Gene Vincent – Shakin' Up A Storm (1997 Reissue, Remastered, Mono) 320

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Twinkle Brothers - Rasta Pon Top (2006 Reissue) 320

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Yabby You - Fleeing From The City (1991 CD reissue) 320

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1975 - Millie Jackson - Still Caught Up

1975 - Millie Jackson - Still Caught Up (Flac)

Following on from 1974’s concept album of backbiting, recriminations, infidelity and jealousy, “Caught Up“, which had Jackson singing first in the role of mistress on side one, then as the wronged wife on side two, here she reverses the situation, the wife begins the album, the mistress ends it. It is easily the equal of the first album, if not its superior, crammed full of soul and passion and a fantastic sound quality. Jackson’s voice throughout is simply superb.

“Loving Arms” is a superb, mega-soulful, kick posterior, emotional opener. It is one of those tracks that, for some reason, is doctored to make it sound like it is a live track, which it was not. “Making The Best Of A Bad Situation” is another excellent soul ballad, with the wife getting on with it, despite her no-good husband still having his affair. “The Memory Of A Wife“, is a thumping, punchy attempt by the wife to tell the mistress of her good points and what a great wife she has been to her feckless husband. The wife’s last stand is on “Tell Her It’s Over“, telling her husband to tell his mistress he is coming back to his family. (FunkMySoul)

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Various - Black Symbol Presents the Complete Handsworth Explosion (2015) 320

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Jane's Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990) 320

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Fat Freddy's Drop - Blackbird Returns (2023) 320

* Descending on the breeze 'Blackbird Returns' remix album celebrates the tenth anniversary of  'Blackbird' classic. Friends from around the world re-rub and re-dub their favourite 'Blackbird' tracks. *

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Scritti Politti - Early (2005) 320

 * Compilation CD of Scritti Politti's 4 'Early' singles: *

Skank Bloc Bologna [tracks 1-3] 1978

2nd Peel Session [tracks 4-7] 1979

4 'A Sides' [tracks 8-11] 1980

The "Sweetest Girl" [tracks 12+13] 1981

 *Scritti Politti are a British band formed in 1977 in Leeds by singer-songwriter Green Gartside, who is the sole remaining member of the original band. *

* Initially formed as a punk-aligned underground act influenced by leftist politics, they transitioned into a commercial pop music project in the early 1980s, achieving success on the record charts in the UK. *

* The name Scritti Politti was chosen as a homage to the Italian Marxist writer and political theorist Antonio Gramsci. The correct spelling in Italian to refer to "Political Writings" would have produced Scritti Politici. Gartside changed it to Scritti Politti as he thought it sounded more rock and roll, like the Little Richard song "Tutti Frutti". *

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Various – Trojan Dub Massive Chapter Two (2005) 320

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Various – Trojan Dub Massive Chapter One (2005) 320

 

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1974 - Millie Jackson - Caught Up

1974 - Millie Jackson - Caught Up (Flac)

Taking the drama of a love triangle to logical extremes, Millie Jackson's Caught Up turns the pitfalls of tainted love into the basis for a concept album (the seeds for soul music's explicit treatment of the topic having been planted by James Carr's "Dark End of the Street"). While the "other woman's" view is taken up initially on cuts like the R&B hit "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want to Be Right," the wife's plight is covered on the second half of the disc with revealing titles like "It's All Over but the Shouting." Jackson also delivers some of her patented racy commentary on the appropriately named "The Rap," while showing equal vigor in the album's wealth of fine vocal performances, including an impressive cover of Bobby Womack's "I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love to You." Caught Up's standout track, though, is the version of Bobby Goldsboro's "Summer" that closes the record. Seemingly out of sync with the overriding concept, the song touches upon a girl's loss of innocence to an older man. One soon realizes, though, that beyond sexual awakening, Jackson is really emphasizing the point of no return: After the epiphany, one is sent hurdling toward the power struggles and politics of adult relations, including, potentially, the moral crossroads of infidelity. Luckily, as soon as your mind overloads from pop semiotics, the in-the-pocket grooves supplied by the Muscle Shoals Swampers provides the needed salve. Jackson shows both brains and soul on this fine release, creating what might be the only concept album one can dance and drink to. (AllMsic)

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The Fall - Hip Priest And Kamerads (1988) 320

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The Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us (1989 Remastered and Expanded Version) 320

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Various - Scientist Midnight Rock Dub (2020) 320

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The Surf Champlers - Champloo A Go Go - Okinawa Surf Music (Wav)

