Prefab

Prefab Sprout - Let’s Change The World With Music (2009) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}

Prefab Sprout - Let’s Change The World With Music (2009) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 336 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 113 Mb
Full Scans ~ 243 Mb | 00:46:32 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock / Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / Sophisti-Pop
Epic / Sony Music Japan #SICP 30406

From Prefab Sprout's early-'80s singles up through their often brilliant but much maligned album The Gunman and Other Stories in 2001, Paddy McAloon has written some of the finest pop tunes you're likely to hear in your lifetime. Comparisons have been made with Cole Porter, Lennon/McCartney, Brian Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, Jimmy Webb, Elvis Costello, and many others, but he remains a truly original and gifted singer and songwriter. While Prefab Sprout could never be called prolific in terms of physical album releases, McAloon has continued to write and demo material throughout the band's 20-plus-year career.
Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis (1988) {2013, Japanese Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered}

Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis (1988) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 335 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 110 Mb
Full Scans ~ 114 Mb | 00:45:28 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock / Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / Sophisti-Pop
Epic / Sony Music Japan #SICP 30208

From Langley Park to Memphis is the third studio album by English pop band Prefab Sprout. It was released by Kitchenware Records on 14 March 1988. It peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart, the highest position for any studio album released by the band. The album featured guest appearances from Stevie Wonder and Pete Townshend. Five singles were released to promote the album: in order of release, "Cars and Girls", "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", "Hey Manhattan!", "Nightingales" and "The Golden Calf". "I Remember That" was later released as a single in 1993 to promote the greatest hits album A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout.
Prefab Sprout - Kings Of Rock & Roll: The Best Of Prefab Sprout (2007)

Prefab Sprout - Kings Of Rock & Roll: The Best Of Prefab Sprout (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 356 MB
2:33:39 | Pop Rock, Synth-pop, Sophisti-Pop, New Wave | Label: Music Club Deluxe

Excellent 2007 two CD anthology from the critically-acclaimed UK outfit led by singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon. Although not a prolific band, Prefab Sprout's string of '80s and '90s albums remain sharp and intelligent slices of British Pop/Rock that continue to enthrall new and old fans. Although most tracks on this CD were pulled from their Sony albums, there are a few rare B-sides previously unavailable on CD that make this a worthwhile purchase for the novice and the fanatic. 37 tracks including 'The King of Rock 'N' Roll', 'When Love Breaks Down', 'Cruel', 'Appetite', 'Bonny', 'Electric Guitars' and many more. Music Club.

Prefab Sprout - The Gunman And Other Stories (2001)  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 13, 2021
Prefab Sprout - The Gunman And Other Stories (2001)

Prefab Sprout - The Gunman And Other Stories (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 300 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 104 Mb
Full Scans ~ 101 Mb | 00:43:19 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soft Rock / Indie Rock / Country Rock / Sophisti-Pop
EMI / Liberty EMI Records UK #7243 5 32613 2 0

After the seven-year gap between 1990's Jordan: The Comeback and 1997's Andromeda Heights, many Prefab Sprout fans were surprised by the comparatively brief four years between that album and 2001's The Gunman and Other Stories. The album holds other surprises for the longtime Prefab Sprout fan; for one thing, backing vocalist Wendy Smith is absent, having left the group after the birth of her first child, and for another, it's a Western-themed concept album. Actually, though, this last shouldn't be too surprising, as singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon has had a thing for the American West as far back as the 1984 single "Don't Sing," and has always shown a love of traditional country music, as on Prefab Sprout's 1985 cover of Jim Reeves' "He'll Have to Go."
Prefab Sprout - Swoon (1984) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}

Prefab Sprout - Swoon (1984) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 290 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 98 Mb
Full Scans ~ 167 Mb | 00:40:28 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock / Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / Sophisti-Pop
Epic / Sony Music Japan #SICP 30402

Paddy McAloon had not yet found the key to the elegant compositions that made Prefab Sprout distinctive when it came time to record their debut, Swoon. He certainly tries hard to make his sophisticated contemporary pop sound distinctive, but the problem is that he does too many things at once – the lyrics are overstuffed, and the music has too many chord changes and weird juxtapositions, as he tries to put white-funk beats to carefully crafted melodies. A few moments work, such as "Couldn't Bear to Be Special," but Swoon is primarily of interest as a historical item, since it only suggests the promise the band later filled.
Prefab Sprout - Protest Songs (1989) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}

Prefab Sprout - Protest Songs (1989) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 289 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 102 Mb
Full Scans ~ 115 Mb | 00:41:58 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Sophisti-Pop | Epic / Sony Music Japan #SICP 30403

Protest Songs was recorded by Prefab Sprout in 1985 in the wake of the masterful Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good, but shelved in favor of the subsequent From Langley Park to Memphis; it finally surfaced to little fanfare in 1989, appearing almost as mysteriously as it was abandoned four years earlier. It's a wonderful record, but perhaps too close in sound and spirit to Steve McQueen for comfort – From Langley Park, for all its flaws, is a much more adventurous effort, and with the benefit of hindsight, it seems reasonable to assume that Paddy McAloon wished not to stick with the tried-and-true but instead attempt something new and different, successful or not.

