Sunday, February 8, 2026

Thelonious Monk - The Complete Prestige Recordings [2000] + The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection [2017] (8 x CDs)

SUNDAY JAZZ

THELONIOUS MONK

Thelonious Monk - The Complete Prestige Recordings [2000] + The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection [2017] (8 x CDs)

Exploring Thelonious Monk’s early‑1950s work through both The Complete Prestige Recordings and The Complete Prestige 10‑Inch LP Collection offers a rare chance to hear the same material from two different angles, one archival and expansive, the other historically faithful to how listeners first encountered Monk. Together, they form a fuller portrait of a musician sharpening his voice before the wider jazz world understood what he was doing.

The 2000 Complete Prestige Recordings set is the deep dive. Across its three CDs, every studio take from 1952 to 1954 is preserved: master takes, alternates, breakdowns, and the small bits of studio chatter that reveal how Monk shaped his ideas. Hearing multiple versions of pieces like “Think of One” or “Bemsha Swing” shows how subtle shifts in voicing or rhythmic emphasis could redirect the entire feel of a tune. The remastering brings out the crispness of Rudy Van Gelder’s engineering, giving Monk’s percussive touch and the interplay with sidemen like Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and Max Roach a clarity that rewards close listening.

The 10‑inch LP Collection, by contrast, recreates the original Prestige albums exactly as they appeared in the early fifties. These short, tightly sequenced records present Monk as his first audience heard him, concise, mysterious, and already unmistakably himself. Without alternates or session material, the focus shifts to the shape of the albums: compact statements built around Monk’s compositions, delivered with a sense of purpose that still feels fresh.

Taken together, the two sets complement each other beautifully. One documents the process, the other preserves the product. For collectors, pairing them offers the most complete view of Monk’s early Prestige years, one set showing how the music was made, the other showing how it entered the world. (B)

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Track lists

The Complete Prestige Recordings [2000]

CD1

01 Thelonious Monk - Flyin' Hawk 2:51

02 Thelonious Monk - Recollections 2:55

03 Thelonious Monk - Drifting on a Reed 3:06

04 Thelonious Monk - On the Bean 2:43

05 Thelonious Monk - Bye-Ya 2:47

06 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream 3:07

07 Thelonious Monk - Sweet and Lovely 3:36

08 Thelonious Monk - Little Rootie Tootie 3:07

09 Thelonious Monk - Bemsha Swing 3:11

10 Thelonious Monk - Reflections 2:48

11 Thelonious Monk - These Foolish Things 2:48

12 Thelonious Monk - Trinkle, Tinkle 2:51

13 Thelonious Monk - Think of One (take 1) 5:40

14 Thelonious Monk - Let's Call This 5:07

15 Thelonious Monk - Think of One (take 2) 5:46

16 Thelonious Monk - Friday the 13th 10:36


CD2

01 Thelonious Monk - We See 5:17

02 Thelonious Monk - Locomotive 6:23

03 Thelonious Monk - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4:32

04 Thelonious Monk - Hackensack 5:12

05 Thelonious Monk - Nutty 5:18

06 Thelonious Monk - Just a Gigolo 3:02

07 Thelonious Monk - Work 5:19

08 Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk 7:38

09 Thelonious Monk - I Want to Be Happy 7:45

10 Thelonious Monk - The Way You Look Tonight 5:14

11 Thelonious Monk - More Than You Know 10:53


CD3

01 Thelonious Monk - Bags' Groove (take 1) 11:10

02 Thelonious Monk - Bemsha Swing 9:33

03 Thelonious Monk - The Man I Love (take 1) 8:31

04 Thelonious Monk - Swing Spring 10:46

05 Thelonious Monk - Bags' Groove (take 2) 9:18

06 Thelonious Monk - The Man I Love (take 2) 7:57



The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection [2017]

CD1

01 Thelonious Monk Trio - Little Rootie Tootie 3:08

02 Thelonious Monk Trio - Sweet and Lovely 3:37

03 Thelonious Monk Trio - Bye-Ya 2:48

04 Thelonious Monk Trio - Monk's Dream 3:07

05 Thelonious Monk Trio - Trinkle, Tinkle 2:51

06 Thelonious Monk Trio - These Foolish Things 2:48

07 Thelonious Monk Trio - Bemsha Swing 3:11

08 Thelonious Monk Trio - Reflections 2:50


CD2

01 Thelonious Monk Quintet featuring Sonny Rollins - Friday The Thirteenth 10:32

02 Thelonious Monk Quintet featuring Sonny Rollins - Let's Call This 5:08

03 Thelonious Monk Quintet featuring Sonny Rollins - Think of One 5:46


CD3

01 Thelonious Monk Quintet - We See 5:16

02 Thelonious Monk Quintet - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4:33

03 Thelonious Monk Quintet - Locomotive 6:23

04 Thelonious Monk Quintet - Hackensack 5:14


CD4

01 Thelonious Monk - Work 5:18

02 Thelonious Monk - Nutty 5:18

03 Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk 7:39

04 Thelonious Monk - Just A Gigolo 3:04


CD5

01 Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk - The Way You Look Tonight 5:14

02 Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk - I Want to Be Happy 7:43

03 Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk - More Than You Know 10:49

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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MY COMPILATION SERIES VOL. 225

MY COMPILATION SERIES

Where visitors provide their self-made compilation.


