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Bloodbrothers is the third studio album by The Dictators. The band was energized after returning from a tour of England and being embraced by the emerging punk rock audience over there. As a result, almost 90 percent of this album was recorded live and stands as a good example of what the band sounded like on a good night.

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The album’s title Animositisomina is a palindrome made of the word “animosity” spelled without the final letter and both forward and backward. This album nods to the group’s new wave past with a cover of Magazine’s “The Light Pours out of Me,” the group returned to the quality of its Wax Trax prime on this record, with an opener (the title track) that ranks up there with classics like “Burning Inside” and “Just One Fix.” Animositisomina is the last Ministry album with Paul Barker, thus ending the band’s “Hypo Luxa/Hermes Pan” production duo.

Amelia is an album by Mimi Webb, released in 2023.

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Senza Sapere Niente Di Lei is an album by Ennio Morricone, released in 2023. The album is a Rsd original soundtrack LP.

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Tales Of Ephidrina is an album by Amorphous Androgynous, released in 2023. The album is a Rsd, High Quality, Limited Edition electronic LP.

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Released in the UK in January 1967 by Decca Records and February by London Records in the US – Between The Buttons was the Stones’ fifth British and seventh US studio album. Released as the follow-up to Aftermath, this album marked a high point in the band’s career, continuing their ventures into psychedelia and baroque pop balladry, it is among the band’s most musically eclectic works. Brian Jones sidelined his guitar on much of the album, instead playing a wide variety of other instruments including organ, marimba, vibraphone, and kazoo. Piano contributions came from two session players: former Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart and frequent contributor and studio legend Jack Nitzsche. It was the last album produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, the band’s manager and producer of all of their albums to this point. The album has one of the most striking sleeves of the period, featuring a classic Gered Mankowitz image on the cover. The photo shoot took place at 5:30 in the morning following an all-night recording session at Olympic Studios. Using a home-made camera filter constructed of black card, glass and Vaseline, Mankowitz created the effect of the Stones dissolving into their surroundings – according to Mankowitz…

“to capture the ethereal, druggy feel of the time; that feeling at the end of the night when dawn was breaking and they’d been up all night making music, stoned.”

The songs continued Aftermath’s lyrics of acute social observation and savage insight, their earlier raw, rootsy power enhanced by other influences of the period – notably The Beatles, The Kinks, and again Dylan. It is one of their strongest, most varied LPs, with many great songs that remain unknown to all but Stones devotees. The inventive arrangements and innovative instrumentation on brooding near-classics like All Sold Out, My Obsession and Yesterday’s Papers brought a new dimension to the music. She Smiled Sweetly shows their hidden romantic side at its best, Connection is one of the record’s few pieces of more conventional driving rock and album closer Something Happened To Me Yesterday includes Keith’s first solo vocal. The US version includes contemporaneous hits – the two songs that gave the group a double-sided number one in early 1967: the shameless and controversial Let’s Spend The Night Together and the beautiful, melancholy Ruby Tuesday.