Monday, July 31, 2017

Bobbysocks - Bobbysocks (1985) (Vinyl)

Year: 1985 (LP 1985)
Label: Melodia Records (Russia), C60 23927 005
Style: Pop
Country: Norway
Time: 31:21
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 231 Mb

Bobbysocks! is a Norwegian pop duo consisting of Norwegian Hanne Krogh and Swedish-Norwegian Elisabeth Andreassen. They won the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song "La det swinge" ("Let it swing").
The duo was formed in 1983. Both Krogh and Andreassen were frequent Eurovision contestants. Krogh has appeared three times, all for Norway - in 1971 as a soloist, with Bobbysocks! in 1985 and as part of Just 4 Fun in 1991. Andreassen sang for Sweden as one half of Chips in 1982 and after winning with Bobbysocks, teamed up with Jan Werner Danielsen in 1994 and sang solo in 1996. According to John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History Andreassen is one of only five lead artists to sing in the contest on four occasions and is also one of only four artists to finish both first and second in Eurovision (1985 & 1996).

01. A1 Let It Swing (02:56)
02. A2 Midnight Rocks (02:49)
03. A3 Radio (04:01)
04. A4 Don't Bring Lulu (02:37)
05. A5 Little By Little (04:13)
06. B1 Shoo-Shoo-Baby (02:19)
07. B2 Adios (03:33)
08. B3 Cross Over The Bridge (02:30)
09. B4 The Booglie-Wooglie Piggy (02:21)
10. B5 Go On Shakin (03:58)

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Vanilla Fudge - The Return (2003) (CD plus 1 bonus track)

Year: September 2003 (CD 2004)
Label: Music Avenue Records (Belgium), 250098
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Long Island, New York, U.S.
Time: 78:51
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 524 Mb

Three of the originals (Appice, Bogert, and Martell) reunited in 1999 with vocalist/organist Bill Pascali replacing Mark Stein to record a "greatest hits" album, Vanilla Fudge 2001/ The Return / Then And Now, with new recordings of previous songs and three new songs. 2002 had Pete Bremy and T.M. Stevens subbing on bass for an ill Bogert and 2003 saw a release of Vanilla Fudge's live album, The Real Deal – Vanilla Fudge Live, recorded on tour in 1987 with Paul Hanson on guitar. Martell overdubbed his guitar and vocals later. In 2003–2005, the group toured with Teddy Rondinelli standing in on guitar for Martell.

Carmine Appice - drums, vocals
Tim Bogert - bass, vocals
Vince Martell - guitar, vocals
Bill Pascali - organ, vocals

01. Ain't that peculiar (06:12)
02. You keep me hangin' on (06:47)
03. Tearin' up my heart (07:39)
04. Shotgun (06:07)
05. People get ready (06:48)
06. Take me for a little while (04:17)
07. Good lovin' (04:44)
08. I want it that way (06:52)
09. Need love (04:51)
10. She's not there (05:14)
11. Season of the whitch (08:12)
12. Do you think I'm sexy (07:15)
13. Tearing up my heart (Radio Edit) (bonus track) (03:46)

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Friday, July 28, 2017

Vanilla Fudge - Rock and Roll (1969) (CD plus 4 bonus tracks)

Year: September 1969 (CD 1991)
Label: Repertoire Records (Germany), REP 4168-WZ
Style: Rock
Country: Long Island, New York, U.S.
Time: 48:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 265 Mb

Rock & Roll is the fifth album by American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge, released in September 1969. It peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard album charts in October of that year. The album was the band's last studio album prior to their initial break-up in the spring of 1970.

Carmine Appice - drums, vocals (lead on track B3)
Tim Bogert - bass guitar, vocals
Vince Martell - guitar, vocals (lead on tracks A1,A4)
Mark Stein - keyboards, vocals (lead on tracks A2,A3,B1,B2)

01. Need Love (04:58)
02. Lord In The Country (04:34)
03. I Can't Make It Alone (04:46)
04. Street Walking Woman (06:12)
05. Church Bells Of St. Martins (04:39)
06. The Windmills Of Your Mind (06:03)
07. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody (06:19)
08. Good Good Lovin' (bonus track) (02:59)
09. Shotgun (bonus track) (02:29)
10. Where Is My Mind (bonus track) (02:41)
11. Need Love (7' version) (bonus track) (02:39)

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Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (1969) (Vinyl)

Year: November 1969 (LP 1981)
Label: RCA Records (Italy), LSP-4238, YL 13867, KKAY 33494/33495
Style: Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 42:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 278 Mb

The album was controversial because of revolutionary and anti-war lyrics as well as profanity in the lyrics. The original album title was Volunteers of Amerika. It was shortened after objections from Volunteers of America.

