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Neil Young – Discography (1968-2019)

Neil Young - Discography (1968-2019)

After Neil Young left the California folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential and idiosyncratic singer/songwriters of his generation. Young’s body of work ranks second only to Bob Dylan in terms of depth, and he was able to sustain his critical reputation, as well as record sales, for a longer period of time than Dylan, partially because of his willfully perverse work ethic. Continue reading “Neil Young – Discography (1968-2019)”

Neil Young – Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Neil Young - Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Neil Young – Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
33x Discs | Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz / 88.2kHz / 96kHz / 176.4kHz / 192kHz
Total Size: 50.1 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Reprise | Genre: Folk Rock, Classic Rock
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John Cougar Mellencamp – The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

John Cougar Mellencamp – The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 925 MB (Hi-Res) + 284 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-222 | Genre: Folk Rock, Southern Rock
Half-Speed Mastered

John Mellencamp’s fascination with the American heartland came into full flower on Scarecrow, but with its follow-up, The Lonesome Jubilee, he began exploring American folk musics, adding fiddle, accordions, and acoustic guitars to his band, which allowed him to explore folk and country. Continue reading “John Cougar Mellencamp – The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel (1974) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Grateful Dead - From The Mars Hotel (1974) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel (1974) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 795 MB (Hi-Res) + 223 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-172 | Genre: Country Rock, Folk Rock
Half-Speed Mastered

The Grateful Dead made their reputation on the road with their live shows, and they always struggled to capture that magic in the studio. From the Mars Hotel, while not a classic, represents one of their better studio albums. Jerry Garcia sounds engaged throughout and takes the vocal reigns for most of the songs on the album — although he’s not the most gifted vocalist, he proves himself able and versatile. Continue reading “Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel (1974) [1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) {2018, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) {2018, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) {2018, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.83 GB (Hi-Res) + 658 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | UltraDisc One-Step | US | Cat#: UD1S 2-004 | Genre: Folk Rock

Simon and Garfunkel’s epochal album reaches three-dimensional sonic and emotional heights never before attained on our opulent UD1S (UltraDisc One-Step) box set. Strictly limited to 7,500 numbered copies, this ultra-hi-fi collector’s edition literally and figuratively brings you closer to music that picks up where the duo’s Bookends leaves off. You’ll enjoy deep-black backgrounds, boundless soundstaging, pointillist details, staggering dynamics, and arguably, the most lifelike tonalities and nuances ever committed to vinyl. Continue reading “Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) {2018, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970) [2001, Reissue, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (1970) [2001, Reissue, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]

As the ’60s drew to a close, it was a heavy time for the quickly crumbling hippie movement that had reached its apex just a few years earlier in 1967’s Summer of Love. Death and violence were pervasive in the form of the Manson murders, fatalities at the Altamont concert, and the ongoing loss of young lives in Vietnam despite the best efforts of anti-war activists and peace-seeking protesters. Continue reading “Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970) [2001, Reissue, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]”

Simon And Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) [1993, Sony MasterSound, Remastered]

Simon And Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) [1993, Sony MasterSound, Remastered]

Bridge Over Troubled Water was one of the biggest-selling albums of its decade, and it hasn’t fallen too far down on the list in years since. Apart from the gospel-flavored title track, which took some evolution to get to what it finally became, however, much of Bridge Over Troubled Water also constitutes a stepping back from the music that Simon & Garfunkel had made on Bookends Continue reading “Simon And Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) [1993, Sony MasterSound, Remastered]”

The Band – The Band (1969) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, 50th Anniversary, New Mix , 2CD + BD + Hi-Res]

The Band - The Band (1969) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, 50th Anniversary, New Mix , 2CD + BD + Hi-Res]

The super deluxe edition of the 1969 album consists of two CDs, a blu-ray audio, a 2LP vinyl set and a bonus seven-inch single. Like with last year’s Music From Big Pink reissue, Bob Clearmountain has created a new stereo mix of The Band album and this features on the box is various places including the first CD and the 2LP vinyl. Continue reading “The Band – The Band (1969) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, 50th Anniversary, New Mix , 2CD + BD + Hi-Res]”

