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John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Blues for the Lost Days (1997)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 27, 2024
John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Blues for the Lost Days (1997)

John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Blues for the Lost Days (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 353 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans included
Genre: British Blues, Blues-Rock | Label: Silverstone | # CTCZ-30011 | Time: 00:51:10

John Mayall has been playing blues literally for my entire lifetime and at 64 years old proves that he's still among the best. On this CD, Mayall displays the many blues attitudes of which he is capable. Lately, many of his songs decry urban decay and violence. He continues here in that vein with the hard-driving Dead City and the old Eddie Harris R&B song, How Can You Live Like That. Stone Cold Deal is a shuffle driven by saxophone, organ and drums. Its infectuous rhythm will have you dancing and its incisive lyrics will have you thinking. My other favorites are the title cut on which Mayall's prowess on the piano is showcased, One In A Million which is a rocking paean to his beloved mother, and I Don't Mind, a song in the rollicking piano-driven Southern style for which Mayall is justly famous. There isn't anything I really dislike on the album though It Ain't Safe and Some Other Day seem out of place and Trenches, though lyrically gripping, is musically weak. If you are a blues fan, you are sure to like Blues For the Lost Days, another strong effort from master bluesman John Mayall.

Eddie and The Hot Rods - The Island Years (2018)  Music

Posted by Rtax at March 11, 2024
Eddie and The Hot Rods - The Island Years (2018)

Eddie and The Hot Rods - The Island Years (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 786 MB
5:35:55 | Pub Rock, Punk Rock, Hard Rock, Power Pop | Label: Caroline Records

Definitive boxset of Eddie The Hot Rods’ sojourn with Chris Blackwell’s Island Records featuring the 3 albums Teenage Depression, Life On The Line and Thriller plus separate discs for BBC sessions, In Concert recordings and a rare Fan Club LP from 1977….LTW’s Ian Canty does anything he wants to do, well he wanted to write this review anyway…

Flash And The Pan - Ayla: The Best Of Flash And The Pan (2005)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 28, 2024
Flash And The Pan - Ayla: The Best Of Flash And The Pan (2005)

Flash And The Pan - Ayla: The Best Of Flash And The Pan (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 629 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 216 Mb
Full Scans | 01:19:21 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock, New Wave | Repertoire Records #REP 5034

Weighing in at 19 tracks, Repertoire's 2005 collection Ayla: The Best of Flash and the Pan is the most generous compilation yet assembled of Harry Vanda and George Young's impish post-Easybeats new wave creation, Flash and the Pan. Not only is it four tracks longer than the previous best F&P comp, 1994's plainly titled Collection, but it's more carefully assembled too, boasting good liner notes from Chris Welch and eye-catching comic book artwork. If F&P didn't have any other song as immediate or memorable as "Hey St. Peter," their gloriously ridiculous new wave novelty, they did have a number of good oddities and robotic new wave pop before sinking into coldly slick anthemic pop at the end of the decade.

Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians - Fegmania! (1985)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 2, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians - Fegmania! (1985)

Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians - Fegmania! (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 316 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 113 Mb | Scans included | 00:47:30
Jangle Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Aternative Rock | Label: Midnight Music | # CHIME 00.08 CD

After the stripped-back collection I Often Dream of Trains, Robyn Hitchcock slowly formed a backing band called the Egyptians with ex-Soft Boys Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor, and keyboardist Roger Jackson over the course of the next year. Fegmania!, the Egyptians' first album, was a distinct departure from both the Soft Boys and Hitchcock's previous solo work, featuring layered, intertwining guitars and keyboards that created lush and thick sonic textures. Even with the more detailed arrangements, the songs remained twitchy and off-kilter, with melodies that usually went in willfully unpredictable directions, yet remained catchy all the while. Fegmania! was Hitchcock's most consistent work to date, featuring such highlights as the Eastern-tinged "Egyptian Cream", and the creepy "My Wife & My Dead Wife", and the relatively straightforward "The Man with the Lightbulb Head".
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports (Remastered & Expanded Japanese Edition) (1983/2023)

