Polydor HHV Records 640 Items

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Stromae

Racine Carrée

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Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Weihnachten & James Last Red Vinyl Edition

James Last

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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Prose Combat White Vinyl Edition

MC Solaar

2LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Positive Songs For Negative People (Acoustic)

Frank Turner

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 1963 | US | Reissue (Polydor)

Live at the Apollo

LP | 1987 | JP | Original (Polydor)

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back To Black 180 gram vinyl reissue

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Deep Purple

The House Of Blue Light

Release: 1987 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI, but with insert. Vinyl close to NM

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66 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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aul Weller – der „Godfather of Brit-Pop“ ist zurück!

„66“ heißt sein neues und mittlerweile 17. Studioalbum. Der ehemalige Sänger und Gitarrist von „The Jam“ zeigt auf dem Album seine reflektierte Seite, mit viel Melancholie und dennoch auch einem positiven Kern. Die 12 Songs auf "66" wurden im Laufe von drei Jahren in Wellers Black Barn Studio mit einer Reihe von Gastmusikern aufgenommen.

Paul Weller wurde bisher mit 4 Brit – Awards ausgezeichnet, einen für „Outstanding Contribution to British Music“ und auf seinem neuen Album beweist er uns einmal mehr sein eiinzigartiges musikalisches Talent.

Das Album erscheint auf Vinyl, CD und digital.

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66 Blue Vinyl Edition

Hackney Diamonds Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Rolling Stones

LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hackney Diamonds, the hugely anticipated new album by The Rolling Stones, is released on October 20th on Polydor Records. Following the release of 2016's Grammy Award winning Blue & Lonesome, which featured brilliant versions of blues tracks that helped shape their sound, Hackney Diamonds marks the band’s first studio album of original material since 2005's A Bigger Bang!

Tracklisting will be announced at a later date.

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2LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Entreat Plus

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finally this classic album is available again. All recordings have been mastered by Robert Smith himself. The record is pressed to 180g vinyl.

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Live At Leeds Deluxe Edition

3LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live at Leeds is the first live vinyl record by the English rock band The Who. It was the only live album that was released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their best known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon. The complete 33 track set form Leeds University, 14 February 1970. Mastered At Abbey Road Studios. This record was cut using half-speed mastering. In their early prime the Who hit #4 U.S. with "Tommy" ('69), "Who's Next" ('71) and maybe the best live album ever, "Live at Leeds." The 1970 LP only featured six songs from the band's storming set at Leeds. The 1995 CD upped the songs from that show to 14, then a 2-CD edition (2001) finally unveiled all 33 songs the Who played at Leeds-but the running order was not true to the original performance. That "Leeds" us (sorry) to this: the 180-gram triple-vinyl deluxe edition, which restores their storied set's original sequence and boasts superior sound due to half-speed mastering at Abbey Road. If ever an album was meant to be turned up to 11, it's this: "I Can't Explain," "Young Man Blues," "Happy Jack," "Substitute," "The Acid Queen," "Pinball Wizard," "Tommy Can You Hear Me?," "I'm Free," "Summertime Blues," "My Generation," "Magic Bus" and more of the Who on stage at their electrifying best in 1970! Universal UK.

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Wish 30th Anniverary Remastered Limited Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Generation Half-Speed Remastered 2021 Vinyl Edition

LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Udo Lindenberg - 75 Jahre Panik

Udo Lindenberg

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Zaubermond

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Von Hier Bis Unendlich

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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So Wie Ich Bin

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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So Nah Wie Du

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Für Einen Tag

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Rausch

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Max Mutzke

Wunschlos Süchtig

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 1993 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Mick Jagger

Wandering Spirit

Release: 1993 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Mixed Up

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Bryan Adams

Ultimate

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Farbenspiel

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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HIT ME HARD AND SOFTBlack Vinyl Edition

Billie Eilish

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Plays The Blues - Live At The Domicile

Mal Waldron

LP | 1971 | JP | Original (Polydor)

Not So Silent Night The Cozy Edition

Release: 1971 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

No Obi.

