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HIM & Other Band – Rare recording (2010)

TRACKLIST

No Edit On CD Songs And Remix – (Only Fans) – PART 1
1.Buried Alive By Love (5:30)
2.Buried Alive By Love (4:02)
3.Endless Dark (3:17)
4.Heartache Every Moment (3:54)
5.It’s All Tears (2:40)
6.Join Me In Death (2:18)
7.Join Me In Death (3:34)
8.Killing Loneliness (1:38)
9.Killing Loneliness (4:00)
10.Love Metal Archives Vol. 1 (3:00)
11.Plasma Mullet (Mige And Burton) (4:30)
12.Resurrection (1:17)
13.The Funeral of Hearts (3:30)
14.The Kiss of Dawn (3:56)
15.The Sacrament (2:54)
16.The Sacrament (4:03)
17.Too Happy To Be Alive (3:40)
18.Too Happy To Be Alive (5:56)
19.Under The Rose (1:03)
20.When Love And Death Embrace (5:06)
21.Wicked Game (3:58)
22.Wicked Game (3:38)

Covers – (Only Fans) – PART 2
All For You (1:49)
Don’t Shake Me Lucifer (4:22)
Enjoy The Silence (4:13)
Enjoy The Silence (4:48)
Fade Away (4:04)
Fade Into You (3:10)
Frozen (4:52)
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight (1:05)
Larger Than Life (4:55)
Lonely Road (4:21)
Mask (3:25)
Old Man (2:16)
Poison Heart (4:40)
Poison Heart (4:26)
Sail on (1:54)
Sex Bomb (0:54)
Solitary Man (5:01)
Solitary Man (2:04)
Some kinda hate (2:10)
The First Cut Is The Deepest (1:11)
The First Cut Is The Deepest (2:25)
Unforgettable (2:47)
Unknown Cover 01 (0:55)
Unknown Cover 02 (5:19)
Ville Valo’s Solo (Wicked Game) (0:55)
We Are The World (3:55)
Wicked Game (Helloween) (5:17)

Ville Valo Features – (Only Fans) – PART 3
Ville Valo – Mustaparaati (0:30)
Ville Valo – Valo Yossa (1:42)
Ville Valo And Bloodhound Gang – Something Diabolical (5:10)
Ville Valo And Kari Tapio – Taalla Pohjantahden Alla (2:42)
Ville Valo And Tommi Viksten – Kun Mina Kotoani Laksin (2:49)
Ville Valo Feat. Agents – Ikkunaprinsessa (2:50)
Ville Valo Feat. Agents – Jykevaa on Rakkaus (2:30)
Ville Valo Feat. Agents – Paratiisi (2:55)
Ville Valo Feat. Apocaliptica And Lauri Ylonen – Bittersweet (3:25)
Ville Valo Feat. Manna – Just For Tonight (3:57)

Covers And Unofficial remixes on HIM – (only Fans) – PART 4
Dope Stars Inc. – Right Here In My Arms (Exclusive Cover Version) (4:04)
Gregorian – Join Me In Death (Schill Out Version) (4:07)
Gregorian – Join Me In Death (5:08)
HELENI – Buried Alive By Love (Acoustic) (3:51)
HIM – Beautiful (3:51)
HIM – Join Me In Death (Humppa) (3:07)
HIM – Join Me In Death (6:35)
HIM – Join Me In Death (5:01)
HIM – Join Me In Death (1:53)
HIM – Join Me In Death (1:04)
HIM – Join Me In Death (3:18)
HIM – Join Me In Death (3:27)
HIM – Join Me In Death (3:37)
HIM – Join Me In Death (4:23)
HIM – Join Me In Death (2:27)
HIM – Join Me In Death (2:11)
HIM – Join Me In Death (3:54)
HIM – Join Me In Death (6:28)
HIM – Join Me In Death (3:34)
HIM – Love In Cold Blood (4:26)
HIM – Pretending (Sukellan Humppaan) (3:25)
HIM – Rip out The Wings of A Butterfly (3:15)
HIM – The 9th Circle (OLT) (5:12)
HIM – The Kiss of Dawn (2:13)
Lightforce – Join Me (9:09)
Naftalin – Join Me In Death (3:25)
Total Guitar Magazine – Vampire Heart (4:46)
Total Guitar Magazine – Vampire Heart (4:51)
Triduum Mortis – Join Me In Death (3:37)
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A Hole Inside is a Swedish band that mixes different genres such as pop, metal and alternative together. The band has named for example From Autumn to Ashes, Raised Fist and Silverstein as their influences.

