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VA - The Immediate Singles Collection (2000) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 30, 2025

VA - The Immediate Singles Collection (2000)
CD-Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.08 GB
7:39:30 | Folk Rock, Garage Rock, Beat, Rhythm & Blues, Mod, Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Sequel Records

This extravagant six-CD set documents the astonishing life span of the first pop independent label in the U.K., Immediate Records. Founded in 1965, Immediate flipped, flopped, and staggered its own way, competing against unhip American labels like EMI and Decca until late 1969. The label, and the documentary CD set, showcases in particular the Small Faces, who enjoyed a brief U.K. number one hit, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. More familiar to American listeners will no doubt be the three-chord sock-hop favorite "Hang on Sloopy" by the McCoys, and a number of covers of familiar American folk-rock hits are present as well. The esoteric collector will appreciate inclusions by such café balladeers as the Poets and Les Fleurs-de-Lis, also signed by Immediate before the advent of the swinging London sound, marked by the Rolling Stones revolution and other mod developers influencing the pants off the tiniest studio cover bands.

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VA - The World's Greatest Jazz Collection: Classic Jazz (2008) (100 CDs Box Set) Music

Posted by murena at Nov. 11, 2017

VA - The World's Greatest Jazz Collection: Classic Jazz (2008) (100 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 100 CDs, 114:43:33 min | 24,4 Gb | Covers -> 3,4 mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Membran

Amazing 100 CD Set of containing a plethora of Classic Jazz tunes. New Orleans was the starting point of the collective improvisation. The Jazz for which the city on the Mississippi Delta was to become so famous for developed at the beginning of the 20th century.

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VA - The Cavern: The Most Famous Club in the World (2007) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 4, 2018

VA - The Cavern: The Most Famous Club in the World (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 02:36:52 | 943 Mb
Rock'n'Roll, Classic Rock, Alternative Rock, Blues, Pop | Label: EMI Records

The Cavern holds a special place in the hearts of music lovers the world over; the unrivalled status of the club is matched by the unrivalled tracklist of bands that have played there, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, The Who, Elton John, Arctic Monkeys, Travis, KT Tunstall, The Coral & more.

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VA - Original Album Series: Merseybeat (2014) Music

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 10, 2021

VA - Original Album Series: Merseybeat (2014)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
5CD | Parlophone, 2564628901 | ~ 787 or 486 Mb | Scans
Beat, Pop Rock, Rock & Roll

2014 original album series 5 CD set, in LP replica papersleeves. Collects five classic UK Mersey beat albums: Gerry & the Pacemakers' "How Do You Like It?" (1963) & "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (1965), plus the Swinging Blue Jeans' "Blue Jeans A'Swinging" (1964), Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas' "Listen…" and the Fourmost "The First & the Fourmost (1965)…

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VA - Let's Get Swinging: Modern Jazz In Belgium 1950-1970 (2017) Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 19, 2025

VA - Let's Get Swinging: Modern Jazz In Belgium 1950-1970 (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 382 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 162 MB
1:09:39 | Jazz | Label: SDBAN

A new, twenty-track compilation entitled 'Let's Get Swinging: Modern Jazz in Belgium 1950-1970', released 7th April via Sdban/N.E.W.S. focuses on a twenty-year period of modern jazz in the little kingdom, and features the leading players from that era including guitarist Philip Catherine, saxophonist Jack Sels, multi-instrumentalist Jacques Pelzer and vibraphone player, percussionist and vocalist 'Fats' Sadi Lallemand. Pre-1950s, Belgian jazz lovers had been starved of jazz music when it was banned from public life, going underground during the German occupation of WWII. However, jazz would soon go through a radical change when US jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk developed a new style called bebop or modern jazz.

