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Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (Killing Machine) (1978) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2010]

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Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (Killing Machine) (1978) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2010]

Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (Killing Machine) (1978) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 243 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 62 MB
Genre: Heavy Metal | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ 066)

In many ways the fifth Judas Priest studio album, "Hell Bent for Leather" (aka "Killing Machine" outside the US) released in the fall of 1978 is the band's definitive album, showcasing all their strengths and epitomizing what this heavy metal group is all about. The album was produced during the period they adopted the "leather & studs" style breaking new ground in heavy metal sound and image. Although gothic themes are present the album isn't truly dark or morbid, the band is as aggressive and brutally intense as ever. The blistering two-guitar attack and shreds of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing will melt your head - the solos have some serious attitude, and by now Rob Halford had established his quite unique, much lower and more menacing, vocal style…

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992) [Audio Fidelity 2016]

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Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992) [Audio Fidelity 2016]

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992)
Remastered by Steve Hoffman & Steven Marsh, 2016
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 342 Mb | Scans ~ 85 Mb | 00:52:58
Alternative Metal, Funk Metal, Rapcore, Alternative Rock | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ-244

'Rage Against the Machine' is the debut studio album by Rage Against the Machine. The album was released on November 3, 1992. It went to #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and #45 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2001, Q named Rage Against the Machine as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2012, the album was ranked number 365 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Bread - The Best Of Bread (1973) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2015]

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Bread - The Best Of Bread (1973) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2015]

Bread - The Best Of Bread (1973)
Mastered by Steve Hoffman, 2015, Audio CD Layer

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 194 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 78 Mb | Scans ~ 112 Mb
Genre: Soft Rock | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ5 197 | Time: 00:34:01

This 1973 recording is a great collection of music from Bread, the popular 1970's band best known for their mellow, smooth, melodic and often mournful tunes. Many of the classic Bread tunes included in this set live on through soft rock stations everywhere. Lead singer David Gates crooned his way into America's heart, and starting with "Make It With You" quickly spun off hits like "Everything I Own," "Diary," "Baby I'm A Want You," "It Don't Matter To Me" and "If." At times, their songs had a more upbeat feel as with "Mother Freedom," but they always retain that same soothing blend of soulful lyrics and gentle music. This album covers all the early hits and more delivered with a deceptively breezy tone by one of pop's purest vocalists. Audio Fidelity reassembled all the original masters of the tracks that appeared on the album release rather than work from the compiled "Best of…" master thus giving the recording a completely fresh, updated sound.

Bad Company - Straight Shooter (1975) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011] (Re-up)

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Bad Company - Straight Shooter (1975) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011] (Re-up)

Bad Company - Straight Shooter (1975) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 39 MB
Genre: Hard Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ 117)

Cut straight on the heels of Bad Company's 1974 debut - just a matter of three months later; not quite long enough to know how big a success the first LP would be - Straight Shooter is seemingly cut from the same cloth as its predecessor. It is, after all, a tight collection of eight strong, steady, heavy rockers that never, ever proceed in a hurry, but from the moment "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" kicks off the proceedings, it's clear that Bad Company have decided to expand their palette this second time around. Where Bad Company was stark, minimalist hard rock, Straight Shooter bears lots of different, vibrant colors: acoustic guitars are used for light and shade, guitars are channeled through chorus pedals, pianos and organs alternate with the occasional wash of strings, and the entire thing feels bigger and bolder than before…

Ten Years After - 2 Studio Albums (1971-1972) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011-2012] (Re-up)

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Ten Years After - 2 Studio Albums (1971-1972) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011-2012] (Re-up)

Ten Years After - 2 Studio Albums (1971-1972) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011-2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 516 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 195 MB | Covers - 85 MB
Genre: Classic Rock, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity

A Space in Time (1971). A Space in Time was Ten Years After's best-selling album. This was due primarily to the strength of "I'd Love to Change the World," the band's only hit single, and one of the most ubiquitous AM and FM radio cuts of the summer of 1971. TYA's first album for Columbia, A Space in Time has more of a pop-oriented feel than any of their previous releases had. The individual cuts are shorter, and Alvin Lee displays a broader instrumental palette than before. In fact, six of the disc's ten songs are built around acoustic guitar riffs. However, there are still a couple of barn-burning jams. The leadoff track, "One of These Days," is a particularly scorching workout, featuring extended harmonica and guitar solos…

Carly Simon - No Secrets (1972) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011]

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Carly Simon - No Secrets (1972) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011]

