Lot 83AC/DC-THE RAZORS EDGE-1990-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY -ATCO-NMINT/NMINT

KATE BUSH- HOUNDS OF LOVE-1985-FIRST PRESS EU-EMI-0622403841. A very rare European original of a cult album. Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by British singer and songwriter Kate Bush, released on September 16, 1985 by EMI Records. Recorded during 1983-1985, the album became the second in the singer's discography, which she produced independently. The album was accompanied by four singles: "Running Up That Hill", "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love" and "The Big Sky". "Running Up That Hill" has become one of Kate Bush's most popular songs. Hounds of Love was the singer's most commercially successful studio album. It became Bush's second album to top the UK national chart, after Never for Ever, and also reached the top ten of the charts in Australia, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Sweden. The album became the first in Bush's career to reach the top thirty of the US Billboard 200. The album was certified double platinum for 600,000 copies sold in the UK, platinum for 500,000 copies in Germany and platinum for 100,000 copies in Canada. The total worldwide circulation of Hounds of Love was 3 million copies. The album was nominated at the 1986 BRIT Awards in the Best British Album category, and Bush was nominated in the Best British Artist and Best British Single categories for the song "Running Up That Hill". In 2022, the album became popular again, entered many charts around the world and topped the American Billboard Top Alternative Albums chart, after the song "Running Up That Hill" appeared in the Netflix series "Very Strange Things". ...more

STEELY DAN-CAN'T BUY A THRILL -1972- SECOND PRESS 1974 UK-ABC-ABCL5024 Matrix A-1U/B-1. Rare British early edition of the cult album.  Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 on ABC Records. It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Feigen and recorded in August 1972 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz. This album is one of the most stylistically eclectic in Steely Dan's work, combining the sounds of soft rock, pop rock and jazz rock, as well as philosophical, mysterious lyrics. The commercially successful album Can't Buy a Thrill reached 17th place on the US Billboard Top LPs chart.  Tape, which was promoted by the popular singles Do It Again and Reelin' In the Years, and eventually received a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It also received positive reviews and was included in many retrospective lists of "greatest albums", including Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list (2003). ...more

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - HUMAN TOUCH -1992-THE FIRST UK/EU PRESS-COLUMBIA-4714231. A rare European original of a cult album. . Human Touch is the ninth studio album by American singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on March 27, 1992, the same day as Lucky Town. It was the more popular of the two albums, reaching number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, while the title single, Human Touch (a double single featuring the song Better Days by Lucky Town), reached number one on the Mainstream Rock chart and number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since then, "Human Touch" has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for over one million copies sold in the United States and was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards in 1993. ...more

CAN- TAGO MAGO (2LP'S)-1971-FIRST UK PRESS-UNITED ARTISTS-UAD60009/10.Matrices A-1/B-1/C-1/D-1 is a very rare British original of the cult album.  Tago Mago is the second studio album by the German krautrock band Can, originally released as a double LP in August 1971 on the United Artists Records label. It was the band's first full-length studio album featuring vocalist Damo Suzuki after Malcolm Mooney's departure a year earlier, although Suzuki participated in recording most of the tracks on the 1970 compilation album Soundtracks. It was recorded at Can Studio [de] in Schloss Nörvenich, a medieval castle near Cologne. Tago Mago includes long experimental tracks that combine rock and jazz improvisation, funk rhythms and specific music using editing techniques.  The album was named Kahn's best and most extreme album in terms of sound and structure.  The album received widespread critical acclaim and influenced many artists. Ned Raggett of AllMusic called it "not just one of the best krautrock albums of all time, but also one of the best albums of all time, without exception." ...more

ALICE COOPER-BILLION DOLLAR BABIES-1973-THE FIRST PRESS UK-WARNER-K56013 Matrix A-1/B-1. A very rare British original of a cult album. Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by Alice Cooper and his band, released by Warner Bros. February 25, 1973, and topped the American and English album charts simultaneously. The singles released from it were: "Elected" (1972, No. 4 UK), "Hello, Hooray" (1973, No. 6 UK, No. 35 USA), "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (1973, No. 10 UK, No. 35 USA), "Billion Dollar Babies" (1973, No. 57 USA). The album received multi-platinum status, and the AllMusic Internet resource not only called it one of the best in Cooper's work, but also ranked it among the outstanding examples of classic rock of all time.  ...more