Author: Leon

Montrose – Paper Money (1974) [2017, Remaster, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Montrose - Paper Money (1974) [2017, Remaster, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Montrose – Paper Money (1974) [2017, Remaster, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz & 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
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Total Size: 5.18 GB (Hi-Res) + 782 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino | US | Cat#: 081227942168 | Genre: Hard Rock

By the time they entered the studio to begin working on their second album, 1974’s Paper Money, the wheels were already starting to come off the supercharged Montrose wagon. Though they involved virtually the same cast of characters responsible for the band’s groundbreaking Montrose LP (including producer Ted Templeman and engineer Donn Landee), the sessions for Paper Money were often marred by the fast-deteriorating relationship between guitar hero Ronnie Montrose and his very talented lead singer, Sammy Hagar. Continue reading “Montrose – Paper Money (1974) [2017, Remaster, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Montrose – Montrose (1973) [2017, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Montrose - Montrose (1973) [2017, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Montrose – Montrose (1973) [2017, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 4.84 GB (Hi-Res) + 646 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino | EU | Cat#: 081227942182 | Genre: Hard Rock

The ’70s gave us a slew of classic hard rock albums and though it hasn’t had the lasting influence of, say, Boston’s or Aerosmith’s first albums, Montrose’s eponymous debut proved equally influential and important in its day. Released in 1973, the record also introduced a young Sammy Hagar and his powerful vocals to the world, but the explosive aggression of Ronnie Montrose’s biting guitar left no doubt as to why it was his name gracing the cover. Continue reading “Montrose – Montrose (1973) [2017, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [2021, Limited Edition, Reissue, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [2021, Limited Edition, Reissue, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [2021, Limited Edition, Reissue, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 3.83 GB (Hi-Res) + 756 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Charisma / Rhino | US | Cat#: RCV1 187964| Genre: Progressive Rock
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Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) [2019] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) [2019] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) [2019] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 5.94 GB (Hi-Res) + 1.08 GB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Hollywood Records | US | Cat#: D003027601 | Genre: Soundtrack, Glam Rock
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The soundtrack to the 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody offers a fittingly cinematic portrait of the iconic rock band, built around a handful of the group’s most well-known songs, including live versions and several tracks reworked specifically for the film. As a souvenir of the movie, the soundtrack works especially well. Continue reading “Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) [2019] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Poco – Collected (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Poco - Collected (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Poco – Collected (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Label: Music On Vinyl | EU | Cat#: MOVLP2280 | Genre: Country Rock

Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes liner notes. The American country rock band Poco formed in 1968 and released different charting songs during the 1970s and 1980s. In 50 years, they recorded more than enough worthwhile material to bundle on two LPs. The Poco Collected album features songs from different periods and includes some live recordings. During their 50-years of existence Poco performed in various groupings and recorded over 20 studio albums. Continue reading “Poco – Collected (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973) [2014, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) [2014, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973) [2014, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 982 MB (Hi-Res) + 296 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Tamla Motown | EU | Cat#: 0050109032617 | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk

When Stevie Wonder applied his tremendous songwriting talents to the unsettled social morass that was the early ’70s, he produced one of his greatest, most important works, a rich panoply of songs addressing drugs, spirituality, political ethics, the unnecessary perils of urban life, and what looked to be the failure of the ’60s dream — all set within a collection of charts as funky and catchy as any he’d written before. Continue reading “Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973) [2014, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 979 MB (Hi-Res) + 290 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MOFI 1-009 | Genre: Funk, Soul, R&B
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After releasing two “head” records during 1970 and 1971, Stevie Wonder expanded his compositional palette with 1972’s Talking Book to include societal ills as well as tender love songs, and so recorded the first smash album of his career. What had been hinted at on the intriguing project Music of My Mind was here focused into a laser beam of tight songwriting, warm electronic arrangements, and ebullient performances — altogether the most realistic vision of a musical personality ever put to wax, beginning with a disarmingly simple love song, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (but of course, it’s only the composition that’s simple). Continue reading “Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (1972) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

The Beatles – Live At The Hollywood Bowl (2016) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Beatles - Live At The Hollywood Bowl (2016) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Beatles – Live At The Hollywood Bowl (2016) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 1.20 GB (Hi-Res) + 568 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Apple / Universal | EU | Cat#: 0602557054996 | Genre: Rock & Roll

