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(2-LP set) Tracks: Suzie Q, I Put a Spell on You, Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising, Lodi, Green River, Commotion, Down on the Corner, Fortunate Son, Travelin’ Band, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Up Around the Bend, Run Through the Jungle, Lookin’ Out My Back Door, Long as I Can See the Light, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, Hey Tonight, Sweet Hitch-Hiker, Someday Never Comes.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. This 30th anniversary edition of Beastie Boys’ debut album Licensed To Ill is cut from original production masters and presented on 180gm heavyweight vinyl. ” Licensed To Ill is the first Hip Hop album to top the Billboard 200 and in 2015 it was certified Diamond by the RIAA. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source’s 100 Best Rap Albums. In 2003, the album was ranked number 217 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and in 2013 the magazine named it the best debut album of all time. Vibe included it in Vibe’s 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.

Considered one of the greatest albums of the “second golden age” of hip hop in the mid-1990’s.  Tribe were at their peak production wise as they returned to the eclectic sampling of mainly 1970s jazz, funk, soul and R&B. 

Arcade Fire’s introduction to the world is one of those debuts where you can’t remember it NOT existing before it’s release.  In the indie rock history book, this record would get it’s own chapter.  An incredible must own album, must see band and must hear on vinyl.   -John

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Paul’s Boutique is the second studio album from the Beastie Boys. In total, 105 songs are sampled, including 24 individual samples on the last track alone. Considered the “Sgt Pepper” of Hip-Hop by some critics and has been placed on several lists of the greatest albums of all time, and is viewed by many as one of the landmark albums in hip hop.  Some dude at KEXP decided they should play every sampled song.  It took 14 hours.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of 2017 remix of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Produced by Giles Martin, the album’s new stereo mix was sourced directly from the original four-track session tapes. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Anniversary Edition is 2017’s most celebrated historical music release.  On every top ten list, everywhere, for the best albums in history.  Not bad Beatles, not bad….

Awaken, My Love! is a bold departure from the hip-hop sound of his previous work, and finds the Atlanta star evolving into full-on funk and R&B mode. Donald Glover and longtime collaborator Ludwig Goransson channel the spirit of Parliament Funkadelic with a potent psychedelic funk vibe that permeates through the entire album.

UK double 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Digitally remastered edition of The Cure’s seminal eighth album. Originally released in 1989, Disintegration has come of age and has been remastered by Robert Smith to coincide with it’s 21st anniversary. Features songs ‘Pictures of You’, ‘Lovesong’, ‘Fascination Street’ and ‘Lullaby’ it is a perfect record, a timeless record, a must-own record.   -John

We can be heroes….just for one day.

Released on March 19, 1990, Violator was their break through.  This time it really was music for the masses.  One look at the album cover will push the songs contained within, into your head.  The first time I heard “Enjoy the Silence” was the first time I saw the video as well (still one of my all time favorites) and the band I liked before I fell in love with.  This album was a go-to when feeling lost or disconnected from the world.  It continues to be that 30 years later. -John

Limited 180gm blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Free Your Mind… and Your Ass Will Follow is the second studio album by Funkadelic, originally released in July 1970 by Westbound Records.  Funkadelic was meant to be heard A side to B side on vinyl.  Robert Christgau referred to George Clinton as “someone from Carolina who encountered eternity on LSD and vowed to contain it in a groove”.  He did LSD so you don’t have to!  Unless you’re into that.  No judgement here.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Releasing brand new material episodically – as and when it happens – and has continued throughout the year. The ongoing and ever-evolving process has seen our favorite characters joined by an expanding roster of collaborators captured live in Kong Studios and beyond. The result is an expansive collection of 17 tracks embracing a myriad of sounds, styles, genres and attitudes from a breathtaking line-up of guest artists including Beck, Elton John, Fatoumata Diawara, Georgia, Kano, Leee John, Octavian, Peter Hook, Robert Smith, Roxani Arias, ScHoolboy Q, Slaves, Slowthai, St Vincent and 6LACK, as well as CHAI, EARTHGANG, Goldlink, Joan As Police Woman, JPEGMAFIA, Moonchild Sanelly, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Skepta and Tony Allen.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Collection from the late country great. The world was a better place because Johnny Cash lived in it, created in it and broke all the rules in it.  He was simply one of the greatest musical legends we will ever see or hear.  Putting his best songs on the player is why we love vinyl.  Grab this and find your inner man or woman in black.   I say “Must Own” a lot but this is Johnny Fucking Cash so you know what to do.  -John

Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release. Following the success of her 2019 Grammy-nominated album Norman F***ing Rockwell, Lana Del Rey releases her highly anticipated, seventh studio album. Chemtrails Over The Country Club features eleven songs, including singles “Let Me Love You Like A Woman” and the title-track “Chemtrails Over The Country Club”.

New to the LOM Store!  Double vinyl LP pressing. 2010 release, the third album proper from James Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem, this one is a banger.  Every time I ever DJ out I have all my LCD Soundsystem records on me because James Murphy makes us feel pretty cool.

Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time. This septet features Jazz heavyweights John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley. Newly remastered and pressed on 180g vinyl.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. 2020 live release. Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace is a concert film and live album by musician Nick Cave. It was filmed by cinematographer Robbie Ryan and features Cave performing solo on piano at Alexandra Palace in London. Idiot Prayer serves as the final film in a trilogy-along with 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and One More Time with Feeling (2016)-and was described by Cave as “it’s luminous and heartfelt climax.”

This 180g beauty captures one of the better musical moments ever recorded.  The performance was captured in one single take and a 14 song setlist. It is ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time.  Putting this on your player, sitting back and hearing Nirvana in all of its stripped down glory is everything.  When “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” ends you feel like you’ve lost a friend but you can start over with “About a Girl” tomorrow.

Deluxe 180 gram vinyl re-issue of the seminal Pixies 3rd album.  Some say the best of the original 5 Pixies albums.  For sure a great place to start if you don’t have Pixies on vinyl.  Personally if you order this and when I pack it up for you, I may shed a tear into the package and I apologize ahead of time -John Richards

Vinyl LP pressing. The first PJ Harvey studio album in the Island Records catalogue, and her second studio album. Produced by Steve Albini and originally released in May 1993, Rid Of Me features the singles ’50ft Queenie’ and ‘Man-Size’. The album charted at number 3 in the UK. Reissue is faithful to the original recording and package, cutting by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering under the guidance of Steve Albini.

Limited Edition import-only vinyl LP repressing of this debut album Dummy from Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records. The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularizing the trip hop genre and was the introduction to a whole new world of music for man and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s.

Prince’s iconic album, Sign O’ The Times, has been remastered for the very first time by Prince’s original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman. Primarily recorded between the end of 1985 and beginning of 1987, the era saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the end of his engagement to Susannah Melvoin, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball. By the end of that period of transformation, Prince emerged with one of his most urgent and wide-ranging releases to date – an epochal double album that would be hailed as a creative, critical, and commercial triumph. Double 180-gram LP

Considered one of the greatest albums of all time, hear it in all of it’s glory on vinyl.  OK Computer is the album that established Radiohead as one of the most inventive and rewarding bands of our generation – Using the textured soundscapes of The Bends as a launching pad, Radiohead delivered another startlingly accomplished set of modern guitar rock with OK Computer.

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2010 reissue of the classic Stones album Regarded as one of the greatest albums in Rock ‘n’ Roll history and one of the most defining of the Stones’ catalogue. Upon it’s release more than three decades ago, Exile on Main Street innovatively wove varying musical genres, instruments and even artists into a compelling rhythmic masterpiece. The original 18-track double-album was recorded in various stages at multiple locations, including Olympic Studios in London, Keith Richard’s mansion Nellcote in France, and in Los Angeles where the literal Main Street influenced the album title. These atypical circumstances surrounding the recording process greatly affected the album’s outcome which was highly reflective and influenced by the sociopolitical turbulence that marked the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Brand new 40th Anniversary edition of “More Specials” has been mastered and cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios using the original production tapes. For this edition, the album has been split across 2x 12″ vinyl running at 45rpm for optimum audio quality. Also include is a bonus 7″ single, also cut at half-speed, which originally came with the initial run of the album in 1980. Originally formed in 1977, as The Coventry Automatics, The Specials combined Jamaican ska and Rocksteady mixed with the energy of punk and launching a whole Ska Revival and helped fellow likeminded bands Madness, The Beat, The Selecter to release their first singles.

Sufjan’s ambitious 5th is a masterpiece that captures the complexity of the American experience.  It’s a snapshot of the country seen and heard through the eyes of the state he pays tribute to.  It’s also the artist hitting his peak music and vision wise and considered one of the most important records of the decade.  -John

Talking Heads’ second album, co-produced by Brian Eno, blends funky bass, country, reggae and punk with David Byrne’s unique voice established the group as a critical success. Originally released in 1978, the album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The single, a cover of All Green’s hit “Take Me to the River”, peaked at number 26 on the Pop Singles chart in 1979. This reissue version is pressed on 180 gram vinyl. It was cut at Bernie Grundman studios.

Triple vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the 1994 album by Tom Petty. Contains the original album (remastered) with 15 tracks spread over two LPs. LP 3 contains All The Rest, the 10 songs from the Wildflowers sessions that were left off the album, five of which are previously unreleased.

If you don’t own this you should probably own this. We have to say, it gets picked at the bar a LOT and man do we miss drinking and getting lost to this perfect record.  4 copies in house right now.  We can’t wait to send this to you.

The digitally remastered vinyl LP pressing of the Irish wonders’ live mini album, originally released in 1983 and considered one of the most important live records recorded. Songs include ‘I Will Follow’, ‘Party Girl’ and more. Universal.  Essential.