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Syd Barrett – Opel (1988) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}

Syd Barrett - Opel (1988) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}

Syd Barrett – Opel (1988) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @300 dpi, PNG, Included
Total Size: 642 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Warner Music Japan | Cat#: WPCR-16396 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock

Opel is a 1988 album compiled from recordings made by former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett between 1968 and 1970. The album is a compilation of unreleased material and alternate takes of recordings from sessions for Barrett’s solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. Before they were vetoed by Pink Floyd, the album was to include two unreleased tracks that Barrett had worked on while with Pink Floyd, “Scream Thy Last Scream” and “Vegetable Man” Continue reading “Syd Barrett – Opel (1988) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}”

Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs (1970) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}

Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs (1970) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @300 dpi, PNG, Included
Total Size: 698 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Warner Music Japan | Cat#: WPCR-16394 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock

The Madcap Laughs is the debut solo album by the English singer-songwriter Syd Barrett. It was recorded after Barrett had left Pink Floyd in April 1968. The album had a chequered recording history, with work beginning in mid-1968, but the bulk of the sessions taking place between April and July 1969, for which five different producers were credited − including Barrett Continue reading “Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs (1970) {2015, Japanese SHM-CD}”

Heart – The Essential Heart (Limited Edition 3.0) (2008)

Heart - The Essential Heart (Limited Edition 3.0) (2008)

Essential Heart is the only compilation that covers the group’s tenure at both Epic and Capitol. All the hits of the ’70s are featured on the first disc and include “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man,” “Barracuda” and “Straight On.” The second disc includes all of their comeback material recorded in the ’80s such as “What About Love?,” “These Dreams,” and “Nothin’ at All.” [Epic/Capitol/Legacy’s Limited Edition 3.0 appeared in 2008 Continue reading “Heart – The Essential Heart (Limited Edition 3.0) (2008)”

Spooky Tooth – The Island Years: An Antology 1967-1974 (2015) {Box Set}

Spooky Tooth - The Island Years: An Antology 1967-1974 (2015) {Box Set}

Spooky Tooth – The Island Years: An Antology 1967-1974 (2015) {Box Set}
EAC Rip | 9xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @300 dpi, PNG, Included
Total Size: 3.90 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Universal-Island Records | Cat#: 0602547053114 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock

The Island Years is a new comprehensive anthology featuring the work British rock band Spooky Tooth who released seven studio albums between 1968 and 1974 Continue reading “Spooky Tooth – The Island Years: An Antology 1967-1974 (2015) {Box Set}”

Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock & Roll Time (2014)

Jerry Lee Lewis - Rock & Roll Time (2014)

There’s a different feel to 2014’s Rock & Roll Time, the third album Jerry Lee Lewis has made with benefactor and producer Steve Bing. Once again, superstar drummer Jim Keltner co-produces (he sat out 2010’s Mean Old Man), and the pair bring the Killer back where he belongs right at Sun Studios. In case anybody missed the point, Jerry Lee is placed directly in front of the old Sun building itself on the cover of Rock & Roll Time, underscoring a point the music makes perfectly plain: Jerry Lee is once again singing some of that old-time rock & roll Continue reading “Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock & Roll Time (2014)”

Journey – Greatest Hits (1988) {2006 Reissue}

Journey - Greatest Hits (1988) {2006 Reissue}

Journey – Greatest Hits (1988) {2006 Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans @600 dpi, JPG, included
Total Size: 554 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Columbia-Legacy | Cat#: 82876858892 | Genre: Hard Rock

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American rock band Journey, originally released in 1988 by Columbia Records. It is the band’s best-selling career disc, spending 330 weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart (more than any other compilation album, except for Bob Marley’s ‘Legend’ disc, in history). Additionally, as of late 2014, it has logged nearly 1,000 weeks on Billboard’s Catalog albums chart Continue reading “Journey – Greatest Hits (1988) {2006 Reissue}”

The Human League – The Best Of The Human League (2004)

The Human League - The Best Of The Human League (2004)

The Human League are an English electronic new wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Dare (1981), the band’s most popular album, yielded the single “Don’t You Want Me”, a No. 1 hit in the pop charts of UK, US and many other countries. After its UK success, their first single, “Being Boiled” was reissued and became a top ten hit at the beginning of 1982. The success of “Don’t You Want Me” is seen as the beginning of the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US Continue reading “The Human League – The Best Of The Human League (2004)”

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)”

Various Artists – Lost And Found 1970-1978 (1998)

Various Artists - Lost And Found 1970-1978 (1998)

Two CD set of 70’s hits pop music performed by Shocking Blue, Beach Boys, Mungo Jerry, Cat Stevens, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Don McLean, Lobo, Bonnie St Claire & Unit Gloria, Terry Jacks, Cher, Slade, 10 CC, Smokie, Bonnie Tyler, John Paul Young, Gerry Rafferty, Brian Chapman, Rubettes and many more!!! Continue reading “Various Artists – Lost And Found 1970-1978 (1998)”

VA – Twist And Shout: The Stateside Story 1962 (2013)

VA - Twist And Shout: The Stateside Story 1962 (2013)

Stateside Records is a British records label founded in 1962 by EMI. The Top Rank label recently folded, so EMI bosses hired the Rank Organisation’s former executive Fred Exon to run the new label in direct competition with Decca’s London American imprint. Stateside dealt exclusively with imported American material; no home-grown acts were released with the Stateside moniker. Continue reading “VA – Twist And Shout: The Stateside Story 1962 (2013)”

Little Richard – Just About As Good As It Gets! (2013)

Little Richard - Just About As Good As It Gets! (2013)

Of all the original 50s rock ‘n’ roll stars, none was more flamboyant than Richard Wayne Penniman. Now a game octogenarian still intermittently performing (he headlined a Las Vegas weekender in March 2013), Richard has had a chequered career peppered with retirements and comebacks, fluctuations between God and Mammon and many a misjudged recording; his latter years dogged by a dodgy hip. At his peak he was the most dynamic rock ‘n’ roll extrovert on record and stage, which obscures the fact he was also the most mellifluous vocalist of the pack when he calmed down enough to sing a blues, gospel or soul ballad Continue reading “Little Richard – Just About As Good As It Gets! (2013)”

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)”

Various Artists – Twistin’ USA (2013)

Various Artists - Twistin' USA (2013)

It’s 1961 and the Twist is just the shot in the arm that the music business has been looking for in the wake of the payola scandal. Many key radio stations across the United States have panicked and changed their formats from rock & roll to “quality music”, causing both listeners and advertisers to drop away fast Continue reading “Various Artists – Twistin’ USA (2013)”

REO Speedwagon – The Hits (1988)

REO Speedwagon - The Hits (1988)

The Hits is a compilation album from REO Speedwagon. It contains hits such as “Can’t Fight This Feeling” and “Keep on Loving You,” as well as new tracks “Here With Me” and “I Don’t Want to Lose You.” “Here with Me” cracked the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten on the Adult Contemporary chart; however, it would be the last single to feature Continue reading “REO Speedwagon – The Hits (1988)”

Glass Hammer – The Breaking of the World (2015)

Glass Hammer - The Breaking of the World (2015)

Just when you thought the greatest and most venerable American prog band could get “none more prog,” along comes THE BREAKING OF THE WORLD, the best work of Glass Hammer’s career and, in some related fashion, their most progressive album thus far. This is not just album number fifteen in a list of fifteen sequential studio albums. Of course, there’s no such thing Continue reading “Glass Hammer – The Breaking of the World (2015)”