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The Kinks - Misfits (1978/1998) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 16, 2024

The Kinks - Misfits (1978/1998)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 55:39 minutes | 1,28 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"Misfits" is the English rock band The Kink's sixteenth studio album. The record is part of the group's second coming during the late 1970's and early 1980's, taking a turn for the better after the group's earlier, less successful concept albums. The 1978 album features US top 40 hit "A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy".

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The Kinks - Preservation Act 1 (1973) Music

Posted by v3122 at Sept. 5, 2016

Originally intended as a more thematic rendering of the characters and themes of The Village Green Preservation Society, Preservation Act 1 fails to realize Ray Davies' ambitious goal of marrying theatrical elements with rock…

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The Kinks - To The Bone (1994) [US 2CD Edition 1996] Music

Posted by Designol at July 6, 2023

This two-disc set is a live retrospective featuring 29 mostly (though not entirely) acoustic renditions of Kinks classics and obscurities, and possesses a poignancy and generosity of spirit that raises it several notches above standard Unplugged-style fare. The band's gracefully low-key reinterpretations of relative obscurities like "Picture Book," "Days," "Do You Remember Walter," and "Death of A Clown" are enough to blow a decade and a half's worth of arena-rock dust off the band's reputation. The group's updating of their early punk anthem "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" carries new levels of resonance that the band could scarcely have dreamed of in 1964. The two new studio recordings are a bit slight, but they sport an unfussed sweetness that's hard to argue with.

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The Kinks – Word Of Mouth (1984) [2004, SACD Remastered] Music

Posted by jclane at July 27, 2011

This 1984 album came near the end of The Kinks tenure with the Arista label. Though the band had enjoyed some of the greatest commercial success of their career on Arista, 'Word Of Mouth' sank with nary a trace upon release. Ironically, the record is now quite clearly seen as their finest work of the decade. For the most part, 'Word Of Mouth' is toned down from the volume and pace of its predecessors (State of confusion, Give The People What They Want), and there's a calm and quiet that pervades the whole album. This actually stands in marked contrast to the tumult and chaos the band was in the midst at the time this was recorded.

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The Kinks - Preservation Act 1 (1973/2014) [TR24][OF] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Jan. 13, 2017

Originally intended as a more thematic rendering of the characters and themes of The Village Green Preservation Society, Preservation Act 1 fails to realize Ray Davies' ambitious goal of marrying theatrical elements with rock. Cutting down from a double album to a single LP left significant gaps in the structure and story line, with the plot coming across as virtually indecipherable, though the work still manages to capture a good deal of the nostalgic charm and caustic conservatism that marks much of Davies' most notable work.

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VA - Rolling Stone Rare Trax Special - DVD "Beat Club" (2008) Music

Posted by luckburz at Aug. 22, 2013

RARE TRAX is a continued series of promotional samplers given away with the german edition of Rolling Stone magazine since the 1990's and has reached volume 80 already. Each version covers a special topic and presents lesser known songs and/or artists. This special DVD celebrates the legendary german television music show "Beat Club".

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Roger Bunn - Piece Of Mind (1969) [Japanese Edition 2013] (Repost) Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 8, 2025

It's a delightfully weird-ass stream-of-consciousness creation, as much influenced by James Brown as Arthur Brown, with elements of Duncan Brown as well and the presence of longtime Bunn associate Pete Brown too, mixing soul horns, acid rock, freakbeat spaciness, jazz, and folk-pop (with elements of country and bluegrass showing up); or, sort of like Van Dyke Parks-meets-Donovan with a side-trip to the Kinks' Muswell Hillbillies sessions - it's not always easy to make out what he's singing, but it all sounds cool and so magnificently laid-back that it seems too easy, low-wattage psychedelia with folk and jazz strains flowing through it where the soul horns aren't honking away; in hindsight, it makes one think of what the Small Faces might've done had they ever finished an LP follow-up to their final completed single, "The Universal," and that's definitely a compliment for those unaware…

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V.A. - Sound+Vision Present: The Ultimate Hi-Def Music Download Experience (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at March 12, 2023

V.A. - Sound+Vision & Present: The Ultimate Hi-Def Music Download Experience (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 43:44 minutes | 897 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

With this sampler, you will come to know what it truly means to achieve the ultimate download experience via nine tracks encoded in professional-quality 96/24 audio, all handpicked for your maximum enjoyment and enlightenment. In short, it’s what great sound is all about. If you’ve never been engrossed by music this way before - or even if you’re a veteran of the compression wars - you’re in for quite a treat. Happy listening. Ready, set, immerse!

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Ray Davies - Our Country: Americana Act II (2018) Music

Posted by Domestos at July 4, 2018

Ray Davies - Our Country: Americana Act II (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 395.35 Mb + 158.83 Mb (Scans) | 01:01:18
Contemporary Singer-Songwriter | Country: UK | Label: Legacy Recordings / Sony Music - 19075820052

Sequels are not Ray Davies' forte. Back in the 1970s, when he was in the thick of his theatrical aspirations, he expanded upon The Village Green Preservation Society with the muddled rock opera Preservation, whose downfall was a labored second act. Americana, the song cycle adaptation of Davies' memoir of the same name, suffers the same pitfalls as its Preservation predecessor, with the singer/songwriter larding up Our Country with recitations, characters, allusions, and repetitions.

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Paul Weller - Find El Dorado (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at July 24, 2025

A fascinating peek into the mind and heart of Paul Weller, Find El Dorado showcases the legend covering songs that helped shape him—some populist, some forgotten one-hit wonders, some crate-digger obscurities. It's no big surprise that the Modfather would love something like "Lawdy Rolla," a bit of jazzy street-funk by the Guerrillas, a French studio group from the late 1960s, that he turns it into a Northern soul number with knockout alto sax by Kevin Haynes. Ditto "Nobody's Fool"—written by Ray Davies but only released by the Kinks as a demo on a deluxe version of their Muswell Hillbillies (another version, by a group known as Cold Turkey but rumored to be Dave Davies, was a theme for British TV series Budgie). Weller's elder-statesman sandpaper grit adds gravitas to the bitter sentiment: "Nobody pleads for me, nobody bleeds for me/ I'm nobody's fool and I'm nobody's friend."

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