Various Artists – Pure… Electronic 80s (2014)

Various Artists - Pure... Electronic 80s (2014)

Various Artists – Pure… Electronic 80s (2014)
EAC Rip | 4xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.76 GB (CDs) + 17.7 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | EU | Cat#: 88843039802 | Genre: Synth-Pop, Pop Rock

Sony Music’s Pure… Electronic ’80s collects 64 new wave/synth pop hits over the span of four CDs, with highlights arriving via era radio staples like “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” (A Flock of Seagulls), “Love My Way” (Psychedelic Furs), “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” (Dead or Alive), and “Rockit” (Herbie Hancock). Continue reading “Various Artists – Pure… Electronic 80s (2014)”

Canned Heat – Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)

Canned Heat - Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)

Canned Heat – Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 940 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: EMI | USA | Cat#: 7243 8 29165 2 9 | Genre: Blues Rock

For all but the completists, this anthology should more than suffice as an apt compact-disc retrospective of Canned Heat’s releases on Liberty Records. To that end, it’s a more or less chronological overview of the combo’s LPs, commencing with a trio of tunes from a spring 1967 studio session that predates their self-titled debut (1967). Continue reading “Canned Heat – Uncanned! The Best Of Canned Heat (1994)”

Eurythmics – Greatest Hits (1991)

Eurythmics - Greatest Hits (1991)

Eurythmics – Greatest Hits (1991)
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 535 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: RCA / BMG | Canada | Cat#: KCD1-0610 | Genre: New Wave, Synth-Pop

Greatest Hits is a 1991 retrospective compilation album by Eurythmics, containing their successful singles spanning the years 1982 through 1990. It was enormously successful, topping the charts in the UK for a total of 10 weeks and in Australia for 7 weeks. Continue reading “Eurythmics – Greatest Hits (1991)”

Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}

Various Artists - Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}

Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}
EAC Rip | 4xCD | WavPack (.wv) Image + Cue + Log | Scans Included
Total Size: 1.12 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | Japan | Cat#: MFCD 4-816 | Genre: Blues Rock, Folk, Hard Rock

It’s almost impossible to regard the soundtrack albums for the Michael Wadleigh documentary Woodstock, simply as music, apart from the event that inspired them or what that event has come to represent. Music from the Original Soundtrack and More: Woodstock was originally released by Atlantic’s Cotillion imprint as a three-LP set in a gatefold sleeve. Continue reading “Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}”

Various Artists – Ultimate 90s (2015) {4CD-Set}

Various Artists - Ultimate 90s (2015) {4CD-Set}

Various Artists – Ultimate 90s (2015) {4CD-Set}
EAC Rip | 4xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.88 GB (CDs) + 45.5 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | Germany | Cat#: 88875085592 | Genre: Pop, Pop Rock

72 classic hits and harder to find rarities from the 90s across 4 CDs, all housed in a fold out cardboard digi-pack sleeve. Continue reading “Various Artists – Ultimate 90s (2015) {4CD-Set}”

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Second Helping (1974) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (1974) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Second Helping (1974) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}
EAC Rip | WavPack (.wv) Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 270 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 054 | Genre: Blues Rock, Southern Rock

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the book on Southern rock with their first album, so it only made sense that they followed it for their second album, aptly titled Second Helping. Sticking with producer Al Kooper (who, after all, discovered them), the group turned out a record that replicated all the strengths of the original, but was a little tighter and a little more professional. Continue reading “Lynyrd Skynyrd – Second Helping (1974) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}”

Barry White – All-Time Greatest Hits (1994)

Barry White – All-Time Greatest Hits (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 578 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Polygram | USA | Cat#: 522 459-2 | Genre: R&B

It took quite a while for a definitive Barry White compilation to hit the market, but All-Time Greatest Hits — part of Mercury’s Funk Essentials series — finally filled the bill in 1995. Boasting a full 20 tracks from White’s heyday of 1973-1978, more than half of which made the R&B Top Ten, All-Time Greatest Hits is easily the most generous single-disc White collection on the market. Continue reading “Barry White – All-Time Greatest Hits (1994)”

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 215 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 031 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock

The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. Continue reading “The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966) {2009, Audio Fidelity, HDCD Remastered}”