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08 October 2025
The Magnetic Fields - 1999 - 69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields - 1999 - 69 Love Songs @320
Whether it's falling in it, losing it or trying to find it, the subject of love brings out the best and worst in pop music. For every God Only Knows, there's a My Heart Will Go On, after all. So an "epic" that boasts 69 songs concerned with matters of the heart could be a masterwork of big ideas and strange fascinations or an overblown narcissistic suicide note.
Thankfully, The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is an album of such tenderness, humour and bloody-minded diversity, it'll have you throwing away your preconceptions and wondering how you ever survived a broken heart without it. The brainchild of American maverick Stephen Merritt, the Magnetic Fields' previous albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, have won critical praise and a celebrity fan-club that includes Brian Wilson.
Merritt has attempted to explain his love of love and of music in every conceivable way and in every possible style over this 3-CD set. From loud and proud anthem When My Boy Walks Down The Street to the subtle longing of I Don't Want To Get Over You, Merritt has songs for anyone who's ever been in love or ever wanted to. His heart is despondent, though always strangely satisfied. He's bitter but never completely twisted.
He plays at Frank Sinatra in Love is Like Jazz, while he's Johnny Cash advertising for love in the personals in A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off. And while we never get a sense of just who Merritt is, 69 Love Songs reveals his passions as show-stopping tunes - Very Funny will appeal to anyone who's ever longed to be a Butlin's red coat. Gospel, Euro-pop, 60s girl groups and 80s synth come together with an eye for detail and a gift for telling stories to make songs to hum in the dark, eccentric visions of what love is and what it could be. "The endless streets I walk along," guest star LD Beghtol sings in Bitter Tears, "you made them seem pretty."
Merritt's lyrics are cruel and crushing, Goffin-King songs sung by fallen cheerleaders and ugly teenage boys. "Well I'm sorry that I love you/It's just a phase I'm going through," sings vocalist Shirley Simms, while Claudia Gonson observes: "If you don't cry/It isn't love/If you don't cry/Then you just don't feel it deep enough." 69 Love Songs is an essential guide to loving music. (The Guardian)
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VA - Good God! Heavy Funk Covers Of James Brown From All Over The World 1968 - 1974 (2007) 320
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Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Home Cookin'
(1969)
320
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07 October 2025
VA - Box Of Vibes No.4 (A-C-R) 320
* So it's Tuesday, so we have the next Box Of Vibes series, No. 4 tracks 1 to 8 are selected and arranged by Andy, tracks 9 to 16 are selected and arranged by Concha and tracks 17 to 24 are selected and arranged by Reb. Call back next Tuesday for the next in our home made series of compilations. *
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Various Artists
Love is Life Foundation: Love is Life
(2009)
320
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06 October 2025
Sandy Nelson and the Sin City Termites
Nelsonized
(2008)
320
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05 October 2025
Headley Bennett – 35 Years From Alpha (1999) Flac
* If anyone has a copy of the 2024 reissued version with the two extra tracks, would they so kind to drop a link in the comments, either Flac or 320 would be fine, thanks in advance! Or just a link for the two bonus track would be fine. *
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Nattali Rize
Rebel Frequency
(2017)
Whatever I upload in flac, I won't re-upload. Once published, I save the files as mp3.
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Blue King Brown
Worldwize Part 1 ¤ North & South
(2010)
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04 October 2025
VA - Randy's Vintage Dub Selection (Dubbing At Randy's 1969-1975) (2003)
VA - Randy's Vintage Dub Selection
(Dubbing At Randy's 1969-1975) (2003) (Flac)
(Dubbing At Randy's 1969-1975) (2003) (Flac)
Blood & Fire, Pressure Sounds, and Soul Jazz have already raided the vaults of Clive Chin's legendary Randy's Studio 17. However, Jamaican Recordings has dug even deeper with a selection of rarities and oddities. You will hear for the first time ultra-obscure dubs of Slim Smith's "Turning Point," Cornell Campbell's "Can't Get Me Out" and "Jah Jah Whip Them," Tommy McCook's "Springtime," and many more. Includes two tracks not included on the LP version. (Forced Exposure)
400 Blows – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Forever - A Retrospective: 1982 - 1985 (1989) 320
* I have looked on Discog's and I can't find my version, it has three more tracks included, see photo below. Maybe it was a digital version ? *
Real Ones
Live
(2019)
320
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03 October 2025
Joi - 2015 - Joi Sound System
Joi - 2015 - Joi Sound System (Flac)
Joi were at the vanguard of London's Asian Underground in the late 90's, a clubland movement that came out of Talvin Singh's weekly nights at the Blue Note, and the monthlies by the Outcaste label - a magnet for such young British Asian musicians and DJs as Joi, Asian Dub Foundation, Cornershop, Fun-da-mental and Nitin Sawhney, all of who went on to greatness. Joi were always one step ahead of the game, their DJ-led mix of breakbeats and Eastern grooves, their electronic roots, the way they would gig as both a sound system and as a fully-fledged band with vocals, keyboards and guitar as well as tabla, flute and sitar - plus a dancer wearing ankle bracelets and winged eyeliner. Joi signed to Real World in 1997 and made three wildly acclaimed, gloriously inventive albums - 1999's 'One and One is One', 2000's 'We Are Three' and 2007's 'Without Zero'. Double album compilation includes track from the three Real World albums, plus three bonus tracks. A Real World Gold album. (Rough Trade)
Killing Joke - 2008 - RMXD
Killing Joke - 2008 - RMXD @320
2008 remix project, released to coincide with EMI's Killing Joke remasters. Containing remixes not available on the individual CDs, many of these tracks have not previously appeared on any CD and make their digital debut. 'The Blue Feather' (Extended Mix) is previously unreleased in any format.
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Playing for Change
Listen to the Music
(2018)
320
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