V.A. - Lost Deep Soul Treasures, Vol. 1-5

CD1
01.Sam Dees - It's All Wrong (It's All Right)
02.Nelson Sanders - Tired of Being Your Fool
03.Clay Hammond - No One Else Would Do
04.Dicky Williams - Oh Dreamy Me
05.James K-Nine - Counting Teardrops
06.Willie Small - Say You Will
07.Bobby Thomas & the Afros - Darling Don't Come Back
08.Winfield Parker - Oh My Love
09.Betty Bibbs - First Come First Served
10.Valentine Adams - I Found a Love (The Falcons)
11.Lee Mitchell - Where Does Love Go
12.New Bloods - Found a Love, Where It's at (Eddie & Ernie)
13.Don Hollinger - I Had a Nightmare
14.Eddie Billups - No Love Have I
15.Otis Clay - You Hurt Me for the Last Time
16.Ronnie Mitchell - I Don't Want to Go On Without You
17.Billy Young - Still My Life Through
18.Bobby Parker - Don't Drive Me Away
19.Jimmy Garland - Baby One More Time
20.Gene Allison - If I Ever Needed Your Love
21.Willie McDougal - I Can't Wait
22.Curtis Blandon - Young, Dumb
23.Tommy Collins - Oh What I'd Give
24.Bell Brothers - Throw Away the Key
25.Lee Moses - I'm Sad About It

CD2
01.Marvin L. Sims - Dangers
02.Jarvis Jackson - Something I Never Had
03.Little Dooley - Just Like a Child
04.Bobby Womack - I Wonder
05.Syl Johnson - The Love I Found in You
06.Don Hart & James Shorter - I Shed a Tear
07.Sam Williams - Miracle Worker
08.Sandra Phillips - When Midnight Comes
09.Betty Green - He's Down On Me
10.Sisters Love - Do It Right Now
11.Moody Scott - Darling Please Don't Take My Love
12.James Chapman - In Memory of Martin Luther King
13.Jeb Stuart - Dreamers Hall of Fame
14.Oscar Perry - I Found a True Love
15.Willie James - Down On My Knees
16.Terry & Tyrants - Weep No More
17.Virgil Griffin - A Forgotten Lover
18.David Robinson - I Care for You
19.Them Two - Am I a Good Man
20.Ray Lewis - Getting Over You
21.Louis Jones - That's Cuz I Love You
22.Billy Mack - I Can't Sleep
23.Claudia Whitten - Bring Me All the Love You Got
24.Little Scotty - Slow That Disco Down

CD3
01.Ben Wiggins - I Love You So Much
02.Jimmy Robinson - Don'take It So Hard
03.Bobby Sheen - Love Stealing
04.Donald Height - If I Can
05.Inex Foxx - Talk to Me
06.Urel Thomas - Pain Is the Name of Your Game
07.Lorraine Randolph - It's Over Between Us
08.O.V. Wright - To You I Shall Cling
09.Don Thomas - Please Come Back Home
10.Chet Davenport - What Would I Do
11.Tommy Louis - I've Been Crying
12.George Jackson - I Don't Understand
13.Sam & Dave - Living It Up
14.Reuben Bell - Asking for the Truth
15.Jim Coleman - Cloudy Days
16.Kim Tolliver - Standing Room Only
17.Bobby Taylor - It's Funny
18.Joe Hughes - Where There's a Will
19.Benny Johnson - Give It Up
20.Delilah - Packin' Up
21.Pete Cook - I Won't Cry
22.Mary Holmes - After I Shed a Tear
23.King Diamond - That's All She Wrote
24.Clarence Ashe - Only Time Will Tell

CD4
01.Sam Dees - My World
02.George Freeman - I'm Like a Fish
03.Al Gardner - Just the Touch
04.Bobby Harris - Lonely Intruder
05.Charles Lattimore - We Try Harder
06.Wilson Williams - I Have a Whole Lot to Be Thankful For
07.Ada Ray - I No Longer Believe in Miracles
08.Bobby Williams - Try Love
09.Blues Brothers No. 1 - Letter of Regret
10.Eddie Billups - Hard Headed Woman
11.Freddie Watson - It's All Over Now
12.Barbara & Gwen - I Love My Man
13.Lee Mitchell - I Come a Long Way
14.Jimmy Ponder - Sometime You Win
15.Ike Lovely - You're My Bad Habit
16.Lavorn Smith - Without Your Love I'll Be Nothing
17.Sloan Bey - Tenderness
18.Leonard Lee - Since You've Been Gone
19.Tommy Dodson - You Don't Know
20.King Louie - I've Been Down So Long
21.Lord Luther - Two of a Kind
22.Ronnie North - Try Me
23.Tommy Ridgley - Did You Tell Him

CD5
01.Bobby Lee - I'm Just a Man
02.Johnny Steele - Can't Go One
03.Claude 'Baby' Huey - Just Won't Believe
04.Sonny Rhodes - Finding Out for Myself
05.Billy 'Guitar' Davis - As I Grow Old
06.Internationals - Push Button Love
07.Billy Dearborn - Friday's Child
08.Rudy Stewart - A Strong Man's Tears Fall Dry
09.Jimmy Richards - My New Found Joy
10.Reggie Taylor - Anna
11.Superiors Band & Their Soul Sisters - Amateur Lover
12.Nate Holmes - So Am I
13.Helene Smith - True Love Don't Grow On Trees
14.Dynamic Adam - She's Gone
15.Hesitations - That's Where It's At
16.Johnny Sayles - Nothing But Hard Rocks
17.Marcell Strong - Mumble in My Ear
18.Isonics - He Needs Her
19.Lou Pride - We're Only Fooling Ourselves
20.Exciting Changes - Falling in Love Again
21.Billy Woods - If I Could Only See
22.Andre Williams - I Can't Stop Crying
23.Major Lance - I Have No One
24.Bob & Earl - Deep Down Inside

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The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (FLAC LOSSLESS)

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Get Behind Me Satan is the fifth album by American alternative rock band The White Stripes, released on June 7, 2005 on V2 Records. Though still basic in production style, the album marked a distinct change from its guitar-heavy 2003 predecessor, Elephant. With its reliance on piano-driven melodies and experimentation with marimba on "The Nurse" and "Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)", Get Behind Me Satan downplays the punk, garage rock and blues influences that dominated earlier White Stripes albums. Frontman Jack White plays with different technique than in the past, trading in his electric guitar for piano, mandolin, and acoustic guitar on all but a handful of tracks, as his usual riff-conscious lead guitar style is overtaken by a predominantly rhythmic approach.

