Various Artists

Funky Generation

(2023)

 

320

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2004 - Terry Reid - Super Lungs (The Complete Studio Recordings 1966-1969)

2004 - Terry Reid - Super Lungs
(The Complete Studio Recordings 1966-1969) @320

Terry Reid, often nicknamed “Superlungs” for his remarkable vocal power and range, was one of the most promising young talents on the British rock scene in the late 1960s. This 2004 EMI double-CD compilation gathers virtually every studio recording he made between 1966 and 1969, including early sides with Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, his solo singles and album tracks, and a handful of previously hard-to-find demos and alternate versions.

The period captured here sits at a fascinating crossroads in British music: the tail end of the beat boom giving way to blues-rock, psychedelia and soulful singer-songwriter territory. Reid, managed and produced by Mickie Most, toured with major acts and was even approached by Jimmy Page to front what became Led Zeppelin (he politely declined and suggested a young Robert Plant instead). Though commercial success largely eluded him at the time, these recordings show why Reid was held in such high regard by his peers. The set offers a near-complete portrait of an artist on the cusp of greatness, just before his sound evolved further in the 1970s.

Reid possessed a strikingly expressive voice – capable of tender intimacy one moment and raw, soulful belting the next, with impressive control and dynamics. The collection spans a rich variety of styles: punchy beat-group material with the Jaywalkers, soulful covers such as “Stay With Me Baby” and “Ain’t That Peculiar,” blues-rock explorations, and extended psychedelic jams.

Standout moments include the hypnotic, ten-minute-plus takes on “Season of the Witch” and the medley “Writing on the Wall – Summertime Blues,” which showcase Reid’s ability to stretch songs into gripping improvisational territory. The title track “Superlungs My Supergirl” (a Donovan cover) bursts with energetic swagger, while gentler numbers like “Silver White Light,” “July” and “Marking Time” reveal a more reflective side. The set also features strong interpretations of Bob Dylan (“Highway 61 Revisited”) and other contemporary material, all delivered with Reid’s distinctive phrasing and emotional commitment.

Disc one leans towards earlier, more pop-oriented recordings, while disc two delves deeper into the heavier, bluesier and more expansive territory that defined his late-1960s reputation. The inclusion of mono mixes, alternate versions and a couple of 2003 remixes adds welcome depth for collectors.

This 2004 compilation has been well remastered, presenting the material with clarity and punch while retaining the warmth and character of the original analogue recordings. The mono focus for many tracks suits the era perfectly, delivering a direct, punchy sound that suits Reid’s powerful delivery. In near-mint condition, the two discs and packaging feel clean and well preserved, making this an attractive and comprehensive way to experience this chapter of Reid’s career.

Super Lungs: The Complete Studio Recordings 1966-1969 is an essential release for anyone interested in late-1960s British rock, soulful vocals or the “what if” stories of rock history. It showcases Terry Reid as a genuinely gifted singer with real star potential, delivering a consistently enjoyable and varied collection that rewards repeated listening. For fans of blues-rock, psychedelia and powerful British voices of the period, this double-CD set offers outstanding value as the definitive document of Reid’s formative years. A hidden gem that deserves far wider recognition. Highly recommended. (Classical33)

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Various Artists

Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures

Volume 5

(2019)

 

320

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Various - 12X12 Vol.13 80's Mix II (2026) 320 😎

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This plays for about 90 minutes 

 

3 Colours Red - Pure 1997 320😎

I have the four 3 Colours Red albums at 320, which I will post here in the next few weeks. I also have the first 3 in Flac, which I will share on Private Vibes in the next few weeks. 

3 Colours Red were a British indie rock band founded in 1995 in London and disbanded in 1999. They reformed from 2002-2005.

