02- Long Tall Sally 03- Carol 04- Soldier of Love 05- Lend Me Your Comb 06- Clarabella 07- Memphis Tennessee 08- I Got a Woman 09- Sure to Fall (In Love With You) 10- Do You Want to Know a Secret? 11- The Hippy Hippy Shake 12- 'Till There Was You 13- Matchbox 14- I'm a Loser 15- She's a Woman 16- I Feel Fine 17- Everybody's Trying to Be my Baby 18- I'll Follow The Sun
More BBC material, this time from an early '80s bootleg mixed with some songs from another mid '70s bootleg, both featuring more BBC (by then) unreleased stuff.
01- Some Other Guy 02- I'm Talkin' About You 03- Youngblood 04- Too Much Monkey Business 05- I Got To Find My Baby 06- Johnny B. Goode 07- Keep Your Hands Off My Baby 08- Beautiful Dreamer 09- That's All Right Mama 10- Sweet Little Sixteen 11- Ooh! My Soul 12- I'll Get You 13- Too Much Monkey Business 14- Devil in Her Heart 15- Memphis Tennessee 16- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
In 1972 two more whole LP's of BBC material arrived from TMOQ. Of course, they were sold as being EMI recordings (common titles were STUDIO SESSIONS 1 & 2, or OUTAKES), but we all learned otherwise. The 24 songs - almost all of them on unheard renditions - were a fairly strict chronological record of the Summer 63 "Pop Go The Beatles" BBC Radio series. What it lacked in sonic brilliance (obviously somebody's collection of home recordings taped directly off a speaker) it made up in charm and historical importance and made a nice companion to the YELLOW MATTER CUSTARD title. The gem back in the day was John Lennon's version of Carl Perkins' "Honey Don't" later recorded by the band with Ringo as the lead singer.
01- Do You Want to Know a Secret 02- You Really Got a Hold On Me 03- The Hippy Hippy Shake 04- Misery 05- Money (That's What I Want) I 06- Till There Was You 07- From Me to You 08- Roll Over Beethoven 09- Love Me Do 10- Kansas City-Hey, hey, hey, hey! 11- Long Tall Sally 12- Please Please Me 13- She Loves You 14- Words Of Love 15- Devil In Her Heart 16- Anna (Go to Him) 17- Money (That's What I Want) II 18- There's A Place 19- Honey Don't 20- Chains 21- I Saw Her Standing There 22- I'm Sure To Fall 23- Lucille 24- Boys
An important batch of rare recordings surfaced in the form of bootlegs during 1971 covering a (by then) almost unknown and forgotten aspect of the Beatles' career - the sessions for BBC Radio. Anyway, they were advertised (on purpose, or not) as being studio outtakes. The first and best-known of these early bootlegs was called YELLOW MATTER CUSTARD (aka AS SWEET AS YOU ARE), and it was a compilation of 14 songs, only one of which ("Slow Down") was previously officially released by The Beatles. Once it was established these were not outtakes, they were thought to be from a single -and unexistent- November 1962 BBC broadcast for a while, and even John Lennon himself (who once asked a fan for a copy of it) called them "the Decca audition". If we reverse sides A and B, we'll find the songs to be chronological highlights from the "Pop Go The Beatles" series from July-Sep 63. The original tape probably came from a British fan who only taped those songs not available on record (remember "Slow Down" didn't come out until 64) with a home recorder. A bootleg which was a MUST back in the day due to its quality and stuff.
01- I Got A Woman 02- Glad All Over 03- I Just Don't Understand 04- Slow Down 05- Don't Ever Change 06- A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues 07- Sure To Fall (In Love With You) 08- Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees) 09- Lonesone Tears In My Eyes 10- So How Come (No One Loves Me) 11- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) 12- Crying, Waiting, Hoping 13- To Know Her Is To Love Her 14- The Honeymoon Song
Madness are a British pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. In 2009, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years. They were one of the most prominent bands of the late-1970s 2 Tone ska revival. Madness achieved most of their success in the early to mid 1980s. Both Madness and UB40 spent 214 weeks on the UK singles charts over the course of the decade, holding the record for most weeks spent by a group in the 1980s UK singles charts. However, Madness achieved this in a shorter time period (1980–1986).
01- Prince 02- One Step Beyond 03- My Girl 04- Night Boat To Cairo 05- Baggy Trousers 06- Embarrassment 07- Los Palmas 7 08- Grey Day 09- Shut Up 10- It Must Be Love 11- Cardiac Arrest 12- House Of Fun 13- Driving In My Car 14- Our House 15- Tomorrow's Just Another Day 16- Wings Of A Dove 17- Sun And The Rain 18- Michael Caine 19- One Better Day 20- Yesterday's Men 21- Uncle Sam 22- Sweetest Girl 23- Waiting For The Ghost Train
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup. In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (guitar, bass guitar, vocals) and Carl Palmer (drums, percussion). On two occasions in 1969, The Nice (with Keith Emerson on keyboards) and King Crimson (with Greg Lake on bass and vocals) shared the same venue, first on August 10, 1969 at the 9th Jazz and Blues Pop Festival in Plumpton, England and on October 17, 1969 at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, England. After playing at a few of the same concerts, Emerson and Lake tried working together and found their styles to be not only compatible but also complementary. They wanted to be a keyboard/bass/drum band, and so searched out a drummer. Before settling on Carl Palmer, who at that time was a member of Atomic Rooster, they approached Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitchell was uninterested but passed the idea to Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix, tired of his band and wanting to try something different, expressed an interest in playing with the group. Since Emerson and Lake had settled on Palmer by then, this led the British press to speculate about a supergroup called HELP, or "Hendrix, Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Because of scheduling conflicts, such plans were not immediately realised, but the initial three planned a jam session with Hendrix after their second concert at the Isle of Wight Festival (their debut being in The Guildhall, Plymouth on Sunday 23 August 1970 at 7.30pm - with the band "Earth" as support), with the possibility of him joining. Hendrix died shortly thereafter, and the three pressed on as Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Their first four years were a creatively fertile period. Lake produced five of their first six albums (Brain Salad Surgery being co-produced with Pete Sinfield, who had recently abandoned King Crimson), starting with Emerson, Lake and Palmer (1970), which contained the hit "Lucky Man". Their best known early performance had been a relatively modest show at the August 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, one of the last of the great Woodstock-era festivals. Tarkus (1971) was their first successful concept album, described as a story about "reverse evolution". The March 1971 live recording (Newcastle, UK) of the band's next album Pictures at an Exhibition, an interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky's work of the same name, was issued as a low-priced record, the success of which contributed to the band's overall popularity. The 1972 album Trilogy contained ELP's best-selling single, the understated "From the Beginning". In 1973, the band had garnered enough recognition to form their own record label, Manticore Records, and purchased an abandoned cinema as their own rehearsal hall. In late 1973, Brain Salad Surgery, with an eye-catching sleeve designed by H. R. Giger, was released and became the band's best-known studio album. The lyrics were co-written by Peter Sinfield, who was the lyricist for King Crimson's first four albums. The subsequent world tours were documented with a massive three-LP live recording, Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that Never Ends. The ELP sound was dominated by the Hammond organ and Moog synthesizer of the flamboyant Emerson. The band's compositions were heavily influenced by classical music in addition to jazz and – at least in their early years – hard rock. Many of their pieces are arrangements of, or contain quotations from, classical music, and they can be said to fit into the sub-genre of symphonic rock. Onstage, the band exhibited an unorthodox mix of virtuoso musicianship and over-the-top theatrical bombast. ELP then took a three-year break to reinvent its music but lost contact with the changing musical scene. The band toured the US and Canada in 1977 and 1978 on a killing schedule of night after night performances – some with a full orchestra, which was a heavy burden on the tour revenues. These late-1970s tours found ELP working harder than ever to stay in touch with their audience. But as disco, punk rock, corporate rock and New Wave styles began to alter the musical landscape, ELP could no longer generate the excitement of being forerunners in musical innovation. Eventually, they drifted apart due to personality conflicts and irreconcilable differences concerning musical direction.
