Tim Easton

Special 20

(1998)

 

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The Black Keys

Brothers

[Deluxe Remastered Anniversary Edition]

(2021)

 

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The Routes - Four More Flac albums.

 Friday Flac

Back with four more albums in flac by the Japanese Garage/Surf guitar three piece band, The Routes. All links come with the front and back covers. For more info on the band check out last weeks Friday Flac post HERE. There will be no streams to check out this week, but you can listen to their album on their bandcamp page. 

The Routes - Shake Five (2021)

The Routes - Mesmerised (2021)

The Routes - Lead Lined Clouds (2022)

The Routes - Get Past Go! (2022)

 

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Tin Huey

Contents Dislodged During Shipment

(1979 [2003])

 

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R.E.M. - 1987 - Document - 25th Anniversary Edition

 

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R.E.M. began to move toward mainstream record production on Lifes Rich Pageant, but they didn't have a commercial breakthrough until the following year's Document. Ironically, Document is a stranger, more varied album than its predecessor, but co-producer Scott Litt -- who would go on to produce every R.E.M. album in the following decade -- is a better conduit for the band than Don Gehman, giving the group a clean sound without sacrificing their enigmatic tendencies. "Finest Worksong," the stream-of-conscious rant "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," and the surprise Top Ten single "The One I Love" all crackle with muscular rhythms and guitar riffs, but the real surprise is how political the midtempo jangle pop of "Welcome to the Occupation," "Disturbance at the Heron House," and "King of Birds" is. Where Lifes Rich Pageant sounded a bit like a party record, Document is a fiery statement, and its memorable melodies and riffs are made all the more indelible by its righteous anger. In other words, it's not only a commercial breakthrough, but a creative breakthrough as well, offering evidence of R.E.M.'s growing depth and maturity, and helping usher in the P.C. era in the process. [EMI's deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition of R.E.M.'s 1987 commercial breakthrough Document is housed in a flipbox similar to the previous deluxe reissues of Fables of the Reconstruction and Lifes Rich Pageant, and contains a remastered -- and possibly remixed, as it sounds considerably bigger and brighter, with more prominent vocals, than before -- version of Document paired with a full concert given in Utrecht, Holland on September 14, 1987, just as the supporting "Work" tour for Document was beginning. Apart from a roaring "Little America" -- a song not often played in concert -- the live show doesn't have much in the way of surprises, but it's a very entertaining set, heavy on selections from Pageant and Document and an effective portrait of how muscular, forceful, and good R.E.M. were at their late-'80s peak.(AllMusic)

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Bunny Scott – To Love Somebody (1975) (2022 expanded edition) @320

 

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Bizarros

(1979)

 

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 Reggae: 3876 - 3900 @320

So the second post today in this wonderful Reggae Mix made by Rob and his Son Jnr, bring to the 3900 track mark. Which means we still have another 544 tracks to go!! We are so happy to have this mix on Vibes and to keep it alive for so many to enjoy !! I will continue posting double posts on a Wednesday, then on September 24th will post the final 44 tracks in this series. A grand total of 4444 tracks of fine Reggae, with some African music thrown into the mix in the later volumes. It's a collection worth having in any music collection. They are all here on Vibes, if you find  an inactive link, just say via the comments and we will sort it out.

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 Reggae: 3851 - 3875 @320

So back to Rob n Jnr's Reggae Mix as it's Wednesday, gona share two posts in this series today as have many to share, so thought a double post once in a while won't harm. The link is in the comments, don't forget if you discover an inactive link for anything in this series or anything posted on Vibes then just shout out in the comments and it will be sorted for Ya!!

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Rubber City Rebels

(1980 [2000])

 

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The Peawees – Moving Target (2018) @320

The story of The Peawees begins in La Spezia, Italy, back in 1995, when three teenager's joined forces and released a debut album clearly based in punk rock. From that point the band has toured the USA, UK and Europe releasing records on various labels all over the world. The Peawees are today recognized as one of the strongest bands on the european rock ‘n’ roll scene.

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Mikey Dread - Obsession (1992) @320

 

Well was stuck between posting this at 320 or in flac, decided on the 320, as only sharing flac on friday, and have already got those posts planned, a few weeks ahead.  

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Wire - Pink Flag (1977) (Special Edition) (2018) @320

 

So we have Wire today, great album, with a bonus disc included in this re-issue, will upload both discs in the one link. 

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Chris Butler

Easy Life

(2014)

 

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The Masked Marauders - 1969 - The Complete Deity Recordings (2001)

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The Complete Deity Recordings (2001) @320

Toward the end of 1969, rumors began circulating about an unprecedented event in Rock history: all of The Beatles except Ringo teamed up with Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger in an isolated recording studio on the shores of Hudson Bay in April of 1969, and spent three days recording an album together. Solomon Penthaus, the president of Deity Records, famed for their Sounds of Nature series, obtained the tapes, and was impressed enough to make it the label's first rock album. Owing to the legal difficulties of properly crediting these iconic performers, Deity called the group The Masked Marauders upon release of the album. Rolling Stone reviewer T.M. Christian obtained a test pressing of the album and raved about it in the October 18 issue, leading Reprise Records to pick it up for national distribution, making the album the music event of 1969.