Members:

Pete Vučković (lead vocals, bass)

Chris McCormack (guitar, vocals)

Ben Harding (guitar, vocals, 1996–1999)

Paul Grant (guitar, vocals, 2002–2005)

Keith Baxter (drums)

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Wild Billy Childish and The Blackhands - Live in The Netherlands 1993 CD reissue 2008 flac😎

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Various Artists

Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures

Volume 3

(2000)

 

320

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Various Artists

Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures

Volume 4

(2004)

 

320

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Massive Attack - 1998 - Mezzanine [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2018]

Massive Attack - 1998 - Mezzanine 

[20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2018] @320

Originally released in 1998 and now widely hailed as Massive Attack‘s masterpiece – and voted 15th in Q Magazine’s 100 Greatest British Albums Ever (2000) – Mezzanine saw the band move away from the trip-hop sound they had helped define to embrace rock and electronica. To celebrate the album’s twentieth anniversary, Mezzanine has been remastered by Tim Young at Metropolis who has worked with the band for over twenty years.

All 8 of the Mad Professor remixes included here are previously unreleased and include his dub mixes of 2 tracks not originally featured on Mezzanine but from the same period; “Metal Banshee”, a dub version of ‘Superpredators’ which was a cover of Siouxie and the Banshee’s ‘Metal Postcard’, and “Wire”, a track they recorded for the soundtrack of the film Welcome to Sarajevo. The Mad Professor remixes were originally intended to be released on a Mad Professor Mezzanine remix album – as the band had done with previous album Protection (No Protection) – yet in the end only a number of his remixes were issued as single B-sides.

As per the original release, the artwork is by Hingston studios who have worked with Robert Del Naja from the band. This 3xLP super-deluxe boxset is pressed on coloured vinyl (two orange discs and one pink disc), and includes a 48 page hardback book featuring photos from Nick Knight that show the development of the striking cover imagery and an additional 32 page booklet which is a new edition of the art-book ‘Fitting In’ which Del Naja originally issued in 2000. (Pie & Vinyl)

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Various Artists

Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures

Volume 1

(1997)

 

320

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Various Artists

Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures

Volume 2

(1999)

 

320

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Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth 1980 (40th Anniversary Edition 2020) 320😎

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Various - Box Of Vibes No. 44 (C-R-A) 2026 320 😎

Box 44 is here, starting off with tracks selected by Concha, from 1 to 8, then from 9 to 16 comes tracks selected by myself (Reb) and finally Andy closes the box with his three themed tracks from 17 to 24. It's the normal mix of cross decade and cross genres, with the odd alternative mix or cover version addded. All add to the mix!! 

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Various - From the Ground Up - Vol 05. Early US 86-87 2026 vbr😎

Vol 05. Early US 86-87

From the Ground Up 

An earwitness account of the electronic dance music revolution on Belgian dancefloors from 1984 to the mid nineties.

By Captain Crash

Warning this compilation is VBR, the majority of tracks are 320, but some are in lower bit rates. 

Thanks to Captain Crash for sharing this home made compilation with us on Vibes. 11 more volumes to come in this 16 volume series. 

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2021 - Radiohead - KID A MNESIA

2021 - Radiohead - KID A MNESIA @320

Riding high on their career-crowning post-rock masterpiece OK Computer, Radiohead could have gone anywhere. And they did. Partly in reaction to the depression, writer’s block and nausea that Thom Yorke experienced in the wake of huge critical and commercial acclaim, the Oxford quintet radically changed their writing methods and sound palette. Guitar-centric rock songs were out, replaced by avant-jazz mood pieces and electro-classical soundscapes. Melody was deconstructed, rhythms scrambled, vocals mangled and manipulated, lyrics spliced into cut-up collages. No longer seeking to emulate Scott Walker, Björk, Jeff Buckley and DJ Shadow, Radiohead were now aiming for a plateau beyond rock: to Aphex Twin and Arvo Pärt, Mingus and Messiaen, Can and Eno and Penderecki.

Repackaging sister albums Kid A and Amnesiac with an extra disc of alternate cuts and lost tracks, this boxset revisits the most divisive chapter in Radiohead’s career. Released in October 2000, Kid A certainly wrong-footed many reviewers: hipper gatekeeper critics deemed it derivative and self-congratulatory, while mainstream pundits found it impenetrable and wilfully obtuse. But two decades later, it mostly stands up as a boldly ambitious experiment for a major rock band, from the spiralling lounge-jazz incantation Everything In Its Right Place to the piledriving cyber-funk earworm Idioteque, the sumptuous orchestral ballad How To Disappear Completely and the gorgeous ambitronic reverie of Kid A itself. For all its challenging elements, the album became Radiohead’s first transatlantic chart-topper.

