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The Carpenters – The Essential Collection 1965-1997 (2002) [4CD Box Set]

The Carpenters - The Essential Collection 1965-1997 (2002) [4CD Box Set]

The Essential Collection: 1965–1997 is a box-set compilation album from The Carpenters that, with the exception of a few track changes, is essentially the same as the 1991 From the Top set. Coming in at four discs and 73 songs, this album is one of the biggest of all Carpenters compilation sets. The songs from this box set are everything from the Richard Carpenter Trio recordings from 1965 to their biggest hits in the early 1970s to the last song ever recorded by the Carpenters, “Now”. Continue reading “The Carpenters – The Essential Collection 1965-1997 (2002) [4CD Box Set]”

Lesley Gore – The Ultimate Collection: Start The Party Again 1963-1968 (2005)

Lesley Gore - The Ultimate Collection: Start The Party Again 1963-1968 (2005)

A 32-track, 77-minute plus blockbuster collection of the very best recorded moments by one of the 60s brightest and most enduring female stars. Includes the Top 5 smash singles It’s My Party, Judy’s Turn To Cry, She’s A Fool and the feminist anthem You Don’t Own Me. Classic productions by Quincy Jones, Bob Crewe, Marvin Hamlish and Gamble & Huff. Superb enhanced quality audio. Detailed booklet packed with evocative photos and informative liner notes. Continue reading “Lesley Gore – The Ultimate Collection: Start The Party Again 1963-1968 (2005)”

Del Shannon – The Essential Collection 1961-1991 (2012)

Del Shannon - The Essential Collection 1961-1991 (2012)

2012 two CD collection. Del Shannon made an instant impact when his debut release, the startlingly innovative and much-loved ‘Runaway’, went to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. He went onto score another six UK Top Ten hits in a career that encompassed jukebox classics, dramatic minor key ballads, definitive cover versions, raucous garage-punk, beautifully arranged psych-pop Continue reading “Del Shannon – The Essential Collection 1961-1991 (2012)”

Various Artists – Christmas Café (2016) [Official Digital Release]

Various Artists - Christmas Café (2016) [Official Digital Release]

Various Artists – Christmas Café (2016) [Official Digital Release]
FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 0.97 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Legacy Recordings | Genre: Xmas, Pop
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Belinda Carlisle – The Very Best Of Belinda Carlisle (2015)

Belinda Carlisle - The Very Best Of Belinda Carlisle (2015)

At 34 tracks, Music Club’s The Very Best of Belinda Carlisle is a little lengthy, but that extra space not only means that there’s plenty of room for the big hits everybody knows — “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” “Circle in the Sand,” “I Get Weak” — but also ’90s hits that were bigger in Europe than the U.S. Continue reading “Belinda Carlisle – The Very Best Of Belinda Carlisle (2015)”

Tony Bennett – The Classic Christmas Album (2011)

Tony Bennett - The Classic Christmas Album (2011)

This collection features a sampling of four Tony Bennett Christmas albums — Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, Our Favorite Things, Christmas with Tony Bennett, and A Swingin’ Christmas — released between 1968 and 2008. Continue reading “Tony Bennett – The Classic Christmas Album (2011)”

Van Morrison – Discography (1967 – 2017)

Van Morrison - Discography (1967 - 2017)

Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music’s true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. Subject only to the whims of his own muse Continue reading “Van Morrison – Discography (1967 – 2017)”

Various Artists – Whatever Happened To Christmas (2015)

Various Artists - Whatever Happened To Christmas (2015)

Frankie Avalon – The Best Of Frankie Avalon (1999)

Frankie Avalon - The Best Of Frankie Avalon (1999)

20 track collection on the Repertoire label. Includes ‘Teachers Pet’, ‘Shy Guy’, ‘Ginger Bread’ , ‘Venus’ and more.
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James Taylor – JT (1977) [1994, MasterSound Remastered, 24-Karat Gold]

James Taylor - JT (1977) [1994, MasterSound Remastered, 24-Karat Gold]

On his last couple of Warner Bros albums, Gorilla and In the Pocket, James Taylor seemed to be converting himself from the shrinking violet, too-sensitive-to-live “rainy day man” of his early records into a mainstream, easy listening crooner with a sunny outlook. JT, his debut album for Columbia, was something of a defense of this conversion. Continue reading “James Taylor – JT (1977) [1994, MasterSound Remastered, 24-Karat Gold]”

Caetano Veloso – A Foreign Sound (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Caetano Veloso - A Foreign Sound (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Caetano Veloso – A Foreign Sound (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 4.39 GB (ISO) + 4.03 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.50 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Universal Music | Brazil | Cat#: 0602498192283 | Genre: Bossa Nova, Easy Listening

When an international artist records an English-language album, crossover is usually in the cards. For Caetano Veloso, however, it’s an entirely different matter. The statesman of Brazilian pop, a musical giant who is on track to record more in his fifth decade of artistic striving than in any other (not to mention his accompanying exploits in literature), Veloso has no need to begin an American campaign. He also has shown no wish to. Caetano Veloso has never courted an American audience, though he has drawn a sizeable one because of his prescient, emotionally charged songwriting and a performance style that can be studied or unhinged depending on the circumstances required. Continue reading “Caetano Veloso – A Foreign Sound (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Elvis Costello – North (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Elvis Costello - North (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Elvis Costello – North (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.90 GB (ISO) + 2.28 GB (FLAC Mch) + 883 MB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | EU | Cat#: 986 121-3 | Genre: Easy Listening

North, Elvis Costello’s 20th album of new material, follows the deliberately classicist When I Was Cruel by a mere year, but it feels more the sequel to 1998’s Burt Bacharach collaboration, Painted From Memory, or even 1993’s roundly ignored classical pop experiment, The Juliet Letters. Costello has abandoned clanging guitars and drums of Cruel — abandoned rock & roll, really — to return to a set of classically influenced songs, all “composed, arranged and conducted” by the man himself (on The Juliet Letters, he was merely the composer and voice). Continue reading “Elvis Costello – North (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Andy Gibb – Discography (1977-1991)

Andy Gibb - Discography (1977-1991)

Once the Bee Gees experienced a career revival with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977, the Gibb brothers’ younger sibling Andy began his own solo career. Following his brothers’ disco style, Andy Gibb’s first three singles (“I Just Want to Be Your Everything,” “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water,” and “Shadow Dancing”) all hit number one. Three more consecutive Top Ten hits followed, cementing his overnight sensation status. Continue reading “Andy Gibb – Discography (1977-1991)”

R.E.M. – Reveal (2001) [2005, Reissue, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]

R.E.M. - Reveal (2001) [2005, Reissue, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]

Reveal is the 12th studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 2001 on Warner Bros. After having adjusted to former drummer Bill Berry’s departure and releasing Up to mixed response in 1998, R.E.M. released the more upbeat Reveal, co-produced with long-time collaborator Patrick McCarthy. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. Continue reading “R.E.M. – Reveal (2001) [2005, Reissue, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]”

Various Artists – 80’s Hits (2014) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Various Artists - 80's Hits (2014) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Various Artists – 80’s Hits (2014) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.07 GB (ISO) + 1.24 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | EU | Cat#: 88843094632 | Genre: Pop

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