Gene Clark – No Other (1974) [2019, Limited Deluxe Box set, Remixed, Remastered, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]

Gene Clark - No Other (1974) [2019, Limited Deluxe Box set, Remixed, Remastered, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]

An extremely limited item, the box contains the LP, three SACDs (the original album in an authentic Japanese vinyl replica sleeve plus two more discs of session mixes), an exclusive 7”, a comprehensive Blu-Ray disc which includes HD versions of all tracks, a stunning 5.1 surround mix of the album, the original 1974 vinyl master and an exclusive documentary by Paul Kendall (the director responsible for the acclaimed 2013 film Continue reading “Gene Clark – No Other (1974) [2019, Limited Deluxe Box set, Remixed, Remastered, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]”

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [2012, Reissue, Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [2012, Reissue, Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [2012, Reissue, Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz
Total Size: 1.24 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: A&M | Genre: Folk Rock

Tea for the Tillerman is the fourth studio album by the singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. This album, Stevens’ second during 1970, includes many of Stevens’ best-known songs including “Where Do the Children Play?”, “Hard Headed Woman”, “Wild World”, “Sad Lisa”, “Into White”, and “Father and Son”. Four of the tracks (“Where Do the Children Play?”, “On the Road to Find Out”, “Tea for the Tillerman”, and “Miles from Nowhere”) were featured in the Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins’s black comedy film Harold and Maude Continue reading “Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [2012, Reissue, Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1975) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz & 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.63 GB (Hi-Res) + 642 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | UltraDisc One-Step | USA | Cat#: UD1S 2-006 | Genre: Folk Rock

Following on the heels of an album where he repudiated his past with his greatest backing band, Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a largely quiet, acoustic-based album. But this is hardly nostalgia — this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. Continue reading “Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) {1982, MFSL UHQR Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman (1970) {1982, MFSL UHQR Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) {1982, MFSL UHQR Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Format / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 841 MB (Hi-Res) + 282 MB (CD-Format) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Japan JVC Pressed | Cat#: MFQR 1-035 | Genre: Folk Rock, Pop Rock
Half-Speed Mastered

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Willy Porter – Willy Porter (2002) [2005, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Willy Porter - Willy Porter (2002) [2005, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

These days, musicians often complain that major labels no longer believe in real artist development — if a debut album isn’t a big seller, chances are the artist will be dropped. But artist development is still alive and well at smaller independent labels (for the most part). That is where some A&R people are still willing to develop artists and offer two- or three-album contracts instead of merely one-album deals — which is a good thing because not every artist should be expected to be commercially and creatively triumphant the first time he/she records an album. Some people get better as they go along; even Earth, Wind & Fire recorded several modest sellers before becoming one of the top soul/funk bands of the ’70s. Continue reading “Willy Porter – Willy Porter (2002) [2005, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

The Band – Stage Fright (1970) [1994, DCC Remastered]

The Band - Stage Fright (1970) [1994, DCC Remastered]

Stage Fright, the Band’s third album, sounded on its surface like the group’s first two releases, Music from Big Pink and The Band, employing the same dense arrangements with their mixture of a deep bottom formed by drummer Levon Helm and bassist Rick Danko, penetrating guitar work by Robbie Robertson, and the varied keyboard work of pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson, with Helm, Danko, and Manuel’s vocals on top. Continue reading “The Band – Stage Fright (1970) [1994, DCC Remastered]”

Donovan – Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 (1992)

Donovan - Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 (1992)

While by no means a complete retrospective, this two-disc compilation contains a healthy sampling from Donovan’s first dozen years as a formidable musical figure. His chameleon-like sensibilities not only adapted to, but likewise defined the ’60s folk, pop, acid rock and the scene of swingin’ London. As well as hitting some of the more obvious high points, Donovan — who personally oversaw the project — included a couple of unissued demos (“London Town”/”Codine”), alternate versions (“Museum”/”Superlungs”/”Riki Tiki Tavi”) and previously unearthed titles (“Breezes Of Patchulie”/”Age Of Treason”/”What The Soul Desires”) Continue reading “Donovan – Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 (1992)”