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Vinyl: The Essentials: Best Of Season 1 (Music From The HBO Original Series)

Listening notes

Released in 2016 on Atlantic Records (catalog number 7567-86664-9), this CD compilation serves as a companion to the first season of HBO's television series Vinyl. The disc collects seventeen tracks drawn from or associated with the show's soundtrack, running across a broad range of tagged genres that include Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Funk/Soul, Glam, Heavy Metal, Neo Soul, Nu-Disco, Punk, Rock, Soul, and Soundtrack categories.

The tracklist spans a total runtime that reflects the variety implied by those genre classifications. Familiar titles appear alongside less widely known entries: David Bowie's "Life On Mars?" sits at position four, the Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" closes out the back half at position fourteen, and "No Fun," associated with The Stooges, occupies position six. "Back Stabbers" at position three is a title long connected with The O'Jays. The compilation opens with "Kill The Lights" and closes with "I Wanna Be With You," with the designated theme, "Sugar Daddy (Theme From Vinyl)," placed at position thirteen.

The individual track durations range from two minutes and twenty-one seconds ("I've Been Wrong So Long") to four minutes and fifty-six seconds ("Venus In Furs"). The seventeen tracks include material that, based on genre tags alone, suggests the show drew on a wide sweep of American and British popular music traditions without confining itself to a single era or style.

No individual performer credits are listed in the available data for this release. This is an unreviewed draft and all claims should be verified against primary sources before publication, including track attributions, which have not been confirmed here beyond what the titles themselves imply.