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The Kinks - Kinks (1964) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 9, 2024
The Kinks - Kinks (1964) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011]

The Kinks - Kinks (1964) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 745 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 303 MB | Covers - 73 MB
Genre: Garage Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sanctuary Records/Universal Music (275 627-4)

By sheer size alone, Universal’s 2011 Deluxe Edition of the Kinks' debut album trumps any previous reissue of the album, weighing in at a whopping 56 tracks spread over the course of two CDs. This includes the album in both its stereo and mono mixes, both sides of the “Long Tall Sally,” “You Still Want Me,” and “All Day and All of the Night” singles, the tracks from the Kinksize Session EP, the demo of “I Don’t Need You Anymore,” a couple of alternate takes and mixes, and a clutch of BBC sessions punctuated by interviews with Ray Davies. Although the album proper is slowed down by a little filler, the wealth of bonus material improves the overall experience: many of the single and EP tracks are better than what’s on the LP, the live sessions smoke, and the remastering kicks hard, all factors in making this the best edition ever of the Kinks' debut.
The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy (1965) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011]

The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy (1965) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 396 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 174 MB | Covers - 84 MB
Genre: Garage Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sanctuary Records/Universal Music (275 628-5)

The Kinks came into their own as album artists - and Ray Davies fully matured as a songwriter - with The Kink Kontroversy, which bridged their raw early British Invasion sound with more sophisticated lyrics and thoughtful production. There are still powerful ravers like the hit "Til the End of the Day" (utilizing yet another "You Really Got Me"-type riff) and the abrasive, Dave Davies-sung cover of "Milk Cow Blues," but tracks like the calypso pastiche "I'm on an Island," where Ray sings of isolation with a forlorn yet merry bite, were far more indicative of their future direction. Other great songs on this underrated album include the uneasy nostalgia of "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?," the plaintive, almost fatalistic ballads "Ring the Bells" and "The World Keeps Going Round," and the Dave Davies-sung declaration of independence "I Am Free."

ABBA - ABBA (1975) [Deluxe Edition 2012] (Repost)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 11, 2024
ABBA - ABBA (1975) [Deluxe Edition 2012] (Repost)

ABBA - ABBA (1975) [Deluxe Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 315 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 113 MB | Covers - 118 MB
Genre: Pop, Europop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polar/Universal Music (00602537123094)

ABBA's self-titled third album was the one that really broke the group on a worldwide basis. The Eurovision Song Contest winner "Waterloo" had been a major international hit and "Honey, Honey" a more modest one, but ABBA was still an exotic novelty to most of those outside Scandinavia until the release of ABBA in the spring of 1975. "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do," a schmaltzy tribute to the sound of '50s orchestra leader Billy Vaughn, seemed an unlikely first single, and indeed it barely scraped into the Top 40 in the U.K. But in Australia, it topped the charts, causing the Australian record company to pull its own second single, "Mamma Mia," off the album. This far more appealing pop/rock number followed its predecessor into the pole position Down Under and also topped the charts throughout Europe…

ABBA - Waterloo (1974) [Deluxe Edition 2014] (Repost)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 9, 2024
ABBA - Waterloo (1974) [Deluxe Edition 2014] (Repost)

ABBA - Waterloo (1974) [Deluxe Edition 2014]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 401 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 139 MB | Covers - 85 MB
Genre: Pop, Europop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polar/Universal Music (00602537645374)

ABBA's second (and U.S. debut) album contains the American Top Ten title track, as well as "Honey, Honey," a minor U.S. hit that deserved better. This album is rather unusual in the group's output, however, for the fact that the guys are still featured fairly prominently in some of the vocals, and for the variety of sounds - including reggae, folk-rock, and hard rock - embraced by its songs. The reggae number "Sitting in the Palmtree" is quite remarkable to hear, with its perfect Caribbean beat and those radiant female voices carrying the chorus behind the beat. "King Kong Song" is a good example of hard rock by rote, going through the motions of screaming vocals and over-amplified guitar (courtesy of Janne Schaffer), although even here, when the women's voices jump in on the choruses, it's hard not to listen attentively; the quartet knew what a powerful weapon they had, but not quite how to use it…
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus (Live) (Super Deluxe Edition) (2022)

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus (Live) (Super Deluxe Edition) (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.6 GB
7:05:06 | Full Scans Included | Classic Rock, Blues Rock | Label: Rhino / Warner Records

