The Very Best of War

War - The Very Best of War (2003) 2CD  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 8, 2023
War - The Very Best of War (2003) 2CD

War - The Very Best of War (2003) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 898 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 335 Mb
Label: Avenue/Rhino | # 8122-73895-2 | Time: 02:25:47 | Scans ~ 31 Mb
Genre: Funk, Soul, Funk Rock, Latin Rock

There really are more War best-of packages than the situation warrants, and while the double-CD The Very Best of War is a fine compilation if you don't already have one in your collection, it's questionable whether it was a necessary addition to the band's discography. For one thing, it doesn't differ all that much from the previous two-CD War best-of on Rhino, Anthology (1970-1994). Sure, each has a few tracks not on the other, but both are built around their lengthy string of big hits. Even Barry Alfonso's accompanying essay was adapted from the liner notes to Anthology (1970-1994). Still, this does have all of the big chart hits and a few minor ones, as well as standout album tracks from throughout the 1970s and early '80s that illustrate the band's versatility. Reading the small print on the track listings, it's revealed that half a dozen of these cuts are edits that either appear here for the first time or were only available on previous anthologies or imports.
John Lennon - Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon (1997) [CD & DVD]

John Lennon - Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon (1997)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Parlophone, 7243 8 21954 2 9 | ~ 475 or 187 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 81 Mb
DVD-9: PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | LPCM 2 ch / AC3 & DTS 6 ch -> 6.91 Gb
Classic Rock / Pop Rock

Lennon Legend was released in the fall of 1997 in England to replace the deleted John Lennon Collection, and the 20-track collection is remarkably similar to its predecessor, replicating a full 16 tracks and deleting the relatively nonessential "I'm Losing You," "Dear Yoko," and "Move Over Ms. L" in favor of "Borrowed Time," "Mother," "Nobody Told Me," and "Working Class Hero."…

Adam And The Ants - The Very Best Of Adam And The Ants (1999)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 14, 2022
Adam And The Ants - The Very Best Of Adam And The Ants (1999)

Adam And The Ants - The Very Best Of Adam And The Ants (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 519 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Label: Columbia | # 494229 2, 4942292006 | Time: 01:18:17
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave, Dance-Rock

The Very Best of Adam And The Ants is a greatest hits compilation album. It includes songs from Adam and the Ants & Adam Ant's solo works, with all their hits and pop faves, like "Stand & Deliver", "Dog Eat Dog", "Prince Charming", "Goody Two Shoes", "Puss N Boots", "Friend Or Foe" and many more. 22 tracks.

Joan Baez - The Very Best Of Joan Baez (1997)  Music

Posted by JET 1 at Sept. 5, 2021
Joan Baez - The Very Best Of Joan Baez (1997)

Joan Baez - The Very Best Of Joan Baez (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 878 MB | Scans
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Acoustic, Singer-Songwriter | Label: EastWest Records | Catalog Number: 0630 19027 2

Joan Baez is a Mexican-born American citizen born in 1941 in New York. His father is a physics teacher and his mother tells a drama story at university. There were also ministers in the ascending branches of his family. She studied guitar at Boston University and gained a thorough but not virtuoso guitar knowledge. She began to take folk music more seriously around 1958. He accompanied his excellent singing voice with the playing of his acoustic guitar. Her first major performance was in 1959 at the Newport Folk Festival. Her talent was noticed by the Vanguard company and they soon found contact with each other. Shortly after the contract was signed, her first album, named after the singer, was released. On this disc is the song We Shall Overcome, which has become the anthem of left-wing youth because of what she has to say. In 1963, there was a massive demonstration in Vashington; the enthusiastic crowd sang We Shall Overcome. With her current politically charged songs, she became the number one folk protest singer in the US. In the 1960s, she worked with the country’s greatest folk musician, Bob Dylan.

Ronnie Hilton - The Very Best Of Ronnie Hilton (1996)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 27, 2022
Ronnie Hilton - The Very Best Of Ronnie Hilton (1996)

Ronnie Hilton - The Very Best Of Ronnie Hilton (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 282 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 161 Mb | Scans ~ 52 Mb
Label: EMI Music For Pleasure | # CDMFP 6250, 7243 8 53436 2 9 | Time: 01:10:34
Oldies, Vocal Pop, Easy Listening, Ballads

