Alice In Chains – Greatest Hits (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Alice In Chains - Greatest Hits (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Alice In Chains – Greatest Hits (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.91 GB (ISO) + 2.47 GB (FLAC Mch) + 894 MB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Columbia | USA | Cat#: CS 85922 | Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge

From 1999’s Music Bank box set and its one-CD compilation offshoot, Nothing Safe: The Best of the Box to a 1996 Unplugged CD, the Alice in Chains titles continue to arrive even while the band–and especially reclusive frontman Layne Staley–stagnates. The quartet’s heavy, dirgelike music is aging well, but the 10 songs that comprise Greatest Hits are the basic radio hits. Greatest Hits features no new music, no liner notes, no lyrics, no new photos, and no elaborate packaging. Still, for the rock fan Continue reading “Alice In Chains – Greatest Hits (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection (2001) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection (2001) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection (2001) {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: 4.24 GB (ISO) + 3.46 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.28 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: ZTT | UK | Cat#: ZTT177SACD | Genre: Synth-pop

Rage Hard: A Sonic Collection is a greatest hits album by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, released in 2001 by ZTT Records, exclusively to SA-CD. It is basically identical to the 2000 compilation album Maximum Joy, minus the second disc. Continue reading “Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection (2001) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Meat Loaf – Couldn’t Have Said It Better (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Meat Loaf - Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Meat Loaf – Couldn’t Have Said It Better (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: 3.97 GB (ISO) + 2.98 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.09 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Polydor | EU | Cat#: 076 104-2 | Genre: Hard Rock

Couldn’t Have Said It Better is a 2003 album by Meat Loaf. Only for the third time in his career, he released an album without any songs written by Jim Steinman (not counting the bonus tracks). Although Meat Loaf claimed that Couldn’t Have Said It Better was “the most perfect album [he] did since Bat Out of Hell”, it was not as successful. Continue reading “Meat Loaf – Couldn’t Have Said It Better (2003) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Roxy Music – Avalon (1982) {2003, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982) {2003, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Roxy Music – Avalon (1982) {2003, Remastered, 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: 2.52 GB (ISO) + 2.10 GB (FLAC Mch) + 738 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Virgin | EU | Cat#: ROXYSACD 9 | Genre: Pop Rock

Flesh + Blood suggested that Roxy Music were at the end of the line, but they regrouped and recorded the lovely Avalon, one of their finest albums. Certainly, the lush, elegant soundscapes of Avalon are far removed from the edgy avant-pop of their early records, yet it represents another landmark in their career. With its stylish, romantic washes of synthesizers and Bryan Ferry’s elegant, seductive croon, Avalon simultaneously functioned as sophisticated make-out music for yuppies and as the maturation of synth pop. Ferry was never this romantic or seductive, either with Roxy or as a solo artist Continue reading “Roxy Music – Avalon (1982) {2003, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Ryan Adams – Gold (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Ryan Adams - Gold (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Ryan Adams – Gold (2001) [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: 3.44 GB (ISO) + 2.55 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.30 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Lost Highway | USA | Cat#: 088 170 336-2 | Genre: Alternative Rock

Gold is the second studio album by Ryan Adams, released September 25, 2001 on Lost Highway Records. The album remains Adams’ best-selling album, certifying Gold in the UK and going on to sell 364,000 copies in the U.S. and 812,000 worldwide. Adams noted that “with Gold, I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.” Continue reading “Ryan Adams – Gold (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll (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: 3.28 GB (ISO) + 2.75 GB (FLAC Mch) + 0.99 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Lost Highway | USA | Cat#: B0001910-36 | Genre: Alternative Rock

Rock n Roll is the fourth studio album by Ryan Adams, released on November 4, 2003. The album features the hit single “So Alive”, and includes guest appearances by Adams’s then girlfriend, actress Parker Posey, former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bass player Melissa Auf der Maur, and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. Adams describes the album as “the most rock thing I have ever done,” and notes that in spite of the album’s mixed reception, recording it was “fun as fuck.” Continue reading “Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Roger Waters – Amused to Death (1992) [2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992) [2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Roger Waters – Amused to Death (1992) [2015, Remastered, 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: 4.37 GB (ISO) + 3.59 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.27 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Analogue Productions | Austria | Cat#: 88765478842 | Genre: Progressive Rock
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Accept – Discography (1979 – 2014)

Accept - Discography (1979 - 2014)

Accept – Discography (1979 – 2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC + Cue + Log | Full Scans
Total Discs: 95 CDs | 3% RAR Recovery
STUDIO ALBUMS | LIVE ALBUMS | COMPILATIONS | SINGLES

