Rebel Diamonds

The Killers - Rebel Diamonds (2023) Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 3, 2024

Rebel Diamonds is a greatest hits album by American rock band the Killers, released on December 8, 2023, through Island Records. It is the band's second greatest hits collection, following Direct Hits in 2013. The compilation features three original songs from the band's aborted eighth studio album – "Boy", "Your Side of Town" and "Spirit" – produced by Stuart Price and Shawn Everett. Rebel Diamonds serves as a retrospective look at the career of the rock band, offering a chronological arrangement of their hits by the year of release and a new track, "Spirit". The album title is taken from the lyrics of their song "Read My Mind" from their second album, Sam's Town.

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The Killers - Rebel Diamonds (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 7, 2023

The Killers - Rebel Diamonds (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 566 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 MB
40:16 | Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Island Record / UMG

Entitled 'Rebel Diamonds', the album of highlights features 20 tracks, including the modern day classics 'Mr. Brightside', 'When You Were Young', 'All These Things That I've Done', 'Human', 'Read My Mind' and at least one song from each of the band's seven studio albums. The album also carries through to the band's most recently released, critically-lauded single, 'Your Side of Town' and includes a brand new anthem ready to be sung at festivals across the world called 'Spirit'. The album is a curated dive into an impressive catalog of songwriting and musicianship - one that has solidified the band as one of the most important voices in rock 'n' roll over the last two decades.

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Marina And The Diamonds - Electra Heart (2012) Music

Posted by Designol at July 26, 2023

The second studio album from Marina Lambrini Diamandis finds the mercurial Welsh singer/songwriter assuming the role of diva in waiting, trading in the ballsy, quirky retro-pop of her 2010 debut, Family Jewels, for the glitzy (and still relatively ballsy) electro-thump pomp of Ke$ha and Lady Gaga. Produced by Dr. Luke (Katy Perry), Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps), Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen), and Rick Nowels (Madonna), Electra Heart is a brooding, sexy, desperate, overwrought, and infectious record that's both aware and unashamed of its contrivance. In short, Diamandis is trying to expose the artifice of big-box pop music by using its own voice, and despite the obvious trappings of the concept, she does a fairly respectable job. Her resonant operatic voice is expressive enough to make a lyric like "Candy bear, sweetie pie, I wanna be adored/I'm the girl you'd die for," from the capricious opener "Bubblegum Bitch," feel less like a floozy come-on and more like a malicious schoolyard taunt.

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VA - Roots 'N' Culture: 21 Mighty Reggae Cuts (1993) Reissue 1997 Music

Posted by Designol at May 26, 2023

This set, with its powerful melodies, brilliant playing (note the superb horns) and all round attitude, is a sparkling reminder of how reggae sounded when it first influenced the world music scene in the Seventies. But it afso bears testimony to the sophisticated consciousness, wisdom and Afrocentric worldview that were the trademarks of the Rasta rebel soul at that time. This music had weight. That 'Roots' and 'Culture' became pilloried cliches at the beginning of the 80s says something about the rot that had set in at the heart of reggae - and just as much about, how times had changed. The idea of Roots - kind of personified by Alex Haley's mid-Seventies book and TV series of the same period - typified the search for an African identity, after centuries of physical and then economic slavery, amongst Jamaican youth.

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Toyah - Love Is The Law (2024 Expanded & Remastered Version) (1983/2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Nov. 7, 2024

Toyah’s 1983 studio album Love Is The Law was the final album for the Safari Records label. A new remastered edition is released by Cherry Red Records on Friday 8 November 2024. This follows the acclaimed and enthusiastically received series of remastered LP releases of four studio albums and four live albums that chronicle the band’s recording history from 1979-1983.

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VA - Virgin Front Line: Sounds Of Reality (2014) Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 12, 2024

VA - Virgin Front Line: Sounds Of Reality (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 3.2 GB |1.8 GB
6:28:39 | Reggae, Roots Reggae, Dub | Label: Virgin/Universal

The mid-70s were heady years for reggae. Chris Blackwell’s Island imprint had taken the music to the rock world, and Virgin boss Richard Branson wanted to follow suit. Aided by none other than John Lydon, the pair decamped to Kingston, JA, with a suitcase of money, and proceeded to sign some of the biggest acts of the decade. Initially the records were released on Virgin but, in March 1978, the Front Line imprint was launched to carry all the Jamaican product.

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Judas Priest - Reflections: 50 Heavy Metal Years of Music (Limited Edition) (2021) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 14, 2024

Judas Priest - Reflections: 50 Heavy Metal Years of Music (Limited Edition) (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 14.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 4.9 GB
35:56:24 | Hard Rock, Heavy Metal | Label: Sony

Judas Priest have announced they’re celebrating their 50th anniversary with a gargantuan limited-edition box set called ‘50 Heavy Metal Years of Music.’Released on Friday 15th October 2021 via Sony Music, the expansive collection boasts all 18 of Judas Priest’s studio albums to date, all the band’s live albums and 13 discs of unreleased music.
The veritable smorgasbord of heavy metal music contained within ‘50 Heavy Metal Years of Music’ was restored and mixed by Tom Allom at La Cucina W8 and mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
Judas Priest Lead singer Rob Halford said: “Judas Priest’s curated box set representing 50 heavy metal years is the ultimate treasure trove defining the band’s unwavering commitment to keeping and defending the heavy metal faith.”
Guitarist Glenn Tipton adds: “If there’s one box set you should have in your Heavy Metal collection it should be this one – it’s immortal – proclaiming and truly representing Metal for over 50 years – Flying the Flag and proudly leading the way inspiring many bands throughout the years—-this 42 CD selection says it all——it’s a big part of Metal history and as such will live forever.Bassist and founding member Ian Hill succinctly comments: “AMAZING – 50 years of metal crammed into a small box…..!

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VA - Reggae Greatest Hits - The Legendary Voices Of Reggae Music (2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 18, 2022

VA - Reggae Greatest Hits - The Legendary Voices Of Reggae Music (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 531 MB
3:49:51 | Reggae | Label: Wagram Music

Classics are classics for a reason, and this compilation champions them across two slabs of wax. All four sides are jam packed with firm reggae favourites from Bob Marley's stirring "Soul Rebel" to the buttery croons of Gregory Isaacs on "Babylon Too Rough". Mick Hucknall's inclusion will raise some eyebrows, but there is no denying his version of "Night Nurse" with Sly & Robbie has something going on. Smokers will delight in ganga odes from Eek-a-mouse and the lovable innocence of The Congos hit "La La Bam-Bam" will always have a place in anyone's affections.

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Bob Marley - The Kingston Legend (5CD, 2018) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 16, 2018

Bob Marley - The Kingston Legend (5CD, 2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) / MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 5:29:09 | 753 Mb / 1,8 Gb
Genre: Pop, Reggae / Label: Wagram Music

Marley left Jamaica at the end of 1976, and after a month-long "recovery and writing" sojourn at the site of Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, arrived in England, where he spent two years in self-imposed exile.
Whilst in England, he recorded the albums Exodus and Kaya. Exodus stayed on the British album charts for 56 consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit singles: "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One Love" (a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's hit, "People Get Ready"). During his time in London, he was arrested and received a conviction for possession of a small quantity of cannabis.

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VA - Reggae Mandela (2019) Music

Posted by El Misha at March 4, 2019

VP Records celebrates the life and legacy of the South African leader, Nelson Mandela, 100 years after his birth and 25 years after his election in April 1994 as President of South Africa. Released for Black History Month 2019, Reggae Mandela chronicles the awareness within the reggae community of Mandela’s struggles, as well as the collective celebration of his victory…

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