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HOT BUTTERED SOUL / ISAAC HAYES

This stunning 1969 release from respected soul songwriter Isaac Hayes catapulted him to fame with a musical style like no other that combined soul, jazz, and rock.
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THE CARS / THE CARS

One of the most successful and enjoyable debuts in history, the Cars’ self-titled album doubles as a greatest-hits collection.
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SO LONG SO WRONG / ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION - 2 LP Set

Available for the very first time on vinyl, this must have 2-LP set gets more addictive with every play.   Call it bluegrass or call it acoustic pop, either way Alison Krauss & Union Station have created an incredible montage of music.
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LOST IN SPACE / AIMEE MANN

A master of poetic regret, it's impossible to miss the strength of Mann's writing, which remains spectacularly underrated among contemporary songwriters.
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LIVE / ALISON KRAUSS - 3 LP Set

Twenty-five career-spanning tracks, from their traditional bluegrass roots to their more recent pop-oriented tunes, the recording, the playing and the voices are all impeccable.
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CARELESS LOVE / MADELEINE PEYROUX

Madeleine Peyroux is the real deal. She brushes off comparisons to Billie Holiday, but it's certainly not bad company to keep.
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COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION / MEGADETH - 2 LP Set

Applauded by critics and fans alike, 1992's Countdown to Extinction is one of the most brilliant and precise metal records ever released.
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HALF THE PERFECT WORLD / MADELEINE PEYROUX - 2 LP Set

Half the Perfect World is the sound of carefree joy. The album is the long-overdue continuation of the gentle jazz-vocal style perfected by Billie Holiday. One of the most intimately detailed vocal albums you'll ever hear.
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SAHARA / McCOY TYNER

DownBeat's Album of the Year, Sahara represents the best that jazz had to offer in the early 70s. Rooted in modality, Tyner's piano playing is thick, chromatic, and cavernous.
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MARC COHN

Cohn's 1991 debut is masterfully produced and features brilliantly crafted musical arrangements that perfectly accentuate his soulful, rich baritone timbre and graceful, contemplative piano performances.
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WHITES OFF EARTH NOW / COWBOY JUNKIES

Haunting, harrowing, eerie, and gorgeous, the soft-toned album reinterprets eight classic blues in a ghostly manner that combines Delta traditions, European minimalism, roots country, and thoroughly original do-it-yourself ambience.
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MARSHALL CRENSHAW

A five-star record that announced the arrival of a serious new talent and deviated from the slick artifice of the time, Marshall Crenshaw's debut is a pop classic
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FOOL FOR THE CITY / FOGHAT

Foghat's best studio album, a classic rock staple, contains the hit singles “Slow Ride” and ”Fool For The City.”   The remastered sound is mindblowing.   Guitar Heroes, unite!
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SURFER ROSA / PIXIES

Internationally acknowledged as a pioneering record, the alt-rock landmark Surfer Rosa is the influential equivalent of the Velvet Underground’s oft-cited 1968 debut.   Mastered from the original analog tapes!
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THE WAY IT WAS / ART PEPPER

A 1972 compilation of phenomenal tracks recorded by saxophone giant Art Pepper at four separate dates from 1956-1960. Prepare your ears for luxury.
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INVITATION / MILT JACKSON

Milt Jackson's incredible 1963 Riverside session features Kenny Dorham, Jimmy Heath, Ron Carter, and Tommy Flanagan! Half-speed mastered for superb sound.
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LITTLE FEAT

Little Feat introduced Southern-fried accents and funny personality sketches to the West Coast's country-rock template on its self-titled 1971 debut, a record that remains singular in its aural and narrative visions of America.
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DON'T CRY NOW / LINDA RONSTADT

1973's Don’t Cry Now, Ronstadt's first album for Asylum, solidified the singer as a premiere pop singer. This is one of the most exceptional-sounding female vocalist recordings of the 1970s
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IDLEWILD SOUTH / ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

Idlewild South, the sophomore release from America's sovereign Southern rock group the Allman Brothers Band, is their greatest studio album.   Produced by the legendary Tom Dowd.
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PERMANENT WAVES / RUSH

The first of three consecutive studio masterpieces, Permanent Waves firmly established Rush as a household-name band and spawned the classic hits "Freewill" and "The Spirit of Radio."
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SANTANA

Released weeks before the band blew minds at Woodstock, Santana's groundbreaking set stands alongside Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and Jeff Beck’s Truth as a pillar of rock fusion.
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THE ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS OF ROY ORBISON - 2 LP Set

