Whitesnake

Whitesnake – Slip Of The Tongue (2019 Remaster) (1989/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:37 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Rock
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Any band would have been hard-pressed to follow the success of a multi-platinum album with another one of equal or higher quality both critically and commercially. Needless to say, that’s exactly what David Coverdale and Whitesnake were faced with when it came time to record 1989’s Slip of the Tongue, the follow-up to their 1987 smash self-titled LP. To complicate matters, Coverdale lost Irish guitarist Vivian Campbell during pre-recording sessions due to artistic differences, and his songwriting partner and lead guitarist, Adrian Vandenberg, injured himself to the degree that he couldn’t play; he did some early work that made it on to the final album. Coverdale, faced with a quickly approaching deadline and pressure from management and the label finally recruited former Frank Zappa guitarist Steve Vai to fill the chair. Commercially, Slip of the Tongue was an unqualified success. The album ended up being Whitesnake’s third platinum recording. Musically, however, the set is so drenched in ’80s production – huge compression, MIDI keyboards, a thin bottom end, etc. – it seems that little of the band’s tough blues-based metallic persona remains. The album sounds dated, full of overblown sounds and effects that have little to do with the act’s trademark heavy guitar-and-bass approach to hard rock and early Brit metal. Some of the songs have merit, even if their finished productions ruin them – the tough “Now You’re Gone” and “Judgment Day,” are great examples, as is “The Deeper the Love,” a classic Coverdale power ballad needlessly drenched in keys and synths. The fit between Vai and Whitesnake is also questionable; his busy approach is at odds with the meat-and-potatoes strut and pound of the band. Fans ate it up at the time, but Slip of the Tongue is, unfortunately, still an album very much of its time. The curious, as well as fans, may want to check out their earlier work before picking this up. AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
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Whitesnake – Slide It In: The Ultimate Edition (2019 Remaster) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:28:31 minutes | 5,74 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

“Slide It In: The Ultimate Edition” features unreleased versions of every album track, including 35thAnniversary remixes made this year, as well as monitor mixes recorded in 1983. The set boasts more than a dozen unreleased live recordings from 1984 that feature an entire concert from Glasgow, Scotland, plus several songs from Jon Lord’s final show with Whitesnake in Sweden. The collection’s final disc unearths 30 tracks that cover original demos and early mixes for album tracks, as well as unfinished song ideas.
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Whitesnake – Slide It In (Special 2019 U.S. Remix) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:07 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Rock
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Whitesnake scored its first platinum-selling album in 1984 with ‘Slide It In’, a release that has sold more than four million copies worldwide thanks to hard-rocking songs like “Love Ain’t No Stranger,” “Slow An’ Easy” and the title track. The classic album turns 35 this year and Rhino is celebrating with several new versions.
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Whitesnake – Slide It In (Deluxe Edition) [2019 Remaster] (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:30:31 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Whitesnake scored its first platinum-selling album in 1984 with ‘Slide It In’, a release that has sold more than four million copies worldwide thanks to hard-rocking songs like “Love Ain’t No Stranger,” “Slow An’ Easy” and the title track. The classic album turns 35 this year and Rhino is celebrating with several new versions.
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Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners (1982/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Rock
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When Whitesnake hit it big in the late ’80s with its power-pop/metal one-two punch, many new fans were unaware that earlier in the band’s career, David Coverdale and Co. were straight ahead, bluesy hard rockers, especially on their 1982 release, Saints & Sinners.
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Whitesnake – Restless Heart (25th Anniversary Edition, 2021 Remix) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:01 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Rock
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Even though they were a global chart-topping, hit-making machine less than ten years prior, David Coverdale came up empty when he tried to find a U.S.-based record company to issue the group’s 1997 release, Restless Heart (available Stateside only as an import). To Coverdale’s credit, he did not attempt to give Whitesnake a modern-day makeover (which so many pop- metal bands of the late ’80s did post-Nirvana, and failed miserably), as he follows in the same melodic rock mold of Whitesnake’s previous two releases, 1987’s Whitesnake and 1989’s Slip of the Tongue. Unlike the late-’80s edition of Whitesnake (which included Steve Vai, Tommy Aldridge, etc.), the 1998 version is not a showcase for rock’s most renowned hired guns. In addition to Coverdale, the only holdover from the group’s previous album is guitarist Adrian Vandenberg, who FINALLY gets the chance to appear on a full-length Whitesnake recording (after several close calls on the aforementioned releases). Instead of walloping listeners over the skull with an album opening rocker, Coverdale kicks things off on a mellow note, with the bluesy ballad “Don’t Fade Away,” but harder-edged material soon follows, including the riff-rocking title track, and “Crying,” which shows the singer’s Zeppelin fixation remains. The times may have changed, but David Coverdale is content with his old sound — and longtime Whitesnake fans will be pleased. – Greg Prato
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Whitesnake – Restless Heart [25th Anniversary, Super Deluxe Edition] (1997/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:50:59 minutes | 7,32 GB | Genre: Rock
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Restless Heart is the ninth studio album by English hard rock band Whitesnake, released by EMI on 26 March 1997 in Japan and 26 May in Europe. It was produced by the band’s vocalist David Coverdale, and originally conceived as a solo album. However, Coverdale was pressured into releasing the record under the moniker “David Coverdale & Whitesnake” by EMI. Musically Restless Heart features a more subdued sound compared to Whitesnake’s previous two albums. It is also the only full-length Whitesnake studio album to feature guitarist Adrian Vandenberg throughout, despite being a member of the group since 1987.

