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Various Artists – Chess Rhythm & Roll (1994) [4CDs Box Set]

Various Artists - Chess Rhythm & Roll (1994) [4CDs Box Set]

In addition to being one of the world’s premier blues imprints, Chicago-based Chess Records presented some of rock & roll’s earliest participants. Chess Rhythm & Roll (1994) is a five-plus hour celebration of essential proto-rockers cut between 1947 and 1967. The four-CD assemblage is a companion to the Chess Blues (1992) box set and picks up during the label’s formative days when their repertoire was expanding to a greater audience beyond the realm of R&B. Continue reading “Various Artists – Chess Rhythm & Roll (1994) [4CDs Box Set]”

Suzi Quatro – No Control (2019)

Suzi Quatro - No Control (2019)

The American rock vocalist has successfully worked as a musician for more than fifty years, delivering with unbridled energy her greatest hits such as ‘Can The Can’, ‘48 Crash’, ‘Devil Gate Drive’, ‘If You Can`t Give Me Love’, ‘She`s In Love With You’ or ‘Stumblin In‘ which made her an icon in the 1970s, and wowing her fans again and again with her new material. So it comes as no surprise that she’s not thinking of retiring. “I’ll retire when I go onstage, shake my ass, and there is silence,” she says, fully aware of the fact that that moment is still a long way off. 29 March 2019 will see the arrival of Suzi’s latest studio album, simply entitled No Control in line with her need for artistic freedom, on SPV/Steamhammer. Almost simultaneously, the singer/musician is set to embark on an extensive World tour. No doubt about it: 2019 will be another Suzi year! Continue reading “Suzi Quatro – No Control (2019)”

INXS – Shine Like It Does: The Anthology 1979–1997 (2001)

INXS - Shine Like It Does: The Anthology 1979–1997 (2001)

From the vantage of 2001, the year Rhino released the double-disc retrospective Shine Like It Does: The Anthology (1979-1997), it’s a little hard to believe that the Australian sextet really rivaled U2 for popularity in 1987/1988, when Kick worked its way to multi-platinum global success. At the time, they belonged next to the likes of U2 and R.E.M., two post-punk legends that worked their way into the mainstream because they were a quintessential college rock band of the ’80s, thrillingly balancing style with substance. Continue reading “INXS – Shine Like It Does: The Anthology 1979–1997 (2001)”

Van Halen – Van Halen (1978) [1998, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

Van Halen - Van Halen (1978) [1998, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

Among revolutionary rock albums, Van Halen’s debut often gets short shrift. Although it altered perceptions of what the guitar could do, it is not spoken of in the same reverential tones as Are You Experienced? and although it set the template for how rock & roll sounded for the next decade or more, it isn’t seen as an epochal generational shift, like Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, or Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, which was released just the year before. Continue reading “Van Halen – Van Halen (1978) [1998, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]”

Tony Bennett – The Complete Improv Recordings (2004) [4CDs, Box Set]

Tony Bennett - The Complete Improv Recordings (2004) [4CDs, Box Set]

For those new to the music of Tony Bennett, Improv was a label started by Tony Bennett and businessman Bill Hassett. Bennett was fed up with the suits at Columbia Records, who were trying to make him sing rock & roll. When his contract expired at the beginning of the 1970s, he and Hassett formed a label to help him realize his aesthetic ambitions, and Improv was born. Continue reading “Tony Bennett – The Complete Improv Recordings (2004) [4CDs, Box Set]”

Paul McCartney & Wings – Wild Life (1971) [2018, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 3CD + DVD]

Paul McCartney & Wings - Wild Life (1971) [2018, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 3CD + DVD]

Includes the newly remastered album and 25 bonus audio tracks; original rough mixes of the album, single edits, B-sides, home recordings and unreleased tracks. DVD features previously unreleased archive footage, rehearsals and homes videos. Housed alongside 128-page book written by David Fricke and folio containing unseen memorabilia from the MPL archives. Continue reading “Paul McCartney & Wings – Wild Life (1971) [2018, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 3CD + DVD]”

Various Artists – Sexy: Romantic Love Songs (2007) [3CD-Set]

Various Artists - Sexy: Romantic Love Songs (2007) [3CD-Set]

