* Enjoy, Reb ๐ Link ๐ *
Monday, October 12, 2026
Purple Avengers – Starlight's Journey Home 1992 (1995 CD reissue) 320 ๐
The reissued version comes with a bonus track, track 4 Purple Blues, the running order is different to the original version as well.
* Enjoy, Reb ๐ Link ๐ *
1977 - Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
1977 - Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix @ 320
Rough Mix, Pete Townshend's 1977 collaboration with former Small Faces and Faces songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane, combines the loose, rollicking folk-rock of Lane's former band, Slim Chance, with touches of country, folk, and New Orleans rock & roll, along with Townshend's own trademark style. Lane's tunes, especially the beautiful "Annie," possess an understated charm, while Townshend, with songs such as "Misunderstood," the Meher Baba-inspired "Keep Me Turning," and the strange love song "My Baby Gives It Away," delivers some of the best material of his solo career. Rough Mix stands as a minor masterpiece and an overlooked gem in both artists' vast bodies of work. Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, and Charlie Watts guest. (AllMusic)
LINK in Comments
Various - Box Of Vibes 54 (R-A-C) 2026 320 ๐
So we reach Box Of Vibes 54, which is started via my (Reb) selections fron 1 to 8, thenAndy's tunes fill the middle section from 9 to 16 and finally Concha closes the box with her tunes from 17 to 24.
This the usual mix of cross genre and decades of music, including some cover and alternative versions. We have been working on compiling moore of these, 9 still to complete.
* Enjoy, Reb ๐ Link ๐ *
Chain And The Gang - Best Of Crime Rock (2017) 320
Chain and the Gang have released five uncompromising records -- Down with Liberty… Up With Chains!, Music’s Not For Everyone, In Cool Blood, Minimum Rock ’n’ Roll, and the impending Experimental Music – each one a brilliant tossed off sketchbook of insolence and provocation. You got them all, or always meant to. Now, YOU DON'T HAVE TO!!! Now, Best of Crime Rock is the only one you need.
Various Artists
Boss Black Rockers, Vol. 02
Bip Bop Bip
(2020)
320
If you like what you see, look for the link in the comments.
Various Artists
Boss Black Rockers, Vol. 01
She Can Rock
(2020)
320
If you like what you see, look for the link in the comments.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Flac Posts
Ok I have been thinking about a lot of the last week, being a bit under the weather!!! If the post flac, in the past I kept a copy to re post it if it was requested. So as space is getting tight once again. If you want a re up of something I posted as Flac, sorry you're only going to get a 320 version. The flac copies I have once post, I will convert to 320 and keep that. I do this already but keep the flac copy as well, but just won't have the room in the future to keep the flac and 320 copies and as 320 files are small make sense to keep the 320 rather than the flac. I have been trying to sort my flac, reggae and soul albums/comps which I kept and I just will keep these now and everything else will be deleted once posted as flac and then converted to 320.
Might be just as easy to stop posting flac and only share 320, then you will a copy of the original post.
Reb
The Far Outs - The Far Outs! (2023) 320
The FAR OUTS began as a side project to Brisbane’s Grand Atlantic as an outlet for songs that didn’t quite fit the format but still desperately needed a place to party. With influences ranging from the likes of The Kinks, The Sonics and The Easybeats, the group quickly established a reputation for their 60’s influenced Garage Rock - featuring blistering riffs, catchy choruses and drums akimbo.
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Shirley And Lee
The Complete Singles As & Bs 1952-62
[2cds]
(2019)
320
If you like what you see, look for the link in the comments.
