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Billy Joel – 52nd Street (1978) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

Billy Joel - 52nd Street (1978) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

Billy Joel – 52nd Street (1978) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}
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Label: Audio Fidelity, USA | Cat#: AFZ 095 | Genre: Pop Rock

Once The Stranger became a hit, Billy Joel quickly re-entered the studio with producer Phil Ramone to record the follow-up, 52nd Street. Instead of breaking from the sound of The Stranger, Joel chose to expand it, making it more sophisticated and somewhat jazzy. Often, his moves sounded as if they were responses to Steely Dan — indeed, his phrasing and melody for “Zanzibar” is a direct homage to Donald Fagen circa Continue reading “Billy Joel – 52nd Street (1978) {2010, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}”

Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) {1996, MFSL, Remastered}

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) {1996, MFSL, Remastered}

Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) {1996, MFSL, Remastered}
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Label: MFSL (UltraDisc II) | Cat#: UDCD 2-678 | Genre: Pop Rock

Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist Continue reading “Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) {1996, MFSL, Remastered}”

John Lennon – 5 Albums (MFSL, Remastered, 24-Karat Gold CD)

John Lennon - 5 Albums (MFSL, Remastered, 24-Karat Gold CD)

John Lennon – 5 Albums (MFSL, Remastered, 24-Karat Gold CD)
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Total Size: 1.48 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | Cat#: UDCD 763/760/759/761/600 | Genre: Pop Rock

Original Limited Edition 24-karat Gold Audiophile CD Continue reading “John Lennon – 5 Albums (MFSL, Remastered, 24-Karat Gold CD)”

VA – Greatest Singer-Songwriter Classics (2015)

VA - Greatest Singer-Songwriter Classics (2015)

Featured by Billy Joel, JJ Cale, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Elton John, Van Morrison, Lou Reed, Paul Carrack, Norah Jones, Paul Weller, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, Nick Drake, Sarah McLachlan, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, Al Stewart, Dolly Parton and many more Continue reading “VA – Greatest Singer-Songwriter Classics (2015)”

John Lennon – Double Fantasy: Stripped Down (2010) {2014, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz}

John Lennon - Double Fantasy: Stripped Down (2010) {2014, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz}

John Lennon – Double Fantasy: Stripped Down (2010) {2014, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz}
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Total Size: 1.06 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Capitol Records | Genre: Pop Rock

Released on 2010 and now available in hi-res, this release of Double Fantasy contains the digitally remastered version of the 1980 Double Fantasy album plus a never before released ‘Stripped Down’ version produced by Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas. Includes ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’, ‘Woman’, ‘Watching The Wheels’, ‘Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)’ and more Continue reading “John Lennon – Double Fantasy: Stripped Down (2010) {2014, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz}”

Pat Benatar – The Very Best Album Ever (2002)

Pat Benatar - The Very Best Album Ever (2002)

Pat Benatar’s polished mainstream pop/rock made her one of the more popular female vocalists of the early ’80s. Although she came on like an arena rocker with her power chords, tough sexuality, and powerful vocals, her music was straight pop/rock underneath all the bluster. Born Patricia Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the singer was raised in the nearby town of Lindenhurst on Long Island, NY. Benatar began singing regularly in the New York City area by the ’70s, where she was discovered at the Catch a Rising Star club and signed by Chrysalis Records. Backed by a stellar band led by guitarist Neil Geraldo Continue reading “Pat Benatar – The Very Best Album Ever (2002)”

Sheryl Crow – The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow (2003)

Sheryl Crow - The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow (2003)

Sheryl Crow was one of the key artists of the ’90s, if the yardstick is capturing the sound and spirit of the time. A former backing vocalist for Michael Jackson — an association that led to dubious tabloid headlines romantically linking her with the singer long before she was a star in her own right — she rode the first great wave of Women in Rock hysteria of the alt-rock explosion to fame with her first album, Tuesday Night Music Club, in 1994, settling into the weary aftermath of the post-grunge years with her brilliant eponymous second album Continue reading “Sheryl Crow – The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow (2003)”

The Mamas & The Papas – 16 Of Their Greatest Hits (1969) {1986, MCA Records}

The Mamas & The Papas - 16 Of Their Greatest Hits (1969) {1986, MCA Records}

The Mamas & The Papas – 16 Of Their Greatest Hits (1969) {1986, MCA Records}
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Label: MCA Records | Cat#: MCAD-5701 | Genre: Pop Rock

A great overview of the music from this group, one of the founders of the California sound in the late ’60s. This is a good collection of their unforgettable electric folk-pop songs, including “Monday, Monday” and “California Dreamin’.” (Originally released in August 1969 by Dunhill Records, 16 of Their Greatest Hits, it was reissued on CD by MCA Records in 1986.) Continue reading “The Mamas & The Papas – 16 Of Their Greatest Hits (1969) {1986, MCA Records}”

Patty Smyth – Greatest Hits – Featuring Scandal (1998)

Patty Smyth - Greatest Hits - Featuring Scandal (1998)

When Smyth had her first hit with the band Scandal in 1982 with the peppy kiss-off “Goodbye to You,” MTV was still in its infancy and Alanis Morissette was not long out of diapers. Not exactly the stereotypical groundbreaker, the New York-born Smyth nonetheless helped make the pre-Madonna ’80s safe for women in rock, paving the way for such hit makers as Morissette, Sheryl Crow, and the whole Lilith Fair flock. While this career-spanning retrospective is a Continue reading “Patty Smyth – Greatest Hits – Featuring Scandal (1998)”

Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (1983) [2013, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Billy Joel - An Innocent Man (1983) [2013, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Recording The Nylon Curtain exhausted Billy Joel, and even though it had a pair of major hits, it didn’t rival its predecessors in terms of sales. Since he labored so hard at the record, he decided it was time for a break — it was time to record an album just for fun. And that’s how his homage to pre-Beatles pop, An Innocent Man, was conceived: it was Continue reading “Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (1983) [2013, Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]”