Browse by Label: WARNER BROTHERS

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Crossings
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 2617HLP

Forget about it: originally released in 1972, this is the Herbie Hancock album. Gatefold 180 gram exact repro reissue manufactured by Rhino. "With the frenzied knocking of what sounds like a clock shop gone berserk, Crossings takes the Herbie Hancock Sextet even further into the electric avant-garde, creating its own idiom. Now, however, the sextet has become a septet with the addition of Dr. Patrick Gleeson on Moog synthesizer, whose electronic decorations, pitchless and not, give the band an even spacier edge. Again, there are only three tracks ? the centerpiece being Hancock's multi-faceted, open-structured suite in five parts called 'Sleeping Giant.' Nearly 25 minutes long yet amazingly cohesive, 'Sleeping Giant' gathers a lot of its strength from a series of funky grooves -- the most potent of which explodes at the tail-end of Part Two -- and Hancock's on-edge Fender Rhodes electric piano solos anticipate his funk adventures later in the '70s. Bennie Maupin's 'Quasar' pushes the session into extraterrestrial territory, dominated by Gleeson's wild Moog effects and trumpeter Eddie Henderson's patented fluttering air trumpet. Even stranger is Maupin's 'Water Torture,' which saunters along freely with splashes of color from Hancock's spooky Mellotron and fuzz-wah-pedaled Fender Rhodes piano, Gleeson's electronics, and a quintet of voices." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	LABELLE
Title:	Moon Shadow
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BS 2618LP

Exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. This all-star group's 1972 album, featuring Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash and Are Labelle, kicks off with a cover of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." "The LP's title track was a funked-out, slow-burning, poetically licentious nine-and-a-half-minute treatment of Cat Stevens' three-minute folk throwaway 'Moonshadow.' It wasn't reverent, it didn't cautiously lift the song with chopsticks; it took naff new-age candy floss and turned it into elaborate space-gospel with hot legs and a sense of humor." -- ILMiXor

Artist:	BUCKLEY, TIM
Title:	Greetings From L.A.
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 2631HLP

Gatefold 180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. "Buckley sounds completely at home, stretching easily from swampy blues to straight-ahead rock, injecting a generous dose of funk into the proceedings. Both musically and lyrically, this is an orgy of a record, dripping with sweat and sex, and Buckley -- whose sense of humor is fully evident for the first time here -- throws himself headlong into it. With its conventional rock songs, there's nothing innovative about Greetings From LA. Even so, Buckley's character is all over it. His impressive vocal range is still obvious on the opening triad of 'Move With Me,' 'Get on Top' and 'Sweet Surrender,' as well as on the string-washed finale, 'Make It Right.'" -- Trouser Press

Artist:	GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION
Title:	Graham Central Station
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 2763HLP

"This promising 1973 album represents bass wizard Larry Graham's first post-Sly and the Family Stone work. Much like his previous band, Graham Central Station was a multiracial unit that blended soul grooves and pop hooks to create an exuberant hybrid. However, Graham Central Station gives Graham's bass work a more upfront role in the sound and adds further layers of rhythms with drum machines and rhythmic-sounding keyboards like the clavinet." --All Music Guide. 180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino.

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Eternity
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 2916HLP

Exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl, manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1976 on Warner Brothers. "Within the first 30 seconds of 'Spiritual Eternal,' the opening track on Alice Coltrane's final studio album, Eternity, the listener encounters the complete palette of Alice Coltrane's musical thought. As her organ careens through a series of arpeggiated modal drones, they appear seemingly rootless, hanging out in the cosmic eternal. And they remain there ever so briefly until an entire orchestra chimes in behind her in a straight blues waltz that places her wondrously jagged soloing within the context of a universal everything -- at least musically -- in that she moves through jazz, Indian music, blues, 12-tone music and the R&B of Ray Charles. This is the historical and spiritual context Alice Coltrane made her own, the ability to open up her own sonic vocabulary and seamlessly enter it into an ensemble context for an untold, unpredictable expression of harmonic convergence. While many other players have picked up on it since, Coltrane's gorgeous arrangements and canny musical juxtapositions never seem forced or pushed beyond the margins. Perhaps, as evidenced by 'Wisdom Eye,' 'Om Supreme,' and the 'Loka' suite, it's because Coltrane already dwells on the fringes both musically and spiritually, where boundaries dissolve and where everything is already inseparable. But this does not keep her music from being strikingly, even stunningly beautiful -- check out the killer Afro-Cuban percussion under her soloing on 'Los Caballaos,' which is rooted in a harmonically complex, diatonic series of whole tones. In numerous settings from orchestra to trio, Ms. Coltrane finds the unspeakable and plays it. Nowhere is this more evident than in 'Spring Rounds' from Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring,' which closes the album. Her faithfulness to the material with a complete orchestra under her control is one of shimmering transcendence that places the composer's work firmly in the context of avant-jazz. Her control over the orchestra is masterful, and her reading of the section's nuances and subtleties rivals virtually everyone who's ever recorded it. Eternity is ultimately about the universality of tonal language and its complex expressions." -- All About Jazz

