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Ned Doheny - Hard Candy (1976) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2016  Music

Posted by Designol at June 17, 2023
Ned Doheny - Hard Candy (1976) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2016

Ned Doheny - Hard Candy (1976) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2016
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 247 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 99 Mb | Scans included
Soft Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Funk | Label: Sony Music | # SICP 4867 | 00:36:17

Ned Doheny’s Hard Candy, originally released in 1976, is widely considered the finest blue-eyed soul album of all time. Produced by the legendary Steve Cropper, it featured a veritable who’s-who of the Laurel Canyon soft-yacht sound (JD Souther, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, the entire horn section for Tower of Power!) yet bombed mysteriously. It’s been a cult record since.
VA - Once Upon A Time In The West Midlands: The Bostin Sounds Of Brumrock 1966-1974 (2022)

VA - Once Upon A Time In The West Midlands: The Bostin Sounds Of Brumrock 1966-1974 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,22 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 541 Mb | 03:55:59
Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Glam Rock, Mod, Progressive Rock | Label: Cherry Red Records, Grapefruit Records

A 3-CD, four-hour celebration of the post-Brumbeat late ‘60s/early ‘70s rock scene in the West Midlands. Tracing the evolution and development of that scene as local musicians embarked on an epic journey that embraced mod pop, psychedelia, blues, progressive rock, glam-rock and heavy metal, inspired by the emergence of chief catalysts The Move.

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men - Been Here and Gone (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 18, 2022
Steve Howell & The Mighty Men - Been Here and Gone (2022)

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men - Been Here and Gone (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 50:42 | 116 / 284 Mb
Genre: Blues Rock / Label: Out of the Past LLC

Been Here And Gone is another diverse set list from Steve Howell and The Mighty Men. Ranging from country blues to rhythm and blues and '60's hits to Appalachian traditional music, this collection of vocals and instrumentals is held together by the stripped-down musical conversation going on inside the playing of the band members. This group of veteran Southern journeymen find a deeply common thread in their renditions of great American music in a way seldom accented these days producing satisfying tributes to great songs and melodies. Been Here And Gone is a wonderful addition to their existing catalog of critically acclaimed music and is a first-class offering.

VA - The Greatest Ever One Hit Wonders (2016)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 7, 2021
VA - The Greatest Ever One Hit Wonders (2016)

VA - The Greatest Ever One Hit Wonders (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.08 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 366 MB
2:36:24 | Pop, Rock | Label: Universal

Like your hits as a onetime only offer? Well, The Greatest Ever One Hit Wonders is the compilation for you! Over two packed CDs is some of the biggest and best artists of all time, to have a just the one smash hit. There's a bunch of fun cheesy hits from the likes of Los del Rio, OMC, The Knack, Dexys Midnight Runners, Survivor, Deee-Lite, Alien Ant Farm, Baha Men, Crazy Town! If you're looking for a fun soundtrack to your next house party then The Greatest Ever One Hit Wonders will bring back some memories as well as some bodies to the dance floor!
Lou Reed - The Hi-Res Album Collection (1972-2000) [Official Digital Download]

Lou Reed - The Hi-Res Album Collection (1972-2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 16h:48m:56s | ~ 21 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover(s)

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades. Rolling Stone magazine voted Reed's 1989 "New York" album the 19th best of the 1980s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included two albums by Reed as a solo artist: "Transformer" and "Berlin". This Collection brings together remastered anthology of groundbreaking studio and live album titles written, recorded by Reed as a solo artist following the 1970 dissolution of the Velvet Underground.

VA - Box Of Pin-Ups: The British Sounds Of 1965 (2021)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 10, 2021
VA - Box Of Pin-Ups: The British Sounds Of 1965 (2021)

VA - Box Of Pin-Ups: The British Sounds Of 1965 (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 947 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 559 MB
3:58:36 | Rock, Beat, Mod, Merseybeat, Freakbeat | Label: Grapefruit

Boasting 92 tracks, ‘Box Of Pin-Ups’ takes in the market leaders as well as the year’s hard-up heroes and nowhere men. Established Top Ten acts like Manfred Mann, The Hollies and The Yardbirds are joined by cult names and such glorious one-shot unknowns as Glenn Athens & The Trojans and Irish band The Spectres, both now legally included on CD for the first time.
Tom Waits - Tales From the Underground: Volume 1-5 (1994-2000)

Tom Waits - Tales From the Underground: Volume 1-5 (1994-2000)
FLAC (tracks) - 1.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 851 MB
6:09:39 | Rock, Blues, Jazz, Folk | Label: PmS Records

In the work of American songwriter Tom Waits, swampy blues, Beat poetry, West Coast jazz, Tin Pan Alley, country, 1930s-era cabaret, and post-Civil War parlor songs meet neon-lit carnival music and the wheezing, clattering, experimental rhythms (often played by makeshift musical instruments from car radios to metal pipes and tin cans, hence his love of Edgard Varese and Harry Partch) form a keenly individual musical universe. It has often been imitated but never replicated.
VA - Ultimate... Christmas: 4CDs of Great Christmas Music (2015) 4 CD Box Set

VA - Ultimate… Christmas: 4CDs of Great Christmas Music (2015) 4 CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.55 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 586 Mb | Scans ~ 45 Mb
Label: Sony | # 88875147872 | Time: 04:16:56
Genre: Holidays, Pop, R&B, Disco, Soft Rock, Folk, Country

It really will be the Ultimate Christmas with these 76 Festive tracks across 4CDs housed in a fold out card digipack style case. Includes Wham! Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, Eartha Kitt, Michael Bolton, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunkel, Julie Andrews, Andy Williams, Mahalia Jackson, John Denver, Willie Nelson, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Susan Boyle, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Dido and many more!
VA - Best of Perception & Today Records Compiled by DJ Spinna and BBE Soundsystem (2012)

VA - Best of Perception & Today Records Compiled by DJ Spinna and BBE Soundsystem (2012)
FLAC (tracks) - 975 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 377 MB
2:33:42 | Jazz, Rock, Latin, Funk, Soul | Label: BBE Music

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years. The two men who ran the label, President Terry Phillips and Boo Frazier burned brightly for that half a decade before almost entirely disappearing from the music scene.
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Albums Collection 1985-1993 (7CD + 2DVD)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Albums Collection 1985-1993 (7CD + 2DVD)
EAC | FLAC | Image/Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 3 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1 Gb | Scans ~ 282 Mb
2 x DVD5 | NTSC | 4:3 (720x480) | AC3 2.0, 224kbps | Time: 00:30:43 / 00:29:18 | 3.1 Gb
Genre: Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Noise Pop, Alternative Rock

Like the Velvet Underground, their most obvious influence, the chart success of the Jesus and Mary Chain was virtually nonexistent, but their artistic impact was incalculable; quite simply, the Scottish group made the world safe for white noise, orchestrating a sound dense in squalling feedback that served as an inspiration to everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Dinosaur Jr. Though the supporting players drifted in and out of focus, the heart of the Mary Chain remained vocalists and guitarists William and Jim Reid, Scottish-born brothers heavily influenced not only by underground legends like the Velvets and the Stooges but also by the sonic grandeur and pop savvy of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. Collection includes: Psychocandy (1985) Deluxe Edition 2011; Darklands (1987) Deluxe Edition 2011; Barbed Wire Kisses: B-Sides And More (1988); Automatic (1989); The Sound Of Speed (1993).