Track list:

1. "Blue Orchid" – 2:37
2. "The Nurse" – 3:47
3. "My Doorbell" – 4:01
4. "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)" – 3:15
5. "Little Ghost" – 2:18
6. "The Denial Twist" – 2:35
7. "White Moon" – 4:01
8. "Instinct Blues" – 4:16
9. "Passive Manipulation" – 0:35
10. "Take, Take, Take" – 4:22
11. "As Ugly as I Seem" – 4:10
12. "Red Rain" – 3:52
13. "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)" – 4:19

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Joe Tex - This Is Gold [2003]

3CD compilation

Track list:

101.Hold What You Got
102.I Want To Do Everything For You
103.Together Again
104.At The Dark End Of The Street
105.Takin' A Chance
106.I Believe I'm Gonna Make It
107.One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
108.Green Green Grass Of Home
109.I'll Never Fall In Love Again
110.Set Me Free
111.Detroit City
112.Hungry For Your Love
113.Baby It's Raining
114.That's The Way
115.Woman Stealer
116.All The Heaven A Man Really Needs
117.By The Time I Get To Phoenix
118.Papa's Dream
119.Just Out Of Reach
120.A Sweet Woman Like You
201.Buying A Book
202.You Got What It Takes
203.Time Brings About A Change
204.Show Me
205.Woman Like That
206.A Woman's Hands
207.I'll Never Do You Wrong
208.When Johnny Comes Marching Home
209.We Can't Sit Down
210.The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
211.Don't Make Your Children Pay (For Your Mistakes)
212.This Time We'll Make It All The Way
213.Funny How Time Slips Away
214.Let's Go Somewhere And Talk
215.Make The World Go Away
216.For My Woman
217.Grandma Mary
218.You Need Me Baby
219.Men Are Getting Scarce
220.Anything You Wanna Know
301.Papa Was Too
302.Loose Caboose
303.Who Gave Birth To The Funk
304.Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
305.Give The Baby Anything That The Baby Wants
306.I Gotcha
307.Heartbreak Hotel
308.King Of The Road
309.S.Y.S.L.J.F.M.
310.Skinny Legs And All
311.Trying To Win Your Love
312.I've Got To Do A Little Better
313.I Can See Everybody's Baby (But I Can't See Mine)
314.Honey
315.Take The Fifth Amendment
316.When A Woman Stops Loving A Man
317.Sweet Sweet Woman
318.Ode To Billie Jo
319.Engine, Engine No. 9
320.Rain Go Away

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Van Morrison - Live!: Live Performances On CD Singles [2010]

A single disc collection of Van Morrison live performances released on CD singles.

Track list:

FROM VAN MORRISON AND JOHN LEE HOOKER CD SINGLE "Gloria", POLYDOR VANCD11, CD1, 1993.
01.It Must Be You
02.And The Healing Has Begun
03.See Me Through
MUZIEKCENTRUM VREDENBURG, UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS. APRIL 1ST, 1991

FROM VAN MORRISON AND JOHN LEE HOOKER CD SINGLE "Gloria", POLYDOR VANDR11, CD2, 1993.
04.Whenever God Shines His Light
05.It Fills You Up
06.Star Of The County Down
MUZIEKCENTRUM VREDENBURG, UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS. APRIL 1ST, 1991

FROM VAN MORRISON CD SINGLE "Perfect Fit", POLYDOR 577 015-2, 1995.
07.Cleaning Windows
MASONIC AUDITORTIUM, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA. DECEMBER 17TH, 1993

FROM VAN MORRISON WITH GEORGIE FAME & FRIENDS CD SINGLE "That's Life", VERVE/EXILE 576 205-2, 1996.
08.That's Life
THE POINT, DUBLIN, IRELAND. DECEMBER 17TH, 1995

FROM VAN MORRISON CD SINGLE "Precious Time", EXILE/POINTBLANK CD POBD 14, 1999.
09.Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
10.Call Me Up In Dreamland
11.Naked In The Jungle
12.Give Me A Kiss
BIERHUBELI CLUB, BERNE, SWITZERLAND. DECEMBER 7TH, 8TH & 9TH, 1998

FROM VAN MORRISON CD SINGLE "Philsophers Stone",EXILE/POINTBLANK POBD 16, 1999.
13.These Dreams Of You
14.Raincheck
PHILIPSHALLE, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY. DECEMBER 19TH, 1998

FROM VAN MORRISON CD SINGLE "Meet Me In The Indian Summer", POLYDOR 570 902-2, 2002
15.In The Afternoon > Raincheck
16.In The Midnight
NEWCASTLE CITY HALL, NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND. MARCH 2ND, 2002

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The White Stripes - Elephant [2003] (FLAC LOSSLESS)

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Elephant is the fourth album by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. Released on April 1, 2003 on V2 Records, the album marks the band's major label debut.
White Blood Cells may have been a reaction to the amount of fame the White Stripes had received up to the point of its release, but, paradoxically, it made full-fledged rock stars out of Jack and Meg White and sold over half a million copies in the process. Despite the White Stripes' ambivalence, fame nevertheless seems to suit them: They just become more accomplished as the attention paid to them increases. Elephant captures this contradiction within the Stripes and their music; it's the first album they've recorded for a major label, and it sounds even more pissed-off, paranoid, and stunning than its predecessor. Darker and more difficult than White Blood Cells, the album offers nothing as immediately crowd-pleasing or sweet as "Fell in Love With a Girl" or "We're Going to Be Friends," but it's more consistent, exploring disillusionment and rejection with razor-sharp focus. Chip-on-the-shoulder anthems like the breathtaking opener, "Seven Nation Army," which is driven by Meg White's explosively minimal drumming, and "The Hardest Button to Button," in which Jack White snarls "Now we're a family!" -- one of the best oblique threats since Black Francis sneered "It's educational!" all those years ago -- deliver some of the fiercest blues-punk of the White Stripes' career. "There's No Home for You Here" sets a girl's walking papers to a melody reminiscent of "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" (though the result is more sequel than rehash), driving the point home with a wall of layered, Queen-ly harmonies and piercing guitars, while the inspired version of "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" goes from plaintive to angry in just over a minute, though the charging guitars at the end sound perversely triumphant. At its bruised heart, Elephant portrays love as a power struggle, with chivalry and innocence usually losing out to the power of seduction. "I Want to Be the Boy" tries, unsuccessfully, to charm a girl's mother; "You've Got Her in Your Pocket," a deceptively gentle ballad, reveals the darker side of the Stripes' vulnerability, blurring the line between caring for someone and owning them with some fittingly fluid songwriting.
The battle for control reaches a fever pitch on the "Fell in Love With a Girl"-esque "Hypnotize," which suggests some slightly underhanded ways of winning a girl over before settling for just holding her hand, and on the show-stopping "Ball and Biscuit," seven flat-out seductive minutes of preening, boasting, and amazing guitar prowess that ranks as one the band's most traditionally bluesy (not to mention sexy) songs. Interestingly, Meg's star turn, "In the Cold, Cold Night," is the closest Elephant comes to a truce in this struggle, her kitten-ish voice balancing the song's slinky words and music. While the album is often dark, it's never despairing; moments of wry humor pop up throughout, particularly toward the end. "Little Acorns" begins with a sound clip of Detroit newscaster Mort Crim's Second Thoughts radio show, adding an authentic, if unusual, Motor City feel. It also suggests that Jack White is one of the few vocalists who could make a lyric like "Be like the squirrel" sound cool and even inspiring. Likewise, the showy "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine" -- on which White resembles a garage rock snake-oil salesman -- is probably the only song featuring the word "acetaminophen" in its chorus. "It's True That We Love One Another," which features vocals from Holly Golightly as well as Meg White, continues the Stripes' tradition of closing their albums on a lighthearted note. Almost as much fun to analyze as it is to listen to, Elephant overflows with quality -- it's full of tight songwriting, sharp, witty lyrics, and judiciously used basses and tumbling keyboard melodies that enhance the band's powerful simplicity (and the excellent "The Air Near My Fingers" features all of these). Crucially, the White Stripes know the difference between fame and success; while they may not be entirely comfortable with their fame, they've succeeded at mixing blues, punk, and garage rock in an electrifying and unique way ever since they were strictly a Detroit phenomenon. On these terms, Elephant is a phenomenal success.

