Tower

Titan

©1982 Dureco Benelux 88.037

320 Kbps Vinyl Rip

Symphonic Powerrock from the Netherlands. The band had a big hit in Holland with "See You Tonight" and a minor hit with "Goin' Home". The vocals from Marian Pijnaker are increddible strong and the orchestration from Dick Bakker and Hans Hollestelle are ELO-esque. Most of the album written by Catmusic who are famous of their own but under other names (Catapult, Woodpeckers from Space, Videokids, Monotones & the Surfers just to name a few).

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The album was quite succesfull but a second album was never recorded. Tower disbanded and Marian Pijnaker (vocals) and Cor van der Hoogt (Guitar & Vocals) continued as Split Decision. They released one single "Action" [download] but could not reproduce the succes of tower.

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Listen to the power of Tower!
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tracks: 1. Introduction/Titan 9:20 / 2. Get back 3:09 / 3. Moon 4:05 / 4. We are (The boys and girls) 3:03 / 5. Goin' home 3:32 / 6. Space man 3:22 / 7. See you tonight 3:49 / 8. Xio/Epilogue 8:15

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Incl. scans from the original LP cover and innersleeve with lyrics

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Fred van Zegveld

Hammond Organ Dynamite

©1969 Basart Park LBP 3006

320 Kbps Vinyl Rip

Fred van Zegveld became known as the organ player of a charting Beatlesque group called Roek Williams & The Fighting Cats, though they changed their name into Roek's Family on the day Fred joined them in 1968, ready for their biggest hit Get Yourself A Ticket in '69.

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1969 must have been a busy year for him, because Van Zegveld was also a member of a group called The Flood that year, together with two musicians that also played in Roek Williams's group: Richard de Bois on bass (who became a top producer ten years later, for amongst others The Dolly Dots) and Will Luikinga on sax and flute (who became a famous dj on Radio Veronica afterwards).

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Van Zegveld's only solo album "Dynamite" shows his love for Booker T & The MG's, Jimmy Smith and such, though most of the tracks on it are his own compositions. Van Zegveld, who is still active as a musician today, doesn't even own a proper copy of his album anymore, and if he wants to buy one on eBay, he has to pay at least 300 dollars!
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tracks: 1. Family blues (Fred van Zegveld) 3:19 / 2. Here, there, and everywhere (Lennon/McCartney) 3:07 / 3. Daffodil (Fred van Zegveld) 2:00 / 4. Blue organ (Fred van Zegveld) 3:19 / 5. Dynamite (Fred van Zegveld) 4:45 / 6. Misty (Erroll Garner) 4:06 / 7. Whiskey (Fred van Zegveld) 4:06 / 8. Round about 12 (Fred van Zegveld) 2:42 / 9. I wanna be your man (Lennon/McCartney) 6:21

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Incl. scans from the original LP

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The Dukes

The Dukes

©1979 Warner Bros BSK 3376

320 Kbps Vinyl Rip

The debut album of The Dukes (Jimmy McCulloch, Miller Anderson, Ronnie Leahy, Charlie Tumahai) turned out to be their only album. Jimmy McCulloch died from a heroin overdose in 1979 not long after the album was released and the band died with him. The album genre is pop rock, power pop, hard rock. The single "Heartbreaker" (vocals By McCulloch) was a minor hit. The album is yet to be officially released on CD.

Produced by Marty Cohn & Richie Zito.

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tracks: 1.: Tracks: Hearts In Trouble / Leaving It All Behind / All In A Game / Billy Niles / Crazy Fool / Who's Gonna Tell You / Time On Your Side / I'll Try To Help / Heartbreaker

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Incl. scans from the original LP innersleeve with lyris and custom made cover art.

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Joep Bruijnjé

Vitamins

©1982 Idiot Records

320 Kbps

Joep Bruijnjé's work is famous without being famous himself. He wrote songs for "La Grande Parade", a project from Henk Hofstede (Nits) and he wrote many songs for Jiskefet (Dutch comedy) including the leader. But he is not famous because of his music but because of his photographs. Talking Heads, Michael Jackson, XTC, Phil Collins, Herman Brood, Billy Joel, Prince, The Police, The Cure, Robert Fripp, Simple Minds and U2 are all being photographed by Joep.

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In 1982 he recorded his own minialbum (10"/25 cm) with the help of some idiot records artists. Fay Luyendijk (Fay Lovsky), Robert Jan Stips, Klaas ten Holt, Jacob Klaasse, Mathilde Santing , Peter van Straten, Rob Hauser are all playing on the album. The music is like the Kewi's, Fay Lovsky or Nits with a tip of Gruppo Sportivo.