With their brutal, simple riffs and aggressive, fast tempos, Accept are one of the top metal bands to debut in the early ’80s and a major influence on the development of speed metal and thrash. Led by the distinctive vocal stylings of Udo Dirkschneider, the band forged an instantly recognizable sound and were notorious as one of the decade’s fiercest live acts. Continue reading “Accept – Discography (1979 – 2014)”

The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) [2017, Japanese Edition, 50th Anniversary, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) [2017, Japanese Edition, 50th Anniversary, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
[2017, Japanese Edition, 50th Anniversary, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

2x SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.66 GB (ISO) + 1.46 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Universal | Japan | Cat#: UIGY-9707/8 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
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YES – Live At The Apollo (2018) [Official Digital Release]

YES - Live At The Apollo (2018) [Official Digital Release]

YES – Live At The Apollo (2018) [Official Digital Release]
FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 789 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment | Genre: Progressive Rock

In 2016, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman brought together their incredible talents and long experience of working in Yes to take to the road for a series of concerts celebrating Yes’ musical legacy of the seventies, eighties and nineties. Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman toured first in North America and then brought their live show to the UK in early 2017, including this performance captured at the Manchester Apollo. Continue reading “YES – Live At The Apollo (2018) [Official Digital Release]”

Paul Simon – In The Blue Light (2018) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Paul Simon - In The Blue Light (2018) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Paul Simon – In The Blue Light (2018) [Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]

Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 877 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Legacy Recordings | Genre: Pop Rock

Paul Simon designed In the Blue Light as a way to focus attention on songs of his that he believed never got the acknowledgment they deserved. It’s a reflective project, so it’s fitting that it arrived in September of 2018, as Simon was in the process of wrapping up a farewell tour. By their nature, farewell tours are exercises in nostalgia, but self-cover albums offer an artist an opportunity to surprise. That’s an opportunity Paul Simon seizes on In the Blue Light. Working with a diverse set of collaborators, including Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis, and Bryce Dessner of the National, Simon winds up with an elastic, elegant album that plays with jazz and chamber music as much as it does folk and worldbeat. Continue reading “Paul Simon – In The Blue Light (2018) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Boy George And Culture Club – At Worst… The Best Of (1993)

Boy George And Culture Club - At Worst... The Best Of (1993)

Boy George And Culture Club – At Worst… The Best Of (1993)
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 497 MB (CD) + 242 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Virgin | Holland | Cat#: 7243 8 39014 2 5 | Genre: Pop

The success of “The Crying Game” marked a comeback for Boy George, especially in the U.S., where his solo career had never taken hold beyond the dance clubs, and SBK (distributor of his label, Virgin) took advantage of his resurgence by compiling this 75-minute, 19-track album, which combines his former group Culture Club’s biggest hits with selections from his solo work Continue reading “Boy George And Culture Club – At Worst… The Best Of (1993)”

Olivia Newton-John – Come On Over (1976) [2011, Japanese SHM-SACD, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Olivia Newton-John - Come On Over (1976) [2011, Japanese SHM-SACD, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Olivia Newton-John – Come On Over (1976) [2011, Japanese SHM-SACD, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Single Layer SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.67 GB (ISO) + 818 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Universal | Japan | Cat#: UIGY-9078 | Genre: Country

Olivia Newton John’s Come on Over is country tunes, folk ballads, and more. Her own arrangement and adaptation of the traditional “Greensleeves” is exquisite, haunting, and shows Newton-John is more than just a pretty face. Her hit catalog was already nine songs deep, and “Come on Over” was the tenth of close to 30 visits to the Top 40 in a 14-year period. Fred Rose’s “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” and a cover of Dolly Parton’s classic “Jolene” open and shut side one with the country side of things while the Diane Berglund/Jim Phillips composition “Pony Ride” is more of a piano ballad Continue reading “Olivia Newton-John – Come On Over (1976) [2011, Japanese SHM-SACD, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Muddy Waters – Folk Singer (1964) {2011, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (1964) {2011, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Muddy Waters – Folk Singer (1964) {2011, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.63 GB (ISO) + 743 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Analogue Productions | USA | Cat#: CAPB 1483 SA | Genre: Blues

Folk Singer is the fourth studio album by Muddy Waters, released in April 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters on acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar. It is Waters’s only all-acoustic album. Numerous reissues of Folk Singer include bonus tracks from two subsequent sessions, in April 1964 and October 1964. Continue reading “Muddy Waters – Folk Singer (1964) {2011, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Jimmy Buffett – 2 Albums (MFSL UltraDisc II, Remastered)

Jimmy Buffett - 2 Albums (MFSL UltraDisc II, Remastered)

Jimmy Buffett – 2 Albums (MFSL UltraDisc II, Remastered)
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 740 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | Cat#: UDCD 746 / UDCD 713 | Genre: Country
 
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973) & Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)
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