Special Section: Audiophile Discs

The Cars – Heartbeat City (1984) {2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}

The Cars - Heartbeat City (1984) {2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}

The Cars – Heartbeat City (1984) {2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
PS3 SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz
Total Size: 267 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.58 GB (SACD-ISO) + 796 MB (SACD-FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2163 | Genre: New Wave, Pop Rock

1984 will always be remembered for the debut of the Macintosh computer, the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the ascent of MTV as the most powerful cultural medium of the era. The year is also recognized for the Cars’ savvy contributions not only to the burgeoning music-video channel but to pop itself. Released in April, the four-times platinum Heartbeat City would ultimately spawn five Top 40 singles—four of them landing in the Top 20, two in the Top 10—and serve as the final memorable record from the Boston group, which would disband in 1987. Continue reading “The Cars – Heartbeat City (1984) {2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

The Knack – Get The Knack (1979) [2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Knack - Get The Knack (1979) [2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Knack – Get The Knack (1979) [2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 417 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.66 GB (ISO) + 851 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2191 | Genre: Pop Rock

Get the Knack is the debut album by the Knack, released in June 1979. At the time, the album was one of the most successful debuts in history, selling over one million copies in less than two months and spending five weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. The lead single from the album, “My Sharona”, was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and number one on Billboard’s Top Pop Singles of 1979 year end chart. The follow-up single, “Good Girls Don’t,” followed “My Sharona” to #1 on the Canadian Singles Chart, and reached #11 in the U.S. Continue reading “The Knack – Get The Knack (1979) [2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

James Taylor – Flag (1979) {2011, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

James Taylor - Flag (1979) {2011, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

James Taylor – Flag (1979) {2011, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
PS3 SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.73 GB (ISO) + 787 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | Cat#: UDSACD 2071 | Genre: Adult Contemporary

Flag is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, released in May 1979, it included songs from Taylor’s music score to Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz’s Broadway musical, Working (“Millworker”, “Brother Trucker”). Continue reading “James Taylor – Flag (1979) {2011, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985) {2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985) {2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985) {2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
PS3 SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz
Total Size: 207 MB (CD-Layer) + 2.23 GB (SACD ISO) + 990 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL, UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2099 | Genre: Blues Rock, Pop Rock

Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. Brothers in Arms charted at number one worldwide, spending 10 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (between 18 January and 22 March 1986), nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Album Chart. Continue reading “Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985) {2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

YES – 90125 (1983) {2009, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}

YES - 90125 (1983) {2009, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}

YES – 90125 (1983) {2009, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 377 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 063 | Genre: Progressive Rock

A stunning self-reinvention by a band that many had given up for dead, 90125 is the album that introduced a whole new generation of listeners to Yes. Begun as Cinema, a new band by Chris Squire and Alan White, the project grew to include the slick production of Trevor Horn, the new blood (and distinctly ’80s guitar sound) of Trevor Rabin, and eventually the trademark vocals of returning founder Jon Anderson. Continue reading “YES – 90125 (1983) {2009, Audio Fidelity Remastered, HDCD}”

Los Lobos – Kiko (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Los Lobos - Kiko (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Los Lobos – Kiko (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.12 GB (ISO) + 0.98 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2069 | Genre: Latin Rock

Los Lobos had earned a reputation as one of the most intelligent and creative roots rock acts in America with the albums By the Light of the Moon and The Neighborhood, but it was with 1992’s Kiko that they really demonstrated the breadth of their sonic ambitions. Produced in collaboration with Mitchell Froom, Kiko exchanged the more straightforward approach of Los Lobos’ previous sessions for a uniquely textured sound Continue reading “Los Lobos – Kiko (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Frank Sinatra – A Swingin’ Affair! (1957) {2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (1957) {2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Frank Sinatra – A Swingin’ Affair! (1957) {2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
PS3 SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.82 GB (ISO) + 504 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2107 | Genre: Vocal Jazz

In some ways, A Swingin’ Affair! is “Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, Pt. 2,” following the same formula of Sinatra’s hit album of the previous year. Beneath the surface, there are enough variations on A Swingin’ Affair! to make it a distinctive, and equally enjoyable listen. The most noticeable difference between the two records is their basic approach. Where Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! swung hard but managed to stay rather light, A Swingin’ Affair! is a forceful, brassy album — it exudes a self-assured, confident aura. It is a hard, jazzy album. However, the attack is more brash. Continue reading “Frank Sinatra – A Swingin’ Affair! (1957) {2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – 5 Albums (MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip)

