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Dr. John - Desitively Bonnaroo

Rest in peace

Dr. John - Desitively Bonnaroo (1974), Vinyl, ATCO Records, US

Dr. John - Desitively Bonnaroo (Vinyl, LP, Album) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.24 dB -15.19 dB 3:17 01-Quitters Never Win
DR13 0.00 dB -15.68 dB 3:30 02-Stealin'
DR13 -1.01 dB -17.32 dB 3:11 03-What Comes Around (Goes Around)
DR15 -1.11 dB -19.20 dB 3:03 04-Me - You = Loneliness
DR12 -1.27 dB -16.17 dB 2:46 05-Mos' Scoious
DR13 -0.91 dB -15.61 dB 2:43 06-(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away
DR12 -0.43 dB -15.01 dB 2:57 07-Let's Make A Better World
DR13 -0.87 dB -16.50 dB 4:15 08-R U 4 Real
DR12 -0.27 dB -15.33 dB 2:41 09-Sing Along Song
DR12 0.00 dB -15.21 dB 2:59 10-Cant Git Enuff
DR12 -0.89 dB -16.81 dB 3:04 11-Go Tell The People
DR13 -0.04 dB -14.98 dB 2:35 12-Desitively Bonnaroo
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR13


CD, 2005

Dr. John - Desitively Bonnaroo - Amazon.com Music
 
Listening to grownups (???) in the yard, BBQ:ing and playing music loud and kids singing various Swedish Summer-related songs. I even heard them sing the Swedish national anthem.
I am positively surprised that kids still know good old children's songs and that they even knew the melodies (not singing out of tune).;)

I will do the dishes, look for some 10uF caps, fix me a G&T and listen to James and Adam nagging at each other in an old episode of Mythbusters.
 
Ladies & gentlemen

Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' (The Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins) (1961), Vinyl, Prestige Bluesville 2017, Remastered, US

Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' (The Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins) (Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -0.61 dB -18.29 dB 4:34 A1 Automobile Blue
DR13 -1.28 dB -17.49 dB 5:01 A2 You Better Watch Yourself
DR12 -1.10 dB -17.81 dB 3:43 A3 Mean Old Frisco
DR14 -2.42 dB -19.71 dB 4:09 A4 Shinin Moon
DR14 -0.87 dB -18.26 dB 3:30 A5 Come Back Baby
DR13 -1.10 dB -18.22 dB 5:08 B1 Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend
DR12 -0.54 dB -15.64 dB 3:25 B2 The Walkin Blues
DR12 -0.61 dB -16.19 dB 3:22 B3 Back To New Orleans
DR14 -0.83 dB -18.30 dB 4:05 B4 Katie Mae
DR13 -0.71 dB -18.58 dB 4:08 B5 Down There Baby
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR13

CD ?

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Back in 1974-75 a neighbor at the dorm where I lived, trying to stydy to become a civil engineer, came to my rooma nd showed me an album he had just bought and I put it on my Conoisseur 2 and listened to it was totally blown apart.

To this day I hold this album as being one of the very best albums ever recorded:
Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World.

There is so much that taken in account makes the experience from this album so overwhelming.
First, removing a circular piece from the sleeve you could make your own 3D-model of a paradisic island. But when you pulled out the inner sleeve, printed on the inside of the outer sleeve and visible thru the hole, what must have been a photo of Hiroshima after the a-bomb.

Next came the fact that PFM had problably met King Crimson or at least their non-musical member, Peter Sinfield. Peter had translated/interpreted text for Angelo Branduardi and now he helped PFM launch a few of their Italian albums in English.

Next is the music. Whenever (like now) I listen to the music I must say how perfect it is, how well played and harmonic it is. The opening piece - is an opening piece really and The World Became The World should, in my opinion be the last song on the album as it sums everything up in six lines:

You ... you've got what must belong to me
I need! I'll bleed for more possessions!
You ... you've got no right to disagree!
Bow! Kneel! Or fear my aggressions!

Thank God, if sometimes Your oyster holds a pearl
When the world remains the world ...

And the long finale of that song with the Flavio Premoli's synthesizer sole is SO POWERFUL.

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Mine:

Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World (1974), Vinyl, Numero Uno, Italy 1st Pressing

Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World (Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR12 -0.54 dB -16.44 dB A1 The Mountain (L’Isola Di Niente)
DR11 -2.21 dB -17.90 dB A2 Just Look Away (Dolcissima Maria)
DR11 -1.83 dB -16.27 dB A3 The World Became The World (Impressioni Di Settembre)
DR11 -0.84 dB -15.32 dB B1 Four Holes In The Ground (La Luna Nuova)
DR12 -2.47 dB -17.08 dB B2 Is My Face On Straight
DR11 -3.32 dB -17.48 dB B3 Have Your Cake And Beat It (Via Lumiere)
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Number of files: 6
Official DR value: DR11
 
Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock 'n' Roll Revival

Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock 'n' Roll Revival (1970), Vinyl, Warner, Australia

