Henry Mancini - The Real... Henry Mancini: The Ultimate Collection (2014) 3CD Set

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Henry Mancini - The Real... Henry Mancini: The Ultimate Collection (2014) 3CD Set

Henry Mancini - The Real… Henry Mancini: The Ultimate Collection (2014) 3CD Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 961 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 391 Mb | Scans included | 02:47:36
Instrumental Pop, Easy Listening, Jazz | Label: RCA Victor, Sony Music | # 88875010252

Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), "Moon River" to Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the theme to the Peter Gunn television series. The Peter Gunn theme won the first Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Mancini also had a long collaboration on film scores with the film director Blake Edwards. 2014 three CD box set containing 60 of the composer/arranger's finest recordings. Features 'Moon River', 'Baby Elephant Walk', 'Peter Gunne' and many others.

Taylor Swift - Albums Collection 2006-2014 (9CD + DVD) [Japanese Releases]

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Taylor Swift - Albums Collection 2006-2014 (9CD + DVD) [Japanese Releases]

Taylor Swift - Albums Collection 2006-2014 (9CD + DVD) [Japanese Releases]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 3.5 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.2 Gb | Time: 08:48:06
DVD5 | NTSC | 16:9 (720x480) VBR | LPCM 2.0 | 00:30:53 | ~ 2 Gb
Genre: Pop, Country-Pop, Dance-Pop, Pop/Rock | Scans ~ 1 Gb

Collection includes: 'Taylor Swift' (2006) SHM-CD + Deluxe Edition; 'Fearless' (2008) SHM-CD + Platinum Edition (CD+DVD); 'Speak Now' (2010) 2CD Deluxe Edition; 'Red' (2012) 2CD Deluxe Edition; '1989 D.L.X.' (2014) (CD+DVD).

Masaaki Suzuki - Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Works (2015)

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Masaaki Suzuki - Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Works (2015)

Masaaki Suzuki - Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Works (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 185 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2111 | Time: 01:19:26

For this hybrid SACD of famous organ works by J.S. Bach, Masaaki Suzuki plays the restored Schnitger-Hinz organ in the Martinikerk (Martin's Church), in Groningen, one of the most celebrated instruments in the Netherlands and one which dates back to Bach's time. Its bright, Baroque sonorities and Suzuki's historically informed interpretations give these performances a compelling sense of authenticity and period style. The pieces are among Bach's greatest hits, particularly the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which gives the program a decisive opening. Following that flashy demonstration, Suzuki is relaxed and almost contemplative in the Pastorale in F major, and continues his thoughtful readings in the Partita on "O Gott, du frommer Gott," the Prelude and Fugue in G minor, and the Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her." Yet he includes two sparkling virtuoso performances in the Fantasia in G major and the Prelude and Fugue in E minor, which keep the album from being too soft and subdued. BIS' super audio sound is crisp and detailed, which is no mean feat in a church recording.

VA - The Ultimate Christmas Album, WCBS-FM 101.1, Vol. 7 (2008)

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VA - The Ultimate Christmas Album, WCBS-FM 101.1, Vol. 7 (2008)

VA - The Ultimate Christmas Album, WCBS-FM 101.1, Vol. 7 (2008)
24 MORE Great Songs for the 25th of December

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 480 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Scans ~ 28 Mb
Label: Collectables Records | # COL-CD-1249 | Time: 01:19:24
Holidays, Christmas, Vocal Pop, Country Pop, R&B

Collectables presents 24 more of the greatest holiday hits of all time. All songs are the original hits by the original artists that made them great. Elvis Presley, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Bing Cosby, Brian Wilson, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Barry Manilow, Luther Vandross, Michael Bolton, Gloria Estefan, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kenny Loggins, Buster Poindexter, Englebert Humperdinck, Donny Osmond, John Denver, The Manhattan Transfer, Gladys Knight, Kenny Vance, Bobby Vinton and Aretha Franklin.

Steely Dan - Albums Collection 1972-1980 (7CD) Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered 2008

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Steely Dan - Albums Collection 1972-1980 (7CD) Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered 2008

Steely Dan - Albums Collection 1972-1980 (7CD) [Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered 2008]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.77 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 711 Mb | Scans included | 04:31:05
Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Jazz Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul | Label: Geffen/Universal | UICY 93515-93521

Collection includes: Can't Buy A Thrill (1972); Countdown To Ecstasy (1973); Pretzel Logic (1974); Katy Lied (1975); The Royal Scam (1976); Aja (1977); Gaucho (1980).

Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music (2013)

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Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music (2013)

Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 287 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 110 Mb | Scans ~ 107 Mb
Label: Fiction/Polydor | # 3732897 | Time: 00:48:00
Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Modern Acoustic Blues

Hubcap Music is the sixth studio album by Seasick Steve. The title derives from his Morris Minor guitar made out of two hubcaps placed back-to-back. Steve uses the guitar frequently, both live and in the studio. Guests on the album include Dan Magnusson on drums (who also plays live with Seasick Steve), John Paul Jones on bass (amongst other instruments), and Jack White on guitar on the track "The Way I Do".

Osibisa - Heads (1972) Reissue 1993

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Osibisa - Heads (1972) Reissue 1993

Osibisa - Heads (1972) Reissue 1993
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 207 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 94 Mb | Scans ~ 51 Mb
Label: Line/Lineca | # LCCD 9.01268 O | Time: 00:41:18
Afrobeat, High-Life, Afro-Pop, Funk, Jazz-Funk

Osibisa, the West African high-life band from Ghana, waxed their first LP in 1971 and continues to spit them out. Their longevity can be attributed to a vibrant sound and the ability to inject humor into music. They don't allow themselves to become mired in social issues as did the short-lived but often brilliant Cymande, whose LPs were essentially political statements. Osibisa's only agenda is making good music, and if it happens to strike a political or social nerve, fine, but it's not what they're totally about. "Wango Wango" starts slow but evolves into a wicked jam that's heavy as P-Funk. Pleasant flute and trumpet riffs accent the lovely "So So MI La So." The bands' tribute to America, the floating "Sweet America," teases and tantalizes. Percussion heads will appreciate "Ye Tie Wo" and "Che Che Kule." The deepest slabs of social commentary are the thought-provoking "Sweet Sounds" and "Did You Know." All tracks were written by all or various members of Osibisa, who share production credit with John Punter.

Alexander Melnikov - Johannes Brahms: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Scherzo Op. 4 (2011)

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Alexander Melnikov - Johannes Brahms: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Scherzo Op. 4 (2011)

Alexander Melnikov - Johannes Brahms: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Scherzo Op. 4 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 265 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902086 | Time: 01:09:22

Alexander Melnikov’s recent, excellent set of the Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues (currently nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Awards) demonstrated eloquently that he was no slavish follower of performing tradition. This new disc of Brahms’s earliest surviving piano works shows his questing musicality in another way. In an absorbing booklet essay on Brahms’s pianos and pianism, Melnikov cites the copious (and contradictory) evidence of how Brahms played, and what pianos he used and favoured. Brahms’s partiality for Steinways and Streichers is well attested, as is his admiration for Bösendorfer’s instruments, and Melnikov has opted here for an 1875 Bösendorfer even though, as he comments, it is ‘notoriously difficult to play and to regulate’, shortcomings ‘compensated by the beauty and nobility of its sound’. Those qualities, along with immediacy of attack, agile articulation and individuation of registers, are admirably well caught in this recording: no matter that none of these works were played on such an instrument when they were new. Melnikov shows himself a formidable Brahmsian, and the piano’s ‘nobility’ is best displayed in the surging grandeur he brings to the finale of the C major and the intensely sensitive readings of both sonatas’ variation-form slow movements.

Irma Thomas - True Believer (1992)

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Irma Thomas - True Believer (1992)

Irma Thomas - True Believer (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb
Label: Rounder | # RCD 2117 | Time: 00:42:48 | Scans included
Soul, Blues, New Orleans R&B, Rhythm & Blues

Like her first two efforts for Rounder, True Believer is a stellar collection of contemporary soul performed in the classic '50s New Orleans tradition. The difference is in conception. True Believer focuses on heartbreak songs, and there is genuine anguish in Irma Thomas' voice, making new songs by the likes of Dan Penn, Dr. John, Tony Joe White, Allen Toussaint, and Doc Pomus sound like instant classics. Another excellent effort from a woman who has plenty to her credit.

Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2005) 3CD Set

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Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2005) 3CD Set

Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2005) 3CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.14 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 454 Mb | Scans ~ 26 Mb
British Blues, Blues-Rock | Label: Sony BMG | # 82876734842 | Time: 03:17:12

55 tracks, 3 CD set from 60's blues band on the famous Blue Horizon label. The band included Christine Perfect (who married John McVie & joined Fleetwood Mac) & Stan Webb. All tracks restored & remastered by Blue Horizon founder Mike Vernon, with previously unreleased material, detailed liner notes & new photos.

