Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Loves You [3 CD, 1992/FLAC]

  

Jefferson Airplane Loves You is a three-CD boxed set of recordings by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane with extensive liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin, author of the Jefferson Airplane biography Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.

Many of the tracks are previously unreleased live recordings or studio rehearsals, but several are lifted from prior Jefferson Airplane albums. A song by The Great Society, Grace Slick's original band, appears on the first CD.

A quadraphonic version of the "Volunteers" album was released, and a few of the songs are from this release, but have been remixed into conventional stereo. Because of the remix, any psychedelic movements of instruments from front-to-back or side-to-side behind the listener that were present in the quadraphonic version are lost.

The songs are arranged in chronological order beginning with a pre-Airplane solo by Marty Balin and ending with a 1972 live recording of the rarely heard "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short".

10cc - Before, During, After: The Story Of 10cc (4 CD, 2017/FLAC]

 A special four-disc box set, curated with input from the band to detail each and every chapter of their musical story. It Is the first complete, career-encompassing collection of the work of 10cc – Eric Stewart, Lol Crème, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman, together and apart. 

The collection starts with ‘During // The Best of 10cc 1972 – 1978’, which captures the band at their commercial peak with some of their biggest hits including ‘I’m Not In Love’ and ‘The Things We Do For Love’, ‘After // The Post 10cc Years’ is a collection of the very best tracks that came following the band’s split, hand-picked by members of the band. It includes music from Godley and Creme, Graham Gouldman’s Wax, Paul McCartney (with whom Eric Stewart co-wrote) and from Lol Creme’s period in The Art Of Noise. The following chapter takes us on a journey to late 60s Stockport, before 10cc’s rise to musical stardom, when the four writers and performers worked their musical magic away from the spotlight. ‘Before // The Early Years’ compiles more pre-recordings showcasing the early vision of each individual band member. A compelling and eclectic listen, it includes Manchester’s very own the Mindbenders ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’ (featuring Eric Stewart), the psychedelic Sheffield sound of Rameses’ ‘Life Child’. 

The Velvet Underground – Loaded- Re-Loaded [45th Anniversary Edition, 5 CD, 2015/FLAC)

  

The Velvets’ last album is generally seen as their least. It suffers dubious production and lacks drummer Moe Tucker, due to her pregnancy; Lou Reed left the band before its release and, as he’d later complain, his songs were hacked down (notably “Sweet Jane” and “New Age”) and his intended sequencing re-shuffled. Loaded was a last-ditch effort to connect with a mass audience, something the first three Velvets albums failed spectacularly to do — and it met the same fate. Yet hindsight reveals, like so much in Reed’s career, an album full of greatness, beneath its consensual role-playing and market-minded mishegas. This final chapter in the vault-scraping Velvets reissue series, a handsome six-CD set, reaffirms it.

Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green And The Early Years Of Fleetwood Mac [2 CD, 2021/FLAC]

 

Legendary drummer, Mick Fleetwood enlisted an all-star cast for a one-of-a-kind concert honouring the early years of Fleetwood Mac and its founder, Peter Green which was held on 25th February 2020 at the London, Palladium. The bill included Neil Finn (Crowded House), Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), John Mayall (Blues Breakers), Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac), Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac), Pete Townshend (The Who), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones). Legendary producer Glyn Johns (Small Faces & The Beatles) joined as the executive sound producer and the house band featured Mick Fleetwood himself along with Andy Fairweather Low, Dave Bronze, Rick Vito, Zak Starkey, Jonny Lang and Ricky Peterson.

Tangerine Dream-The Virgin Years 1977-1983 (5 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

The Virgin Years 1977-1983 is the follow-up to previous year's The Virgin Years 1974-1978  by Tangerine Dream (TD). The follow-up to this previous release contains seven albums plus two singles all packed on a 5CD-album set.


CD 1: Encore
CD 2: Force Majeure & Tangram
CD 3: Tangram & Exit
CD 4: White Eagle & Logos
CD 5: Logos & Hyperborea