Prefab Sprout - Crimson / Red (2013) {Blu-Spec CD2, Japan}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Nov. 18, 2023
Prefab Sprout - Crimson / Red (2013) {Blu-Spec CD2, Japan}

Prefab Sprout - Crimson / Red (2013) {Blu-Spec CD2, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 293 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 98 Mb
Full Scans ~ 323 Mb | 00:40:42 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock / Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / Sophisti-Pop
Epic / Sony Music Japan #SICP 30401

Even though he had been suffering from hearing and sight impairments, Prefab Sprout man Paddy McAloon actually picked up the pace with the release of Crimson/Red, an album that follows Let's Change the World with Music by four years, halving the eight-year wait after 2001's The Gunman and Other Stories. It's also interesting that songs like "Mysterious" (an appreciation of Bob Dylan) and "The Songs of Danny Galway" (a lush love letter to the work of Jimmy Webb) cover the same ground as Let's Change the World's numerous odes to the power of pop music, but that album was arguably "tricky," because with the Sprout, overly smart and overly ambitious are the delicious pratfalls fans still savor.
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback (1990) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}

Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback (1990) {2013, Blu-Spec CD2, Remastered, Japan}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 435 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 154 Mb
Full Scans ~ 169 Mb | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock / Indie Rock / Sophisti-Pop / Art Pop
Epic / Sony Music Japan #SICP 30404

Jordan: The Comeback is Prefab Sprout's largely successful attempt to embrace the breadth of popular music; wisely reuniting with producer Thomas Dolby, Paddy McAloon freely indulges his myriad ambitions and obsessions to weave a dense, finely textured tapestry closer in spirit and construction to a lavish Broadway musical than to the conventional rock concept LP. Over the course of no less than 19 tracks, McAloon chases his twin preoccupations of religion and celebrity, creating a loose thematic canvas perfect for his expanding musical palette; quickly dispensing with common pop idioms, the album moves from tracks like the samba-styled "Carnival 2000" to the self-explanatory "Jesse James Symphony" and its companion piece "Jesse James Bolero" with remarkable dexterity.

Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz (2003) {2019, Remastered}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Nov. 9, 2022
Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz (2003) {2019, Remastered}

Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz (2003) {2019, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 332 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 129 Mb
Full Scans ~ 182 Mb | 00:53:27 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Classical, Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Chamber Pop | Sony Music #88985411062

I Trawl the Megahertz, Paddy McAloon's first solo album, is as likely to perplex and infuriate as it is likely to stun and spellbind. Grand, heavily orchestrated, predominantly instrumental, and not the type of thing you put on prior to going out or when you're in the mood for cleaning the house, the record is incredibly powerful – almost too powerful – even when held up against everything from Prefab Sprout's past. The most significant song is the opener; 22 minutes in length, it's nearly elegiac in it its mournful tones played out by a swaying string arrangement and a weeping trumpet. Throughout its duration, Yvonne Connors speaks matter-of-factly – yet dramatically enough to be poignant – as she rifles through fragments of her memory, the most disarming of which reads like this: "I said, 'Your daddy loves you very much; he just doesn't want to live with us anymore.'"
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (1985) {2007, Remastered And Expanded Edition}

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (1985) {2007, Remastered And Expanded Edition}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 544 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 192 Mb
Full Scans ~ 95 Mb | RAR 5% Recovery
Legacy/Sony BMG Music Entertainment 88697072442 / Kitchenware Records #KWCD3-25
Pop Rock / Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / New Wave / Sophisti-Pop / Acoustic

Smart, sophisticated, and timelessly stylish, Steve McQueen (titled Two Wheels Good in the U.S. after threats of a lawsuit from the actor's estate) is a minor classic, a shimmering jazz-pop masterpiece sparked by Paddy McAloon's witty and inventive songwriting. McAloon is a wickedly cavalier composer, his songs exploring human weaknesses like regret ("Bonny"), lust ("Appetite"), and infidelity ("Horsin' Around") with cynical insight and sarcastic flair; he's also remarkably adaptable, easily switching gears from the faux country of "Faron Young" to the stately pop grace of "Moving the River."