Track List

01. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
02. White Stripes - Black Math
03. White Stripes - There's No Home For You Here
04. White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
05. White Stripes - In The Cold, Cold, Night
06. White Stripes - I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart
07. White Stripes - You've Got Her In Your Pocket
08. White Stripes - Ball And Biscuit
09. White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
10. White Stripes - Little Acorns
11. White Stripes - Hypnotize
12. White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
13. White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
14. White Stripes - Well It's True That We Love One Another

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Joe Tex - Happy Soul [1969]

Track list:

01.Go Home And Do It
02.That's Your Baby
03.Baby Be Good
04.You Need Me Baby
05.Chicken Crazy
06.You've Come A Long Way
07.Sweet Sweet Woman
08.You Can Tell
09.Take The Fifth Amendment
10.Keep The One You Got

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Joe Tex - Buying A Book [1969]

Track list:

01.We Can't Sit Down Now
02.Sure Is Good
03.That's The Way
04.Anything You Wanna Now
05.It Ain't Sanitary
06.The Only Way
07.Grandma Mary
08.Get Your Lies Together
09.The Same Things You Did To Get Me
10.Buying A Book

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Aretha Franklin & King Curtis - Live At Fillmore West Don't Fight The Feeling [2005] (4CD)

Release Date: Jun 21, 2005
Recording Date: Mar 5, 1971-Mar 7, 197.
The four CDs in this Rhino Handmade set -- available only over the Internet unfortunately -- contains the complete concerts of Aretha Franklin and King Curtis' stand at the Fillmore West in March of 1971 (not February as identified on the original LPs). Franklin's performances at the Fillmore were her first, and producer Jerry Wexler came up with the idea of using studio players in lieu of her regular band. Franklin had worked with Curtis previously in the studio and the players he brought to the table included Cornell Dupree, drummer Bernard Purdie, Pancho Morales on congas, bassist Jerry Jemmont, and electric pianist Truman Thomas. In addition, the band enlisted Billy Preston to play organ and also enlisted the aid of the Memphis Horns. In other words, this was a group that could actually push the Queen of Soul out onto a ledge and was a match for her vocal power. The Mermphis Horns introduced the shows each night and then brought Curtis and his band out for an opening set. And from night one, as compiled and heard on his Live at Fillmore West album, these sets were smoking, in the pocket, and greasy, with highlights like "Whole Lotta Love," "Them Changes," "Whiter Shade of Pale," and a burning cover of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)." When Franklin does walk onto the stage, she struts and goes into high gear with "Respect." Her performance on that opening night includes amazing renditions of "Spirit in the Dark" (with Ray Charles guesting), "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Love the One You're With" (also with Charles), and "Dr. Feelgood." The original album is augmented with tunes that didn't make the cut, including the oft-bootlegged "Call Me." In listening to these shows, what is striking is realizing that the majority of the Live at Fillmore West LP was taken from the last night of performances. The previous two evenings here then are startling in contrast, often in intensity and sometimes in sheer grit. The opening night's read of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is superior to either of the others, though sonically it's a bit thinner. Another gem is the version of Bobby Bland's "Share Your Love With Me." That was left off the original album. In all there are 42 unreleased performances! In addition to wonderful between-song banter and inside jokes, the true flow of the shows, the enthusiasm of the audiences, and raw, in-your-face performances put this set in a league of its own. There are also a few decent photographs and an authoritative yet friendly liner essay by British critic David Nathan. This is a limited edition and most likely won't be on the Rhino Handmade shelves long. Aural history can be dry at times and of interest to those who have a penchant for such things. Aretha Franklin and King Curtis' Don't Fight the Feeling is as saucy as it gets.

Track list:

101.Intro
102.Knock On Wood
103.Whole Lotta Love
104.Them Changes
105.A Whiter Shade Of Pale
106.My Sweet Lord
107.Ode To Billie Joe
108.Mr Bojangles
109.Soul Serenade
110.Memphis Soul Stew
111.Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
112.Respect
113.Call Me
114.Mixed-Up Girl
115.Love The One You're With
116.Bridge Over Troubled Water
117.Eleanor Rigby
118.Make It With You

201.You're All I Need To Get By
202.Dr. Feelgood
203.Spirit In The Dark
204.Spirit In The Dark (Reprise)
205.Knock On Wood
206.Them Changes
207.Whole Lotta Love
208.A Whiter Shade Of Pale
209.I Stand Accused
210.Soul Serenade
211.Memphis Soul Stew
212.Respect
213.Call Me
214.Love The One You're With
215.Bridge Over Troubled Water

301.Share Your Love With Me
302.Eleanor Rigby
303.Make It With You
304.You're All I Need To Get By
305.Don't Play That Song
306.Dr. Feelgood
307.Spirit In The Dark
308.Spirit In The Dark (Reprise)
309.Knock On Wood
310.Them Changes
311.A Whiter Shade Of Pale
312.Ode To Billie Joe
313.Soul Serenade
314.Memphis Soul Stew

401.Respect
402.Call Me
403.Love The One You're With
404.Bridge Over Troubled Water
405.Share Your Love With Me
406.Eleanor Rigby
407.Make It With You
408.Don't Play That Song
409.You're All I Need To Get By
410.Dr. Feelgood
411.Spirit In The Dark
412.Spirit In The Dark (Reprise)
413.Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)

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V.A. - Decca Originals - The Girls Scene

Release Date: Jun 12, 2000
Recording Date: 1963 - 1969
This installment in Decca Records archival Scene-related CDs explores the sizable contributions of the fairer sex to pop music during the 1960s. While these ladies may have made a significant impact in their native U.K., the vast majority remained virtual unknowns on other shores. The Girls' Scene (2000) contains over two-dozen cuts, representing some of the best female vocal groups of the era. Much like their Stateside colleagues, songs were often derived from veteran contemporary composers. This collection offers up distinguished reworkings from performers whose names might not be instantly recognizable, although the melodies should be. The Motown-sound is represented by "Two Lovers" from Louise Cordet, as well as Beryl Marsden's spot-on reading of "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Thru' His Eyes." The Brill Building pop scene spawned the Gerry Goffin/Carole King compositions "The Boy From Chelsea" -- sung here by Truly Smith -- an inspired take of "Hey Boy" by Barry St. John, and along with Phil Spector, Marianne Faithfull's "Is This What I Get For Loving You?" Faithfull is one of the more prominent figures to have emerged from Andrew Loog Oldham's notable stable of talent. In many ways, Oldham was the English equivalent to Spector, as both were multi-talented moguls who were best known for their work behind the scenes with others. From his coterie are Adrienne Poster and Vashti -- each respectively cover Keith Richard and Mick Jagger tunes "Shang a Doo Lang" and "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind." Lorraine Child goes even closer to the source on the Oldham-penned "You." Olivia Newton-John is certainly a name that stands out, as does her unmistakable Aussie warble on the otherwise hard-hitting attack of Jackie DeShannon's "Till You Say You'll Be Mine." Parties interested in Girls' Scene should also note the other entries in this series, including the Rock 'N' Roll Scene (1999), Blues Scene (1999), Freakbeat Scene (1999), Psychedelic Scene (1998), and two volumes from the wonderful world of the Mod Scene (1998).

