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Herb Ellis Trio - Sweet and Lovely (1984)

Posted By: gribovar
Herb Ellis Trio - Sweet and Lovely (1984)

Herb Ellis Trio - Sweet and Lovely (1984)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 207 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 100 MB | Covers - 41 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Atlas (AC35-7)

An excellent bop-based guitarist with a slight country twang to his sound, Herb Ellis became famous playing with the Oscar Peterson Trio during 1953-1958. Prior to that, he had attended North Texas State University and played with the Casa Loma Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey (1945-1947), and the sadly under-recorded trio Soft Winds. While with Peterson, Ellis was on some Jazz at the Philharmonic tours and had a few opportunities to lead his own dates for Verve, including his personal favorite, Nothing But the Blues (1957). After leaving Peterson, Ellis toured a bit with Ella Fitzgerald; became a studio musician on the West Coast; made sessions with the Dukes of Dixieland, Stuff Smith, and Charlie Byrd; and in the 1970s became much more active in the jazz world…

Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984) {Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984) {Remastered}

Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984) {Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 313 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 113 Mb
Full Scans | 00:39:42 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock | Mercury Records / Anthem #534 634-2

Grace Under Pressure was the first Rush album since 1975's Fly by Night to not be produced by Terry Brown, who was replaced by Peter Henderson (Supertramp, Paul McCartney). The change resulted in a slightly more accessible sound than its predecessor, Signals, and marked the beginning of a period where many Rush fans feel that synths and electronics were used too prominently – in effect pushing guitarist Alex Lifeson into the background. The songwriting and lyrics were still strong however, as evidenced by the video/single "Distant Early Warning" (a tale about nuclear war) and the often-overlooked highlight "Kid Gloves," one of the album's few songs to feature Lifeson upfront.

Glenn Frey - The Allnighter (1984) {US Press}

Posted By: popsakov
Glenn Frey - The Allnighter (1984) {US Press}

Glenn Frey - The Allnighter (1984) {US Press}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 299 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 141 Mb
Full Scans | 00:43:32 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop Rock, Classic Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul | MCA Records #MCAD-31158

The Allnighter is the second solo studio album by Glenn Frey, the guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles. The album was released in mid 1984 on MCA in the United States and the United Kingdom, two years after Frey's modestly successful debut album, No Fun Aloud and four years after the demise of the Eagles. It was and still is Frey's most successful solo album throughout his whole solo career, having reached #22 on the Billboard charts, and releasing two Top 20 singles with "Smuggler's Blues" and "Sexy Girl". The album achieved Gold status in the US. It is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of Frey's solo work. The single "Smuggler's Blues" helped to inspire the Miami Vice episode of the same name, and Frey was invited to star in that episode, which was Frey's acting debut. The music video for the single also won Frey an MTV Video Music Award in 1985.

Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (1984)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (1984)

Zoltán Kocsis, Edo de Waart, San Francisco Symphony - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 (1984)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 221 Mb | Total time: 62:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 411 475-2 | Recorded: 1982, 1983

It is obviously not the sentimental aspect of Rachmaninov's music that has attracted Zoltan Kocsis to record all of the piano concertos for Philips. His view of the composer is more involved with making an impact through spine-tingling virtuosity, balanced by moments of poetic insight.

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) {1984, Japan 1st Press}

Posted By: popsakov
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) {1984, Japan 1st Press}

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) {1984, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 264 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 123 Mb
Full Scans | 00:38:33 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock, Glam Rock | RCA / Victor #PCD1-4702

"Of all David Bowie's many distinctive personae, none have done more to lodge this most ingenious of British artists in the world's consciousness than his 1972 amalgam of the alien visitor and Christ-like rock star: Ziggy Stardust. Cheap glamour, spacemen and ambiguous sexuality surface throughout the loosely conceptualised collection that is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. If its premise sounds faintly ludicrous, then inspired and dramatic songs such as "Starman" and "Five Years" dispel all doubts about Bowie's genius, and the theatrically tragic "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" brings the album and it's fictional protagonist to a close. As a cultural and musical signpost, Ziggy Stardust points simultaneously backwards to early rock & roll and forward to the simpler, tougher inclinations of late-1970s punk and New Wave rock. As one of the defining rock albums of the 20th century, its influence is immeasurable."