Marcus Carlzon – Guitar / Vocals
Simon Hassellund – Lead Guitar
Joachim Ragnarsson – Bass
Aron Bergstr̦m РDrums

Tracklisting

#1. Worth To Steal – 3:34
#2. Failed – 2:41
#3. Promise – 4:01
#4. A Hole Inside 3:23
#5. The Content Of A Letter 3:53
#6. When I Crawl 4:15

Myspace

www.myspace.com/aholeinside

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Roman Candle

51.5MB/224KBPS/MP3

Tracklisting:
1. “Roman Candle” – 3:37
2. “Condor Ave.” – 3:34
3. “No Name #1″ (Elliott Smith, J.J. Gonson) – 3:03
4. “No Name #2″ – 3:34
5. “No Name #3″ – 3:13
6. “Drive All Over Town” – 2:36
7. “No Name #4″ – 2:30
8. “Last Call” – 4:38
9. “Kiwi Maddog 20/20″ – 3:40

Review:
Roman Candle, for its part, remains a fan favorite, and it contains some classic Smith songs: “Condor Ave”, the title track, and “Last Call”, in particular. And yet it mostly serves to point to all that Elliott would later become. It’s wispier and more diffuse than his self-titled or Either/Or, and nothing here is as indelible as “Needle in the Hay”, “The Biggest Lie” or “Ballad of Big Nothing”. A few of the “No Name” song sketches drift in and out without leaving much of a mark– Smith’s music would become fuller, and his harmonic language more confident, on subsequent albums. The sound is there, though, unmistakable from the first note: the defeated whisper of the vocals, the deceptively intricate guitar work, and the angry little mantras (“leave alone, leave alone, ’cause you know you don’t belong here”). From these beginnings, Smith would experiment with how much he could add to this framework without crushing it;

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Robert Cray – Bad Influence (1983)
Blues | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 100MB
Time: 42:44 min | Label: Hightone Records
When the Washington-state-based bluesman cut this album, his second, for Hightone in 1983, Robert Cray was still four years away from his major-label, Top 40 hit “Smoking Gun.” Nonetheless, his signature sound is intact: horn-colored Stax-style arrangements, a backbeat laced with funk, Cray’s own gospelized vocals, and the stiletto-tipped notes that he rips from his Stratocaster. A few years later Eric Clapton covered the title song; but what’s most fun here is listening to Cray pay homage to his good influences. He covers numbers by Johnny “Guitar” Watson and Eddie Floyd, and charges into his guitar solos with a brittle tone and bristling attack that at times recalls the underrated Watson, Cray’s mentor Albert Collins, and Chicago legend Buddy Guy. But it’s really the sound of a modern virtuoso distilling his craft from the raw material of blues history. –Ted Drozdowski – Amazon

Tracklist:
1. Phone Booth;
2. Bad Influence;
3. The Grinder;
4. Got To Make A Comeback;
5. So Many Women, So LIttle Time;
6. Where Do I Go From Here;
7. Waiting For The Tide To Turn;
8. March On;
9. Don’t Touch Me;
10. No Big Deal;
11. I Got Loaded;
12. Share What You’ve Got, Keep What You Need

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Tracklist
01. Breadcrumb Trail
02. Nosferatu Man
03. Don, Aman
04. Washer
05. For Dinner…
06. Good Morning Captain

lyrics:

http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/9939/

album info

http://www.discogs.com/Slint-Spiderland/release/369276

My Review
An amazing experience, I put on this album for the first time in the hollow of a writing night and have been overplaying it ever since. This album is incredibly hard to digg up so grab it before it dies, and for the love of god search for the lyrics.