Track list:

01 - the orchids - oo-chang-a-lang
02 - antoinette - jenny let him go
03 - the vernons girls - only you can do it
04 - louise cordet - two lovers
05 - truly smith - the boy from chelsea
06 - dana gillespie - you just gotta know my mind
07 - barry st. john - hey boy
08 - susan hampshire - when love is true
09 - jean marrin - save the last dance for me
10 - beryl marsden - when the lovelight starts shining thru
11 - pamela blue - my friend bobby
12 - jackie frisco - sugar baby
13 - janice nichols - i'll give it five
14 - bobbie miller - what a guy
15 - the mysteries - give me rhythm and blues
16 - olivia newton john - till you say you'll be mine
17 - vashti - some things just stick in your mind
18 - marianne faithfull - is this what i get for loving you
19 - billie davis - nobody's home to go home to
20 - shape & sizes - rain on my face
21 - lorraine child - you
22 - linda flavell - the trouble with me is you
23 - adrienne poster - shang-a-doo-lang
24 - lulu - try to understand
25 - exceptions - solider boy

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Mavis Staples - Don't Change Me Now [1988]

Don't Change Me Now pulls together most of the better efforts from Mavis Staples' solo career, being a composite of two solo albums, Mavis Staples and Only for the Lonely, recorded for Stax subsidiary Volt in 1969 and 1970, respectively. Ace has added a number of originally unreleased tracks to this collection. The liner notes are well written and the sound is fine.
CD covers included

Track list:

01.Ready For The Heartbreak
02.Sweet Things You Do
03.You're Driving Me
04.The Chokin' Kind
05.A House Is Not A Home
06.Security
07.Pick Up The Pieces
08.Good To Me
09.You Send Me
10.I'm Tired
11.Why Can't It Be Like It Used To Be
12.Chains Of Love
13.You're All I Need
14.I Have Learned To Do Without You
15.How Many Times
16.Endlessly
17.You're The Fool
18.Since I Fell For You
19.What Happened To The Real Me
20.Since You Became A Part Of My Life
21.It Makes Me Wanna Cry
22.Don't Change Me Now

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Joe Tex - First On The Dial: Early Singles And Rare Gems [2008]

Release Date: Jun 30, 2008
Joe Tex had been releasing records for almost a decade before he had his first hit in 1965. This 25-track compilation doesn't come close to including all of them, but it does a good job in assembling the most important of those, concentrating solely on discs he made for the Dial label, almost all of the songs having been cut in 1961-1964 prior to his chart breakthrough. At this point, Tex -- as was the case in the pre-fame recordings of numerous '60s soul stars -- was still searching for a style to some degree, and by and large the cuts aren't as earthy as the ones he'd lay down later in the decade. There are even songs with strong debts to early-'60s dance-novelty tunes ("The Peck"); arrangements similar to those heard in early-'60s 45s by poppy early soul singers like Marv Johnson and Dee Clark; and hints of Clyde McPhatter, Sam Cooke, and doo wop. Yet at the same time, there are also strong pleading ballads much closer to the Southern soul style with which he became identified, all of them written by Tex himself, the slightly James Brown-ish "Blood's Thicker Than Water" being a particular highlight in that regard. Because this isn't Tex at his peak or his most characteristic, you wouldn't recommend this as the first or second anthology to acquire. But if you do like Tex at his '60s peak, it's suggested listening, both because it illustrates his roots and because it's enjoyable on its own merits. Also on the CD are a few tracks that fall outside the disc's principal aim of anthologizing 1961-1964 Dial singles, but are worthy additions that are hard to find on compact disc, including the 1967 holiday-themed 45 "I'll Make Every Day Christmas (For My Woman)" and its flip, "Don't Give Up"; the 1965 B-side "Build Your Love on a Solid Foundation"; and two cuts from a 1965 LP, "Tell Me Right Now" and the Sam Cooke-styled "There Is a Girl."

Track list:

01.The Only Girl (I've Ever Loved)
02.Hand Shakin', Love Makin', Girl Talkin', Son of A Gun from Next Door
03.Popeye Johnny
04.Meet Me in The Church
05.Be Your Own Judge
06.I Let Her Get Away
07.The Peck
08.Someone to Take Your Place
09.I Should Have Kissed Her More
10.I Wanna Be Free
11.Blood's Thicker Than Water
12.What Should I Do
13.One Giant Step
14.The Rib
15.Say Thank You
16.Looking for My Pig
17.Old Time Lover
18.I'd Rather Have You
19.I Had A Good Home, But I Left (Part 1)
20.I Had A Good Home, But I Left (Part 2)
21.Build Your Love on A Solid Fountain
22.I'll Make Everyday Christmas (for My Woman)
23.Don't Give Up
24.Tell Me Right Now
25.There Is A Girl

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Johnny Cash - Koncert V Praze (In Prague Live) [1983]

Live recording at concert in Sport Hall, Prague, in 11 April, 1978.
CD covers included

Track list:

01.Ring Of Fire
02.Folsom Prison Blues
03.I Still Miss Someone
04.Big River
05.I Ride An Old PaintStreets Of Laredo
06.Sunday Morning Coming Down
07.I Walk The Line
08.Last Date
09.City Of New Orleans
10.Hey Porter
11.Wreck Of The Old '97
12.Casey Jones
13.Orange Blossom Special
14.Wabash Cannonball (with Carter Family)

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Johnny Cash - Famous Country Music Makers (Live) (lossless) [2000]

Recorded Live In Concert
FLAC, CD-rip, covers

Track list:

1.: Ring Of Fire
2.: Big River
3.: Boy Named Sue
4.: City Of New Orleans
5.: Rock Island Line
6.: Highwayman
7.: Long Black Veil
8.: Folsom Prison Blues
9.: I Got Stripes
10.: I Still Miss Someone
11.: Sixteen Tons
12.: Get Rhythm
13.: Jackson
14.: If I Were A Carpenter
15.: Orange Blossom Special
16.: Sunday Morning Coming Down
17.: Why Me
18.: Casey Jones
19.: Peace In The Valley
20.: I Walk The Line

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V.A. - Bubblegum Classics Volume 1-3 [1995-96]

Pure bubblegum music
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Track list:

CD1

01.Ohio Express - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
02.Boyce & Hart - Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend)
03.The Cuff Links - Tracy
04.The Fifth Estate - Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
05.The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco - Abra-Ca-Dabra
06.Street People - Jennifer Tomkins
07.Tommy Roe - Jam Up And Jelly Tight
08.Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
09.Everyday Hudson - Laugh, Funny Face
10.Dawn - Knock Three Times
11.Music Explosion - Sunshine Games
12.Keith - Ain't Gonna Lie
13.1910 Fruitgum Company - Indian Giver
14.The Peppermint Rainbow - Will You Be Staying After Sunday
15.Jefferson - Baby, Take Me In Your Arms
16.Rare Breed - Come And Take A Ride In My Boat
17.Bobby Sherman - Julie, Do Ya Love Me
18.The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
19.Shannon - Abergavenny
20.Capt. Groovy And His Bubblegum Army - Capt. Groovy And His Bubblegum Army


CD2

01.The Monkees - I'm A Believer
02.Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
03.Tommy James & The Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now
04.The Cuff Links - When Julie Comes Around
05.The Kids From The Brady Bunch - Candy (Sugar Shoppe)
06.White Plains - My Baby Loves Lovin'
07.1910 Fruitgum Co. - Simon Says
08.The Prophets - Playgirl
09.Tommy Roe - Dizzy
10.Rare Breed - Beg, Barrow And Steal
11.Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
12.Edison Lighthouse - It's Up To You, Petula
13.The Five Americans - Western Union
14.The Fun & Games - The Grooviest Girl In The World
15.Bobby Sherman - Easy Come, Easy Go
16.Shawn - With Every Beat Of My Heart
17.Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine
18.The Flying Machine - Smile A Little Smile For Me
19.Brotherhood Of Man - Save Your Kisses For Me
20.The Rock & Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Company Of Philadelphia 19141 - Bubble Gum Music


