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Bastille - Bad Blood X (10th Anniversary Edition) (2023)

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Bastille - Bad Blood X (10th Anniversary Edition) (2023)

Bastille - Bad Blood X (10th Anniversary Edition) (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 699 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 256 MB | 01:50:27
Electronic, Synth-pop, Indie Pop | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Bad Blood was released on 4th March 2013. Bastille’s debut album charted at #1 on the UK Albums chart, spending 3 weeks at the top, and is certified triple platinum in the UK, and platinum in the US and several other countries. The 2014 Brit Awards nominated ‘British Album of the Year’ features the singles “Overjoyed”, “Bad Blood”, “Flaws”, “Pompeii”, “Laura Palmer”, “Things We Lost in the Fire” and “Oblivion”. Pompeii was the 4th single released from the album and was the band’s breakthrough song, peaking at #2 on the UK Singles Chart. It became the eleventh best-selling song that year, and, until June 2014, was the country’s most streamed single of all time.

Cat Stevens - Harold And Maude (Deluxe) (1971/2022)

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Cat Stevens - Harold And Maude (Deluxe) (1971/2022)

Cat Stevens - Harold And Maude (Deluxe) (1971/2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:03:57 | 368 / 147Mb
Genre: Rock Folk / Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

One of the keys to the success of Hal Ashby's quixotic black comedy masterpiece, Harold and Maude, was the music of Cat Stevens. As with so many things with Stevens, the story of his contributions has a twist. Concerned at the time about the soundtrack sounding like a greatest hits collection, Stevens refused to let Director Hal Ashby and Paramount Pictures release it as an album.

B.B. King - One Kind Favor (Deluxe) (2008/2014)

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B.B. King - One Kind Favor (Deluxe) (2008/2014)

B.B. King - One Kind Favor (Deluxe) (2008/2014)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 392 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 MB | 01:07:40
Blues | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

B.B. King has won 14 GRAMMY awards and recorded over 150 albums during his 60 year plus career. He is one of the greatest and most respected blues guitarists of all time. One Kind Favor is a mixture of old blues covers from Kings early influences. Produced by Grammy Award winner T-Bone Burnett (O Brother Where Art Thou, Walk The Line, The Big Lebowski), the album recaptures much of the spirit and sound of B.B. Kings early recordings, complete with rich horn-section blasts, vintage-style tube distortion on the vocals and boogie-woogie piano.

Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard Live In '77 (2020)

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Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard Live In '77 (2020)

Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard Live In '77 (2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 782 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 264 MB | 01:57:54
Blues Rock | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

This barnstorming 20-song, previously unreleased set is culled from four shows (London, Brighton, Sheffield and Newcastle) which were part of a 1977 tour across the UK in support of Rory’s then latest album 'Calling Card'. Featuring fantastic live versions of tracks from that album as well as from 1975’s 'Against The Grain' and other live favourites, has been mixed from the original multitrack tapes from the official Rory Gallagher archive and mastered for this release at Abbey Road Studios.

blink-182 - Greatest Hits (2005/2016)

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blink-182 - Greatest Hits (2005/2016)

blink-182 - Greatest Hits (2005/2016)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 423 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 MB | 00:57:49
Pop Punk, Alternative | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

First rule of greatest-hits albums: start things off with a bang, not a song that takes about a minute to get off the ground, and about 80 seconds before the vocals kick in. "Carousel" may be a chronologically accurate way to begin blink-182's Greatest Hits, yet it gets things off to a slow start but then again, blink-182 hardly sped out of the gate themselves. It took them a long time to get up to speed it wasn't until their third album, 1997's Dude Ranch, that they developed a flair for sugary pop hooks, as evidenced by that album's "Dammit," not just their first big hit, but their first memorable song. It was enough to buy them a ticket to the big leagues and their next album, 1999's Enema of the State, turned into a blockbuster, thanks to the crossover Top Ten hit "All the Small Things," an incessantly catchy, irresistible slice of bubblegum-pop that sounded at ease sandwiched between *NSYNC and Britney Spears on Y2K radio.