External Review
Unheard of by many, revered by almost all those that own it, Slint’s second (and last) album is regarded as one of the most influential alternative records ever released.

Brian McMahan’s primarily spoken vocals offer a haunting juxtaposition to David Pajo’s (later of Tortoise and Zwan) jaggedly ornate guitar playing, with the lyrics seemingly having little connection to the stop-start syncopation of the instrumental. From McMahan’s tale of a ride on a roller-coaster with a gypsy fortune teller at a carnival in Spiderland’s opener ‘Breadcrumb Trail’ to his reworking of Coleridge’s opus The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (‘Good Morning, Captain’), at the album’s close, Slint’s final work runs the gamut of marginal human experience, abstracted against a backdrop of jazz time signatures and ‘spidery’ guitars, to create a stifling air of impending doom. For all that however, ‘Washer’ is one of the most startlingly beautiful elegies committed to record.

Sexy, claustrophobic, unashamedly arty and conceptual, Spiderland is considered by many to be the first true ‘post-rock’ album, following their Steve Albini-recorded ‘post-hardcore’ debut, Tweez (1989).

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The Goo Goo Dolls – Greatest Hits

Album Info:

Goo Goo Dolls: John Rzeznik (vocals, guitar); Robby Takac (vocals, bass guitar); Mike Malinin (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Brad Fernquist (guitar); Korel Tunador (piano).

Although often derided as a poor man’s Replacements in the earliest years of their career, the Goo Goo Dolls quickly matured into a cannily melodic and smartly commercial alternative rock band with a knack for flannel-clad power ballads (“Iris,” “Name”). GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1: THE SINGLES delivers just what the title offers: the a-sides of all of the Goo Goo Dolls’ singles starting with those from 1995′s commercial breakthrough album, A BOY NAMED GOO, through 2006′s LET LOVE IN. By ignoring the band’s first four albums, this set caters mostly to latter-day fans who only want the radio hits.

Track List:

01. Name.mp3
02. Iris.mp3
03. Slide.mp3
04. Broadway.mp3
05. Black Balloon.mp3
06. Dizzy.mp3
07. Here Is Gone.mp3
08. Big Machine.mp3
09. Sympathy.mp3
10. Better Days.mp3
11. Stay With You.mp3
12. Let Love In.mp3
13. Before ItÂ’s Too Late.mp3
14. Feel The Silence .mp3

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George’s Band (after interlude) and guests

* Eric Clapton – guitars, musical director
* Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Joe Brown, Albert Lee, Marc Mann, Andy Fairweather-Low, Dhani Harrison – electric and acoustic guitars
* Gary Brooker, Jools Holland, Chris Stainton, Billy Preston, Paul McCartney – keyboards
* Dave Bronze, Klaus Voormann – bass
* Jim Capaldi, Ringo Starr, Jim Keltner, Henry Spinetti – drums
* Ray Cooper – percussion
* Jim Horn – alto saxophone
* Tom Scott – tenor saxophone
* Katie Kissoon, Tessa Niles, Sam Brown – backing vocals
* Ravi Shankar – sitar

Tracklist:
01 I Want To Tell You
02 If I Needed Someone
03 Old Brown Shoe
04 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
05 Beware Of Darkness
06 Here Comes the Sun
07 That’s the Way It Goes
08 Taxman
09 I Need You
10 Handle With Care
11 Isn’t It A Pity
12 Photograph
13 Honey Don’t
14 For You Blue
15 Something
16 All Things Must Pass
17 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
18 My Sweet Lord
19 Wah Wah
20 I’ll See You In My Dreams