CD3

01.The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
02.The Cowsills - We Can Fly
03.Tommy James & The Shondells - Mirage
04.Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution - Sha-La Love You
05.The Clique - Sugar On Sunday
06.The Banana Splits - I Enjoy Being A Boy (In Love With You)
07.Tony Burrows - Every Little Move She Makes
08.Bobby Sherman - Little Woman
09.The Tricks - Wham! Bam! Ala Cazam
10.Robin McNamara - Lay A Little Lovin' On Me
11.Salt Water Taffy - Finders Keepers
12.The Monkees - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
13.Tony Christie - Amarillo, (Is This The Way To)
14.Ohio Express - Chewy, Chewy
15.Austin Roberts - Ricky Ticky Ta Ta Ta
16.The Fun & Games - Elephant Candy
17.Kissoon, Mac & Katie - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
18.Tommy Roe - Jack And Jill
19.Kasenetz-Katz Super Cirkus - Dong-Dong-Diki-Di-Ki-Dong
20.The Peppermint Trolley Company - Baby You Come Rollin' Across My Mind
21.The Wombles - Remember You're A Womble
22.Sweet - Little Willy

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V.A. - It's the Cheap Damaged Goods [1998]

Release Date: Aug 18, 1998
The U.K.'s premier outpost for punky pop and poppy punk, Damaged Goods released their first label sampler CD in 1998. It's the Cheap Damaged Goods is a 30-track history of the label's effort to bring the world some of the rawest, hookiest garage-inspired music around. The lineup includes some big names like Holly Golightly, whose "Virtually Happy" is taken from her first solo album and starts the disc off with a sultry bang; Thee Headcoats, who are the label's centerpiece group and contribute one of their most scathing tracks, "(We Hate the Fuckin') NME"; the Manic Street Preachers, whose early single "New Art Riot" is included; the always charming Helen Love; the Television Personalities; and the re-formed Revillos. Some of the lesser known bands provide the highlights of the disc: the Budget Girls' silly "Tickle Bee," Lovesick's melancholy punk-pop anthem "Sunflower," Dutronc's pounding cover of Jacques Dutronc's classic "Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi," Cukooland's C-86-styled girl-group pastiche "Endless Song," Bristols' supergroovy garage swinger "Questions I Can't Answer," and the unfortunately named the Adventures of Parsley's wonderful "On the Move." The disc presents a highly entertaining picture of a label who always knew exactly what they were on about, a label that released some of the best indie rock on the planet. The proof is in the pudding and the pudding tastes damn good.

Track list:

01.Holly Golightly - Virtually Happy
02.Helen Love - We Love You
03.Budget Girls - Tickle Be
04.Thee Headcoats - We Hate The Fuckin' NME
05.Honeyrider - Endless Summer
06.J Church - Young Mother
07.Thee Headcoatees - Davey Crocket
08.Manic Street Preachers - New Art Riot
09.Lovesick - Sunflower
10.Television Personalities - Sorry To Embarass You
11.Anorak Girl - She Says
12.Sexton Ming - Danny Edwards
13.Dutronc - Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi
14.Twister - It's A Dog's Life
15.Hopper - Baby Oil
16.Oizone - Love Me For A Reason
17.Cuckooland - Endless Song
18.Phantom Pregnancies - Ghost Boy
19.Toast - Nothing At All
20.Bristols - Questions I Can't Answer
21.Dustball - Sent Apart
22.The Revillos - Jack The Ripper
23.Wat Tyler - Justify Your Book
24.Cee Bee Beaumont - The Harbour Master
25.Period Pains - Heroes
26.Reverse - Stem The Slide
27.Bette Davis & The Balconettes - Feed My Ego
28.Armitage Shanks - Shirts Off
29.Dweeb - Retard
30.The Adventures Of Parsley - On The Move

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Jackie DeShannon - Put a Little Love in Your Heart [1969]

DeShannon co-wrote her second Top Ten hit, the title track, with Jimmy Holiday and Randy Myers, and this album contains more of the fruit of their collaboration, including the follow-up, a Top 40 hit called "Love Will Find a Way."

Track list:

01.Put A Little Love In Your Heart
02.You Are The Real Thing
03.River Of Love
04.Keep Me In Mind
05.Mama's Song
06.Movin'
07.You Can Come To Me
08.You Have A Way With Me
09.I Let Go Completely
10.Always Together
11.Love Will Find A Way
12.Live

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The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me (EP) [2007]

Release Date: 2007
Here is The Pipettes EP that precedes the North American release of their debut album.

Track list:

01.Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
02.I Love You
03.Really That Bad
04.Guess Who Ran Off With The Milkman

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The Pipettes - Call Me (EP) [2010]

Released: 19 Jul 2010
'Call Me' is the second single to be taken from The Pipettes second album, ‘Earth Vs The Pipettes’

Track list:

01.Call Me
02.My Heart's A Bomb
03.Over Heels
04.Call Me (Operator Please Remix)

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The Pipettes - Stop The Music (EP) [2010]

Released: 19 Apr 2010
'Stop The Music' is the first single to be taken from The Pipettes second album, ‘Earth Vs The Pipettes’.
CD covers included

Track list:

01.Stop The Music
02.So I'll Say Goodbye
03.Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen
04.Who Made You The Doctor
05.Stop The Music (Justus Kohncke, Kompakt Remix)

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The Pipettes - Earth vs. The Pipettes [2010]

Release date: 19.10.2010.
So many changes have taken place since the release of the Pipettes' previous album that sorting it out is just too much of a pain. All you really need to know is that members of the group have come and gone and their sound has changed from girl group imitators to disco-pop acolytes. The constant behind the group, songwriter and ringleader Monster Bobby, is still there, still calling the shots on Earth vs. the Pipettes. His decision to leave the girl group sound behind was actually a wise one. Despite the tunes often being quite good, there was something off about the presentation. They seemed trapped between wanting to emulate the sound exactly and trying to add something more modern to the mix, which left them in limbo. The new approach is more blatantly pop and newfangled.

Track list:

01. Call Me 2:50
02. Ain't No Talkin' 2:31
03. Thank You 3:25
04. I Need A Little Time 3:40
05. History 2:21
06. I Always Planned To Stay 3:27
07. Stop The Music 4:07
08. I Vibe U 3:41
09. Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen 3:04
10. Finding My Way 2:39
11. Captain Rhythm 2:29
12. From Today 3:34

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March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010

Solomon Burke - Nothing's Impossible [2010]

CD covers included

Track list:

01.Oh What a Feeling
02.Everything About You
03.Dreams
04.Nothing's Impossible
05.It Must Be Love
06.You Needed Me
07.Say You Love Me Too
08.You're Not Alone
09.New Company
10.When You're Not Here
11.The Error Of My Ways
12.I'm Leavin'

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Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone [2010]

Release Date: Sep 14, 2010
Mavis Staples may not have a voice with the kind of range and pure power of an Aretha Franklin, but she understands the ins and outs of phrasing and nuance, and brings an inimitable, gritty passion to everything she sings, even into her seventies. She’s also not afraid to walk right down the middle of the road between secular and sacred, fully aware that both the blues and gospel are really talking about the same thing -- the need to get to a better place. She performs this delicate synthesis well on You Are Not Alone, an album that finds her teamed with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, whose production on this project is surprisingly sympathetic to Staples' strengths, and more importantly, doesn’t make her sound like an adjunct participant in a Wilco album. No, this is Mavis' show, and she grabs ahold of well-chosen covers like Randy Newman's “Losing You,” Allen Toussaint's “Last Train,” Reverend Gary Davis' “I Belong to the Band,” and John Fogerty's “Wrote a Song for Everyone” with conviction, wringing every bit of wisdom, anger, compassion, and joy out of them, while bringing a fresh perspective to traditional gospel pieces like “In Christ There Is No East or West,” “Creep Along Moses,” and “Wonderful Savior,” reminding that redemption is pretty hard work even in the best of times. She tackles a couple of Pops Staples pieces here, too, “Don’t Knock” and “Downward Road,” making this whole set a well-rounded portrait of Mavis Staples as she stands then, now, and tomorrow. Tweedy wrote several songs for the project, but only one, the title track “You Are Not Alone,” appears here, and he wisely resisted any urge to overdo his sonic stamp on the album. Most tracks feature sturdy, simple, and subdued backing that allows Staples' voice to carry the show, highlighted by reverbed guitar reminiscent of Pops Staples' trademark sound, although only enough to suggest it -- nothing here gets in the way of Mavis' voice. You Are Not Alone is a solid outing that somehow amazingly manages to be both secular and sacred at once, and there is a stripped-down timelessness to it. It’s gospel. It’s blues. It’s about love and redemption, and how each needs the other.
CD covers included