Carly Simon - No Secrets (1972) [Audio Fidelity, 24 KT + Gold CD, 2011]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 203 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 86 MB | Covers - 36 MB
Genre: Pop Rock, Singer-Songwriter | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ 114)

"No Secrets," with its iconic cover image, is Carly Simon's third studio album and her first #1. Released in 1972, the record spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard charts. "No Secrets" blends the best of her pop/jazz/bluesy style and spawned four Top 20 hits including the #1 smash "You're So Vain," her powerhouse diatribe to a smug, conceited ex, featuring the back-up vocals of Mick Jagger. "The Right Thing to Do" was another major single, and one of her most gorgeous ballads ever. No one can mistake that voice, which has become one of the most recognizable and endearing in all of pop music. Richard Perry's simple, elegant production pays particular attention to the vocals that run the gamut of sweet to ferocious. It seems Carly Simon knows, intuitively, how to properly emote the feelings of each song to the listener…

Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (1974) Remastered by Steve Hoffman, DCC 24 Karat Gold Disc, 1992

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Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (1974) Remastered by Steve Hoffman, DCC 24 Karat Gold Disc, 1992

Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (1974)
Remastered by Steve Hoffman, DCC 24 Karat Gold Disc, 1992
EAC | WV | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 216 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 102 Mb | Scans included
Label: DCC Compact Classics/Asylum Records | # GZS 1025 | Time: 00:37:03
Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Folk-Jazz, Jazz-Rock

Joni Mitchell reached her commercial high point with Court and Spark, a remarkably deft fusion of folk, pop, and jazz which stands as her best-selling work to date. While as unified and insightful as Blue, the album – a concept record exploring the roles of honesty and trust in relationships, romantic and otherwise – moves away from confessional songwriting into evocative character studies: the hit "Free Man in Paris," written about David Geffen, is a not-so-subtle dig at the machinations of the music industry, while "Raised on Robbery" offers an acutely funny look at the predatory environment of the singles bar scene. Much of Court and Spark is devoted to wary love songs: both the title cut and "Help Me," the record's most successful single, carefully measure the risks of romance, while "People's Parties" and "The Same Situation" are fraught with worry and self-doubt (standing in direct opposition to the music, which is smart, smooth, and assured from the first note to the last).

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (1972) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016]

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (1972) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016]

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (1972) [Remastered 2016]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 112 Mb | Scans included
Classic Rock, Jazz Rock | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ 241 | 00:41:15
Mastered by Steve Hoffman and Stephen Marsh

Sometimes, a greatest-hits set is timed perfectly to gather together a group's most successful and familiar performances just at the point when that group has passed the point of their maximum exposure to the public, but before the public memory has had a chance to fade. That was the case when Columbia Records assembled this compilation for release in early 1972. At that point, Blood, Sweat & Tears had released four albums and scored six Top 40 hits, each of which is heard here. But lead singer David Clayton-Thomas had just quit the group, so that the unit that recorded songs like "You've Made Me So Very Happy" was not working together anymore. And even when Clayton-Thomas returned, the band would continue to decline commercially. As such, BS&T's Greatest Hits captures the band's peak in 11 selections–seven singles chart entries, plus two album tracks from the celebrated debut album when Al Kooper helmed the group, and two more from the Grammy-winning multi-platinum second album.

Santana - Lotus (1974) 2CDs, Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016

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Santana - Lotus (1974) 2CDs, Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016

Santana - Lotus (1974) 2CDs [Remastered 2016]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 766 Mb | Scans ~ 36 Mb | 01:58:49
Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Latin Jazz, Fusion | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ2 247
Mastered By Stephen Marsh & Steve Hoffman

Recorded in Japan in July 1973, this massive, three-LP live album was available outside the United States in 1974 but held back from domestic release in the U.S. It features the same "New Santana Band" that recorded Welcome, and combines that group's jazz and spiritual influences with performances of earlier Latin rock favorites like "Oye Como Va."

Return to Forever - Musicmagic (1977) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016]

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Return to Forever - Musicmagic (1977) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016]

Return to Forever - Musicmagic (1977) Mastered by Kevin Gray, 2016
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 241 Mb | Scans included
Jazz Fusion | Label: Audio Fidelity, Columbia | # AFZ 250 | Time: 00:41:57

Musicmagic is Return to Forever's seventh and final studio album and one of the best jazz recordings released in the fusion genre. The album contains the final line-up of the band with only founders Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke returning from the previous recordings. This 1977 release was the first Return to Forever album in five years to contain vocals, performed here by Corea's future wife Gayle Moran and the surprisingly enjoyable Stanley Clarke. This album also marked the return of original member Joe Farrell on saxophone and flute, along with several new members making up a killer five-piece horn section.

