Colin Vearncombe

Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Blind Faith (2015)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 13, 2021
Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Blind Faith (2015)

Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Blind Faith (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 264 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 125 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Pop/Rock | Label: Nero Schwarz | # NEROCD19 | Time: 00:38:22

Colin Vearncombe will forever be preserved in pop aspic as the maker of 1987’s melancholy worldwide hit Wonderful Life – No 1 in Austria! – but he hasn’t stopped working, despite his not having breached the top 40 for 27 years. Blind Faith, his seventh album under the Black flag, is a marvellous little thing – a less temperamental, less self-regarding cousin to Scott Walker’s first four solo records. Like them, it’s steeped in European balladry, and filled with delicious arrangements – the swooping strings and jazzy shuffles of Womanly Panther are a delight. Vearncombe’s slightly frayed baritone is a perfect match to the music, steering it clear of pomposity, filling it with humanity, even when the regrets well up – “I am not the man you want me to be,” he sings on Not the Man, “Here comes the talking / Slamming doors you then have to throw open.” Pop stardom is a long way in the past for Vearncombe, but Blind Faith is an album by a man very much in control of his gifts.

Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Are We Having Fun Yet? (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 26, 2023
Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Are We Having Fun Yet? (1993)

Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Are We Having Fun Yet? (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 309 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Scans included
Pop/Rock | Label: Nero Schwarz Limited | # 519354-2 | Time: 00:44:58

This album opens with jangly pop song ‘Don’t take the silence too hard’ and includes the operatic ‘Ave Lolita’. “Looking back through the years, it’s pretty obvious I have a fondness for overblown melodramatic music,” Colin said. In recent tours, the track has been reinterpreted acoustically. This album was the first to be released on Black’s own label, and was licensed to major labels for distribution.‘Are we having fun yet?’ was produced by Mike Hedges. Mike’s other production credits include work with The Associates, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, U2, Travis and Texas.
Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Comedy (1988) [Non-Remastered, Japan]

Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Comedy (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 299 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 121 Mb | Scans ~ 142 Mb
Pop/Rock, New Wave | Label: A&M | # D25Y3271 | Time: 00:53:01

Seeking a U.S. breakthrough, A&M Records held Black's second album, Comedy, back from release until a re-recorded 1989 version of his U.K. hit "Wonderful Life" could be added as the leadoff track. There is also a remixed version of the U.K. hit "Sweetest Smile," which, like "Wonderful Life," previously appeared on Black's debut album, Wonderful Life. Also included were the more recent U.K. chart singles "The Big One" and "Now You're Gone." All of which means that, in its U.S. version at least, Comedy was almost more of a hits compilation than a formal second album. That, however, lent it a certain consistency, and in its newer songs, the album showed Black moving away from the cocktail jazz and doomy lyrics of his debut and toward a more eclectic sound, as well as lighter, more romantic sentiments.

Colin Vearncombe - The Accused (1999)  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 2, 2019
Colin Vearncombe - The Accused (1999)

Colin Vearncombe - The Accused (1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 274 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 102 Mb
Full Scans ~ 230 Mb | RAR 5% Recovery
Rock, Acoustic | East Central One / Nero Schwarz Ltd. #nerocd9901

Black (born Colin Vearncombe) is an English singer-songwriter, who enjoyed mainstream success in the late 1980s. William Ruhlmann of Allmusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey. “It’s time to come out of the shadows,” said Colin on the release of his first album recorded under his own name. Released in 1999 on his own label, the album was named after the punchline to the joke “What do you call a scouser in a suit?”. Colin said: “Despite the financial restrictions being indie is a joy and this LP is as close as I’ve come thus far to realising my maximum potential as a writer and performer. I just decided to record the album I wanted to make, even if nobody else was interested.”

Black - Wonderful Life (1987) Non-Remastered  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 28, 2023
Black - Wonderful Life (1987) Non-Remastered

Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Wonderful Life (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 384 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans ~ 36 Mb
Genre: Pop/Rock, New Wave | Label: A&M Records | # 395165-2 | Time: 01:03:30

This smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey, hits his peak with the driving "Everything's Coming up Roses" (not the Jule Styne song).
Black - Wonderful Life (1987) {2013 Deluxe Edition, Expanded & Remastered}

Black - Wonderful Life (1987) {2013 Deluxe Edition, Expanded & Remastered}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 813 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 305 Mb
Full Scans | 01:03:40 + 00:50:03 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock, New Wave, Synth-Pop | A&M Records / Universal Music #UMCREP2022

Wonderful Life is the debut album of English singer Black, released on August 31, 1987. It peaked at #3 on the UK Albums Chart in September of that year. All songs written by Colin Vearncombe unless otherwise noted. Black (born Colin Vearncombe, Liverpool, England) is an English singer-songwriter, who enjoyed mainstream success in the late 1980s. William Ruhlmann of Allmusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey." Expanded and remastered edition includes a bonus disc with alternative versions and other tracks.

Black - Wonderful Life (1987) {Japan 1st Press}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Jan. 30, 2022
Black - Wonderful Life (1987) {Japan 1st Press}

Black - Wonderful Life (1987) {Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 281 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 108 Mb
Full Scans ~ 160 Mb | 00:44:54| RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock, New Wave | A&M Records / Pony Canyon Inc. #D32Y3185

Wonderful Life is the debut album of English singer Black, released on August 31, 1987. It peaked at #3 on the UK Albums Chart in September of that year. All songs written by Colin Vearncombe unless otherwise noted. Black (born Colin Vearncombe, Liverpool, England) is an English singer-songwriter, who enjoyed mainstream success in the late 1980s. William Ruhlmann of Allmusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey."

Kim Wilde - Snapshots (2011)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 21, 2023
Kim Wilde - Snapshots (2011)

Kim Wilde - Snapshots (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 403 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans included
Label: Columbia SevenOne Music, Sony Music | # 88697941172
Pop, Dance-Pop, Pop Rock, Adult Contemporary | Time: 00:51:29

Snapshots is the 12th studio album and the first covers album by British singer Kim Wilde. It was released in Germany on 26 August 2011 by Columbia SevenOne. The album features versions of songs hand-picked by Wilde from the last five decades.

Wonderful life - Black (UK) (Piano-Vocal-Guitar (Piano Accompaniment))  Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at Oct. 14, 2023
Wonderful life - Black (UK) (Piano-Vocal-Guitar (Piano Accompaniment))

Wonderful life - Black (UK) (Piano-Vocal-Guitar (Piano Accompaniment))
English | 7 pages | PDF | 6.2 MB