The Who Then And Now

The Who - Then And Now (2007)  Music

Posted by popsakov at May 21, 2022
The Who - Then And Now (2007)

The Who - Then And Now (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 546 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 223 Mb
Full Scans | 01:19:18 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Polydor #1732918

Then and Now is a 2004 greatest hits compilation album by The Who released internationally by Polydor Records and by Geffen Records in the United States. It features 18 Who classics and two new tracks—"Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine"—which were the first Who originals since "Dig" from Pete Townshend's 1989 album The Iron Man. "Real Good Looking Boy" is a tribute to Elvis Presley, and "Old Red Wine" is a tribute to former band member John Entwistle, who died in 2002. The album was re-released in 2007 and replaced "Old Red Wine" with "It's Not Enough" from the 2006 album Endless Wire and "Summertime Blues" was replaced by "Baba O'Riley".

The Who - Endless Wire (2006) {Special Limited Edition}  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 7, 2023
The Who - Endless Wire (2006) {Special Limited Edition}

The Who - Endless Wire (2006) {Special Limited Edition}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 736 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 247 Mb
Full Scans ~ 283 Mb | 00:58:57 + 00:43:25 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock | Universal Republic Records #B0007967-10

The Who retired following their 1982 farewell tour but like Frank Sinatra's frequent retreats from the stage, it was not a permanent goodbye. Seven years later, the band – Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle; that is, Keith Moon's replacement Kenny Jones wasn't invited back – embarked on a reunion tour, and ever since then the band was a going concern. Perhaps not really active – they did not tour on a regular basis, they did not record outside of a version of "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" for the 1991 Elton John and Bernie Taupin tribute album Two Rooms – but they were always around, playing tribute gigs and reviving old projects, such as a mid-'90s stab at Quadrophenia, before truly reuniting as an active touring band after the turn of the century.

Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 28, 2024
Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}

Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}
EAC 1.1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 257MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 97MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Funk, Soul

Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson were Black Ivory, an exceptional and occasionally brilliant soul group from Harlem that recorded throughout the '70s and returned sporadically during the decades following. The trio developed out of the late '60s as a group called the Mellow Souls and were eventually taken under the wing of Patrick Adams. Adams had been in a group called the Sparks, but he developed his skills as a songwriter, arranger, and producer with Black Ivory. Adams scraped together all the money he possibly could in order to have the group record their first single, "Don't Turn Around." Adams took the demo to several unimpressed labels before hitting Today Records.
Larry Vuckovich - Blue Balkan Then and Now (2002) {Tetrachord Music rec 1980, 2001}

Larry Vuckovich - Blue Balkan Then and Now (2002) {Tetrachord Music rec 1980, 2001}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 461 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 172 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 15 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1980, 2002 Tetrachord Music / Inner City | [None] / IC-1096
Jazz / Modal Music / Folk Jazz / Neo-Bop / Piano

Pianist Larry Vuckovich revisits his landmark 1980 recording on this combined reissue and new release. Prefiguring the much-lauded work of Dave Douglas and the Tiny Bell Trio, guitarist Brad Shepik, and even John Zorn, the Yugoslavian-born Vuckovich combines the ethnic melodies and rhythms from his native Balkans with modal jazz. Never as avant-garde as his contemporaries, Vuckovich nonetheless pushes the boundaries of both jazz and folk styles. The original tracks featured the brilliant vibe playing of Bobby Hutcherson, who unfortunately does not reprise his role on the four new pieces.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories (2020)

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 366 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 141 Mb
Scans Included | 00:50:20 | RAR 5% Recovery
Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock | Dine Alone Records #DA238

X: The Godless Void and Other Stories appeared at a timely point in …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's career. It arrived six years after the release of 2014's IX, during which time Conrad Keely returned from Cambodia to the band's home base of Austin, Texas, and also coincided with their 25th anniversary. It makes sense, then, that their tenth album finds them taking stock. As …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead explore how people become more themselves over time while everything else changes, they deliver their most emotionally direct music in quite a while. Their need to follow their hearts – even if they get a little broken along the way – has dominated their music since Source Tags & Codes, and the tension between cathartic freedom and poignancy is as powerful on X: The Godless Void and Other Stories as it was on that landmark album.

The Who - Live at Leeds (1970) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2002]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 14, 2023
The Who - Live at Leeds (1970) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2002]

The Who - Live at Leeds (1970) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2002]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 821 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 299 MB | Covers - 19 MB
Genre: Hard Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor (112618-2)

Rushed out in 1970 as a way to bide time as the Who toiled away on their follow-up to Tommy, Live at Leeds wasn't intended to be the definitive Who live album, and many collectors maintain that the band had better shows available on bootlegs. But those shows weren't easily available whereas Live at Leeds was, and even if this show may not have been the absolute best, it's so damn close to it that it would be impossible for anybody but aficionados to argue. Here, the Who sound vicious - as heavy as Led Zeppelin but twice as volatile - as they careen through early classics with the confidence of a band that had finally achieved acclaim but had yet to become preoccupied with making art. In that regard, this recording - in its many different forms - may have been perfectly timed in terms of capturing the band at a pivotal moment in its history…

