Five CD box set covering legendary Punk band The Boys' period with Safari Records between 1979-81. Disc 1 is the band's third studio album To Hell With The Boys which reached #4 in the Independent Chart in early 1980 and features the Indie Chart hit singles 'Kamikaze' (#9) and 'Terminal Love' (#32). The second disc is 1981's Boys Only album which features the singles 'You'd Better Move On' and 'Weekend'. Disc 3 is a 22 track Rarities round-up containing eight previously unreleased studio demos alongside non LP B-sides and rare mixes. The fourth disc is the X rated Christmas Album issued under the name The Yobs, which now has three added bonus tracks. Long out of print on vinyl or CD and currently an expensive collector's item. The final disc is an In Concert recording for the BBC in 1980.
Zombilation - The Greatest Cuts is published in February 2009, Lordi's compilation album. Compilation album by Lordi publishes a former German label Drakkar Entertainment. The album includes a collection of Lordi's first four best-known songs from the album. [wikipedia]
Released in 2008, Hell's Kitchen is a covers album from the German jazz-funk/hip-hop collective inspired by Guru's Jazzmatazz project, Jazzkantine. The follow-up to Braunschweich, Braunschweich! features 12 re-workings of heavy metal classics such as AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters," and Kiss' "I Was Made for Lovin' You," and includes collaborations with Xavier Naidoo, Tom Gaebel, and Sam Leigh Brown.
If you need a serious shot of the Crüe, drink up. Music to Crash Your Car To, Vol. 1 is the first four-disc installment of yet another re-releasing of the band's material, though this time the entire catalog is getting the treatment in three separate boxes. This initial set covers the band's halcyon/hell-raising early days of 1981-1987 (i.e., Too Fast for Love, Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, and Girls, Girls, Girls)…
Although Kiss' self-titled debut performed respectably on the charts, it was not the blockbuster they had hoped for. With the album fading on the charts in the summer of 1974, Kiss was summoned back into the studio to work on a follow-up. Producers Richie Wise and Kenny Kerner were onboard again, and even though the sonics are muddier (and more filler is present in the compositions), Hotter Than Hell is another quintessential Kiss release…
A collection of love songs put out by Sub Pop is probably right up there with speed metal operas or Sesame Street espionage for gallant incongruity, but like Jeepster's It's a Cool, Cool Christmas, it pleases the unspoken infomercial compilation fan hidden inside every cantankerous indie kid. (…) Steven Jesse Bernstein, the early-'90s Pacific Northwest answer to an abused Allen Ginsberg, or the Vaselines, for instance, offer brutal and funny works, which probably scared away Nirvana-seeking mall wanderers who might've been intrigued by the label's reputation or songs with titles like "Rory Rides Me Raw." ~AMG