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The Outfield - Big Innings: Best of The Outfield (Remastered) (1996) Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 20, 2022

The Outfield - Big Innings: Best of The Outfield (Remastered) (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 396 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 MB
1:00:56 | Soft Rock, Pop Rock, AOR, Surf | Label: Legacy

The Outfield's brisk pop sound gave them five Top 40 singles within the span of five years. Their sound is comprised of remnants of classic rock which is soothed by the fluidness of Tony Lewis' voice, and a front-line guitar attack driven by John Spinks. Big Innings is a generous, 16-track compilation made up of the Outfield's hits as well as their unreleased and B-side material, offering a delightful roam through their short-lived stint. With "Your Love," "All the Love in the World," and "Voices of Babylon" representing some of their greatest chart successes, the rest of the collection still houses many other pleasing contributions. The effectively encumbered guitar charge of "Since You've Been Gone" from 1987's Bangin' stands out, as does the sheer charm of "For You" off of 1990's Diamond Days. Although acoustic tracks such as "Alone With You" and "Through the Years" appear in mono, they are welcomed just the same. The disappointing Rockeye album contributes its two best efforts in "Closer to Me" and "Winning It All," while "One Hot Country" from the If Looks Could Kill soundtrack is the set's weakest contribution, sounding glitzy and overly effusive even for the '90s. Still, with only one or two feeble tracks, Big Innings is a more-than-sufficient hits package.

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Zip Tang - Private Shangri-La (2015) Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 22, 2023

The reduced to a trio band still plays a melodic, American, modern prog, but rocking heaviness is more in the foreground, even if the music is already pretty playful proggig. Right on the opening track "Cigarette Burns", the Americans make one on "Punk Floyd." The closeness to the rock dinosaurs is not only evident in this piece, but also in the electric guitar solo, while the alternative rock scene lulls it The Prog of Zip Tang sometimes comes closer to the late King Crimson, while the harmony vocals can evoke associations with CSN ("Knowing"). Here and there are some beautiful crimsoid bumpy riffs and some psychedelic palpable ("Maniacal Calliope" Sometimes it rocks more straightforward ("Phantasmagoric Haze"), sometimes alternative-proggiger ("Plastique Hey-Zeus"), but these are just influences that enrich the bands already quite unique sound-cosmos…

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Skeeter Davis - Written By The Stars (1965/2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at March 26, 2023

Skeeter Davis - Written By The Stars (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 31:14 minutes | 693 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Mary Frances Penick, better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs. She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star. One of the first women to achieve major stardom in the country music field as a solo vocalist, she was an acknowledged influence on Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton and was hailed as an "extraordinary country/pop singer" by The New York Times music critic Robert Palmer.

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Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Antoni Wit - Krzysztof Penderecki: Magnificat; Kadisz (2015) Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 18, 2022

The two works on this recording are separated by 35 years, during which time Penderecki made a decisive break with the post-war European avant-garde. In the Magnificat, chilling instrumental clusters, spectral sounds and impassioned rhetoric unite with tonality and counterpoint to deliver a work of monumental emotional power. Written to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Kadisz is among the most distinctive of Penderecki’s later choral works in the stark contrasts between drama and sombre reflection of its individual sections.

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Alan Moorhouse - The Big Beat Volume 2 (1970) Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 31, 2017

Alan Moorhouse - The Big Beat Volume 2 (1970)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2007 | KPM Music, Tuch 1067CD | ~ 230 or 81 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 11 Mb
Funk / Soul / R'n'B

Who better to follow up the greatest of all library LPs than Alan Moorhouse, a twisted genius whose musical output clearly proves that he couldn't have given a monkey's what anyone thought of him. From unlistenable marching band versions of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, to an entire album of demented Tijuana styled hymns to the hard hitting funk of his work for KPM, Moorhouse would surely have shocked and amazed us with more musical mayhem had his life not been tragically cut short at the end of the 1970s…

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The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at Feb. 7, 2022

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Pokey LaFarge - Something In The Water (2015) {Rounder Records 11661-36919-02} Music

Posted by ruskaval at March 30, 2017

Pokey LaFarge - Something In The Water (2015) {Rounder Records 11661-36919-02}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 235 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 97 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 19 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2015 Rounder Records / Concord | 11661-36919-02
Americana / Jazz / Blues

Some artists who evoke the styles of the past seem to have spent every waking moment of their adult lives struggling to sound as if they were born in a different decade. Pokey LaFarge, on the other hand, makes music that suggests he somehow passed through a wrinkle in time from 1929 to 2015, complete with his banjo in hand; LaFarge's music never seems forced, but flows from him naturally with an easy grace, a playful insouciance, and a confidence in his talent that stops well short of arrogance.

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Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at Nov. 20, 2017

Philipp Cimiano, Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, "Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era"
2015 | pages: 744 | ISBN: 3319198890 | PDF | 47,2 mb

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VA - Rough Guide To Unsung Heroes of Country Blues, Vol. 2 (2015) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 28, 2015

This second volume digs that bit deeper into the early days of recorded country blues and sheds light on other mysterious figures, many of whose contribution to the blues is easily overlooked. None more so than Sylvester Weaver who was the first artist to record a blues instrumental and whose featured ‘Guitar Rag’ shows off his slide-guitar brilliance which was much imitated by other players. Likewise Ramblin’ Thomas from Louisiana was famed for his bottleneck guitar playing and truly makes his guitar weep on his homesick lament ‘Poor Boy Blues’.

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Nicholas Britell - Succession, Season 1 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 15, 2019

Nicholas Britell - Succession, Season 1 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 37:54 | 100 Mb / 173 Mb
Genre: Soundtrack / Label: Editions Milan Music

Nicholas Britell is a composer, pianist, and movie producer best known for his scores to such critically acclaimed films as The Big Short (2015), Moonlight (2016), and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). His style has ranged from The Big Short's playful blend of jazz, funk, and classical elements to the more elegant and poignant Beale Street. Britell's first of multiple Academy Award nominations came in 2017 for his work on Moonlight.

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