Bob Stanley

VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Winter Of Discontent (2023)

VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Winter Of Discontent (2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 486 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 MB
1:18:32 | Post-Punk, Experimental | Label: Ace

There was plenty of genuine discontent in Britain at the tail end of the 1970s, and it had little to do with bin strikes or dark rumours about overflowing morgues. In the world of popular music, the most liberating after-effect of the Sex Pistols was that anyone with something to say now felt they could make a 7” single. WINTER OF DISCONTENT is the sound of truly DIY music, made by people who maybe hadn’t written a song until a day or two before they went into the studio. It’s spontaneous and genuinely free in a way the British music scene has rarely been before or since.
VA - Bob Stanley Presents: Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night: Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 (2023)

VA - Bob Stanley Presents: Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night: Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 496 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | 01:16:52
Disco, Funk | Label: Ace Records

Before there was Saturday Night Fever there was underground disco. DJs across America went out and found the music to play; dancers went out and found the clubs. At this point, in the early seventies, the disco was the venue and not a genre of music.

VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: English Weather (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at April 20, 2017
VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: English Weather (2017)

VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: English Weather
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, front cover | 78:37 min | 468 MB
Label: Ace - CDCHD 1484 | Tracks: 18 | Rls.date: 2017
Rock, Folk, Jazz

The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and deluxe double LP of music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but it's always interesting, melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches. While America may have licked its wounds at the turn of the seventies by turning to singer-songwriters, purveyors of homilies like teach your children well, Britain wasn't so ready to give up the trappings of psychedelia.
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Three Day Week: When The Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (2019) {Ace Records CDCHD1542}

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Three Day Week: When The Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (2019) {Ace Records CDCHD1542}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 435 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 183 Mb | Cover | 5% repair rar
© 1972-75, 2019 Ace Records | CDCHD 1542}
Rock / Pop Rock

Three Day Week is the fourth compilation album curated by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. This time they’re concentrating their efforts on 1972-1975 when Britain was a bloody miserable place to be (Apparently, I was a carefree baby). There were some lovely sounds though, and this eclectic mix exists to show you just that. Features tracks from Mungo Jerry, The Kinks, Hawkwind, The Strawbs, Adam Faith, David Essex, The Troggs and more.
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs - Present State Of The Union (The American Dream In Crisis 1967 - 1973) (2018)

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs - Present State Of The Union (The American Dream In Crisis 1967 - 1973) (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:18:56 | 432 Mb
Pop Rock | Label: Ace Records

By mid-1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. The nation's youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country with urban riots, Vietnam, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and wondered what the hell was happening. This album includes rare classics (The Beach Boys 4th Of July), lost masterpieces (Roy Orbison's seven-minute Southbound Jericho Parkway), and forgotten gems by some of the biggest names in the business (Elvis Presley's Clean Up Your Own Back Yard). Reactions to America's existential crisis ranged in subject matter from divorce (Frank Sinatra's The Train) and the break-up of the nuclear family (The Four Seasons Saturday's Father), to eulogies for fallen heroes (Dion's Abraham Martin and John), sympathy for Vietnam vets (Johnny Tillotson's Welfare Hero), the church's institutional racism (Eartha Kitt's intense Paint Me Black Angels), and even questioning the ethics of the space programme (Bing Crosby's terrific What Do We Do With The World).
VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present The Tears Of Technology (2020)

VA - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present The Tears Of Technology (2020)
FLAC tracks +cue+log | 01:17:13 | 438 Mb
Genre: Electronic, Synthpop, New Wave / Label: Ace Records

2020 release. At the turn of the '80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesizers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the musicians were intentionally creating this music to prove the doubters wrong. Compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, The Tears Of Technology celebrates this brief period when scruffy synth duos from the provinces broke through and took over British pop. Like mellotrons before them, synths could project a strange and deep emotion; listen to OMD's 'Sealand', or the Human League's 'WXJL Tonight', and it was clear that something in the wiring had an inherent melancholy. In the '60s and '70s, the synthesizer had mostly been regarded as either a novelty or a threat. Tomorrow's World warned us that the cold, heartless synth would soon make orchestras redundant.

VA - Bob Stanley Presents 76 In The Shade (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 31, 2021
VA - Bob Stanley Presents 76 In The Shade (2020)

VA - Bob Stanley Presents 76 In The Shade (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 428 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 172 Mb | 01:14:53
Pop Rock, Soul | Label: Ace Records

The Summer of 1976 has remained a benchmark for long, hot summers – there may have been scorchers since, but none have seemed quite as relentless. Too hot to move, the country melted into a collective puddle. This album evokes the feel of that summer, the sweet heat and almost narcotic lethargy, the haze above melting tarmac.
VA - Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs Present Fell From The Sun (Downtempo And After Hours 1990-91) (2022)

VA - Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs Present Fell From The Sun (Downtempo And After Hours 1990-91) (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 504 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | 01:19:14
Electronic, Downtempo | Label: Ace Records

1989 had been a long hot summer, but 1990 felt longer and hotter. Since the house music explosion of 1987, Britain had had a whistle in its mouth, and it needed a lie down. February 1990 brought two records that were made to accompany the sunrise and would shape the immediate future: The KLF’s Chill Out was a continuous journey, a woozy, reverb-laden mix; and Andrew Weatherall’s drastic remix of a Primal Scream album track – ‘Loaded’ – slowed down the pace on the dancefloor itself, right down to 98 beats per minute.

VA - Bob Stanley And Pete Wiggs Present English Weather (2017)  Music

Posted by aasana at April 15, 2017
VA - Bob Stanley And Pete Wiggs Present English Weather (2017)

VA - Bob Stanley And Pete Wiggs Present English Weather (2017)
Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk | 1:18:35 | MP3 VBR V0 | 135 MB
Label: Ace Records

The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and deluxe double LP of music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but it's always interesting, melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches. While America may have licked its wounds at the turn of the seventies by turning to singer-songwriters, purveyors of homilies like teach your children well, Britain wasn't so ready to give up the trappings of psychedelia.
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs - State Of The Union (The American Dream In Crisis 1967 - 1973) (2018)

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs - State Of The Union (The American Dream In Crisis 1967 - 1973) (2018)
MP3 320 kbps | 1:18:57 | 190 Mb
Genre: Rock, Pop / Label: Ace Records

By 1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. With urban riots, Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and ever-climbing divorce rates, the American way of life was under scrutiny from all sides. The nation’s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country and wonder what the hell was happening. This album includes rare classics (the Beach Boys’ ‘4th Of July’), lost masterpieces (Roy Orbison’s seven-minute ‘Southbound Jericho Parkway’) and forgotten gems by some of the biggest names in the business (Elvis Presley’s ‘Clean Up Your Own Back Yard’).