Bill Haley And His Comets - Rock 'N Roll Revival (Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -7.44 dB -21.48 dB 2:12 A1 Rock Around the Clock
DR12 -7.67 dB -22.00 dB 2:15 A2 Blue Suede Shoes
DR12 -6.71 dB -21.06 dB 2:50 A3 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
DR12 -8.30 dB -21.96 dB 2:22 A4 Kansas City
DR12 -6.64 dB -21.55 dB 2:02 A5 No Letter Today
DR12 -7.52 dB -21.67 dB 2:32 A6 Shake, Rattle and Roll
DR11 -7.97 dB -21.60 dB 2:06 B1 Crazy, Man, Crazy
DR12 -7.29 dB -21.60 dB 2:01 B2 There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder
DR12 -7.46 dB -21.45 dB 1:53 B3 I'm in Love Again
DR13 -6.44 dB -21.97 dB 2:19 B4 Detour
DR12 -8.72 dB -23.24 dB 1:51 B5 Blueberry Hill
DR13 -6.89 dB -21.98 dB 2:35 B6 Stagger Lee
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR12


CD ?
 
Bruce Katz Band - Crescent Crawl

Bruce Katz Band - Crescent Crawl (1992), CD, AudioQuest Music, US

Bruce Katz Band - Crescent Crawl (CD, Album) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 -0.53 dB -19.77 dB 7:02 01-Crecent Crawl
DR17 -0.05 dB -20.28 dB 3:29 02-Just An Expression
DR18 0.00 dB -22.45 dB 6:55 03-Contrition
DR16 -0.68 dB -19.46 dB 4:57 04-BK's Broiler
DR15 -0.06 dB -17.46 dB 3:30 05-Buzz Cut
DR16 -1.57 dB -21.38 dB 6:54 06-One Way Ticket
DR17 -0.27 dB -20.73 dB 5:07 07-Boomer's Thing
DR16 -0.93 dB -21.14 dB 4:52 08-Beast
DR15 -0.25 dB -18.59 dB 6:18 09-Will It Go 'Round In Circles
DR13 -3.13 dB -23.63 dB 1:25 10-Just A Closer Walk With Thee
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR16


CD, 1993

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Loreena McKennitt - Troubadours On The Rhine

Loreena McKennitt - Troubadours On The Rhine (2016), Vinyl, Quinlan Road, Canada?

Loreena McKennitt - Troubadours On The Rhine (Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -3.12 dB -16.37 dB 3:46 01-Bonny Portmore
DR10 -4.24 dB -18.15 dB 4:22 02-Down By The Sally Gardens
DR12 -3.73 dB -19.73 dB 4:46 03-The Wind That Shakes The Barley
DR11 -2.63 dB -16.96 dB 4:26 04-Between The Shadows
DR12 -3.42 dB -18.71 dB 7:00 05-The Lady Of Shalott
DR10 -4.08 dB -17.13 dB 5:23 06-Stolen Child
DR11 -4.01 dB -18.75 dB 3:53 07-Penelope's Song
DR11 -3.63 dB -17.36 dB 5:52 08-The Bonny Swans
DR12 -4.38 dB -20.77 dB 5:12 09-The Parting Glass
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR11


CD, 2012

Loreena McKennitt - Troubadours On The Rhine - Amazon.com Music
 
Pat Metheny - Orchestrion

Pat Metheny - Orchestrion (2010), Vinyl, Nonesuch/Furnace MFG, Germany

Pat Metheny - Orchestrion (Vinyl, LP) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -0.36 dB -17.82 dB 15:51 01-Orchestrion
DR14 0.00 dB -19.68 dB 10:28 02-Entry Point
DR14 -0.66 dB -19.17 dB 8:35 03-Expansion
DR12 -1.16 dB -18.47 dB 9:17 04-Soul Search
DR14 0.00 dB -17.66 dB 7:49 05-Spirit Of The Air
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR14


CD, 2010

Pat Metheny - Orchestrion - Amazon.com Music
 
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

Today, SACD vs XRCD vs Vinyl

Ladies & gentlemen

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (1956), SACD, mono, Universal 2014, Japan

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (SACD, Album, Reissue) | Discogs

SA-CD.net - Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 -0.01 dB -17.21 dB 6:45 01-St. Thomas
DR14 -1.40 dB -17.98 dB 6:30 02-You Don't Know What Love Is
DR13 -0.80 dB -16.46 dB 5:13 03-Strode Rode
DR14 -1.70 dB -18.52 dB 9:59 04-Moritat
DR17 -1.54 dB -22.29 dB 11:14 05-Blue 7
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR14


CD, 2006 Remastered

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus [Reissue] - Amazon.com Music
 
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (1956), XRCD, stereo, JVC 1998, Japan

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (CD, Album, Stereo) | Discogs

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.86 dB -16.64 dB 6:49 01-St. Thomas
DR13 -3.03 dB -19.11 dB 6:32 02-You Don't Know What Love Is
DR10 0.00 dB -12.28 dB 5:17 03-Strode Rode
DR13 0.00 dB -15.58 dB 10:08 04-Moritat
DR15 0.00 dB -17.82 dB 11:18 05-Blue Seven
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR13