Iron Maiden discography [1979-2021] (FLAC)

 

Known for such powerful hits as "Run to the Hills, "Two Minutes to Midnight," and "The Trooper," and landmark albums like Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Iron Maiden are one of heavy metal's most prolific and influential bands. They're also one of metal's most enduring and distinctive acts, thanks to their dual-lead guitar melodies, ambitious songwriting, powerhouse vocalist Bruce Dickinson, and iconic mascot Eddie. One of the first groups to be classified as "British metal," Iron Maiden helped set the table for the hard rock/heavy metal scene of the '80s and inspired generations of subsequent bands, including Metallica, Dream Theater, Slipknot, In Flames, and Avenged Sevenfold. Despite a lack of radio airplay or mainstream media support, early allegations of Satanism, and a revolving lineup, they have remained consistently popular throughout their career, releasing late-period triumphs like The Final Frontier (2010), Book of Souls (2015), and Senjutsu (2021). 

1979 - The Soundhouse Tapes

1980 - Iron Maiden

1981 - Killers

1982 - The Number of the Beast

1983 - Piece of Mind

1984 - Powerslave

1985 - Live After Death

1986 - Somewhere in Time

1988 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

1990 - No Prayer for the Dying

1992 - Fear of the Dark

1995 - The X Factor

1998 - Virtual XI

2000 - Brave New World

2003 - Dance of Death

2006 - A Matter of Life and Death

2010 - The Final Frontier

2015 - The Book of Souls

2021 - Senjutsu

Grateful Dead - Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings [10 CD, 2009/FLAC/@320]

 

Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings is a 9 CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains three complete concerts. It was recorded on June 7, 8, and 9, 1977, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The album was released on October 1, 2009.

A tenth, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains material from the May 12, 1977 concert at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, all of which was later released, with the entire performance, on the May 1977 box set.

Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings was the third Grateful Dead album to contain an entire "run" of concerts. The first was Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, which was released in 2005. The second was Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings, released in 2008. 

•     Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
•     Donna Godchaux – vocals
•     Keith Godchaux – keyboards
•     Mickey Hart - drums
•     Bill Kreutzmann – drums
•     Phil Lesh – electric bass
•     Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

 

The Who - My Generation (5 CD Super Deluxe Edition, 2016/FLAC)

 

In the half century since its release The Who’s debut album My Generation has lost none of it’s raw visceral power and still stands as the ultimate musical declaration of teenage rebellion. The title track alone has been covered innumerable times by the likes of Oasis, Green Day, Alice Cooper and Iron Maiden amongst many more.

During a break in touring in 2015 Pete Townshend discovered tapes in his audio archive featuring previously unheard demos for the album which also included three totally unreleased songs that the other members of The Who hadn’t ever even heard, ‘The Girls I Could Have Had’, ‘As Children We Grew’ and ‘My Own Love’.

The spectacular 79-track five disc Super Deluxe Edition of My Generation features these unheard songs as well as unreleased demos, unreleased alternate mixes, new remasters and a stereo remix which was created using new overdubs from Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. For this mix Pete used exactly the same guitars and amps as the original album and Roger used the same type of microphone.

• Roger Daltrey - lead vocals, harmonica
• Pete Townshend - six and twelve-string acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "A Legal Matter"
• John Entwistle - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Keith Moon - drums, percussion, backing vocals on "Instant Party Mixture"

Additional musicians

• Perry Ford - piano on "I Can't Explain"
• Nicky Hopkins - piano (except on "I Can't Explain")
• The Ivy League - backing vocals on "I Can't Explain" and "Bald Headed Woman"
• Jimmy Page - lead guitar on "Bald Headed Woman", rhythm guitar on "I Can't Explain"

 

The Supremes & Four Tops / Magnificent - The Complete Studio Duets (2 CD, 2009/FLAC)

 Hip-O Select's The Complete Studio Duets rounds up the recordings the Supremes made with the Four Tops after Jean Terrell took over for the departed Diana Ross: 1970's The Magnificent 7, its 1971 sequel The Return of the Magnificent 7, 1971's Dynamite, and 13 bonus tracks, 11 of which are previously unreleased. Neither the Supremes nor the Four Tops were at a commercial peak when producer Frank Wilson brought them together for the duets, so the pairing was something of a way to goose the groups toward hits. Wilson didn't produce The Magnificent 7 -- its title a clever reference to the group's combined numbers -- having Ashford & Simpson, Duke Browner, and Clay McMurray producing four songs a piece for the LP. Apart from the opening song and lead single "Knock on My Door," the bulk of the album is devoted to glitzy covers of contemporary hits, whether it's from the Motown stable ("Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"), the Fifth Dimension ("Stoned Soul Picnic"), Phil Spector ("River Deep, Mountain High"), or Sly Stone ("Everyday People"). The three sets of producers mesh well, offering subtle hints of trademark flair -- particularly the lushness of the Ashford & Simpson productions -- but the focus is entirely on Jean Terrell and Levi Stubbs, who tear into these familiar tunes and make them feel like more than a Motown hits revue. 

The Supremes:

• Jean Terrell - lead vocals
• Mary Wilson - vocals
• Cindy Birdsong - vocals

The Four Tops:

• Levi Stubbs - lead vocals
• Abdul "Duke" Fakir - vocals
• Renaldo "Obie" Benson - vocals
• Lawrence Payton - vocals

 

The Dave Clark Five - The Complete History, Vols 1-7 (1964-1968) [7 CD, 2008/FLAC]

 

The first six volumes of this unauthorized series of Dave Clark Five CD reissues contain everything from the 12 non-compilation LPs the group issued in the U.S. between 1964-1968, as well as everything from the four U.K. LPs (never issued in the U.S.) that followed in 1969-1972. The seventh and final volume contains 25 tracks that somehow didn't find a place on any of those LPs. Most of these originally found release as non-LP A-sides and B-sides on numerous 1962-1973 singles, and not all of them are obscure by any means. "Over and Over" was a number one U.S. hit in 1965 that somehow never made it onto a non-compilation LP, and neither did its follow-up, "At the Scene," a Top 20 single.