Recorded during the same sessions but released in May 2001, Amnesiac seemed at least partially designed to soothe more conservative Radiohead fans unsettled by Kid A. It certainly feels richer and broader overall, with more conventionally melodic, guitar-focused numbers like the swooping, circling Knives Out and the luminous torch song You And Whose Army, on which Yorke takes veiled potshots at Tony Blair in a plaintive Chet Baker falsetto. There is even an inspired guest appearance by veteran jazz icon Humphrey Lyttleton and his band, who clothe Yorke’s paranoid anti-fame ballad Life In A Glasshouse in bluesy, woozy, half-drunk swirls of New Orleans brass. (Uncut)

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War ft. Bobby Womack – The Other Side Of War Warms Your Heart 1974 CD Reissue 2022 320😎

I found this while cleaning in my W folder, I don't remember who gave me it, but must have been someone who know's that I love Bobby Womack. I thought I should share it. I can't find a year for this on discogs, but is dated 2022 and found a copy with the same date on the War bandcamp page. I also have a vinyl rip at 192, but is not a great recording from the vinyl a lot of surface noise. 

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Bestfile (updated) Updated in red for the second time

 It seems there is a problem with bestfiles today, it doesn't turn blue to download after the 15 second countdown, am sure it's only temporary and will be sorted pretty quickly. It's the same in fire fox, opera and chrome. So the links for some post aren't working, we are sorry for this and hope it returns to normal working order real soon.  

Sorry but it's out of our hands, so please don't report, none working links from bestfile, we are aware of the situation already. 

I will take a break from posting today, hopefully will be fine tomorrow. If not working tomorrow then will look at alternatives to bestfile, even if the links are temporary only active for a week via another provider. If bestfile is still like this tomorrow then, I will return on Monday to posting, have so much new music I need to catch up with listening to. 

Reb

Ok is seems that Bestfile downloads are now functioning normally now, about time!!! Still I won't be posting until Monday, I need a break!!  

The High-Lows

 Flash

(2006)

 

320

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Elvis Costello 2023 - The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello (Super Deluxe)

Elvis Costello 2023  - The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello (Super Deluxe) @320*
* 4 live tracks have lower bitrate

Elvis Costello had been writing songs and performing them in public long before he became the most gifted Angry Young Man of the New Wave Class of 1977 with his debut album My Aim Is True. While plenty of punk and new wave acts espoused a Year Zero attitude about rock & roll, Costello obviously had a strong working knowledge of pop songwriting past and present, though it wouldn't be until he made 1981's Trust and 1982's Imperial Bedroom that he was willing to reveal just how firmly rooted he was in pop classicism. Years later, Costello and Burt Bacharach teamed up to write "God Give Me Strength" for Allison Anders' 1996 film Grace of My Heart, a pairing that seemed like an amusing mismatch only to people who hadn't paid much attention to Costello's career since 1979's Armed Forces. The song was a brilliant evocation of Bacharach's sweetly melancholic tunes of the '60s, with lyrics from Costello that were thoughtful, mature, and fully worthy of the gravity and craft of Bacharach's melody. "God Give Me Strength" was good enough that Bacharach and Costello chose to write and record an album together, and 1998's Painted from Memory was a master class in pop songwriting for grown-ups, informed by Bacharach's salad days without betraying the least bit of nostalgia, and featuring some of the finest, most well-considered vocals Costello ever committed to tape.

