Lossless Music Archives | Best Collection

R.E.M. – Up (1998) [2005, Remastered, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]

R.E.M. - Up (1998) [2005, Remastered, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]

New Adventures in Hi-Fi functioned as the starting point for Up, R.E.M.’s first album without drummer Bill Berry and their first that truly repudiates the legacy of jangle pop. Up is dominated by keyboards, muted percussion, buried guitars, and moody melodies — only “Daysleeper” finds the group in familiar sonic territory. What’s striking about the album is that it doesn’t sound like a dramatic departure; even without the ringing guitars, it sounds like R.E.M., albeit R.E.M. trying to be adventurous and hip. Continue reading “R.E.M. – Up (1998) [2005, Remastered, DVD-Audio + Hi-Res]”

The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}

The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}

The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz / CD-Format | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz / Hi-Res
Total Size: 817 MB (CD-Format) + 1.34 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Eagle Rock | Genre: Progressive Rock

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The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {Blu-ray}

The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {Blu-ray}

The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {Blu-ray}
Blu-ray | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 1080p / 16:9 | DTS-HD MA (5.1 / 16bit / 48kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 16bit / 48kHz)
Blu-ray Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, French
Total Size: 34.9 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Eagle Vision | USA | Cat#: EVB335719 | Genre: Progressive Rock

The Moody Blues classic 1967 album Days Of Future Passed is regarded as one of the foundation stones of the progressive rock genre. In 2017, the band headed out on the album’s 50th Anniversary Tour including the wonderful show captured at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts in Toronto accompanied by a full orchestra. The concert begins with the band by themselves performing a selection of classic Moody Blues tracks before they are joined by the orchestra to perform Days Of Future Passed in its entirety plus a couple of fantastic encore tracks. This is without doubt the definitive live version of this much loved album and will be treasured by fans of The Moody Blues for years to come. Continue reading “The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed Live (2018) {Blu-ray}”

Freddie Mercury – Solo Discography (1985 – 2006)

Freddie Mercury - Solo Discography (1985 - 2006)

Combining theatrics and an outrageously flamboyant stage persona with his fine natural-born talent (he possessed one of the greatest voices in all of music and penned some of pop’s most enduring and instantly recognizable compositions), one of rock’s greatest all-time entertainers/showmen was unquestionably Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury. Born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5, 1946, in Zanzibar to Persian parents (his father worked as a high court cashier for the British government), young Farrokh was nicknamed Freddie by fellow classmates while attending an English boarding school, and adopted the moniker. Continue reading “Freddie Mercury – Solo Discography (1985 – 2006)”

Jon Bon Jovi – Discography (1990 – 1997)

Jon Bon Jovi - Discography (1990 - 1997)

Jon Bon Jovi spent most of the 1980s establishing his hard rock band Bon Jovi as one of the most popular in the Western world with multi-platinum albums like Slippery When Wet and New Jersey. He then put the band on hold to make a solo album, Blaze of Glory (released July 1990), whose songs were inspired by the motion picture Young Guns II. Bon Jovi the band was reactivated in 1992 with Keep the Faith, but the group’s namesake frontman continued to make time for his own projects during the following two decades, including the 1997 sophomore solo album Destination Anywhere. Continue reading “Jon Bon Jovi – Discography (1990 – 1997)”

The Mills Brothers – The Mills Brothers Chronological Vol.1 (1999)

The Mills Brothers - The Mills Brothers Chronological Vol.1 (1999)

The English JSP label, on six CD’s, has reissued in chronological order all of the Mills Brothers recordings from the 1931-39 period. Although they became a best-selling middle-of-the-road pop vocal group in the 1940’s, the Mills Brothers were most notable during their first decade for their uncanny ability to imitate instruments, particularly trumpet, trombone, and bass. Continue reading “The Mills Brothers – The Mills Brothers Chronological Vol.1 (1999)”

Johnny Winter – Johnny Winter And (1970) [2000, DCC, Remastered]

Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter And (1970) [2000, DCC, Remastered]

After two late-’60s albums on Columbia, Johnny Winter hit his stride in 1970 working with Rick Derringer and the McCoys, now recruited as his sidemen and collaborators (and proving with just about every note here how far they’d gotten past “Hang on Sloopy”). Continue reading “Johnny Winter – Johnny Winter And (1970) [2000, DCC, Remastered]”

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]”

Various Artists – Big Deal! Weinberger Funk Library UK 1975-1979 (2016)

Various Artists - Big Deal! Weinberger Funk Library UK 1975-1979 (2016)

Killer funk compilation full of highlights from the music archives of Josef Weinberger Ltd. In London, pulled from the most famous library albums on labels like JW (Josef Weinberger/Theme Music), IA (impress) or PM (Programme Music). First selection of 16 lost tracks by Toni Campo, Midas Touch, Trevor Bastow, Sidney Dale or Vick Flick, oscillanting between jazz-funk, soul music, proto techno and eastern-tinged disco, with open drum breaks, fat bass lines and plenty of horns/ wah wah/ organs/ vives/ flutes/ electronic effects. Continue reading “Various Artists – Big Deal! Weinberger Funk Library UK 1975-1979 (2016)”

Elvis Presley – Christmas With Elvis And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2017) [Deluxe Edition] [Official Digital Release]

Elvis Presley - Christmas With Elvis And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2017) [Deluxe Edition] [Official Digital Release]

Elvis Presley – Christmas With Elvis And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2017)
[Deluxe Edition] [Official Digital Release]
FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 334 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: RCA / Legacy | Genre: Christmas
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Various Artists – The Epic Vault: Rock N’ Roll Singles (1965-1967) (2018) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Various Artists - The Epic Vault: Rock N' Roll Singles (1965-1967) (2018) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Various Artists – The Epic Vault: Rock N’ Roll Singles (1965-1967) (2018)
[CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 331 MB (CD-Quality) + 871 MB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Epic / Legacy | Genre: Pop Rock, Rock & Roll
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Bon Jovi – This Left Feels Right (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Bon Jovi - This Left Feels Right (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

God knows why Bon Jovi felt the need to recut its best songs in an adult alternative style with Patrick Leonard as the producer. In the thorough liner notes — presented as an interview between Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora — by the suddenly ubiquitous David Wild, Jon claims that the roots of the album derive from a Japanese show he recorded where the intent was to release live, acoustic versions of the band’s standards. Alas, the recordings weren’t up to snuff, so the band reentered the studio and cut versions that have more overdubs than the original releases. Continue reading “Bon Jovi – This Left Feels Right (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

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}”

The Who – Tommy (1969) [2013, Super Deluxe Edition Box Set, Remastered, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]

The Who - Tommy (1969) [2013, Super Deluxe Edition Box Set, Remastered, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]

The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom, written almost entirely by Pete Townshend is now available as a new LIMITED EDITION Super Deluxe version that that includes 4 audio discs, an 80 page hardback book and a poster. The audio features the original album re-mastered along with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a full live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn. 18 of the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottowa, Canada on October the 15th 1969. Continue reading “The Who – Tommy (1969) [2013, Super Deluxe Edition Box Set, Remastered, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]”