Alan Hull - Pipedream (1973) Expanded Reissue 2005

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Alan Hull - Pipedream (1973) Expanded Reissue 2005

Alan Hull - Pipedream (1973) Expanded Reissue 2005
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans ~ 55 Mb
Label: Virgin | # CASCDR 1069/0946 3 36953 2 0 | Time: 00:56:29
British Folk-Rock, Folk, Pop/Rock

The debut solo album by the Lindisfarne frontman, cut shortly after that band's initial breakup, Pipedream is very much the son of its father, a faintly folky collection of songs that, one presumes, were originally intended for the next Lindisfarne album before events finally overtook them. As usual with Alan Hull's post-Dingly Dell output, nothing here truly leaps out to grab your attention; rather, Pipedream is a meditative, reflective collection characterized as much by Hull's often-plaintive vocal than by any particular melody. But "Country Gentleman's Wife," "Song for a Windmill" and the gorgeous "Justanothersadsong" are latter-day Hull jewels, while the biting "The Money Game" reflects on the end of the band with grandiose venom. [Originally released in 1973, the LP was reissued on CD in 2005 and includes six bonus tracks.]

Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory (1981) [Non-Remastered, Early Press]

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Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory (1981) [Non-Remastered, Early Press]

Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory (1981)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 244 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 103 Mb | Scans included
Label: Chrysalis Records | # CCD 1331 | Time: 00:36:40
New Wave, Dance-Rock, Synthpop

Journeys to Glory is the debut studio album by Spandau Ballet. It was released on 27 February 1981 by Chrysalis Records, just ten days after its recording at Trident Studios.

VA - Ultimate... Christmas: 4CDs of Great Christmas Music (2015) 4 CD Box Set

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VA - Ultimate... Christmas: 4CDs of Great Christmas Music (2015) 4 CD Box Set

VA - Ultimate… Christmas: 4CDs of Great Christmas Music (2015) 4 CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.55 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 586 Mb
Label: Sony | # 88875147872 | Time: 04:16:56 | Scans ~ 47 Mb
Genre: Holidays, Pop, R&B, Disco, Soft Rock, Folk, Country

It really will be the Ultimate Christmas with these 76 Festive tracks across 4CDs housed in a fold out card digipack style case. Includes Wham! Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, Eartha Kitt, Michael Bolton, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunkel, Julie Andrews, Andy Williams, Mahalia Jackson, John Denver, Willie Nelson, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Susan Boyle, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Dido and many more!

VA - Ultimate ROCK: 4CDs Of Great Rock Music (2015)

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VA - Ultimate ROCK: 4CDs Of Great Rock Music (2015)

VA - Ultimate ROCK: 4CDs Of Great Rock Music (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 2 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 648 Mb | Scans ~ 42 Mb
Rock (variety of styles) | Label: Sony Music | # 88875085792 | Time: 04:43:44

Ultimate Rock: 72 of the biggest rock anthems and harder to find rarities across 4 CDs, all housed in a fold out cardboard digi-pack sleeve. Alice Cooper, Argent, Blue Oyster Cult, Kansas, Judas Priest, Mott The Hoople, David Bowie, Primal Scream, Meat Loaf, The Stranglers, Santana, Manic Street Preachers, Jeff Buckley, Ted Nugent, Joe Satriani, Al Stewart, Cheap Trick, Spirit, Johnny Winter, The Guess Who, Fleetwood Mac and more, and more…

VA - Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours (1999) 2CDs, Reissue 2010

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VA - Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours (1999) 2CDs, Reissue 2010

VA - Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours (1999) 2CDs, Reissue 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 740 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 305 Mb | Scans included
Label: Time Life Music/Sony Music | # 25747-D A 773196 B0014428-02 | 02:01:28
Soft Rock, Pop/Rock, Folk Rock, Folk, Country, Soul

Time Life Music’s Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours offers up 34 rock, folk, and pop cuts from the '60s and '70s. The two-disc set, which is part of Time Life’s Singers & Songwriters series, hits mostly high notes, covering everything from soft rock (Dan Fogelberg's “Longer”) to hippie folk (Scott McKenzie's “San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair]”) to classic rock radio staples (Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way").