Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Jethro tull - crest of a knave (1987) Tarkus - tarkus (1972)

Part: 1 : Jethro tull - crest of a knave (1987)
Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave (1987)
EAC AccurateRip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 276,5 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 102,2 MB | Complete Scans (300 dpi) | 34,7 MBProg Rock | Label: Chrysalis | Number: CDP32 1590-2 | Time: 48:46 | RAR | RS.com
"Ian Anderson and company seemed to make a conscious effort to update Jethro Tulls sound on this record. And, to the amazement (and distress) of many, it was voted the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Performance. Truth is, it isnt a bad album, with an opening track that qualifies as hard rock and pretty much shouts its credentials out in Martin Barres screaming lead guitar line, present throughout. Jump Start and Raising Steam also rock hard, and no one can complain of too much on this record being soft, apart from the acoustic The Waking Edge, along with Budapest and Said She Was a Dancer, Andersons two aging rock-stars-eye-view accounts of meeting women from around the world. The antiwar song Mountain Men is classic Tull-styled electric folk, all screaming electric guitars at a pretty high volume by its end. Overall, this is a fairly successful album and arguably their best since 1978, even if it does seem a little insignificant in relation to, say, Thick As ! a Brick. By this time Tull was effectively a core trio of Anderson, Barre, and bassist Dave Pegg, augmented by whatever musicians (drummers Gerry Conway and Doane Perry, Fairport Convention keyboard player Martin Allcock, and violinist Ric Sanders) that they needed to fill out their sound. The result is a very lean-sounding group and a record probably as deserving of a Grammy as any other album of its year — in the cosmic scheme, it sort of made up for Tulls not winning one for Thick As a Brick or Aqualung, or for Dave Peggs former band Fairport Convention never winning. AMG"
Part: 2 : Tarkus - tarkus (1972)
Tarkus - Tarkus
EAC | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 260 Mb | Covers
Hard Rock | 1972 | Peru | Label: Repsychled | : CD 1007 | RAR 3% Rec | RS
Official reissue of one of the heaviest rock albums from early 70s Peru. Formed out of the ashes of Telegraph Avenue they unleashed this monster unto the world in 1972.

Defueld - defueld Jimmy page - outrider (1988)

Part: 1 : Defueld - defueld
Defueld - Defueld
2009 | Mp3 VBR 192-320 Kbps | 69 Mb
Genre: Rock/Hard Rock
"Scandinavian bands must possess a certain gene in the DNA helix that controls music making. I mean most of the bands from these Northern Europe grounds produce very good albums that -also- most of them sound original. I think that the last decade the Scandinavian scene holds high the banners shooting many reviving injections in the sometimes fading Metal musical entity.This time we have DEFUELD hailing from Sweden who will hit the scene hard releasing their homonymous debut album to underline my above allegations. The five piece band delivers up-tempo catchy melodies with nice guitar rhythms and a really heavy backbone. Actually, the spine of DEFUELD comprises some Black Album / METALLICA influences in the way we find them in the early PERZONAL WAR days. Of course, the Gothenburg sound is also here shining with the distinct double guitar harmonies and some IN FLAMES groovy breaks to go with. The keyboards add melody when it fits giving depth to the piano driven Wating In ! The Wings or the excellent and emotional ballad Blind with the very good lyrics. Christoffer Wetterstrom sings with some die hard Hetfield influences delivering with the same power the extreme and the clean vocal parts."
Part: 2 : Jimmy page - outrider (1988)
Jimmy Page - Outrider (1988)
Hard Rock | MP3 | 320kbps / 44,1kHz | 1 CD | 93 MB
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He couldn't have timed it better. The high priest of heavy metal, the pontiff of power riffing and probably the most digitally sampled artist in pop today after James Brown, guitar shaman Jimmy Page returns to the rock wars with his debut solo album – not counting the so-so '82 soundtrack of Death Wish II – just as the Eighties Led Zeppelin renaissance goes into overdrive. What better opportunity to reascend to Big Rock supremacy while giving impudent pups like Kingdom Come and the Cult a taste of the lash?
Too bad timing isn't everything. Because Outrider, to be painfully honest, is a whole lotta muddle, a bewildering amalgam of trademark Pagey rifferama, utter lyric banality, thundering instrumental tracks topped off by hammy vocals, tantalizing hints of steaming futurist Zeppelin and sudden U-turns back to the Seventies. The album reiterates familiar gifts and well-documented strengths yet lacks any clear-cut direction or sense of aesthetic mission. Too often Page echoes his past without transcending or building on it.
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