New Releases 10-17-07

New Releases 10-17-07

AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition) Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $35.95
Witness every stage of the world's most electrifying rock band! Plug Me In - the new 3DVD Collector's Edition set contains over 7 hours of rare and unreleased LIVE video from AC/DC. DVD 1 goes all the way back to 1975 and original singer Bon Scott with the band's first appearance on TV, quickly followed by two never-before-seen performances from the 1976 show at Sydney's St. Alban's High School. Also on DVD 1 are live clips from Melbourne, London, Glasgow, Holland, and Munich - including the very first public performance of the song "Highway To Hell"! DVD 2 picks up in Tokyo, with Brian Johnson at the mic. Tearing through new songs and old, the band clearly doesn't miss a beat and goes on straight through 2003 - performing with childhood heroes The Rolling Stones. Also included are rare interviews, tour promo films and alternate live versions. DVD 3 is a 2 hour collection called "Between The Cracks" - stuff too good to leave out! Included are both Bon and Brian eras, featuring the never-before-seen 1983 show from the Houston Summit.Total Running Time: approx. 7 hours

The Art of Love and War by Angie Stone Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $9.99
The highly anticipated new CD by the neo-soul diva is, simply put, her best album ever. Includes the new hit single "Baby" featuring the legendary BETTY WRIGHT and "My People" with the incomparable JAMES INGRAM.

Chase This Light by Jimmy Eat World Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.83
Jimmy Eat World, one of rock's most lasting and loved icons, return with Chase This Light. The first album since 2004's Futures finds the band partnered with legendary producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) overseeing as executive producer. Largely recorded in the band's own studio in Arizona, Chase This Light has a powerful optimism and, like 2001's beloved platinum break-through Jimmy Eat World (aka Bleed American), each song finds a way to compel the listener to keep coming back again and again to discover a new favorite. Jimmy Eat World have the unique ability to be a bands-band as well as fans-band, marrying credibility with a tuneful accessibly that makes them a permanent fixture of the modern music scene. Jimmy Eat World never stop striving to make the best music of their career, Chase This Light proves this.

R.E.M. Live 2CD/1DVD by R.E.M. Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $15.99

Cecilia Bartoli - Maria Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $25.89
The Washington Post "A celebrity of incomparable stature, Bartoli reigns supreme."

Disco 4 by Pet Shop Boys Buy new: $16.97
Disco 4 is the eighteenth album by Synth Pop legends The Pet Shop Boys it is also the fourth in the duo's very own 'Disco' series. This is a compilation of remixes of their own songs and remixes of other artists. Yoko Ono, Madonna and David Bowie are some of the lucky few to get remixed on this series. It also includes the 'Maxi-Mix remixes of songs such as 'Sorry' by Madonna and 'I'm With Stupid' which was only available on the Japanese release of the album Fundamental. So, come and join Neil and Chris at your local disco and expect to have a hell of a time! Eight tracks. EMI.

A Classic Christmas Buy new: $12.99
A two CD set of 20 true, Christmas Classics from Toby Keith. A Classic Christmas is Toby's first holiday release in 12 years. The songs are divided by disc into both contemporary and spiritual based holiday standards.

My Foolish Heart by Keith Jarrett Buy new: $22.99
"This is a concert recording I was holding onto until the right moment presented itself. It shows the trio at its most buoyant, swinging, melodic and dynamic" - Keith Jarrett

The Alchemy Index, Vols. 1-2 by Thrice Buy new: $9.99
"We're kind of doing something that's the opposite of what a producer is supposed to do on a record--which is make everything make sense and kind of fit together--whereas this project is all about taking things apart and pushing them one way," says Teranishi. "We really wanted to try doing things our way this time around, and make this record sound the way we want it to sound, not the way it's "supposed" to sound."