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (1967) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2015]

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Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (1967) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2015]

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (1967) [Remastered 2015]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 189 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 72 Mb | Scans ~ 89 Mb
Vocal Pop, Vocal Jazz, Christmas | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ 225 | Time: 00:31:27
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Nat King Cole's flawless vocals combined with ever so sweet orchestrations and choral backings, provide a collection of standard Christmas carols, hymns and songs that gloriously captures the spirit of the season. Without fireworks, improvisations, catchy rhythms, or unusual variations, Cole sings songs full of love in his relaxed and unpretentious style. The orchestra and chorus under the direction of Ralph Carmichael are used to highlight Cole's vocal interpretations, instead of making their own statements, and the use of bells, bell lyre, flutes, and harp add depth to the background while adding emphasis to the lyrics. The title track, beautifully sung to an accompaniment of piano and strings, has always been Cole's biggest Christmas hit, it has remained a perinnial and is possibly his most widely heard record.

Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits (1970) [Audio Fidelity 2015]

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Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits (1970) [Audio Fidelity 2015]

Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits (1970) [Audio Fidelity 2015]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 255 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 87 MB | Covers - 109 MB
Genre: R&B, Funk, Soul | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ5 215)

Released in 1970 during the stopgap between Stand! and There's a Riot Goin' On, Greatest Hits inadvertently arrived at precisely the right moment, summarizing Sly & the Family Stone's joyous hit-making run on the pop and R&B charts. Technically, only four songs here reached the Top Ten, with only two others hitting the Top 40, but judging this solely on charts is misleading, since this is simply a peerless singles collection. This summarizes their first four albums perfectly (almost all of Stand! outside of the two jams and "Somebody's Watching You" is here), adding the non-LP singles "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," and "Everybody Is a Star," possibly the loveliest thing they ever recorded…

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (1973) [Audio Fidelity 2015]

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Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (1973) [Audio Fidelity 2015]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (1973) [Audio Fidelity 2015]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 248 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 108 MB
Genre: Jazz Rock, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ5 212)

Emboldened by the popularity of Inner Mounting Flame among rock audiences, the first Mahavishnu Orchestra set out to further define and refine its blistering jazz-rock direction in its second - and, no thanks to internal feuding, last - studio album. Although it has much of the screaming rock energy and sometimes exaggerated competitive frenzy of its predecessor, Birds of Fire is audibly more varied in texture, even more tightly organized, and thankfully more musical in content. A remarkable example of precisely choreographed, high-speed solo trading - with John McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, and Jan Hammer all of one mind, supported by Billy Cobham's machine-gun drumming and Rick Laird's dancing bass - can be heard on the aptly named "One Word," and the title track is a defining moment of the group's nearly atonal fury…

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man (1968) [Audio Fidelity 2014]

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man (1968) [Audio Fidelity 2014]

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man (1968) [Audio Fidelity 2014]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 305 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 116 MB | Covers - 12 MB
Genre: Blues Rock, Jazz Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ5 195)

Child Is Father to the Man is keyboard player/singer/arranger Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements (including strings and horns), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work. This is one of the great albums of the eclectic post-Sgt. Pepper era of the late '60s, a time when you could borrow styles from Greenwich Village contemporary folk to San Francisco acid rock and mix them into what seemed to have the potential to become a new American musical form. It's Kooper's bluesy songs, such as "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her," and his singing that are the primary focus, but the album is an aural delight…

Grover Washington, Jr. - Winelight (1980) [Audio Fidelity 2015]

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Grover Washington, Jr. - Winelight (1980) [Audio Fidelity 2015]

Grover Washington, Jr. - Winelight (1980) [Audio Fidelity 2015]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 230 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 92 MB | Covers - 89 MB
Genre: Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Funk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Audio Fidelity (AFZ5 203)

Grover Washington, Jr., has long been one of the leaders in what could be called rhythm & jazz, essentially R&B-influenced jazz. Winelight is one of his finest albums, and not primarily because of the Bill Withers hit "Just the Two of Us." It is the five instrumentals that find Washington (on soprano, alto, and tenor) really stretching out. If he had been only interested in sales, Washington's solos could have been half as long and he would have stuck closely to the melody. Instead he really pushes himself on some of these selections, particularly the title cut. A memorable set of high-quality and danceable soul-jazz.