(Please note, I will not be re-uploading any of the "My Compilations" created. So, visitors need pick up what you want ASAP.)

I want to thank all for sending in your submissions and following the Guidelines and new format. 

If you have a query on any compilation, leave a comment or contact the owner using the email link where provided.

I am pleased to be able to post the next MY COMPILATION series of submissions.  

Here are NEW compilations to choose from or simply take them all...These compilations below, are all great listens and I encourage all to pick up these as you won't be disappointed. 

Please thank the compilation owner if you like their work.

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MY COMPILATION SERIES VOL. 225

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#01

Title: VA - Whitewash Wipeout (320 Kbps)

Created By: Pol Inate

Contact: https://polinatewtc.blogspot.com/

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#02

Title: VA - Get A Little Vol. 168 – Midnight (320 Kbps)

Created By: John Angelatos

Contact:         johnangelatos@gmail.com

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#03

Title: VA - Berni's A-Z Vol. 193 G (320 Kbps)

Created By: Berni

Contact:         Not provided

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#04

Title: VA - 2009 (Var)

Created By: Shankly

Contact:         shankly1956@outlook.com

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#05

Title: VA - Denver Detritus, Vol. 3: Auntie Fay Wants YOU! (320 Kbps)

Created By: JWDen

Contact:         pfloydian191@hotmail.com

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#06

Title: VA - Rupert Radio 29.5 (320 Kbps)

Created By: DJ Mello Ell

Contact:         djmelloell@gmail.com

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#07

Title: VA - Storytellers (320 Kbps)

Created By: Oniswa

Contact:         Oniswa@proton.me

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#08

Title: VA - Tripping Ballz 01.02 (VBR (V0)

Created By: Sam I.R. Davies

Contact:         samirdavies@yahoo.ca

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#09

Title: VA - British Biscuits #13 M (320 Kbps)

Created By: lemonflag

Contact:         Not provided

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#10

Title: VA - There´s A World Outside (320 Kbps)

Created By: D. Jung

Contact:         Not provided

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#11

Title: VA - Tracks From Soundtracks Vol.19: Jazz Mix#3 (320 Kbps)

Created By: MM

Contact:         marppix57@gmail.com

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#12

Title: VA - JAZZ!... The Way I Like It! *Supplemental* - Jazz Related Rock (320 Kbps)

Created By: Wombat Freddie

Contact: WombatFreddie@protonmail.com

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TRACK LISTS Vol. 225

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#01

VA - Whitewash Wipeout (320 Kbps)

01 Amped Dynamite - Explosive Curls

02 Glenn Miller's Woody - In The Woody

03 OP Rollers - Fire

04 The Tarantulas - A Fistful Of Dollars (Overture)

05 Big Daddy - Star Wars Theme

06 The Alolan Rays - Gotta Catch 'em All

07 Little Buddy & The Three Hour Tour - Shipwrecked

08 Beverly Surfbillies - Texas Tea

09 Vandals - Hocus Pocus

10 Stoneage Surfers - Leilani

11 The Rubble Rousers - Meet The Flintstones (Yabba Dabba Do)

12 Supertones - Paranoid

13 3rd Board In The Surf - Fire

14 Sweet Shredders - Board Blitzing

15 Grommet Kahunas - Gnarly Froth

16 Hippy Ho-Dad - Hauling

17 JFA - Charlie Brown (Schroeder Version)

18 Frankenfurter - Warped Time

19 Cloudchord - Thunderstruck

20 The Stoked Shakas - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

21 Neoprene Dudes - Swiss Swells

22 Pegleg - Yo Ho Ho (A Pirates Life)

23 Surfmotherfuckers - Killing An Arab

24 Lynn's Leash - Stone Surf

25 Elemental Swell - September

26 Svelte Sumo Surfers - Mele Kalikimaka

Surf covers. For some reason all it took was one stupid documentary on the Ventures to lead down a surf path. Not that I'm complaining. Shades of Ventures and Agent Orange although neither are on here.

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VA - Get A Little Vol. 168 – Midnight (320 Kbps)                                                                                 

01 Long John Baldry - Midnight Hour Blues                                                              

02 Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight (feat. Paul Chambers, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones & John Coltrane)

 03 Ella Fitzgerald - Round Midnight                                                                             

04 Snowy White & The White Flames - Midnight Blues                                                  

05 Gary Moore - Midnight Blues                                                                                   

06 Gene Deer - Midnight Healing                                                                                 

07 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Midnight                                                                             

08 Gladys Knight - & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia                                            

09  Mike Bloomfield - Midnight On The Radio                                                              

10 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider                                                                

11 Tony Joe White - Across From Midnight                                                                    

12 J.J. Cale - After Midnight                                                                                           

13 Buddy Guy - Midnight Train (feat. Jonny Lang)                                                                                 

14 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Midnight Special                                                           

15 Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour                                                                   

16 Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler                                                                              

17 Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions                                                                       

18 Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight                                                                           

19 Charlie Daniels Band - Midnight Train                                                                      

20 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (Live)                                                                                                               

21 Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight

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#03

VA - Berni's A-Z Vol. 193 G (320 Kbps)

01 - Garth Brooks - Ain't Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)

02 - Gangstagrass - The Only Way Out Is Through

03 - Garland Jeffreys - I'm Alive

03 - Gary P. Nunn & Wade Bowen - It's A Texas Thing

05 - George Ducas - Mr. Guitar Man

06 - George Jones & Melba Montgomery - Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms

07 - George Dearborne - Lotta Honky Tonkin' Left In Me

08 - Georgia Satellites - Don't Pass Me By

09 - Gin Blossoms - Rocket Man (Live)

10 - Glenn Yoder & The Western States - Optimist

11 - Goodnight, Texas - Frankie, Where Are You Now?

