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Music : Stephanie Mills - Feel The Fire: The 20th Century Collection (2011) |
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| Author: xiucoi | 6 October 2011 | Views: 58 | |
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 Stephanie Mills - Feel The Fire: The 20th Century Collection (2011)Release: Oct, 2011 | 2 CD | 30 Tracks | VBR kbps 44,1khz Stereo | 276 MB Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco | Label : 2011What Cha Gonna Do with My Lovin’? (1979), Sweet Sensation (1980), and Stephanie (1981) didn’t appear on CD until a 2008/2009 Universal Japan program. On Feel the Fire: The 20th Century Collection, they’re finally given wider recognition and distribution, anthologized in full with the addition of five mostly essential 12” versions. This represents Stephanie Mills' artistic peak. For all three albums, the singer worked extensively with producers James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, who transitioned from jazz firebrands into sought-after R&B collaborators once they wrote “The Closer I Get to You,” a Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway duet that topped Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1978. Each one of these albums crossed into the Top 30 of the Billboard 200, propelled by the breezy, fully ornamented disco-soul of “What Cha Gonna Do with My Lovin’?,” “Sweet Sensation,” “Never Knew Love Like This Before,” and the Teddy Pendergrass duet “Two Hearts,” as well as the proto-Hi NRG stomper “You Can Get Over” and the synthesizer-bass-anchored club hit “Put Your Body in It.” The albums don’t merely hold up; they hang together. Mtume and Lucas brought their instrumental skills and utilized their core studio unit -- keyboardist Hubert Eaves, drummer Howard King, bassist Basil Fearrington, guitarist Ed Moore, and vocalist/arranger Tawatha Agee, among others -- throughout the sessions, making the albums play out like a true, unified trilogy. This set is essential for any lover of late-‘70s/early-‘80s R&B. Stephanie Mills was in the top tier, while Mtume and Lucas were heavyweights, wholly deserving of being mentioned in the same breath as the Chic Organization's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, their more popular contemporaries
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Music : The Merry-Go-Round - Listen Listen: The Definitive Collection (2005) FLAC |
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| Author: xiucoi | 6 October 2011 | Views: 56 | |
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The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen: The Definitive Collection (2005) FLAC
EAC rip | 29 tracks | FLAC - Log - Cue | Booklet/SCANS | Release: 2005 | 822 MB
Genre: Rock, Pop Rock, Oldies | Label: Cherry Red This is so long overdue! I have been waiting decades for a definitive Merry Go Round collection. Rev-Ola, a fantastic reissue outfit from the UK, has done a class job here. Great sound, complete track listing (29 songs plus a hidden track, historical, just check the liner notes to avoid confusion!) and excellent notes and photos. The core of this collection are the 14 songs that Rhino had issued in 1985 on LP, including the hits Live and You're a Very Lovely Woman, as well as the lesser known but exquisite Listen, Listen, On Your Way Out and the signature tune Come Ride, Come Ride, which in my opinion is a masterpiece of baroque pop psychedlia. There are some duff tracks, but this is fine considering the ages of the group members, and the rushed nature of their recordings. An incredible release, and highly recommeded to fans of great 60s pop, think Beatles, Left Banke and Zombies... not to mention Three O'Clock and Bangles!
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Music : THIN LIZZY - The Platinum Collection (2011) Remastered |
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| Author: xiucoi | 6 October 2011 | Views: 54 | |
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 THIN LIZZY - The Platinum Collection (2011) RemasteredGenre: Rock | Release: 2011 | Quality: CBR 320 Kbps | Size: 523.42 MB Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in December 1969. The two founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met each other while still in school. Lynott took up the role of frontman and speaker for the band and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums. Thin Lizzy are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott's death, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in June 2009. Thin Lizzy's de facto leader, Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band's songs. He was one of the few black musicians to achieve commercial success in hard rock, and was the first black Irishman to do so. Thin Lizzy boasted some of the most critically acclaimed guitarists throughout their history, with founders Downey and Lynott as the rhythm section, on the drums and bass guitar. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities during The Troubles. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including country music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal.[4] Rolling Stone magazine describes the band as distinctly hard rock, "far apart from the braying mid-70s metal pack"
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