MoFi - Catalogue 2017

MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has been the fidelity recordings that bring you—the listener— all the detailed information on original master undisputed leader in audiophile recordings closer to the absolute truth and emotion of recordings without causing deterioration or since its inception in 1977. Using only the the original performances of the very finest adding coloration and other sonic artifacts. original master tapes as source material, the albums ever made. Experienced on LP, SACD, The result: The most realistic, lively, full-range company offers faithfully reproduced high- or Gold CD, Mobile Fidelity software unveils recordings you will ever hear. Cheap Thrills Pearl Merging biker-babe ruggedness with wounded-bird Cheap Thrills (recorded with Big Brother & the Holding Company) and 1971’s Pearl in a cathartic language few had poignancy, Janis Joplin’s expressive belting, mega-watt JANIS JOPLIN moaning, and sensitive crooning remain among music’s most heard before or experienced since. Her unrivaled passion and authentic signposts. Recognized as the greatest-ever white gut-wrenching vocal prowess have never sounded better than female blues singer, Joplin conveys desperation, sadness, on these 45RPM 2LP and SACD reissues. As Joplin might have vulnerability, soulfulness, humor, and innocence on 1968’s said, get them while you can. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE The first album to bring the 1960s counterculture to the attention of the mainstream, Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow folds acid-rock experimentalism into folk-derived constructs. Blending mysteriousness, darkness, beauty, and romanticism that mirror the very traits of vocalist Grace Slick, the 1967 landmark is restored to its original mono sound on 45RPM 2LP and SACD versions that fully bring out the virtuosic playing of the band and guest Jerry Garcia. Equally transfixing and even more potent, Volunteers doubles as the revolutionary march of a group that understands music can change the world. Surrealistic Pillow Volunteers SANTANA Santana’s self-titled debut announced the arrival of a guitar god. Made during the bandleader’s most fruitful period, the 1969 set is an accessible entry point into the tangy world of Latin music by way of intoxicating blends of Afro-Cuban percussion, jazzy tempos, exotic leads, and psychedelic accents. The equally legendary Abraxas and Santana III come on as the confident sound of Santana stretching out. Taken to peak sonic heights on deluxe 45RPM LP and SACD pressings, the albums’ celebratory vibes, bluesy jams, mellow vocals, and hip-shaking grooves eclipse common description. Santana Abraxas Santana III 190 MOBILE FIDELITY

Dire Straits Communiqué Making Movies Love Over Gold Brothers in Arms Renowned for expertly crafted songs and reference spaciousness, superb balances, natural tones, widescreen production, Dire Straits’ first five studio albums hold a very dynamics, immersive depth—are omnipresent. Ditto the DIRE STRAITS special place in the hearts of both casual music lovers and band’s precision-based performances. Even if you’ve heard lifelong audiophiles. These 45RPM LPs and SACDs take Mark these albums hundreds of times, you’ve never experienced Knopfler and company’s prized releases to unsurpassed them with such lifelike presence, pristine clarity, you-are- heights. All of the records’ hallmark characteristics—ample there imaging, and premium richness. Boomer’s Story Paradise and Lunch Chicken Skin Music Ry Cooder established himself as a savant guitarist, roots and traversing country, Tex-Mex, Cuban, blues, gospel, rock, RY COODER scholar, and musical archeologist on a trio of mid-1970s Dixieland, folk, and other disciplines, Cooder bridges the past and future on these albums—all finally given luxe hi-fi records that eviscerates borders and makes connections treatment on these LPs and SACDs. Decades after their between seemingly disparate styles, instrumental pairings, and eclectic arrangements. Supported by all-star players original release, they still sound ahead of the times. MOBILE FIDELITY 191