The Style Council - Cafe Bleu (1984)

Posted By: Designol
The Style Council - Cafe Bleu (1984)

The Style Council - Café Bleu (1984)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 286 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 133 Mb
Label: Polydor | # 817 535-2 | Time: 00:44:06 | Scans included
Sophisti-Pop, New Wave, Soul, Alternative Pop/Rock

Style Council's first proper album Cafe Bleu was one of their better efforts, but it indicated the group's fatal flaw – a tendency to be too eclectic and overambitious. Amidst the lazy jazz instrumentals, many of them courtesy of Mick Talbot, Paul Weller inserted several solid soul-tinged pop songs, including "My Ever Changing Moods," "Headstart for Happiness," "You're the Best Thing," and "Here's One That Got Away." However, that doesn't excuse the rap experiment, "A Gospel." The album was later released with a slightly different running order as My Ever Changing Moods in the U.S.; the American edition included the U.K. hit "A Solid Bond in Your Heart".

Tangerine Dream - Firestarter (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Remastered) (1984/2022)

Posted By: Rtax
Tangerine Dream - Firestarter (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Remastered) (1984/2022)

Tangerine Dream - Firestarter (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Remastered) (1984/2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 287 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 MB
42:35 | Electronic, Score, Ambient, Soundtrack | Label: Varèse Sarabande / Universal Music Special Markets / Geffen

Varèse Sarabande revisits the glory days of 1980s sci-fi “synthwave” with a new edition of Tangerine Dream’s classic electronic score for Firestarter (1984).Firestarter, based on a 1980 book by Stephen King and directed by Mark L. Lester, starred eight-year-old Drew Barrymore as Charly, a girl with pyrokinetic powers owing to her parents’ participation in a secret study of hallucinogenic drugs. When the agency behind the experiments comes for Charly to weaponize her powers, led by an assassin played by George C. Scott, she goes on the run with her father.

Tania Maria - Love Explosion (1984) {Concord Picante}

Posted By: tiburon
Tania Maria - Love Explosion (1984) {Concord Picante}

Tania Maria - Love Explosion (1984) {Concord Picante}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 237MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 102MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Bossa Nova

The time I felt an explosion of musical love, was when through the hands and sounds of my favorite Brazilian pianist Luis Eca, I saw, heard and felt a colored flash of beauty, harmonious, sensual, loving, sweet, bitter, irritating. We discovered that music was a woman; assertive, urgent, possessive, dominant, explosive, but always bringing and explosive, powerful discovery, that by mixing bodies and souls without hesitation, you reach that desired target. Even today I'm fascianted by the strength and power of the musicians sounds in relation to our sensibility.

Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}

Posted By: tiburon
Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}

Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}
EAC 1.1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 257MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 97MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Funk, Soul

Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson were Black Ivory, an exceptional and occasionally brilliant soul group from Harlem that recorded throughout the '70s and returned sporadically during the decades following. The trio developed out of the late '60s as a group called the Mellow Souls and were eventually taken under the wing of Patrick Adams. Adams had been in a group called the Sparks, but he developed his skills as a songwriter, arranger, and producer with Black Ivory. Adams scraped together all the money he possibly could in order to have the group record their first single, "Don't Turn Around." Adams took the demo to several unimpressed labels before hitting Today Records.

The Rolling Stones - Rewind (1984)

Posted By: popsakov
The Rolling Stones - Rewind (1984)

The Rolling Stones - Rewind (1984)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 366 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 155 Mb
Full Scans | 00:55:54 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock, Rock & Roll | Rolling Stones Records / CBS #450199 2

Once simply viewed as a ramshackle overview of the Rolling Stones' decidedly uneven career throughout the '70s and into the early '80s, Rewind (1971-1984), ironically enough, is now also considered something of a collector's item since going out of print. And let's not forget that a Stones collection, however imperfect, is still bound to showcase some of the greatest rock & roll tunes ever recorded, and in this case the offerings include everything from "Brown Sugar" to "Angie" to "Miss You" to "Start Me Up," etc., etc. Of course, all of these and many, many more are now represented in the 2002 Forty Licks set, consigning Rewind to its bizarre afterlife as a rarity – go figure.