Remastered from the original analog master tapes for the first time ever, here are all of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member's finest singles for Monument Records in one place.
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ABRAXAS / SANTANA

One of rock’s true masterpieces, Santana's stunning sophomore effort was released in September 1970 to unanimous accolades and redefined contemporary music.
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PRISONER IN DISGUISE / LINDA RONSTADT

A rootsy 1975 treasure, Prisoner in Disguise advanced the vocalist’s reputation as a champion interpreter of popular song and drew acclaim for its outstanding session musicianship. Astounding sonics.
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SAILIN' SHOES / LITTLE FEAT

The equivalent to acknowledged period classics by The Band, Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, this 1972 set is at once familiar, clever, and wholesome.
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SEA CHANGE / BECK

The sonic chameleon shocked the world in 2002 with this warm-sounding folk-pop album—a sincere, honest, and mature meditation on the end of a nine-year relationship with his girlfriend.
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ANGEL DUST / FAITH NO MORE - 2 LP Set

Faith No More's 1992 alt-rock classic is a sonic funhouse that remains catchy and melodic no matter what directions the songs pull.   But the record’s greatest aspect may be its cutting-edge production.
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BOSSANOVA / PIXIES

More straightforward, linear, fluid, subtle, and dreamy, than Doolittle, Bossanova finds the band exploring pop structures, dropping psychedelic accents, and satisfying surf-rock urges.
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LIVE IN PARIS / FRANK SINATRA - 2 LP Set

Live In Paris is Frank Sinatra's definitive concert album.   No live set better captures the essence of the singer’s voice, showmanship, and command than this 1962 session.
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SINATRA & STRINGS / FRANK SINATRA

One of the most acclaimed albums of his career, Sinatra and Strings is a brilliant collection of standards.   Every song here is a classic ballad, every performance an elegant masterstroke.
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WHAT'S GOING ON? / MARVIN GAYE

Named the 6th best album in music history by Rolling Stone, the staggeringly influential What’s Going On is pure soul genius and an ageless document that’s as relevant today as it was upon release in 1971.
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LET'S GET IT ON / MARVIN GAYE

A 1973 blockbuster, this is the sensual touchstone for all of the erotic R&B and slow jams that followed — an album that embraces intimacy and encourages romantic affairs.
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PILGRIMAGE / MICHAEL BRECKER - 2 LP Set

Pilgrimage is the last album saxophone colossus Michael Brecker ever recorded.   Released months after he succumbed to leukemia in January 2007, it's also one of the finest jazz records made during the past 30 years.
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NICE'N'EASY / FRANK SINATRA

Comprised of devotional ballads and midtempo love songs, this 1960 set is a showcase for Sinatra's peerless ability to create moods.   Never before has it sounded so natural, rich, or transparent.
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MYTHOLOGIES / PATRICIA BARBER

Accompanied by guitarist Michael Alger, bassist Michael Arnapol, and drummer Eric Montzka, and assisted by a few special guest background vocalists -- including a children's choir -- Barber has turned in one of the first legitimate masterworks of the new century.
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HASTEN DOWN THE WIND / LINDA RONSTADT

Part of her impeccable string of mid-1970s albums that defined California’s soft-rock scene, Linda Ronstadt's Grammy-winning Hasten Down the Wind is the vocalist at her best.
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DIXIE CHICKEN / LITTLE FEAT

Stuffed with first-rate songwriting, humorous lyrics, and laidback funk, Dixie Chicken is Little Feat’s pinnacle studio album
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SIMPLE DREAMS / LINDA RONSTADT

Linda Ronstadt’s Simple Dreams continued a creative streak that found the singer turning out album after album of incredible material at an astonishing clip.   Featuring an expanded palette of styles and cutting-edge narratives, the 1977 set may be Ronstadt's greatest work.
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WAITING FOR COLUMBUS / LITTLE FEAT

Waiting for Columbus stands as Little Feat's peak accomplishment - a staggering confluence of energetic performances, skilled improvisations, and thematic expansion.
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BARE BONES / MADELEINE PEYROUX

Having proven several times over that she's among the premier vocal jazz singers on the planet, Madeleine Peyroux makes her mark as a songwriter on the exquisite Bare Bones, her first album of originals.
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SHAKE IT UP / THE CARS

