Genesis Abacab (1981) [1994, Digitally Remastered] {gold Standard Collector's Edition}

Genesis - Abacab (1981) [1994, Digitally Remastered] {Gold Standard Collector's Edition} Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Oct. 2, 2023

Genesis - Abacab (1981) [1994, Digitally Remastered] {Gold Standard Collector's Edition}
Pop/Rock, Prog-Rock, Art Rock | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 47:21 | 339,40 Mb
Label: Atlantic Recording Corporation (USA) | Cat.# 82521-2 | Released: 1994-06-07 (1981-09-18)

"Abacab" is the 11th studio album by English rock band Genesis, released on 18 September 1981 in the United Kingdom by Charisma Records and 24 September 1981 in the United States by Atlantic Records. After their 1980 tour in support of their previous album Duke, the band took a break before they reconvened in 1981 to write and record a new album. Abacab is the first Genesis album recorded at The Farm, a recording studio bought by the group in Chiddingfold, Surrey. It marked the band's development from their progressive roots into more accessible and pop-oriented songs, and their conscious decision to write songs unlike their previous albums. "Abacab" received a mostly positive reception from critics and was a commercial success for the band, reaching #1 on the UK Albums Chart and #7 on the US Billboard 200.

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Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime: The Final Motown Sessions (1981) [1994, Digitally Remastered] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at April 30, 2018

"In Our Lifetime" is the sixteenth studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released January 15, 1981, on Motown label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Marvin's Room in Los Angeles, California, Seawest Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, and at Odyssey Studios in London, England, throughout 1979 and 1980 (and abruptly remixed in 1981 by Motown). The album cover was designed by Neil Breeden. Gaye's final album for Motown before leaving for Columbia Records, the album was the follow-up to the commercial failure of Here, My Dear, a double album which chronicled the singer's divorce from Anna Gordy. Entirely written, produced, arranged, and mixed by Gaye, In Our Lifetime? was a departure for Gaye from the disco stylings of his previous two studio efforts and was seen as one of the best albums of the singer's late-Motown period.

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Pointer Sisters - Black & White (1981) [1995, Digitally Remastered] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Jan. 23, 2022

Pointer Sisters - Black & White (1981) [1995, Reissue]
R&B, Soul, Pop/Rock | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 37:16 | 378,02 Mb
Label: Planet Records/RCA/BMG (USA) | Cat.# 07863-55092-2 | 1995-05-23 (1981-06-12)

"Black & White" is the 8th studio album by the Pointer Sisters, released in 1981 on the Planet label. "Black & White" was their fourth record with producer Richard Perry and yielded the #2 pop hit "Slow Hand". The fourth single release, "Should I Do It", reached #13 in the spring of 1982, making "Black & White" the first Pointer Sisters album to yield two Top Twenty hits. "Black & White" was certified Gold in September 1981.

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Barry White - Beware! (1981) [1992, Digitally Remastered] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Aug. 31, 2021

About the time of this album's release, Barry White was beginning his love affair with South America, specifically the country of Brazil, where he had tremendous popularity. This can be obviously experienced in the jaunty "Rio de Janeiro" and a cool remake of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie. The title cut, another remake, is, by far, the reason to make this CD a part of a Barry White collection. The song begins with the trademark White rap and proceeds into a well-crafted "warning" to a future paramour.

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One Way - Love Is...One Way (1981) [2013, Digitally Remastered Reissue] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at May 11, 2020

Abbreviating their name from the earlier One Way Featuring Al Hudson just in time for the 1980s, One Way emerged in 1981 with the grossly overlooked and underrated Love Is…One Way LP. Continuing to focus on the smooth vocal harmonies and sweet soul rhythms that had long been their forte, the Detroit group brought the album into the Top 20 in March, their highest spot. With most of the set laying in a cocoon of mid- and slow-tempo urban soul, Love Is…One Way meanders from the sleepy and sweet title track to the more emotive "My Lady," which captures an easy, breezy style reminiscent of the Chi-Lites.

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Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is (1981) [1986, Digitally Remastered] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Sept. 25, 2023

"You Are What You Is" was another of Frank Zappa's periodic post-Over-Nite Sensation efforts that concentrated on tight songwriting supported by satirical lyrics. Originally a two-record set featuring 20 songs, "You Are What You Is" Is skewered a variety of targets, from teenagers, punk rock, disco, and country music to the media, yuppies, the beauty-and-fitness industry, upper-class vice, religious hypocrisy, suicide, and the military draft - all the trappings of Reagan-era America.

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Genesis - Abacab (1981) [2007, CD & DVD, Remastered] Music

Posted by v3122 at June 13, 2018

Duke showcased a new Genesis – a sleek, hard, stylish trio that truly sounded like a different band from its first incarnation – but Abacab was where this new incarnation of the band came into its own. Working with producer Hugh Padgham, the group escalated the innovations of Duke, increasing the pop hooks, working them seamlessly into the artiest rock here…

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Barbra Streisand - Barbra Joan Streisand (1971) [1994, Digitally Remastered] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at July 7, 2017

"Barbra Joan Streisand" is an album by Barbra Streisand, released in August, 1971 on Columbia Records. It includes "I Mean to Shine", the first recording of a song written by the Steely Dan duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The album also features production and backing work by members of the female band Fanny. The album reached #11 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album peaked #25 in Canada. According to the liner notes of Barbra's retrospective box set: Just for the Record, the album also received a record certification in Belgium and in Sweden.

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Genesis - Abacab (1981) [1983, Reissue] {W.-Germany Target CD} Music

Posted by BlondStyle at May 17, 2020

Genesis - Abacab (1981) [1983, Reissue] {W.-Germany Target CD}
Pop/Rock, Prog-Rock, Art Rock | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 46:41 | 305,97 Mb
Label: Atlantic/PolyGram (W.-Germany) | Cat.# 19313-2 | Released: 1983 (1981-09-18)

"Abacab" is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Genesis, released on 18 September 1981 in the United Kingdom by Charisma Records and 24 September 1981 in the United States by Atlantic Records. After their 1980 tour in support of their previous album Duke, the band took a break before they reconvened in 1981 to write and record a new album. Abacab is the first Genesis album recorded at The Farm, a recording studio bought by the group in Chiddingfold, Surrey. It marked the band's development from their progressive roots into more accessible and pop-oriented songs, and their conscious decision to write songs unlike their previous albums. "Abacab" received a mostly positive reception from critics and was a commercial success for the band, reaching #1 on the UK Albums Chart and #7 on the US Billboard 200.

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Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (1971) [1994, Digitally Remastered] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at June 27, 2019

"Stoney End" is the 12th studio album by Barbra Streisand. It was produced by Richard Perry. Released in 1971, it was a change in direction for Streisand with a more upbeat contemporary pop sound. The album hit #10 on the Billboard Top 200, where it was certified Platinum with sales of 1 million copies. In the UK the album entered the chart at #28. The album has sold 1,5 million copies worldwide. The title track, a Laura Nyro composition previously recorded by Peggy Lipton (#121 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles in 1968), was released in the US and charted at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and also reached #27 on the UK singles chart. "Time and Love" reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the AC Chart. "Hands Off the Man", the final single, was officially titled "Flim Flam Man" (and backed with "Maybe"). It spent 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 82.

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