Track list:

01.Don't Knock
02.You Are Not Alone
03.Downward Road
04.In Christ There Is No East Or West
05.Creep Along Moses
06.Losing You
07.I Belong To The Band
08.Last Train
09.Only The Lord Knows
10.Wrote A Song For Everyone
11.We're Gonna Make It
12.Wonderful Savior
13.Too CloseOn My Way To Heaven

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Divine - Native Love (The Best of) [1991]

The Best of Divine is a 14-track collection of the campy singer/actor's disco singles, containing such songs as "Shoot Your Shot," "Jungle Jezebel," "Love Reaction," "T-Shirts and Tight Blue Jeans," "Kick Your Butt," "Alphabet Rap," "You Think You're a Man," and "I'm So Beautiful." Divine is not a particularly gifted singer, and these songs are so arch and campy that only listeners with a taste for extreme kitsch will want to explore this. Those who do share that taste, however, might find the record enjoyable, at least in small doses.

Track list:

01.Shoot Your Shot
02.Jungle Jezebel
03.Native Love
04.Love Reaction
05.Shout it Out
06.T-Shirts and Tight Blue Jeans
07.Psychedelic Shack
08.Shake it Up
09.Kick Your Butt
10.Alphabet Rap
11.You Think You're a Man
12.Walk Like a Man
13.I'm So Beautiful
14.Hey You!

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The Gentle Waves - Falling From Grace (single)

Track list:

1. Falling From Grace 3:46
Backing Vocals - Rozanne Suarez
Drums - Richard Colburn
Trumpet - Mick Cooke
Violin [Arrangement], Bass - Stuart Murdoch
Vocals, Guitar [Spanish], Guitar [Electric], Harpischord, Cello, Backing Vocals - Isobel Campbell
2. Going Home 3:34
Guitar - Bill Wells
Vocals, Guitar, Cello - Isobel Campbell
3. October's Sky 2:42
Clarinet, Flute - John Burgess (2)
Piano, Samples - Bill Wells
Tuba, Double Bass - Lindsay Cooper (2)
Vocals - Isobel Campbell
4. Hold Back A Thousand Hours 3:57
Bass Drum - Paddy O'Flaherty
Double Bass - Lindsay Cooper
Flute - John Brugess (2)
Piano - Bill Wells
Shaker, Clave - Derek Star
Vocals, Guitar, Glockenspiel, Backing Vocals - Isobel Campbell

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Yo La Tengo - The Original Score From The Motion Picture Adventureland [2009]

Bonus LP from Matador's Buy Early Get Now promotion for the album Popular Songs.
LP covers included

Track list:

01.Funtastic Time
02.A Giant Ass Panda
03.Tumbling Die
04.Mixtapes Say So Much
05.Pool Party Tonight
06.Henry Melville
07.I Think I'm In Love
08.Dad Starts Fucking A Bald Woman
09.Ready To Owe You Things
10.Still, Standing
11.My Spot
12.Give 'em Enough Pot
13.Whoa!
14.Shut The Fuck Up, Frigo
15.Farewell Adventureland
16.Barfarific Time - Gonna See You Next Summer
17.Rainy Night In New York
18.Why Do You Have That Stupid Shirt
19.A Giant Ass Panda (Alternate 1)
20.A Giant Ass Panda (Alternate 2)
21.Tumbling Die (Alternate)
22.I Think I'm In Love (Alternate 1)
23.I Think I'm In Love (Alternate 2)
24.Whoa! (Alternate)

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Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall (Remixes EP) [2010]

Here To Fall is the most popular track from "Popular Songs," a couple having a tense conversation about the future over the background of menacing, descending chords and distorted wa-wa guitar. Each of these legendary hip hop performers has taken the track and the story and made it their own. Maseo from De La Soul strips the song to its core only to add driving guitars and a heavy groove. RJD2's take is as cool and atmospheric as you'd expect. It is the EP's closer that truly takes the song to the next level - Pete Rock's remix is dusky, minimal, abstract and hypnotic - carving the song down to the discrete elements of the human relationship, then dropping a verse about Yo La Tengo themselves - in a word, awesome

Track list:

01.Here To Fall (Album Version)
02.Here To Fall (De La Soul Remix)
03.Here To Fall (RJD2 Remix)
04.Here To Fall (Pete Rock Remix)

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Maki Nomiya & Fernanda Takai - Maki-Takai No Jetlag [2010]

Nomiya Maki (ex-Pizzicato Five) unites with Brazilian singer Fernanda Takai (Pato Fu) for a mini-album containing songs selected by the two. Included are a new original song by Maki called "Nagoya" with Japanese lyrics, P5's "A Message Song", Ishida Ayumi's "hitori ni shite ne", Pato Fu's "Saudade", and a live version of bossa nova "O Barquinho" also sung in Japanese.
Although the two have performed shows together in both Brazil and Japan, here the music was recorded in Brazil while Maki recorded her vocals in Japan, and the whole mixed together. The whole is produced by John Ulhoa, Pato Fu's guitarist and husband of Fernanda.

Track list:

1. nagoya
2. hitori ni shite ne
3. saudade
4. Message Song
5. kobune (Live)

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Leonard Cohen - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970

FLAC - LOSSLESS
Release Date: Oct 20, 2009
Recording Date: Aug 31, 1970
On August 31, 1970, Leonard Cohen was scheduled to play the third Isle of Wight Festival. The conditions were not optimal. While 100,00 tickets or so had been sold, there were nearly 600,000 in attendance. Fans overran the island to see and hear the Who, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and many others over five days. Given the gatecrashers, things got ugly and violent. Some acts were booed from the stage while others were pelted with projectiles; fires were set -- even the stage got torched during Hendrix's performance. Murray Lerner, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who had been commissioned to capture it all, packed up his gear. Thank goodness he stayed.
Leonard Cohen, was 35, had two albums under his belt with a third on the way. He was scheduled to play after Hendrix, right in the middle of the chaos. Organizers tried to find a replacement piano for the one that had been burned -- he was asleep in his trailer when he was awakened at 1 a.m. An unkempt Cohen took the stage without hesitation at 2 a.m in a safari jacket and jeans over his pajamas, along with the Army -- producer Bob Johnson on organ, piano, and guitar; Elkin "Bubba" Fowler on bass and banjo; fiddler Charlie Daniels; guitarist Ron Cornelius; and vocalists Corlynn Hanney, Susan Mussmano, and Donna Washburn. Cohen opened with a story about a man at a circus asking people to light a match so they could see one another; he requested that from the rowdy crowd. Some granted it early, many more later. Lerner instinctually reset a camera just before his performance and got most of Cohen's show, the vibe of which transformed the festival's last day.
It's all here on CD and DVD from Legacy. Cohen played songs from his first two albums, debuted a few -- including "Suzanne," from the forthcoming Songs of Love and Hate -- recited poems, and told stories. He offered personal confessions about being in a cheap hotel, trying to pick up a blonde woman in a Nazi poster while coming down from a speed run; he talked of friends who committed suicide because they had no one to talk to; and shared effortlessly, politely, and honestly without artifice or "showmanship." In other words, the qualities he has become known for throughout his career.
The CD captures the entire performance in nearly pristine sound. The hits (of the time) are here, the banter is here, and the entire performance by the band is so special it will leave the listener utterly satisfied. Whether it's "So Long Marianne," the poem "They Locked Up a Man," the stellar reading of "The Partisan," or the chilling version of "Famous Blue Raincoat," this is top-notch Cohen. The DVD is imperfect, but that's alright; it is still essential viewing artistically and historically. What Lerner captures is utterly magical, and not to be missed. His sense of timing is impeccable, his taste unassailable. Since he hastily reset his gear, there is one camera instead of three, but it hardly matters. He captures the essence of what happened, he understood instinctually what was going on on-stage and with the crowd, and he portrays that throughout the gig. The concert is interspersed with brief interviews with eyewitnesses Judy Collins and Joan Baez; but their input is unnecessary and self-serving. Kris Kristofferson's first person commentary, however, is wonderful, because it is journalistic and simple, without nostalgic interpretation. Cohen is not present as a commentator, which is unfortunate, but this is only a small complaint, really. This is one CD/DVD package that is so complementary, its pieces are inseparable.
CD covers included

