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n. (plural of masterpiece English)

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Masterpieces (Bob Dylan album)

Masterpieces is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on March 12, 1978 by Columbia Records. The three-LP set was released in Japan, Australia and New Zealand in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a greatest hits collection spanning Dylan's career up that point, the album features one previously unreleased track, a unique (1962) outtake version of " Mixed-Up Confusion". It also includes a live performance of " Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" from Dylan's 1966 World Tour, which was first released as the B-side of his " I Want You" single in 1966. Masterpieces was reissued on CD in 1991 by Sony Music (Cat. No. 4624489), but is no longer in print.

Masterpieces (HammerFall album)

Masterpieces is a compilation album by power metal band, HammerFall.

The CD consists of all the cover versions recorded by HammerFall to date, plus three new unreleased songs (marked with asterisks in the track listing below).
The album cover makes references to the bands being covered by HammerFall, including a Twisted Sister logo spray painted on the wall, a shield with the Warlord logo on it, a stone with the Pretty Maids logo, a pumpkin ( Helloween), a Japanese Rising Sun Flag ( Loudness), an arm holding a guitar buried on the ground ( Rising Force) an 'E' logo of Europe, a razor with Swedish steel written on it ( Judas Priest) and a sign indicating Detroit referencing Kiss's Detroit Rock City. The Park Av. sign is in reference to Skid Row's "Youth Gone Wild," which contains the lyrics "I tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row." The green-haired zombie is from the cover of Picture's album "Eternal Dark", and the Swedish flag refers to Roger Pontare's representation of Sweden in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest.

Usage examples of "masterpieces".

Drawings from masterpieces are made and published for the edification of amateurs.

As it is, I have had some trouble to conceal from my friends, by the help of dried fruits or the contents of a glass sipped slowly, that the masterpieces of my chefs were made more for them than for me, and that my interest in these courses ended before theirs.

Paul Jones spinning in his grave, and the boots were masterpieces of dully gleaming leather.

The impassioned patience of his ingenious observations delights me as much as the masterpieces of art.

All the masterpieces that endure and become a part of our lives are characterized by it.

These masterpieces exist from many periods and in many languages, and they all have qualities in common which have insured their persistence.

What are the qualities common to all the masterpieces of literature, or, let us say, to those that have endured in spite of imperfections and local provincialisms?

A third quality common to all masterpieces is what we call charm, a matter more or less of style, and which may be defined as the agreeable personality of the writer.

We need not in any company be ashamed if we have not read it all, especially if we are ashamed that, considering the time at our disposal, we have not made the acquaintance of the great and small masterpieces of literature.

In proof of this we have only to refer to the masterpieces of fiction which the world cherishes and loves to recur to.

A great many small pictures covered the walls of the boudoir, and they were all masterpieces in the same style as the engravings.

Italy has little to envy in other literatures, and has numerous masterpieces, which are unequalled the whole world over.