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Sarah Connor

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

The Who Sell Out

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No Man's Land Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following recent super-deluxe editions and multi-format releases of classic Who albums – ‘My Generation’, ‘Tommy’ and ‘Quadrophenia’, and the success of ‘Live at Fillmore’, we follow with The Who Sell Out – this set shaping up to be the most superlative of all…!! Released in December 1967 – the album reflected a remarkable year in popular culture. As well as being forever immortalised as the moment when the counterculture and the ‘Love Generation’ went global, 1967 produced tremendous musical upheavals as “pop” metamorphosed to “rock”.

Originally planned by Pete Townshend and the band’s managers, as a loose concept album including jingles and commercials linking the songs styled as a Radio London broadcast – born out of necessity as the band’s managers wanted a new album and there weren’t enough songs.

The original plan was to sell advertising space on the album – Jaguar cars, Coca-Cola etc. The jingles pay tribute to the pirate radio stations and expose the myths of ‘pop-culture’ and mock consumer society – way ahead of their time…

The homage to pop-art is evident in both the advertising jingles and the iconic sleeve design – created by David King (art director at the Sunday Times) and Roger Law (who invented Spitting Image) producing four giant images for each band member – Odorono deodorant, Medac spot cream, Charles Atlas and Heinz baked beans (Roger apparently caught pneumonia from sitting in the cold beans for too long).

Photography by renowned portrait photographer David Montgomery (rare out-takes included)

The album is a bold depiction of the period in which it was made – the tail-end of the ‘swinging-60s’ meets pop-art mixed with psychedelia and straight-ahead pop craft. It’s glorious blend of classic powerful Who instrumentation, melodic harmonies, satirical lyrical imagery crystallised for what was only the group’s third album – the ambition and scope is unrivalled by the Who, or any others from that period.

Within the bold concept, were a batch of fabulous and diverse songs – I Can See for Miles (a Top Ten hit) is a Who classic, Rael, a Townshend ‘mini-opera’ with musical motifs that reappeared in Tommy and the psychedelic blast of Armenia City in the Sky and Relax are among the very best material of the 1960s.

One of the most extraordinary albums of any era – it’s The Who’s last ‘pop’ album. Two years later came Tommy – a double concept album about a deaf, dumb and blind kid…

“We were hoping to get free Jaguars. We got fifty tins of free Baked Beans”

Pete Townshend

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Frank Turner

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Polydor)

32,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ende Nie Baby Blue Vinyl Edition

Wanda

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Gary Barlow

Music Played By Humans

32,19 €* 45,99 € -30%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Multitudes Indie Exclusive Transparent Vinyl Edition

Feist

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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A Quick One Half-Speed Remastered 2021 Vinyl Edition

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Polydor)

ABBA

Abba

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Polydor)

Get On The Good Foot

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl!

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Live At The Apollo Volume 2

2LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Polydor)

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl!

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Siouxsie & The Banshees

Juju

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Indie Exclusive Sea Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in print!

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Billie Eilish

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

The 1975

2LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Der Sommer Ist Vorbei Limited Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2023 pressing. Hailing from Manchester, U.K., The 1975 managed to combine the dark and youthful themes of sex, love, and fear with ethereal alt-rock music.

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Juli

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Lana Del Rey

Born To Die

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful

The 1975

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Hailing from Manchester, U.K., The 1975 managed to combine the dark and youthful themes of sex, love, and fear with ethereal alt-rock music.

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Siouxsie & The Banshees

Juju

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Wie Im Film Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Vorsicht Zerbrechlich Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Pur Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Opus 1 Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Wanda

Ende Nie

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Udo Lindenberg - 75 Jahre Panik

Udo Lindenberg

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Pure Lebensfreude 10th Anniversary Pink Vinyl Edition

Beatrice Egli

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Glücksgefühle 10th Anniversary White Vinyl Edition

Beatrice Egli

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Schweissperlen Gold Vinyl Edition

Klaus Lage

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Heisse Spuren Silver Vinyl Edition

Klaus Lage

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Zoe Wees

Therapy

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

The Allman Brothers Band

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Gestört aber GeiL

III

30,59 €* 33,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Exposure Limited White Vinyl Edition

Thumb

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Assume Form Black Vinyl Edition

James Blake

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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2LP | 2020 | Reissue (Polydor)

Cream

Wheels Of Fire

LP | 2023 | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Record is close to NM.