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tracks: 1.: Trois Sur Quatre / 2.: Ghetto Boy / 3.: Back To The Border / 4.: Caroline / 5.: Twice A Year / 6.: Just Another Day / 7.: Billy / 8.: Painting And Drawing / 9.: Last One

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Dennis Dunaway Project

Bones From The Yard

Deedledoop Records 2006

CD-rip 320 Kbps

Who doesn't know the music of Dennis Dunaway?

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Dennis was once the bassplayer in the original Alice Cooper group. After they disbanded Dennis played in Billion Dollar Babies, The Flying Tigers, Buck Dharma, Antbee and most recently in Bouchard, Dunaway and Smith (BDS). Along with doing shows with BDS, Dennis also has another band called the Dennis Dunaway Project.

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A nod to the great 70's anthem rock with just a hint of mayhem. If you like the classic Alice Cooper then you won't be disapointed by the Dennis Dunaway Project.

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Dennis Dunaway - Bass, Vocals, Keyboards / Rick Tedesco - Guitars, Vocals / Russ Wilson - Drums / Ed Burns - Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Piano / Ian Hunter - Background Vocals on 'Satan's Sister', Piano on 'Little Kid (With A Big Gun)', Theramin on 'Subway' / Gary Blu - Saxophones on 'Home Sweet Home' / John DaSilva - Trumpet on 'Home Sweet Home' / Jessica Williams - Moans of pleasure on 'Red Room' / Joe Bouchard - More Cowbell on 'Little Kid (With A Big Gun), Shakers / Stephanie Tedesco - “Help Me” Vocals on 'On The Mountain'

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tracks: Kandahar (Dunaway, Tedesco, Burns, Wilson) / Me And My Boys (Dunaway) / Man Is A Beast (Dunaway, Tedesco) / Red Room (Dunaway, Tedesco) / Little Kid (With A Big, Big Gun)(Dunaway) / New Generation (Dunaway, Tedesco) / Needle In The Red (Dunaway, Tedesco, Burns, Wilson, Hunter) / Stalker (Dunaway, Tedesco, Wilson) / Satan’s Sister (Dunaway) / On The Mountain (Dunaway, Tedesco)
Subway (Dunaway) / Home Sweet Home (Dunaway, Tedesco)

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The Pete Best Band

Hayman's Dream

Casbah Coffee Club 2008

CD-rip 224-320 Kbps VBR

Wich ex-beatle made the best album in 30 years?

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Normally I won't post anything what's been released quite recently but I am totally stunned by this album. Listening to this album one can only wonder what great musical contributions he could have made to the Beatles if Pete Best was not been replaced by Ringo Starr. We would miss "Don't Pass Me By" wouldn't we?

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Well, Pete was a Beatle a long, long, time ago. Best joined The Beatles on 12 August 1960, only one day before they were to go to Hamburg to play a season of concerts. He was dismissed from the group two years later, on 16 August 1962. His drumming can be heard on the Silver Beatles "Decca Tapes" and as one of the Beat Brothers (Beatles) on "Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers" as well on the first "Love Me Do" version.

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Best later relocated to the United States along with songwriters Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington. They ultimately released an album on Cameo Records titled "Best Of The Beatles". The group disbanded shortly afterwards. Bickerton and Waddington were to find greater success as songwriters in the 1970s, writing a series of hits by the Rubettes.

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Nowadays, The Pete Best Band regularly tours the U.S. and he recently released this album. All tracks on their new album Haymans Green is written or co-written by Pete Best. The lyrics are very "autobiographic". Haymans Green is is filled with wonderful songs and is without doubt Beatlesque.

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What about that little torn piece of photo on the albumcover? It's the piece of history what is missing on the Beatles Anthology album...

tracks:
1. Come With Me 2:23 / 2. Step Outside 3:57 / 3. Start Again 2:38 / 4. Grey River 3:18 5. Gone 2:34 / 6. Dream Me Home 3:47 / 7. Everything I Want 3:37 / 8. Beat Street 2:05 / 9. Broken 3:56 / 10. Red Light 4:00 /11. Haymans Green 3:04

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Stevie Rachelle

Who The Hell Am I

©1998 CD00198 R.L.S. Records

CD-Rip at 320Kbps

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This debut solo CD from the singer of the 90's Hairband "Tuff" was released in 1998. It shows a real singer/songwriter side to the hard rocking front-man. This CD was written & recorded in late 1997 into early 1998 at Santa Fe Studios in Stevenson Ranch, CA . Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Michael Raphael

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Tracks: 1. Path Of Choices / 2. Harbor Valley / 3. Rock Me Gently / 4. So Many Seasons / 5. Little Black Light / 6. What Ever Happened To Friends / 7. Just Being Me / 8. Who The Hell Am I / 9. Cant Take It Any More / 10. Broken Man
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Including Coverart

Stevie Rachelle

Since Sixty-Six

©2000 CD03266 R.L.S. Records
CD-Rip at 320Kbps
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The second CD from Stevie Rachelle was released in 2000.
Produced by: Michael Raphael, Nick Nolan & Gilby Clarke. This CD was written & recorded during the Fall of 1999 & into the early part of the year 2000.

