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Thursday, August 18, 2011

FlashBack! - Bee Gees - Main Course (1975) (album stream)


Main Course is the Bee Gees' thirteenth album, released in 1975 for the RSO label, and their last album to be released by Atlantic Records in the U.S. under its distribution deal with Robert Stigwood. This album marked a change for the Bee Gees as it was their first album to include disco hits, and it created the model for their output through the rest of the 1970s.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

FlashBack! - Deep Purple - Machine Head (1972) (album stream)


Machine Head is the sixth studio album released by the English rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded through December 1971 in Montreux, Switzerland, and released in March 1972.

Machine Head is often cited as influential in the development of the heavy metal music genre. It is Deep Purple's most successful recording, topping the charts in several countries following its release. The album reached #1 in the United Kingdom, where it stayed for 20 weeks in the top-40, and #7 in the United States, remaining on the Billboard 200 for 118 weeks.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

FlashBack! - Tears For Fears - The Hurting (1983) (album stream)


The Hurting is the debut album by the British pop band Tears for Fears. It was released on 7 March 1983, and peaked at no.1 on the UK Album Chart. The album was certified Platinum by the BPI in January 1985.

The album contained Tears For Fears' first three hit singles; "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" - all of which reached the Top 5 in the UK.
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Monday, August 15, 2011

FlashBack! - Roxy Music - Manifesto (1979) (album stream)


Manifesto is the sixth studio album by Roxy Music, and was released in 1979 by E.G. in the UK, Polydor in Europe and by Atco in the U.S.
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

FlashBack! - Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson (1987) (album stream)



Robbie Robertson is the self-titled solo debut by Robbie Robertson, released in 1987. The album won the Juno Award for "Album of the Year", and producers Lanois and Robertson won the "Producer of the Year" Juno award, both in 1989 as there were no Juno Awards held in 1988.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

FlashBack! - Live - Throwing Copper (1994) (album stream)


Throwing Copper is a 1994 album by American alternative rock band Live. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and was recorded at Pachyderm Recording Studio. The cover art is a painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson titled Sisters of Mercy. To date, the album has sold over eight million copies in the United States.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

FlashBack! - Echo & The Bunnymen - Ballyhoo (album stream)


Ballyhoo is a compilation album by Echo & the Bunnymen, released in 1997. Liner notes were written by the group's former manager Bill Drummond.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

FlashBack! - Sailor - Sailor (1974) (album stream)


Sailor are a British pop group, best known in the 1970s for their hit singles "Glass of Champagne" and "Girls Girls Girls", written by the group's lead singer and 12-string guitar player, Georg Kajanus.
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Monday, August 8, 2011

FlashBack! - Jim Croce - Photographs & Memories (1974) (album stream)


Jim Croce & Maury Muehleisen

Photographs & Memories - His Greatest Hits is a 1974 compilation album by Jim Croce, originally released on ABC Records. The album was released following Croce's 1973 death in an airplane crash.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

FlashBack! - Daniel Lanois - Acadie (1989) (album stream)


Acadie is the debut album by record producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois. It was largely written and recorded in the city of New Orleans. Lanois sings on it in both French and English, sometimes even on the same track.

The album was originally released in 1989 on Opal Records. It was reissued in 2005 on ANTI-, with new cover art (but otherwise identical to the original.)

Acadie was named the 20th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

FlashBack! - Millie Jackson - Feelin' Bitchy (1977) (album stream)


Mildred "Millie" Jackson (born July 15, 1944) is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter. Three of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies.

Her vocal performances are often distinguished by long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections in her music, which she started doing on stage to get the attention of the audience. She has also recorded songs in a disco or dance music style and even some country styled songs. She is the mother of contemporary R&B singer, Keisha Jackson.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

FlashBack! - The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street (1972) (album stream)


Toulouse Street is the second studio album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1972.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

FlashBack! - Loverboy - Classics (album stream)


Loverboy Classics was a compilation album by the Canadian rock band Loverboy, released on October 11, 1994. The album covered more ground than the previous compilation album released five years prior, and outsold it by far as well. As an added bonus, Mike Reno and Ann Wilson's duet song Almost Paradise was also included in the album.
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Monday, August 1, 2011

FlashBack! - Bob Dylan - Infidels (1983) (album stream)


Infidels is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 22nd studio album, released by Columbia Records in October 1983.

Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music, following a conversion to Christianity and three evangelical, gospel records. Though he never publicly renounced his faith or abandoned religious imagery, Infidels gained much attention for its focus on more personal themes of love and loss, in addition to commentary on the environment and geopolitics.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

FlashBack! - Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (1979) (album stream)


The Pleasure Principle is the third studio album, and debut album under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1979. Released the same year as Replicas (under the name Tubeway Army), The Pleasure Principle also went to number 1 in the United Kingdom and paved the way to chart success for a string of synthpop acts such as Ultravox, The Human League, Depeche Mode and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

FlashBack! - The Gregg Allman Band - Playin' Up a Storm (1977) (album stream)


Playin' Up a Storm is a 1977 album by The Gregg Allman Band and was released on the Capricorn Records label. It peaked at number 42 on the U.S. Pop Albums charts in 1977.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

FlashBack! - Cold Chisel - The Last Wave Of Summer (1998) (album stream)


The Final episode in our Cold Chisel series, inspired by their reunion, their upcoming Australia/NZ tour and a new album in the works.

The Last Wave of Summer is the 1998 reunion album for Australian rock band Cold Chisel. It reached number-one in Australia for one week in October 1998.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

FlashBack! - The Buggles - Adventures in Modern Recording (1981) (album stream)


Adventures in Modern Recording is the second and last studio album by the British synthpop duo The Buggles released in 1981 on Carrere Records. Made one year after their stint as members of Yes, the album contains nine tracks, including a stripped-down version of Yes's "Into the Lens", here entitled, "I Am a Camera".

The album contained no real hits, and The Buggles broke up during recording, with Geoffrey Downes joining Asia and Trevor Horn becoming a producer.
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Monday, July 25, 2011

FlashBack! - Cold Chisel - Circus Animals (1982) (album stream)


Circus Animals was a studio album released by Australian band Cold Chisel in 1982. It was recorded and mixed at Paradise Studios and EMI Studio 301, Sydney (Sep-Dec 1981). It reached number one on the Australian charts, remaining in the charts for 40 weeks.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

FlashBack! - Cate Bros - Cate Bros (1975) (album stream)


The Cate Brothers are the singer-songwriter-musician duo of Earl and Ernie Cate, twin brothers from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Both brothers are singers, with Earl on guitar and Ernie on piano.

Their 1975 debut self-titled album was produced by guitarist Steve Cropper, who also appeared on the record along with Levon Helm, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Poco bass guitarist Timothy B. Schmit, who later joined the Eagles.
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