Or so a lot of people really wanted to believe...

The truth was that Rolling Stone's reviews editor Greil Marcus had grown annoyed with all of the Supergroup pairings that proliferated in 1969 (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Blind Faith, Al Kooper's Super Session album), feeling that they were peddling subpar music purely on the strengths of their famous names. Marcus and a friend jokily started speculating what a Supergroup with the biggest names in Rock might sound like, concluding that they'd do "the same stupid things that everybody else was doing". Marcus tossed off a review of the fake album, which Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner loved and agreed to publish. Almost immediately, the magazine was inundated with letters from fans and record store owners asking about the availability of the album, which amused Marcus, since he'd thought the review was so patently silly (what with the album allegedly containing McCartney doing a cover of "My Mammy", plus a "sensitive, yearning" rendition of "Kick Out the Jams") that no one could possibly take it seriously.

Marcus and fellow Rolling Stone staffer Langdon Winner decided to extend the joke further. They asked The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, an eclectic Bay Area Folk Music group with a sly sense of humor (their one and only album had been called The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band Greatest Hits), to cut actual Real Life versions of three of the songs mentioned in the review: Bob Dylan singing lead on the Doo-wop standard "Duke of Earl", Dylan fronting a countrified Instrumental called "Cow Pie" on guitar and harmonica, and Mick Jagger doing a grungy "instant classic" Blues number called "I Can't Get No Nookie". Winner took tapes of the songs to two San Francisco radio stations where they were played on the air. Most listeners got the joke, but still somehow dubs of the songs got distributed to radio stations throughout the country. Several record labels, some under the misimpression that it really was Dylan, et. al., contacted Winner and Marcus with immediate financial offers (Motown reportedly offered $100,000—upwards a million in today's money), before they signed with Warner (Bros.) Records for a deal with Reprise Records. Marcus, fearing conflict-of-interest problems with his Rolling Stone position, dropped out, but Winner and the other musicians regrouped to finish the album.

Unleashed on an unsuspecting public right before the holiday season, accompanied by an ad campaign that kept things deliberately vague about the album, the combination of people who knew it was a joke, and those taken in by the ruse, led to sales of over 100,000 copies and a run on the Billboard Top 200 album chart (peaking at #114, while cracking the Top 100 on the rival Cashbox album chart). It's retained a place in music lore, and has sustained a minor cult following. (TVTropes)

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Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisted (2019) @320

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The Waitresses

Just Desserts The Complete Waitresses

(2013)

 

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The Velvet Underground - 1969 - The Complete Matrix Tapes (4CD Box Set 2015)

The Velvet Underground - 1969 - The Complete Matrix Tapes (4CD Box Set 2015) @320

The Velvet Underground are arguably the most important American band of the second half of the '60s, but few seemed to think so at the time. The Velvets flew under the radar of public recognition through most of their career, and no one bothered to professionally record their live shows between 1966 and 1970. There have been plenty of authorized and illicit releases of Velvets live tapes (mostly audience recordings) since the early '70s, but one thing they had in common was compromised fidelity; in terms of audio, "pretty OK" is as good as they get, and for fans, listening for the music through the murk is a frustrating challenge. 

In November 1969, the Velvet Underground played a two-night stand at the Matrix, a club in San Francisco that had a four-track recording rig wired into its sound system; the four sets the band played were taped, and rough mixes of those shows were featured on the fine collection 1969: Velvet Underground Live, and they ranked with the very best VU live documents despite the hiss that hovered over the music. 

More than 40 years after that album was released, the original Matrix four-track masters have been remixed and remastered, and the four-disc box set The Complete Matrix Tapes marks the first time this material has been released in full. Though extensive excerpts from the new mixes appeared on the expanded 45th anniversary edition of the VU's self-titled third album, and many of these performances are familiar to folks who know 1969: VU Live well, this set's fidelity is a major selling point, even if you're not an audiophile. The Complete Matrix Tapes offers over four and a half hours of the Velvet Underground playing well and recorded with unobtrusive clarity, allowing the listener to hear the details of the performances and the ambience of the room as never before, and it's a remarkably exciting listen. 

As four sets appear in full, several songs are repeated (each disc includes takes of "Heroin," "Some Kinda Love," and "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together"), but each performance has a personality of its own, and hearing how the band reshaped the longer numbers in repeated versions is a delight for fans into the minutia. (Lou Reed also changes up the lyrics on a few numbers here.) And while conventional wisdom has it that the post-John Cale edition of the band was less fiery and inventive, this lineup -- Reed on guitar and vocals, Sterling Morrison on guitar, Doug Yule on bass and organ, and Maureen Tucker on drums -- plays with strength, commitment, and a sense of adventure that ranks with their best and most purely enjoyable work. The bulk and repetition of The Complete Matrix Tapes will scare away a few casual observers, but anyone who wants to know how this band sounded on-stage on two good nights will find this to be a revelation; it's the best and best-sounding VU live release to date. (AllMusic)

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Gruppo Sportivo

Sombrero Times

(1984)

 

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