Love and Theft Nashville Skyline John Wesley Harding (mono or stereo) Bob Dylan Another Side The Times They The Freewheelin’ Bringing It All Blonde on (mono or stereo) of Bob Dylan Are A-Changin’ Bob Dylan Back Home Blonde (mono or stereo) (mono or stereo) (mono or stereo) (mono or stereo) Planet Waves The Basement Highway 61 Before the Flood Blood on the Desire Bob Dylan’s Tapes Revisited Tracks Greatest Hits (mono or stereo) Every seminal Bob Dylan album from the 1960s and 1970s. leaders, these reissues take you behind Dylan’s sunglasses Each presented in recording-studio-quality fidelity on and place you eye-to-eye with his visions, thoughts, words, BOB DYLAN demonstration-worthy LPs and SACDs—including seven titles and persona. Mobile Fidelity is flattered to have the privilege on both formats in faithful-to-the-original mono sound that of ensuring that his epochal works now sound as lifelike as Dylan himself preferred. Enhancing the emotional responses they did on the days they were cut. we have to the music that transformed cultures and inspired THE BAND In the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan shattered boundaries between folk and rock on a tour that found him backed by the Band. The quintessential Americana and roots music group, the ensemble lays bare on album the magnetism of the American South, Appalachian traditions, gospel spirituality, and country-rock innovations with sublime interplay. This is the majesty of what cultural expert The Band Music from Big Pink The Last Waltz Greil Marcus called “the old, weird America.” And with each year that passes, it becomes clearer that the Band’s sound will never be equaled. Rock of Ages Northern Lights- Stage Fright Cahoots Southern Cross 192 MOBILE FIDELITY

E.S.P. Kind of Blue A Tribute to Jack Johnson Bitches Brew On the Corner Nefertiti Filles de Miles in the Sky Sketches of In a Silent Way ‘Round About My Funny Sorcerer Kilimanjaro Spain Midnight Valentine Miles Davis: The clairvoyant that looked beyond bebop and classical, Spanish, and folk canvasses. The fusion composer molded music into a more refined, cooler form. The visionary determined to push the outer limits of composition. A MILES DAVIS trumpeter whose spacious, linear balladic phrasing via the maestro whose watershed albums transcend definition, Davis is jazz. Mobile Fidelity reamins humbled to issue end-all-be- Harmon mute led to bluesy hard bop. The astute improviser that devised expressive counterpoints on top of harmonic all-definitive editions of his dominant artworks on dead-quiet frameworks. The painter that splashed exotic colors amidst LPs and transparent-sounding SACDs. BILL WITHERS Bill Withers created mellow, downhome-style soul for barely more than a decade before electively retreating from the industry. On the handful of albums he made for Sussex and CBS, he struck lasting emotional chords in millions of listeners that fell under the spell of now-standard tracks such as “Lean on Me,” “Use Me,” and “Ain’t No Sunshine.” The antithesis of the sweaty R&B shouter that prowls the edge of stages, Withers deals in calm and vulnerability—easygoing qualities that come to fore on Bill Withers’ Greatest Hits and Live at Carnegie Hall. Live at Carnegie Hall Bill Withers’ Greatest Hits MOBILE FIDELITY 193

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Rides Again DEREK AND THE DOMINOS JAMES GANG The reputation of this groundbreaking band and the lineup’s lone 1970 record Led by future Eagle Joe Walsh, James Gang establishes a power-trio template for precedes it. Eric Clapton performing in the studio with Duane Allman, Bobby all times on its 1970 sophomore album. Home to the top-down classic “Funk #49,” Whitlock, Carl Radle, and more for the only time. A batch of fire-pot blues, Rides Again sparks with a stylistic versatility, hard-rocking edge, and balladic poignant gospel, and searing rock—all birthed from the leader’s lust for another vulnerability united by tight-knit musicianship. Recorded at the then-brand-new man’s wife. Now, experience it all, and one of the most famous guitar solos and Record Plant, the songs sound more authoritative and fun than ever on these codas in history, in unsurpassed sound on both LP and SACD. painstakingly restored pressings. Breakfast in America A Salty Dog SUPERTRAMP PROCOL HARUM Illustrious cover art. Sing-a-long hooks. Contagious melodies. Symphonic rock Procol Harum stood apart for its aptitude to blend classical figures with bluster. Signature Wurlitzer electric piano sounds. Two Grammy Awards. More rock motifs without coming across as self-indulgent or contrived. Graced than 20 million copies sold. Every aspect of Supertramp’s 1979 album screams with commanding mood pieces, the group’s 1969 album—appointed with blockbuster, not the least of which is the production, which remains the result evocative artwork that pays homage to the Player’s Navy Cut logo—exhibits the of painstaking studio setups and months of mixing. The dynamics, color, and band’s distinctive talents and genre-jumping breadth with an idyllic fusion of presence are all here in their full-range glory on both LP and SACD. performance, composition, and sound. Rumor and Sigh Get the Knack RICHARD THOMPSON THE KNACK Richard Thompson scales lofty creative, songwriting, and musicianship peaks on The Knack’s 1979 debut became one of the fastest- and biggest-selling opening 1991’s Rumor and Sigh. Balancing darkness and humor, soulfulness and elegance, salvos in history, leading to a jealous blowback that only reaffirmed the endless clean melodies and folk grit, the guitar maestro marries his signature character- appeal of the music’s power-pop hooks and irreverent pleasures. Staked to study narratives to his band’s intrepid playing. Produced by Mitchell Froom and insistent beats, sexual yearning, shout-from-the-rooftops choruses, and fuse- home to the incomparable narrative “1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” the album blowing energy, songs like the immortal “My Sharona” explode on these reissues. has never sounded so realistic or crisp as on Mobile Fidelity’s reissues. Get the Knack, indeed. 194 MOBILE FIDELITY 800.449.8333 MUSICDIRECT.COM

