Harry Nilsson - The RCA Albums Collection (17 CD, 2013) [FLAC + 320]

 

The RCA Albums Collection is a 17-disc compilation album dedicated to American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. It was released in July 2013 by Legacy Recordings. The album includes 14 of Nilsson's solo albums from the 1960s and 1970s and three CDs worth of unreleased session recordings.

Assembled by Andrew Sandoval and Rob Santos the set includes 11 of Nilsson's albums remastered by Vic Anesini. The three albums not remastered for this set were mastered by Anesini and include The Point, Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson. The set includes each album in mini-cardboard replicas of the original vinyl packaging. Nilsson's first two albums include both mono and stereo mixes of the respective tracks with the mono tracks receiving their first CD release.

 

Frank Zappa - Ryko Remaster Complete Series, [54 albums/71 CD] [FLAC]

Ryko Corporation is a record company that offers more than 1,000 titles in such genres as rock, pop, folk, jazz, blues, country, and world music. The firm owns and distributes several labels including Restless, Hannibal, Tradition, Slow River, and Gramavision, as well as most of the recordings of the late Frank Zappa. Ryko also releases video DVDs and performs distribution of its own and other labels around the United States and in some international markets. The company became part of Warner Music Group in 2006.

Rykodisc's first major coup came when it secured the CD rights to the back catalog of legendary rock satirist, composer, and provocateur Frank Zappa, who owned his own master recordings and had been releasing them on vinyl and tape through EMI. With the latter firm ambivalent about preparing CD releases, he gave the new label a chance based on its early track record. Though Rykodisc had gambled by paying him a large advance, the initial 10,000-disc pressings of 20 different albums quickly sold out when released in 1986, and more Zappa product followed.

Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan [4 CD, 1993] [FLAC]

 

Citizen Steely Dan is a four-CD boxed set by Steely Dan, released in 1993. The set is a collection of all of Steely Dan's albums (up to 1993) in chronological order, and also contains a non-LP single ("FM"), a non-LP B-side ("Bodhisattva (Live)"), a rare compilation track ("Here at the Western World"), and a previously unreleased demo of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies".

All songs by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen except where noted.

R.E.M. - Remnants - The Complete Rarities Collection [12 CD, 1981-2004] [FLAC + 320]

 

This fantastic collection of R.E.M. is a must for any fan who hasnt got it, and any music fan. Includes all artwork.


It crawled from the South...straight outta Athens ... the four-headed monster known as R.E.M. Collected here for the first time, the Holy Grail of R.E.M. collections. Spanning 1981-2004 and containing 200 songs, from the beginnings of what would come to be known as college rock to the present, IT'S ALL HERE! The complete non-lp tracks! Every non-lp A-side, every B-side, every compilation, soundtrack, and tribute album track, the promos, the flexis, and the ever elusive fan club singles. The hits, the near misses, the shoulda-beens and also-rans. Even if you own every R.E.M. album, you are still only getting half the sotry. This is the other half.

                                                                

VA - Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (2 LP, 1981) [24-192]

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Wings, Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London during December 1979 to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia. The event was organised by Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, and it involved artists such as McCartney and The Who as well as punk acts like The Clash and the Pretenders. The last of the concerts was the last concert of Wings.