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Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989) [Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD]

Posted By: v3122
Date: 14 Jul 2022 13:03:07
Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989) [Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD]

Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989)
Vinyl Rip 16/44 | Flac(Image + Cue) > 296 Mb
MP3 CBR 320Kbps > 104 Mb | Artwork(jpg) > 62 Mb
DVD-5: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | LPCM, 2 ch, 24 bit, 96 kHz > 1.54 Gb
WEA, 244 855-1 | Synth pop, New Wave

The Breathtaking Blue was a somewhat disappointing follow-up to Alphaville's early-1980s records Forever Young and Afternoons in Utopia. It lacked the shimmering standout quality of songs like "Big in Japan," "Forever Young" and "Afternoons in Utopia." The production, by Klaus Schulze and Alphaville, experiments with a somewhat richer instrumentation, adding strings, saxaphone, trumpet, double bass, electric and even acoustic guitars to Bernhard Lloyd's synthesizers. This strategy is met with mixed success. The lush production only serves to muddy "The Mysteries of Love," which might have been one of the album's better tracks had the songwriting been valued above the somewhat ostentatious arrangement. But the slinky bass and restrained sax ornamentation make the mildly jazzy "Heaven or Hell" one of the album's more interesting efforts. And "For a Million" is about as genuine as the band gets, thanks to the attractive minor-key melody and the surprising piano and acoustic guitar solos. But all things considered, Alpahville seems most in its element when sticking to simple synthesizer arrangements, as on the pretty "She Fades Away" and the clever "Middle of the Riddle" ("It's the middle of the riddle/It's not very serious/It's nothing but a big surprise/And the president's horse/is a rabbit of course/that is living in a big boy's mind"). Marian Gold's rich baritone vocals, with their classic Europop excesses, hold the record's diverging strands together.

by Evan Cater, allmusic
Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989):

Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989) [Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD]

Tracklist:

A1. Summer Rain
A2. Romeos
A3. She Fades Away
A4. The Mysteries Of Love
A5. Ariana

B1. Heaven Or Hell
B2. For A Million
B3. Middle Of The Riddle
B4. Patricia's Park
B5. Anyway

foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-08-24 14:30:10

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Analyzed: Alphaville / The Breathtaking Blue
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 0.00 dB -15.81 dB 4:09 01-Summer Rain
DR12 -0.02 dB -13.02 dB 5:29 02-Romeos
DR12 0.00 dB -13.75 dB 4:59 03-She Fades Away
DR13 -0.46 dB -16.03 dB 4:55 04-The Mysteries Of Love
DR13 -0.14 dB -15.44 dB 3:44 05-Ariana
DR13 0.00 dB -14.51 dB 3:27 06-Heaven Or Hell
DR12 -0.13 dB -14.66 dB 6:10 07-For A Million
DR12 0.00 dB -13.72 dB 3:18 08-Middle Of The Riddle
DR12 -1.70 dB -18.70 dB 4:14 09-Patricia's Park
DR11 -0.07 dB -13.13 dB 2:49 10-Anyway
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 914 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Title: Alphaville 1989 - The Breathtaking Blue [WEA, 244 855-1] - DVD
Size: 1.43 Gb ( 1 502 746,00 KBytes ) - DVD-5
Enabled regions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

VTS_01 :
Play Length: 00:43:10
Video: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR
Audio:
Not specified (LinearPCM, 2 ch)



Original ripper: bezbazara
Original format: 32/192
Vinyl Condition: Mint
Cleaning:
Direct Drive Turntable: Yamaha PX-2
Cartridge: MC
Amplifier: Clearaudio Balance +
ADC: Tascam
Postprocessing: Fade In / Fade Out / DeClick

Downsampled to 16/44

Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989) [Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD]

Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989) [Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD]

Alphaville - The Breathtaking Blue (1989) [Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD]

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