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - 5 Albums (MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip)

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – 5 Albums (MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip)
EAC Rip | 5xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
PS3 SACD Rip | 5xDiscs | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz
Total Size: 2.18 GB (CD-Layer) + 7.99 GB (SACD ISO) + 3.77 GB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Genre: Blues Rock
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America – America (1971) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]

America - America (1971) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]

America – America (1971) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.88 GB (SACD ISO) + 895 MB (SACD FLAC) + 427 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | Austria | Cat#: AFZ 167 | Genre: Folk Rock

America’s debut album is a folk-pop classic, a stellar collection of memorable songs that would prove influential on such acts as the Eagles and Dan Fogelberg. Crosby, Stills & Nash are the group’s obvious stylistic touchstone here, especially in the vocal harmonies used (compare the thick chordal singing of “Sandman” and “Children” to CS&N’s “You Don’t Have to Cry” and “Guinevere”) and the prominent use of active strummed acoustic guitar arrangements Continue reading “America – America (1971) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
PS3 SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Stereo
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.38 GB (ISO) + 692 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | Austria | Cat#: UDSACD 2173 | Genre: Blues Rock, R&B

Pearl is the second and final solo studio album by Janis Joplin, released posthumously on Columbia Records, catalogue KC 30322, in January 1971. It was also released simultaneously in a 4 channel Quadraphonic format in the U.S., catalogue number CQ 30322, and in Japan as SOPN 90 and a foil type cover with obi as SOPN 44005. It was the final album with her direct participation, and the only Joplin album recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band Continue reading “Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ‎- Night Moves (1976) {1992, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ‎- Night Moves (1976) {1992, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ‎- Night Moves (1976) {1992, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 235 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: DCC Compact Classics | USA | Cat#: GZS-1028 | Genre: Classic Rock

Bob Seger recorded the bulk of Night Moves before Live Bullet brought him his first genuine success, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s similar in spirit to the introspective Beautiful Loser, even if it rocks harder and longer. Throughout much of the album, he’s coming to grips with being on the other side of 30 and still rocking. Continue reading “Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ‎- Night Moves (1976) {1992, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”

Jim Croce – Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Jim Croce - Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Jim Croce – Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 291 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: DCC Compact Classics | USA | Cat#: GZS-1134 | Genre: Folk Rock, Pop Rock

This latest compilation of Jim’s music is both interesting and valid in that it combines songs that appeared on his three hit albums with earlier compositions that were works in progress of a singer/songwriter finding his voice and an artist searching for directon. Continue reading “Jim Croce – Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”

Jackson Browne – The Pretender (1976) {1993, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976) {1993, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Jackson Browne – The Pretender (1976) {1993, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | WavPack (.wv) + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 219 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: DCC Compact Classics | Japan | Cat#: GZS-1047 | Genre: Pop Rock

On The Pretender, Jackson Browne took a step back from the precipice so well defined on his first three albums, but doing so didn’t seem to make him feel any better. Employing a real producer, Jon Landau, for the first time, Browne made what sounded like a real contemporary rock record, but this made his songs less effective; the ersatz Mexican arrangement of “Linda Paloma” and the bouncy second half of “Daddy’s Tune,” with its horn charts and guitar solo, undercut the lyrics. Continue reading “Jackson Browne – The Pretender (1976) {1993, DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”

Marc Cohn – Marc Cohn (1991) {2007, MFSL, Remastered}

Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn (1991) {2007, MFSL, Remastered}

Marc Cohn – Marc Cohn (1991) {2007, MFSL, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 288 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL, UltraDisc II | USA | Cat#: UDCD 767 | Genre: Pop Rock

Marc Cohn is one of the finest debut albums of the 1990s, and it brought adult piano pop back to the radio. Every song is well-crafted, and Cohn’s singalong choruses, introspective lyrics, and vocal stylings reveal his ’60s soul and ’70s singer/songwriter influences. His voice is rich, but has a roughness that adds emotion when stretching to the upper end of his range while remaining subtle at the lower end. Continue reading “Marc Cohn – Marc Cohn (1991) {2007, MFSL, Remastered}”