Heart - Dreamboat Annie - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Everything Must Go - Steely Dan's last studio album with founding member Walter Becker!The brilliance of Steely Dan on Hybrid SACD from Analogue Productions!Newly remastered from the original analog tape by Bernie Grundman direct to DSDHoused in a super jewel case boxEverything Must Go was Steely Dan's second album after their 20-year studio hiatus spanning 1980 through 2000, when they released Two Against Nature. Everything Must Go is the last studio album with founding member Walter Becker before his death in 2017 and their most recent album to date.Acoustic Sounds is honored to reissue the Steely Dan album catalog in a way that best shares the group's unmistakable sound with decades of devoted fans. Each Hybrid SACD reissue in the Analogue Productions Steely Dan Series is newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original master tape direct to DSD. The result is more sonic punch and more expression captured from the tape.Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan's popularity rose throughout the late 1970s on, and their seven albums over that period of time blended elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Steely Dan created a sophisticated, distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, and a devotion to the recording studio. Becker and Fagen, with producer Gary Katz, gradually changed Steely Dan from a performing band to a studio project, hiring session musicians to record their compositions. The duo didn't perform live between 1974 and 1993. But their popularity nevertheless grew throughout the '70s as their albums became critical favorites and their singles became staples of Adult Oriented Radio and pop radio stations.

Breakthrough Debut Launched Heart's Hall of Fame Career Dreamboat Annie Blends Electric and Acoustic Elements, Includes the Classics 'Magic Man' and 'Crazy on You'50th Anniversary Edition of 1975 Album Features Audiophile Sound Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Revealing Clarity and Broad DynamicsHeart's breakthrough debut, Dreamboat Annie, has often been framed in the context of a female-led band successfully matching the moves of it's male counterparts during an era when women weren't associated with rocking out - particularly on a mainstream level. While that take is true - Ann and Nancy Wilson practically stood alone amid a commercial age dominated by testosterone - it undersells the appeal, scope, and craftsmanship of an album that deserves to be revered strictly because of it's merit, not because of the gender of the group's principal members. Fueled by alluring arrangements that balance electric and acoustic elements, Dreamboat Annie went platinum and spawned three hit singles within a year of it's . It all foreshadowed a Hall of Fame career guided by the Wilson sisters' toughness and determination.Mastered at MoFi's in-house studio, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set puts the record's artistic significance in proper perspective. Presented in definitive sound, it invites you to hear with stellar clarity the diverse architecture, passionate playing, and fervent emotions that help make Dreamboat Annie an all-time classic. This 50th anniversary edition marks the first time Heart's opening salvo has been available in audiophile quality on vinyl in more than four decades. Drop the needle and experience the textures of the guitars, full range of Ann Wilson's voice, spacious backdrops, and rhythmic momentum free of veiled tones and artifici

2007 Japanese pressing Hybrid SACD. Sony.