Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf (1968) {1997, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf (1968) {1997, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf (1968) {1997, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 336 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | USA | Cat#: UDCD 714 | Genre: Hard Rock, Blues Rock

Steppenwolf entered the studio for their recording debut with a lot of confidence — based on a heavy rehearsal schedule before they ever got signed — and it shows on this album, a surprisingly strong debut album from a tight hard rock outfit who was obviously searching for a hook to hang their sound on. Continue reading “Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf (1968) {1997, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”

Thompson Twins – The Greatest Hits (2003)

Thompson Twins - The Greatest Hits (2003)

Thompson Twins – The Greatest Hits (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 430 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | EU | Cat#: 82876 507262 | Genre: New Wave, Synth-Pop, Pop Rock

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Talking Heads – Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992 (1992)

Talking Heads - Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992 (1992)

Talking Heads – Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992 (1992)
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 902 MB (CDs) + 67 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: EMI | UK | Cat#: 0777 7 80466 2 2 | Genre: Post Punk, New Wave

Featuring material from every Talking Heads album except the live The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline is a terrific double-disc retrospective of the band’s long and varied career. Featuring all of their hit singles and trademark songs (“Psycho Killer,” “Take Me to the River,” “Burning Down the House,” “And She Was,” “Once in a Lifetime,” “Swamp,” “Memories Can’t Wait,” “Crosseyed and Painless,” “Road to Nowhere,” “(Nothing But) Flowers,” “Life During Wartime”), the set also includes five previously unreleased tracks. Continue reading “Talking Heads – Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992 (1992)”

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – 2 Albums (1971-1972) {MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 2 Albums (1971-1972) {MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – 2 Albums (1971-1972) {MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 610 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | USA | Genre: Progressive Rock
 
Tarkus (1971) & Trilogy (1972) Continue reading “Emerson, Lake & Palmer – 2 Albums (1971-1972) {MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”

Joni Mitchell – The Beginning Of Survival (2004) {Compilation}

Joni Mitchell – The Beginning Of Survival (2004) {Compilation}
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Total Size: 504 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Geffen | USA | Cat#: B0002836-02 | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock

The Beginning of Survival is a whopping 16-track collection from Joni Mitchell’s Geffen period, recorded between 1985-1998, and carefully chosen by the artist as “commentaries on the world in which we live.” One has to wonder about the title: if by saying this is “the beginning of survival,” Mitchell is referring to her own retirement strategy — she is no longer making new records. Continue reading “Joni Mitchell – The Beginning Of Survival (2004) {Compilation}”

R.E.M – 2 Albums (1983-1984) {MFSL, 24-karat Gold Disc Remastered}

R.E.M - 2 Albums (1983-1984) {MFSL, 24-karat Gold Disc Remastered}

R.E.M – 2 Albums (1983-1984) {MFSL, 24-karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC/XLD Rip | 2xCD | APE/FLAC Image & Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 629 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | USA | Genre: Pop Rock
 
Murmur (1983) & Reckoning (1984)

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Ten Years After – 2 Albums (1971-1972) {Audio Fidelity, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Ten Years After - 2 Albums (1971-1972) {Audio Fidelity, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Ten Years After – 2 Albums (1971-1972) {Audio Fidelity, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 588 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Genre: Blues Rock, Hard Rock
 
A Space in Time (1971) & Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972)

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Grand Funk Railroad – We’re An American Band (1973) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band (1973) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

Grand Funk Railroad – We’re An American Band (1973) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 360 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 047 | Genre: Hard Rock

Having made several changes in their business and musical efforts in 1972, Grand Funk Railroad made even more extensive ones in 1973, beginning with their name, which was officially truncated to “Grand Funk.” And keyboardist Craig Frost, credited as a sideman on Phoenix, the previous album, was now a full-fledged bandmember, filling out the musical arrangements. Continue reading “Grand Funk Railroad – We’re An American Band (1973) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}”

Lou Reed – Transformer (1972) {1982, Non-Remastered}

Lou Reed - Transformer (1972) {1982, Non-Remastered}

Lou Reed – Transformer (1972) {1982, Non-Remastered}
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Total Size: 209 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: RCA | W.Germany | Cat#: ND 83806 | Genre: Glam Rock

David Bowie has never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity of the Velvet Underground’s music had a major impact on Bowie’s work, it was only fitting that as Ziggy Stardust mania was reaching its peak, Bowie would offer Lou Reed some much needed help with his career, which was stuck in neutral after his first solo album came and went. Musically, Reed’s work didn’t have too much in common with the sonic bombast of the glam scene Continue reading “Lou Reed – Transformer (1972) {1982, Non-Remastered}”

Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour ’74.. (1974) [2014, Remastered, 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set 7CD+DVD]

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74.. (1974) [2014, Remastered, 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set 7CD+DVD]

Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour ’74.. (1974) [2014, Remastered, 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set 7CD+DVD]
EAC Rip | 7xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
DVD | NTSC 16:9 (720×480) VBR | Dolby AC-3, 2.0 & 5.1 / DTS, 5.1
Total Size: 2.57 GB (CDs) + 7.70 GB (DVD) + 206 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony | EU | Cat#: 88875004882 | Genre: Blues Rock

The 40th anniversary expanded deluxe edition release of one of Rory Gallagher’s most celebrated recordings. The most expansive edition to date, of this landmark album. Featured for the first time on record, all three shows. Packaged in a special deluxe edition 8 CD 10” boxset and including previously unreleased tracks, remastered audio, photos, extensive liner notes, feature length documentary, memorabilia and more. Continue reading “Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour ’74.. (1974) [2014, Remastered, 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set 7CD+DVD]”

Various Artists – Pure… Electronic 80s (2014)

Various Artists - Pure... Electronic 80s (2014)

Various Artists – Pure… Electronic 80s (2014)
EAC Rip | 4xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.76 GB (CDs) + 17.7 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | EU | Cat#: 88843039802 | Genre: Synth-Pop, Pop Rock

Sony Music’s Pure… Electronic ’80s collects 64 new wave/synth pop hits over the span of four CDs, with highlights arriving via era radio staples like “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” (A Flock of Seagulls), “Love My Way” (Psychedelic Furs), “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” (Dead or Alive), and “Rockit” (Herbie Hancock). Continue reading “Various Artists – Pure… Electronic 80s (2014)”

Canned Heat – Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)

Canned Heat - Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)

Canned Heat – Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 940 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: EMI | USA | Cat#: 7243 8 29165 2 9 | Genre: Blues Rock

For all but the completists, this anthology should more than suffice as an apt compact-disc retrospective of Canned Heat’s releases on Liberty Records. To that end, it’s a more or less chronological overview of the combo’s LPs, commencing with a trio of tunes from a spring 1967 studio session that predates their self-titled debut (1967). Continue reading “Canned Heat – Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)”

Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}

Various Artists - Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}

Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}
EAC Rip | 4xCD | WavPack (.wv) Image + Cue + Log | Scans Included
Total Size: 1.12 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | Japan | Cat#: MFCD 4-816 | Genre: Blues Rock, Folk, Hard Rock

It’s almost impossible to regard the soundtrack albums for the Michael Wadleigh documentary Woodstock, simply as music, apart from the event that inspired them or what that event has come to represent. Music from the Original Soundtrack and More: Woodstock was originally released by Atlantic’s Cotillion imprint as a three-LP set in a gatefold sleeve. Continue reading “Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}”