Artist:	BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND
Title:	Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 2972HLP

Exact repro reissue of Bootsy's all-time classic 1977 album on 180 gram vinyl, manufactured by Rhino. Gatefold sleeve. "Most P-funk addicts consider this 1977 LP essential listening, and it isn't hard to see why they feel that way. Everything on the album is excellent; that is true of up-tempo smokers like 'The Pinocchio Theory' and the title song as well as slow, moody, eerie offerings such as 'What's a Telephone Bill?' and 'Munchies for Your Love.' The lyrics are consistently humorous and clever, the grooves are consistently infectious. You can think of Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! as a meeting of the funk minds -- Collins produced this record with his mentor, George Clinton, who co-wrote all of the material. So Clinton has a lot of input and gives Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! the distinctive P-funk sound that Parliament/Funkadelic was known for. But at the same time, he encourages Collins' originality -- Bootsy's Rubber Band sounds like a Parliament/Funkadelic spin-off (which is exactly what it was), but not a Parliament/Funkadelic clone. Without question, Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! is essential listening for lovers of hard 1970s funk." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	HAZEL, EDDIE
Title:	Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 3058HLP

180 gram vinyl reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1977. "Game offers none of the thematic storylines or compelling characters of other P-Funk releases. Its intention is to simply spotlight Eddie's skills, making this perhaps the most purely 'musical' album in the P-Funk canon. The record's centerpieces are two of the unlikeliest covers you will hear: 'California Dreaming' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy).' With able assistance from a cast that includes Bootsy Collins, the Brides of Funkenstein, Jerome Brailey, and Bernie Worrell, Hazel just goes off and takes these numbers to another plane, especially on 'I Want You,' which is transformed into an apex of funk ecstasy.... If you consider yourself a deep P-Funk fan, you have to own this album." -- All Things Deep

Artist:	BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND
Title:	This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BSK 3295HLP

180 gram vinyl reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1979. Warning on back cover states "The Surgeon General has determined that listening to this album may cause high butt pleasures." "Following three straight masterworks that balanced hard funk workouts with laid-back bedroom jams, This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N ditched the balancing act, offering up straight, relentless hard funk. This is great for those who just want the sweaty workouts Bootsy Collins had proven himself well capable of delivering on his own as well as with Parliament-Funkadelic. In fact, if that's what you're looking for -- hard-hitting, unrelenting funk -- look no further, for This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N is absolutely teeming with it." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	ROGER
Title:	The Many Facets Of Roger
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BSK 3594HLP

180 gram vinyl exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1981. "This is Roger Troutman's first solo release, and it blazes the same trail as the Zapp LPs. Singing through a synthesized vocal box, there's no mistaking Roger's sound. His version of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong's 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' is classic, and was a monster on the R&B charts. 'So Ruff, So Tuff' continued the maddening dance grooves. But Roger does it all -- hence the title of the album; his blues and jazz explorations are top-shelf. A very well-rounded set from a versatile, underappreciated artist." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND
Title:	Trout Mask Replica
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	MS 2027CLP

Red colored vinyl version, manufactured by Rhino. The third Beefheart album (following Safe as Milk and Strictly Personal) to be released, first issued in 1969. Gatefold sleeve, classic Cal Schenkel artwork. "Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era." -- All Music Guide.

Artist:	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND
Title:	Trout Mask Replica
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MS 2027HLP

180 gram vinyl, manufactured by Rhino. The third Beefheart album (following Safe as Milk and Strictly Personal) to be released, first issued in 1969. Gatefold sleeve, classic Cal Schenkel artwork. "Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era." -- All Music Guide.

