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VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 24, 2024

VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 4.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 1.7 GB
12:51:32 | Hip Hop, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Latin, Funk, Soul, Blues, Non-Music, Pop, Children's, Folk, Country, Stage & Screen
Label: Warner Bros.

Unlike other labels subjected to exhaustive multi-disc retrospectives like this whopping ten-disc Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records – The First Fifty Years, Warner Brothers never embodied a scene or sound: they've always embodied what a major label should be – a dominant force that chronicles and dictates the sound of the mainstream. Coming out at the tail-end of 2008, when the influence of major labels is on a slow steady decline, Revolutions in Sound can be seen as a portrait of a time that's beginning to recede into the past: a time when there was such a thing as mass entertainment, when the pop audience all shared a common bond of hit records they either loved or rallied against. Perhaps the greatest things about this monumental box set is that it captures that colossus while also illustrating that for a while, majors did take risks. Of course, Warner was the riskiest of all the majors, never held back by an anti-rock & roll sourpuss like Mitch Miller, who struggled to keep CBS out of the tumult of the '60s (this with no less than Bob Dylan as the label's flagship rock artist). Instead, Warner embraced the underground, recording some of the strangest to shake out of the '60s, and that adventure fits a label that turned to rock & roll to help establish themselves as a real player at the turn of the '60s.

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Blur - Blur (1997) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012 Music

Posted by Designol at April 6, 2024

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, Blur s eponymous fifth album has now been remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright (The Smiths, Arcade Fire, New Order, Joy Division), with the remastering overseen by legendary original producer, Stephen Street. Continuing the trend, Blur went straight in at No 1 on its release in February 1997, as had Parklife and The Great Escape before it. Representing a musical evolution for the band, the album is home to two of Blur s biggest hits in Beetlebum and Song 2. B-sides taken from all formats of these two singles are included in the accompanying Blur Special Edition bonus disc, along with b-sides from the album s fourth single M.O.R. Also included on the bonus disc is a 7 mix of Death Of A Party by Adrian Sherwood, the Dust Brothers produced Cowboy Song (which featured on the Dead Man On Campus soundtrack), four acoustic live tracks recorded at Viva Niteclub (previously only released on the German-only version of the M.O.R. single) and three live tracks recorded at MC Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands, which were only previously released on the Netherlands-only version of the album.

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VA - Moving Away From The Pulsebeat: Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981 (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 18, 2024

VA - Moving Away From The Pulsebeat: Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, log, full scans) - 2.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.08 GB
6:25:50 | Punk Rock, Post-Punk | Label: Cherry Red

105 tracks charting the british post-punk explosion 1978-1981. A compendium of familiar names, underground oddities and freshly excavated historical nuggets. Buzzcocks! Echo and the bunnymen! The fall! Killing joke! Public image limited! Siouxsie and the banshees! Teardrop explodes! Scritti politti! The cure and many more. Compiled by the team that brought you ‘to the outside of everything’, the ‘c86…’ series, ‘electrical language’, ‘shake the foundations’ and many more in-depth box sets. Featuring band-by-band biographies and detailed sleevenotes by mark paytress. “life’s about as boring as a dole queue” – mark perry.

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VA - Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground (Remastered) (2004) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 9, 2024

VA - Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground (Remastered) (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 2.07 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 727 MB
5:11:08 | Alternative Rock, New Wave, Indie Rock, Industrial, Punk | Label: Rhino

In his notes for this passionately compiled box, producer Gary Stewart writes, "the diversity from the late-70s punk/new wave scene turned into a full-blown, variety-fueled, genre-busting orgy in the '80s…The music became, in the best sense of the words, more complex, more literate, a bit more serious, and as a result, made astrong impact on mainsteam rock culture." From funk punk to revisionist roots rock to hard-core to smart-ass clever pop-and every musical nook and cranny in-between-Left of the Dial presents many of the '80s' most important tracks. Savor the far more influential flip side of the "Where's the Beef?" decade's musical output!

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Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Secret Life (2005) with Special Guest Hubert Sumlin Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 14, 2022

Few others besides avant-garde composer/instrumentalist Elliott Sharp could record a collection of blues songs and make them sound like a new genre altogether, a sort of blues/folk/jazz/new age sound with droning keyboards, slinky reverbed vocals, sinuous guitar parts, and angstful horns. The album is by turns haunting, sexy, volatile, and soothing

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VA - 100 Hit Tracks Ultimate Driving Songs The Classics (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 13, 2020

VA - 100 Hit Tracks Ultimate Driving Songs The Classics (2020)
MP3 320 kbps | 06:11:00 | 861 Mb
Genre: Rock, Pop / Label: Union Square Music

Ultimate Driving Songs serves up 100 exhilarating hits and drive-time classics to accompany you on the great open road! Whatever your mood, this superb compilation contains the perfect singalong songs from some of the biggest artists in the world. The rock standards are delivered courtesy of Foreigner, ZZ Top, The Pretenders, Roxette, The Stooges. Also included are 80s anthems from Madness, Duran Duran, New Order & more.

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Revolutions In Sound: Warner Bros. Records - The First 50 Years (2008) [USB] Music

Posted by JET 1 at Nov. 13, 2014

320 Momentous Hits & Notable Tracks From The Warner Bros. Archives on Custom Metal USB Flash Drive The Equivalent of 20 CDs with Over 21+ Total Hours of Music!

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Electronic - Raise The Pressure (1996) Music

Posted by gribovar at May 11, 2025

By the time Electronic's long-delayed second album appeared in 1996, the zeitgeist in Britain had completely shifted from its members' parent bands to a new generation of groups, with Oasis, who shared management with Sumner and Marr's project, standing forth out of a horde of newer Brit-pop acts. Electronic itself chose not to try and compete, following its own low-key path while working with a variety of guest musicians, including returning singer Denise Johnson. The intriguing surprise came courtesy of an additional keyboardist - none other than Kraftwerk veteran Karl Bartos, who also co-wrote nearly half the release with Sumner and Marr. In the same way that the group's debut promised more than it delivered, though, Raise the Pressure - theoretically a dream collaboration between key members of three groundbreaking bands - ends up being more pleasant than necessary…

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Various Artists – Texas Blues: Early Blues Masters from the Lone Star State (2004) Music

Posted by d'Avignon at Oct. 2, 2013

Various Artists – Texas Blues: Early Blues Masters from the Lone Star State (2004)

Label: JSP | cat. nos. JSP7730 A/B/C/D

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Police - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings [Box set] (1993) Music

Posted by uff at Jan. 4, 2010

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Despite their legendary status, the Police only released five albums during their brief reign from 1978-1983. In addition, the trio had amassed a healthy amount of both studio and live B-sides, plus songs that only appeared on soundtracks. For the 1993 four-CD box set Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings, every single song the Police ever recorded is included. All the tracks were digitally remastered for the project, sounding superior to the original CD versions of the single albums. Also included is a 68-page booklet that includes an interesting (and often humorous) biography, a time line, and notes from all three bandmembers regarding the rarities that appear for the first time on compact disc here. But of course, the real charm of the box set is the music – album tracks ("Hole in My Life," "It's Alright for You," "Driven to Tears"), hits ("Message in a Bottle," "Can't Stand Losing You," "Spirits in the Material World"), and rarities ("Fallout," a live version of "Next to You") are all timeless classics. While the set is highly recommended to newcomers just discovering the wonders of the Police, longtime fans should consider replacing their tinny-sounding single CDs with the definitive Message in a Box. After all, it contains a total of 24 tracks unavailable (for the most part) anywhere else.

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