The Moody Blues - The Polydor Years 1986-1992 (6 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 The Moody Blues have been at the forefront of the classic rock music scene for more than 40 years, and have continued to be a mainstay of concert stages, recording studios and the airwaves to the present day. During their immensely successful career, they have sold millions of albums worldwide, and have been the recipients of numerous prestigious awards.

This superbly packaged eight disc (six CDs and two DVDs) set brings together, for the first time, remastered editions of all The Moody Blues’ Polydor era albums, spanning the period 1986-1992.  The package – The Polydor Years 1986-1992 – includes 17 bonus tracks, 11 of which are being released for the first time, including a 1991 BBC radio session.

 

The set also includes a previously unreleased concert recording from the group’s July 1986 appearance in Cleveland, Ohio, during their “Other Side of Life” tour, and a fully remastered edition of the September 1992 “Red Rocks” concert with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra accompanying with 64-page hardbound book.

The Polydor Years 1986-1992 celebrates this exciting and developmental period in the career of The Moody Blues.

Pink Floyd – The Complete Rainbow Tapes (8 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 The Complete Rainbow Tapes is the first time Godfather have ventured into the risky work of boxsets.  They are all around expensive, and oftentimes if an inferior tape is used for even one show then the whole set diminishes in worth to the collector.  Furthermore, many boxsets fail because they collect common material and expect collectors to shell out the money for what they should already have.  

Godfather avoid both of these mistakes.  The source tapes in this set are all as good as possible, and most of these shows are extremely rare to find.  Godfather presents the first and definitive versions of these shows in a gorgeous set.  This is one of the best Pink Floyd releases to surface in quite a long time and may go down as one of the best Pink Floyd releases to ever be produced.      

Recorded at Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK

Harry Nilsson - Son Of Harrities [11 volumes, 22 CD Boxset]

 

Purple Chick presents the revamped, exhaustive Nilsson rarities series: Son Of Harrities.

This series complements those official releases by presenting most every other available Nilsson musical recording, including a whole bunch of never-before-circulated goodies, for which we cannot thank our anonymous benefactors enough.

Highlights on these first two discs: all ten sides of Harry Nilsson's early pseudonymous singles; the unique Harry-penned material from the New Nilsson Songs promo LP; and a whole bunch of Harry-(co-)written songs performed by other artists.



Volume 01-Spotlight On New Volume Songs
Volume 02-Mr Lennon's Favorite Group
Volume 03-Schmilsson Schessions
Volume 04-A Little Son Of Schessions In The Night
Volume 05-John, Paul, Ringo, Harry
Volume 06-God's Greatest Hits
Volume 07-Zapata-Yoko
Volume 08-Flash Harry Deluxe
Volume 09-Popeye Deluxe
Volume 10-The Lost Decade
Volume 11-Papa's Got A  Brown New Robe

John Lee Hooker - 16 Original Albums & Bonus Tracks (10 CD, 2015/FLAC)

 

16 original albums on 9 CD plus extra bonus disc of legendary John Lee Hooker from german label Documents

VA - Roots Of Rock & Roll (1927 - 1952) Vol.1-8 [16 CD, 1996-2003]

  

Legend would have it that Rock'N'Roll was born in Memphis in 1954 when a young truck-driver by the name Elvis Presley opted to sing "Black Blues" his way. A legend that drastically over-simplifies reality, however, for the roots of Rock'N'Roll are already to be found in the early recordings of Blues, Jazz and Country music of the mid-1920. This collection, created by Gérard Herzhaft, shows that the Rock 'n' Roll was not born with Bill Haley and Elvis Presley but before, the fusion of Rhythm and Blues, Western Swing, Country, Gospel - or the whole of popular music from the early twentieth century. This collection has become indispensable, because the history of interbreeding reveals the crystallization and the formation of gender identity as the history of amplified music...