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Feist

Multitudes

Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Clear vinyl

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Royal Rappin's

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Polydor)

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

The Theory Of Whatever White Vinyl Edition

Jamie T

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Edition. White Vinyl.
Includes original inner sleeve.
Record is close to NM.

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2LP | 1980 | US | Original (Polydor)

...Live Hot On The One

Release: 1980 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Feist

Multitudes

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

The Head On The Door

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Featuring what many consider to be the classic Cure line-up of Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst, Simon Gallup and Boris Williams, 1985's The Head On The Door was described by Spin magazine as a "1985 poptopian tour de force". Across the album's ten songs, the band's sixth studio opus walks a balance between the Cure's pop sensibilities with 'In Between Days' and 'Close To Me', with the more gothic 'The Blood' and 'Kyoto Song'. It was described by Uncut as "magnificently realised". 180 gram vinyl remastered "Back to black" 60th vinyl anniversary series. Includes a voucher to download MP3 version of the album.

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Rainbow

Rainbow Rising

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1967 | FR | Reissue (Polydor)

Cream

Disraeli Gears

Release: 1967 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1991 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Talk Talk

Laughing Stock

Release: 1991 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Talk Talk were one of the most influential bands of 80's pop music.

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LP | 1981 | PL | Reissue (Polydor)

Faith

Release: 1981 / PL – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finally this classic album is available again. All recordings have been mastered by Robert Smith himself.

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LP | 1982 | PL | Reissue (Polydor)

Pornography

Release: 1982 / PL – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finally this classic album is available again. All recordings have been mastered by Robert Smith himself. The record is pressed to 180g vinyl.

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LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Seventeen Seconds

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finally this classic album is available again. All recordings have been mastered by Robert Smith himself.

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LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

The Top

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finally this classic album is available again. All recordings have been mastered by Robert Smith himself.

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LP | 1979 | PL | Reissue (Polydor)

Three Imaginary Boys

Release: 1979 / PL – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finally this classic album is available again. All recordings have been mastered by Robert Smith himself.

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Ellie Goulding

Higher Than Heaven

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Eros Ramazotti

Battito Infinito

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Voyage Black Vinyl Edition

ABBA

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Tattoo You 40th Anniversary Standard Editiom

The Rolling Stones

LP | 1981 | CZ | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1981 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Eric Clapton

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Not Your Muse (12 Tracks Edition)

Celeste

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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New edition featuring the complete album.

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Fat Pop Indie Exclusive Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We may be cursed to be in the midst a global pandemic, buffeted by all of its stresses and pain. But everyone knows that art provides succour, that music is the most reliable balm. And for many there is further significant comfort to be drawn from the knowledge that Paul Weller is in the midst of an unbelievably prolific purple patch. Paul Weller will not let us down when we need him most.

On May 14th, Paul Weller releases his 16th solo album since his self-titled debut in 1992, his fourth in as many years and his second in just under twelve months following June 2020’s magnificent, chart-topping On Sunset. It’s not hyperbole to state that this new album, titled Fat Pop (Volume 1), is among his most compelling collections, bar none, including all of his era-defining work in the 1970s and ‘80s with The Jam and The Style Council. It’s an absolute scorcher.

When lockdown was declared in March 2020, Paul Weller decided immediately that he wanted something to focus on, since it seemed unlikely he’d be able to tour On Sunset as planned that summer.

“I had lots of ideas stored up on my phone,” he explains down that same handset, speaking from outside his London home, “and at least this gave me an opportunity to develop them.” So he started to record songs on his own, doing just vocals, piano and guitar, then sending those sound files to his core band members such as drummer Ben Gordelier, Steve Cradock on guitar and various other instruments, and bassist Andy Crofts for them to add their parts. “It was a bit weird not being together, but at least it kept the wheels rolling. I’d have gone potty otherwise.”

