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Japanese SHM-SACD (Super High Material SACD) pressings utilize a special polycarbonate layer over super-defined SACD pits for better transparency and read accuracy. Boasting carefully selected master audio (including DSD), each disc is limited to SHM-SACDs a two-channel SACD layer in order to secure optimal reflectance and prevent DSD-file compression. These unique discs will wow you with dynamics and clarity. (Note: SHM-SACDs require an SACD player and cannot be played in standard CD players.) + MORE SHM-SACDs ON PAGE 269 STEVE WINWOOD TOM WAITS Arc of a Diver Rain Dogs Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 CJPSHM3244 $39.99 CJPSHM3230 ASIA DEREK AND THE DOMINOS THIN LIZZY Layla and Other Assorted... Black Rose: A Rock Legend Asia Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 CJPSHM1733 $39.99 CJPSHM9953 $39.99 CJPSHM1650 BLIND FAITH Blind Faith DIRE STRAITS Communiqué STEELY DAN Gaucho QUEEN A Night at the Opera The short-lived partnership between Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Steve Winwood produced this masterpiece of British blues and psychedelic pop. Toss in a non-denominational spiritual vibe, and you have a testament to inimitable musical chemistry. Baker’s mammoth drum sound is alone worth the price of admission. On 1979’s Communiqué, Dire Straits refine their pub-rock aesthetic with an intoxicating combination of easygoing shuffles, bluesy boogies, and pop-honed ballads that mirrors the old-fashioned soulfulness inherent in the classic recordings of the late 50s and early 60s. This disc has sonic purity, transparent soundstages, and rich tonalities in spades. “Music so technically demanding its creators had to call in A-list session players to realize the sounds they heard in their heads but could not play, even on the instruments they had mastered,” wrote Barry Walters in Rolling Stone, superbly summarizing why everyone needs to own Gaucho, a Grammy winner for Best Engineered Album. Flamboyant vocalist Freddie Mercury and smooth-toned guitarist Brian May strike a righteous balance of excess, restraint, classicism, pomp, seriousness, exaggeration, and multi-layered production on 1975’s A Night at the Opera. Ranked among the greatest rock albums ever made, it contains the immortal “Bohemian Rhapsody.” $39.99 Japanese SHM-SACD CJPSHM0624 Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 Japanese SHM-SACD CJPSHM2336 $39.99 CJPSHM6870 CJPSHM9936 + MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 270 THE MOODY BLUES THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND THE BEACH BOYS CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Tubular Bells Long Distance Voyager Destroyer Beginnings All Summer Long Ice Cream for Crow Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 CJPSHM0653 $39.99 CJPSHM8870 $39.99 CJPSHM5866 $39.99 CJPSHM6763 $39.99 CJPSHM5926 $39.99 CJPSHM2955 $39.99 CJPSHM5134 + MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 269 + MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 269 + MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 269 Deceptive Bends Ricochet Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 CJPSHM7020 + BILL EVANS KISS MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 270 THE WHO JOHN LENNON Portrait in Jazz Japanese SHM-SACD $39.99 CJPSHM6240 + + MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 270 MIKE OLDFIELD TANGERINE DREAM 10CC + MORE FROM THIS ARTIST ON PAGE 270 The Singles The Who Sell Out My Generation Tommy Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD Japanese SHM-SACD This Japanese-only reissue of a compilation originally released in 1984 adds ten bonus tracks, spoiling listeners with 26 songs that formed the foundation of classic rock—or, in Who parlance, “maximum R&B.” The power, punch, and persuasion of cuts such as “My Generation” and “Magic Bus” reach fuseblowing peaks on this SHM-SACD. $39.99 $39.99 $39.99 $39.99 Japanese SHM-SACD CJPSHM5468 CJPSHM3327 CJPSHM7375 CJPSHM7070 Mind Games ))