Ronnie Hilton was one of the most successful British ballad singers of the 1950s and, unlike many of his contemporaries, he continued to have hits after the arrival of rock'n'roll. He was so popular that when the BBC wanted a host for their 1990s radio series Sounds Of The Fifties Ronnie was the obvious choice. Ronnie Hilton was an important part of 1950s Britain - as the NME noted at the end of that decade, 'Right from the start, he has given us a string of captivating and easily memorised songs, which have had the entire nation whistling and singing'. A well deserved epitaph for one of the great British balladeers. This fine collection features all of his 'Magic Moments' on one CD.
Peter, Paul and Mary - The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary (2005)

Peter, Paul and Mary - The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 461 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 188 MB | Covers - 54 MB
Genre: Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Bros. Records (8122-73161-2)

It speaks well for the continued viability of their catalog (probably second only to Bob Dylan's among '60s folk artists) that this is only the sixth compilation ever done on Peter, Paul & Mary's music in four decades of musical activity - and since one of the others was a Readers' Digest mail-order release and two of the others were done for special markets outside of the United States, that low number is downright astonishing. This release effectively supplants the perennially popular Ten Years Together: The Best of Peter, Paul & Mary, from 1970, and also outdoes the 2003 WEA International Very Best Of, with more songs drawn from a much wider chunk of their history as well. The material at hand covers not only most of the key singles and a handful of important album tracks by the trio from the 1960s, but also acknowledges their less widely heard solo material from the 1970s…

Michael Crawford - The Very Best Of Michael Crawford (2004)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 9, 2020
Michael Crawford - The Very Best Of Michael Crawford (2004)

Michael Crawford - The Very Best Of Michael Crawford (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 459 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 215 Mb
Full Scans | 01:17:27 | RAR 5% Recovery
Vocal Pop, Stage & Screen | EMI / Virgin #7243 8 75389 2 4 / VTCD 685

Most popular to theater audiences from his title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of The Phantom of the Opera, Michael Crawford was in fact a star of the British stage and screen for almost two decades before that. Born in Wiltshire, England, in 1942, he began singing in the school choir and, while still a teenager, changed his name from Dumble-Smith to the more charismatic Crawford and began working in radio, television, and film. After first stepping on the London stage in the early '60s, Crawford's first regular television series was the BBC's 1960s show Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life; he appeared in several films as well (The War Lover, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and a starring turn in How I Won the War, which also featured John Lennon).
Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne - The Very Best Of (2015) {Olaf Thulemann Productions}

Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne - The Very Best Of (2015) {Olaf Thulemann Productions}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 520 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 182 mb
Genre: heavy metal, pop rock, classic rock

The Very Best Of is a 2015 compilation CD by Black Sabbath, focusing on the Ozzy Osbourne era and the years when he returned. This is an unofficial release, put out by Olaf Thulemann Productions.
Mikis Theodorakis - The Very Best Of Mikis Theodorakis, Vol. 1: Recordings 1960-1964 (2004)

Mikis Theodorakis - The Very Best Of Mikis Theodorakis, Vol. 1: Recordings 1960-1964 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 387 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 163 Mb
Label: Minos-EMI | # 7243 577286 2 1 | Time: 01:11:24 | Scans ~ 99 Mb
Greek Folk, Mediterranean Traditions, Soundtracks

Mikis Theodorakis is legendary Greek composer, born in Chios, Greece on 29th July 1925. He has worked for the Greek as well as international music industry for the last 70 years, contributing close to a thousand songs along the way. He has mostly centered his compositions to 20th century classical Greek music, working in a wide setting of genres. In a career that has been marred by rich musical taste, he has worked in various dimensions of production such as symphonic works, chamber music, cantatas, hymns, operas, stage plays and film scores. His work, in addition to featuring classical Greek poems and literature, is also influenced by his political leanings and struggles which were shaped throughout his life.

Imagination - Just An Illusion: The Very Best Of (2006) 2CD  Music

Posted by Andi_Deris at April 14, 2017
Imagination - Just An Illusion: The Very Best Of (2006) 2CD

Imagination - Just An Illusion: The Very Best Of (2006) 2CD
EAC Rip | FLAC: Image+Cue+Log | 782 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 279 Mb | Scans | Time: 01:03:34 + 55:27
DMG Ltd./Music Club Deluxe | MCDLX029
Funk, Soul, Disco

Imagination helped soundtrack the 80s with a series of stunning pop hits and club friendly mixes. Neither demure nor modest (they were once ordered to cover up when meeting the Prince and Princess of Wales), their outrageous stage presence masked a surprisingly deep well of songwriting talent and a vastly underrated catalogue of recordings. Indeed their music continues to sound fresh and as this collection proves their success was certainly no illusion. Enjoy.