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Tantric – Mind Control

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| Artist     : Tantric                                                       |
| Album      : Mind Control                                                  |
| Bitrate    : VBR kbps                                                      |
| Label      : Silent Majority                                               |
| Year       : 2009                                                          |
| Genre      : Alternative                                                   |
| Rip date   : Jul-29-2009                                                   |
| Store date : Aug-05-2009                                                   |
| Size       : 58,7 MB                                                       |
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|Track Listing:                                                              |
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| 01 – Mind Control                              03:02                       |
| 02 – Fall To The Ground                        03:21                       |
| 03 – Coming Undone                             02:56                       |
| 04 – Desert Me                                 02:47                       |
| 05 – The Past Is The Past                      03:25                       |
| 06 – Kick Back                                 03:07                       |
| 07 – Intermezzo                                01:27                       |
| 08 – Run Out                                   03:00                       |
| 09 – Walk Away                                 02:57                       |
| 10 – What Are You Waiting For                  03:21                       |
| 11 – Let’s Start                               03:04                       |
| 12 – Guiding Me                                03:07                       |
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|                                                35:34 min                   |
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|  Having introduced the 2.0 version of Tantric on record with 2008′s The    |
|  End Begins (with founding members and ex-Days of the New members Todd     |
|  Whitener, Jesse Vest, and Matt Taul all having become ex-members of       |
|  Tantric too), lead singer Hugo Ferreira doesn’t seem to have felt there   |
|  was any reason to wait the usual three years before releasing another     |
|  album, and so Mind Control follows only 15 months later. (And really, in  |
|  the music business environment of the 2000s, in which the sales life of   |
|  an album is much abbreviated from previous decades, why not?) His backup  |
|  musicians may have been replaced since 2007 (and the drum chair has now   |
|  passed to a third man, Richie Monica, with Marcus Ratzenboeck joining on  |
|  electric violin), but Ferreira still positions Tantric squarely in the    |
|  post-grunge tradition of peers like System of a Down, Linkin Park, and,   |
|  especially, Nickelback, placing his sonorous, husky baritone over tracks  |
|  that sometimes border on heavy metal, but usually retain a melodic hard   |
|  rock flavor. He sneaks in some of his own piano playing, notably on the   |
|  intro and outro to “Coming Undone,” and gives some rein to guitarist Joe  |
|  Pessia, who does Eddie Van Halen-style shredding on “Coming Undone”;      |
|  contributes attractive acoustic work on the power ballad “The Past Is     |
|  the Past”; and enjoys his own showcase on the guitar interlude            |
|  “Intermezzo,” when he isn’t simply crunching big riffs. So, there are at  |
|  least hints that Ferreira and his new bandmates have ambitions beyond     |
|  their genre, but there are also some more potential entries in            |
|  Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart here.                                   |
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Stratovarius – Stratovarius (2005)

Genre: Power Metal
Length: 49:20
Size: 349MB (363MB w/ extras)
Format: FLAC

Track List:
1. Maniac Dance
2. Fight
3. Just Carry On
4. Back To Madness
5. Gypsy In Me
6. Götterdämmerung (Zenith Of Power)
7. The Land Of Ice And Snow
8. Leave The Tribe
9. United

Review: Metal-Observer (7/10)

It was really sad to hear that things are not going well at STRATOVARIUS and then later it all got worse when almost all the members left the band. Tolkki was planning a new album with a female vocalist and the relationship between him and Timo Kotipelto was worse than ever. But then all of a sudden, in 2005 things brightened up and rumours started circling that they are back together. All of them: the mentor of the band, Timo Tolkki, who successfully overcame the problems he was facing, Timo Kotipelto, one of the best voices in Power Metal; Jörg Michael, the drumming machine, the magical Jens Johansson and the quiet Jari Kainulainen, master of the four strings (but who after this album left the band). It was the line-up which since 1995 enchanted us with brilliant albums and unforgettable live performances.

And so at hearing the news that they are back together again and a new album is on the way I was very optimistic, although I was not a fan of the direction the band took starting with “Elements Pt 1” and especially “Pt. 2”. I always had the feeling that those albums lack something of the magic of their forerunners (“Destiny“, “Visions“, “Episode“, “Infinite“).