Track list:

01.Introduction
02.Bird On A Wire
03.Intro to So Long, Marianne
04.So Long, Marianne
05.Intro Let's renew ourselves now...
06.You Know Who I Am
07.Intro to Poems
08.Lady Midnight
09.They Locked Up A Man (Poem) - A Person Who Eats Meat - Intro
10.One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
11.The Stranger Song
12.Tonight Will Be Fine
13.Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
14.Diamonds In The Mine
15.Suzanne
16.Sing Another Song, Boys
17.The Partisan
18.Famous Blue Raincoat
19.Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

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Isobel Campbell - Milk White Sheets [2006]

Release Date: Nov 7, 2006
Before she recorded Ballad of the Broken Seas with Mark Lanegan, Isobel Campbell recorded the breathtakingly beautiful Milk White Sheets. Instead of the showy country balladry she and Lanegan laid down, here Campbell delves deep into the sounds of 1960s British folk. In the liner notes she comes right out and says that Milk White Sheets was inspired by the music of female folk giants Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie, and Anne Briggs. It's no stretch to say that Campbell has created an album that stands shoulder to shoulder with anything her idols released. Everything about Milk White Sheets is enchanting and lovely. The arrangements are intimate and small; mainly built around acoustic guitars and Campbell's voice but made lively with the addition of cellos, glockenspiel, percussion, and on the instrumental "James," string arrangements that call to mind Robert Kirby's wonderful work with Nick Drake. The songs Campbell picks to cover are always interesting choices, and her own compositions are sublime. As an indication of just how authentic her songs sound, it's difficult to tell the songs she composed from the traditional folk songs like "Reynardine" and "Loving Hannah" that she covers. Best of all is Campbell's voice. While she's a fine pop singer and a lovely country crooner, her tender and seductive vocals are a revelation. Whether breathily cooing through the sweet "Cachel Wood" or yipping through "Yearning," she has never sounded this good before. It truly sounds like she was born to sing this autumnal and very British kind of folk. Hopefully her fans will stick with her on this fascinating detour, and hopefully she herself will keep releasing records this intimate, beautiful, and melancholy.

Track list:

01. O Love Is Teasin' 01:56
02. Willow's Song 04:22
03. Yearning 04:19
04. James 03:55
05. Hori Horo 02:21
06. Reynardine 02:54
07. Milkwhite Sheets 01:20
08. Cachel Wood 02:38
09. Beggar, Wiseman Or Thief 03:13
10. Loving Hannah 03:18
11. Are You Going To Leave Me? 04:31
12. Over The Wheat & The Barley 02:34
13. Thursday's Child 08:05

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Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty [1964_1997] (LOSSLESS _ FLAC)

A Girl Called Dusty was the debut album of British singer Dusty Springfield. It was released in the UK on Philips Records in 1964.
In 1997, two years before Springfield's death, a digitally remastered and expanded edition was issued by Mercury Records/Universal Music, then including eight bonus tracks as well as a few alternate mixes. Due to the fact that some of the original multi-track master tapes no longer were to be found in the Philips Records archives, some tracks on the 1997 version are in mono or in some cases re-created stereo mixes using alternate vocal takes. The current CD version of A Girl Called Dusty, which still remains in print, is consequently radically different from the original album, as produced by Johnny Franz and Springfield herself. The album appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
CD covers included

Track list:

1. "Mama Said" (Luther Dixon, Willie Denson) - 2:14
* 1997 CD-re-issue: remix
2. "You Don't Own Me" (John Madara, David White) - 2:30
* 1997 CD-re-issue: alternate take
3. "Do Re Mi (Forget About the Do and Think About Me)" (Earl King) - 2:20
* 1997 CD-re-issue: remix
4. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr.) - 3:07
* 1997 CD-re-issue: remix
5. "My Colouring Book" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) - 3:03
* 1997 CD re-issue: mono mix
6. "Mockingbird" (Inez Foxx, Charlie Foxx) - 2:34

Side B

1. "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:07
* 1997 CD-re-issue: remix
2. "Nothing" (Frank Augustus, Bob Elgin, Clarence Lewis Jr.) - 2:29
* 1997 CD-re-issue: remix
3. "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:11
* 1997 CD re-issue: alternate take
4. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 2:40
5. "Wishin' and Hopin'" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 2:56
6. "Don't You Know" (Ray Charles) - 2:53
* 1997 CD-re-issue: remix

Bonus tracks 1997 CD re-issue

13. "I Only Want to Be With You" (Alternate take) (Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde) - 2:42
* First UK release (original mix): Philips single BF 1292 (A-side). Release date: 8 November 1963.
14. "He's Got Something" (Alternate take) (Kenny Lynch, Ian Samwell) - 2:50
* First UK release (original mix): Philips EP I Only Want to Be With You, BE 12560. Release date: 6 March 1964
15. "Every Day I Have to Cry" (Arthur Alexander) - 2:30
* First UK release: Philips EP I Only Want to Be With You, BE 12560. Release date: 6 March 1964
16. "Can I Get a Witness (Remix) (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr.) - 2:46
* First UK release (original mix): Philips EP Dusty, BE 12564. Release date: 4 September 1964
17. "All Cried Out" (Remix) (Buddy Kaye, Phil Springer) - 3:05
* First UK release (Original mix): Philips EP Dusty, BE 12564. Release date: 4 September 1964
18. "I Wish I'd Never Loved You" (Alternate take) (Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde) - 3:40
* First UK release (original mix): Philips EP Dusty, BE 12564. Release date: 4 September 1964
19. "Once upon a Time" (Remix) (Dusty Springfield) - 1:57
* First UK release (original mix): Philips single BF 1292 (B-side of "I Only Want to Be With You"). Release date: 8 November 1963.
20. "Summer Is Over" (Tom Springfield, Clive Westlake) - 3:44
* First UK release: Philips single BF 1369 (B-side of "Losing You"). Release date: 16 October 1964.