Artist:	PARSONS, GRAM
Title:	G.P.
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MS 2123HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue of Gram Parsons' first solo album, originally released in 1973. Manufactured by Rhino. "...probably the best realized expression of his musical personality. Working with a crack band of L.A. and Nashville's finest (including James Burton on guitar, Ronnie Tutt on drums, Byron Berline on fiddle, and Glen D. Hardin on piano), he drew from them a sound that merged breezy confidence with deeply felt Southern soul, and he in turn pulled off some of his most subtle and finely detailed vocal performances; 'She' and 'A Song for You,' in particular, are masterful examples of passion finding balance with understatement. Parsons also discovered that rare artist with whom he can be said to have genuinely collaborated (rather than played beside), Emmylou Harris; Gram and Harris' spot-on harmonies and exchanged verses on 'We'll Sweep out the Ashes in the Morning' and 'That's All It Took' are achingly beautiful and instantly established her as one country music's most gifted vocalists. On G.P., Parsons' ambitious vision encompassed hard-country weepers, wistful ballads, up-tempo dance tunes, and even horn-driven rhythm and blues." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	FACES
Title:	A Nod Is As Good As A Wink... To A Blind Horse
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	R1 2574LP

180 gram Rhino reissue of the 1971 album; includes large-format poster. "On A Nod Is As Good As A Wink, Stewart, Wood, Jones, Ian McLagan (keyboards), and Ronnie Lane (bass), deliver nine unforgettable tracks, timeless gems in the genres of R&B, folk, and classic rock, and solidify their place as a band with continuing influence on the future of rock and roll. In addition to the undeniably catchy 'Stay With Me' -- now ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the '100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time,' thanks to Wood's 'acrobatic solos' -- stand-outs include 'Miss Judy's Farm,' 'You're So Rude,' 'That's All You Need,' and the Faces' definitive cover of Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'"

Artist:	BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND
Title:	Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	R1 76445HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. William "Bootsy" Collins' amazing 1976 debut. "...the Rubber Band are -- by modern standards -- nothing short of an ensemble of A-list P-Funk all-stars featuring Gary 'Mudbone' Cooper (vocals), Robert 'P-Nut' Johnson (vocals), Phelps 'Catfish' Collins (guitar), Gary Shider (guitar), Michael Hampton (guitar), Frankie 'Kash' Waddy (drums), Mudbone Cooper (drums), Bernie Worrell (keyboards), and other former James Brown bandmates Maceo Parker (sax) and Fred Wesley (trombone). When you tie the whole thing up with none other than George Clinton as producer, the remarkable potential of Bootsy's Rubber Band soon becomes clear. As early as this initial offering, Collins' output served up one side of upbeat numbers perfect for getting jiggy. Then the mood of the music begins to turn incrementally more intimate, so that by the conclusion of the second side, if circumstances warranted, you could end up with an appropriately sexy ballad as a sonic night cap of sorts. That certainly is the case on Stretchin' Out as the title track is thrust forward 'on the one' by Collins' pulsating bass. Listeners are also introduced to the various inhabitants of the Rubber Band, such as Bootsy's 'Casper' character -- who alternates between being the 'holy' and the 'funky' ghost. The concept of P-Funk babies [read: think Muppet Babies concept applied to the world of the P-Funk mob] comes to life on the bouncy 'Psychoticbumpschool' before getting mellow with Leslyn Bailey (vocals) lending her voice to the down and funky 'Love Vibes' and the slinky soulful 'Physical Love.' Hardcore Funkadelic fans should ready themselves for some stunningly tasteful fretwork from an uncredited Eddie Hazel on the languid closer 'Vanish in Our Sleep' and the previously mentioned 'Physical Love.'" -- All Music Guide

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Fat Albert Rotunda
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WB 1834HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Herbie Hancock's eighth album, originally released in 1969, featuring Joe Henderson (alto flute, tenor sax), Johnny Coles (trumpet, fluegel horn), Garnet Brown (trombone), Tootie Heath (drums), Buster Williams (acoustic & electric bass) and Hancock (piano). "...a jazzed up finger-popping blast of vintage late-'60s funk, served up with all the compositional sophistication and technical mastery you'd expect from an old Herbie Hancock record. This highly danceable album features instrumental arrangements every bit as engaging and complex as those found on The Prisoner, the final album he recorded for Blue Note earlier that year. But unlike The Prisoner, with its dark and brooding undercurrents, Fat Albert Rotunda is an exuberantly friendly and upbeat joy of an album. Far from being frivolous in tone, the album has a soulful depth which is generously fleshed out by a moody pair of down tempo tracks, 'Tell Me A Bedtime Story' and 'Jessica.'" -- MustHear