12 - Gordon Lightfoot - High & Dry

13 - Gospelbeach - Sunshine Skyway

14 - Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

15 - Graham Parker And The Rumour - Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions

16 - Grand Funk - Bad Time

17 - Grandpa's Cough Medicine - Hillbilly Music

18 - Grant Webb - Where Have You Been?

19 - The Great Divide - Until We Cross

20 - Grateful Dead - New Speedway Boogie

21 - Greensky Bluegrass - Jaywalking

22 - The Grip Weeds - She Don't Care About Time

23 - The Grave Jinglers - (Thief Of The) Midnight Sun

24 - The Guess Who - Rain Dance

25 - The Gunsmoke Sinners - Where The Widow Raves

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VA - 2009 (Var)

01. Uprising - Muse (from the album 'The Resistance')

02. Devil on the Wind - The Men They Couldn't Hang (from the album 'Devil on the Wind')

03. Never Knowing - Judy Dyble (from the album 'Talking with Strangers')

04. Going Home - Joanne Shaw Taylor (from the album 'White Sugar')

05. Try This at Home - Frank Turner (from the album 'Poetry of the Deed')

06. Pain and Pleasure - Crucified Barbara (from the album ''Til Death Us Do Party')

07. Annachie Gordon - The Unthanks (from the album 'Here's the Tender Coming')

08. Bet U Wish U Had Me Back - Halestorm (from the album 'Halestorm')

09. Horizontigo (a. Horizontigo. b. Alright in the Held) - Lau (From the album 'Arc Light')

10. Community Property - Steel Panther (from the album 'Feel the Steel')

11. Victorian Brickwork - Big Big Train (from the album 'The Underfall Yard')

12. Out of this World - Marillion (from the album 'Less is More')

13. Steal my Soul - Airbag (from the album 'Identity')

14. I Dread the Night - Gallows (from the album 'Grey Britain')

15. Baby No More - The Snowdroppers (from the album 'Too Late to Pray')

16. Lark in the Clear Air - Ruth Notman (from the album 'Life of Lilly')

17. Return to the Sea Pt2 - Cosmograf (from the album 'End of Ecclesia')

18. Pussy - Rammstein (from the album 'Liebe Ist Für Alle Da')

19. London Calling/Manchester Calling/The Monaghan Jig - The Bad Shepherds (from the album 'Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera!')

20. The Wanting Comes in Waves, Repaid - The Decemberists (from the album 'The Hazards of Love')

21. Sulphur to Sugarcane - Elvis Costello (from the album 'Secret, Profane and Sugarcane')

22. Has Been Cavalry - Jon Boden (from the album 'Songs from the Floodplain')

23. This Dream of You - Bob Dylan (from the album 'Together through Life')

24. Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed - Show of Hands (from the album 'Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed')

25. The Parting Glass - Cara Dillon (from the album 'Hill of Thieves')

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VA - Denver Detritus, Vol. 3: Auntie Fay Wants YOU! (320 Kbps)

01 Excuse Me, Mister - Gale Garnett

02 Living in the Past - Billie Davis

03 My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook - Annette Peacock

04 Marie Take a Chance - Flying Machine

05 The Grooviest Girl in the World - Fun and Games

06 Glad You Could Come Along - Clive Sarstedt

07 Motorcycle Man - Supa

08 Why Do You Do Me Like You Do? - John Hartford

09 My Girl - Madness

10 Ooh La La - Goldfrapp

11 Benedictus - Cantus Anthimi

12 Casadh An tSugain - Skara Brae

13 Raks el Malek (Dance for the King) - George Abdo

14 Clap Hands - Tom Waits

15 One After Two - City Boy

16 Tortured - Elton John

17 Days Gone Down (Still Got That Look in Your Eyes) - Gerry Rafferty

18 Then I Saw a Face - Lutha

19 Everlasting Love - The Love Affair

20 Election for Mayor/Ride My Train of Love - The Brain Police

21 Marmaduke - Paterson

22 Eclipse - Los Dug Dug's

23 Fanitullen - Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe

24 Al Bine - Ali Farka Toure

25 Chain Me, Baby (Blues of Desire) - The Du Droppers

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#06

VA - Rupert Radio 29.5 (320 Kbps)

1 Say So - Doja Cat 

2 RNP - Cordae 

3 Orange Soda - Baby Keem 

4 Time Today (remix) - BJ the Chicago Kid 

5 Show Me Love - Alicia Keys 

6 Slow Down - Skip Marley and H.E.R. 

7 Big Fish - Vince Staples 

8 Gone Girl - Iann Dior 

9 Falling - Trevor Daniel 

10 Major - Young Dolph 

11 Coming Home - Pusha T featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill 

12 How Deep is Your Love - PJ Morton 

13 Sojourner - Rapsody 

14 Cash Sh*t - Megan Thee Stallion 

15 How You Want It? - Teyana Taylor featuring King Combs 

16 Make No Sense - Youngboy Never Broke Again 

17 Just Us - DJ Khaled 

18 Higher Love - Kygo X Whitney Houston 

19 Know Your Worth - Khalid X Disclosure 

20 Numb Numb Juice - ScHoolboy Q 

21 Sometimes - H.E.R. 

22 Price On My Head - NAV 

23 Clout Cobain - Denzel Curry 

24 Hair Down - SiR 

"Rupert Radio" was started in 2004 and contains the top radio hits of the year, and a few deep cuts mixed in.