The album received a mixed response from music critics, and only reached number 34 in the group’s native UK. In total, Restless Heart charted in ten countries. With Whitesnake having been dropped by Geffen Records in 1994, Restless Heart did not receive a North American release, being available only as an import. The album’s supporting tour was billed as Whitesnake’s farewell tour, although the band would later reform in 2003. Restless Heart was reissued by Rhino Entertainment in 2021, featuring remastered and remixed versions of the album, among other previously unreleased material…
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Whitesnake – Ready An’ Willing (1980/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:58 minutes | 859 MB | Genre: Rock
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Despite benefiting from the expert assistance of legendary producer Martin Birch (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, later Iron Maiden) Whitesnake’s early studio albums all tended to sound unexplainably flat. Their fourth effort, 1980’s Ready an’ Willing, was no exception, but it did make up for this somewhat with solid songwriting. In fact, David Coverdale and company were growing increasingly more consistent and self-assured with each record, and this album’s first half shows great progress over the previous year’s hit-and-miss Lovehunter. Opener “Fool for Your Lovin’” was their best single yet, as well as their highest charting; with its clever combination of hit-savvy chorus and authentic bluesy resignation, it set the template for subsequent triumphs, and the fact that Coverdale re-recorded it (in disappointing pop-metal fashion) over a decade later for 1989’s Slip of the Tongue is a testament to its staying power. Further highlights include the live favorite “Sweet Talker” (given extra bite by Micky Moody’s expert slide guitar), the groove monster of a title track, and a set of memorable ballads in “Blindman” and “Ain’t Gonna Cry No More.” The same laurels can’t be awarded to the album’s closing trio of songs, all of which evince the tired and formulaic blues-rock that had dominated previous releases. But this didn’t stop Ready an’ Willing from qualifying as Whitesnake’s finest hour thus far, with ever-greater glory waiting just over the horizon.
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Whitesnake – Live…. In The Heart of the City (1980/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:12 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
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“Live…in the Heart of the City” is a 1980 live album by British rock band Whitesnake, originally released as a double-vinyl album. The album charted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart, and number 146 on the Billboard 200.
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Whitesnake – Live at Donington 1990 (30th Anniversary Complete Edition; 2019 Remaster) (1990/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:33 minutes | 2,21 GB | Genre: Rock
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Donington on 18 August 1990 during the Monsters of Rock festival, which the band headlined.

A remastered 17 track collection of the band’s entire performance, digitally. All of the songs from the performance have been remastered. This new digital collection includes a mix of hits and deep tracks, including “Is This Love” from Whitesnake’s multi-platinum self-titled album and the #1 smash “Here I Go Again.” There are also four instrumental tracks that feature virtuosic guitar solos including, “Adagio for Strato,” “Flying Dutchman Boogie,” “For The Love Of God,” “The Audience Is Listening” and an explosive drum solo from the extraordinary Tommy Aldridge.
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Whitesnake – Love Songs (2020 Remix) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:10 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Whitesnake brings together some of the most-passionate music of its multi-platinum career on LOVE SONGS, a new collection that contains remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best love songs. It’s the second release in the band’s “Red, White and Blues Trilogy,” a series of compilations organized by musical themes that began this summer with The ROCK Album (white) and will conclude next year with The BLUES Album (blue).
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Whitesnake – Lovehunter (1979/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:07 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Rock
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For all of its musical merits, Whitesnake’s second full-length album, Lovehunter, is probably best remembered for its lurid cover painting (featuring a very naked female and a very large snake) rather than the band’s ever-improving recipe for blues-infected hard rock. The group’s performance in the studio environment remains strangely tame, however, and though blaming the producer seems like the obvious explanation, one has to wonder if this is the case when a veteran like Martin Birch (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath) is at the helm. Still, all things considered, the record is quite consistent; the band is equally at home rocking through the foot-stomping “Long Way From Home,” and gliding through the bluesy ballad “Help Me Thro’ the Day.” “Walking in the Shadow of the Blues” combines near-perfect songwriting with one of Coverdale’s maturest and most compelling lyrics, while the masterful slide guitar of Mickey Moody literally ignites the awesome title track. The gorgeously simple piano treatment of “We Wish You Well” closes the disc in fine fashion.
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Whitesnake – Flesh & Blood (Deluxe Edition) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:06 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.

Whitesnake return with their 13th studio album, “Flesh & Blood”. Fresh off celebrating their 40th anniversary, rock legends Whitesnake return with their latest studio album, “Flesh & Blood”. This album follows the 2011 critically acclaimed studio album “Forevermore” and 2015’s “The Purple Album”, a reimagining of Deep Purple classics from Whitesnake mastermind’s David Coverdale’s time in that band. The 13 original, visceral tracks on “Flesh & Blood”, the band’s 13th studio album, are, luckily for you dear reader, “all killer, no filler”, as the saying goes.
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Whitesnake – Come An’ Get It (Come An’ Get It)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:24 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Few groups have had an impact on the international rock scene as Whitesnake. Inspired by the blues, singer David Coverdale’s rock vision has become a standard that many acts have tried to live up to yet pale in comparison. The band went into Startling Studios at the tail end of 1980/early 1981 and recorded one of the early greats alongside the classic “Ready An’ Willing”. Released in April 1981 and entering the UK chart at number 2 this was early Whitesnake at their peak.
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Whitesnake – Love Songs (2020 Remix) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:10 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Whitesnake brings together some of the most-passionate music of its multi-platinum career on LOVE SONGS, a new collection that contains remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best love songs. It’s the second release in the band’s “Red, White and Blues Trilogy,” a series of compilations organized by musical themes that began this summer with The ROCK Album (white) and will conclude next year with The BLUES Album (blue).
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