01- Karn Evil 9: First Impression-Part 2 02- Lucky Man 03- From the Beginning 04- Knife-Edge 05- Hoedowm 06- Jerusalem 07- C'est La Vie 08- Still...You Turn Me On 09- Tank 10- Fanfare For the Common Man 11- Tocatta 12- Peter Gunn 13- Nutrocker 14- I Believe In Father Christmas
A Night at the Opera is the fourth album by English rock group Queen, released in November 1975. Co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, A Night at the Opera was, at the time of its release, the most expensive album ever recorded. It was originally released by EMI in the UK where it topped the charts for nine weeks, and Elektra Records in the United States where the album peaked at number four, eventually being certified triple platinum (three million units shipped). The album takes its name from the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera, which the band watched one night at the studio complex when recording. Since its release, critical reception of A Night at the Opera was immensely positive from both fans and critics. In particular, "Bohemian Rhapsody", the album's centerpiece, received acclaim and is still considered among the greatest songs ever recorded. The album was ranked number 230 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Channel 4 named it the 13th greatest album of all time. It was also ranked #41 on Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" and #16 on Q's "50 Best British Albums Ever!". In 2006 it was voted the ninth greatest Number One album of all time by the British public.The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
01- Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...) 02- Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon 03- I'm in Love With My Car 04- You're My Best Friend 05- '39 06- Sweet Lady 07- Seaside Rendezvous 08- The Prophet's Song 09- Love of My Life 10- Good Company 11- Bohemian Rhapsody 12- God Save the Queen
Aimée Ann Duffy (born 23 June 1984), better known by her stage name Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold. The album was certified several times Platinum and sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide, spawning the hits "Mercy" and "Warwick Avenue". With "Mercy", Duffy became the first Welsh female in 25 years to achieve number-one on the UK Singles Chart. In 2008, she won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, and she was nominated for two other Grammy awards.
Back to Black is the second studio album by English R&B/soul singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released in October 2006 on Island Records. The album has spawned a number of singles such as "Rehab", "You Know I'm No Good", "Back to Black", "Tears Dry on Their Own", and "Love Is a Losing Game". Back to Black has received universal critical acclaim, and has been praised for its classic jazz/soul vibe, "vintage production style", accomplished songwriting, and Winehouse's mature and emotive singing style. It has appeared on numerous year-end Top Ten Lists produced by The Austin Chronicle (number four), Billboard Magazine (number three), Blender Magazine (number eight), Slant Magazine (number four), Entertainment Weekly (number two), The New York Times (number three) and Time Magazine (number one). At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, Back to Black won five awards, tying the record for the most awards won by a female artist in a single ceremony. The album won Best Pop Vocal Album, while "Rehab" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Song of the Year and Record of the Year; Winehouse also won Best New Artist. So far, the album has sold over 11 million copies. With 5.5 million copies sold in 2007 it was the biggest selling album of the year.
01- Rehab 02- You Know I'm No Good 03- Me & Mr. Jones 04- Just Friends 05- Back to Black 06- Love Is a Losing Game 07- Tears Dry on Their Own 08- Wake Up Alone 09- Some Unholy War 10- He Can Only Hold Her
The Stray Cats are a rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer (Bloodless Pharaohs/Brian Setzer Orchestra) with school friends Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York. The group had several hit singles in the UK and the U.S. during the early 1980s. The group, whose style was based upon the sounds of Sun Records artists from the 1950s and heavily influenced by Bill Haley & His Comets, had little initial success in the New York music scene. When Setzer heard that there was a revival of the 1950s Teddy Boy youth subculture in England, the band moved to the UK. After a gig in London, Stray Cats met producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots rock enthusiast for his work with Rockpile and as a solo artist. Edmunds offered to work with the group, and they entered the studio to record their self-titled debut album, Stray Cats, released in England in 1981 on Arista Records. They had three hits that year with "Runaway Boys", "Rock This Town," and "Stray Cat Strut." The UK follow-up to Stray Cats, Gonna Ball, was not as well-received, providing no hits. But the combined sales of their first two albums was enough to convince EMI America to compile the best tracks from the two UK albums and issue an album (Built for Speed) in the U.S. in 1982. Personality conflicts began to emerge in the ways that the individual members handled their new-found success; Phantom married actress Britt Ekland, while Setzer made guest appearances with stars like Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks and became the concert guitarist for Robert Plant's Honeydrippers side project. In late 1984, Setzer broke up the band. Rocker and Phantom formed a trio called Phantom Rocker & Slick (the "Slick" being former David Bowie guitarist Earl Slick), while Setzer went on to a solo career, exchanging his rockabilly focus for a more wide-ranging roots rock/Americana sound on albums such as 1986's The Knife Feels Like Justice.
