After a stint in The New Humblebums with Billy Connolly (the future comedian), he went solo. This is Gerry Rafferty's first solo LP. After the current effort, he hooked up with longtime friend Joe Egan to form Stealer's Wheel. Then after the lawsuits settled, he brought the masterwork "City To City". But it all starts here, and there is much to like.
Some of these tracks were repackaged with some New Humblebums tracks and released as "Gerry Rafferty", so it all gets very confusing very quickly. Then there are the numerous "Greatest Hits" comps.
But ignore all that crap. Settle in and enjoy some GR.
Allmusic Review by Doug Stone
"The gifted Gerry Rafferty sometimes soared the staggering singer/songwriter heights of that unattainable deity, Dylan. Unfortunately, this cynical Scot also encountered a variety of corporate roadblocks (hence the title track) that continually affected his productivity. Another blatant shot at the bigwigs looms in "Sign on the Dotted Line," written with future Stealers Wheel partner Joe Egan (the duo detailed industry fatigue further in the sinister "Stuck in the Middle With You"). The limited Rafferty works that actually made it to wax remain potent years later. Song by song, Rafferty delineates life ("New Street Blues"), love ("Didn't I"), and fitness ("Mr Universe") with a classy professionalism that still retains an emotional impact, a trait unique to the '70s, and Rafferty is a consummate '70s star. This record harnesses the cosmic production presence prevalent in the latter discs of the decade, when Rafferty's commercial Renaissance arrived with City to City, but returns to earth with intrinsically fluid melodies, facile poetry, and folksy playing. Simply superlative, Can I Have My Money back is the first of too few full-lengths from a sporadic but splendid talent."
01 - New Street Blues.flac
02 - Didn't I.flac
03 - Mr. Universe.flac
04 - Mary Skeffington.flac
05 - Long Way Round.flac
06 - Can I Have My Money Back.flac
07 - Sign On The Dotted Line.flac
08 - Make You Break You.flac
09 - To Each And Everyone.flac
10 - One Drink Down.flac
11 - Don't Count Me Out.flac
12 - Half A Chance.flac
13 - Where I Belong.flac
This is what I do in general. Not every step is done for all rips:
LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > AA used to balance L/R > (for MONO: Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine L+R >) AA to split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal > for 24bit: use AA to truncate the 32bit file >
for 16bit: Izoptope RX Advanced to resample the 32bit file to 44.1kHz > and then to dither to`16bit using MBIT+ >
All > Trader's Little Helper to FLAC and (for 16bit: sector align if necessary, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.
"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz
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log date: 2012-03-09 15:30:06
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Analyzed: Gerry Rafferty / Can I Have My Money Back - LP
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -6.09 dB -20.20 dB 2:58 01-New Street Blues
DR12 -7.10 dB -20.98 dB 3:44 02-Didn't I
DR12 -6.57 dB -21.89 dB 2:47 03-Mr. Universe
DR12 -6.82 dB -23.54 dB 2:35 04-Mary Skeffington
DR12 -6.84 dB -21.30 dB 4:51 05-Long Way Round
DR12 -5.83 dB -20.57 dB 2:05 06-Can I Have My Money Back
DR13 -5.15 dB -19.76 dB 3:31 07-Make You Break You
DR12 -7.71 dB -23.26 dB 2:35 07-Sign On The Dotted Line
DR13 -7.49 dB -22.87 dB 2:44 08-To Each And Everyone
DR12 -5.76 dB -20.11 dB 2:50 09-One Drink Down
DR13 -5.95 dB -21.46 dB 3:47 10-Don't Count Me Out
DR13 -5.71 dB -22.47 dB 3:54 11-Half A Chance
DR11 -8.89 dB -23.33 dB 1:59 12-Where I Belong
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Number of tracks: 13
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 601 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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