Heart Like a Wheel LINDA RONSTADT Linda Ronstadt was without peer as an interpreter of country-rock, folk, and pop songs throughout the 1970s, a decade during which she turned out album after album filled with incredible performances, captivating tones, and her whippoorwill voice. Backed by all-star musicians, she takes every song personally whether conveying sympathy, sadness, loneliness, or proud independence. Mobile Fidelity has taken extreme care in mastering Ronstadt’s best and most popular albums so that not even one breath is missed. Don’t Cry Now Prisoner in Disguise Simple Dreams Hasten Down the Wind CARLY SIMON An archetypal confessional singer-songwriter, Carly Simon won over listeners with personal early- and mid- 70s works that address themes ranging from intimacy to jealousy with disarming honesty and biographical forthrightness. Her elegant period albums are further enhanced by a parade of top producers, engineers, and guests—including Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and ex-mate James Taylor, who is instrumental to the Anticipation Carly Simon Hotcakes No Secrets success of No Secrets and Hotcakes. Given nonpareil audiophile treatment, Simon’s first four (and finest) studio records shine on these warm, detailed SACDs. RICKIE LEE JONES Rickie Lee Jones’ image on the cover of her self-titled debut says as much about the singer-songwriter as it does the music. Jones steps out as a dreamer in the post-punk age, an adventurous drifter deaf to the noisiness of her era. No wonder the work—and 1981’s literary Pirates— remains one of the most impressive opening salvos in history. The audiophile favorite now breathes with clearer air, enhanced dynamics, and phenomenal frequency extension on these sublime 45RPM and 33RPM analog reissues. Pirates Rickie Lee Jones JERRY GARCIA AND DAVID GRISMAN Contemporary interest in roots music traces back to Jerry Garcia and David Grisman’s stellar 1991 collaboration Garcia/Grisman. Putting rustic spins on pop standards, blues classics, and old-timey staples, the kindred musical spirits’ earnest authenticity and relaxed intimacy are matched by virtuosic playing and marvelous production. Related chemistry and folk scholarship inform 1996’s tradition-based Shady Grove. As realistic and enveloping as any acoustic albums extant, Mobile Fidelity’s reissues are the gold standard. Shady Grove Garcia/Grisman FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $49* MOBILE FIDELITY 195

INTRODUCING THE ULTIMATE ANALOG EXPERIENCE LESS IS MORE. Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, from the original master tape. MFSL engineers spend a much longer time Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s new ULTRADISC ONE-STEP (UD1S) uses cutting an ULTRADISC ONE-STEP project than they do with standard only one step, bypassing two processes of copying and generation three-step records. loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is about the ultimate in sound quality. ULTRADISC ONE- Listeners will hear immediate sonic benefits that include significantly STEP products are material-, time-, and labor-intensive productions. increased transparency, remarkably quicker transients, and supremely delicate microdynamics. These are the quietest vinyl pressings anyone A very limited number of vinyl LPs are made from each pristine, fragile has ever heard. ULTRADISC ONE-STEP LPs from Mobile Fidelity Sound UD1S stamper—called a convert. Such exclusivity guarantees that every Lab: The ultimate listening experience. pressing serves as an immaculate replica of the lacquer sourced directly 196 MOBILE FIDELITY