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#07

VA - Storytellers (320 Kbps)

01        Billy Idol - White Wedding (3:47)

02        Billy Joel - talk (4:34)

03        Billy Joel - River of Dreams (3:52)

04        Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - talk (1:35)

05        Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House (3:18)

06        David Bowie - Word On A Wing - Live At The Manhattan Center, New York (6:35)

07        Elvis Costello - talk (0:56)

08        Elvis Costello - Veronica (3:39)

09        Green Day - Give Me Novacaine (Live from VH1 Storytellers) (3:36)

10        Johnny Cash/Willie Nelson - On The Road Again - Live (1:31)

11        Natalie Merchant - talk (0:34)

12        Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous (4:46)

13        Norah Jones - talk (2:30)

14        Norah Jones - Don't Know Why (3:44)

15        Pete Townshend - talk (2:20)

16        Pete Townshend - Pure and Easy (6:18)

17        Ray Davies - talk (2:24)

18        Ray Davies - To the Bone (3:49)

19        Ringo Starr - Photograph (4:10)

20        Stevie Nicks - talk (2:30)

21        Stevie Nicks - Rhiannon (3:53)

22        Tom Waits - talk (2:03)

23        Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (4:39)

24        ZZ Top - talk (0:40)

25        ZZ Top - La Grange (5:18)

The other week I did a compilation based on MTV, drawing a lot from their Unplugged shows. That reminded me of VH1's Storyteller series, which ran from 1996-2015. I had audios of a few and was able to find many more. Although both shows featured performances before small audiences, there was a slight difference in remit. Where Unplugged often (but not always) featured acoustic arrangements of songs, the emphasis in Storytellers was on artists talking about what lead to them performing particular songs. The Storyteller concept was developed by Ray Davies, who performed on the first episode. It was also the title track of his first solo album, which he toured for several after The Kinks disbanded, although is not featured in his Storytellers set. Several artists did sets for both Unplugged and Storytellers, while some did just one or the other. For this comp I picked out artists not featured on the MTV comp that I put together.

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#08

VA - Tripping Ballz 01.02 (VBR (V0)

Track# ~ Artist ~ Title ~ Album ~ Year ~ Kbps ~ Mode ~ Length

1 ~ Tomoyasu Hotei & Ray Cooper ~ A Drug Score - Part 1 (Acid Spill) (with Johnny Depp) ~ Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas ~ 1998 ~ 208 ~ VBR ~ 00:00:52

2 ~ Afroman ~ Because I Got High ~ Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back ~ 2001 ~ 219 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:52

3 ~ Huey Lewis & The News ~ I Want A New Drug ~ Huey Lewis & The News Greatest Hits ~ 2006 ~ 270 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:31

4 ~ Martika ~ Toy Soldiers ~ Top Hits Of 1989 ~ 1989 ~ 265 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:10

5 ~ The Doors ~ Light My Fire ~ The Doors ~ 1967 ~ 256 ~ VBR ~ 00:07:10

6 ~ The Mighty Diamonds ~ Pass The Kutchie ~ Big Blunts V1 ~ 1994 ~ 258 ~ VBR ~ 00:07:11

7 ~ Jazz Sabbath ~ Snowblind ~ Jazz Sabbath Vol. 2 ~ 2022 ~ 256 ~ VBR ~ 00:06:10

8 ~ Third Eye Blind ~ Semi-Charmed Life ~ A Collection ~ 2006 ~ 270 ~ VBR ~ 00:04:28

9 ~ Grateful Dead ~ Casey Jones [Live 1971-04-25~29] ~ Ladies And Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead ~ 1971 ~ 265 ~ VBR ~ 00:09:13

10 ~ Snoop Dogg ~ Gin & Juice ~ Doggystyle ~ 1993 ~ 282 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:31

11 ~ Carter Faith ~ Sex, Drugs, & Country Music ~ Cherry Valley ~ 2025 ~ 266 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:37

12 ~ Brad Roberts ~ Cocaine [Live 2000] ~ Crash Test Dude ~ 2001 ~ 274 ~ VBR ~ 00:04:13

13 ~ Talking Heads ~ And She Was ~ Now That's What I Call Music! 1986 ~ 1986 ~ 269 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:38

14 ~ Led Zeppelin ~ Misty Mountain Hop ~ Led Zeppelin IV ~ 1971 ~ 260 ~ VBR ~ 00:04:39

15 ~ Peter Tosh ~ Legalize It ~ Legalize It ~ 1976 ~ 242 ~ VBR ~ 00:04:42

16 ~ Alabama 3 ~ Cocaine (Killed My Community) ~ La Peste ~ 2000 ~ 245 ~ VBR ~ 00:04:44

17 ~ The Rolling Stones ~ Mother's Little Helper ~ Grrr! ~ 2012 ~ 238 ~ VBR ~ 00:02:47

18 ~ The Allman Brothers Band ~ Midnight Rider ~ Idlewild South ~ 1970 ~ 290 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:00

19 ~ Yellowman & Fathead ~ Herbman Smuggling ~ Big Blunts V1 ~ 1994 ~ 284 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:01