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Dusty Springfield - Reputation [1991] (LOSSLESS _ ape)

Release Date: Jul 1, 1991
In 1990, after almost a decade's absence from the new-release lists and an even longer time away from the charts, Dusty Springfield re-emerged with Reputation. A partial collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, it proved to be her most satisfying record in 15 years and sold better than anything that she'd released since the '60s. The late-'80s synth pop sound melded perfectly with Springfield's still very expressive, powerful, and soulful singing — Dan Hartman handled the producing chores on four of the cuts, Andy Richards on one, and the album has a unified sound, at once airy and dense, soaring and deep. The best cuts, however, are the five produced (and, in all but one case, written) by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys. Much as Robert Fripp may have been put on this earth first and foremost to produce the Roches, Tennant and Lowe's collaborations with Springfield are as satisfying and unified and whole as she ever achieved working with Jerry Wexler, Thom Bell, and Roland Chambers 20 years earlier. She seems to reach that much higher and also that much deeper inside of herself on "In Private" and "Daydreaming" to much subtler effect; those cuts are very much of a piece with her best work on the Dusty in Memphis, A Brand New Me, and Cameo albums, just later links in the same chain, and their effect is to leave the listener breathless and delighted with their sheer beauty as recordings, as well with as her performance.
CD covers included

Track list:

01.Reputation
02.Send It To Me
03.Arrested By You
04.Time Waits For No One
05.Born This Way
06.In Private
07.Daydreamiing
08.Nothing Has Been Proved
09.I Want To Saty Here
10.Occupt Your Mind

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Release Date: Mar 7, 2006
It's tempting to say something facile like "beauty meets the beast" in writing about this collaboration between former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, best known for his work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. After all, Campbell's voice is all sweet angelic whisper while Lanegan's whisky-and-nicotine rasp sounds like the product of ten thousand nights in a barroom, but somehow these sweet and sour elements come together with striking and impressive results on Ballad of the Broken Seas. It helps that musically these two are not far away from the same page; the ghostly blues-based structures of Lanegan's Whiskey for the Holy Ghost and The Winding Sheet may be starker than Campbell's stuff with Belle & Sebastian or her solo set Amorino, but they both appear to revel in the sort of glorious sadness that draws beauty from melancholy, and they find a dark and lovely common ground on this set of songs. Campbell produced the album and wrote the bulk of the material (though Lanegan wrote one song, the moody and satisfying "Revolver"), and while it's no great surprise that she comes up with superb material for herself, she also knows what to make of Lanegan's expressive rasp ("The Circus Is Leaving Town" is as good a performance as he's ever recorded), and their numbers together (especially "The False Husband" and the cover of Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man") recall what one hoped Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue's duets on Murder Ballads would sound like. Ballad of the Broken Seas is a superbly crafted bit of late-night introspection that brings out the best in both Lanegan and Campbell and adds new and unexpected facets to their impressive repertoires.
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Track list:

01.Deus Ibi Est
02.Black Mountain
03.The False Husband
04.Ballad of the Broken Seas
05.Revolver
06.Ramblinman
07.(Do You Wanna) Come Walk with Me?
08.Saturday's Gone
09.It's Hard to Kill a Bad Thing
10.Honey Child What Can I Do
11.Dusty Wreath
12.The Circus Is Leaving Town

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk

Release Date: Aug 24, 2010
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan seemed like an unlikely musical couple when they first began collaborating in 2006 -- she of the breathy whisper, he of the deep, bluesy rasp. But their intriguing blend of bitter and sweet has turned into viable ongoing partnership, and on their third album together, Hawk, Campbell and Lanegan continue to merge their distinct but complimentary styles while adding a few new edges to their approach. While Lanegan didn't write any material for this album, someone got the fine idea of persuading him to dip into the Townes Van Zandt songbook, and his voice was tailor made for the grim undercurrents of "Snake Song," while on "No Place To Fall" he inches into a higher register than gives his voice a welcome vulnerability which perfectly suits Van Zandt's weary romanticism. "Come Undone," meanwhile, plays out over a taut R&B-flavored backing track with strings and a relentless single-note piano mirroring the tension of the lyrics, while "You Won't Let Me Down Again" winds out its dark, atmospheric melody with a dose of slashing guitar courtesy of James Iha. "Get Behind Me" is a rollicking dose of honky tonk fire, and "Lately" closes out the set with some passionate country gospel pleading. But the biggest surprise is the title track, a righteous blast of sax-driven blues that stomps and swaggers to hard that there's no room for vocals, and if it seems like an odd choice for an album from a pair of singers, it's wild and tough enough that no one is likely to mind. Much of the rest of the album follows the template of Campbell and Lanegan's first two albums, but if it's heavy on echoing atmospherics and open spaces, there's no arguing that Campbell (as producer and primary songwriter) knows how to make this stuff work, and her duets with Lanegan sound only more confident and intuitive with time. Ballad of the Broken Seas was a surprise because two seemingly mismatched artists proved to be a splendid collaboration; four years later, Hawk isn't as startling, but it's encouraging to know that the magic between Campbell and Lanegan not only hasn't worn off, it's manifesting itself in new and compelling ways.
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Track list:

01.We Die And See Beauty Reign
02.You Won't Let Me Down Again
03.Snake Song
04.Come Undone
05.No Place To Fall
06.Get Behind Me
07.Time Of The Season
08.Hawk
09.Sunrise
10.To Hell & Back Again
11.Cool Water
12.Eyes Of Green
13.Lately

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Grace Jones - Island Life [1985]

A veiled compilation album of Grace Jones' Island sides from an assortment of albums. Instead of calling it The Best of Grace Jones, Island dubbed it Island Life. But it doesn't matter what name is used — many of these cuts are the typical '70s European disco mush that doesn't have enough seasoning for American music appetites.
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Track list:

01.La Vie En Rose
02.I Need A Man
03.Do Or Die
04.Private Life
05.Love Is The Drug
06.I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
07.Pull Up To The Bumper
08.Walking In The Rain
09.My Jamaican Guy
10.Slave To The Rhythm

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The Sisters Of Mercy - Original Album Series (5CD BoxSET)

Budget priced box set holding five original The Sisters Of Mercy albums in a small cardboard sleeve with the original artwork.
First And Last And Always originally released in 1985.
Floodland originally released in 1987.
Vision Thing originally released in 1990.
Some Girls Wander By Mistake originally released in 1992.
A Slight Case Of Overbombing originally released in 1993.

Track list:

101.Black Planet
102.Walk Away
103.No Time To Cry
104.A Rock And A Hard Place
105.Marian (Version)
106.First And Last And Always
107.Possession
108.Nine While Nine
109.Logic
110.Some Kind Of Stranger
201.Dominion-Mother Russia
202.Flood I
203.Lucretia My Reflection
204.1959
205.This Corrosion
206.Flood II
207.Driven Like The Snow
208.Never Land (A Fragment)
209.Torch
210.Colours
301.Vision Thing
302.Ribbons
303.Detonation Boulevard
304.Something Fast
305.When You Don't See Me
306.Doctor Jeep
307.More
308.I Was Wrong
401.Alice
402.Floorshow
403.Phantom
404.1969
405.Kiss The Carpet
406.Lights
407.Valentine
408.Fix
409.Burn
410.Kiss The Carpet (Reprise)
411.Temple Of Love (Extended Version)
412.Heartland
413.Gimme Shelter
414.The Damage Done
415.Watch
416.Home Of The Hit-Men
417.Body Electric
418.Adrenochrome
419.Anaconda
501.Under The Gun
502.Temple Of Love
503.Vision Thing
504.Detonation Boulevard
505.Doctor Jeep
506.More
507.Lucretia My Reflection
508.Dominion - Mother Russia
509.This Corrosion
510.No Time To Cry
511.Walk Away
512.Body And Soul

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