Dirt Merchant (1999)

R.E.M. has released a new live album titled "Live from the Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival, June 25, 1999." This album captures their legendary headline performance at the Glastonbury Festival in 1999. The setlist features a mix of their classic hits and newer songs, showcasing their extensive catalog and the band's dynamic stage presence. R.E.M. has released a new live album titled "Live from the Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival, June 25, 1999." This album captures their legendary headline performance at the Glastonbury Festival in 1999. The setlist features a mix of their classic hits and newer songs, showcasing their extensive catalog and the band's dynamic stage presence. The performance includes iconic tracks such as "Losing My Religion," "Everybody Hurts," "Man on the Moon," and "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." The album also highlights songs from their then-recent albums like "Daysleeper" and "The Apologist.

Originally released in 1999 as a follow up to the acclaimed 'Trailer Park' and received a Mercury Music Prize nomination, helping Beth earn a BRIT Award in 2000 for Best British Female. The album also features in the book, '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'. The album features the hit singles 'Stolen Car' and 'Central Reservation' and is now re-issued with a second disc of material compiled by Beth. It features key b-sides, including the Spiritual Life Ibadon remix of title track 'Central Reservation' plus unreleased live recordings and demos. The expanded packaging features brand new sleevenotes including a new interview with Beth. "A space cowgirl with a stolen car heart, Beth remembers: listening back to the record now, I enjoy hearing the melodies and how I played with them and the words. The making of records is often a period of redemption for me and the recording of Central Reservation was the actualizing of all my most positive thoughts".

This 4 CD box set includes a Joe Jones track with Sonny Phillips on organ, a Rusty Bryant track with Melvin Sparks on guitar, a Richard "Groove" Holmes track with Gene Edwards on guitar and Houston Person and Gene Ammons tracks with Sonny Phillips or Leon Spencer on organ. George Freeman plays guitar on one of the Gene Ammons tracks. Also includes a Charles Earland track, a Shirley Scott track and two Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis tracks with Shirley Scott on organ, a Jack McDuff track, a Willis Jackson track with Pat Martino on guitar and Joe Hadrick on drums, a Willis Jackson/Jack McDuff track with Alvin Johnson on drums, and a George Benson track with McDuff on organ.

Released in 1999 by Startel Entertainment. Featuring 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s best singles. Features: The Hollies, The Animals, Fleetwood Mac, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Simple Minds, Lou Reed and many more.

"The Thriller Collection" is a compilation album by Ennio Morricone, released on May 1, 1999, under the DRG Records label. This two-disc set features a selection of Morricone's thriller film scores composed between 1969 and 1984.

Rhino's five-disc box set Respect: A Century of Women in Music was surely assembled with the best of intentions, but it doesn't quite work. First of all, any collection that focuses solely on "the female contribution" comes off as a little condescending, no matter how good the intentions are. Still, the concept has enough weight to make for at least an interesting listen. However, any compilation that spans nearly 100 years and every conceivable popular musical genre is bound not only to be incomplete, but too sweeping to be totally effective. The scope is impressive, as are the featured artists – think of any major female musician and they're likely to be here, unless it's Joni Mitchell (Kim Gordon and Kim Deal are also missing, as are several other similarly minded post-punk rockers and various pop and folk singer/songwriters, but no omission is as shocking as Mitchell's) – but the overall effect is somewhat bewildering.

A superb-sounding double CD of alternate mixes and (just a few) actual alternate takes, named after the late Abbey Road engineer John Barrett, who catalogued and copied many Beatles vault tapes in the early '80s. At first glance, this appears to be a goldmine of unreleased Beatles goodies, spanning "From Me to You" to the Let It Be sessions, but read the fine print carefully. Most of the takes are in fact stereo and mono mixes that happen to be rare or commercially unavailable, not performances that are commercially unavailable. To some fans, these different mixes are revelations; to many, however, they are barely or completely indistinguishable from the familiar versions on official Beatles albums.

Big bands were on their way out by the late '40s, which left bandleaders and musicians who had played swing in a quandary: embrace bebop or become a nostalgia act. Certain wise musicians like Gene Krupa and Harry James, however, found a middle course by modernizing swing with new arrangements and selling it to ballroom dancers. The Complete Capitol Recordings of Gene Krupa and Harry James collects a multitude of splendid performances from both players as they transitioned from one era to the next. The four Krupa discs were recorded in 1946-1947 during the drummer/leader's successful comeback following a drug conviction. His band averaged around 17 pieces during these sessions, and occasionally featured vocalists Caroline Grey and Buddy Stewart. The band covers everything from bouncy straight-ahead swing like "Indiana" to tender ballads like "How Deep Is the Ocean." Of special interest are a number of stripped-down tracks, including "Body and Soul" and "Limehouse Blues," that feature Krupa, saxophonist Charlie Ventura, and pianist Teddy Napoleon. The three James discs were recorded between 1955 and 1958 and find the semi-reclusive trumpeter returning to the limelight.

Big bands were on their way out by the late '40s, which left bandleaders and musicians who had played swing in a quandary: embrace bebop or become a nostalgia act. Certain wise musicians like Gene Krupa and Harry James, however, found a middle course by modernizing swing with new arrangements and selling it to ballroom dancers. The Complete Capitol Recordings of Gene Krupa and Harry James collects a multitude of splendid performances from both players as they transitioned from one era to the next. The four Krupa discs were recorded in 1946-1947 during the drummer/leader's successful comeback following a drug conviction. His band averaged around 17 pieces during these sessions, and occasionally featured vocalists Caroline Grey and Buddy Stewart. The band covers everything from bouncy straight-ahead swing like "Indiana" to tender ballads like "How Deep Is the Ocean." Of special interest are a number of stripped-down tracks, including "Body and Soul" and "Limehouse Blues," that feature Krupa, saxophonist Charlie Ventura, and pianist Teddy Napoleon. The three James discs were recorded between 1955 and 1958 and find the semi-reclusive trumpeter returning to the limelight.