marc Bolan, "I Just Got Some" Rod Stewart, "Outcast" Animals, "Fancy" Kinks, "We’re Broken" Moody Blues, "You’re My Girl" Manfred Mann, "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" Searchers, "Don’t Tell Me" Arthur Brown, "I Suppose" Secrets, "Disturbance" Move, "Indication" Zombies, "I Go to Sleep" Fingers and more! Grapefruit.5013929186804 High-energy electric blues and lowdown country blues both caught fire in England during the UK blues boom, and you’ll hear all of that—and artists both famous and obscure—across these 56 tracks. Evocative period photos abound in the 40-page booklet as you hear "All Your Love" John Mayall’s Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, "I Love You" Graham Bond Organization, "I’m a Man" (live) Yardbirds, "You Shook Me" Jeff Beck, "Love That Burns" Fleetwood Mac, "Operator" Alexis Korner with Robert Plant, "I Can’t Keep from Crying, Sometimes" Ten Years After, "Don’t Want You No More" Spencer Davis Group, "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, "A Stranger in Your Town" Climax Chicago Blues Band, "Sweet Tooth" Free, "Tears in the Wind" Chicken Shack, "Old Gopher" Edgar Broughton Band, "The Sun Is Shining" Mungo Jerry, "Dear Jill" Blodwyn Pig, "Railroad" Status Quo and more! Grapefruit.5013929275034 In ’69, Clancy Eccles—one of Jamaica’s premier producers—scored his biggest hit: the rambunctious "Fattie Fattie." Trojan Records then issued "Freedom," which collected Clancy’s best self-produced recordings as a singer. The release of Clancy’s debut LP coincided with a second LP ("Fire Corner") of his recent instrumental productions with the Dynamites plus three tracks by King Stitt. These 50 tracks include both those seminal reggae LPs plus 13 bonus tracks; Clancy’s "Freedom," "Fattie Fattie," "Open Up," "Dollar Train" and "My Girl" join "Eternally," "John Public," "Mr. Midnight" Dynamites, "Fire Corner," "Soul Language," "On the Street" King Stitt, "Rough Road," "The Lion Wakes" Winston Wright and more! Doctor Bird.5013929275133 The debut CD release of this Sonia Pottinger-produced LP showcasing Jamaica’s biggest reggae hits of 1977 adds 34 tracks to the original 10…that’s 44 reggae delights on 2 CDs, 39 of which haven’t been reissued since their original release! So many roots-reggae gems here: "Ghetto Girl" Fantells, "Things and Time" Itals, "Without Love" Hell & Fire, "Run for Your Life" Earth & Stone, "African Book" King Vupp, "Jeremiah" Prince Brothers, "Hold Them" Astley Bennett, "If We Had Love" Eric Tello, "Fig Root" Reggae George, "Ram Jam" Prince Brothers, "El Bamba" Revolutionaries, "Lava" Soul Syndicate, "Election Derby" Mr. Bojangles, "Merry Go Round" U Roy and more! Doctor Bird.5013929275539 The Techniques scored huge hits in Jamaica in the ’60s, and those hits are certified reggae classics now. The first reissue of this seminal Treasure Isle LP boasts a bunch of those classics, and this CD adds a whopping 21 bonus cuts. You get everything they recorded for Duke Reid’s famed label: "Little Did You Know," "When You Are Wrong," "I Wish It Would Rain," "I Am in Love," "Queen Majesty," "My Girl," "Oh Babe," two versions each of "It’s You I Love," "Travelling Man" and more! Doctor Bird.5013929335103 In the ’60s, musicians on both sides of the Atlantic borrowed techniques and inspirations from avant-garde music as well as classical composers and jazz geniuses. This 3-CD set connects the dots between Stravinsky and David Bowie ("The Rite of Spring"), Ralph Vaughan Williams and Nick Drake ("Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"), Syd Barrett and Sun Ra ("Interstellar Low Ways"), John Coltrane ("Tunji") and Thelonious Monk ("Pannonica"), Jobim and Debussy ("Nuages" from "Nocturnes") and a whole lotta Beatles and their influences: Stockhausen ("Gesang Der Junglinge"), John Cage ("Williams Mix"), Bernard Herrmann ("The Murder" from "Psycho"), Sibelius (excerpt from "Symphony No. 7"), Luciano Berio ("Thema—Omaggio A Joyce")…a fascinating and illuminating set! el.5013929335233 McCartney, Zappa and countless other musicians and composers were deeply inspired by the innovations of John Cage, whose works are featured here in two important large-scale performances. The indispensable "25-Year Retrospective Concert" (which notoriously features some audible audience disagreement) joins "Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music," which pairs 90 short Zen-like stories (read by Cage) with piano and tape interjections by David Tudor. Those (which include "She Is Asleep," "Sonatas and Interludes," "First Construction in Metal," the four "Indeterminacy" parts and more) are here along with the original tape realization of "Fontana Mix" and the challenging "Cartridge Music"! el.5013929441200 Marty Wilde’s daughter became a pop star, too, scoring on both sides of the Atlantic with this album full of utterly irresistible beats and hooks: her debut hit "Kids in America," the reggae-flavored "2-6-5-8-0" and "Everything We Know," the driving "Water on Glass," "Chequered Love," "Our Town" and more. Vinyl is yellow; deluxe edition includes "Tuning In Tuning On" (7" version), multiple instrumental and remix versions of "Kids in America," promo videos for "Kids in America" and "Chequered Love," an unedited "shower version of the "Chequered Love" video, four Top of the Pops performances and more! Cherry Red.