20 ~ Ratatat ~ Drugs ~ LP4 ~ 2010 ~ 256 ~ VBR ~ 00:04:54

21 ~ Cypress Hill ~ Hits From The Bong ~ Black Sunday ~ 1993 ~ 265 ~ VBR ~ 00:02:42

22 ~ Jack Johnson ~ Willie Got Me Stoned [Live 2023 Hollywood Bowl] ~ Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 ~ 2023 ~ 253 ~ VBR ~ 00:02:29

23 ~ The Velvet Underground ~ Heroin [Live 1969] ~ 1969 ~ Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed ~ 1969 ~ 260 ~ VBR ~ 00:09:51

24 ~ Ian Dury & The Blockheads ~ Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ~ New Boots And Panties!! ~ 1977 ~ 225 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:14

25 ~ Nine Inch Nails ~ The Perfect Drug ~ Lost Highway ~ 1997 ~ 266 ~ VBR ~ 00:05:15

26 ~ Tom Jones ~ She's A Lady (with Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Toro) ~ Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas ~ 1998 ~ 232 ~ VBR ~ 00:03:14

This is the next entry for my compilation that is a mix of some of the best songs that pertain to recreational drugs.

Reminder - Each download will have two folders: "Formatted" & "Original tags & artwork".

The music in each folder is identical - the only thing that differs is imbedded tagging and artwork.

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#09

VA - British Biscuits #13 M (320 Kbps)

1 Mankind 1979 0331 Brussels   Misty in Roots

2 Go Now live 1965 NME   Moody Blues

3 Our House   Madness

4 The Cat   Merseys

5 Kayleigh   Marillion

6 I Think Of You   Merseybeats

7 Remember the Times   Mike Stuart Span

8 Twankdillo    Maddy Prior

9 Joybringer   Manfred Mann's Earth Band

10 Portrait Of Our Love   Matt Monro

11 Miss You (Live Version)   Mick Jagger And Keith Richards

12 If I Was   Midge Ure

13 Always On My Mind   Marauders

14 I Never Should've Kissed You   Mockingbirds

15 All The Way From Memphis   Mott The Hoople

16 Nights In White Satin BBC   Moody Blues

17 When I'm Dead And Gone   McGuinness Flint

18 Time Machine   Mick Softley

19 Tribute To Buddy Holly   Mike Berry & The Outlaws

20 A Groovy Kind Of Love   Mindbenders

21 Hanging Around   Mood Six

22 I Can Hear The Grass Grow   Move

23 Money For Nothing live   Mark Knopfler

24 Tea With the Sun   Mellow Candle

25 Wishin And Hopin     Merseybeats 

1) Reggae always makes me smile. 2) Denny holds it together after a false start. 3) Hmm reggae again but it's Madness! 8) Bit of culture with Maddy. 10) Childhood memory of my dad singing along with the radio. Produced by George Martin. 11) Amazing track by the Glitter Twins. 16) Later hit by Moodies. 18) Fav folk singer alongtimeago. 19) I was 10, who was Buddy Holly? 23) Great live track. 25) Finish with one of my fav Liverpool bands. I choose this music to raise your spirits not to teach. Enjoy

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#10

VA - There´s A World Outside (320 Kbps)

1. WIMME - Soahkesuovva (Birch Smoke) [Finland; 2009]

2. 旱獭 (MARMOTA) – 骏马黑鹰 (Ezir-Kara) [China; 2017]

3. YAT KHA – Kaa-Khem [Tuva; 1995]

4. MARIA POMANIOWSKA I PRZYJACIELE - Chopin na Syberii (Rondo alla krakowiak Op.14) [Poland; 2010]

5. THE TOURÉ-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE – Alkatou [Israel / Mali; 2012]

6. CONGO COWBOYS – Pretty Polly [South Africa; 2023]

7. INNA DE YARD feat. Winston McAnuff - Malcolm X [Jamaica; 2019]

8. KAYATIBU – Kuxipa Kayaway [Brazil, 2025]

9. TERAKRAFT – Karambani (Nastiness) [Mali, 2015]

10. AARON Y SU GRUPO ILUSION – La Cumbia Te Llama [Mexico; 2021]

11. RUTH HUNTER & RUTHIE DORNFELD – Mur Stojmeno [USA; 2002]

12. THE CHIEFTAINS feat. RY COODER – Sailing To Mexico [Ireland ; 2010]

13. HEDNINGARNA – Höglorfen [Sweden ;1997]

14. Отава Ё (OTAVA YO) - Ой Дуся ой Маруся (Oh, Dusya, oh, Marusya) [Russia; 2018]

15. ALI HASSAN KUBAN – Habibi [Egypt; 1991]

16. DENGUE FEVER – Ethanopium [USA; 2003]

17. OMAR SOULEYMAN – Ya Bnayya [Syria; 2017]

18. OMAR SHOOLI – Hab Isii (Hug Me) [Somalia; 1986]

19. THIERRY "TITI" ROBIN & GULABI SAPERA - Neem [France / India; 2002]

20. N. RAVIKRAN / TAJ MAHAL / V.M. BHATT - Johnny Too Bad [India / USA; 1995]

21. KOTTARASHKY – Myanmar [Bulgaria; 2009]

22. SHARDA - Baat Zara Hai Aapas Ki [India; 1970]

23. VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ – Diaeby Magni (Yossi Finne as Radiks Remix) [Mali; 2009]

24. KONGAR-OL ONDAR & PAUL EARTHQUAKE PENA – Kaldak Hamar (The Other Side Of The Moountain) [Tuva / USA; 1996]

25. LABORATORIUM PIESNI – Stoj Pa Moru [Poland; 2016]

26. NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN - Haq Ali Ali Maula [Pakistan; ?]

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VA - Tracks From Soundtracks Vol.19: Jazz Mix#3 (320 Kbps)

