Audiophile Discs Archives - Page 42 of 47

Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard / Little Richard (2006) [MFSL Remastered, Monaural, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Little Richard - Here's Little Richard / Little Richard (2006) [MFSL Remastered, Monaural, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard / Little Richard (2006) [MFSL Remastered, Monaural, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 211 MB (CD-Layer) + 2.25 GB (SACD ISO) + 803 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2028 | Genre: Rock & Roll

The audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs is known for their meticulously mastered and manufactured reissues of back catalog albums, but they generally seem more interested in classic jazz and rock from the ’70s onward than first generation rock & roll, which makes their two-fer reissue of Little Richard’s first two albums for Specialty such a pleasant surprise. Continue reading “Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard / Little Richard (2006) [MFSL Remastered, Monaural, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw (1982) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw (1982) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw (1982) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 219 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.36 GB (SACD ISO) + 667 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2036 | Genre: Power Pop

In retrospect, 1982 was a brief, exhilarating moment in between the fall of disco and the rise of MTV, when the eternal verities of real rock & roll broke through once again. The punk and new wave music of the late ’70s had given way to power-pop, a return to catchy, relatively unadorned guitar rock. In that context, it was easy to see Marshall Crenshaw and his self-titled debut album as the Next Big Thing. Continue reading “Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw (1982) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach – Painted From Memory (1998) {2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip} UPDATE

Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory (1998) {2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach – Painted From Memory (1998)
{2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip}
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.12 GB (SACD ISO) + 991 MB (SACD FLAC) + 292 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2193 | Genre: Pop

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach first collaborated on “God Give Me Strength,” a sweeping ballad that functioned as the centerpiece in Allison Anders’ Grace of My Heart. It was a stunning song in the tradition of Bacharach’s classic ’60s work and it was successful enough that the composers decided to collaborate on a full album, Painted from Memory. Wisely, they chose to work within the stylistic parameters of Bacharach’s ’60s material, but Painted from Memory never sounds like a stylistic exercise. Continue reading “Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach – Painted From Memory (1998) {2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer & Hi-Res SACD Rip} UPDATE”

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes (1979) [1991, MFSL Remastered]

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes (1979) [1991, MFSL Remastered]

Not long after You’re Gonna Get It, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ label, Shelter, was sold to MCA Records. Petty struggled to free himself from the major label, eventually sending himself into bankruptcy. Continue reading “Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes (1979) [1991, MFSL Remastered]”

Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates (1981) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates (1981) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Pirates is the second album by Chicago-born singer, songwriter, and musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in July 1981, two years after her eponymous debut Rickie Lee Jones. The album is partially an account of her break-up with fellow musician Tom Waits after the success of her debut album. The cover is a 1976-copyrighted photo by Brassaï. Continue reading “Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates (1981) [2009, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – 7 Albums (1955-1961) [DCC Compact Classics, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

Miles Davis - 7 Albums (1955-1961) [DCC Compact Classics, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

Miles Davis – 7 Albums (1955-1961) [DCC Compact Classics, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]
EAC Rip | 7xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.37 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: DCC Compact Classics | Genre: Bop, Cool, Fusion, Jazz
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The Kinks – Everybody’s In Show-Biz (1972) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Kinks - Everybody's In Show-Biz (1972) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Kinks – Everybody’s In Show-Biz (1972)
[2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 557 MB (CD-Layer) + 3.06 GB (SACD ISO) + 1.46 GB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2010 | Genre: Classic Rock

Everybody’s in Show-Biz is a double album with one record devoted to stories from the road and another devoted to songs from the road. It could be labeled “the drunkest album ever made,” without a trace of hyperbole, since this is a charmingly loose, rowdy, silly record. It comes through strongest on the live record, of course, as it’s filled with Ray Davies’ notoriously campy vaudevellian routine (dig the impromptu “Banana Boat Song” that leads into “Skin & Bone,” or the rollicking “Baby Face”). Continue reading “The Kinks – Everybody’s In Show-Biz (1972) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Pixies – 4 Albums (1988-1991) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Pixies - 4 Albums (1988-1991) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Combining jagged, roaring guitars and stop-start dynamics with melodic pop hooks, intertwining male-female harmonies, and evocative, cryptic lyrics, the Pixies were one of the most influential American alternative rock bands of the late ’80s. They weren’t accomplished musicians — Black Francis wailed and bashed out chords while Joey Santiago’s lead guitar squealed out spirals of noise. Continue reading “Pixies – 4 Albums (1988-1991) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Toto – Toto IV (1982) [1994, Sony MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