SANTANA Abraxas Abraxas reaches three-dimensional sonic and emotional heights never before attained by analog recordings on this 180g 45RPM 2LP box set. Exclusively limited to 2500 copies, this ultra-hi-fi audiophile edition literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music of this 1970 masterpiece, which spawned the cosmic staple “Black Magic Woman.” You’ve never heard Santana’s peak creations come to life in such lifelike fashion or against such dead-quiet, squid-ink-black backgrounds. Housed in an opulent box, this UD1S edition contains special jackets and a unique insert that further illuminate the genius of the recording. A special fine-art print of the original Mati Klarwein painting used on the cover, and which depicts the image in its entirety, is also included. No expense has been spared. NEXT UP BILL EVANS TRIO Sunday at the Village Vanguard The gorgeous romanticism of Sunday at the Village Vanguard cannot be overstated. Neither can what the record signifies to generations of listeners hypnotized by the consummate playing, resplendent compositions, and seamless chemistry. The 1961 live set remains the gold standard for symbiotic trio performance, empathy, and communication. And because of Orrin Keepnews’ brilliant recordings, it survives as one of the best-sounding jazz albums extant. But it has never sounded—or looked—better than this. Get yourself a piece of history before this strictly limited-to-2500-copies UD1S pressing sells out. MOBILE FIDELITY 197

Painted from Memory King of America Trust My Aim Is True This Year’s Armed Forces Get Happy!! Almost Blue Imperial Punch the Clock Blood & Model Bedroom Chocolate ELVIS Elvis Costello has made caustic rock. He’s mastered new emotional spite, romantic infatuation, sexual angst, and biting wave. He’s crafted originals steeped in traditional R&B and commentary. Pump it up in the best-possible fidelity these soul. And he accomplished the feats on touchstone albums exemplary efforts—including 1981’s spectacularly diverse COSTELLO released between 1977 and 1986, and, on 1998’s Painted Trust and 1986’s vicious Blood & Chocolate—have ever from Memory, with one of his heroes, Burt Bacharach. On enjoyed on vinyl. If you haven’t heard these records in some them all, the clever singer/guitarist navigates maelstroms of time, you’re in for quite a special experience. TOM WAITS AND ARETHA FRANKLIN CRYSTAL GAYLE Aretha’s Gold collects the singer’s greatest songs for Atlantic Records One from the Heart ranks among during 1967-68, a stretch no history’s most beloved soundtracks. vocalist ever came close to rivaling Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle show in terms of success, reach, and what should be expected when expressiveness. Including no fewer likeminded artists collaborate. than nine Top 10 hits (spanning “I Heartstrings are tugged, passions Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love kindled, sentiments exchanged, You)” to “See Saw”), this is musical skeletons dragged out of closets, manna. On these 45RPM 2LP and romantic truisms cited. The sound on SACD reissues, the Queen of Soul’s this LP is supreme, the result of most classics finally receive the sonic tracks recorded live in the studio. treatment they’ve long deserved. One from the Heart Aretha’s Gold THE ALAN PARSONS SPINNERS PROJECT Punctuated with sweeping strings, brassy replies, and funk rhythms, Engineered by Alan Parsons after Spinners birthed the celebrated he performed the same duties on Philadelphia Sound. Made evident The Dark Side of the Moon, I Robot on Top 5 smashes like “Could It reigns as a disc whose taut bass, Be I’m Falling in Love” and “I’ll Be crisp highs, clean production, and Around,” heaven-sent voices and seemingly limitless dynamics are wide-open arrangements treat each matched only by the prog-rock song as a potential anthem. Few music helmed by the keyboardist. albums of any genre sound silkier, Not surprisingly, the record has creamier, or tonally richer than this been issued myriad times. Can it be LP. Old-school soul doesn’t come improved? Relish these 45RPM 2LP any better. I Robot and SACD editions and the question Spinners becomes irrelevant. 198 MOBILE FIDELITY 800.449.8333 MUSICDIRECT.COM