WAITING FOR COLUMBUS: SUPER DELUXE EDITION is an 8-CD boxed set that includes a newly remastered version of the original double album on CD and three unreleased concerts. WAITING FOR COLUMBUS: SUPER DELUXE EDITION is the definitive edition of this classic. It includes unreleased live versions of songs that appeared on the original (“Rocket In My Pocket” and “Spanish Moon”), along with several that didn’t, like “Cold, Cold, Cold,” “Rock And Roll Doctor,” “Skin It Back” and a cover of Allen Toussaint’s “On Your Way Down.”
The Funk Brothers - Standing In The Shadows Of Motown (Deluxe Edition) (2004)

The Funk Brothers - Standing In The Shadows Of Motown (Deluxe Edition) (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 788 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 285 MB
2:04:30 | Funk, Stage & Screen, Soundtrack | Label: Hip-O Records

While there was certainly little to complain about on the original issue of the soundtrack for Standing in the Shadows of Motown, for those who truly sought the magic of the Funk Brothers, this deluxe edition is what they longed for all along. This two-disc collection contains the soundtrack of the Allan Slutsky/Harry Weinger film – plus three bonus tracks – from that historic night at the Royal Oak Music Theater just outside of Detroit. It pairs what was left of the original Motown session gang and their heirs with a host of vocalists, including Joan Osborne, Chaka Khan, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Ben Harper, and Gerald LeVert interpreting the classics. The extra soundtrack cuts feature John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson, and Dennis Coffey with the Detroit Guitar Band. But on disc two, the entire grail becomes attainable. Here are 15 musical tracks, the original instrumental sides from "the Snakepit" of the Motown studios, with little or no vocal accompaniment, remixed from the ground up. The producers broke down and mapped out each verse, bridge, chorus, and vamp on paper first. Phone calls were made to the living members and then each tune was knotted together from the recorded evidence, using the input of the Funks and the added guitars of Dennis Coffey and Wah Wah Watson.
Alan Silvestri - Death Becomes Her (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition) (1992/2024)

Alan Silvestri - Death Becomes Her (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition) (1992/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 MB
51:06 | Classical, Soundtrack, Musical, Score | Label: Back Lot Music

From the storied collaboration of Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Contact, The Polar Express) comes the devilishly fun 1992 horror–comedy score, Death Becomes Her. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as a feuding movie star and novelist, (with Bruce Willis caught in the middle as a plastic surgeon), as a miracle potion offering eternal youth goes off the rails: it continues to work even after death, allowing for ghoulish and groundbreaking visual effects as the characters try to maintain appearances despite their bodies being hopelessly mutilated.
Mike + The Mechanics - Living Years (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1988/2014)

Mike + The Mechanics - Living Years (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1988/2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 738 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 239 MB
1:43:20 | Artwork - 35 MB | Pop Rock, Synth-pop, Soft Rock | Label: Virgin

Formed in 1985 by Genesis founding member Mike Rutherford, Mike + The Mechanics released their first album in 1985 and have gone on to achieve an enviable string of hit singles and albums but it was with 1988s Living Years that the band had the biggest success of their career. Their Living Years 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition celebrates this musical milestone with a whole host of special extras. Along with the original studio album, the 2-CD set features a bonus disc of live recordings from the 1989 Living Years UK tour along with the song The Living Years 2014 which has been re-recorded with the South African Isango Choir and Andrew Roachford on lead vocals.
The Smithereens - God Save The Smithereens (1999) [2CD, Deluxe Edition]

The Smithereens - God Save The Smithereens (1999)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2005 | Koch Records, KOC-CD-9687 | ~ 953 or 333 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 157 Mb
Alternative Rock / Indie Rock

After two decades, the Smithereens were no longer in step with the times and they no longer cared – they do what they do because they love it, not because it's fashionable. They were at that point with 1994's A Date With the Smithereens, but that record was hurt by a weird undercurrent of bitterness and Pat DiNizio's songwriting slump…
Laibach - Opus Dei (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1987/2024)

Laibach - Opus Dei (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1987/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 923 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 309 MB
2:12:59 | Electronic, Rock, Industrial | Label: Mute

Opus Dei, the band’s first album for Mute, was mixed by Rico Conning (Wire, Pere Ubu, Swans, William Orbit) and the band’s classic Laibachian interpretations of Opus’ ‘Live Is Life’ (here presented in English as ‘Opus Dei’ and in German as ‘Leben heisst Leben’) and Queen’s ‘One Vision’ (reworked as ‘Geburt Einer Nation’) soon saw them emerge from the shadows as they garnered support from the likes of MTV and ITV’s The Chart Show. This mainstream spotlight, coupled with memorable features in the music press, opened up opportunities for the Slovenian collective that included their first world tour. Performances from the tour from London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and “somewhere in Europe” make up the second CD of the expanded remastered edition.