Huey Lewis and the News - Sports (Remastered & Expanded Japanese Edition) (1983/2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 952 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 354 Mb | Covers included | 02:28:45
Pop Rock, Doo-wop | Label: Universal Music

Have you heard The News? The sweet pop/rock/soul sound of San Francisco's Huey Lewis & The News has sadly gone silent in recent years, thanks to its one-of-a-kind frontman's battle with Ménière's disease, which causes intermittent hearing loss. But a surprise new reissue campaign courtesy of Universal Music Group's Japanese division promises the most comprehensive look at the band's blockbuster catalogue of the '80s and early '90s.

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.

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju (1981) Non-Remastered  Music

Posted by Designol at May 9, 2023
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju (1981) Non-Remastered

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju (1981)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 252 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 95 Mb | Scans ~ 41 Mb | 00:41:10
Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, New Wave, Alternative Rock | Label: Polydor | # 839 005-2

One of the band's masterworks, Juju sees Siouxsie and the Banshees operating in a squalid wall of sound dominated by tribal drums, swirling and piercing guitars, and Siouxsie Sioux's fractured art-attack vocals. If not for John McGeoch's marvelous high-pitched guitars, here as reminiscent of Joy Division as his own work in Magazine, the album would rank as the band's most gothic release. Siouxsie and company took things to an entirely new level of darkness on Juju, with the singer taking delight in sinister wordplay on the disturbing "Head Cut," creeping out listeners in the somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Halloween," and inspiring her bandmates to push their rhythmic witches brew to poisonous levels of toxicity.

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)  Music

Posted by Designol at May 19, 2023
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 290 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans included
Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, New Wave | Label: Polydor | # 831 474-2 | 00:43:46

Through the Looking Glass is the eighth studio album by English alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album is a collection of cover versions. It was co-produced with Mike Hedges and released in March 1987 on Polydor. Through the Looking Glass was preceded by the single "This Wheel's on Fire". It was the second and final album recorded with guitarist John Valentine Carruthers. Most of the songs were from artists who had influenced them: Roxy Music, John Cale, Iggy Pop, the Doors and Kraftwerk.

Billy Branch And The Sons Of Blues - Blues Shock (2014)  Music

Posted by popsakov at May 17, 2023
Billy Branch And The Sons Of Blues - Blues Shock (2014)

Billy Branch And The Sons Of Blues - Blues Shock (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 407 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 148 Mb
Full Scans | 00:51:50 | RAR 5% Recovery
Chicago Blues / Harmonica Blues / Modern Electric Blues
Blind Pig Records #BPCD 5158

Harp master Billy Branch has been a figure of the note on the Chicago blues scene since he was discovered by Willie Dixon in 1969, and after more than four decades, he's grown from a young buck bringing new blood to the blues scene to an elder statesman who stands tall for the music's traditions. Blues Shock arrives ten years after Billy Branch last released an album, but it sounds like he and his latest edition of the Sons of Blues are still in fighting shape, playing tight, straight-ahead blues with force, imagination and wit. Blues Shock shows there's plenty of fun and fresh ideas to be found in a form as time-tested as Chicago blues. It's a great set.

The Sound and the Fury - Guillaume Faugues 1 (2008)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 11, 2020
The Sound and the Fury - Guillaume Faugues 1 (2008)

The Sound and the Fury - Guillaume Faugues 1 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 61:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ORF | 3025 | Recorded: 2007

Some years ago Austrian radio ORF started a series of recordings with polyphony from the renaissance on its own label. The ensemble The Sound and the Fury has recorded music by well-known masters like Nicolas Gombert, Pierre de la Rue and Johannes Ockeghem. But they have also paid attention to some forgotten composers of the 15th century. One of them is Guillaume Faugues. As so often there is quite a difference between his reputation in his own time and in modern times. It is very likely nothing of his oeuvre has ever been recorded before.