Progressive Rock

Styx – Discography (1972 – 2015)

November 20, 2015

Styx - Discography (1972 - 2015)

Styx – Discography (1972 – 2015)
EAC Rip | 47xCD | FLAC Tracks & Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @300/600 dpi, JPG/PNG, Included
Total Size: 18.4 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
STUDIO ALBUMS | LIVE ALBUMS | COMPILATIONS
Label: Various | Genre: Progressive Rock

Although they began as an artsy prog rock band, Styx would eventually transform into the virtual arena rock prototype by the late ’70s and early ’80s, due to a fondness for bombastic rockers and soaring power ballads. The seeds for the band were planted in another Chicago band during the late ’60s, the Tradewinds, which featured brothers Chuck and John Panozzo (who played bass and drums, respectively), as well as acquaintance Dennis DeYoung (vocals, keyboards).Read More

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Jethro Tull – 6 Albums (MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}

November 12, 2015

Jethro Tull - 6 Albums (MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}

Jethro Tull – 6 Albums (MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}
EAC Rip | 7xCD | FLAC/APE Tracks & Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @300/600 dpi, JPG, Included
Total Size: 1.83 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc I & II | Genre: Progressive Rock

Stand Up (1969), Living In The Past (1972), Thick As A Brick (1972), A Passion Play (1973), War Child (1974), Songs From The Wood (1977)Read More

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Jethro Tull – Discography (1968 – 2012)

November 10, 2015

Jethro Tull - Discography (1968 - 2012)

Jethro Tull – Discography (1968 – 2012)
EAC/XLD Rip | 90xCD | FLAC/APE Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @300/600 dpi, JPG, PNG, TIF Included
Total Size: 46 GB GB | 3% RAR Recovery
STUDIO ALBUMS | LIVE ALBUMS | COMPILATIONS | BOX SET
Label: Various | Genre: Progressive Rock

Jethro Tull were a unique phenomenon in popular music history. Their mix of hard rock; folk melodies; blues licks; surreal, impossibly dense lyrics; and overall profundity defied easy analysis, but that didn’t dissuade fans from giving them 11 gold and five platinum albums. At the same time, critics rarely took them seriously, and they were off the cutting edge of popular music since the end of the 1970s. But no record store in the country would want to be without multiple copies of each of their most popular albumsRead More

Progressive Rock

Styx – The Grand Illusion (1977) {2010, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}

October 23, 2015

Styx - The Grand Illusion (1977) {2010, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}

Styx – The Grand Illusion (1977) {2010, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}
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Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 067 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Other than being their first platinum-selling album, The Grand Illusion led Styx steadfastly into the domain of AOR rock. Built on the strengths of “Come Sail Away”‘s ballad-to-rock metamorphosis, which gained them their second Top Ten hit, and on the high harmonies of newcomer Tommy Shaw throughout “Fooling Yourself,” The Grand Illusion introduced Styx to the gates of commercial stardom.Read More

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Electric Light Orchestra – Discovery (1979) {1993, MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}

September 16, 2015

Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery (1979) {1993, MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}

Electric Light Orchestra – Discovery (1979) {1993, MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc, Remastered}
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Total Size: 245 MB (CD) + 561 MB (Scans)| 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MasterSound, USA | Cat#: ZK 64646 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Electric Light Orchestra continued on their winning Top 40 ways with the release of Discovery. Now pared down to the basic four-piece unit, Jeff Lynne continued to dominate the band and they still got their hits (this time around it was the smash “Don’t Bring Me Down”). Elsewhere on the disc there was, of note, “Last Train to London” and “Confusion.” Though Discovery charted well, it was becoming obvious that ELO were starting to run themselves out of useful Beatles hooksRead More

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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