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Welcome to Free Albums Galore, a full-album “mp3 blog” for listeners of eclectic music. What distingiushes Free Albums Galore from other mp3 blogs?

1. I post only complete albums, not individual or scattered tracks.
2. I post only albums with permanent off-site hosting, unlike other album blogs like Hepcatwilly.
3. I post only legally free albums, instead of blindly hoping copyright owners won’t mind me distributing their music.
4. I post at least one complete album per day.

I won’t link to files that require site registration before downloading, or to files with restrictive DRM. I also won’t link to albums with seperate tracks hosted as a single, inseperable MP3, even for genres like Deep House (at Fleep). From the classical music world, I consider any work at least 20 minutes in length to be a “complete album”, but there will be exceptions (ala Mozart’s wonderful 40th Symphony). This blog was originally hosted at blogspot until I tired of its meager features and abandoned it for a WordPress-enabled blog host. The ads on this blog support my gracious blog host, not me.

If you can recommend any online, free, legal, complete albums (or lengthy classical works), feel free to e-mail me at freealbumsgalore@yahoo.com.

To easily download all album tracks on a page or post in a few simple clicks, I suggest using Firefox (which is better than other web browsers for a multitude of reasons) and the DownThemAll extension.

EDIT: On January 1st, 2006, I handed over this blog to Marvin.

POSTED BY Marvin ON 07.21.05 @ 12:40 am |

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  1. Hey Luke, a question - is it fair to draw traffic away from the sites hosting the files? It seems your intentions are to drive traffic to the sites offering the sounds, but then you link directly to the sound files, serving as a middle man while they still get the bandwidth usage. I wrestle with this dilema in my playlists at Webjay and Oddio. Some sites have written asking to be linked to, but to allow them to share the actual aound files from their own site. Your thoughts?

    Comment by Oddio Katya — September 1, 2005 @ 1:12 pm

  2. I almost always link to the site or download page in my post if I link directly to the files below the Download header. I link directly to files when they are not actually linked to from any page, or when readers would have to wade through long, messy, or other-language pages to find the correct download links. Because I usually link to the host site somewhere in my post, so I do not believe it is a problem.

    Comment by Luke — September 1, 2005 @ 4:58 pm

  3. Are you hip to this already? You oughta know. Hey, I love your site — keep it up.

    Comment by david — November 14, 2005 @ 7:46 am

  4. Thanks, didn’t know about that one!

    Comment by Luke — November 14, 2005 @ 10:39 pm

  5. Please have a look around my site, particularly the SHAKES album. I’m enjoying your links :j

    Comment by ShowcaseJase — June 10, 2006 @ 12:17 pm

  6. I LOVE this blog!

    Comment by HissingDragon — March 4, 2007 @ 9:21 pm

  7. Hello,

    Thank you for the wonderful site. Very useful and courageous! I look forward to sharing this with others. Have a good day and best.

    Alan-

    Comment by Alan Lechusza — March 5, 2007 @ 6:40 am

  8. Hi:
    This is our Network Music Platform( http://iosv.blogbus.com ),I hope you could like it and support it,thank you.

    Comment by ppp32 — March 18, 2007 @ 10:44 am

  9. Man, I love your blog! It’s very refreshing and I am very grateful for turning me onto the Hot Bitch Arsenal, Jets Overhead, and The Bastard Fairies to name a few. Thank you very much for all of your hard work. Peace and grease.

    Comment by Big Poppa — April 11, 2007 @ 3:00 am

  10. Very glad to play Hadyn 88th. Have DVD in which Dohnanyi (grandson of the composer) rehearses London Philarmonia in this piece but without a full performance. Congratulate Columbia Orchestra on a delightful performance.

    Comment by c.corben — May 13, 2007 @ 10:53 am

  11. Great site thanks for sharing these albums.

    Comment by Internet Marketing Consultant — July 11, 2007 @ 2:21 am

  12. Hi!
    thanks for your support.. your blog is amazing!
    Lágrima new split album will be release on August… ;)

    Comment by Xavi — July 16, 2007 @ 9:35 am

  13. Thanks for the support! :)

    Peace,

    Pedro.

    Comment by test tube — July 27, 2007 @ 11:47 am

  14. I’m very much in love with this blog. Since I’ve started coming to it my itunes library has nearly doubled. Thanks especially for turning me on to Dead Heart Bloom, The Bastard Fairies and John Vanderslice.

    Comment by Whitney — October 7, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

  15. great work luke, some really good music out there, bombay laughinh club amongst others…thnakeeeeeee

    Comment by vijay — October 10, 2007 @ 3:23 pm

  16. First, I would like to thank you for your great blog. Indeed, I find it really diversified and there is a lot of interesting things, many of them unknown to me, so I’m really happy to discover new things and your blog expand my musical domain. So, thank you very much for all and I hope to see you soon on our website (http://planetesauvagesound.free.fr)
    Thanks.
    Carole

    Comment by Carole — November 22, 2007 @ 1:50 am

  17. Hello, good blog

    here free Rock and Roll CD:

    http:/www.etiqueta-rock.com.ar/

    is rock of sudameric ghetto

    Bye!!!