A return to form after the departure that was 1980's muddled Panorama, the Cars' Shake It Up bursts forth with a rich assembly of synthesizers, drum machines, electronic blips, and catchy melodies that make it an early 80s pop staple.
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SINGS FOR ONLY THE LONELY / FRANK SINATRA

Well-versed in what it means to be down-and-out, Sinatra reaches profound emotional depths on this landmark 1958 concept album that remains one of his most legendary statements.
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THE COLE PORTER MIX / PATRICIA BARBER

Move over, Ella Fitz and Ol' Blue Eyes.   There's a new standout interpreter of classic pop songs in town.   Yes, Patricia Barber's The Cole Porter Mix belongs on the same level of amazing as the work of the 20th century's most famous singers.
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PIRATES / RICKIE LEE JONES

Accompanied by an all-star lineup, the singer-songwriter achieves musical nirvana on a 1981 set that encompasses post-bop, coffeehouse folk, bohemian pop, romantic soul, and Broadway showtunes.
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MY AIM IS TRUE / ELVIS COSTELLO

One of the greatest debut albums ever recorded, the 1977 set hasn’t lost any of the vibrant urgency, lyrical edge, or biting wit that made Costello the pin-up model for new-wave music.
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THIS YEAR'S MODEL / ELVIS COSTELLO

The first record he made with his legendary backing band the Attractions, 1978's This Year's Model is Elvis Costello's most explosive and urgent album.
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ARMED FORCES / ELVIS COSTELLO

A supremely melodic and hook-laden record, the 1979 set is a showcase of scintillating keyboard lines, sharp guitar work, and the most cohesive arrangements of Costello and the Attractions' career.
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LIVE AT THE SANDS / FRANK SINATRA

Comprised of live material recorded during five nights in early 1966 at the famed Copa Room, Ol' Blue Eyes' 21-song album stands as one of his pinnacle achievements, the results a blend of superb chemistry, sparkling arrangements, infallible singing, and contagious energy.
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SINATRA'S SINATRA / FRANK SINATRA

This album features Ol' Blue Eyes revisiting a dozen of his best tunes, all selected by the singer, and all deemed to be among his all-time favorites, acompanied by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
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GET HAPPY!! / ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS

Paying homage to Northern soul, Motown, Stax, and Southern soul strains, and infused with smooth and gritty arrangements, Get Happy!! runs on an efficient R&B motor.
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THE GENIUS SINGS THE BLUES / RAY CHARLES

A classic of the soul and R&B canon, The Genius Sings the Blues is a snapshot of the evolution of timeless American music captured by the pianist's indelible rhythmic pace, gospel roots, jazz backgrounds, and Southern-styled accents.
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FOREIGNER / FOREIGNER

Few albums better instill these pleasures than Foreigner's 1977 self-titled debut album, a five-times platinum blockbuster chock full of salacious riffs, soaring vocals, edgy beats, and lyrics that practically demand to be shouted.
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FOREIGNER / DOUBLE VISION

Overflowing with first-rate songwriting, lascivious hooks, and sing-a-long choruses, Foreigner's Double Vision exceeded the popularity of the band's blockbuster debut with more than seven million copies and two Top Five singles.
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SWING ALONG WITH ME / FRANK SINATRA

Twelve of the most uninhibited things Sinatra ever recorded, Swing Along With Me pairs the legendary singer with arranger Billy May, who leads an orchestra that just doesn't quit
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THE CONCERT SINATRA / FRANK SINATRA

Using his unparalleled breath control techniques and in the best voice of his career, Sinatra matches Riddle's sweeping arrangements, turning in resplendent performances that are as powerful, majestic, and dynamic as Riddle's surging instrumental support.
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STAGE FRIGHT / THE BAND

A sharp stylistic and thematic detour away from its first two albums, the Band’s Stage Fright is a compelling snapshot of a group coping with massive success and internal changes.
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THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT / CAROLE KING

Disarmingly genuine and daringly honest, The Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971 benefits from the inclusion of King’s nervous between-song banter that exposes who she is as a person and performer. Most importantly, despite her anxiety, she turns out stirring renditions of tunes from 1970’s Writer, Tapestry, and even a few from Music.
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I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO / TONY BENNETT

This 1962 effort was a turning point for the great Tony Bennett and an all-time pop standard. Winner of two Grammy Awards, the record contains Bennett’s signature track as well as eleven other indelible classics.
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I WANNA BE AROUND / TONY BENNETT

Recorded during his peak era, Tony Bennett's I Wanna Be Around continues the crooner's upward trajectory as he nestles into a superb batch of heartfelt ballads, softly swinging pop, and frisky bossa nova with the kind of charm, control, and coolness reserved for a legend.
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LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT / R.E.M.

For a generation that came of age in the 80s, as well almost everyone that came within earshot of its contents, the Georgia band’s 1986 landmark effort remains an utterly distinctive sonic blend of elegance and whimsy, seriousness and humor.
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TIGERLILLY / NATALIE MERCHANT - 2 LP

On her gorgeously detailed folk-pop debut, Merchant turns in a vocal performance for the ages, spinning majestic webs of mellow atmosphere woven with rhythmic textures and low-key movements.
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INTO THE LABYRINTH / DEAD CAN DANCE - 2 LP

Just as Dead Can Dance were utterly distinctive, so too, is the group's Into the Labyrinth, the scintillating 1993 album that catapulted the Australian duo to greater mainstream success.
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SPIRITCHASER / DEAD CAN DANCE - 2 LP

The sonic equivalent of an engaging journey down the Nile River, Spiritchaser is Dead Can Dance's unforgettable swan song.   The percussive-based 1996 set finds the world-fusion group fashioning thematic songs around rhythmic structures and tribal beats, creating atmospheric soundscapes that take the listener through Africa, South America, England, and Europe-sometimes within the same movement.
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KICKS / INXS

This 1987 pop-rock blockbuster is a seamless fusion of dance beats, sleek riffs, soaring hooks, and horn-fueled R&B.   Spawned four top 5 Hits: “Need You Tonight,” “Devil Inside,” “New Sensation,” “Never Tear Us Apart” are pop genius.
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THE B52s / THE B52s

Ranked at #152 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.   Delightfully campy, intentionally goofy, lyrically kitschy: 1979 set is nothing but a good time.
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LOVE SWINGS / BOBBY DARIN

This 1961 Album of standards established Darin as a sophisticated singer.   A concept effort divided into halves that explore the emotional gamut of romance: one side upbeat, the other heartbreaking.
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FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS / SISTERS OF MERCY

Paint It Black: 1985 debut is the penultimate Goth-Rock album.   Andrew Eldritch's ghostly vocals, the static beats and melodic guitar jangle create a hauntingly atmospheric soundscapes.
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HEAVEN UP HERE / ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

This English band's 1981 sophomore record is a superbly articulate expression of Post-Punk gloom, despair, and melancholy that's shot through with hope.
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SPECIAL BEAT SERVICE / THE ENGLISH BEAT

In the early 1980s, many bands began borrowing styles initially made popular in other regions of the world, spicing their own sound up with exotic textures and foreign rhythms.   Few groups perfected the mix-and-match hybrid with more everlasting appeal and contagious melodicism than The English Beat.
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TALKING BOOK / STEVIE WONDER

This 1972 masterpiece includes immortal classics such as “Superstition,” “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” and “I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever).”
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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY / ROD STEWART

This 1971 album is Rod the mod's definitive album: timeless feel-good set contains eternal chart-topper “Maggie May,” and introspective “(Find A) Reason to Believe.”
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THE DIVINE MISS M. / BETTE MIDLER

This Recording overflows with energy and personality.   Here we have torch songs, girl-group classics, campy remakes and theatrical pieces delivered with supreme emotion.
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KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND / KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

Guilty pleasure records don't come better than this freewheeling 1975 set featuring “Get Down Tonight”, “That's The Way (I Like It)” and “Boogie Shoes.”
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WILD PLANET / THE B52s

Party out of bounds!   Not only is this sentiment one of the B-52's directives on their ceaselessly fun 1980 sophomore album, it's one of the record's hit songs, and perfectly summarizes the spirit and intent behind this new-wave classic.
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MUSIC OF MY MIND / STEVIE WONDER

Ranked #284 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, this 1972 album is the beginning of the legend's unsurpassed “classic period,” and it remains a touchstone of American R&B.
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GASOLINE ALLEY / ROD STEWART

This 1970 Rod Stewart record set the template for all folk-rock efforts that followed.   The critically acclaimed album has been cited as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
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HOTTER THAN JULY / STEVIE WONDER

Released in 1980, Stevie Wonder's brilliant Hotter Than July followed up with a bang, a film soundtrack that witnessed the end of the legendary artist's “Classic Period.”

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