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In Between Dreams List Price: $10.01 Sale Price: $9.97 You save: $0.04 (%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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"In Between Dreams" is the multi-platinum selling smash from Jack Johnson. The album features classics like "Banana Pancakes", "Better Together" and "Good People".

For a man who gets his biggest kicks surfing the waves and strumming his guitar on a lonely beach in native Hawaii, singer-songwriter Jack Johnson has carved out quite a remarkable career on the mainland. His 2003 album, On and On, debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 and subsequently went platinum on the back of hit single "The Horizon Has Been Defeated." The follow-up, meanwhile, seems destined to shine even brighter. The drifting chords and soft voice are still in place, only now Johnson's instinct for melody has sharpened alongside his ability to self-edit. These small concessions make third album, In Between Dreams, his most conspicuous, particularly on tracks like the three-minute relationship drama, "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing," and "Breakdown," a song he originally recorded for Handsome Boy Modeling School's White People album remade here to reveal its full stripped-down loveliness. Imagine all the coconuts it will buy. -- Aidin Vaziri

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Binding: Audio CD
Artist: Jack Johnson
Format:
Number of Discs: 1
Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
Original Release Date:
Tracks Disc Number: 1
Tracks:

• Better Together
• Never Know
• Banana Pancakes
• Good People
• No Other Way
• Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
• Staple It Together
• Situations
• Crying Shame
• If I Could
• Breakdown
• Belle
• Do You Remember
• Constellations

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• Condition: Used - Good

Year of the Gentleman [Vinyl] List Price: $15.98 Sale Price: $8.49 You save: $7.49 (47%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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"Closer," written by Ne-Yo and produced by Stargate, is the first single from Ne-Yo's upcoming third album, YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN, set to arrive in stores June 24th. It is the follow-up to Because Of You (released May 2007), which received this year's Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and In My Own Words (February 2006) - both of which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. In addition to his Contemporary R&B Album award, Ne-Yo earned four other Grammy nominations this year, including two for his collaboration with Rihanna, "Hate That I Love You" (which he co-wrote), namely Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance Duo/Group; as well as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his #2 hit "Because Of You"; and Record of the Year for Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" (which he co-produced). Ne-Yo's Grammy recognition followed up the UK's 13th annual MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) Awards in September 2007 - the only televised European Awards Show solely dedicated to urban music and culture - at which he won for Best Song ("Because Of You") and Best R&B Act. Ne-Yo's RIAA platinum debut album In My Own Words was nominated for a Grammy as Best Contemporary R&B Album. It spun off three chart-topping hits, starting late-2005 with his debut Def Jam single, the #1 Grammy-nominated "So Sick," followed by "When You're Mad" and "Sexy Love." Ne-Yo capped 2006 as Male R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards. At the The 21st Annual Soul Train Music Awards in February 2007, Ne-Yo won the Coca-Cola Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap new Artist for "Sexy Love."

If the mark of the skilful Lothario is the one who knows to always tell his lover what she wants to hear, surely Def Jam’s R&B sensation Ne-Yo--aka Los Angeles singer-songwriter Shaffer Chimere Smith--is one of the greatest of them all. On his third album, Year of the Gentleman, Chimere channels his hitmaking talents into a suite of R&B songs that are more respectful than rampant in their approach to the romancing. “Single" is a song that reaches out to all the lonely girls,  Ne-Yo promising, “I'll be your boyfriend til the song goes off," while the Stargate-produced “Miss Independent," lit up by neon synthesizers, suggests Smith isn't too concerned with his own machismo to test out flipping the traditional gender roles, serenading a girl who's a player in her own right: “Everything she got, you bet she bought it." The album is at its best with the central, two-song movement of “Why Does She Stay" and “Fade Into the Background"--the former finding Ne-Yo questioning his own neglectful nature over a backdrop of shimmering keys, the latter a sombre piece that finds our narrator accepting the news that his lover has found another with a rare, heart-rending magnanimity. --Louis Pattison

Music Tracks

Binding: Vinyl
Artist: Ne-Yo
Format:
Number of Discs: 2
Manufacturer: Def Jam
Original Release Date:
Tracks Disc Number: 1
Tracks:

• Closer
• Nobody
• Single
• Mad
• Miss Independent
• Why Does She Stay
• Fade into the Background
• So You Can Cry
• Part of the List
• Back to What You Know
• Lie to Me
• Stop This World

Die Another Day Ep List Price: $23.98 Sale Price: $14.09 You save: $9.89 (41%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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The title track produced by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadazai from the 2002 release of the coolest James Bond movie yet. Strings arranged by Michael Colombier. Mixed by Mark 'Spike' Stent. This single features the Radio Edit of 'Die Another Day' & 5 mixes (Di

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Binding: Audio CD
Artist: Madonna
Format: Import
Number of Discs: 1
Manufacturer: Wp Japan
Original Release Date:
Tracks Disc Number: 1
Tracks:

• Die Another Day [Radio Edit]
• Die Another Day [Dirty Vegas Main Mix]
• Die Another Day [Thee Retrolectro Mix]
• Die Another Day [Thunderpuss Club Mix]
• Die Another Day [Deepsky Remix]
• Die Another Day [Brother Brown's Bond-Age Club]