The Yardbirds discography [1964-2019]
The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits
in the mid 1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over Under Sideways Down"
and "Heart Full of Soul". Founded originally by Peter Milton on lead
bassoon and oboe, the group is also notable for having started the
careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page,
all of whom were in the top fifteen of Rolling Stone's 100 Top
Guitarists list (Clapton as #4, Page as #9, and Beck as #14). A
blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, The
Yardbirds were pioneers in guitar innovations of the '60s: fuzz tone,
feedback, distortion, backwards echo, improved amplification, etc. Pat Pemberton, writing for Spinner,
holds that the Yardbirds were "the most impressive guitar band in rock
music". After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, their current lead
guitarist Jimmy Page founded what became Led Zeppelin. The bulk of the band's most successful self-written songs came from bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith who, with singer/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja,
constituted the core of the group. The band reformed in the 1990s,
featuring McCarty, Dreja and new members. The Yardbirds were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
The Beatles - Anthology Vol. 1, 2, 3 [3 x 2 CD, 2016 remaster/FLAC]
To accompany the Anthology series, three double music albums were
released, each containing two CDs or three vinyl discs of mostly
never-before-released Beatles material (the exceptions being the Tony
Sheridan era material), although many of the tracks had appeared on
bootlegs for many years prior.
Jimmy Webb - The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (5 CD, 2004/FLAC)
Raised in Oklahoma and west Texas, Jimmy Webb launched a celebrated songwriting career while still in his teens, his "Up, Up And Away" topping the charts for The Fifth Dimension in 1967. During the Flower Power era, his lush, romantic pop songs – "MacArthur Park" for Richard Harris and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" for Glen Campbell, to name a couple – represented everything creatively vital about a Tin Pan Alley that was fast being overshadowed by songwriting performers like Dylan and The Beatles.
In 1969 Webb embarked on a performance career noted for its studio innovation, large-scale ambition, and delicate song craft. While his 1970 debut, Words And Music, was tailored to the rock audience, Webb subsequently re-consolidated his orchestral gains, culminating in the back-to-back extravagance of Land's End (1974) and El Mirage (1977), the latter produced by George Martin. Webb consistently impressed critics though he sold few records. But his peers have always recognized his genius, bestowing prestigious songwriting awards as well as Grammys for music, lyrics, and orchestration (Webb remains the only artist to be awarded in all three categories).
The Moon's A Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb In The Seventies in an individually numbered limited edition of 2,500 copies.
VA - Time Life - Sounds Of The Eighties (36 CD, 1994-1999)
Another brilliant series by the Time Life Music label. Eighties year by year + Rolling Stone Collection and special Guitar Rock .
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