1 Come On Children - Wynton Marsalis - (Bolden: Original Soundtrack)

2 Snap - Buster Poindexter - (Autofocus - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

3 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Charlie Parker - (Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

4 Jazz Club  - Angelo Badalamenti - (Autofocus - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

5 The Best Is Yet To Come - Nancy Wilson - (What Women Want)

6 All Of Me - Charlie Parker - (Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

7 Art of Art - Gary DeMichele - (Big Night [Original Soundtrack])

8 Witchcraft  - Frank Sinatra - (Bewitched - Music From The Motion Picture)

9 Ko Ko - Charlie Parker - (Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

10 Soul Sauce - Cal Tjader - (Dream With The Fishes)

11 Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead - Ella Fitzgerald - (Bewitched - Music From The Motion Picture)

12 I Wish I Knew - John Coltrane - (The Fisher King)

13 It Ain't The End Of The World  - George Segal & Blu Mankuma - (2012 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack])

14 Now's The Time - Charlie Parker - (Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

15 Swish  - Marc Shaiman - (Forget Paris - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

16 You Inspire Me - Nick Lowe - (Angel Eyes)

17 Craig and Lucy - Marc Shaiman - (Forget Paris - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

18 'Bout Time  - Louis Armstrong - (Bewitched - Music From The Motion Picture)

19 Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker - (Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

20 Tea for Two / It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)- Marc Shaiman - (Forget Paris)

21 One Mint Julep - Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - (Crazy In Alabama)

22 Angular Dissent - Gary DeMichele - (Big Night [Original Soundtrack])

23 My Melancholy Baby  - Marc Shaiman - (Forget Paris - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

24 Snap [Instrumental] - Angelo Badalamenti - (Autofocus - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

25 Basin Street Blues - Wynton Marsalis - (Bolden: Original Soundtrack)

For my third collection of jazz tracks I have chosen another eclectic set of vintage, classic, contemporary and "made for soundtrack" selections by contemporary and classic artists.

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VA - JAZZ!... The Way I Like It! *Supplemental* - Jazz Related Rock (320 Kbps)

01 - Yes - Sound Chaser (Steven Wilson Remix)

02 - Kenso - Sayonara Progre

03 - Happy The Man - Mr. Mirror's Reflection On Dreams

04 - The Nice - Rondo

05 - Brainchild - Autobiography

06 - Chicago - Questions 67 And 68 (50th Anniversary Remix)

07 - The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

08 - Jimi Hendrix - Up from the Skies

09 - Circus - II B.S.

10 - Cream - As You Said

11 - Solar Wind - Humanoid Shifting

12 - French TV - Happy Armies Fight In Their Sleep

13 - Focus - Sneezing Bull

14 - Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tank

15 - Pekka Pohjola - Mathmeticians Air Display

16 - Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys

17 - King Crimson - Fallen Angel (Trio version, Instrumental)

18 - Steve Vai - The Attitude Song

19 - Jeff Beck - Sling Shot

20 - Neal Schon & Jan Hammer - Untold Passion

21 - Frank Zappa - Black Napkins

22 - Kraan - Head

23 - Mom's Apple Pie - Lay Your Money Down

24 - Lighthouse - Love Of A Woman

25 - Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous

Last Year I finished the "JAZZ!... The Way I Like It" series, which explored the various sub-genres of Jazz, mentioned on www.jazzmusicarchives.com. I coved all of the Early Jazz section & the Modern Jazz section as well. But there was a third section: Jazz Related. This is were it gets tricky. Because some of the sub-genres

listed were either stand alone sub-genres like Latin Rock/Soul, Funk and just recently posted Dub/Ska/Reggae, and a couple of them - Acid Jazz, Exotica and Third Stream - SHOULD be included with the Modern Jazz section IMO. That leaves six sub-genres that are actually Jazz Related. I'm not going to cover Jazz Education (not easy to come by and I don't think it's that interesting for causal listening) but the remaining 5 are going to be explored, starting with Jazz Related Rock.

"Like its close cousin RnB, rock grew out of the 1940s jazz genre known as jump blues. Needless to say, rock and jazz have had a close relationship from the very beginning. The jazz related rock section [...] pays tribute to those rock artists who display a certain amount of competent jazz influence in their music. This influence can be displayed via virtuoso extended jam sessions, jazz influenced harmonic language, big band style horn charts or a combination of all this and more.(Jazz artists who utilize rock in their music can be found in the Fusion, Eclectic Fusion, Nu Jazz and Post-Fusion Contemporary genres").[www.jazzmusicarchives.com]

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Only one compilation per week from each contributor with a limit of 25 tracks per track list per submission. (Total 25 tracks only). You can submit a new track list the following week.

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

REUPLOADS # 123

REUPLOADS # 123

NEW LINKS for reuploads can be found here:

Click on the links and it will take you to the requested page.