The Supremes - The Supremes A' Go-Go (Expanded Edition) (1966/2017)

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The Supremes - The Supremes A' Go-Go (Expanded Edition) (1966/2017)

The Supremes - The Supremes A' Go-Go (Expanded Edition) (1966/2017)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 1 GB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 375 MB | 02:36:35
Funk, Soul, RnB, Pop | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Supremes A' Go-Go was the group's first number one pop album, propelled to that place with help from a chart-topping single ("You Can't Hurry Love") and a marketing ploy that generated an irresistible song lineup. And along with The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland, Supremes A' Go-Go has held its value better than almost any of the trio's most successful albums (which excludes We Remember Sam Cooke) in fact, back in the days when vinyl was the only game in town, used copies of this record sold faster and better than any of their other common '60s LPs, and for good reason.

Sandie Shaw - Hello Angel (Deluxe Edition) (1988/2020)

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Sandie Shaw - Hello Angel (Deluxe Edition) (1988/2020)

Sandie Shaw - Hello Angel (Deluxe Edition) (1988/2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 517 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 MB | 00:49:30
Pop, Pop Rock | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

British pop star Sandie Shaw had already passed through phases of being a teenage sensation, fashion designer, cabaret singer, and musical writer by the time her influence made it to the ears of the young Manchester band the Smiths in the '80s. Morrissey had championed Shaw's smoky girl group odes to loneliness as much as he borrowed from them, and by the time of 1988's Hello Angel, the two had become good friends and even collaborators. While the album has its ups and downs, the five songs co-penned by Morrissey, including three tunes from the time of the Smiths' first album ("Jeane," "I Don't Owe You Anything," and an especially dark version of "Hand in Glove") are essential for any fan to understand the circle of influence.

Sandie Shaw - Reviewing The Situation (Deluxe Edition) (1969/2020)

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Sandie Shaw - Reviewing The Situation (Deluxe Edition) (1969/2020)

Sandie Shaw - Reviewing The Situation (Deluxe Edition) (1969/2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 376 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 MB | 01:00:49
Pop, Pop Rock | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

On her last album of the '60s, Shaw proved that she was hipper than a lot of people would have suspected. Moving away from the usual light pop and MOR, she chose a set of covers heavy on material by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Rolling Stones ("Sympathy for the Devil"!), Led Zeppelin's "Your Time Is Gonna Come" (double exclamation point!), Donovan, Dr. John, and the Bee Gees. Which doesn't mean it's a great album. It's thoughtfully arranged and energetically delivered, but Shaw's slight, wispy voice is as ill-suited for some of the material as a nun is for the mosh pit.

Sandie Shaw - Love Me, Please Love Me (Deluxe Edition) (1967/2020)

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Sandie Shaw - Love Me, Please Love Me (Deluxe Edition) (1967/2020)

Sandie Shaw - Love Me, Please Love Me (Deluxe Edition) (1967/2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 426 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 MB | 01:13:20
Pop | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Fresh from her triumph at the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, Shaw concentrated on determinedly MOR pop (not pop/rock) material on her third album. The program focused on songs by Jacques Brel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cole Porter, and the like, with only two contributions by her longtime songwriter Chris Andrews. She's no Barbra Streisand, to put it mildly, and the results held little charm either for her fan base or the larger adult market that she may have been trying to reach. The CD reissue is made more palatable by the addition of both sides of four 1967-68 singles, almost all of which were written by Andrews. These are more consistent with the pop/rock lite of her mid-'60s work, but are weaker than her biggest hits, although "Tonight in Tokyo," "You've Not Changed," and "Today" all made the UK Top 30; the Motown-influenced B-side "Stop" may be the highlight of the batch, although that's not saying much.

Sandie Shaw - Me (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2020)

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Sandie Shaw - Me (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2020)

Sandie Shaw - Me (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 365 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 MB | 01:01:46
Pop | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Shaw's second album was a substantial improvement on her debut in every respect, though hardly a major effort. It helped that Chris Andrews (who wrote most of her hits) supplied a lot of the tunes. and Shaw herself contributed a fair effort with her first original composition, "Till the Night Begins to Die." "Down and Dismal Ways" is as down and dirty as Sandie ever got (which means that it's still pretty innocuous). Still, you can't help wondering how much better Lulu or Dusty Springfield would have done with the same material. No need to look for a rare, pricy copy of the original LP; all of the songs are included on the British double-CD compilation 64-67 Complete Sandie Shaw Set.