* This album was submitted to Vibes by Moezeke, he's just made a new rip from the CD to Wav. And sent it to vibes for you all to enjoy. It's a very interesting listen, but very entertaining, well worth taking the time to download and taking a listen. Many thanks Moezeke for sharing this wonderful music with us all *

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Various - Box Of Vibes No. 27 (R-A-C) (2026) 320

 

 * Box Of  Vibes day again, comes round faster every week, so Box 27, starting with my (Reb) tunes from 1 to 8 and then we get Andy's tracks from 7 to 16 and then Concha closes the box with her selections from 17 to 24 *

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Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks 2000 - Beatin' the Heat

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks 2000 - Beatin' the Heat (Flac)

Most students of rock history will know Hicks for two reasons. One: he was drummer with the original West Coast psychedelic band, the Charlatans (no, not the dull Manchester miseries) and two: he wrote Thomas Dolby's hit ''I Scare Myself'' (of which there is a splendid new version on this album). What they may not tell you is that Hicks and his band have been responsible for some of the coolest, jazziest, swingingest,most unclassifiable music of all time.

Hicks' songs are always bursting with good humour and an irrepressible sense of fun. You'd expect nothing less from the man who once penned ''How Can I Miss You (If You Won't Go Away)?''. Sure enough, Beatin' The Heat boasts a wealth of amusing little toe-tappers such as ''Hell, Id Go!'' (a plea to be abducted by aliens), ''He Don't Care'' (an ode to a stoner with ''a different coloured headband for every day of the week'') and the closer, ''I've Got A Capo On My Brain''.

That's not to say that Hicks is a slouch in the music department either. Aided by celebrity pals such as Rickie Lee Jones (''I Scare Myself''), Tom Waits(whose composition "The Piano Has Been Drinking" is also included), Elvis Costello, Brian Setzer (on fine six-string form) and even Bette Midler (wonderfully restrained, for a change, on ''Strike It While It's Hot!''); this is good-time music made better by a band who swing every which way. Hicks' trademark backing vocal arrangements (courtesy Of Jessica Harper and Karla De Vito) add to the frolics and the production even contains a couple of samples and loops for a mild updating of the formula. In other words it was worth the wait. Welcome back Dan... (BBC)

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Various – The Rough Guide To The Best Japanese Music You've Never Heard (2021) 320

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Ben Harper

Welcome To The Cruel World

(1994)

 

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Silverflame

First Flight

(2018)

 

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R.E.M - Complete Rarities 1988-2011

R.E.M - Complete Rarities 1988-2011 @320

Unlike its companion, Complete Rarities: IRS 1982-1987, the music collected on the 2014 digital-only Complete Warner Bros. Rarities 1988-2011 hasn't been anthologized often. Bits and pieces have been rounded up in singles boxes, and there was a "Rarities and B-sides" bonus disc added to the 2003 compilation In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, but there was no Warner-era equivalent of Dead Letter Office, and the expanded editions of the albums often skimped on bonus tracks. So this mammoth collection -- 131 tracks, all instrumentals, alternate, and singles, mixes, covers, and live tracks that never appeared on albums -- is noteworthy for providing a service for dedicated fans who nevertheless stopped buying all those multi-part CD singles somewhere around New Adventures in Hi-Fi or Up. The eagle-eyed will notice there are a few songs missing -- usually, these are alternate versions from the early '90s -- but there are also a couple of live cover versions M.I.A., along with instrumental B-sides from Automatic for the People -- but the sheer heft of the set guarantees that almost all will take its title claim of "Complete" as factual; it's close enough to complete for most intents and purposes. Also, as it's a digital clearinghouse and not a sequenced compilation, it's designed to be cherry-picked and not listened to straight through (after all, it'd take many hours to finish). Unlike its I.R.S. cousin, there aren't many major songs tucked away here -- only the Automatic-era "It's a Free World Baby" and "Fretless" count, with the Accelerate flips "Redhead Walking" and "Airliner" also coming close -- which in itself suggests the shifting dynamics within the band and in the industry in the '90s and 2000s. Once Bill Berry left after 1996's New Adventures, R.E.M. worked harder to complete records, so there weren't as many rarities lying around, and that explains the lack of originals, but the real key to this absurdly large set is that the band was required to churn out B-sides for multi-part singles in every market in the world. The easiest way to do this was through live versions, covers and, for a brief moment, remixes (R.E.M.'s music never lent itself to dance mixes but 808 State did overhaul "King of Comedy"). It's flotsam and jetsam, and although it sometimes sounds like filler, there's enough enjoyable music here to make it worthwhile for those dedicated fans wishing to round out their collection. (AllMusic)

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Eyes Of Blue

In Fields of Ardath

(1969)

 

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