01 - Rock This Town 02 - Stray Cat Strut 03 - Rumble In Brighton 04 - Built For Speed 05 - Rev It Up & Go 06 - Runaway Boys 07 - [She's] Sexy + 17 08 - Look At That Cadillac 09 - I Won't Stand In Your Way 10 - 18 Miles From Memphis 11 - Gene And Eddie 12 - Bring It Back Again 13 - Blast Off 14 - Race With The Devil 15 - Rumble In Brighton (live) 16 - Stray Cat Strut (live) 17 - Rock This Town (live)
Bonus Tracks:
18 - You Don't Believe Me 19 - Storm The Embassy 20 - Baby Blue Eyes 21 - Lonely Summer Nights 22 - Cryin´ Shame 23 - Wicked Whisky 24 - Something's Wrong With My Radio 25 - Too Hip, Gotta Go 28 - Drink That Bottle Down
The untitled fourth album by English rock band Led Zeppelin was released on 8 November 1971. It has no official title printed anywhere on the album, and is generally referred to as Led Zeppelin IV after the band's previous three numbered albums. Atlantic Records catalogs have used the names Four Symbols and The Fourth Album. It has also been referred to as Zoso(which the first symbol appears to spell), Untitled and Runes. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page frequently refers to the album in interviews as "the fourth album" and Led Zeppelin IV, while singer Robert Plant thinks of it as "the fourth album, that's it". Upon its release, Led Zeppelin IV was a huge commercial and critical success. Most of the album's songs are staples on classic rock radio stations, including "Black Dog", "Rock and Roll", "Stairway to Heaven", "Misty Mountain Hop", "Going to California", and "When the Levee Breaks". The album is one of the best-selling albums in history at 37 million units. It has shifted over 23 million units in the United States alone, putting it third on the all-time list. In 2003, the album was ranked 66th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
01- Black Dog 02- Rock and Roll 03- The Battle of Evermore 04- Stairway to Heaven 05- Misty Mountain Hop 06- Four Sticks 07- Going to California 08- When the Levee Breaks
“Queen II” is the second album by EnglishrockbandQueen, originally released in 1974. It was recorded at Trident Studios, London, England in August 1973, and engineered by Mike Stone. The two sides of the original LP were labeled "Side White" and "Side Black" (instead of the conventional sides "A" and "B"), with corresponding photos of the band dressed in white or in black on either side of the record's label face. The album is also a loose concept album, with the white side having songs with a more emotional theme and the black side almost entirely about fantasy, often with quite dark themes. Mick Rock's album cover photograph was frequently re-used by the band throughout its career, most notably in the music video for the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975). There are two versions of this photograph, one with black for the background and foreground (right), the other with a brown foreground. Numerous problems beset the album's release. Its completion coincided with the 1973 oil crisis and consequently, government-enforced measures for energy conservation delayed its manufacture by several months. The lead vocalist Freddie Mercury composed the entire "Black" side, contributing virtuosic piano and harpsichord pieces and a wide range of distinctive vocal performances. The "White" side is very diverse: four of the five numbers were composed by Brian May, where one is instrumental, one is sung by Mercury and Taylor (with May at the piano), the next is sung by Mercury, and the last by May. The closing track of The "White" Side is Taylor's only composition in the album. John Deacon played acoustic guitar as well as bass on most of the album, except the songs "White Queen" and "Some Day One Day", which were performed by May, partly on an inexpensive Hairfred guitar that he had owned since his childhood. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
http://rapidshare.com/files/217759599/Queen_II.rar 01- Procession 02- Father to Son 03- White Queen (As It Began) 04- Some Day One Day 05- The Loser in the End 06- Ogre Battle 07- The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke 08- Nevermore 09- The March of the Black Queen 10- Funny How Love Is 11- Seven Seas of Rhye