Shake It Up Heartbeat City Candy-O The Cars Led by Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, the Cars produced 70s doubt and double meaning to the often-ironic lyrics, which THE CARS and 80s landmarks by uniting disparate styles of music that are counterbalanced by orchestral keyboard flourishes and electronic beats. Accessible and eccentric, the Cars’ records included bubblegum melodies, angular art rock, progressive arrangements, and terse minimalism. Orr’s low, understated singing and Ocasek’s cool, detached vocals lend shades of explode anew with energy and dynamics on these definitive vinyl and SACD editions. PRETENDERS Part pop, part new wave, part R&B, and 100% pure melodic rock n’ roll, the Pretenders stood at the forefront of the revolutionary changes that swept music during the late 70s and early 80s. Vocalist/leader Chrissie Hynde channeled her infatuation for the rawness of the U.K. punk scene, adopting a don’t-take-no-mess attitude that the band promptly filtered through soulful disciplines. The results? Classy albeit barbed music that’s always been and always will be instantly identifiable. Pretenders II Learning to Crawl WEEZER Weezer doesn’t look like stars, and the group’s lyrics don’t exude confidence or flash. For these reasons—and the fact that the band’s pop-laden rock songs are the stuff of air-guitar dreams and shout-it-out choruses—the quartet is championed by in-the-know hipsters and mainstream listeners alike. Replete with urgent melodies, confessional narratives, wry humor, and gargantuan hooks, 1994’s breakthrough Weezer (Blue Album) remains the best geek-rock record ever made. Celebrate it on very special blue-colored vinyl, traditional 180g LP, and SACD reissues that render the music in grand-scale perspective. And don’t forget to dive into the group’s other signature albums, each teeming with unique rewards. Weezer (Blue Album) The Lion and Weezer (Green Make Believe Pinkerton the Witch Album)

GRATEFUL DEAD Among the most perfectly realized and superbly anew with unrivaled intimacy, realism, detail, and played folk-rock records ever made, American Beauty perspective on these deluxe 45RPM 2LP sets. and Workingman’s Dead represent the pinnacle of Longtime Deadheads and newcomers alike will hear the Grateful Dead’s studio output. Forgoing cosmic significantly more information, experience wider jams and complex signatures, the acoustic-based and deeper soundstages, and be swept away by efforts enchant with rich songwriting, homespun incredible vocal balances made possible by the wider warmth, simple arrangements, burnished tones, grooves. Celebrate the band’s unsurpassed legacy mellow moods, and integrated harmonies. Forever with all six of Mobile Fidelity’s supreme-sounding prized for their natural sonics, the albums emerge vinyl reissues. American Beauty Workingman’s Dead Grateful Dead Live/Dead Wake of the Flood In the Dark Forever Changes Da Capo Kiko By the Light of the Moon LOVE LOS LOBOS A psychedelic canvas for beautifully eclectic ideas and pioneering journeys, Los Lobos touted themselves as “just another band from East L.A.,” but it’s Da Capo encapsulates baroque pop, bossa nova, garage rock, and hard- likely that even the Chicano rock group’s humble members recognized driving jazz. Love’s equally seminal Forever Changes transcends convention, that few other artists in the late 1980s rivaled their soulful music, rousing its magnitude fueled by acoustic complexities and kaleidoscopic nuances. performances, and eclectic arrangements. Listen to the seamless fashions These superior analog and digital reissues present the band’s interwoven in which the collective’s diverse songs create memorable soundscapes textures, hand-stitched details, and wide-spanning dynamics in three- that—like the light of the moon—come to fore amidst warmer, airier, and more dimensional perspective. organic backgrounds on these LPs and SACDs. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND They looked like any number of young, hopeful bands straddling the violent fade of the 1960s with the advent of the 1970s. Yet this amicable Georgia collective sounded like no other, its youthfulness belied by virtuosic abilities and interlocking interplay Miles Davis would’ve envied. Between 1969 and 1973, the group recorded four studio albums and one exalted live double album whose stunningly resonant blues, spirit-moving soul, raw-boned R&B, purifying gospel, and polyrhythmic rock motifs set precedents while boasting some of the most magnificent slide-guitar playing committed to tape. Ladies and gentlemen, Mobile Fidelity joyfully drops the Allman Brothers Band into your listening room. At Fillmore East Eat a Peach Brothers and Sisters The Allman Idlewild South Brothers Band 200 MOBILE FIDELITY 800.449.8333 MUSICDIRECT.COM