Friday, October 09, 2026
2004 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues - The Lyre of Orpheus
2004 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -
Abattoir Blues - The Lyre of Orpheus
Abattoir Blues - The Lyre of Orpheus
When Blixa Bargeld left Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, who would have predicted his departure would result in one of the finest offerings in the band's catalog? Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus is a double CD or, rather, two completely different albums packaged in one very handsome box with a stylish lyric booklet and subtly colored pastel sleeves. They were recorded in a total of 16 days by producer Nick Launay (Kate Bush, Midnight Oil, Girls Against Boys, Silverchair, INXS, Virgin Prunes, et al.). Abbatoir Blues, the first disc in the set (packaged in pink, of course), is a rock & roll record. Yeah, the same guy who released the Boatman's Call, No More Shall We Part, and Nocturama albums has turned in a pathos-drenched, volume-cranked rocker, full of crunch, punishment -- and taste. Drummer Jim Sclavunos' aggressive, propulsive kit work is the bedrock of this set. It and Mick Harvey's storm-squall guitar playing shake things loose on "Get Ready for Love," which opens the album. As Cave goes right for God in the refrain -- "get ready for love" -- in the maelstrom, a gospel choir roaring "praise Him" responds. His tense, ambivalent obsession with theology is pervasive; he mocks the Western perception of God in the heavens yet seeks the mystery of His nature. That he does so while careening through a wall of noisy rock damage is simply stunning. It leaves the listener revved up and off-center for what comes next. The chorus -- members of the London Community Gospel Choir -- is prevalent on both records; the Bad Seeds' arrangement utilizes them wisely as counterpoint and mirror for Cave's own baritone. "Cannibal's Hymn" begins as a love song musically; it's chocked with Cave's dark wit and irony and ends far more aggressively while retaining its melody. The single, "Nature Boy," finds itself on Scalvunos' big beat. Cave and his piano use love's irony in contrast with cheap innuendo as underlined by the choir in their best soul croon. "Let Them Bells Ring" is a most dignified and emotionally honest tribute to Johnny Cash and the world he witnessed. The Western wrangle of "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" references Morricone's desert cowboy groove against a swirling cacophony of drums, bashing piano, and the chorus swelling on the refrain, while Cave name drops Johnny Thunders and poet Philip Larkin. The pace is fantastic; its drama and musical dynamics are pitched taut, with lulls in all the right places.
The Lyre of Orpheus, by contrast, is a much quieter, more elegant affair. It is more consciously restrained, its attention to craft and theatrical flair more prevalent. But that doesn't make it any less satisfying. It is a bit of a shock after Abbatoir Blues, but it isn't meant for playing immediately afterward; it is a separate listening experience. The title track tells the myth's tale in Cave's ironical fashion, where God eventually throws a hammer at the subject and Eurydyce threatens to shove his lyre up his nether orifice. Warren Ellis' swampy bouzouki and Thomas Wydler's more stylized drumming move the band in the tense, skeletal swirl where chorus and Cave meet the music in a loopy dance. But in "Breathless," the bard of the love song emerges unfettered at the top of his poetic gift. On "Babe You Turn Me On," he wraps a bawdy yet tender love song in a country music waltz to great effect. But on this album, along with the gentleness, is experimentation with textures and wider dimensions. The sparser sound is freer, less structured; it lets time slip through the songs rather than govern them -- check the wall of Ellis' strings married to a loping acoustic guitar on the moving "Carry Me" as an example. Cave's nastiness and wit never remains absent for long, however, and on "O Children," the album's closer, it returns with this skin-crawlingly gorgeous ballad of murder and suicide. This set is an aesthetic watermark for Cave, a true high point in a long career that is ever looking forward. (AllMusic)
LINK in Comments
Procol Harum
A Whiter Shade of Pale
(1967)
In memoriam of my brother
320
If you like what you see, look for the link in the comments.
Various - Soul Mixed Vol 13 2026 320 ๐
Yeah haven't posted one of these for awhile, have compiled about 124 volumes to date, will post another later today. And there will be two of the Reggae Mixes posted today as well, 138 compiled of these.
* Enjoy, Reb ๐ Link ๐ *
Thursday, October 08, 2026
Various - From the Ground Up - 12. US 90-91 2026 VBR ๐
12. US 90-91
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. 4 more volumes to come in this 16 volume series.
* Enjoy, Reb ๐ Link ๐ *
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)