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Bryan Ferry – Frantic (2002) [CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Bryan Ferry - Frantic (2002) [CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Frantic manages to touch upon virtually every musical style of Bryan Ferry’s career. Ferry has proved to be as interested in covering other artists’ material as penning original songs, and he straddles a smart mix of originals and covers here. Two brilliant Bob Dylan songs appear among the opening tracks: “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” sees a return to the eclectic, energetic experimentation of Ferry’s early albums with Roxy Music as a lush modern swirl of instruments mingles with the singer’s stylized vocals and throwback harmonica; “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” completes the Dylan pair, as Ferry intones with confidence and again takes up harmonica over Colin Good’s rolling piano. Continue reading “Bryan Ferry – Frantic (2002) [CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

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

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

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]

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’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]

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]”

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

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

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]”

Quincy Jones – Ultimate Collection (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Quincy Jones - Ultimate Collection (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Quincy Jones – Ultimate Collection (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.04 GB (ISO) + 1.36 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Hip-O Records | USA | Cat#: 314 583 565-2 | Genre: Jazz, R&B

In 1974, Quincy Jones, who already had a wide range of musical credits behind him, opted to enter the R&B mainstream by hiring vocalists and overseeing recordings in a commercial vein released under his name. The first of them was Body Heat, which went gold, and Jones followed with a series of records including 1981’s million-selling The Dude and the 1990 Album of the Year Grammy-winner Back on the Block. Continue reading “Quincy Jones – Ultimate Collection (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced ‘Leh-‘nerd-‘Skin-‘nerd (1973) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'Leh-'nerd-'Skin-'nerd (1973) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced ‘Leh-‘nerd-‘Skin-‘nerd (1973) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]
EAC Rip | WavPack (.wv) Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz
Total Size: 313 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.74 GB (SACD ISO) + 857 GB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2104 | Genre: Southern Rock, Blues Rock

The Allman Brothers came first, but Lynyrd Skynyrd epitomized Southern rock. The Allmans were exceptionally gifted musicians, as much bluesmen as rockers. Skynyrd was nothing but rockers, and they were Southern rockers to the bone. This didn’t just mean that they were rednecks, but that they brought it all together — the blues, country, garage rock, Southern poetry — in a way that sounded more like the South than even the Allmans. Continue reading “Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced ‘Leh-‘nerd-‘Skin-‘nerd (1973) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]”