Them Crooked Vultures
S/T original US LP (2009)
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1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser
3. New Fang
4. Dead End Friends
5. Elephants
6. Scumbag Blues
7. Bandoliers
8. Reptiles
9. Interlude with Ludes
10. Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up
11. Caligulove
12. Gunman
13. Spinning in Daffodils
This is a newly posted rip done by Pbthal in january of 2010.
I've slightly re-tracked a couple of the songs that he made minor errors on.
He had mistakenly put the instrumental horn segment which should be at the end of "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" at the beginning of "New Fang", and also the lo-fi keyboard ending of "Caligulove" was mistakenly made into an intro for "Gunman".
I decoded these tracks with Trader's Little Helper and did some cutting and pasting with Wavelab 5.01b. These "fixed" tracks were re-encoded to FLAC8 again with TLH. The rest of the files are direct from Pbthal. I have not altered the audio content, just a few songs start and end points.
I did some tagging with Foobar2000 to make all the files list properly.
I think this would be the definitive version of this album, at least until the powers that be in the music industry officially declare "the loudness wars" over and done. A fresh DVD-audio or BluRay version of a less harshly mastered (or un-mastered, really) version of this album would be more than welcomed by me, and hopefully you, too!
Pbthal does some amazing work, blowing away so many CD mastering fiascos that have come out. He is an MFSL buster, showing that time and time again the original vinyl release of an album is usually far superior to the over-limited and compressed remasters that we are being fed.
I'm a fan of TCV, and I was pretty saddened by the seemingly standard brickwalling limited compressed mess that the CD appears to be. I love the music, but hated the sound on the CD. The vinyl rips that were circulating before this left a lot to be desired, but were both an improvement over the CD, IMHO. Well, no more! This is finally how it should be listened to. Thanks, Pbthal, for filling my (and lots of others) request!
I'm so impressed, I had to share this one around. It's great! Trust me.
audioarchivist@hotmail.com
Below is some info on Pbthal's process, from his blog.
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Technical Info About My Rips
Unless otherwise stated here is the technical info on my vinyl rips:
Turntable: VPI Scoutmaster with Trans-Fi Terminator Air Bearing Linear Tracing Tonearm
Cartridge: Audio-Technica AT33PTG
Phono Preamp: Pro-Ject TubeBox
Soundcard: E-MU 1212
All rips are recorded in full 24bit 192khz resolution and then resampled to 44/24 for manual click repair.
They are then dithered to standard redbook 16bit/44khz
I use IzotopeRX Advanced for all resampling/dithering
http://pbthal.blogspot.com/
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Trader's Little helper spat out this mumbo jumbo:
01 - No One Loves Me & Neither Do I.flac:31aa813239533dd3b433d2def41a4453
02 - Mind Eraser, No Chaser - fixed.flac:6ff94e5cb0573211caf2bfcb86b7b0c5
03 - New Fang - fixed.flac:25a1a71bd23f49d0df09145605f79d87
04 - Dead End Friends.flac:c4409c7036794ef6cc95584ed6f6a5b9
05 - Elephants.flac:c05cde0e40dcc7b78e0ead332c67b2a6
06 - Scumbag Blues.flac:3bcedfa9c5d160458d06fed30aaff18d
07 - Bandoliers.flac:a9b01f07cec15af9e26e4e511ef9462b
08 - Reptiles.flac:a7ac060a4d64cdb9b28be1b43462d3e8
09 - Interlude With Ludes.flac:53f9aac7291eaa8e4ebd48c603b2bfde
10 - Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up.flac:3e318f8f62368e54286b4c1b1efd7696
11 - Caligulove - fixed.flac:1fbf0db00fcddf2cff23d28b55eb2b7d
12 - Gunman - fixed.flac:2b6718cb8a33ec8c988abca2436c862e
13 - Spinning In Daffodils.flac:1146439e3925aeb0810f2270f60e6555
File 'Digital Booklet - Them Crooked Vultu.pdf' does not appear to be a flac file.
File 'front.jpg' does not appear to be a flac file.
File 'Them Crooked Vultures - Pbthal 2010 rip (fixed).txt' does not appear to be a flac file.
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