Artist: Loverboy Album: Lovin' Every Minute of It Released: 1985 Source: Columbia Genre: hard rock/aor Format: eac.ape.226mb
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Lacking
Paul Dean's amicable guitar chug or Mike Reno's excitable vocal pounce,
1985's Lovin' Every Minute of It fails to sport anything as catchy as
"Working for the Weekend" or as rock steady as "The Kid Is Hot Tonite,"
and because of this, the album comes off as one of the band's poorest
releases. Although the title track cracked the Top Ten, its lethargic,
see-saw pace fell short of what the band had put into past hits. Even
in ballad form, Loverboy sounds uni
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Category: AOR Artist: Billy Squier Album: Signs Of Life Year: 1984 Label: Capitol Records Quality: eac-ape Reliser: unknown
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Squier adds a little bit of keyboard color to his otherwise
guitar-driven repertoire on 1984's Signs of Life, his fourth album that
comes on the heels of his solid Emotions In Motion release two years
prior. His highest charting single, "Rock Me Tonite," is a pulsating
array of Squier's pent up energy amidst the cliched candor of bright
synth and electric guitar. Although it's well worth its number 15 chart
setting thanks to its explosive chorus, the remaining offerings from
the artist quickl
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Artist: Billy Joel Album: The Stranger Released: 1977 Source: CBS Records Genre: soft.rock Format: eac/ape.208mb
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Billy
Joel teamed with Phil Ramone, a famed engineer who had just scored his
first producing hits with Art Garfunkel's Breakaway and Paul Simon's
Still Crazy After All These Years for The Stranger, his follow-up to
Turnstiles. Joel still favored big, sweeping melodies, but Ramone
convinced him to streamline his arrangements and clean up the
production. The results aren't necessarily revelatory, since he covered
so much ground on Turnstiles, but the commercialism of The Stranger is
a bit of
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Artist: Loverboy Album: Temperature's Rising Released: 1994 Source: Sony Special Products Genre: Hard Rock Format: eac.ape.300mb
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This
Loverboy compilation includes a few moderate hits (but not the
best-known "Lovin' Every Minute of It" or "Hot Girls in Love"), along
with album tracks from the early '80s. It's good for fans wishing to
pick up rarely anthologized tracks, but there are several better
Loverboy retrospectives available.
Track List: 1 When It's Over Dean, Reno 5:08 2 Too Much Too Soon Dean, Sigerson, Wr
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Artist: Van Morrison Album: Keep It Smile Released: 2008 Source: Exile Genre: Blues Format: eac/ape.298mb
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Keep It Simple is a mantra for Van Morrison, as he stripped his music
down to the bare basics years ago and then comfortably rode that
groove, comprised in equal parts of blues, soul, jazz, and country. Van
has been riding this groove so long that it's hard to pinpoint exactly
when he settled into it, but looking back, things started to shift in
the mid-'90s, as understated R&B rhythms took precedence and he
started to punctuate them with country songs (or in the case of Pay the
Devil, an entire LP of country tu
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Artist: Dire Straits Album: Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits Released: 1998 Source: Vertigo Genre: Album Rock Format: eac/ape.470mb
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Exactly
ten years after Dire Straits' first compilation, Money for Nothing,
appeared in the stores, their second, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best
of Dire Straits, was released. Though a decade is a significant span of
time, Dire Straits had released just two subsequent albums — 1991's On
Every Street and 1993's On the Night, a live album culled from tapes of
the record's supporting tour. Not quite enough material for a new
greatest-hits album, but it
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Artist: Alex Harvey Band Album:The Impossible Dream Original Date: 1974 Size: 271mb Number of Discs: 1 Format: eac-ape Label: Polygram Int'l
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Wow!
Explaination may be needed. I am a child (wannabe musian) of the 80's
(born circa 68). I have always loved hard, integral, but grooving rock.
Needless to say we didn't see enough solid old school hard rock bands
during my high school years. We had to step back and wonder. During one
of my attempts to scratch the soil of the almost forgotten early 70's
UK rock bands, I came across Alex Harvey and his Sensational Band...Now
for my comments. Whe
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It
seems that any veteran recording artist eventually winds up recording
their own holiday album, so it makes perfect sense that Rick
Springfield finally got around to releasing his own in 2007 with
Christmas with You. Apart from the original title song, Springfield
relies on standards here, with traditional carols far outweighing
relatively recent secular holiday tunes; in fact, only "I'll Be Home
for Christmas" can qualify in the latter category. Springfield not only
sticks to the classics, he gives many of these spare, baroque acoustic
treatments that empha
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Label: Mercury Catalog#: 818 633-2 Format: CD, Album, Country: USA Released: Audio CD October 25, 1990
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There
aren't too many CDs you can listen to all the way through without a bad
patch. For me, this is one of those golden records. Cale is awesome,
and I recommend it to anyone. From easy listeners to rock and rollers
to country kickers, all will enjoy this one.
01. Cocaine [0:02:52.32] 02. Don't Wait [0:03:09.30] 03. Magniola [0:03:24.50] 04. Devil In Disguise [0:02:03.50] 05. Sensitive Kind [0:03:38.63] 06. Carry On [0:02:20.62] 07. After Midnight [0:
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Category: rock Label: Disky Format: eac-ape Size: 333mb Street Date: Feb 27, 1996
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Blue-eyed
soul singer Frankie Miller made his name on the English pub rock
circuit of the early '70s, and spent around a decade and a half cutting
albums of traditional R&B, rock & roll, and country-rock. In
addition to his recorded legacy as an avatar of American roots music,
his original material was covered by artists from the worlds of rock,
blues, and country, from Bob Seger and Bonnie Tyler to Lou Ann Barton
and the Bellamy Brothers. And Miller himself scored a surprise U.K. Top
Ten smash in 1978 with "Darlin'," giving hi
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