The Who - Direct Hits [Classic Records 200g LP] 24-bit/96kHz, Mono

The Who - Direct Hits
Classic Records 200g Quiex SV-P mono
Mastered by Chris Bellman@ BG Mastering
Viny rip 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (cue,m3u,Log) | Cover | 1968
~ 370 mb incl. recovery | RS & Enterupload | Genre: rock

Personnel:
Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion
Pete Townshend – guitar, lead vocals, keyboards, pennywhistle, banjo, backing vocals
John Entwistle – bass, lead vocals, horns, backing vocals
Keith Moon – drums, lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion

It is a genuinely strange experience listening to Direct Hits some four decades after it was rushed out by Track Records (the Who's U.K. label) to help fill what would become a 19-month gap between The Who Sell Out (November 1967) and Tommy (May 1969).

Then again, it was probably a pretty strange experience listening to it back in November of 1968 -- the album was a blatant cash-in effort by the cash-strapped label, made all the more urgent by the fact that the group's last three singles, "I Can See for Miles," "Dogs," and "Magic Bus," had not sold nearly as well as expected in England. The first two were on this, the first-ever attempt to collect the Who's hits (augmented by some EP and LP tracks -- the Who not yet having had quite enough hits, even in England, to fill an LP) in one place, and Direct Hits would be notable on that basis alone. But the fact that it's such a damn weird-ass record, no matter when one hears it, makes the album especially worthwhile four decades on.

What kind of a compilation of the Who's hits opens with the John Entwistle-dominated "Bucket T," a cover of a Jan & Dean car song that's dominated not by such Who signature sounds as Pete Townshend's guitar or Roger Daltrey's vocals, but by Entwistle's horn? And then jumps to a pair of Townshend-authored plunges into sexuality as subject matter, "I'm a Boy" and "Pictures of Lily," the former about a boy feminized by his oppressive mother and the latter an ode to masturbation? And then switches gears to Entwistle's loopy ode to hypochondria "Doctor Doctor," driven as much by the composer's loping bass figure as Townshend's crunching guitar, while the singer rattles off a comical list of ailments he believes himself to be suffering from?

Only two of the first four songs have come down to us as defining the Who, but all were very much what this band was about in its first few years, pop/rock musical caricatures of how British teens defined the human condition during the mid-'60s. As a singles compilation, Direct Hits might be considered a joke if the individual songs weren't so good

Track listing:

Side A

"Bucket T" (Altfield, Christian, Torrence) – 2:08
"I'm a Boy" – 2:36
"Pictures of Lily" (Townshend) – 2:43
"Doctor! Doctor!" – 2:53
"I Can See for Miles" – 3:55
"Substitute – 3:47


Side B

"Happy Jack" (Townshend) – 2:11
"The Last Time" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:50
"In the City" - 2:19
"Call Me Lightning" (Townshend) – 2:19
"Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" (Townshend) – 2:05
"Dogs" – 3:03

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Ofra Haza - Yemenite songs (1987)

Ofra Haza - Yemenite songs (1987)
Flac | CueSheet + Covers | 1987 Release | World music / Pop / Ethnic / Jewish
Label: Cleopatra

1. Im Nin 'Alu
2. Yachilvi Veyachali
3. A 'Salk
4. A) Tzur Mentati/B) Se'i Yona/Csapri Tama
5. Galbi
6. Ode Le-Eli
7. Lefelach Harimon
8. Ayelet Chen


Ofra Haza's death on February 23, 2000, at the age of 41 deprived the world of a lovely woman, a great vocalist, and a fearless cultural advocate. Fifty Gates of Wisdom, her 1985 album of boldly reimagined traditional Yemenite songs, brought her international fame, and decades later, it retains its ability to delight and inspire. The set list consists of secular tunes plus examples of a festive devotional style called diwan, which is common to all Oriental Jewish communities and can be sung in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Arabic.

Each group has specific traditions, but the Yemeni variant is especially remarkable for its poetry, much of which was written by rabbis as far back as the 17th century. Most diwan consist of three separate sections: the a cappella nashid (prelude), the shira (singing), during which celebrants bang on copper trays, empty gasoline cans, or whatever else is handy, and a postlude called the hallel, or song of praise. The unusual percussion accompaniment came into use follo


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Tereza Salgueiro Com Lusitania Ensemble - Matriz

Tereza Salgueiro Com Lusitania Ensemble - Matriz
2009 | 256 vbr mp3 | 90 MB
fado | Portugal
new album from ex-Madredeus singer

Tracklist
01. Mi Madre Velida 3:16
02. Jus a lo Mar e lo Rio 2:12
03. Puestos Estan Frente a Frente 4:46
04. Danças Palacianas 3:12
05. Deus Nos Dê Cá as Boas Festas (Canto de Peditório de Natal aos Reis) 3:41
06. Senhora do Almurtão 4:31
07. Vira da Desfolhada 3:36
08. Malhão de Cinfães 2:15
09. Canção da Roda 3:17
10. Corridinho do Montinho 2:46
11. As Armas do meu Adufe 2:45
12. Por Riba se Ceifa o Pão 3:43
13. Treme-Terra 2:47
14. Voltarei à Minha Terra (Meditando) 4:36
15. Com que Voz 3:48
16. Foi Deus 3:33
17. Lá Porque Tens Cinco Pedras 2:45
18. Danças Portuguesas 3:25
19. Acordai 3:17
20. Por este Rio acima 5:47

Tereza Salgueiro is best known as the lead singer of Madredeus from 1987 until 2007.

As a young girl, Teresa Salgueiro sang the traditional Portuguese music Fado and Brazilian bossa nova in the streets and taverns of Lisbon. She moved to old Lisbon to live with friends at the age of 16 and continued her singing.

Salgueiro met guitarist and producer Pedro Ayres Magalhães in 1987 and formed Madredeus together with Francisco Ribeiro on cello, Gabriel Gomes on accordion and Rodrigo Leão on keyboards. The band has been together since 1987, recording 11 albums released through record companies such as Blue Note Records, Nettwerk and EMI Records, all subsidiaries of EMI. Madredeus has also played throughout the world.

Teresa Salgueiro played a prominent part in the 1994 Wim Wenders' Lisbon Story (Viagem a Lisboa) together with Magalhães. Salgueiro and Magalhães recorded the soundtrack with Madredeus, released as Ainda in 1994.

Salgueiro has sung on albums by Carlos Nuñez and António Chainho released in 2000.

In November 2005 Teresa Salgueiro edited her first CD (Obrigado), with the participation of other musicians such as Caetano Veloso, Carlos Núñez, José Carreras and Angelo Branduardi. She is currently one of Portugal's most acclaimed singers.

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