Mighty High by Gov't Mule Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $8.95

A Disney Channel Holiday by Various Artists Buy new: $14.97 / Used from: $6.97

Live at Bearsville Theater Buy new: $11.19

Live at the BBC by Sandy Denny Buy new: $42.99

Into the Night by Santana Buy new: $11.99

Live at the Murat by Umphrey's McGee Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.50

Reason EP by The Fray Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.00

Pull the Pin by Stereophonics Buy new: $21.98

DVDs

Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition) Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $17.50

A Mighty Heart Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $10.87

Absolutely Fabulous - White Box Buy new: $11.19

The Hoax Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $9.99

Mythbusters: Collection 2 (3pc) Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $22.61

Books

I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert Buy new: $16.19 / Used from: $16.58
Stephen Colbert was The Daily Shows longest-running and most diverse correspondent. In addition to his role as Senior Political Correspondent he was one of the hosts of Even Stephven, a point-counterpoint assault featuring co-correspondent Steve Carell, and the host of This Week in God, in which he reported on all things theological with the assistance of the God Machine. His personality, insight and overall rightness could only lead to The Colbert Report, a half-hour nightly platform for him to give his take on the issues of the day, and, more importantly, to tell you why everyone elses take is just plain wrong.

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis Buy new: $20.97 / Used from: $20.35

Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $15.60
From Publishers Weekly Readers hoping for sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll won't be disappointed by the legendary guitarist's autobiography. As he retraces every step of his career, from the early stints with the Yardbirds and Cream to his solo successes, Clapton also devotes copious detail to his drug and alcohol addictions, particularly how they intersected with his romantic obsession with Pattie Boyd. His relationship with the woman for whom he wrote Layla culminated in a turbulent marriage he describes as drunken forays into the unknown. But he genuinely warms to the subject of his recovery, stressing its spiritual elements and eagerly discussing the fund-raising efforts for his Crossroads clinic in Antigua. His self-reckoning is filled with modesty, especially in the form of dissatisfaction with his early successes. He professes ambivalence about the famous Clapton is God graffiti, although he admits he was grateful for the recognition from fans. At times, he sounds more like landed gentry than a rock star: bragging about his collection of contemporary art, vigorously defending his hunting and fishing as leisure activities, and extolling the virtues of his quiet country living. But both the youthful excesses and the current calm state are narrated with an engaging tone that nudges Clapton's story ahead of other rock 'n' roll memoirs. (Oct. 9) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx Buy new: $19.50 / Used from: $21.84

Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd Buy new: $15.57 / Used from: $13.12

Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons by David Cote Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $26.33
Everyone knows their songs. Few know their story. Named for a bowling alley that refused to book them, The Four Seasons—Frankie, Tommy, Bob, and Nick—were high school dropouts who emerged from New Jersey to become true American Idols: one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. With a shiny doo-wop sound highlighted by lead singer Frankie Valli’s stratospheric falsetto, they wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds, and sold 175 million records worldwide—all before they were thirty.

The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $21.29

Ronnie: The Autobiography by Ronnie Wood Buy new: $17.13
For the first time, a member of the world’s most famous rock ‘n’ roll band tells his—and their—story. Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating. An incredible journey.

Runnin' Down A Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers by Tom Petty Buy new: $26.37

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 (Pvg) Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $10.89

MAKING RECORDS: THE SCENES BEHIND THE MUSIC by Phil Ramone Buy new: $16.47
Sinatra. Streisand. Dylan. Pavarotti. McCartney. Sting. Madonna. What do these musicians have in common besides their super-stardom? They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone.For almost five decades, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. He has produced records and collaborated with almost every major talent in the business. There is a craft to making records, and Phil has spent his life mastering it. For the first time ever, he shares the secrets of his trade. Making Records is a fascinating look "behind the glass" of a recording studio. From Phil's exhilarating early days recording jazz and commercial jingles at AR, to his first studio, and eventual legendary producer status, Phil allows you to sit in on the sessions that created some of the most memorable music of the 20th century -- including Frank Sinatra's Duets album, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Ray Charles's Genius Loves Company and Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years.In addition to being a ringside seat for contemporary popular music history, Making Records is an unprecedented tutorial on the magic behind what music producers and engineers do. In these pages, Phil offers a rare peek inside the way music is made . . .illuminating the creative thought processes behind some of the most influential sessions in music history.This is a book about the art that is making records -- the way it began, the way it is now, and everything in between.