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Big Apple Blues - Manhattan Alley (2018) Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 6, 2019

In 2015, Big Apple Blues released the album ENERGY, which described day in a life of New York City. Boasting entirely original material, ENERGY marked a departure from the well-trodden blues genre towards a fusion of instrumental blues, soul, funk, and rock. Unable to assign the album to a pre-defined genre, the critics labeled it as the “Big Apple Blues Sound.” MANHATTAN ALLEY builds on ENERGY and presents more of the feel-good Big Apple Blues Sound. Like its predecessor, MANHATTAN ALLEY tells its own story, aiming to draw from a well of energy and philosophical, utterly positive reflections on life and creativity. It is inspired by New York City itself - NYC with a nod to Tin Pan Alley - the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters that dominated popular music in America in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Big Apple Blues - Manhattan Alley (2018) Music

Posted by Domestos at June 5, 2018

In 2015, Big Apple Blues released the album ENERGY, which described day in a life of New York City. Boasting entirely original material, ENERGY marked a departure from the well-trodden blues genre towards a fusion of instrumental blues, soul, funk, and rock. Unable to assign the album to a pre-defined genre, the critics labeled it as the “Big Apple Blues Sound.”

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Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat (1987) [Japan 1st Press] Music

Posted by Andi_Deris at July 24, 2017

Faster Pussycat is the first album by the band of the same name. The album reached #97 on the Billboard 200 chart. Videos were made for several of the songs on the album, including ''Don't Change That Song'', which had a video directed by Russ Meyer.

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VA - Lee Thompson One Mans Madness (2018) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 1, 2018

VA - Lee Thompson One Mans Madness (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 kbps | 2:08:18 | 864 Mb / 294 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock, Reggae, Ska, Soundtracks / Label: BMG Rights Management

Two CD set. Original soundtrack to the 2018 documentary about Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson. Includes tracks from Madness, Crunch, 'Thommosina Leigh', Ian Dury, and the Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra. Lee "Kix" Thompson is a most unlikely character. Early career choices had him spend a year in a detention center. He still hasn't found the receipt for his first saxophone. Luckily, he met two other unlikely characters: Mike Barso Barson and Chrissy Boy Foreman who shared his interests of graffiti, train hopping and music.

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VA - Kids On The Street - UK Power Pop And New Wave 1977-81 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 3, 2023

VA - Kids On The Street - UK Power Pop And New Wave 1977-81 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 565 MB
3:57:25 | New Wave, Power Pop | Label: Cherry Red Records

Three CD anthology featuring some of the best music to come out of the British new wave/ power pop scene of the late 70s/early 80s. Featuring hit singles and deep cuts from some of the era's biggest names are joined by rare tracks, cult classics and fascinating obscurities. Kids On The Street is a four-hour smorgasbord of top pop tunes from the British power pop and new wave scenes of the late Seventies/early Eighties as the punk revolution evolved into a more radio-friendly sound. Hit singles from some of the era's most vital acts (The Stranglers, Pretenders, The Ruts, The Teardrop Explodes, Elvis Costello) are joined by key cuts from seminal albums by the likes of The Jam, Squeeze and XTC.

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The Meters - A Message From The Meters: The Complete Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. Singles 1968-1977 [2CD] (2016) Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Nov. 23, 2019

How would you like to hear a new side or should we say sides of the world's greatest funk band? This 40-track set presents the A and B-side of every single that organist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr., and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste cut for the Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. label, virtually their entire singles output save for a few odds 'n' ends issued mostly overseas. That means that you not only get every hit along with its hard-to-find B-side but also the rare single mixes, including the especially rare original mono single mixes of the 1968-1971 Josie sides, very few of which have appeared on CD (the first CD is all mono; the second, featuring the later Reprise and Warner Bros. singles, presents all stereo single mixes).

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Colin James - Colin James And The Little Big Band II (1998) Music

Posted by popsakov at Oct. 27, 2020

Colin James and the Little Big Band II is a swing-jive album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1998. Colin James and the Little Big Band II earned James the 1999 Juno Award for "Best Producer". While the late '90s may be remembered as the era of the swing revival movement, Colin James was one of the first artists to rediscover this popular musical style of yesteryear. Although James started out first and foremost as a blues guitarist, he'd been a lover of swing since he was a teen, deciding to ditch his blues-rock for 1993's Colin James and the Little Big Band I. The switch proved to be the right move back home; the album was a double-platinum smash.

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Sister Sledge - Original Album Series (2011) 5CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at May 20, 2023

UK-only five CD collection containing a quintet of original albums from the Soul/Disco act housed in mini LP sleeves. Includes the albums Circle of Love (1975), Together (1977), We Are Family (1979), Love Somebody Today (1980) and All American Girls (1981). Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1971, the group consisted of sisters Debbie, Joni, Kim and Kathy Sledge. The siblings achieved international success at the height of the disco era. The year 1979 saw the release of their breakthrough album We Are Family, which peaked at number three on the US Album Chart and included the 1979 US top ten singles "He's the Greatest Dancer" and "We Are Family". A third single, "Lost in Music", reached the US top forty. "We Are Family" earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

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Kim Fowley - Outrageous `68 & Good Clean Fun `69 (1995) Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 14, 2018

Kim Fowley - Outrageous `68 & Good Clean Fun `69 (1995)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Rev-ola, CREVO33CD | ~ 432 or 168 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 7.05 Mb
Garage / Psychedelic Rock

One of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll, Kim Fowley was, over the course of his decades-long career, a true jack-of-all-trades: singer, songwriter, producer, manager, disc jockey, promoter, and published poet. He was also the catalyst behind much of the pop music to emerge from the Los Angeles area during the 1960s and '70s, guiding several of his associates and protégés to fame and fortune, while remaining himself a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream…

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Robert Palmer - Heavy Nova '88 Don't Explain '90 (2013) Music

Posted by JET 1 at May 28, 2020

After 8 solo albums for Island Records culminating in the huge commercial success of 'Riptide', Robert Palmer found a new recoring home with EMI in 1988 with the release of 'Heavy Nova', but what hadn't changed was his very diverse range of material and styles, from self-penned rockers and ballads to covers of heavy funk and Tin Pan Alley. Heavy Nova includes the enduring smash hit single 'She Makes My Day'. 'Don't Explain' followed in 1990 and was also typically multi-faceted, presented in two parts: the first a rocking guitar-led set of songs, and the second half a soundtrack to an ambitious planned musical. 'Don't Explain' includes the hits 'Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You' and the collaboration with UB40, 'I'll Be Your Baby Tonight'. The ten bonus tracks include remixes and non-album single tracks.

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