And then the day came when I finally got the album and listened to it for the first time. Well the opener was not really the typical song with which the band used to start their albums. “Maniac Dance” fits more the description of a Japanese bonus track or something of the kind. It comes closer to a Load/Reload era METALLICA than to a STRATOVARIUS song. And I was even more surprised to find out that it was the song chosen for a video as well. Well for me it is a song which might need a little time to be accepted as a STRATO song. It is a direct, modern slightly aggressive track.

The second song “Fight!!!” sounds more familiar: the riffs, the opening keyboard parts, the vocals, they all bring back memories of old times. It is a mid-tempo song of which is typical of the band, but yet again it still lacks that certain something. “Just Carry On” starts promising and maybe it should have been the opener instead of “Maniac Dance”. But even if it might be one of the best tracks on the album it does not stick to your ears as it should.

“Back To Madness” is a song which brings some classical elements among which a male opera voice, which is a new element to the band, it is interesting and on the whole it is a good attempt I would say…the monolog in the end of the song is rather sad and depressing…and unnecessary. The mood is somewhat saved by the following speedster “Gypsy In Me” which also brings the typical elements of a good STRATOVARIUS song and even a keyboard-solo…but still what happened to the fantastic drumming and the magical solos? It seems that only Timo Kotipelto is bringing his usual form.

Well “Götterdämmerung (“Zenith Of Power”) brings some riffs and solos which are better, but then the song reminds me more of the older days of STRATOVARIUS as Tolkki was performing the vocal tasks. And there are of course the controversial parts of a Hitler speech, which were really unnecessary. “The Land The Ice And Snow” is a ballad which praises once more the vocal abilities of Timo Kotipelto and that’s it…maybe it would have been better if performed with no instruments at all. “Leave The Tribe” rolls slowly trough your speakers and in de end you will remain only with “ …we just have to leave the tribe…” not even the voice of Timo can save this track…I consider it a bit monotonous.

The last song….one last chance for at least a decent first impression… It starts in the same tempo in which the former ended…only the keyboard part of Jens stand out. It is a however a fitting ending to the album. The chorus is a cliché heard over and over again, which is not all STRATOVARIUS–like and if they decided to stick to that, they should have balanced it with a stunning instrumental performance…but they fail to do so.

I really don’t enjoy writing negative reviews, I would be more than pleased to have only good albums to write about. In this case it was even more difficult, cause the band is one of my all-time favorites. And I have to say straight-out that this album was a disappointment. As I stated the guitar play of Timo Tolkki is not what it used to be, but that was actually the case over the last years as well. Timo Kotipelto is a charismatic singer and only lifts the album…but he could do much better than that, if he had been offered better songs. Jens Johansson is a brilliant keyboard player but not much space is allowed him on this album, but when the case he brings his best. The drumming of Jörg Michael is the biggest mystery to me on this album…he can do sooooo much better than this!!

On the whole the album is more a straight melodic (Power) Metal as compared to the early works and it seems that they (or Tolkki?) want to stick to this path taken a few albums earlier. For the most fans of the band this album want be a thrill, but on the other hand they are free to play what they choose and we are free to criticize them. It is not a bad album, but I awaited much more than this, cause the guys are capable of a far better performance.

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Juno Reactor – Gods And Monsters

Label: DigiSonic
Catalog#: GRET-0001
Format: CD, Album
Country: Japan
Released: 20 Feb 2008
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Trance, Tribal, Downtempo

Tracklisting:
1 Inca Steppa (7:45)
2 Tokyo Dub (7:08)
3 Las Vegas Future Past (5:59)
Trumpet – Byron Wallen
4 Mind Of The Free (6:13)
5 Immaculate Cruxifiction (7:38)
6 City Of The Sinful (4:43)
Guitar – Steve Stevens
Vocals – Angelica
7 Tanta Pena (5:51)
Flute , Ney, Other – Tigran Aleksanyan
Vocals – Yasmin Levy
8 Perfect Crime (6:24)
Acoustic Guitar – Eduardo Niebla
9 Pretty Girl (5:28)

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