Toto - Toto IV (1982) [1994, Sony MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

It was do or die for Toto on the group’s fourth album, and they rose to the challenge. Largely dispensing with the anonymous studio rock that had characterized their first three releases, the band worked harder on its melodies, made sure its simple lyrics treated romantic subjects, augmented Bobby Kimball’s vocals by having other group members sing, brought in ringers like Timothy B. Schmit, and slowed down the tempo to what came to be known as “power ballad” pace. Continue reading “Toto – Toto IV (1982) [1994, Sony MasterSound, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]”

Cat Stevens – Three (1996) [3CD-Set, MFSL, Remastered]

Cat Stevens - Three (1996) [3CD-Set, MFSL, Remastered]

3CD-Set, 24kt Gold Plated CD MFSL Remastered: Numbers (1975), Izitso (1977), Back to Earth (1978).
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The Police – Synchronicity (1983) [1989, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

The Police - Synchronicity (1983) [1989, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]

Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by English rock band The Police, released in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1983. The band’s most successful release, the album includes the hit singles “Every Breath You Take”, “King of Pain”, “Wrapped Around Your Finger”, and “Synchronicity II”. Continue reading “The Police – Synchronicity (1983) [1989, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered]”

John Williams – Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

John Williams - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

John Williams – Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
[2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 344 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.79 GB (SACD ISO) + 767 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | Austria | Cat#: AFZ 226 | Genre: Soundtrack

The CE3K score was a masterful mixture of eerie suspense and tremendous emotive bombast, complete with hair-raising moments and the great big playful musical conversation between the mothership and the humans. The album, alas, was a fairly pitiful affair, poorly mixed, sequenced lamely, and missing most of the conversation. Continue reading “John Williams – Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow (1976) [2014, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow (1976) [2014, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow (1976)
[2014, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 459 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.80 GB (SACD ISO) + 825 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | Austria | Cat#: AFZ 156 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Inspired by the artwork of Roger Dean and the writings of Ver Stanley Alder, Jon Anderson developed an entire story around the idea of an interstellar exodus from Sunhillow, writing this album around the narrative (named for the spaceship’s architect, Olias). The idea may seem overly ambitious, but Anderson fills the record with enough magical moments to delight fans of Yes’ mystic side Continue reading “Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow (1976) [2014, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Michael Hedges – Aerial Boundaries (1984) {2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip} UPDATE

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries (1984) {2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Michael Hedges – Aerial Boundaries (1984) {2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 269 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.53 GB (SACD ISO) + 655 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | Austria | Cat#: AFZ 218 | Genre: New Age

This is the finest album from Michael Hedges, the man who is responsible for the greatest revolution in solo acoustic guitar playing since Leo Kottke. There are moments on Aerial Boundaries where it seems literally impossible that so much music is coming from one man and his guitar. Attacking his instrument, snapping strings, banging on the fingerboard with his right hand, Hedges plays supremely beautiful music Continue reading “Michael Hedges – Aerial Boundaries (1984) {2015, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip} UPDATE”

Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (1973) {2008, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (1973) {2008, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (1973) {2008, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 185 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.27 GB (SACD ISO) + 596 MB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | USA | Cat#: UDSACD 2039 | Genre: R&B

Let’s Get It On is the thirteenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye. It was released on August 28, 1973, by Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during June 1970 to July 1973 at Hitsville U.S.A. and Golden World Studio in Detroit, and at Hitsville West in Los Angeles. Continue reading “Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (1973) {2008, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}”