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Kansas: Leftoverture - Original Kirshner Pressing - 24/96 rip to redbook
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Kansas: Leftoverture - Original Kirshner Pressing
CBS/Kirshner JZ 34224 (mint vinyl pressing, 1976)
Vinyl remaster in 24-bit/96kHz resampled and dithered to redbook | FLAC | Hires LP Scans | 277MB
| “ | For any art rock band, the fourth album means it's time for a self-styled masterpiece -- if you need proof, look at Selling England by the Pound or Fragile. So, with Kansas, the most determinedly arty of all American art rock bands, they composed and recorded Leftoverture, an impenetrable conundrum of significance that's capped off by nothing less than a five-part suite, appropriately titled "Magnum Opus," and featuring such promising movement titles as "Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat" and "Release the Beavers." Of course, there's no telling whether this closing opus relates to the opener, "Carry On Wayward Son," the greatest single Kansas ever cut — a song that manages to be pompous, powerful, ridiculous, and catchy all at once. That they never manage to rival it anywhere on this record is as much a testament to their crippling ambition as their lack of skills. And it's unfair to say Kansas are unskilled, since they are certainly instrumentally proficient and they can craft songs or, rather, compositions that appear rather ambitious. Except these compositions aren't particularly complex, rhythmically or harmonically, and are in their own way as ambling as boogie rock, which still feels to be their foundation. It's not really fair to attack Kansas for a concept album with an impenetrable concept — it's possible to listen to Lamb Lies Down on Broadway hundreds of times and not know what the hell Rael is up to — but there's neither hooks nor true grandiosity here to make it interesting. That said, this still may be Kansas' most consistent set, outside of Point of Know Return. Take that for what you will. -AMG | ” |
Side A:
01. Carry On Wayward Son
02. The Wall
03. What's on My Mind
04. Miracles Out of Nowhere
Side B:
05. Opus Insert
06. Questions of My Childhood
07. Cheyenne Anthem
08. Magnum Opus: Father Padilla Meets The Perfect Gnat / Howling At The Moon/
Man Overboard / Industry On Parade / Release The Beavers / Gnat Attack
Principal Equipment used:
Clearaudio Champion 2 turntable & Unify tonearm
Benz Micro L2 cartridge
Extremephono Tonearm cable
Aqvox USB-2 MKII D/A
(manual declicking)
NOTE: Burn gapless (no track gaps) to match original track layout
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[Artist]
Kansas
[Album]
Leftoverture
[Release Info]
Format...............: Vinyl, LP, Album
Date.................: 1976
Label................: Kirshner
Catalog#.............: JZ 34224
Country..............: US
Time.................: 43:12
Notes................: Second cat# on the label: AL 34224.
[Personnel]
Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Electric]....................................: Rich Williams
Arranged By...........................................................: Kansas
Artwork By............................................................: Dave McMacken
Bass..................................................................: Dave Hope
Drums, Percussion.....................................................: Phil Ehart
Engineer..............................................................: Bill Evans
Guitar, Piano, Clavinet, Synthesizer [Moog, Overheim, Arp]............: Kerry Livgren
Organ, Piano, Vibraphone, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer....: Steve Walsh
Producer, Engineer [Assistant], Recorded By...........................: Jeff Glixman
Violin, Viola, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals............................: Robby Steinhardt
[Tracklist]
A1 Carry On Wayward Son - 5:25
Written-By - K. Livgren
A2 The Wall - 4:50
Written-By - K. Livgren , S. Walsh
A3 What's On My Mind - 3:31
Written-By - K. Livgren
A4 Miracles Out Of Nowhere - 6:26
Written-By - K. Livgren
B5 Opus Insert - 4:28
Written-By - K. Livgren , S. Walsh
B6 Questions Of My Childhood - 3:39
Written-By - K. Livgren , S. Walsh
B7 Cheyenne Anthem - 6:57
Voice [Children] - Cheryl Norman , Toye La Rocca
Written-By - K. Livgren
B8 Magnum Opus - 7:27
Written-By - D. Hope , K. Livgren , R. Williams ,
R. Steinhardt , S. Walsh
Total Time: 43:12
[TAGS]
Rock | Classic Rock | Album Rock | Prog Rock | Arena Rock | Art Rock | Slick | Theatrical | Quirky | Complex | Indulgent | Self Conscious | American | USA | 1970's
[LINKS]
_http://www.kansasband.com/
_http://www.myspace.com/kansas
_http://www.discogs.com/Kansas-Leftoverture/release/770011 -- Vinyl LP 1976
_http://www.amazon.com/Leftoverture-Kansas/dp/B00005JA2B -- Amazon 1
_http://www.amazon.com/Leftoverture-Kansas/dp/B000002579 -- Amazon 2
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Note the usage of the preposition: to.
