Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces [MFSL 1-331 180g LP] 24-bit/96kHz & CD-compatible format

Posted By : aksman | Date : 26 Aug 2010 05:31:39 | Comments : 14 |

Rated by Michael Fremer: Music 9/11 | Sound: 9/11

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I have all of the CD reissues from Ryko to Rhino and this new 180g version beats them and even the original UK pressing, though that gives this some competition since it was cut from a fresh tape.
Reissuing Armed Forces in high quality 180g all analog vinyl is a public service in my opinion, even though Mobile Fidelity couldn’t possibly go to the time and expense of reproducing the original’s fold-open graphics and post card inserts.

- Michael Fremer/Musicangle.com

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Armed Forces is Elvis Costello's third album, his second with the Attractions, and the first to officially credit the Attractions on the cover. It was released in the UK by Radar Records and in the U.S. by Columbia in 1979. The American version deleted "Sunday's Best" and substituted Costello's version of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding," which had been released the previous November as the B-side of Nick Lowe's "American Squirm" single, at the end of side two. The album originally had the working title Emotional Fascism.

Initial pressings of the album in the UK and U.S. included a promotional three-song single, Live at Hollywood High, which was recorded on June 4, 1978. The live tracks, also produced by Nick Lowe, are "Accidents Will Happen," "Alison," and "Watching the Detectives". The UK edition also included 4 postcards featuring pictures of the band.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Armed Forces at number 45 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 482 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello, except as noted

Side one

Side two

Personnel

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Technical Log

Personal Note

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Posted By: dngruss Date: 26 Aug 2010 05:44:16

Oh dude, great up man...wohoo can't wait to hear it in hirez.

A heads up on a couple of useful link handling tools for other users.

I've been using a couple of firefox addons for quite some time that makes gathering the links into J Downloader
or any other app you may use a little simpler.

It's called Link Gopher, you can get it here.

http://sites.google.com/site/linkgopher/

It sits down in the status bar, and you right click it and choose extract links by filter. Say I was wanting the
Filefactory links, I can just type in Fact as the filter and it opens up a new page with the links exposed to copy.

For rapidshare links I've used the addon called "Unofficial Rapidshare Tool" for a couple of years, it extracts the
links right on the page in the post even if they are clickable text Links and validates them at the same time + other
cool features. You can find it here, I couldn't find it on the Firefox addons site any longer or the developers homepage

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Firefox-Extensions/Unofficial-RapidShare-Tool-45670.shtml

Oh and look up an addon called Linkification, it turns plain text urls into clickable links in firefox, like the urls I
posted in this comment show as red clickable links...quicker than copying and pasting or higlighting and dragging to the
tabs bar.

Posted By: kwork Date: 26 Aug 2010 06:51:54

Wow! My favorite Costello album. Thank you very much! The RS links are truly appreciated.

Posted By: znkp Date: 26 Aug 2010 06:59:04

Thank you.

P.S. Flashgot add-on of Firefox works nicely with RS premium downloads.

Posted By: Number_9 Date: 26 Aug 2010 07:24:14

Thanks, Assman, nice album, and the MFSL should sound great.

Posted By: dngruss Date: 26 Aug 2010 09:51:49

znkp,

I have the flashgot plugin for JDownloader but never used it, I do use flashgot for things like youtube vids and such sometimes.

But after you posted that, I was curious, so I looked at the flashgot options and saw that I could point it to JDownloader,
and if I highlighted the filefactory links and right clicked on an area other than a single link there was an option to flashgot selection.
That sent all the links straight to JDownloader...nice tip, thanks. And after looking closer at the options, if I checked show in context
menu, jdownloader shows in the flashgot right click context menu too, I like it, probably can make a keyboard shortcut too.

Thanks for the tip.

Posted By: son volt Date: 26 Aug 2010 10:22:46

Thanks aks for the great up and thanks dngruss and znkp for all the useful tips and tricks!

Posted By: rangerjohn Date: 26 Aug 2010 11:03:29

Great album, great ripper! Thanks aksman.

Quote of the morning is Elvis Costello on the track "Busy Bodies": "Promiscuity wears you out."

Posted By: corporalcoriander Date: 26 Aug 2010 11:49:13

Terrific, thank you!

Posted By: altcerf Date: 26 Aug 2010 16:45:48

Much obliged, aksman:)
The bass sounds really nice, what a bass player (Bruce Thomas)!

Posted By: martwwa Date: 26 Aug 2010 19:55:27

I second altcerf - SUPERB EFFORT! :o))) Thanks!

Posted By: susito Date: 27 Aug 2010 09:10:39

Thanks for sharing this one aksman,
and also thanks for RS links!!

Posted By: lordyboy Date: 27 Aug 2010 10:19:18

You are the man. Thanks.

Posted By: dannyuk32 Date: 30 Aug 2010 21:53:32

Many thanks for sharing this Aksman.
Well, I compared it to another vinyl transfer, and my domestic CD issue, and first thing I noticed was the right channel Bias.
I noticed and commented on this issue in one of your SRVaughan transfers you done , also.
I listen to headphones exclusively .
Could anyone else try on headphones to tell me I'm not going mad.

Posted By: neden1961 Date: 23 May 2011 17:56:49

Hi aksman, thanks for share!

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