David Bowie - Brilliant Adventure (1992 - 2001) [11 CD, 2021/FLAC]

 

The latest in an award-winning and critically acclaimed series of David Bowie box sets is an eleven CD box, eighteen-piece vinyl set and standard digital download box set. The collection is named after the Koto led instrumental penultimate track from the ‘hours...’ album. The box sets include newly remastered versions, with input from the original producers and collaborators, of some of Bowie’s most underrated and experimental material: BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE, THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years), 1.OUTSIDE, EARTHLING and ‘hours…’ along with the expanded live album BBC RADIO THEATRE, LONDON, JUNE 27, 2000, the non-album / alternative version / B-sides and soundtrack music compilation RE:CALL 5 and the legendary previously unreleased TOY.

TOY was recorded following David's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he’d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album ‘old school’ with the band playing live, choose the best takes and then release it as soon as humanly possible in a remarkably prescient manner. Unfortunately, in 2001 the concept of the ‘surprise drop’ album release and the technology to support it were still quite a few years off, making it impossible to release TOY, as the album was now named, out to fans as instantly as David wanted. In the interim, David did what he did best; he moved on to something new, which began with a handful of new songs from the same sessions and ultimately became the album HEATHEN, released in 2002 and now acknowledged as one of his finest moments.

Disc 01: Black Tie White Noise (Remaster)

Disc 02: The Buddha of Suburbia (Remaster)

Disc 03: Outside (Remaster)

Disc 04: Earthling (Remaster)

Disc 05: ‘…hours’ (Remaster)

Disc 06: BBC Radio Theatre, London June 2000 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 07: BBC Radio Theatre, London June 2000 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 08: Toy

Disc 09: Re:Call 5 part 1 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 10: Re:Call 5 part 2 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 11: Re:Call 5 part 3 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Bob Dylan & the Hawks - Eat the Document (1966 video)

 Eat the Document is a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland with the Hawks. The cover photo was taken on the train line between Belfast and Dublin, near Balbriggan. It was shot under Dylan's direction by D. A. Pennebaker, whose groundbreaking documentary Dont Look Back chronicled Dylan's 1965 British tour. The film was originally commissioned for the ABC television series ABC Stage 67.

Though shooting had completed for the film, Dylan's July 1966 motorcycle accident delayed the editing process. Once well enough to work again, Dylan edited the film himself. ABC rejected the film as incomprehensible for a mainstream audience.

It has never been released on home video and prints are rarely screened in theaters. Some footage from Eat the Document was used in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary on Bob Dylan, No Direction Home, and 3 song excerpts are special features on the DVD. 

 

VA - God Save This Box (Punk) [10 CD, 2005/FLAC]

 

Punk was more than a style in music. It was a style in society. It was basically antisocial, evoking opponents if not enemies, or simply conjuring them from thin air - well, thin air is a way of speaking - from the thickness of a social climate that was saturated with consumption, and that was only the beginning, and that was also corrupted and rotten from the inside by a disease that was incurable, consumption again. That was a turning point in western history.

Eric Clapton - Give Me Strength The 74- 75 Recordings [5 CD, 2013/FLAC]

 

Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Recordings is a 5CD box set that celebrates the period between April 1974 and June 1975 when Clapton produced the studio albums 461 Ocean Boulevard and There’s One In Every Crowd, as well as the live double set E.C. Was Here.

All three of those albums are included in this new box in remastered, expanded form, and all include previously unreleased session outtakes or unheard live performances.

461 Ocean Boulevard includes four previously released outtakes (including a couple of versions of Getting Acquainted), whilst amongst the bonus offerings on There’s One In Every Crowd are two unreleased session tracks Burial and Fools Like Me, and both sides of the Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door single.

E.C. Was Here is not only remastered, but REMIXED, and expanded across two CDs, with numerous unissued extras such as versions of Layla, Crossroads and Little Wing.

The fifth CD is taken up with Clapton’s sessions with blues guitarist and singer Freddie King. Originally recorded for King’s Burglar album, four tracks are featured here, including a previously unreleased 22-minute version of Gambling Woman Blues.

Slade discography [1969-1997] (FLAC)

 

Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter at #1, and all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. Total UK sales stand at 6,520,171, and their best selling single, "Merry Xmas Everybody", has sold in excess of one million copies.

1969. Ambrose Slade - Beginnings

1970. Slade - Play It Loud

1972. Slade - Slade Alive!

1972. Slade - Slayed

1973. Slade - Sladest

1974. Slade - Old, New, Borrowed And Blue

1974. Slade - Slade in Flame

1976. Slade - Nobody's Fools

1977. Slade - Whatever Happened To Slade

1978. Slade - Slade Alive Vol. Two

1979. Slade - Return To Base

1981. Slade - Till Deaf Do Us Part

1981. Slade - We'll Bring The House Down

1982. Slade - Slade On Stage

1983. Slade - The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome

1984. Slade - Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply

1985. Slade - Crackers The Christmas Party Album

1985. Slade - Rogues Gallery

1986. Slade - You Boyz Make Big Noize

1991. Slade - The Slade Collection 81 - 87

1991. Slade - Wall Of Hits

1993. Slade - The Slade Collection, Vol. 2 79 - 87

1997. Slade - Feel the Noize - Greatest Hits