VA - Up In Lights, Great DEBUT Singles (A Butterboy Compilation) (8 x CDs)

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2024/04/va-up-in-lights-great-debut-singles.html


VA - Stax Records 50th Anniversary Collection, Collector's Edition [2008] (3 x CDs)

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2019/08/va-stax-records-50th-anniversary.html


VA - Great Folk Rock Songs (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2019/02/repost-va-great-folk-rock-songs-cd1cd2.html


Richard Thompson - The Life & Music of Richard Thompson [2006] (5 x CDs) + Bonus

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2022/07/richard-thompson-life-music-of-richard.html

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VA - Jon Savage's Space, Light Years From Home [2024]

VA - Jon Savage's Space, Light Years From Home [2024]

Jon Savage has always understood how music reflects the emotional temperature of its time, and Space, Light Years From Home extends that instinct into the cosmic. Released in 2024, the set traces how artists across six decades have imagined the unknown, not as a novelty theme, but as a way of expressing wonder, fear, and the pull of possibility. Savage treats “space” as a cultural mirror, gathering tracks that reveal how each era projected its hopes and anxieties onto the stars.

The compilation moves confidently between early sci‑fi instrumentals, wide‑eyed pop experiments, psychedelic drift, and the colder, more introspective tones that emerged during the post‑punk and electronic periods. What binds it together is mood: the sense of looking outward and finding both beauty and unease. Savage’s sequencing gives the set a narrative arc, shifting from innocence to awe to something more shadowed as technology and geopolitics reshape the imagination. (B)

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01 Byrds - C.T.A 102 2:32

02 Spirit - Space Child 3:25

03 Cosmic Hoffman - Space Disco 4:37

04 Atmosfear - Dancing in Outer Space 9:33

05 Devo - Space Junk 2:14

06 Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins - Space Music 5:35

07 Tom Recchion - Space Ship 2:21

08 Wooden Shjips - Space Clothes 3:06

09 Mr. Fingers - Distant Planet 5:19

10 Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Moon Maid 3:11

11 Sun Ra - Outer Space Plateau 2:23

12 Biosphere - Star Toucher 5:03

13 Lothar and the Hand People - Space Hymn 7:13

14 Hawkwind - Space is Deep 6:17

15 US69 - 2069 A Spaced Oddity 10:22

16 Tim Buckley - Star Sailor 4:36

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Friday, February 6, 2026

VA - Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination (1965-1979) (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

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VA - Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination (1965-1979) (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs) 

When I finished VA - Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination 1950–1964, I thought I’d closed the book on the first great chapter of our musical fascination with the future. Those four discs captured the optimism, the novelty, the atomic jitters, and the wide‑eyed wonder of the early Space Age, a time when rockets were new, satellites were miracles, and the idea of life beyond Earth still lived mostly in pulp magazines and B‑movies.

But the story didn’t end there. If anything, the questions only got bigger.

Hence Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination (1965-1979) now exists

By the mid‑1960s, space had stopped being a fantasy and started becoming a reality. We’d orbited the Earth, walked in space, and were preparing to land on the Moon. And as the world changed, the music changed with it. The future wasn’t just a theme anymore, it was a pressure, a fear, a promise, and a challenge. Rock musicians, electronic pioneers, prog visionaries, and cosmic outsiders all began to treat space not as decoration, but as a lens for thinking about who we are and where we’re going.

This new set, spanning 1965 to 1979, follows naturally from the first anthology, but the tone is different. The innocence is gone. The imagination is sharper. The questions are heavier. \

Across these 4 CDs, you can hear how space infiltrates the rock genre from every angle:

Spaceflight becomes a metaphor for transcendence, escape, and the search for meaning.

UFOs shift from novelty sightings to genuine encounters, paranoia, and cosmic curiosity.

Aliens evolve from little green caricatures into symbols of higher consciousness, alternate societies, and the unknown intelligence we might one day meet.

Robots move from mechanical toys to reflections of ourselves — our fears of automation, our fascination with artificial life, our anxieties about what we’re building.

Space Disco and Cosmic Futurism turn the dancefloor into a launchpad, where synthesizers mimic the pulse of machinery and the shimmer of distant galaxies.

And the Nuclear Age sits underneath it all, the shadow that shaped the era, the reminder that our reach for the stars was always matched by the possibility of ending everything here on Earth.

What I love about this period is how naturally these ideas seep into the music.

You can hear it in the electronics, the rhythms, the lyrics, the production choices. Space stops being a gimmick and becomes a worldview.

These tracks aren’t just about rockets or aliens or robots, they’re about the questions we still ask today. What’s out there? What’s coming next? What does progress cost? Are we alone? And what happens if we’re not?

From psychedelic wanderings to krautrock propulsion, from cosmic funk to early synthpop, from dystopian warnings to utopian dreams, this set captures the moment when musicians stopped imagining the future as a cartoon and started treating it as a real, looming horizon.

