Progressive Rock

Electric Light Orchestra – Face The Music (1975) {1993, MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}

September 16, 2015

Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music (1975) {1993, MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}

Electric Light Orchestra – Face The Music (1975) {1993, MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}
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Total Size: 227 MB (CD) + 530 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MasterSound, USA | Cat#: ZK 57184 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Electric Light Orchestra’s more modest follow-up to Eldorado is a very solid album, if not as bold or unified. It was also their first recorded at Musicland in Munich, which became Jeff Lynne’s preferred venue for cutting records. At the time, he was also generating songs at a breakneck pace and had perfected the majestic, quasi-Beatles-type style (sort of high-wattage Magical Mystery Tour) introduced two albums earlier. The sound is stripped down a bitRead More

Progressive Rock

Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado (1974) {1993, DCC Compact Classics, Remastered}

September 16, 2015

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (1974) {1993, DCC Compact Classics, Remastered}

Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado (1974) {1993, DCC Compact Classics, Remastered}
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Total Size: 240 MB (CD) + 392 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: DCC Compact Classics, Japan | Cat#: GZS 1041 | Genre: Progressive Rock

This is the album where Jeff Lynne finally found the sound he’d wanted since co-founding Electric Light Orchestra three years earlier. Up to this point, most of the group’s music had been self-contained — Lynne, Richard Tandy, et al., providing whatever was needed, vocally or instrumentally, even if it meant overdubbing their work layer upon layerRead More

Progressive Rock

Rush – Roll The Bones (1991) {2011, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}

September 2, 2015

Rush - Roll The Bones (1991) {2011, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}

Rush – Roll The Bones (1991) {2011, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}
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Total Size: 355 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 116 | Genre: Progressive Rock

From a lyrical perspective, 1991’s Roll the Bones is quite possibly Rush’s darkest album (most of the songs deal with death in no uncertain terms), but from a musical point of view, the record treads territory (highbrow melodic hard rock) similar to its recent predecessors, with only a few surprises thrown in for good measure.Read More

Progressive Rock

The Alan Parsons Project – The Complete Albums Collection (2014) {Box Set, Remastered}

August 29, 2015

The Alan Parsons Project - The Complete Albums Collection (2014) {Box Set, Remastered}

The Alan Parsons Project – The Complete Albums Collection (2014) {Box Set, Remastered}
EAC Rip | 11xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @600 PNG, Included
Total Size: 3.49 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony/Universal/RCA, EU | Catalog Box#: 88697890552 | Genre: Progressive Rock

The Complete Collection of albums from the forward thinking duo The Alan Parsons Project features 11 discs including the previously unreleased album, The Sicilian Defence. The set also includes a new booklet with brand new liner notes with the discs featuring the original track lists and mini-replica coversRead More

Progressive Rock

The Alan Parsons Project ‎- I Robot (1977) {1985, MFSL Remastered}

August 28, 2015

The Alan Parsons Project ‎- I Robot (1977) {1985, MFSL Remastered}

The Alan Parsons Project ‎- I Robot (1977) {1985, MFSL Remastered}
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Total Size: 262 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL, Japan | Cat#: MFCD 804 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Alan Parsons delivered a detailed blueprint for his Project on their 1975 debut, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, but it was on its 1977 follow-up, I Robot, that the outfit reached its true potential. Borrowing not just its title but concept from Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi Robot trilogy, this album explores many of the philosophies regarding artificial intelligence — will it overtake man, what does it mean to be man, what responsibilities do mechanical beings have to their creators, and so on and so forth — with enough knotty intelligence to make it a seminal text of late-’70s geeks, and while it is also trueRead More

Progressive Rock

The Alan Parsons Project – Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe (1976) {1994, MFSL Remastered}

August 28, 2015

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe (1976) {1994, MFSL Remastered}

The Alan Parsons Project – Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe (1976)
{1994, MFSL Remastered}
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Total Size: 748 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II, USA | Cat#: UDCD 606 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, is the debut album by the progressive rock group The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1976. The lyrical and musical themes – retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe — attracted a cult audience. The title of the album is taken from a popular title for a collection of Poe’s macabre tales of the same name, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first published in 1908 and reprinted many times sinceRead More

Progressive Rock

The Alan Parsons Project – Studio & Compilation Albums (1976 – 2007)

August 18, 2015

The Alan Parsons Project - Studio & Compilation Albums (1976 - 2007)

The Alan Parsons Project – Studio & Compilation Albums (1976 – 2007)
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Total Size: 19.5 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Various | Genre: Progressive Rock

The Alan Parsons Project were a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, bassist and vocalist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott and vocalist Lenny ZakatekRead More

Progressive Rock

Alan Parsons – Studio, Live & Compilation Albums (1993 – 2010)

August 17, 2015

Alan Parsons - Studio, Live & Compilation Albums (1993 - 2010)

Alan Parsons – Studio, Live & Compilation Albums (1993 – 2010)
EAC Rip | 10xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 6.84 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Various | Genre: Progressive Rock

As indicated by its name, the Alan Parsons Project was not a band so much as a concept overseen by the titular Parsons, a successful producer and engineer. Born in Britain on December 20, 1948, he began his musical career as a staff engineer at EMI Studios, and first garnered significant industry exposure via his work on the Beatles’ 1969 masterpiece, Abbey Road. Parsons subsequently worked with Paul McCartney on several of Wings’ earliest albums; he also oversaw recordings from Al Stewart, Cockney Rebel, and Pilot, but solidified his reputation by working on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the MoonRead More

Progressive Rock

Pink Floyd – The Best Of Pink Floyd: A Foot In The Door (2011)

August 4, 2015

Pink Floyd - The Best Of Pink Floyd: A Foot In The Door (2011)

Pink Floyd – The Best Of Pink Floyd: A Foot In The Door (2011)
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Total Size: 519 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: EMI | Cat#: 50999 028966 2 5 | Genre: Progressive Rock

The first single-disc Pink Floyd compilation to surface in 30 years — the last being A Collection of Great Dance Songs, released as a stopgap between The Wall and The Final Cut — A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd has its share of idiosyncrasies, quirks evident right from the choice of the moody “Hey You” as the set’s openerRead More

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