No matter how difficult, Billy Joel always succeeds in with comprehensive arrangements, towering harmonies, wrapping his head around rich swaths of American pop. His and a swift sense of purpose that made him one of the BILLY JOEL music stops by way of New Orleans, Kansas City, Memphis, most beloved artists of his generation. His catalog testifies on behalf of unimpeachably ovational songwriting and Chicago, and other milestone cities. The singer’s simple, yet disarmingly effective lyrics speak to universal truths execution. Experience it all in heart-rustling fidelity on 180g and uplift. Joel’s melodic flair does the rest, filling out tunes 45RPM 2LP and SACD. Greatest Hits Volume I Glass Houses 52nd Street & Volume II An Innocent The Nylon The Stranger Turnstiles Songs in the Piano Man Man Curtain Attic HALL AND OATES Setting decade-defining standards, Hall and Oates crafted sleek, stylish, and sophisticated pop music that dominated the early 1980s. Rolling Stone perfectly described the group as teaching “the way to make rock girls, disco girls, and new-wave girls scream together.” Striking a keen equilibrium between polish, melody, muscle, and craft, the best-selling duo’s trinity of smash albums— H20, Voices, Private Eyes—spawned several chart-toppers that complement the tandem’s signature 1970s fare on the savvy greatest-hits collection Rock ‘n Soul Part 1. Rock ‘n Soul Part 1 H20 Voices Private Eyes CHICAGO Chicago always strove for and attained multi-disciplined diversity, emerging with one surprise after another. It’s one of many reasons Mobile Fidelity is compelled to do sonic justice to the collective’s finest hours. Whether magnifying spirit-buoying fusion via intertwined woodwinds, guitars, horns, and percussion—or adult-contemporary glory via unforgettable refrains, dramatic balladry, and timeless melodies—these transparent-sounding SACDs pull back the previously concealing veil on Grammy-caliber productions nearly as famous as the content within. Chicago Transit Authority Chicago II Chicago VI Chicago 17 OVER 10,000 TITLES IN-STOCK EVERYDAY MOBILE FIDELITY 201

FRANK SINATRA What makes a legend? When it comes to Frank Sinatra, everything. The debonair look. The cool attitude. The enviable disposition. The fact that most men wanted to be him and most women wanted him. But above all, that rich sonorous voice. Sinatra’s definitive baritone remains the de facto reference. His peerless vocal abilities—phrasing, Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!! No One Cares Point of No Return tempo, timing, control, timbre, emotion— pour from his songs, the interpretations flush with irresistible persuasion, uncompromised sincerity, universal pathos, and heartbreaking sensitivity. Mobile Fidelity presents many of the Chairman’s very finest albums in the highest-possible sonic quality. But don’t wait: These titles are all out of print! Swing Along Only the Lonely Nice ‘n’ Easy The Concert Sinatra & Strings Where Are You? with Me Sinatra I Left My Heart in San Francisco I Wanna Be Around... Live at the Sands (Before Frank) TONY BENNETT COUNT BASIE Nothing like a touch of velvet. Tony Bennett’s mellow singing spans from Captured while his big band opened for Frank Sinatra, Live at the Sands conversational to soaring, his timbre at once sensational and note-perfect, (Before Frank) contains many of Count Basie’s signature pieces delivered and his color, style, sophistication, and suaveness radiating from music that with vivacious enthusiasm, style, and brassiness that exceed their studio encompasses frisky bossa nova, softly swinging pop, and heartfelt ballads. counterparts. The leader causes hearts to race, hips to shake, and fingers to Filled with hits, Bennett’s early 1960s masterworks cemented his career. snap with high-energy readings of trademark swing taken to feverish heights Timeless class. by his first-rate orchestra. Here’s your eighth-row seat to the famed club. MORE FROM CAROLE KING R.E.M. ALISON KRAUSS & NATALIE MERCHANT MADELEINE PEYROUX PRISCILLA AHN Tapestry Lifes Rich Pageant UNION STATION Tigerlily Bare Bones A Good Day So Long So Wrong RAY CHARLES LITTLE FEAT THE DOOBIE BROTHERS FOGHAT MARSHALL CRENSHAW Mobile Fidelity The Genius Sings the Little Feat Stampede Fool for the City Marshall Crenshaw Collection Volume 2 202 MOBILE FIDELITY 800.449.8333 MUSICDIRECT.COM Blues