Capitol Records initially planned to release a live album from the Beatles in 1964, recording the band’s August 23 concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Nobody at the label found the results satisfactory so they attempted it again almost exactly a year later, taping the August 29 and 30, 1965 shows at the Hollywood Bowl but, once again, it proved hard to hear the Fab Four from underneath the roar of the crowd, so those tapes were also shelved. Continue reading “The Beatles – Live At The Hollywood Bowl (2016) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

The Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge (1994) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge (1994) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge (1994) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Label: Universal | US & EU | Cat#: 7243 8 39830 1 8 / 7243 8 39782 1 2 | Genre: Pop Rock, Rock & Roll

Funny that the much-touted “reunion/comeback” album Steel Wheels followed Dirty Work by just three years, while it took the Stones five years to turn out its sequel, Voodoo Lounge — a time frame that seems much more appropriate for a “comeback.” To pile on the irony, Voodoo Lounge feels more like a return to form than its predecessor, even if it’s every bit as calculated and Bill Wyman has flown the coup. Continue reading “The Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge (1994) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

The Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon (1997) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon (1997) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon (1997) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 4.54 GB (Hi-Res) + 853 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Polydor / Universal | US & EU | Cat#: 0602557974799 | Genre: Rock & Roll, Pop Rock
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Voodoo Lounge confirmed that the Stones could age gracefully, but it never sounded modern; it sounded classicist. With its successor, Bridges to Babylon, Mick Jagger was determined to bring the Rolling Stones into the ’90s, albeit tentatively, and hired hip collaborators like the Dust Brothers (Beck, Beastie Boys) and Danny Saber (Black Grape) to give the veteran group an edge on their explorations of drum loops and samples. Continue reading “The Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon (1997) [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984) [Japanese Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (1984) [Japanese Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984) [Japanese Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Label: Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd. | Japan | Cat#: 20RS-54 | Genre: Progressive Rock

One of the most interesting aspects about the Alan Parsons Project is the band’s ability to forge a main theme with each of its songs, while at the same time sounding extremely sharp and polished. Much of this formula is used in Ammonia Avenue, only this time the songs rise above Parsons’ overall message due to the sheer beauty of the lyrics partnered with the luster of the instruments. Continue reading “The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984) [Japanese Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture (1985) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture (1985) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture (1985) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 918 MB (Hi-Res) + 308 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Arista | US Promo | Cat#: AL8-8263| Genre: Progressive Rock

Vulture Culture is the eighth studio album by The Alan Parsons Project
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John Harrison – Creepshow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1982] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

John Harrison - Creepshow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1982] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

John Harrison – Creepshow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1982] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 921 MB (Hi-Res) + 254 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Varèse Sarabande | US | Cat#: STV 81160 | Genre: Score, Soundtrack

Creepshow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 1982 horror film Creepshow, composed and conducted by John Harrison. The soundtrack album was released by Varèse Sarabande Records as an LP record in the United States in 1982. Continue reading “John Harrison – Creepshow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1982] [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

XTC – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) [2000] [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) [2000] [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

XTC – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) [2000] [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 3.53 GB (Hi-Res) + 590 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Ape House | UK | Cat#: APELP119 | Genre: Alternative Rock

Anyone expecting Wasp Star: Apple Venus, Vol. 2 to continue the majestic acoustic-orchestral blends of Apple Venus will be disappointed, because it’s a straightforward collection of sharp, witty, well-constructed pop songs. Directness is perhaps the oddest thing about Wasp Star – it’s unassuming pop from a band that operated on a conceptual plain for nearly 20 years. Continue reading “XTC – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) [2000] [2018, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Paul And Linda McCartney – Ram (1971) [2012, Remastered Mono Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Paul And Linda McCartney - Ram (1971) [2012, Remastered Mono Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Paul And Linda McCartney – Ram (1971) [2012, Remastered Mono Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 529 MB (Hi-Res) + 224 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MPL / Hear Music | EU | Cat#: HRM-33452-01 | Genre: Classic Rock

Previously commercially unreleased monophonic mix of the album. Released in conjunction with the Ram Archive Collection edition. Comes in mock white label style with white inner sleeve and insert. The individual number can be found on the A-side label, the B-side label is plain white. Continue reading “Paul And Linda McCartney – Ram (1971) [2012, Remastered Mono Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”