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]”

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}”

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]”

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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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]”

Santana – The Best Of Santana (1998) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Santana - The Best Of Santana (1998) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Santana – The Best Of Santana (1998) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.11 GB (ISO) + 1.47 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Columbia-Legacy | USA | Cat#: 88875182162 | Genre: Classic Rock

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Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust In The Bullring (1988) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Joan Baez ‎- Diamonds And Rust In The Bullring (1988) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Joan Baez ‎- Diamonds And Rust In The Bullring (1988) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.74 GB (ISO) + 704 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Analogue Productions | USA | Cat#: CAPF 080 SA | Genre: Folk

Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring is a Joan Baez album, recorded live in the bullring of Bilbao, Spain. It featured twelve songs, six of which were performed in English, five in Spanish and one – “Txoria Txori” – in Basque. Most of the songs had been performed and recorded by Baez previously, with the exception of Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”. Continue reading “Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust In The Bullring (1988) {2015, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Herman’s Hermits – Retrospective (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Herman's Hermits - Retrospective (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Herman’s Hermits – Retrospective (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.68 GB (ISO) + 793 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: ABKO | USA | Cat#: 92282 | Genre: Pop Rock

Herman’s Hermits are widely seen as a lightweight, novelty cousin to the Beatles, fronted by a lovably dorky moppet and musically negligible. Sure, they are lightweight at times, Peter Noone is a lovable moppet, and their popularity would never have been possible without the Beatles, but one listen to Retrospective proves that they were not lacking in the musical department. Setting aside “I’m Henry the VIII, I Am” (which proves everything the critics say about the band), the group, and producer Mickie Most, had a surefooted straight-ahead approach that let the songs’ hooks sink in deeply. Continue reading “Herman’s Hermits – Retrospective (2004) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls (1985) [2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls (1985) [2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls (1985) [2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.45 GB (ISO) + 2.16 GB (FLAC Multichannel) + 818 MB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Virgin / EMI | EU | Cat#: FERRYSACD6 / 7243 8 66883 2 3 | Genre: Pop Rock

Having at last laid Roxy to bed with its final, intoxicatingly elegant albums, Ferry continued its end-days spirit with his own return to solo work. Dedicated to Ferry’s father, Boys and Girls is deservedly most famous for its smash single “Slave to Love.” With a gentle samba-derived rhythm leading into the steadier rock pace of the song, it’s ’80s Ferry at his finest, easy listening without being hopelessly soporific. Continue reading “Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls (1985) [2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Gilbert O’Sullivan – Gilbert O’Sullivan (2018) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Gilbert O'Sullivan (2018) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}

Gilbert O’Sullivan – Gilbert O’Sullivan (2018) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz / CD-Format | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz / Hi-Res
Total Size: 237 MB (CD-Format) + 807 MB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG Rights Management | Genre: Pop Rock

19th Studio album of Gilbert O’Sullivan

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Dave Hagedorn – Solid Liquid (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Dave Hagedorn - Solid Liquid (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Dave Hagedorn – Solid Liquid (2003) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Front & Back Covers Only
Total Size: 3.63 GB (ISO) + 2.58 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.07 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Artegra | USA | Cat#: ART 2006 | Genre: Jazz
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George Benson – Breezin’ (1976) [1979, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

George Benson - Breezin' (1976) [1979, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

George Benson – Breezin’ (1976)
[1979, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 895 MB (Hi-Res) + 314 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan on JVC | Cat#: MFSL 1-011 | Genre: Jazz Funk
Half-speed Mastered

All of a sudden, George Benson became a pop superstar with this album, thanks to its least representative track. Most of Breezin’ is a softer-focused variation of Benson’s R&B/jazz-flavored CTI work, his guitar as assured and fluid as ever with Claus Ogerman providing the suave orchestral backdrops and his crack then-working band (including Ronnie Foster on keyboards and sparkplug Phil Upchurch on rhythm guitar) pumping up the funk element. Continue reading “George Benson – Breezin’ (1976) [1979, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Weather Report – Night Passage (1980) [2018, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Weather Report - Night Passage (1980) [2018, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Weather Report – Night Passage (1980) [2018, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 749 MB (ISO) + 901 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Vocalio | UK | Cat#: CDSML 8541 | Genre: Jazz Fusion

Night Passage is the eleventh album by Weather Report, released in 1980. The tracks were recorded in August 1980 at The Complex studios in Los Angeles (before a crowd of 250 people who can be heard on a couple of tracks), except for “Madagascar”, recorded live in Osaka, in June of the same year. The album introduces a new member to the band, percussionist Robert Thomas Jr. Night Passage loses the over-done production layers of some of Weather Report’s earlier releases (most notably 1978’s Mr. Gone). What is lost in layers of overdubs is made up in solo improvisation in the classic jazz tradition. Continue reading “Weather Report – Night Passage (1980) [2018, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

The Doobie Brothers – The Captain And Me (1973) [2011, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me (1973) [2011, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Doobie Brothers – The Captain And Me (1973) [2011, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.79 GB (ISO) + 3.11 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Warner Music | Japan | Cat#: WPCR-14172 | Genre: Pop Rock

The Doobie Brothers’ third long-player was the charm, their most substantial and consistent album to date, and one that rode the charts for a year. It was also a study in contrasts, Tom Johnston’s harder-edged, bolder rocking numbers balanced by Patrick Simmons’ more laid-back country-rock ballad style. The leadoff track, Johnston’s “Natural Thing,” melded the two, opening with interlocking guitars and showcasing the band’s exquisite soaring harmonies around a beautiful melody, all wrapped up in a midtempo beat Continue reading “The Doobie Brothers – The Captain And Me (1973) [2011, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna (1981) [Official Digital Release] [2016, Deluxe Edition, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna (1981) [Official Digital Release] [2016, Deluxe Edition, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]

Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna (1981) [Official Digital Release]
[2016, Deluxe Edition, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]

Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 4.86 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino / Atlantic | Genre: Pop Rock

Bella Donna is the debut studio album by American singer, songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. Released on July 27, 1981, the album reached number one on the US Billboard charts in September of that year. Bella Donna was awarded platinum status by the RIAA on October 7, 1981, less than three months after its release, and has since been certified quadruple-platinum. Continue reading “Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna (1981) [Official Digital Release] [2016, Deluxe Edition, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]”