Bob Stanley

VA - Saint Etienne Present Songs for the Carnegie Deli (2016) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 25, 2024

VA - Saint Etienne Present Songs for the Carnegie Deli (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 315 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 MB
1:04:41 | Vocal, Soul | Label: Ace

A collection of sounds as big as the Chrysler, with the warmth of soft booth seating and the sweet melancholy of slightly peeling leatherette. Pancakes and coffee, maple syrup on the side, are the perfect accompaniment to this set from the golden Brill Building age of New York pop, compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs.

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VA - Common People (Brit Pop: The Story) (2009) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 7, 2024

VA - Common People (Brit Pop: The Story) (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 456 MB
3:17:24 | Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Synth-pop, Britpop | Label: Universal UMC

2009 three CD set, common People is a comprehensive journey through the Brit Pop era. The 54 track set has been carefully compiled to include the big names of the era, such as Suede, Pulp, Elastica, Supergrass, The Bluetones, Shed Seven - along with forgotten gems from artists like Marion Salad, Rialto, Powder (Pearl Lowe's band!) - and everything else in between. Always much more than just the pantomime battle between Oasis and Blur, Common People charts the real story that lay beyond and celebrates the great singles and tracks that helped define the era. The beautifully art-worked box-set features 54-tracks, comprehensive sleeve notes from Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley (alsoa Melody Maker journalist at the time) and a lavish 24-page booklet in the style of the classic Select issue in April 1993 which heralded the beginnings of Britpop. Universal.

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Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 12, 2023

Sammi Smith sang soulful, melancholy country music. One of the highlights of Ace’s acclaimed “Choctaw Ridge” compilation earlier this year was her ‘Saunders’ Ferry Lane’, an eerie tale of doomed romance in a chilly backwater. Her low, distinctively husky voice was built for sad songs, and she has been described as country music’s Dusty Springfield. Compiled and annotated by Bob Stanley, “Looks Like Stormy Weather” is a collection built for winter nights.

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VA - Videosyncratic (A Taste Of Synth Pop) (2018) Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 15, 2018

VA - Videosyncratic (A Taste Of Synth Pop) (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 508 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 186 Mb
Full Scans ~ 40 Mb | RAR 5% Recovery
Synth-pop / New Wave / Electro / Abstract / Experimental / Space Rock / Indie Rock / Disco / Ambient
Universal Music / Own Label #06007538550 1 0

In the late seventies, every other episode of Tomorrow’s World seemed to feature the futuristic ‘synthesiser’, a mass of patchboards, knobs and wires which was all set to make orchestras redundant around the world. But the singles chart was largely immune to the synth - with the honourable exceptions of Hot Butter’s Popcorn and Kraftwerk's Autobahn - until the watershed year of 1979. Then, Tubeway Army’s Are Friends Electric stormed to number one with its blend of bleak sci-fi, European cine-drama, and the heavy, ominous noise coming from machines labelled Roland, Arp and Moog…

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John Barry - The More Things Change: Film, TV & Studio Work 1968-1972 (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 21, 2025

John Barry - The More Things Change: Film, TV & Studio Work 1968-1972 (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 404 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 Mb | 01:05:54
Easy Listening, Soundtrack | Label: Ace Records

In the late 1960s and early 70s, John Barry was at his creative peak, writing both his greatest Bond music for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and the score for the Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy within a few months of each other. As one decade melted into the next, Barry would provide a host of haunting, highly atmospheric scores: The Appointment, Deadfall, Mary Queen Of Scots, Follow Follow, with possibly his finest ever saved for Nicolas Roeg’s masterpiece Walkabout. He also found time to write the deathless theme for TV series The Persuaders.

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Francoise Hardy - Midnight Blues [Paris & London 1968-1972] (2013) Music

Posted by Speedyclick at Jan. 12, 2014

Françoise Hardy, France's leading female singer-songwriter of the 60's and 70's,, recorded quite extensively in English, Italian, German and Spanish but relatively little of that material is obtainable these days. So this 2013 compilation is invaluable since it comprises 24 songs in english from her albums En Englais (issued in 1968), One-Nine-Seven-Zero (1969) and Françoise Hardy (1972) recorded in Paris and London. "Midnights Blues" mixes nicely Hardy's own compositions with tender and sensual interpretations of songs by Neil Young, Beverley Martyn, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newmanand and others. Beautiful voice, beautiful music, beautiful girl. Enjoy a delightful album and a lot of Francoise's photos.

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VA - Fantastic Voyage - New Sounds For The European Canon 1977-1981 (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 28, 2025

VA - Fantastic Voyage - New Sounds For The European Canon 1977-1981 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 464 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 MB
1:19:38 | Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Electro, Industrial, Synth-pop, New Wave, Ambient |Label: Ace

By the turn of the 80s, the impact of David Bowie’s ground-breaking Berlin recordings – the synths, the alienation, the drily futuristic production - was being felt on music across Europe. What’s more, the records being made were reflecting back and influencing Bowie’s own work – 1979’s “Lodger” and 1980’s “Scary Monsters” owed a debt to strands of German kosmische (Holger Czukay), new electronica (Patrick Cowley, Harald Grosskopf), and the latest works from old friends and rivals like Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and Scott Walker, all of whom had been re-energised by the fizz of 1977. Compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and the BFI’s Jason Wood, “Fantastic Voyage” is the companion album to their hugely successful “Café Exil” collection, which imagined the soundtrack to David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s trans-European train journeys in the mid-to-late seventies. “Fantastic Voyage” is what happened next.

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VA - Tomorrow's Fashions (Library Electronica 1972-1987) (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 7, 2024

VA - Tomorrow's Fashions (Library Electronica 1972-1987) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) - 444 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 186 MB
1:18:51 | Electronic, Stage & Screen, Ambient | Label: Ace

Nothing said new or modern or futuristic quite like a synthesiser in the 70s and 80s. If you were shooting an advert and you wanted your product or your company to appear forward-thinking and ahead of the game, then you would want something electronic, something out of the ordinary. When TV producers and advertising directors started searching for music that sounded like “Tubular Bells” – and then Tomita, and later Jean Michel Jarre – music libraries such De Wolfe, Bruton, Parry and Chappell had to have the tracks readily available. Compiled by Bob Stanley, “Tomorrow’s Fashions” varies from advertising jingles and TV themes to space exploration and gorgeous, beatless ambience. Though it’s 40-to-50 years old there’s a real freshness to this music. Older jazz players Brian Bennett, John Cameron, Alan Hawkshaw and others seized the chance to operate a synth; younger pups including John Saunders and Monica Beale were simply intrigued by the new technology being wheeled into the studios. There’s a tangible sense of adventure.

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Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter (1984) Remastered 2006 Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 28, 2023

1984's Climate of Hunter was Scott Walker's only album of the decade and his only for Virgin Records. It drew critical raves for it's minimalist, trancelike ambience that showed him keeping abreast of cutting edge 80's rock trends. Digitally remastered for the first time and includes sleeve notes by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne.

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VA - Saint Etienne Present Songs For The Fountain Coffee Room (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 8, 2020

VA - Saint Etienne Present Songs For The Fountain Coffee Room (2020)
FLAC tracks / Mp3 320 kbps | 1:11:53 | 440 / 164 Mb
Genre: Soul, Funk, Rock / Label: Ace Records

The latest in the popular “Saint Etienne Present” series – soundtracks for places both real and imaginary. This time, Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have put together a selection to fit a bar in mid-70s Los Angeles, the kind of place where Warren Beatty and Julie Christie might meet in the afternoon for a secret rendezvous between shooting scenes for Shampoo.

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