English Prepositions List
There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words. In fact, the prepositions of, to and in are among the ten most frequent words in English. Here is a short list of 70 of the more common one-word prepositions. Many of these prepositions have more than one meaning. Please refer to a dictionary for precise meaning and usage.
What is redbook?
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.
Technical details
The pits in a CD are 500 nm wide, between 830 nm and 3,000 nm long and 150 nm deep.
Individual pits are visible on the micrometre scale.
The Red Book specifies the physical parameters and properties of the CD, the optical "stylus" parameters, deviations and error rate, modulation system (eight-to-fourteen modulation, EFM) and error correction (cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon coding, CIRC), and subcode channels and graphics.
It also specifies the form of digital audio encoding: 2-channel signed 16-bit PCM sampled at 44,100 Hz. This sample rate is adapted from that attained when recording digital audio on PAL videotape with a PCM adaptor, an earlier way of storing digital audio.
An audio CD can represent frequencies up to 22.05 kHz, the Nyquist frequency of the 44.1 kHz sample rate.
The bit rate is 1411.2 kbit/s:
2 channels x 44,100 samples per second per channel × 16 bits per sample = 1,411,200 bit/s = 1,411.2 kbit/s.
As each sample is a signed 16-bit two's complement integer, sample values range from -32768 to +32767.
On the disc, the data are stored in sectors of 2352 bytes each, read at 75 sectors per second. Onto this the overhead of EFM, CIRC, L2 ECC, and so on, is added, but these are not typically exposed to the application reading the disc.
By comparison, the bit rate of a "1x" data CD is defined as 2048 bytes per sector × 75 sectors per second = 150 KiB/s, or approximately 9.2 million bytes per minute.
I hope this might clear a few things up for you. Enjoy.
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See for yourself...the nonlimited file was from something I pulled off demonoid, do not know the ripper.
It is funny that you guys got owned by the pseudo hi-rez hoax and never could tell so I think your listening skills are kind of in question. I never said that this rip sucked, but it could have sounded better
It's self-proclaimed lamos sitting in the peanut gallery spouting off shit regarding everyone else's work and "listening skills" that have hearing problems. Just stare at graphs or cue sheets and wank to them, you'll be better served.
Bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit.
Obviously you are 110% correct , and you don't need no numbers and graphs to figure that one out, all I do now is little automated software magic ,
that way I can get 90% music enjoyment(nothing will fully bring back the ruined sounstage),
sincerely thank the poster ,
and call it a day.
Its clear that you won't get any response from the source regarding your legit technical feedback , so why bother.
Enjoy the music , relax and have fun , not everyday you get to have a mint 1st pressing done with great gear , limited or not.
peace and cheers
As far as the "Kansas" rip is concerned, I have no frame of reference except for my humble audio system:
. speakers: Krell Resolution 2s
. amplifier: Audio Research HD-22
. preamplifier: Audio Research Reference 3
. DVD player: NAD M5 (universal)
On this system, it sounds absolutely spectacular. Perhaps if I was younger than 33 I'd have much keener hearing, but suffice it to say, I let my ears -- not magical software -- be the judge. If I relied on charts and graphs alone, I'd probably toss most of my vinyl, DVD-Audio and CD collection out the window. But fortunately, I love good music and good sound, especially as played on my meager rig. Hopefully, you too can do the same.
Just relax and enjoy the free riches provided you with much time, love and care. I do. ::smile::
great setup , much better than my current one , but not that better than the one I got home.
I live to far from home now and to busy for building audio heaven around me.
As of "expertise" , "superior" and stuff....are you trying to drag me into something here?
I'm cool with the current situation , really am , and thats all to it.
About PM to the poster , there are more skilled and "contributive" folks around here to do that so they can dive into technical stuff more efficiently,public thread is not about showing off(audiophile forum is obviously the wrong place to do that) , its about showing different opinions,impressions etc.
My system at hand is good enough to do critical listening , and if I want more , I know where to go.
About expertise....knowing that I'm not an expert has a great advantage over perceiving myself as one.
That way I only do the listening part,never any numbers , and only when something wrong with the listening I do simple numbers to get an idea what's up.
Thank god we have enough benchmarks around here to compare any new stuff based on listening alone.
And any issue is easily identifiable when sound qualities is being compared between different rippers based on listening alone, and that worth more than numbers.
And I'm not talking about who's rip sounds "punchier" , LPMaradeur wins on that one hands down.
never sounded better! I'm grateful for your excellent vinyl transfers and look forward
to many many more.
"Envy is the root of all evil.
I give a crap what LPMarauder does...it sounds FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!"
Thank You Very Much