3CD-Set of exquisite music performed by Demis Roussos, Procol Harum, Kansas, Manhattans, Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, James Brown, Marving Gaye, Platters, Al Green, The Chi Lites, Percy Sledge, Bettie Harris and many more. Continue reading “Various Artists – Sexy: Romantic Love Songs (2007) [3CD-Set]”

Nina Simone – The Complete RCA Albums Collection (2011) [9CDs, Box Set]

Nina Simone - The Complete RCA Albums Collection (2011) [9CDs, Box Set]

Nina Simone was a singular artist, and she went where she pleased, leaving behind a recorded legacy that is passionate, political, defiant, and delicate by turns, no matter what strain of folk, blues, jazz, or gospel she was dipping into, and she did it all with dignity, grace, and intelligence. This set collects all nine of her albums for RCA Records (released between 1967 and 1974) Continue reading “Nina Simone – The Complete RCA Albums Collection (2011) [9CDs, Box Set]”

Tesla – Shock (2019) [Target Exclusive Edition]

Tesla - Shock (2019) [Target Exclusive Edition]

VA – Golden Jazz Box: The Six Best Albums From The Six Best Ladies Of Jazz (2015) [6CD Box Set]

VA - Golden Jazz Box: The Six Best Albums From The Six Best Ladies Of Jazz (2015) [6CD Box Set]

VA – Golden Jazz Box: The Six Best Albums From The Six Best Ladies Of Jazz (2015) [6CD Box Set]
EAC Rip | 6xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.30 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Music Brokers | Mexico | Cat#: MBB7216 | Genre: Vocal Jazz
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The Action – Shadows And Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1964-1968 (2018) [4CD Box Set]

The Action - Shadows And Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1964-1968 (2018) [4CD Box Set]

The Action are one of the great “lost” bands of mid-’60s England. Though they filled mod clubs with happy patrons and managed to score George Martin as a benefactor, they only released a handful of unsuccessful singles during their brief existence. Most of their music remained in the vaults for years, only to be discovered later and celebrated. Continue reading “The Action – Shadows And Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1964-1968 (2018) [4CD Box Set]”

Cinderella – Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits (2005)

Cinderella - Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits (2005)

Cinderella’s Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits is intended to replace the 1997 compilation Once Upon A … as a full-length, single-disc retrospective on the group. Like Once Upon A …, it contains all eight of Cinderella’s Billboard Hot 100 hits and 11 of its 12 entries in Billboard’s Mainstream Rock radio chart Continue reading “Cinderella – Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits (2005)”

Sting – 57th & 9th (2016)

Sting - 57th & 9th (2016)

57th & 9th is the twelfth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Sting, his first rock album in 13 years, released on 11 November 2016. Continue reading “Sting – 57th & 9th (2016)”

Falco – Falco 60 (2017) [Limited Premium Edition, 3CD-Set]

Falco - Falco 60 (2017) [Limited Premium Edition, 3CD-Set]

Falco – Falco 60 (2017) [Limited Premium Edition, 3CD-Set]
EAC Rip | 3xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Front & Back Scans
Total Size: 1.59 GB | 3% RAR Recovery

Deluxe three CD edition includes bonus tracks. 2017 collection released to coincide with what would have been the Austrian pop star’s 60th birthday. Falco had several international hits, “Rock Me Amadeus”, “Der Kommissar”, “Vienna Calling”, “Jeanny”, “The Sound of Musik”, “Coming Home (Jeanny Part II, One Year Later)” and posthumously, “Out of the Dark”. “Rock Me Amadeus” reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1986, making him the only artist whose principal language was German to score a vocal #1 hit in the United States. Continue reading “Falco – Falco 60 (2017) [Limited Premium Edition, 3CD-Set]”

Sonny & Cher – The Best Of Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On (1991)

Sonny & Cher - The Best Of Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On (1991)

Weighing in at a generous 21 tracks, Atco’s The Beat Goes On: The Best of Sonny & Cher is the definitive portrait of Sonny & Cher in their glory years. The duo left Atco in the late ’60s, staging a comeback on Kapp/MCA Records in the early ’70s Continue reading “Sonny & Cher – The Best Of Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On (1991)”