    Comment by El Flacko — November 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

  18. Hey there,

    Thanks for finding and posting my Dark River Projects Vols 1&2. Volume 3 is around the corner.

    Enjoy,

    - doug

    Comment by Doug Carter — November 24, 2007 @ 4:27 am

  19. Excellent site/resource!
    Got a free album for your list, it will be available to the end of the year. Feel free to dig it or ditch it. The style is electronica/acoustic downtempo kind of thing.
    www.dynamoe.com

    Enjoy
    /Giovanni

    Comment by Giovanni — December 3, 2007 @ 2:18 pm

  20. hey, thought you might want to know Tortured Sun is letting people download thier entire EP at torturedsun.com

    Comment by metalhead — January 15, 2008 @ 5:21 pm

  21. heres a free Ratatat remix album http://www.ratatatmusic.com/news.html

    Comment by Anonymous — March 29, 2008 @ 7:46 pm

  22. Last month I released Politics Apocalypse, a full length album using the creative commons licence attribution 3.0. This allows you to use the music however you please (including in commercial projects) so long as you give credit. Since last month we have had over 3000 album downloads.

    We accept donations, and we have a name-your-own-price CD; which is a unique concept where you can name your own price (starting at cost price) for a CD. We have had some orders and heaps of positive feedback.

    The album is political post-industrial rock with an interesting mix of classical instruments, guitars, electronic beats, and a dash of aussie hip-hop.

    You can download the whole 11 track album for free at our website.
    http://www.politicsapocalypse.com

    Comment by Cliffe — May 23, 2008 @ 7:28 am

  23. Hello. Fantastique Blog.
    Cheers, From
    WE ARE MONSTERS
    Norway
    FREE: WE ARE MONSTERS - THE AUTUMN WORKS [Electronica]
    http://www.archive.org/details/WeAreMonsters-AutumnWorks

    Comment by We Are Monsters — May 23, 2008 @ 9:36 am

  24. very very useful and content rich site.
    thanks for that!

    Comment by Anonymous — July 13, 2008 @ 9:33 pm

  25. Thank you for this blog. Discovered lots of good music!

    Comment by sebu — July 16, 2008 @ 11:12 am

  26. Damn fine blog.

    Comment by Kris — July 20, 2008 @ 9:50 am

  27. This is a great site! I’m always up to download some free and legal music, and your tastes are just about as eclectic as mine! Keep up the excellent work!

    Comment by Lethe — August 27, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

  28. Nice page you’ve got. I wrote about it on my (swedish) blog.
    http://musikochmer.blogspot.com/2008/10/gratis-album-i-en-strid-strm.html

    Comment by Pär — October 23, 2008 @ 7:10 am

  29. good page! I’ll add one more link
    to page with alternative music, but good music
    http://towary.art.pl/

    Comment by Drzejms — October 28, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

  30. was looking for Suzanne (cohen) and landed here. Am v happy to see your blog; its a super piece of work…god bless…

    Comment by mona — December 22, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

  31. Download The Free Single From We Are Monsters @ wrmonsters.blogspot.com

    BLOCK//ROCKIN//BEATS & CHIP CHIP HEAT-!

    Comment by Dreyfuz — January 3, 2009 @ 10:56 am

  32. hello
    sorry but I do not speak good English.
    congratulations on your blog. I would like to offer my music to be placed in your blog.free of copyright with my authorization.
    I am Brazilian artist, composer and music producer.
    I await an answer.
    thanks
    Mario Avellar

    Comment by mario avellar — January 7, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

  33. Hey guys,
    Great blog. If you’re ever hard up for some eclectic noise to post, you’re welcomed to raid our free arsenals. We’ve got 34 releases and counting of “Free Improvisation For Your Smoking Jacketed Pleasure”. We have a bad habit of making stuff up while we record and then giving it away.
    We’re Late For Class
    http://werelateforclass.blogspot.com/

    Comment by We're Late For Class — January 8, 2009 @ 12:45 am

  34. FREE Download of Awake! Awake!’s debut album “We’ve Been Strangers” at Noisetrade.com/AwakeAwake. It’s a Rock/Indie album.

    Comment by Andrew Goodwin — February 3, 2009 @ 9:33 pm

  35. Thank you for your effort, I appreciate it very much!

    Comment by Lke — March 30, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

  36. Always look forward to your posts and reviews. Keep trucking!

    Comment by Dave — May 14, 2009 @ 9:57 am

  37. Found you via Konntinent. Do I say thank you for all of the wonderful new music or whinge because of the amount of time I’m going to be downloading and listening? Cheers

    Comment by Jeffrey — August 24, 2009 @ 9:04 am

  38. I would like to share my free album with this website. Please check it out. I hope you enjoy. It has 23 instrumental track.

    http://nimrod.bandcamp.com/

    Peace

    Comment by Nimrod — November 23, 2009 @ 7:52 pm

  39. a new klitorik release of olaf tonstein & marow called “scintillation” is out now!

    http://www.klitorik.com

    Comment by chris — November 30, 2009 @ 1:52 pm

  40. [TN] is a non profit netlabel specialises in Experimental Electronic Music, focused on the expression of new musical concepts, from glitchy to field recording, which includes noise, stochastic synthesis, drone, minimalist, microsounds, music concrete

    [TN] is also an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism of emerging sound languages and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.

