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Pat Wictor - This Is Absolutely Real (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at July 10, 2017
Pat Wictor - This Is Absolutely Real (2017)

Pat Wictor - This Is Absolutely Real (2017)
Alternative Folk, Singer/Songwriter | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:35:29 | 81 MB
Label: Riskydisc Records

Phil Ochs, best known as a writer of topical and political songs, was also a brilliant composer of enduring melodies and lyrics of startling poetic power. This collection consists entirely of songs that he wrote. Some songs look outward at the workings of power in the world, and others look inwards at the workings of the heart. Most of the songs do both, and masterfully. In the search for the emotional core of each song, I've taken musical liberties - most of these versions range a long ways from Phil's own performances and arrangements. But I believe the versions here have stayed faithful to Phil's spirit and intent. If this recording serves to introduce a few more folks to the music of Phil Ochs, I'll have done my job.
V.A. - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: CD51-CD100 (1965-1967)

V.A. - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: CD51-CD100 (1965-1967)
FLAC (*tracks ,scans) | Run Time: 40:15:02 | 13.1 Gb | scans - 1.19 Gb
Genre: Rock, Pop, Alternative, Indie, Electronic | Label: Universe

The ultimate compendium of a half century of the best music, now revised and updated. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through today. Carefully selected by a team of international critics and some of the best-known music reviewers and commentators, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album featured comes with an authoritative description of its importance and influence.

The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak (2007)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 10, 2020
The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak (2007)

The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak (2007)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 819 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 305 Mb | 02:13:09
Indie Pop | Label: Matinée Recordings

After a notable two-year absence from the new-release racks, The Lucksmiths return with a mighty "don't argue" in the shape of 'Spring a Leak', their exhaustive new collection of lost treasures. No mere greatest hits collection, 'Spring a Leak' compiles over a decade's worth of great recordings that have never made it onto a Lucksmiths full-length: b-sides, alternative versions (from 7" singles and demos), songs recorded especially for compilations, live, radio and TV sessions, cover versions, remixes, and various previously unreleased ephemera.
Dead Or Alive - Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI (2016) [Box Set]

Dead Or Alive - Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI (2016) [Box Set]
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 8.3 GB | Scans
Genre: Synthpop, New Wave | Label: Edsel Records | Catalog Number: BOOMBOX01

Curated by frontman Pete Burns and drummer/keyboard player Steve Coy, the set comprises eight albums, three of which (Fan The Flame (Part 1), Nukleopatra and Fragile) receive their UK debut release via this set (with new cover art).The first four albums issued in the 1980s all feature here as two-CD sets, except 1985’s Stock Aitken Waterman produced Youthquake (which spawned the mega-hit You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – which is a three-disc package. So this box delivers the original album track listings for each long-player, plus plenty of rarities, live recordings, alternate mixes and instrumental versions. In fact, it also contains 12 previously unreleased remixes and tracks from the band’s vaults. 1987 greatest hits album Rip It Up is also present and correct (as a two-CD set).

VA - Barfuss: Original Soundtrack (2005)  Music

Posted by Efgrapha at March 19, 2019
VA - Barfuss: Original Soundtrack (2005)

VA - Barfuss: Original Soundtrack (2005)
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 372 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 121 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Pop/Rock | Label: Universal/Island | # 9870849 | 01:00:32

Barfuss (English: Barefoot) is a romantic comedy film by German actor and director Til Schweiger released in 2005. It tells the story of Nick (Til Schweiger), a hedonistic bachelor, who helps and eventually falls in love with Leila, an escaped mental patient portrayed by Johanna Wokalek. Schweiger also co-wrote the screenplay which is based on American screenwriter Stephen Zotnowski's original screenplay and story "Barefoot". Soundtrack includes Ray Collin's Hot Club, Mariha, Dido, Rea Garvey, Andru Donalds, Madrugada, Cameron, Saybia, and instrumental score composed for the film by Dirk Reichardt, Stefan Hansen and Max Berghaus.

Old Crow Medicine Show - 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 1, 2017
Old Crow Medicine Show - 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (2017)

Old Crow Medicine Show - 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (2017)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:04:47 | 439 Mb
Alt. Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Americana | Label: Sony Music Nashville, Old Crow Medicine Show

The 14-track album, 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde, was recorded LIVE at the CMA Theater located inside the historic Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum located in Nashville, TN in May 2016. Mixed by GRAMMY Award-winning Ted Hutt and Ryan Mall. "Fifty years is a long time for a place like Nashville, Tennessee. Time rolls on slowly around here like flotsam and jetsam in the muddy Cumberland River. But certain things have accelerated the pace of our city. And certain people have sent the hands of the clock spinning. Bob Dylan is the greatest of these time-bending, paradigm-shifting Nashville cats," says Ketch Secor, the primary vocalist of the Old Crow Medicine Show. "By deciding to record his newly found rock n' roll voice in 1966 Nashville, Bob swung the gates of Country music wide open; so wide, in fact, that 50 years later there was still enough of a crack left for Old Crow Medicine Show to sneak its banjos and fiddles through the gates with string band swagger."
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) (1993/2018)

The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) (1993/2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,45 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 500 Mb | Covers - 104 Mb | 03:34:53
Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Female Vocal | Label: Island Records

Originally released on 12th March 1993, the album hit the No.1 spot in both the UK and Ireland and sold over 6 million copies worldwide. The four disc box set contains the album on the first CD and bonus material spread over three further discs. Of course all of those previous bonus tracks are included, but so too are unreleased early demos, a live performance from 31 July 1994 at the Féile Festival in Ireland and a series of radio sessions from 1992-1993. The box includes a poster and four postcards.

VA - Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995 (2016)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 10, 2018
VA - Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995 (2016)

VA - Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995 (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 06:35:58 | 2,66 Gb
Alternative Rock, Shoegaze | Label: Cherry Red Records

This 5xCD box set from Cherry Red offers a compelling look at shoegaze's prime era. Still in a Dream takes a wide trawl approach to its genre, which has upsides and downsides. As with Rhino’s goth box A Life Less Lived, shoegaze is generously interpreted to include antecedents and formative influences, which bulks up the quality.

Royal Republic - Club Majesty (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 30, 2019
Royal Republic - Club Majesty (2019)

Royal Republic - Club Majesty (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 265 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 80 Mb | 00:34:52
Alternative Rock | Label: Arising Empire, Nuclear Blast

ROYAL REPUBLIC don’t believe in ‘guilty pleasures’ – only pleasures, free of compromise. Since meeting at the Malmö Academy Of Music in 2007, they’ve become Sweden’s most addictive rock’n’roll export; mixing riffy guitars, king-sized tunes and jet-packed beats with their own eclectic tastes and inimitable joie de vivre. Plus the kind of snazzy suits most of their contemporaries wish they had the balls to pull off. They’ll rock the shit out of you and make you dance like you’ve just won the lottery.

Joe Henry - The Gospel According To Water (2019)  Music

Posted by popsakov at June 4, 2021
Joe Henry - The Gospel According To Water (2019)

Joe Henry - The Gospel According To Water (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 309 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 130 Mb
Full Scans ~ 132 Mb | 00:53:54 | RAR 5% Recovery
Folk Rock / Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / Alternative Country / Americana / Singer-Songwriter
Worksong / Ear Music / Edel Family Member #0214432EMU

Art is often informed by the life experiences of the artist, and what happens to them can impact their work in any number of ways. In November 2018, the singer and songwriter Joe Henry was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and as he wrestled with the prospect of mortality and the physically and emotionally taxing process of treatment, he practiced his own form of self-care – he wrote songs, a bunch of them, and then set about recording them at the home studio of a friend and collaborator, recording engineer S. Husky Höskulds. The product of these sessions, 2019's The Gospel According to Water, in many respects sounds like an ordinary Joe Henry album, with his rich voice and smartly crafted lyrics front and center, but the feel is decidedly different.