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers (1984) {1999, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers (1984) {1999, Remastered}

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers (1984) {1999, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 422 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 153 Mb
Full Scans | 00:54:58 | RAR 5% Recovery
Hard Rock | Mercury #314 546 045-2

Deep Purple's definitive Mark II lineup reunited for 1984's Perfect Strangers. It is one of the better examples of a reunion album, although the band's uneasy camaraderie only lasted a few more years. "Knocking at Your Back Door" opens the album with a roar. Ian Gillan's lyrics don't make much sense, but Ritchie Blackmore's guitar riffs and Ian Paice's thunderous drumming carry this song as well as the rest of the album. The robotic rhythm of the title cut relies on Jon Lord's organ work. The 1999 remastered reissue features the bonus track "Son of Alerik." This fascinating, mid-tempo, ten-minute instrumental was the B-side of the "Perfect Strangers" 12" single in the U.K.

Herbie Hancock - Sound System (1984) {Columbia}

Posted By: tiburon
Herbie Hancock - Sound System (1984) {Columbia}

Herbie Hancock - Sound System (1984) {Columbia}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 310MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 107MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Funk, Fusion, Electronic

In the grand tradition of sequels, Sound-System picks up from where Future Shock left off – if anything, even louder and more bleakly industrial than before (indeed, "Hardrock" is "Rockit" with a heavier rock edge). Yet Hancock's experiments with techno-pop were leading him in the general direction of Africa, explicitly so with the addition of the Gambian multi-instrumentalist Foday Musa Suso on half of the tracks. "Junku," written for the 1984 Olympic Games with Suso's electrified kora in the lead, is the transition track that stands halfway between "Rockit" and Hancock's mid-'80s Afro-jazz fusions. Also, "Karabali" features an old cohort, the squealing Wayne Shorter on soprano sax. Despite succumbing a bit to the overwhelming demand for more "Rockits," Hancock's electric music still retained its adventurous edge.

Steve Roach - Structures from Silence (Deluxe) (40th Anniversary Remaster) (1984/2024)

Posted By: Rtax
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence (Deluxe) (40th Anniversary Remaster) (1984/2024)

Steve Roach - Structures from Silence (Deluxe) (40th Anniversary Remaster) (1984/2024) (Hi-Res)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 789 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 436 MB
3:09:22 | Electronic, Minimal, Ambient | Label: Projekt

Projekt celebrates the 40th anniversary of this ambient classic with a beautiful remastered limited edition LP, 1CD, & 3CD. Structures from Silence‘s breathing, suspended embrace of atmospheres and serene melodies instantly struck a chord with listeners in 1984; the album continues to reiterate its timeless resonations with new listeners today. On this landmark recording of gentle proportions, the three long-form tracks were the birth of something new: an original and pure statement striking a balance between diaphanous and understated, deep and reflective. The listening experience evokes a sense of silence within the music as well as the space between the chords. It expresses the breath of life and offers a meditation on delicate strands of subtle awareness.

George Duke - Collection Japanese Remasters (1977-1984) [9CDs] {Epic Japan}

Posted By: tiburon
George Duke - Collection Japanese Remasters (1977-1984) [9CDs] {Epic Japan}

George Duke - Collection Japanese Remasters (1977-1984) [9CDs] {Epic Japan}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC Image level 8 | Cue+Log | Full Scans 300dpi | 3.11GB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 1.24GB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classic Jazz-Funk, Funk, Soul

George Duke was an American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a professor of music. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He was known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums, of which 'A Brazilian Love Affair' from 1980 was his most popular, as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.

Jack Adkins - American Sunset (1984/2018)

Posted By: Rtax
Jack Adkins - American Sunset (1984/2018)

Jack Adkins - American Sunset (1984/2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 114 MB
31:05 | Electronic, Pop, Leftfield, Neofolk | Label: P-Vine Records

Recommended if you like: Trans-era Neil Young, Repo Man and other Ronald Reagan apocalypse now vibes.
Why you should care: At its best, American Sunset is an uncanny, instantly familiar evocation of the death of the west, the greatest country in the world heading into the sunset, set to the sound of guitars and drum machines.