Grace Slick – vocals, piano on "The Farm", "Hey Fredrick", "Eskimo Blue Day" and "Volunteers", organ on "Meadowlands", recorder on "Eskimo Blue Day"
Paul Kantner – vocals, rhythm guitar
Marty Balin – vocals, percussion
Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals
Jack Casady – bass
Spencer Dryden – drums, percussion

Additional personnel:
Nicky Hopkins – piano on "We Can Be Together", "Hey Fredrick", "Wooden Ships", "A Song for All Seasons" and "Volunteers"
Stephen Stills – Hammond organ on "Turn My Life Down"
Jerry Garcia – pedal steel guitar on "The Farm"
Joey Covington – congas on "Turn My Life Down", chair on "Eskimo Blue Day"
David Crosby – sailboat on "Wooden Ships"
Ace of Cups – vocals on "The Farm" and "Turn My Life Down"
Bill Laudner – lead vocals on "A Song for All Seasons"

01. A1 We Can Be Together (05:43)
02. A2 Good Shepherd (04:19)
03. A3 The Farm (03:12)
04. A4 Hey Fredrick (08:24)
05. B1 Turn My Life Down (02:54)
06. B2 Wooden Ships (06:22)
07. B3 Eskimo Blue Day (06:29)
08. B4 A Song For All Seasons (03:27)
09. B6 Volunteers (02:03)

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Deep Purple - Deep Purple (1969) (Vinyl 180g)

Year: June 1969 (US), September 1969 (UK) (LP ????)
Label: Tetragrammaton Records (USA), T-119
Style: Classic Rock, Hard Rock
Country: Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Time: 43:58
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 268 Mb

"Tetragrammaton" issued the album in a stark gatefold sleeve, wrapped around with a segmented illustration from Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights". The label ran into difficulty over the use of the Museo del Prado-owned painting, which was incorrectly perceived in the US as being anti-religious, featuring immoral scenes, and was thus rejected or poorly stocked by many record shops. The original painting is in colour although it appeared on the LP in monochrome due to a printing error for the original layout and the band opted to keep it that way. The same Bosch painting (in colour) had previously been used as an album cover two years before by Pearls Before Swine on their debut One Nation Underground.

Rod Evans – lead vocals
Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
Jon Lord – keyboards, backing vocals
Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals
Ian Paice – drums
Derek Lawrence – producer, mixing

01. A1 Chasing Shadows (05:31)
02. A2 Blind (05:22)
03. A3 Lalena (05:03)
04. A4a Fault Line, A4b The Painter (05:30)
05. B1 Why Didn't Rosemary (04:59)
06. B2 Bird Has Flown (05:32)
07. B3 April (11:58)

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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Paul McCartney - Back In The USSR (1988) (Russian Vinyl)

Year: 1988 (LP 1988)
Label: Melodia Records (Russia), A60 00415 006
Style: Rock
Country: Liverpool, England
Time: 39:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 268 Mb

"Back In The USSR", also known as The Russian Album) is the seventh solo studio album by Paul McCartney under his own name, originally released in 1988 exclusively in the Soviet Union. The album consists entirely of covers, mainly of rock and roll oldies (similar to John Lennon's 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll). With the addition of an extra track, it was released internationally in 1991.
Charts: Japan - 48, UK - 63, USA - 109
(Wikipedia)

All tracks recorded 20 July 1987 except "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Ain't That a Shame" and "Crackin' Up," recorded on 21 July.

Personel:

20 July
Paul McCartney – bass guitar, vocals
Mick Green – guitar
Mick Gallagher – piano
Chris Whitten – drums

21 July
Paul McCartney – guitar, vocals
Nick Garvey – bass guitar, backing vocals
Henry Spinetti – drums
Mick Gallagher – keyboards

01. A1 Kansas City (04:02)
02. A2 Twenty Flight Rock (03:06)
03. A3 Lawdy Miss Clawdy (03:19)
04. A4 Bring It On Home To Me (03:16)
05. A5 Lucille (03:15)
06. A6 Don't Get Around Much Anymore (02:49)
07. B1 That's Alright (03:49)
08. B2 Ain't That A Shame (03:43)
09. B3 Crackin' Up (03:58)
10. B4 Just Because (03:37)
11. B5 Midnight Special (03:57)

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Friday, July 21, 2017

Status Quo - Spare Parts (1969) (CD)

Year: 1969 (CD 2000)
Label: Castle Music (USA), CMAR619
Style: Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 59:20
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 363 Mb

Spare Parts is the second album by the English rock band Status Quo, and the final one in the psychedelic vein. It is also the first in which the group's roadie Bob Young began writing and co-writing songs for and with the band.
The album covers a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, "You're Just What I Was Looking for Today". Only one song was slated for a single release. This was the Anthony King written song "Are You Growing Tired of My Love", backed with the Alan Lancaster composition "So Ends Another Life". Released in April 1969 it reached no. 46 in UK singles charts.