Tracks: 1. Like a Kid Again / 2. Not Telling the Truth / 3. I Won't Give Up / 4. Two Peanuts on the Floor / 5. It's All Over / 6. Tova / 7. All Out of Love / 8. Don't Complain / 9. Broken Man / 10. Hotline from Hell
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Including Coverart

Robert Jan Stips

U.P.

©1981 CBS 85424 Vinyl

Rip at 320Kbps

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Robert Jan Stips (Supersister, Nits) solo album. Recorded at the Arnold Muhren (the Cats) Studio in Volendam. With his brandnew Oberheim Synthesiser (one of the first in the Netherlands) RJ spent his days and nights designing sounds, playing with them, writing and recording on his Teac 4 track machine together with one of the first drum machines ever, the ‘Dr Rhythm‘. U.P. (Joepie een synthesizer) was written and recorded during these sessions.
-Tracks: 1. Money makers 3:12 / 2. Wake up 4:34 / 3. Tomorrow (is another day) 3:30 / 4. Shivers 4:10 / 5. Nuts in a shell 3:18 / 6. Camera 3:12 / 7. No more Mondays 3:54 / 8. Much better 2:57 / 9. Welcome tourists 3:14 / 10. Fortune & fame 7:22
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In 1982 a single came out.

As the album was already printed and in the stores you'd get the single for free if you desided to buy the album. It came in a plain white sleeve, the White Single :-)

A side: How The West Got Lost. This could be a little bit plagiarism.
B side: Fortune & Fame. A shorter and instrumental version as appeared on the album.

The Beatles Revival Band
Taking My Time

©1980 Shark Records INT 148.504
320 Kbps Vinyl rip.

The Beatles Revival Band is a german cover band, founded 1976 in Frankfurt, Germany. The Beatles Revival Band has been called “the most successful cover band ever” but before they started recording only covers they made an album with self written tunes in the style of the Beatles. Listen to it five times and you start to wonder why they ever continued as a coverband and not as a rockband with their own songs. If you like Beatles, Klaatu, Oasis, The Smithereens and/or Crowded House (just to name a few) this is for you.
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The Beatles Revival Band is Bobby Matthes, Klaus Larish and Christian Engel. Jim (James) Hopkins-Harrison (of the band Lake) is gueststarring on leadvocals (tracks 2, 3 and 8).
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Tracks: 01 Cucumber / 02 Taking My Time0 / 03 Done My Time0 / 04 Shalala / 05 Without You / 06 Not Only Love / 07 This Girl / 08 Stick To You / 09 Keep On Smiling / 10 Rosa / 11 Bringing Me Down / 12 Not What I Thought / 13 Old Brown Guitar / 14 Come On, Jenny
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Including coverart

STARS ON 45 PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE STAR SISTERS - Hooray For Hollywood

©1984 Red Bullet
MP3, 320 kbps

Stars On 45 Producer: Jaap Eggermont
Vocals: Patricia Paay, Sylvana van Veen, Yvonne Keeley

Tracks:

1. A tribute to Marilyn Monroe

2. Alexander's ragtime band

3. Mister sandman4

. Cry me a river

5. This is only the beginning

6. Hooray for Hollywood

7. Sentimental gentleman

8. Lullaby of broadway

9. Hawaiian summer

10. Drivin' with my baby

11. Showbusiness

STARS ON 45 PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE STAR SISTERS - TONIGHT 20.00 HRS

©1983 CNR Records 655.177
MP3, 320 kbps

Stars On 45 Producer: Jaap Eggermont
Vocals: Patricia Paay, Sylvana Maanurdin, Yvonne Keeley

Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. Swing Medley: (17:01)