MOBILE FIDELITY SILVER LABEL Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s acclaimed Silver Label features an cut on our state-of-the-art Tim de Paravicini-designed mastering eclectic mix of rock, pop, and soul titles. Pressed on standard- chain. Explore great albums and expand your musical horizons weight audiophile-quality vinyl at RTI, each LP is mastered and with Silver Label analog reissues! STEVIE WONDER Stevie Wonder established an incredible precedent between 1971 and 1976, releasing a slew of genre-blurring albums that include Talking Book, Music of My Mind, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale. Wonder not only restores faith in love, he includes smart political commentary, personal-is-political messages, and empowering statements on records on which he served as producer and primary performer. Add 1980’s reggae- splashed Hotter Than July to this batch, and you’ll understand why Wonder is an absolute genius. Talking Book Music of My Mind Fulfillingness’ Hotter Than July First Finale ROD STEWART Nearly every music lover is unanimous in choosing Rod Stewart’s early 1970s output as his very finest. Why? It’s when he had few rivals as a blue-eyed soul singer. The evidence is on Gasoline Alley and Every Picture Tells a Story, organic classics that on these LPs boast full-range sound and earthy tones. On these records, Stewart makes folk music rock like no one had before while maintaining a rarified grit, integrity, and style. As for the vocals? Sensitive, understated, wistful, and, in a word, ageless. Every Picture Tells a Story Gasoline Alley JUDAS PRIEST You’ve got another thing comin’! Distinguished by magnesium-burn guitars, leather-tough percussion, molten-hot melodies, and the piercing falsetto of operatic vocalist Rob Halford, Judas Priest defines British heavy metal on 1978’s Stained Class, the follow-up Killing Machine (a.k.a. Hell Bent for Leather), and 1980’s Screaming for Vengeance. In the same way these platinum albums remain incalculably influential touchstones on which precision-based speed, mainstream accessibility, and hard-edged Screaming for Killing Machine Stained Class rebelliousness meet in triangular equilibrium, the Silver Label LPs redefine the Vengeance music’s power and reach. MOBILE FIDELITY 203

Songs from the Big Chair The Seeds of Love Into the Labyrinth Spiritchaser TEARS FOR FEARS DEAD CAN DANCE Named after primal-scream theories, Tears for Fears turned raw feelings into Just as Dead Can Dance are utterly distinctive, so too, are the world-fusion self-expressive songs etched with tenderness and directness, earnestness group’s Into the Labyrinth and Spiritchaser. Intimate, textured, and deeply and melancholy. The synthpop duo spins perfectionism into platinum spiritual, they are some the most gorgeous LPs you will ever hear. Anchored on Songs from the Big Chair and The Seeds of Love, distinguished with by glossolalia vocals and kaleidoscopic arrangements, exotic soundscapes sumptuous production that reportedly cost more than a million pounds. mesmerize at every turn. Think of them as ethereal portals to lost cultures. Floodland First and Last and Always Business as Usual Cargo THE SISTERS OF MERCY MEN AT WORK Towering, epic, grand: Floodland combines evocative spirituality, delicate They came from the land down under. And they conquered the charts with accents, and anthemic riffs with funky drum-machine beats and visceral their Business as Usual debut that stayed for 15 consecutive weeks at the tension to yield music that dares listeners not to dance. Helmed by Meat pole position on the Billboard Top 100. Then they proved they weren’t a Loaf producer Jim Steinman, the monumental production relishes in splendid fad with a hit, fun-loving follow-up, Cargo. They were Men at Work, a quirky dynamic contrasts and moody atmospherics. The 1987 LP and the band’s bunch led by Colin Hay, whose humor, style, and singing on these two LPs 1985 debut, First and Last and Always, remain goth-rock milestones. helped the quintet become a consummate 1980s new-wave act. She’s So Unusual True Colors Kick X Listen Like Thieves CYNDI LAUPER INXS Long before becoming a Tony Award-winning Broadway figure, Cyndi Lauper Anchored by the sensual purr of vocalist Michael Hutchence and frisky ushered in a new wave of commercial pop while flaunting an exuberant drumming of Jon Farriss, INXS tapped into a hybrid style that freshly stays confidence that, overnight, influenced a generation to embrace life with away from the era’s plastic, manufactured sounds and narrow-minded newfound vibrancy. Girls, on the whimsically charismatic and truly original aesthetic. Recorded during the band’s heyday, the 1985-90 trio of Listen Like She’s So Unusual, just want to have fun. An expressive statement on which Thieves, Kick, and X contain every element classic contemporary pop works her singing is steeped in emotion, True Colors comes on as a vocal tour de require—from dance beats to streamlined rock riffs, soaring hooks to horn- force throughout which sincerity, phrasing, and elegance reign supreme. fueled R&B. These LPs resonate with crispness, immediacy, and punch. 204 MOBILE FIDELITY 800.449.8333 MUSICDIRECT.COM

