The Birthday Party (1968)

The Idle Race - The Birthday Party (1967-1996) {2020, Deluxe Edition}

The Idle Race - The Birthday Party (1967-1996) {2020, Deluxe Edition}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 423 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 236 Mb
Full Scans | 00:53:25 + 00:30:33 | RAR 5% Recovery
Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop | Grapefruit Records #QCRSEG065D

Deluxe digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition. Having emerged from the ashes of beat boom hopefuls Mike Sheridan and The Night Riders, by late 1966 Birmingham band The Idle Race were looking for a new guitarist. The successful applicant was local teenager Jeff Lynne. By the time the band signed to Liberty Records, the prodigiously-talented Lynne - several years younger than his new colleagues - had been promoted to frontman status, blossoming as the band's chief songwriter while also taking lead vocals. After 'Skeleton And The Roundabout' had attracted much airplay but fallen just short of the charts, the band cut their debut album. Issued in October 1968, the idiosyncratic The Birthday Party gave notice of a major new talent on the British pop scene.
VA - Revolution - Underground Sounds Of 1968 (Remastered) (2019)

VA - Revolution - Underground Sounds Of 1968 (Remastered) (3CD Box Set) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 510 MB
03:37:46 | Classic Rock, Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Esoteric Recordings

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of “Revolution – Underground Sounds of 1968”, a 3CD clamshell boxed set celebrating the so-called “underground” rock music 1968, a year that saw huge changes, both musical and social.
VA - Revolution - Underground Sounds Of 1968 (Remastered) (2019)

VA - Revolution - Underground Sounds Of 1968 (Remastered) (3CD Box Set) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 510 MB
03:37:46 | Classic Rock, Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Esoteric Recordings

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of “Revolution – Underground Sounds of 1968”, a 3CD clamshell boxed set celebrating the so-called “underground” rock music 1968, a year that saw huge changes, both musical and social.
VA - Revolution - Underground Sounds Of 1968 (Remastered) (2019)

VA - Revolution - Underground Sounds Of 1968 (Remastered) (3CD Box Set) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 510 MB
03:37:46 | Classic Rock, Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Esoteric Recordings

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of “Revolution – Underground Sounds of 1968”, a 3CD clamshell boxed set celebrating the so-called “underground” rock music 1968, a year that saw huge changes, both musical and social.
George Harrison - The Apple Years 1968-75 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

George Harrison - The Apple Years 1968-75 (2014)
6 Albums | FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 374:47 minutes | 8,12 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

In November 1968, George Harrison released 'Wonderwall Music'. A soundtrack to an art film called 'Wonderwall' this predominantly Indian music collection was the first solo album to be released by a Beatle and also the first album on the newly formed Apple Records. George would continue to release albums on Apple (and EMI) through to 1975's soul-influenced 'Extra Texture (Read All About It)' touching on experimentalism with 'Electronic Sound', the magnificent triple album 'All Things Must Pass', the chart-topping 'Living In The Material World' and the, perhaps, less well-known 'Dark Horse'. This box brings all these eclectic albums together in one set that mirrors 2004's 'Dark Horse Years' box set and contain a perfect booklet. All albums have been remastered by Dhani Harrison and Paul Hicks.

The Idle Race - Back To The Story [Recorded 1966-1971] (1996)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Oct. 2, 2020
The Idle Race - Back To The Story [Recorded 1966-1971] (1996)

The Idle Race - Back To The Story [Recorded 1966-1971] (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 823 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 349 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EMI Premier (7243 8 38162 2 4)

The Idle Race are a beloved band of British psychedelia collectors, because the music was rare, because the band was Jeff Lynne's first significant group, and because the music was, by and large, very good. There is a bit of a relative judgment there - this is not music that stands among the very best of British pop-psych of the '60s, since it's not as innovative or consistent as the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Move, or even Tomorrow, but it's certainly among the best of the second tier, as singles like "Impostors of Life's Magazine," "Big Chief Wooly Bosher," and "Girl at the Window" illustrate. Since this band itself is a collector's item, it only makes sense for collectors to seek out EMI Premier's 1996 collection Back to the Story, which was only available for a brief period (possibly a matter of months) the year of its release…

ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at April 25, 2022
ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin

Steve Choe, "ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin "
English | ISBN: 1474431372 | 2021 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Jeff Lynne - A Message From the Country: The Jeff Lynne Years 1968-1973 (1989)

Jeff Lynne - A Message From the Country: The Jeff Lynne Years 1968-1973 (1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 408 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 172 MB
1:14:21 | Classic Rock , Psychedelic Rock , Symphonic Rock | Label: Harvest

Following his stint as leader of the Electric Light Orchestra, singer/guitarist Jeff Lynne forged an equally successful career in the '80s and '90s as a producer with his distinctive sound gracing the latter-day records of many veteran rock & roll legends. Lynne began his career in the late '60s as the frontman of a group called the Idle Race, which recorded the album The Birthday Party for RCA in 1969. In 1970, Lynne accepted an invitation from Move leader Roy Wood to join his revamped band; the two shared a vision of fusing electric rock & roll with classical orchestrations, a concept that eventually transformed the Move into the Electric Light Orchestra (instead of the two groups running concurrently, as had originally been planned).
George Harrison - The Apple Years 1968-75 [7CD Box Set] (2014) (Repost)

George Harrison - The Apple Years 1968-75 [7CD Box Set] (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 2,17 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 881 MB | Covers - 775 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Apple/G.H. Estate (0602537913879)

Arriving ten years after The Dark Horse Years: 1976-1992, The Apple Years: 1968-75 offers the first act of George Harrison's solo career presented in a handsomely produced, impeccably remastered box set. The outside packaging mirrors The Dark Horse Years but the discs housed inside the box show a greater attention to detail than the previous set: each of the albums is presented as a paper-sleeve mini-LP replicating the original album art (Extra Texture does indeed have extra texture on its sleeve), while the brief hardcover book contains perhaps the glossiest paper to ever grace a rock music box set. Better still, the remastering of all six albums is superb. Supervised by Harrison's son Dhani, the team mastermind by Paul Hicks, who worked on the acclaimed 2009 Beatles remasters, and featuring Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen, bring The Apple Years to the same sonic standard as the 2009 Beatles remasters and the results are rich, deep, and alluring…
George Harrison - The Apple Years 1968-75 [7CD Box Set] (2014) (Repost)

George Harrison - The Apple Years 1968-75 [7CD Box Set] (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 2,17 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 881 MB | Covers - 775 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Apple/G.H. Estate (0602537913879)

Arriving ten years after The Dark Horse Years: 1976-1992, The Apple Years: 1968-75 offers the first act of George Harrison's solo career presented in a handsomely produced, impeccably remastered box set. The outside packaging mirrors The Dark Horse Years but the discs housed inside the box show a greater attention to detail than the previous set: each of the albums is presented as a paper-sleeve mini-LP replicating the original album art (Extra Texture does indeed have extra texture on its sleeve), while the brief hardcover book contains perhaps the glossiest paper to ever grace a rock music box set. Better still, the remastering of all six albums is superb. Supervised by Harrison's son Dhani, the team mastermind by Paul Hicks, who worked on the acclaimed 2009 Beatles remasters, and featuring Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen, bring The Apple Years to the same sonic standard as the 2009 Beatles remasters and the results are rich, deep, and alluring…