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Roger Waters - Amused To Death (1992) [APO Remaster 2015] {2.0 & 5.1} PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC {RE-UP}

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Roger Waters - Amused To Death (1992) [APO Remaster 2015] {2.0 & 5.1} PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC {RE-UP}

Roger Waters - Amused To Death (1992) [APO Remaster 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 72:42 minutes | Scans included | 4,58 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,35 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel surround sound | Columbia Records / Analogue Productions' release

An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society, Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency over the past two decades. With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly — and unthinkingly — in thrall to its television screens. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks to our present moment in ways that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. In 2015, television is just one option in an endless array of distractions available to us anytime, anywhere, courtesy of our laptops, tablets and smartphones. With eyes glued to our screens, the dilemmas and injustices of the real world can easily recede from view. The 2015 SACD edition of Amused to Death features a new 5.1 surround remix of the album completed by longtime Roger Waters / Pink Floyd collaborator and co-producer, James Guthrie. The art has been updated for 2015 by Sean Evans, the creative director of Waters’ 2010-2013 “The Wall Live” tour and movie.

War is Roger Waters' great muse, the impetus for so much of his work, including the semi-autobiographical 1979 opus The Wall. The Final Cut, his last album with Pink Floyd, functioned as an explicit sequel to The Wall, but 1992's Amused to Death acts as something of a coda, a work where Waters revisits his obsessions – both musical and lyrical – and ties them together with the masterful touch of a mature artist. Certainly, Waters' narrative of a society filtering all manners of ugliness through a television screen isn't as sci-fi silly as that of its immediate predecessor Radio K.A.O.S., but a greater point in its favor is that it's a richer affair than that stiff, synthesized relic of the late '80s. Working with Patrick Leonard – a veteran collaborator of Madonna's who also dabbled with the latter-day David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd – Waters gives Amused to Death forward momentum, an aspect conspicuously absent from the still, meditative The Final Cut and Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, both of which seemed to be comprised of song poems. The tunes on Amused aren't quite hooky or melodic but they do have structure, as does the production by Waters, Leonard, and Nick Griffiths. The tapestry of found sounds, choirs, televisions, washes of organ, lonely acoustic guitars, and blues leads by Jeff Beck does recall Floyd at their '70s peak, but Amused to Death sounds grander and more expansive; it's a creature of the CD age, using up every one of its available 72 minutes. At this length, it's a mere ten minutes shorter than The Wall, and although it can sometimes feel indulgent, it never feels excessive. Unlike the other two Waters solo albums – or The Final Cut, which is a Waters project masquerading as a Floyd album – Amused to Death feels cohesive and complete as an anti-war rock opera. If it winds up being Waters' last original rock album, so be it: it is a masterpiece in the sense that it brings together all of his obsessions in one grand, but not unwieldy, package.

Tracklist:

01. The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
02. What God Wants, Part I
03. Perfect Sense, Part I
04. Perfect Sense, Part II
05. The Bravery of Being Out of Range
06. Late Home Tonight, Part I
07. Late Home Tonight, Part II
08. Too Much Rope
09. What God Wants, Part II
10. What God Wants, Part III
11. Watching TV
12. Three Wishes
13. It's a Miracle
14. Amused to Death

Produced by Roger Waters and Patrick Leonard.
Remastering Engineer, Surround Mix & Stereo Mastering by James Guthrie.

foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1

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Analyzed: Roger Waters / Amused To Death
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -14.02 dB -33.57 dB 4:23 01-The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
DR15 -6.70 dB -25.46 dB 6:00 02-What God Wants, Part I
DR12 -8.51 dB -28.79 dB 4:15 03-Perfect Sense, Part I
DR12 -6.72 dB -23.68 dB 2:51 04-Perfect Sense, Part II
DR13 -6.70 dB -23.02 dB 4:45 05-The Bravery of Being Out of Range
DR13 -6.71 dB -25.77 dB 4:01 06-Late Home Tonight, Part I
DR11 -10.49 dB -29.41 dB 2:13 07-Late Home Tonight, Part II
DR14 -6.64 dB -26.68 dB 5:48 08-Too Much Rope
DR15 -6.87 dB -27.28 dB 3:39 09-What God Wants, Part II
DR12 -6.70 dB -24.72 dB 4:08 10-What God Wants, Part III
DR14 -9.02 dB -29.18 dB 6:07 11-Watching TV
DR13 -6.91 dB -26.52 dB 6:51 12-Three Wishes
DR15 -6.60 dB -28.48 dB 8:31 13-It's a Miracle
DR14 -6.69 dB -26.87 dB 9:10 14-Amused to Death
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 88200 Hz
Channels: 6
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 16934 kbps
Codec: DST64
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Analyzed: Roger Waters / Amused To Death
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -13.36 dB -32.12 dB 4:20 01-The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
DR12 -6.72 dB -21.93 dB 6:00 02-What God Wants, Part I
DR12 -10.62 dB -27.17 dB 4:15 03-Perfect Sense, Part I
DR11 -7.81 dB -23.06 dB 2:51 04-Perfect Sense, Part II
DR11 -8.78 dB -21.96 dB 4:45 05-The Bravery of Being Out of Range
DR10 -6.68 dB -25.10 dB 4:01 06-Late Home Tonight, Part I
DR12 -14.51 dB -32.19 dB 2:13 07-Late Home Tonight, Part II
DR12 -8.01 dB -25.20 dB 5:47 08-Too Much Rope
DR12 -8.38 dB -24.49 dB 3:40 09-What God Wants, Part II
DR12 -8.16 dB -23.90 dB 4:09 10-What God Wants, Part III
DR13 -13.35 dB -30.05 dB 6:07 11-Watching TV
DR14 -6.75 dB -26.19 dB 6:51 12-Three Wishes
DR15 -7.76 dB -28.82 dB 8:31 13-It's a Miracle
DR13 -6.73 dB -25.23 dB 9:13 14-Amused to Death
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 88200 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 5645 kbps
Codec: DST64
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