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Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra – Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra - Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra – Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 997 MB (Hi-Res) + 280 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-175 | Genre: Classical, Progressive Rock
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The rather wordily titled “Andrew Powell and the Philharmonia Orchestra Play the Best of The Alan Parsons Project” was mainly recorded at Abbey Road, with the exception of the orchestral session for the I Robot Suite, which was done at CTS in Wembley. It was Helmut Fest at EMI Records who suggested using the Scrabble board as a way of getting around the world’s longest album title. One of the biggest difficulties I found in orchestrating these tunes is that certain kinds of “rock” themes sound like muzak if they are played by a violin or other string section: hence the solo sax on Games People Play. Continue reading “Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra – Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Air Supply – The One That You Love (1981) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Air Supply - The One That You Love (1981) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Air Supply – The One That You Love (1981) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 876B (Hi-Res) + 250 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-113 | Genre: Pop, Adult Contemporary
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The One That You Love was Air Supply’s second international release and perhaps their finest all-around studio outing, spawning three top ten hits, including a number one with the heart-wrenching title track. The sheer drama of “Here I Am” and the swooping orchestration of “Sweet Dreams” complete this smash-hit trilogy, and as suggested by their name, a sense of air and space pervades other pop-tastic ballads such as “This Heart Belongs to Me” and “Keeping the Love Alive.” This is definitely the ideal second step for those looking beyond the greatest-hits package. Continue reading “Air Supply – The One That You Love (1981) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (1977) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (1977) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (1977) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 902 MB (Hi-Res) + 261 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-084 | Genre: Progressive Rock
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The Kinks – Misfits (1978) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Kinks - Misfits (1978) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

The Kinks – Misfits (1978) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 856 MB (Hi-Res) + 252 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-070 | Genre: Pop Rock
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The Kinks became arena rockers with Sleepwalker, and its follow-up, Misfits, follows in the same vein, but it’s a considerable improvement on its predecessor. Ray Davies has learned how to write within the confines of the arena rock formula, and Misfits is one of rock & roll’s great mid-life crisis albums, finding Davies considering whether he should even go on performing. Continue reading “The Kinks – Misfits (1978) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Steeleye Span – All Around My Hat (1975) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat (1975) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Steeleye Span – All Around My Hat (1975) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 790 MB (Hi-Res) + 223 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-027 | Genre: Folk Rock
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The biggest selling of all Steeleye Span albums is also their hardest rocking record. They sound like would-be competitors to the Who on the opening bars of “The Wife of Usher’s Well,” with Bob Johnson’s electric guitar grinding out power chords like nobody’s business. Continue reading “Steeleye Span – All Around My Hat (1975) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Quincy Jones – You’ve Got It Bad Girl (1973) [1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl (1973) [1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Quincy Jones – You’ve Got It Bad Girl (1973) [1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 982 MB (Hi-Res) + 267 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-078 | Genre: R&B, Soul
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Quincy Jones followed up Smackwater Jack and his supervision of Donny Hathaway’s Come Back Charleston Blue soundtrack with this, a mixed bag that saw him inching a little closer toward the R&B-dominated approach that reached full stride on the following Body Heat and peaked commercially with The Dude. Continue reading “Quincy Jones – You’ve Got It Bad Girl (1973) [1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Kenny Rogers – Greatest Hits (1980) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Kenny Rogers - Greatest Hits (1980) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Kenny Rogers – Greatest Hits (1980) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 902 MB (Hi-Res) + 261 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-049 | Genre: Country, Adult Contemporary
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Don Henley – The End Of The Innocence (1989) [1998, MFSL Remastered]

Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence (1989) [1998, MFSL Remastered]

Don Henley – The End Of The Innocence (1989)
[1998, MFSL Remastered]
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342 MB | 3% RAR Recovery

Don Henley took some time before completing his highly anticipated third album, The End of the Innocence. Although he manages to duplicate much of the magic of his previous album, Henley has backed off of the synthesizers and expanded his musical palette. He uses background vocals to great effect, whether it’s the tragic ballad “New York Minute” (with vocal group Take 6) or the angry rocker “I Will Not Go Quietly” (with Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses). Continue reading “Don Henley – The End Of The Innocence (1989) [1998, MFSL Remastered]”

Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli – “Live” At The London Palladium (1973) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli -

Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli – “Live” At The London Palladium (1973) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 709 MB (Hi-Res) + 202 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-048 | Genre: Vocal
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Live at the London Palladium was a Judy Garland/Liza Minnelli concert recording taken from shows in November 1964. Welcome as this may be, however, neither singer is heard at her best here. At 42, Garland was entering the last phase of her difficult life, and while she rouses herself now and then, her singing can be mannered and out-of-breath, her diction sometimes slurred. Continue reading “Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli – “Live” At The London Palladium (1973) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) (An Observation By King Crimson) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) (An Observation By King Crimson) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) (An Observation By King Crimson) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 909 MB (Hi-Res) + 248 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-075 | Genre: Progressive Rock
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The group’s definitive album, and one of the most daring debut albums ever recorded by anybody. At the time, it blew all of the progressive/psychedelic competition (the Moody Blues, the Nice, etc.) out of the running, although it was almost too good for the band’s own good — it took King Crimson nearly four years to come up with a record as strong or concise. Continue reading “King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) (An Observation By King Crimson) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Herb Alpert – Rise (1979) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Herb Alpert - Rise (1979) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Herb Alpert – Rise (1979) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 892 MB (Hi-Res) + 242 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-053 | Genre: Soul-Jazz
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If the 12″ single of Herb Alpert’s “Rise” hadn’t taken over the charts the way it did back in 1979, one wonders if anyone would have gotten around to checking out the Tijuana Brass, or if Alpert would have gone down in the books as the guy who had a number one with a Burt Bacharach tune (“This Guy’s in Love with You”). Instead, the cut energized the entire dance club generation, with DJs looking for new grooves, and it even ended up being used by Sean “Puffy” Combs on the Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotise, albeit in a drastically re-morphed form. Continue reading “Herb Alpert – Rise (1979) [1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 1.04 GB (Hi-Res) + 297 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL1-062 | Genre: Progressive Rock
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After Peter Gabriel departed for a solo career, Genesis embarked on a long journey to find a replacement, only to wind back around to their drummer, Phil Collins, as a replacement. With Collins as their new frontman, the band decided not to pursue the stylish, jagged postmodernism of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway — a move that Gabriel would do in his solo career — and instead returned to the English eccentricity of Selling England by the Pound for its next effort Continue reading “Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail (1976) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Elvis Presley – From Elvis In Memphis (1969) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis (1969) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Elvis Presley – From Elvis In Memphis (1969) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 793 MB (Hi-Res) + 218 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-059 | Genre: Country, Soul
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After a 14-year absence from Memphis, Elvis Presley returned to cut what was certainly his greatest album (or, at least, a tie effort with his RCA debut LP from early 1956). The fact that From Elvis in Memphis came out as well as it did is something of a surprise, in retrospect — Presley had a backlog of songs he genuinely liked that he wanted to record and had heard some newer soul material that also attracted him, and none of it resembled the material that he’d been cutting since his last non-soundtrack album Continue reading “Elvis Presley – From Elvis In Memphis (1969) [1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Don Henley – Building The Perfect Beast (1984) [1997, MFSL Remastered]

Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast (1984) [1997, MFSL Remastered]

Building the Perfect Beast is the second solo studio album by Don Henley. The album was released on November 19, 1984 on the Geffen Records label. A commercial and critical success, it is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of Henley’s solo work. Continue reading “Don Henley – Building The Perfect Beast (1984) [1997, MFSL Remastered]”

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 787 MB (Hi-Res) + 199 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-035 | Genre: Folk Rock, Pop Rock
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Cat Stevens tends to be lumped in with the early-’70s singer-songwriter school led by James Taylor and Carole King, but he actually fits in rather neatly with such wistful English contemporaries as Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, and Donovan. Tea for the Tillerman’s “Wild World,” “Into White,” and “Longer Boats” indicate that he may have been a more gifted tunesmith than the lot of them. As with the best of the Brit folk-rockers, Stevens mixed melancholy with whimsy. Yes, he was prone to airy platitudes, but when he harnessed his eccentricities, as he did throughout this 1970 masterwork Continue reading “Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) [1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”