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Strawbs - Ghosts (1974) {1998, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 22 Mar 2024 15:07:39

Strawbs - Ghosts (1974) {1998, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 318 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 125 Mb
Full Scans | 00:45:02 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Folk Rock, Classic Rock | A&M Records #540 937-2

Ghosts was the last album by the Strawbs to appear while the band was on its upward curve of commercial success; a more lyrical follow-up to Hero and Heroine, it was the group's last thrust at wide-audience appeal, with a hoped for-hit ("Lemon Pie") that didn't materialize. The group's mix of acoustic guitars, electric lead and bass, and Rod Coombes' heavy drumming was very compelling on this, their smoothest album. The title track introduction, mixing multiple overdubbed harpsichords, acoustic guitars, and church bells was a gorgeous beginning, and the melodies only got better further into the album. The hauntingly beautiful "Starshine/Angel Wine" was a magnificent successor to "Lay Down" off of Bursting at the Seams, with a moment of Led Zeppelin-like flash from Dave Lambert's playing in the break, while "The Life Auction" was a bigger, bolder follow-up to "The Hangman and the Papist." The original finale, "Grace Darling," is probably the prettiest tune Dave Cousins ever wrote. Alas, Ghosts would be the group's last record to be released before the changes in music – with the introduction of punk rock in the middle of the '70s – began hemming them in, and they never again put out an album with as much panache as this. Previously available on CD only from Japan, in 1998 Ghosts was reissued by A&M in England with a sharp, clean digital sound that greatly enhanced the rich textures of the playing, and one bonus track, Coombes' unexpectedly lyrical "Changes Arrange Us," which had previously been available only as a single B-side.

~ Bruce Eder, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. Ghosts [8:32]
02. Lemon Pie [4:03]
03. Starshine / Angel Wine [5:16]
04. Where Do You Go (When You Need a Hole to Crawl In) [3:03]
05. The Life Auction [6:53]
06. Don't Try to Change Me [4:28]
07. Remembering [0:55]
08. You and I (When We Were Young) [4:05]
09. Grace Darling [3:56]
10. Changes Arrange Us [3:56]

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.5 from 20. February 2020

EAC extraction logfile from 28. January 2021, 18:31

Strawbs / Ghosts

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Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 30
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

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Test CRC 1F479D8A
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