Sandie Shaw - Sandie (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2020)

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Sandie Shaw - Sandie (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2020)

Sandie Shaw - Sandie (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 339 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 138 MB | 00:58:14
Pop | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Even if you're in the Sandie Shaw cult, you might be disappointed, even aghast, at the quality of her debut LP. From every standpoint, it betrayed hasty execution–wafer-thin production, shoddy original material (none of her early singles are included), lousy covers of American and British pop and rock hits, and one-dimensional vocalizing and interpretive skills from Sandie herself. The British public didn't care, sending it to #3 in the charts; in fact, it was her most successful album in the U.K. The LP was reissued in its entirety as part of the 55-track 64/67 Complete Sandy Shaw, where listeners can easily skip it or program its omission if they want to stick with the singles.

Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary Edition / Deluxe) (1989/2020)

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Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary Edition / Deluxe) (1989/2020)

Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary Edition / Deluxe) (1989/2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 1.05 GB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 367 MB | 02:39:59
Pop, Soul | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Neneh Cherry‘s debut album Raw Like Sushi is being reissued as multi-disc CD and vinyl sets for its 30th anniversary in January. The 1989 album was actually 30 back in June, but such quibbles aside, it was an enormous success back in the day, spawning two top ten hits on both side of the Atlantic, including the best known single Buffalo Stance.

The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy (1971/2013)

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The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy (1971/2013)

The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy (1971/2013)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 241 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 MB | 00:41:51
Classic Rock | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy has the distinction of being the first in a long line of Who compilations. It also has the distinction of being the best. Part of the reason why it is so successful is that it has an actual purpose. Meaty was designed as a collection of the group's singles, many of which never appeared on albums. The Who recorded their share of great albums during the '60s, but condensing their highlights to just the singles is an electrifying experience. "The Kids Are Alright" follows "I Can't Explain," "I Can See for Miles" bleeds into "Pictures of Lily" and "My Generation," "Magic Bus" gives way to "Substitute" and "I'm a Boy" it's an extraordinary lineup, and each song builds on its predecessor's power.

Level 42 - Running In The Family (Super Deluxe Edition) (1987/2012)

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Level 42 - Running In The Family (Super Deluxe Edition) (1987/2012)

Level 42 - Running In The Family (Super Deluxe Edition) (1987/2012)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 416 MB | 02:59:00
New Wave, Synth Pop, Funk | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

By Running in the Family, Level 42 had almost completely thinned out their early jazz-funk and soul roots in favor of a radio-friendly keyboard pop with a light R&B vibe. The sound lies somewhere between Kool and the Gang and early Tears for Fears. But if early fans might have felt betrayed by the new direction, the band's newfound aptitude for attention-grabbing hooks and airtight instrumental polish attracted more than enough new fans to replace them. Running in the Family included the band's sole number one hit in the U.K. charts, "Lessons in Love." It also featured a handful of other respectable pop nuggets including "Children Say" and "Fashion Fever."

The Jam - The Gift (Super Deluxe Edition) (1982/2012)

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The Jam - The Gift (Super Deluxe Edition) (1982/2012)

The Jam - The Gift (Super Deluxe Edition) (1982/2012)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 467 MB | 03:12:34
New Wave, Power Pop, Mod Revival, Punk Rock | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

As good mods, the Jam always had a healthy respect for R&B and soul even the first album featured the revved-up Northern soul of "Non-Stop Dancing." With The Gift, however, Paul Weller seems to have become completely absorbed in it, and more specifically, in Stax-style soul with more than a hint of psychedelia à la "Psychedelic Shack." An uneven album marked by overindulgences like the instrumental "Circus" and unnecessarily long songs, The Gift still has no shortage of terrific songs, like the simply sublime "Ghost," "Town Called Malice" (the hit), and the funk workout of "Precious."