Francis Rossi - guitar, vocals
Rick Parfitt - guitar, vocals
Alan Lancaster - bass, vocals
John Coghlan - drums
Roy Lynes - organ, vocals

01. Face Without A Soul (03:08)
02. You're Just What I Was Looking For Today (03:49)
03. Are You Growing Tired Of My Love (03:37)
04. Antique Angelica (03:23)
05. So Ends Another Life (03:12)
06. Poor Old Man (03:39)
07. Mr Mind Detector (04:02)
08. The Clown (03:24)
09. Velvet Curtains (02:59)
10. Little Miss Nothing (03:02)
11. When I Awake (03:52)
12. Nothing At All (03:58)
13. The Price Of Love [bonus track] (03:41)
14. Josie [out-take] [bonus track] (03:37)
15. Do You Live In Fire [out-take] [bonus track] (02:16)
16. Hey Little Woman [previously unreleased version] [bonus track] (03:55)
17. Are You Growing Tired Of My Love [original mono version] [bonus track] (03:38)

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Status Quo - Piledriver (1972) (CD)

Year: 1972 (LP 1990)
Label: Repertoire Records (Germany), REP 4119-WP
Style: Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 48:08
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 264 Mb

Status Quo are an English rock band who play a brand of boogie rock. The group originated in The Spectres, founded by schoolboys Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster in 1962. After a number of lineup changes, which included the introduction of Rick Parfitt in 1967, the band became The Status Quo in 1967 and Status Quo in 1969.
They have had over 60 chart hits in the UK, more than any other rock band, including "Pictures of Matchstick Men" in 1968, "Whatever You Want" in 1979 and "In the Army Now" in 1986 and 2010. Twenty-two of these reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. In July 1985 the band opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with "Rockin' All Over the World". In 1991, Status Quo received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Francis Rossi (born 29 May 1949) - guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 3, 6, co-lead vocals on track 2
Rick Parfitt (12 October 1948 – 24 December 2016) - guitar, piano, organ, lead vocals on tracks 4, 5, 7, co-lead vocals on track 2
Alan Lancaster (born 7 February 1949) - bass, 12 string acoustic guitar, lead vocals on track 8
John Coghlan (19 September 1946) - drums, percussion

Additional personnel:
Bob Young (born 16 May 1945) - Harmonica on 'Roadhouse Blues'
Jimmy Horowitz - Piano on 'Roadhouse Blues'

01. Donґt Waste My Time (04:23)
02. O Baby (04:41)
03. A Year (05:51)
04. Unspoken Words (05:12)
05. Big Fat Mama (05:57)
06. Paper Plane (03:02)
07. All The Reasons (03:42)
08. Roadhouse Blues (07:33)
09. Joanne (b-side of 'Caroline') (04:10)
10. Lonely Night (b-side of 'Break The Rules') (03:32)

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Friday, July 14, 2017

Procol Harum - Broken Barricades (1971) (Vinyl)

Year: 1971 (LP 1971)
Label: Chrysalis Records (UK), Island records, ILPS 9158
Style: Rock, Art Rock
Country: Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
Time: 34:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 198 Mb

Broken Barricades is the fifth studio album by British rock band Procol Harum, released in 1971. It was Robin Trower's last album with Procol Harum before his solo career.
The album features a tribute to Jimi Hendrix ("Song for a Dreamer") written by Robin Trower and Keith Reid. Trower and Reid were stunned by Hendrix's death at the age of only 27.
(Wikipedia)
Album Charts: Danish Albums Chart - 5, Billboard 200 - 32, UK Albums Chart - 41.

Gary Brooker – piano and vocals
Chris Copping – Hammond organ and bass guitar
Robin Trower – guitar and lead vocals on tracks 6 and 8
BJ Wilson – drums
Keith Reid – words

01. A1 Simple Sister (05:48)
02. A2 Broken Barricades (03:12)
03. A3 Memorial Drive (03:47)
04. A4 Luskus Delph (03:45)
05. B1 Power Failure (04:31)
06. B2 Song for a Dreamer (05:40)
07. B3 Playmate of the Mouth (05:05)
08. B4 Poor Mohammed (03:08)

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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Peter Gabriel - So (1986) (Russian Vinyl)

Year: 1986 (LP 1988)
Label: Melodia Records (Russia), A60 00427 007
Style: Rock
Country: Godalming, Surrey, England
Time: 41:41
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 268 Mb

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and remains the most played music video in the history of MTV.


01. A1 Red Rain (05:35)
02. A2 Sledgehammer (05:12)
03. A3 Don't Give Up (06:32)
04. A4 That Voice Again (04:49)
05. B1 In Your Eyes (05:20)
06. B2 Mercy Street (06:24)
07. B3 Big Time (04:27)
08. B4 We Do What We're Told (03:19)

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