THE B-52’S The B-52’s were about a decade ahead of the alt-rock revolution when they put their stamp on delightfully campy, intentionally goofy, lyrically kitschy, richly colorful, and undeniably harmonic new-wave pop with their self-titled debut and 1980’s Wild Planet. The party rolled into 1989 with Cosmic Thing and a trip to the love shack. These reissues are worth it alone for the iconic album covers, which spotlight those bouffant ‘dos. Boffo! The B-52’s Wild Planet Cosmic Thing WILLIE NELSON RYAN ADAMS Cutting against Music Row Love Is Hell is a staggeringly personal conventions, Willie Nelson’s Stardust report on romantic desolation, is the icon’s most commercially personal frustration, and incurable successful release, a resplendent loneliness whose themes play out gem infused with ultimate respect for via heartbreakingly intimate vocals, composers and lyrics—and many of stark acoustic guitars, unembellished the finest performances of the singer’s electric guitars, and spare pianos. career. Further exposing the delicate The excising of pain has rarely touches abounding in Booker T. sounded more bittersweet—or Jones’ warm production, this edition spiritual. Throughout, Adams makes brings out the textured kernels of you feel and inspires reaction. This Nelson’s voice—and the deep-seated unsurpassed edition contains seven dignity, austerity, devotion, grit, and extra songs previously only available plaintiveness within it. on a Japanese-issued bonus disc. Stardust Love Is Hell DUKE ELLINGTON BILL EVANS AND It captures a performance so JIM HALL energetic, wild, and unexpected that the music literally caused thousands Whether owing to the intimate pairing, of people to stand on chairs, worrying brotherly chemistry, or exquisite officials a riot might ensue. It is jazz of material, Undercurrent comes across the highest order, played at a rock n’ as a private meditation. Such is the roll pace that confirms Duke Ellington level of introspective depth and quietly and Co. fed off the crowd’s reactions. shaded interplay. For Bill Evans, the It is Ellington’s best-selling album. duet functions as a healing episode in It is Ellington at Newport. Boasting which his partner patiently lays back, tremendous separation, deep low shadowing moves and suggesting frequencies, clear highs, and front-to- others, each musician striving for back dynamics, this LP is your ticket lasting beauty. No other version brings to history. you face-to-face with these giants’ Ellington at Newport Undercurrent sonic communion and spiritual summit. MORE FROM SILVER LABEL 10,000 MANIACS ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN THE ENGLISH BEAT YAZ LYNYRD SKYNYRD In My Tribe Heaven Up Here Special Beat Service Upstairs at Eric’s Street Survivors KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND BETTE MIDLER BETTE MIDLER RICKY NELSON BOBBY DARIN KC and the Sunshine Band The Divine Miss M The Rose Ricky Sings Again Love Swings OVER 10,000 TITLES IN-STOCK EVERYDAY MOBILE FIDELITY 205