1.1 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (0:30)
1.2 South American Way (0:23)
1.3 Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (0:45)
1.4 In The Mood (0:50)
1.5 Rum And Coca Cola (0:30)
1.6 Tico Tico (0:20)
1.7 Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) (0:40)
1.8 Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand (0:44)
1.9 Joseph Joseph (0:44)
1.10 Ti-Pi-Tin (0:24)
1.11 A String Of Pearls (0:33)
1.12 Hold Tight (Sea Food) (0:33)
1.13 Beer Barrel Polka (Skoda Lasky) (0:43)
1.14 Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (1:01)
1.15 Moonlight Serenade (1:05)
1.16 Oh! Ma-Ma! (Luna Mezzo Mare) (1:06)
1.17 Tuxedo Junction (0:46)
1.18 Pistol Packin' Mama (0:36)
1.19 Pennsylvania Polka (0:44)
1.20 Yes, My Darling Daughter (0:24)
1.21 Happy Days Are Here Again (0:55)
1.22 American Patrol (0:46)
1.23 Chattanooga Choo Choo (1:13)
1.24 In The Mood (0:46)

SIDE B
2. Double Dutch Jive (Schön/Hollestelle/Eggermont) (5:35)
3. Stars Serenade (Duiser/Eggermont/Duiser) (5:20)
4. Plaza-7900 (Duiser/Eggermont/Duiser) (5:14)

Ingrid Kup
Feel Me

©1982 Teldec Digital 6.25034 AP
320 Kbps. Vinyl rip

Ingrid Kup, great voice, no recognition. Once she was half of the duo Big Mouth & Little Eve who had one hit (Uncle) in 1975. In 1977 the duo stopped and Willem (Big Mouth) and Ingrid (Little Eve) both went solo.

In 1981 Ingrid collaborated with Frank Duval and made a few singles and an album. Frank wrote the songs and produced them. The songs can be discribed as powerballads (think Bonnie Tyler or Doro)

Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) is an audio disc mastering technique developed by Teldec. Instead cutting onto a lacquer-coated disc, DMM cuts the groove directly in copper metal resulting in a higher quality.

Tracks: 01 Love what's your face / 02 What's there about her / 03 Hey butterfly / 04 Song of hope / 05 I'd Like To Be Your Woman / 06 Feel Me / 07 I Will Not Die / 08 Do you remember / 09 Tears in your eyes / 10 Life Goes On

Including coverart and lyrics.

Peter StrakerChangeling-

©1978 EMI Records Ltd.
EMC 3277320 Kbps Vinyl rip.

Although there is no mention on the album that there was any Queen involvement here, Brian's guitar playing style, Roger's high voices, Freddie's writing style and Queen harmonies are all around. If they didn't play on this album then Queen had some unbelievable skilled copy-cats.
For the album, its less surprizing as "This One's On Me" but its surprizingly good, more accessible and more rocking.

Tracks: 01 D-D-D-D-D- Danger / 02 Doesn't Give A Damn / 03 Believer / 04 Sweet, Sweet Music / 05 Legs / 06 Star Circus / 07 Tear Down The Walls / 08 This Fab Samba (A Cautionary Tale) / 09 The Black Swan / 10 Talk About Me

Including coverart and lyrics.

Peter Straker - This One's On Me-

©1977 EMI EMC3204
320 Kbps Vinyl rip

Album produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Freddie Mercury.Two singles were released: 'Ragtime Joe' b/w 'Saddest Clown'; and 'Jackie' b/w 'I've Been To Hell And Back'

Peter was friend of Freddie Mercury, as a result of which Freddie produced and financed this album. Peter later appeared in The Great Pretender video, as two backing singers (in two sets of drag).

tracks: 01 Ada, 02 I've Been To Hell And Back, 03 The Day The Talkies Came, 04 Heart Be Still, 05 Alabama Song, 06 Ragtime Piano Joe, 07 Jackie, 08 The Annual Penguin Show, 09 The Saddest Clown, 10 Vamp

Coverart and lyrics included

Kewi University Of Swing

Terracotta me, baby

©1983 ( idiot records / Wea )
320 Kbps Vinyl rip

Two students Kees (KE) and Willem (WI) released this on their own idiot records label (previous 1000 idiots, meaning that there always be 1000 idiots would buy their stuff). It's not easy to categorise their music, it's just too strange. Try some Squeeze with a bit of David Bowie mixed with Gruppo Sportivo and Nits.

Some tracks do end very adrupt. That's not a fault in ripping or coding but it's the way te Kewis intended them.

tracks: 1. Little Asia 2:50 / 2. Greatest Tut 2:14 / 3. The Little Lonely Accordeon 1:02 / 4. Girls on Vacation 2:12 / 5. Robin Hood 3:07 / 6. Doremifa 1:56 / 7. Right Left 3:54 / 8. Monday 3:14 / 9. The Battle of Peak A Boo 2:13 / 10. Biggles 2:44 / 11. Someone 3:12 / 12. Terracotta Me Baby 3:06 / 13. Kewi Music 2:42Coverart included