If the first anthology was about the birth of the Space Age, this one is about growing up inside it. (B)

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01 Unknown Preacher - Flying Saucer Sermon 0:35 1965

02 Byrds - Mr. Spaceman 2:10 1966

03 Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of The Sky 2:57 1969

04 UFO - Unidentified Flying Object 2:18 1970

05 Jimmy Ford & the Luzers - Mr. Flying Saucer Man 2:12 1965

06 Paul St. John - Flying Saucers Have Landed 3:17 1972

07 Jefferson Airplane - Have You Seen the Saucers? 3:36 1970

08 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Waiting for The UFO's 3:05 1979

09 Guru Guru - Spaceship (Edit) 4:59 1971

10 Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip on A Gemini Spaceship 2:32 1968

11 Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. 2:49 1969

12 Aaron Neville - Space Man 2:40 1966

13 Nicholas Hammond - Please Don't Switch Off The Moon Mr. Spaceman 2:21 1966

14 Roy Lee Johnson & The Villagers - Robot 2:28 1970

15 Valves - Robot Love 3:06 1977

16 Crack The Sky - Robots for Ronnie 4:35 1975

17 Incredible String Band - Robot Blues 4:10 1970

18 Robert Starks and the Geniuses - Space Traveling 3:00 1973

19 Zolar X - Space Age Love 3:20 1974

20 Jobriath - Space Clown 2:38 1973

21 Bonzo Dog Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman 2:25 1968

22 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Here Come the Martian Martians 3:13 1976

23 Brownsville Station - The Martian Boogie 4:18 1977

24 Liverpool Scene - We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die 5:52 1969

25 Yes - Arriving UFO 6:02 1978


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27 Elton John - Rocket Man 4:42 1972

26 David Bowie - Space Oddity 3:47 1969

28 Pearls Before Swine - Rocket Man 3:06 1970

29 Rockets - Rocket Man 2:39 1979

30 Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy 4:59 1969

31 Queen - '39 3:32 1975

32 Rolling Stones - 2000 Man 3:07 1967

33 Foreigner - Starrider 4:01 1977

34 Montrose - Space Station # 5 5:18 1973

35 Deep Purple - Space Truckin' 4:34 1972

36 Wishbone Ash - Ships in The Sky 3:00 1978

37 Sammy Hagar - Silver Lights 5:36 1976

38 Good Rats - Victory in Space 3:11 1978

39 Paul St John - Spaceship Lover 2:55 1972

40 Spontaneous Combustion - Spaceship 3:32 1972

41 Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Spaceship Orion 3:12 1973

42 Sugarloaf - Spaceship Earth 4:28 1971

43 Prism - Spaceship Superstar 4:09 1977

44 War - Galaxy (Original 1977 7" Single Edit) 4:45 1977

45 Galaxis - Space Rangers 4:32 1978

47 Mick Greenwood - Space Captain 3:45 1972

46 Harry Nilsson - The Flying Saucer Song 6:45 1976

48 Ren e Geyer - Space Captain 4:43 1973

49 Billy Preston - Outa-Space (Original 1971 7" Single Version) 4:10 1971

50 Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 5:42 1968


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51 Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine 4:15 1967

52 Spirit - Space Child 3:25 1970

53 US69 - 2069 A Spaced Oddity 10:22 1969

54 Emtidi - Space Age 4:18 1970

55 Cat Stevens - Longer Boats 3:12 1970

56 Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light 5:28 1968

57 Khan - Space Shanty 8:59 1972

58 Nektar - Astronaut's Nightmare 6:27 1971

59 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Third Stone From The Sun 6:39 1967

60 Ramases - Quasar One 6:46 1971

61 Beatles - Across The Universe 3:49 1969

62 Gong - To The Other Side of Sky 7:44 1973

63 Pink Floyd - Welcome to The Machine 7:31 1975

64 Alice Cooper - B.B. on Mars 1:17 1969

65 Moody Blues - Higher and Higher 4:05 1969

66 Steve Hillage - Solar Musick Suite 16:51 1975

67 Space Project - Conquest of The Stars 8:06 1978

68 Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri 3:22 1971

69 Grobschnitt - Solar Music Part 1 17:40 1974

70 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part II 8:08 1977

71 Eloy - Astral Entrance 3:04 1979

72 Jim Keays - Space Brothers 9:07 1974

73 Steve Hillage - U.F.O. Over Paris 3:10 1978

74 Lothar & The Hand People - Space Hymn 7:12 1969

75 Kraftwerk - The Robots 6:13 1978


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76 Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Are ''Friends'' Electric? 5:25 1979

77 Alan Parsons Project - I Robot 6:02 1977

78 King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man 7:23 1969

79 Kraftwerk - Spacelab 5:58 1978

80 Blue  yster Cult - E.T.I. (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) (Remastered) 5:14 1976

81 David Bowie - Starman 4:14 1972

82 David Bowie - Life on Mars (B-Side to Space Oddity) Italy 3:50 1971

83 Elton John - I've Seen The Saucers 4:47 1974

84 Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 3:42 1973

85 Fox - Strange Ships 5:01 1975

86 Stackridge - Purple Spaceships Over Yatton 6:39 1976

87 Eela Craig - A Spaceman Came Travelling 4:48 1978

88 Byrds - C.T.A. - 102 2:32 1966

89 Hawkwind - Silver Machine (A) (Original Single Mix) 4:39 1972

90 Hawkwind - Space is Deep 6:20 1972

91 Kim Fowley - Inner Space Discovery 4:04 1968

92 Klaatu - Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft) 6:16 1976

93 Bruce Haack - Super Nova 5:24 1970

94 Yes - Starship Trooper 3:26 1971

95 Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) 6:12 1975

96 Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Space Lady 6:45 1976

97 Byrds - Space Odyssey 3:46 1968

98 Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun 6:44 1979

99 B-52's - Planet Claire 4:37 1979

100 Jefferson Airplane - The House at Pooneil Corners 5:52 1968

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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