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  • edited September 2010
    Here's a good one if you need to use up a bunch of credits - AMG gives it a checked 5 star rating and Penguin Guide gives it a 4 star (top) rating.
  • edited September 2010
    Here is a nice-looking Fats Navarro/Tad Dameron 2-disc set.

    Amazon link so you can find out what it's actually about.
  • edited September 2010
    Chucho Valdes Live At The Village Vanguard.

    There are also several albums by Cachao, also Arsenio Rodriguez.
  • HELP! Downloaded Art Blakey's "A Night in Tunisia" before I realized that it doesn't contain the title track. Has anyone been able to find it?
  • Whether it's the same version or not, I don't know, but it is a studio version:

    Link.

    Craig
  • Argh! The Stranglers' La Folie is missing "Golden Brown". WTF?!?! And the Gorillaz debut is missing "Clint Eastwood" and "Dracula"! Getting a bit frustrated today.
  • edited September 2010
    Well there is the Top Hits Version you could substitute, I'm sure you wouldn't miss the original. In fact it's peppier. Or you could just add "Bring on the Nubiles" instead.
  • wow, I've had good luck with my picks so far - my only problem has been picking which version. Sorry, I didn't realize how weird some of these missing tracks were.
  • I was excited to see that Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse was there in full (the 3-CD version with 3 hours of glorious music). 13 tracks =36 if/when eMu gets it. It's a great set and better for using just 13 credits (yes, I downloaded the Introduction as well).
  • I've run into 2 missing tracks on the album by Hockey, and one missing on LCD Soundsystem's second album. I'll live.

    Welcome bremble!

    Craig
  • Today's the first day I got frustrated with missing tracks. But I just got EVERYTHING they have from Liars, so how can I really complain?
  • Craig,

    Thanks for the Blakey tip. I swear to Monk that I did a track search for "A Night in Tunisia" and I did not see that one. I'm hoping it's the right version to match with that album.
  • No problem, anose. Hope it works for you!

    Craig
  • thom, watch out for reissue Strangler tracks that have had horrid extraneous crap added to them - I got stuck with some from the No More Heroes album which I have on vinyl and they really ruined the fun. I'll look up what the source was when I get home - don't remember right now.
  • Thanks for the heads up that the explicit versions of N.W.A. were there amclark2.

    Craig
  • finally got into blue note stuff tonight:

    Speak No Evil
    The Sidewinder
    Moanin'
    Our Man in Paris
    Complete Communion
    Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Live at the Club!
  • edited September 2010
    Found the phenomenal Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy album Adieu False Heart https://www.guvera.com/search?q=album_id:+"015707980852" which I bought on CD after it came out. There's also a large Linda best of Capital collection if you need any.
  • edited September 2010
    WOO-HOO!

    I just downloaded 4 , count 'em FOUR!!!!, Pink Floyd albums without paying a cent. TAKE THAT PINK FLOYD!!!!!!!!!

    Going back to age 10, I probably bought each prime Roger Waters era Pink Floyd album about 4 -5 times (from Meddle to Final Cut plus Pipers), because your greedy marketing machine kept reissuing them with new upgrades. Well.... I skipped the last upgrade or two, and now I'm getting them free. I just hope this EMI sale lasts so I can download the whole collection for free.
  • PS

    Where the fuck is Wish You Were Here?

    Greedily hoarding your best album, I see.....
  • FrogK,
    The first stuff I downloaded from Guv before getting completely turned off by the interface was all the early floyd stuff I didn't already have a physical copy of:
    Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds (1996 Digital Remaster)
    Pink Floyd - Animals (1992 Digital Remaster)
    Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets (1992 Digital Remaster)
    Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1994 Digital Remaster)
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1992 Digital Remaster)
    Pink Floyd - Meddle (1992 Digital Remaster)

    "Wish You Were Here" was there as late as 8/13/2010 (that's when I downloaded the final track from that album - apparently I started downloading tracks from that album in early May and gave up on Guv shortly thereafter as a source for legal tunage)
  • @ Big-D

    That's an awesome find. Love the backing musicians: Dirk Powell, Sam Bush, Andrea Zonn, les Ramblers de Baton Rouge.
  • If you're getting tired of Blue Note, Capitol produced some decent Jazz every now and then. Guvera does have Serge Chaloff's Blue Serge, an LA pick-up session with Leroy Vinegar, Sonny Clark, and Philly Joe Jones, and Stan Kenton's Cuban Fire!, some Latin-flavored Cool Jazz that avoids the over-orchestration of much of Kenton's work (though it is still big and orchestral).
  • Yesterday, I picked up Dark Side, Animals, Final Cut & Meddle.

    I picked up Ummagmumma, Atom Mother Heart, and Relics today. With a Geico freebie also in my account, it was perfect amount of tracks.

    I have noticed that tracks are disappearing, as are some of the most popular albums by certain artists. I wonder if they are just being suppressed for this promo. I was looking for Roxy Music Siren, but it's not here although their first 4 albums are.
  • I finished Hank Mobley, Reach Out, and grabbed the last Mobely I could find: Thinking of Home (1968).

    Lee Morgan is up next:

    Sextet Vol. 2 (1957)
    The Cooker (1957)
    Candy (1957)
    Lee-Way (1960)



    Missing BlueNote Hank Mobely on Guvera:

    Hank Mobley Sextet (1957)
    Hank (1957)
    Curtain Call (1957)
    Poppin' (1957)
    A Slice of Top (1966)
    Hi Voltage (1967)
    Far Away Lands (1967)
    The Flip (1969)
  • I have noticed that tracks are disappearing, as are some of the most popular albums by certain artists. I wonder if they are just being suppressed for this promo. I was looking for Roxy Music Siren, but it's not here although their first 4 albums are.
    I would think For Your Pleasure, Country Life, and Avalon would always be more popular. (BTW, it seems that AllMusic recently upgraded its rating of Siren.)
  • Re: Capitol - Nancy Wilson's early Capitol records are pretty awesome, if you like jazz vocals.
  • I've been loading up on Pink Floyd myself. Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, the second disc of Ummagumma (I got the first from Guvera a while back), the 30th Anniversary edition of DSOTM, and the tracks from the reissue of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn that are on there (though that one seems to be missing quite a few tracks).
  • While I appreciate downloading Pink Floyd, if you didn't already have these albums, you might not have been alive in the 70's. For me, on vinyl, cassette, then CD. I have several permutations of DSotM, in fact. Atom Heart Mother remains my favorite, for reasons I either cannot explain, or I do not really remember any more.

    /Shine on, you crazy diamond.
  • edited September 2010
    Has anyone tried downloading any Wings and/or Paul Mc? It's crazy. A song from one album (say, Uncle Albert from Wings Greatest) does not qualify for this promotion, while Uncle Albert from Ram does. It took me an hour to compile a facsimile of Wings Greatest, cobbling together tracks from various sources.
  • Today's takeaway:

    Bobby Hutcherson: Now! (completed) and San Francisco
    Ashkhabad's City of Love (from Turkmenistan: sounds like a mash of Middle East and Balkan)
    Ronstadt and Savoy: Adieu False Hearts (thanks, BigD)
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