aka "Corroboree", there were 4 different covers for this LP. Same design, different color scheme.
Allmusic:
Because of the hurried schedule of newfound international success, the follow-up to True Colours suffered. Waiata follows much of the same formula of its predecessor, though in a slightly darker form that often lacks the punch that made True Colours great. Despite a couple of classic singles -- "One Step Ahead" and "History Never Repeats" -- and a handful of other inspired tracks, the album marks the band's first lateral move. "Waiata" is the Maori word for "party" (the album was given the aboriginal party title, Corroboree, in Australia). Following in the trend of True Colours, A&M issued three different colored covers for the worldwide release.
Robert Christgau doesn't get it:
They're still hyped as "avant-garde." Probably because they mix their twitty, intermittently tuneful art-pop with Nino Rota homages and stereo effects that go back to the house of Gary Usher. C+
01 - Hard Act To Follow.flac
02 - One Step Ahead.flac
03 - I Don't Wanna Dance.flac
04 - Iris.flac
05 - Wail.flac
06 - Clumsy.flac
07 - History Never Repeats.flac
08 - Walking Through The Ruins.flac
09 - Ships.flac
10 - Ghost Girl.flac
11 - Albert Of India.flac
My new stylus and cartridge made a big difference on this one. It caught some nice effects that my old set-up missed.
LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 192kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > AA used to balance L/R, split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal > RX Advanced to resample > RA Advanced to dither MBIT+ > TLH to FLAC and sector align (16bit, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.
"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz
No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.