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VA - Brown Acid - The Nineteenth Trip (2024) (Hi-Res) Vinyl & HR

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 11, 2024

VA - Brown Acid - The Nineteenth Trip (2024) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-48kHz - 415 MB
33:07 | Hard Rock | Label: RidingEasy Records

There is NO LIGHT at the end of this tunnel! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip fires ten more savage nails deep into the coffin of ‘60s psychedelic idealism. This series is THE premier top dog journey into the rarest and most wasted early local eruptions of heavy rock, unleashed at a time when harsh reality, human nature and disillusionment drove prevailing underground rock glimpses of a ‘better’ world into ever darker selfabsorbed comedowns. Mind expanding ’60s love energies transform into toxic aggression right before your ears! The great thing is that these moves are totally justified, ‘we are all one’ is cosmically good in theory but ‘get it while you can’ ends up perhaps better advice in the light of human history.

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VA - And The Winner Is... Capitol Sings The Best Movie Songs (1992) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 26, 2022

Show tunes provide a multitude of reference material for the traditional vintage jazz or pop vocalist. Then there are movie themes, more familiar to the general public, especially when they were seen later on a modern invention called television. This collection of 26 tracks features a modicum of jazz, but mainly pop tunes from the Golden Era of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Big bands are prevalent as the backup groups, sometimes including strings, with little instrumental improvisation and stock charts. Among the most famous of these sentimental journey songs are "Moon River" from Billy May, "Call Me Irresponsible" by Bobby Darin, Dean Martin's slightly sloshed "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa" and his actually hip "The Continental" (two of three Cole selections heard here). There are also two from Johnny Mandel with the Pied Pipers, "Swinging on a Star" by Freddie Slack, a young Nancy Wilson with "Secret Love," and soupier group vocal pieces from the King Sisters, Bob Hope with the Clark Sisters, the Lettermen, the Four Freshmen, and Ray Anthony with the Belvederes on the apropos "Thanks for the Memory." Overall, this is nothing more than a trip down that lane of reminiscence for those familiar with the old dirt road path to grandma's, now a superhighway.

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VA - Wow That Was The 60's (1999) {8CD] Music

Posted by Mocha at Sept. 23, 2024

VA - Wow That Was The 60's (1999) {8CD]
Label: Disky | FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | Time: 7:19:18 | 2,7 Gb
Genre: Pop, Rock & Roll, Soft Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock

"VA - Wow That Was The 60's" (1999) is an extensive 8-CD compilation that encapsulates the diverse and influential music of the 1960s. This collection features a wide array of genres, including rock, pop, soul, and folk, showcasing iconic artists and memorable hits that defined the decade. Each disc typically includes a mix of chart-topping singles and beloved classics, providing listeners with a nostalgic journey through the sounds of the '60s. The compilation is known for its carefully curated tracklist, featuring well-known bands and solo artists that had a significant impact on popular music.

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V.A. - The Beat Of The Pops (34CDs, 2007) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Feb. 22, 2017

V.A. - The Beat Of The Pops (34CDs, 2007)
Beat, Pop, Rock & Roll, Doo Wop | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 5,48 Gb
Label: Rato Records | Release Year: 2007

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat (after bands from Liverpool and nearby areas beside the River Mersey) is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. Beat music is a fusion of rock and roll (mainly Chuck Berry guitar style and the midtempo beat of artists like Buddy Holly), doo-wop, skiffle and R&B. The genre provided many of the bands responsible for the British Invasion of the American pop charts starting in 1964, and provided the model for many important developments in pop and rock music, including the format of the rock group around lead, rhythm and bass guitars with drums. The Beat Of The Pops - excellent selection of beat tracks.

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VA - Les Trésors Du Jazz 1898-1943 (2002) (10CDs Box Set) Music

Posted by murena at Aug. 24, 2023

VA - Les Trésors Du Jazz 1898-1943 (2002) (10CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks+.cue, log) | Covers included | 12:24:29 min | 3,06 Gb
Genre: Jazz, Swing, Big Band / Label: Le Chant du Monde Jazz

Chest of 10 CDs, an essential guide to delve into 'pre-bebop jazz': there are all of them: from the first 'dixieland' bands, including Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver , Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Sidney Bechet, Art Tatum, Louis Prima, Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller Charlie Christian…

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