    Thanks for your visit & listening!

    Comment by Tecnonucleo Netlabe — December 14, 2009 @ 12:41 pm

  41. Marvin, have a fantastic Christmas and many thanks for making this the first site I look at every day. i don’t know how you do it!

    Comment by Greenockian — December 24, 2009 @ 2:24 pm

  42. Thanks, Greenockian.

    Comment by Marvin — December 24, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

  43. my band dendaomnivora&thewhiteliar like you know from compilation MusicBeyondNoBorders vol.1 from YesNoWave.com Want Label Or Promotor For Released My Full Albums

    Comment by DendaOmnivora — February 15, 2010 @ 6:43 am

  44. Nice blog. I run a label that focuses on free releases online. You can find almost 100 releases (most of them free to download in lossless formats) at www.mamrecords.com.

    Keep up the good work!

    Comment by John Praw — April 11, 2010 @ 9:09 pm

  45. Could somebody direct me to an indie group under the creative commons agreement that sounds similar to Herb Alpert? It’s for an independent movie soundtrack. Thanks.

    pwgabachito@yahoo.com

    Comment by Pasitos — May 1, 2010 @ 2:07 am

  46. Hi Marvin, I’m creating a new netlabel dedicated to promote my music and the music of some fellow musicians. There are 4 albums just ready to download. Love to here any comments.
    http://musicaanonadada.blogspot.com/
    Greetinds from Buenos Aires, Claudio

    Comment by claudio — May 8, 2010 @ 3:21 am

  47. Hi, did you have a listen to our last album “no cookies for breakfast”? check it out @ trastienda or directly @ archive.org

    yours, sincerely
    1984

    Comment by 1984 — June 11, 2010 @ 9:43 am

  48. Hi Marvin - thanks for the continued good work. Check out this album which I downloaded today - a great compilation that deserves the widest possible audience:

    https://www.yousendit.com/download/T1VseVdrdkc1R1B2Wmc9PQ

    Comment by Greenockian — July 19, 2010 @ 10:03 am

  49. Hi Marvin, this is my first reference:
    Bruzznit - Alrededor de la casa iman (2010)
    Free download:
    http://chiennoir.vndv.com/pagines/catalogo%20bruzznit.html

    Comment by Bruzznit — July 21, 2010 @ 10:15 pm

  50. Love your site and have downloaded many of your recommendations over the years. I’ve just recorded my own album and uploaded it to jamendo. Could you write a review…?
    http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/72689

    Comment by Luke — August 26, 2010 @ 1:14 am

  51. just want to share…
    http://zenofelea.blogspot.com/search/label/MUSIC

    Comment by zen — October 20, 2010 @ 8:56 am

  52. Hi! This is Nicole from Jamendo - just wanted to say thanks for featuring so many of our artists on your site! Great blog!

    Comment by Nicole (jamendo) — October 22, 2010 @ 12:24 pm

  53. Ссылка для скачивания альбома: http://ifolder.ru/20781606

    Hi, I’d like to contribute some information about a new EP (Best days) by post rock band I Will Kill Chita from Moscow.

    First of all some music to know the subject:
    Myspace http://www.myspace.com/iwillkillchita
    Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/ru/album/81941

    Free downloads here:
    http://www.postrockxchange.com/2010/12/i-will-kill-chita-best-days-2010-postrock/
    And here:
    http://post-rock.ru/albums/4940-i-will-kill-chita-best-days-ep-2010.html

    Comment by Nick Samarin — December 27, 2010 @ 3:27 pm

  54. puffinonmyside.bandcamp.com

    Comment by Ale — April 8, 2011 @ 8:19 am

  55. Hi, Antlason, I would like to share my free album with this website plz.

    here my sides:
    http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Antlason
    http://www.antlason.ucoz.com
    http://www.myspace.com/antlason

    God Bless!!!
    Peace Out!!!

    Comment by Antlason — June 1, 2011 @ 2:05 am

  56. this guy is a fantastic artist… his music is a careful blendin of rap and rock.

    Comment by Anonymous — June 1, 2011 @ 3:23 pm

  57. I don’t know where I found out about “My Dad Is Dead” - I thought it was here, but apparently not. You should feature this sometime - he has a number of awesome albums available for free download.

    Your blog is great!

    Comment by DavidE — June 9, 2011 @ 5:18 pm

  58. why can’t I find oldies?

    Comment by Rick Anderson — June 11, 2011 @ 7:32 am

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