The band reconvened at Weller’s Black Barn studio in Surrey during the summer when restrictions were lifted to finish the work, with several of the songs being cut live. By this stage, the shape of the album was clear to all. Weller wanted to deliver an album of singles, twelve short, distinct blasts, each strong enough that they could stand alone if so desired.

“That was a conscious decision,” he confirms. “I even thought about putting every song out as a single first then gathering them all on an album, but that wasn’t practical at the moment. They all have that strength and immediacy, I think, and they’re all short, three minutes or so maximum.”

Producer Jan ‘Stan’ Kybert was so taken with the concept that he half-jokingly suggested that the album be called Greatest Hits. “I quite liked the idea and every song does stand up as a single, I think,” chuckles Weller, “but no, we couldn’t do that really.”

Instead, he plumped for Fat Pop (Volume 1). “I thought we’d add Volume 1 to it just to keep my options open in the future for a second volume!” The title track, a tight, heavy blast of ultra-modern funk, is itself the conceptual key to the whole album. “It’s a celebration of music and what it’s given us all. No matter what situation you are in, and we’re in one now, music doesn’t let you down, does it?”

As ever, Weller’s sonic masterplan was to avoid whatever had recently preceded it. “After [2018’s] True Meanings I thought I wouldn’t have any acoustic guitars for a little while, so I’ve largely avoided those with On Sunset and with Fat Pop,” he says. “But more than anything I wanted something vibey, something we could play live.” He laughs ruefully at the irony of that. “God knows when that will be, bearing in mind where we are with the virus. But in the imaginary gig in my mind I can see us playing all of the songs on Fat Pop live, along with the songs from On Sunset, blending them with some of the old favourites too. What a great set that would be.”

Live is where he imagines On Sunset and Fat Pop (Volume 1) working in tandem, because they don’t act as companion piece albums otherwise. “On Sunset was quite lavish in places, whereas with this one I wanted to limit it in some ways, make the production less expansive.”

Beyond that desire to keep it frill-free and tight, sonically Fat Pop (Volume 1) is a diverse selection of sounds. No one style dominates. There’s the synth-heavy, future-wave strut of Cosmic Fringes, the stately balladeering of Still Glides The Stream, Testify’s moving-on-up soul, and the kind of dramatic three minute pop symphonies on Failed, True and Shades of Blue with which Paul Weller has hooked in generation after generation of devotee.

More than sonic plans, though, Weller set himself the same task as he does before any recording. “Whenever I make an album I’m always just trying to at least match what’s gone before because each time I think the bar’s been raised. If all goes to plan, sometimes I manage to go over that bar too.”

Sometimes he does, sometimes he really does.

Fat Pop (Volume 1), the story behind each song:

Cosmic Fringes

A dramatic entrance to Fat Pop (Volume 1). Cosmic Fringes pairs a minimal, pumping electro swing with a deadpan vocal that detonates an unspecified poseur and blowhard. “I’m a sleeping giant, waiting to awake/I stumble to the fridge/then back to bed”.

“It’s not about anyone in particular,” suggests Weller, “but I suppose it could be about a keyboard warrior, someone who is constantly brainstorming ideas but never gets around to doing them. Someone talking the talk, but never doing anything.”

“When I first did the demo it was quite punky, a bit like The Stooges. It doesn’t sound anything like that now because then I had the idea of stripping it all back to just the drums and bass, putting those synths on it. It’s got a bit of motoric feel to it and a little bit glam rock too, I think.”

True

A song with all the attributes of the greatest Paul Weller numbers: fire in its belly, questing lyrics, boss horns, flashes of guitar fury and a yearning melody you awake humming daily. It’s also a tremendous vocal, shared between Paul and Lia Metcalfe, the young Liverpudlian singer with The Mysterines.

“I really like her band and I really like her singing,” he says. “It makes a massive difference that we sang it live, in the same room. She’s got a really powerful voice and I wanted to write something for us to sing together, so I did. Then I just sent the phone demo to Lia and two weeks later we cut it. That was one of the last things we did for the album, in around September”.