The Who - Live At Leeds (1970) {1994, Japanese Reissue}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Jan. 27, 2024
The Who - Live At Leeds (1970) {1994, Japanese Reissue}

The Who - Live At Leeds (1970) {1994, Japanese Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 266 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 138 Mb
Full Scans | 00:38:14 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock | Polydor K.K. #POCP-2335

Live at Leeds is the first live album by English rock band the Who. It was recorded at the University of Leeds Refectory on 14 February 1970, and is their only live album that was released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their best-known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon. The Who were looking for a way to follow up their 1969 album Tommy, and had recorded several shows on tours supporting that album, but disliked the sound. Consequently, they booked the show at Leeds University, along with one at Hull City Hall the following day, specifically to record a live album. Six songs were taken from the Leeds show, and the cover was pressed to look like a bootleg recording. The sound was significantly different from Tommy and featured hard rock arrangements that were typical of the band's live shows. The album was released on 11 May 1970 by Decca and MCA in the United States, and by Track and Polydor in the United Kingdom. It has been reissued on several occasions and in several different formats. Since its release, Live at Leeds has been ranked by several music critics as the best live rock recording of all time.
Bill Haley & His Comets - The Decca Years and more [5CD Box Set] (1990)

Bill Haley & His Comets - The Decca Years and more [5CD Box Set] (1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 1,55 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 805 MB | Covers - 639 MB
Genre: Rock'n'Roll | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Bear Family Records (BCD 15506)

Any casual listener looking over this 132-track five-CD set would probably conclude that it was far more Bill Haley than they need bite off in one gulp - and they'd be right, as casual listeners. For the serious rock & roll enthusiast, as well as the hardcore Bill Haley fan, however, there's a wealth of worthwhile material to be found here, some of which will amaze even those fans: a dozen great songs and 55 or so more that are good, and another 20 that are fascinating mistakes, and that's a good average for an artist who is generally thought of as having generated just a handful of important records. What Haley had most of all was a distinctive sound - between the backbeat, the country boogie roots, and the R&B sources - that pretty much defined white rock & roll for almost its first two years (until Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins emerged in the spring of 1956); the first two CDs here offer that sound in abundance…
Slim Harpo - Buzzin' The Blues: The Complete Slim Harpo (2015) {5CD Box Set, Bear Family BCD 17339 EK}

Slim Harpo - Buzzin' The Blues: The Complete Slim Harpo (2015) {5CD Box Set, Bear Family BCD 17339 EK}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 1.56 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 935 Mb
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© 2015 Bear Family | BCD 17339 EK
Blues / Electric Blues / Harmonica Blues / Swamp Blues

Back when the Rolling Stones were proud to be the voice of revolt and Mick Jagger was as far away from his knighthood as Zayn Malik is from a seat in the House of Lords, they were, very occasionally, modest, not to say humble. A couple years after cutting their eponymous first album in 1964, chock full of covers of blues and rhythm and blues songs by black artists including a buzz-toned slice of anthropomorphism about our favourite honey-making insect, Jagger told Rolling Stone magazine: “You could say that we did blues to turn people on, but why they would be turned on by us is unbelievably stupid. I mean what's the point in listening to us doing ‘I’m a King Bee’ when you can hear Slim Harpo do it?”

Siouxsie And The Banshees - At The BBC (2009) 3CD + DVD9 Box Set  Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 23, 2023
Siouxsie And The Banshees - At The BBC (2009) 3CD + DVD9 Box Set

Siouxsie & The Banshees - At The BBC (2009) 3CD + DVD9 Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.49 Gb | Time: 03:43:51 | Scans ~ 182 Mb
DVD9 | PAL | 4:3 (720x576) VBR | AC3, 2ch, 192 kbps | Time: 01:55:37 | ~ 6.6 Gb
Post-Punk, New Wave, Alternative Rock | Label: Polydor/UMC | # 531 576-1

Siouxsie and the Banshees at the BBC is a stunning 84-track, all digitally-remastered, 4 disc hard-back book set of exclusive BBC sessions, live concert tracks and TV performances recorded between 1977-2001 split across 3CDs and a DVD. All tracks hand picked by the band and featuring Siouxsie s introduction to the liner notes. Includes alternative versions of 18 classic hit singles. Discs 1 and 2 feature key session tracks from 1977 1987 and a concert recording from the Apollo Theatre in Oxford in 1985. Includes the complete John Peel sessions alongside sessions recorded for Kid Jensen, Richard Skinner and Janice Long. Features 21 unreleased versions. Disc 3 contains highlights from their BBC concert recordings at the Apollo Theatre in Oxford and the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1988, where the band performed a storming set 3 nights in a row to a sold out crowd. Disc 4 is the real gem; a 29 track DVD of the band s BBC TV performances. Features the complete Old Grey Whistle Test broadcasts from 1978, 1982 and 1985, the Something Else performances from 1979 and 1980, the Rock Goes to College broadcast from 1981 and the band s complete Top of the Pops performances, complete, in places, with cheesy intros.