 Bacharach and Costello extended the collaboration to pen a number of songs for a projected Broadway musical (conceived by, of all people, Chuck Lorre, the sitcom titan behind Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory), and The Songs of Bacharach & Costello is a box set that combines a remastered version of Painted from Memory with 16 performances of songs either written for the uncompleted musical Taken from Life or adapted from tunes on the album. The Taken from Life material is splendid and should please any fans of the collaborators, though the performances by Cassandra Wilson, Jenni Muldaur, Audra Mae, and others point out how specifically these songs seem to fit Costello's voice, and that they were crafted to suit a narrative that was never fully resolved. Rounding out the set is a collection of live performances of the Bacharach/Costello numbers and a final disc of Costello singing Bacharach/Hal David classics on-stage. The sizable majority of this has been previously released, but the material here has been packaged and presented with consummate care, and Costello penned a fascinating 10,000-word essay on his work with Bacharach for this release. 

As fate would have it, The Songs of Bacharach & Costello arrived less than a month after Bacharach died on February 9, 2023 at the age of 94. This collection wasn't intended to be a memorial, yet the deep dive into one of his last major collaborations pays worthy homage to his skill and dedication to craft, and every moment testifies to Costello's towering respect for the great man. (AllMusic)

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Weekend – La Varieté (1982) Cherry Red Remaster & Expanded version 2006 320😎

Weekend were a Welsh band formed by Alison Statton in 1981, following the split of Young Marble Giants. The band was a merger between two projects. Statton began writing with Spike of Z Block Records and Reptile Ranch in Cardiff, Wales in the summer of 1981, before moving to London where she teamed up with Simon Emmerson (at that time using the name Simon Booth) of Methodishca Tune. The band signed to Rough Trade Records in December 1981, but recorded only one studio album, La Variete.

La Variete was released in 1982 on the Rough Trade label and made it to no. 4 in the UK Indie Chart staying there for 15 weeks. It was revered by critics on release as a bold new departure from the prevailing post-punk ethos, and served as a major influence on Saint Etienne, the Sundays, Belle and Sebastian and many others.

According to Cherry Red, La Variete is: "A beautifully realised and delicate collection of songs set against a jazz backdrop, it switches across myriad musical settings including samba, cabaret, Afrobeat and highly personal, confessional pop."

After splitting up in 1983, members Simon Booth and Larry Stabbins formed the more jazz orientated Working Week. The other members later reunited as a duo under the name "Alison Statton and Spike", issuing the albums Tidal Blues (1994), The Shady Tree (1997) and Bimini Twist (2018). 

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Invites to Vibes Private club (AND ANONYMOUS COMMENTS)

 All invites sent out have been accepted, so if you want in you will have to wait for the next opening to gain entrance to the private part of Vibes. This will be in about 2 months time. We are close to being a third full of the 100 members allowed by google for a private site. 

The few names from the list that didn't accept the invite in time or didn't see they were invited will be added to the next list of names invited to gain access to the private Vibes.  

If you want to get onto the next list then all you have to do is continue to post comments on Vibes on a regular basis, making sure you add a name if you comment anonymously because any anonymous comment with out a name added is automatically deleted.  

As for you Marty two email address' and neither work, both bounced back my test emails, so you won't be on the next list. In fact you won't be invited at all now. You obviously have time to waste making up fictious email address'. The time I wasted messing around with your invite was ridiculous to say the least, I can't stop you visiting Vibes in the future and downloading, but your comments are no longer welcome here and will not be published in the future!!  

The names that will be added to the next list are Alain F. Bertrand, dbh and Jean. So that leaves 17 more places up for grabs. 

Reb

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY, WE DON'T PUBLISH ANONYMOUS COMMENTS, WITHOUT A NAME ATTACHED TO THEM. THEY WILL JUST BE DELETED, SO PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME POSTING THEM!!!! CHEERS.

Jimmy Thomas - Soul Compilation 320 😎

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The Smiths – Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals 2010 flac😎Old link removed & replaced with a new pixeldrain link

Another flac discovery in amongst the 320 in my HD clean, I keep the Flac in another HD, but sometimes one slip in by mistake!! So thought I'll share it here. 

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Had an anonymous comment (which was deleted as no name was attached) saying it requires a password, just looked and this is what I see?

Didn't ask me for a password? So maybe bestfile has a glitch so I don't really know maybe is temporary and will be ok.