Fat Pop

That brilliant, heavy bassline? “I did that. When we recorded it I was actually thinking about Cypress Hill, doing something that sounds like a DJ Muggs production. It’s got a bit of that. It’s my favourite song on the album, I think, about all the times music’s been there for me.”

Shades of Blue

A classic three-minute English pop kitchen sink drama, written by Paul Weller and his daughter Leah, who joins him on vocals. “Leah wrote the chorus for it and helped me finish it up. I wrote the verses. Reminds me of a suburban drama, a play.”

Glad Times

Sweeping, wistful, sparkling in shades of blue, Glad Times’ winning melancholia has been in the back of Weller’s mind for a while. “I wrote this with Tom (Doyle) and Ant (Brown). They usually send me a backing track and we work on it from there. It’s been around for a while, nearly made it onto On Sunset but didn’t quite fit. I really liked it, though, so I’m really glad it made it on to this album instead.”

Cobweb / Connections

Pastoral introspections, featuring a lovely acoustic solo by PW and a string score by Hannah Peel. “I think the song is saying that the more you can be yourself and be happy with yourself, the more you change into something better. It’s not just good for you, it’s good for everyone else as well. ‘Save yourself and save everyone around you too.’ It’s from observation but I suppose it’s about me too.”

Testify

Superfly strutting, cut live in the studio with Andy Fairweather Low adding distinctive vocals and Jacko Peake on fine flute and saxophone. When allowed out of the house, it’ll be a future live favourite.

“We had actually done it live two or three years ago,” says Weller, “but while I loved the groove I never really got a grip on the song. Then I did this charity gig in Guildford, one of the last things I’ve done probably, some Stax songs with Andy Fairweather Low. Our voices sound so good together and he’s such a lovely fellow, so I sent him the backing track. As soon as lockdown was lifted he came down to the studio for the afternoon. We cut it live and that was it.”

That Pleasure

In amongst those soulful strings there is some barely contained rage in Weller’s voice as he sings ‘Lose your hypocrisy.’ “I suppose it’s my reaction to the whole Black Lives Matter movement,” he explains. “You’re always on tender ground writing about that, but, regardless of my colour, any human being should be disturbed. You should be appalled and disgusted and shocked by those images of George Floyd being killed in the street. It has to stop. It’s a question for everyone.”

Failed

‘All the things I never get/and all the things I never meant/and all the things that make no fucking sense…I’ve failed.’

“Yes, I’m asking myself the question,” admits Weller, a man who has never been afraid of self-reflection in his songwriting. “It’s an angry song because I wrote it right after a massive row with my wife. But I like it. It’s honest. It’s not how I feel all the time, but it is how I feel some of the time. I’m just talking about me as a man. We all measure success in different ways.”

It’s also one of his favourite songs on the album, a stand-out.

Moving Canvas

A chunky, percussive groove, with the feel of Traffic but updated for the here-and-now.

“It’s going to be great live that one. I wrote it about Iggy Pop. I hope he likes it if he ever gets to hear it. It’s my tribute to him, even though it doesn’t sound anything like him. Aside from all the great records he’s made, as a performer he’s high art. It’s all about the Igster.”

In Better Times

A plaintive plea with some beautiful sax and guitar breaks. “Cold in your eyes, don’t you know you break my heart in two”.

“It’s me talking to a young person who is going through something, addiction or mental health pressure, or whatever, and just saying it’ll be alright. Just get through this bit and there’ll be better times to come, you’ll look back and you’ll see it differently.”

Still Glides The Stream

A stately collaboration between Weller and long-time guitar foil Steve Cradock.

“I had the chords and possibly the melody, which I sent to Cradock. And he sent me back a poem and I edited that, then we sent it back and forth by phone. Lockdown songwriting. I just liked the poem. In my mind, I was thinking about our road sweeper who’s a lovely fellow. I started thinking that there’s so many people in this country who form the infrastructure of it and without whom we’d be fucked. But they’re looked down upon, not really noticed. So I was imagining their story. I did find out that there’s a book of the same name (by Flora Thompson) and Cradock said he had seen it in a shop, so that’s where the title comes from. I just liked the poetry of it. Steve’s a very soulful fella.”

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