Artist:	ZZ TOP
Title:	Fandango!
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	WB 79963LP

This 1975 release is ZZ Top's fourth best album. One side's recorded in the studio; one side's live. The deeply entrancing yet violently offensive effect of their songs carry an imputed unlocking of social constraint directly into the earlobes and subconscious netherworld of its listeners, and it's no wonder that listeners often lose themselves completely during songs like "Tush," "Heard It On The X," "Backdoor Love Affair No.2" and "Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings." Perhaps the resistance that generations of our current times put up reveals their inability to even grasp, at the base level, music whose appeal should be as obvious as the basic pull of sexual or violent urges; and let there be no doubt that the unlocking of these desires are one of the last weapons the youth can wield against the increasingly boring and unsurprising social script written by the demigods of quasi-celebrity and stale culture, dispersed through every available outlet of mass & minute media, and acted out over countless dinner dates, rock concerts and club nights to the detriment of what we might call, simply, real lived experience, the present. Fucking ZZ Top. 180 gram vinyl with poster.

Artist:	WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND, THE
Title:	Together
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WS 1761LP

Exact repro reissue; originally released on Warner in 1968. "The standout cut is 'Do Your Thing,' a simmering call to the dancefloor that plays on the strengths of this very tight band, slowly building into an undeniable groove; the record-buying public thought similarly, pushing 'Do Your Thing' to number 11 on the Billboard charts. About a third of Together follows in this funky groove: 'Giggin' Down 103rd,' 'Sorry Charlie,' and the sax feature 'Phuncky Bill.' There are some covers here too, the mid-show cool down of 'Stormy Monday,' a tip of the hat to JB with 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,' and a 200 mph run-through of Eddie Floyd's 'Knock on Wood.' The rest of the album is made up of mid-tempo soul with a loping, Southern feel that doesn't stand out so much because of what is played but how it's played. The Watts band was a monster with James Gadson on drums, Melvin Dunlap on bass, Al McKay on guitar, and a fearsome horn section too, with special mention going to Bill Cannon here for the previously mentioned 'Phuncky Bill.' Gadson and McKay would go on to join Earth, Wind & Fire while Dunlap joined Bill Withers' band. Together shows a band on the way to its peak..." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND, CHARLES
Title:	Express Yourself
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WS 1864HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1970, Express Yourself featured the hit "Love Land." "The quintessential Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band record, Express Yourself displays the purposefully sloppy rhythms and shout vocals that would make this band a legend in soul circles. Every track on this album is a classic, from the oft-sampled and high-charting pop single 'Express Yourself' to the first of many readings of 'I Got Love' that would appear on the band's records -- and even Wright's solo works for years to come." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Mwandishi
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WS 1898HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue, originally released in 1971. "With the formation of his great electric sextet, Herbie Hancock's music took off into outer and inner space, starting with the landmark Mwandishi album recorded in a single session on New Year's Eve. Ever the gadgeteer, Herbie plays with electronic effects devices -- reverb units, stereo tremelo, and Echoplex -- which all lead his music into spacier, open-ended directions very much influenced by Miles Davis' electric experiments, rendering it from post-bop conventions. There are just three tracks: the insistent 15/4-meter Afro-electric-funk workout 'Ostinato (Suite for Angela),' the inquisitive 'You'll Know When You Get There' with its ethereal Hancock voicings, and trombonist Julian Priester's 'Silent Way'-influenced 'Wandering Spirit Song,' which eventually dips into tumultuous free form." -- All Music Guide

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Artist:	STAPLES, MAVIS
Title:	Oh What A Feeling
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BSK 3319LP

Artist:	SCHIFRIN, LALO
Title:	Enter The Dragon / Original Motion Picture Sound Track
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	R1 76446HLP

Artist:	BONNIWELL MUSIC MACHINE, THE
Title:	The Bonniwell Music Machine
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WS 1732HLP

Artist:	ALICE COOPER
Title:	Pretties For You
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WS 1840HLP

Artist:	WHITE, TONY JOE
Title:	Tony Joe White
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	WS 1900LP

Artist:	EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Title:	Earth, Wind & Fire
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WS 1905HLP

Artist:	WRIGHT, CHARLES
Title:	Rhythm And Poetry
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	WS 4681LP