RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Lyceum, London, UK - 25.03.1985 - SN Remaster (Flac)

 

Very good remastering of an already good sounding soundboard recording. Thanks to  steve for remastering and sharing it @cureconnections.com.

Original Notes:

Source: Cassette - ION Tape2PC - Audacity - CD Wave - Flac (level 8) -
Remastering>Hiss removal, EQ & stereo expansion with adobe audition 3>you
**New MD5 created

The original, although a nice enough recording, suffered from hissing & was a bit thin & dry for my taste. Quite tiring to listen to all the way through.
Noise floor changed to -23.4dB & hiss reduced by 24dB
Stereo image has also been widened to 166%
EQ-d to warm up the bottom end & take the edge off the snare sound.
Tried to bring Marx up in the mix, but the results just made my teeth hurt.
Hope you like the result.

Tracks:

- First And Last And Always
- Body And Soul
- Amphetamine Logic
- Marian
- No Time To Cry
- Possession
- Walk Away
- Heartland
- Some Kind Of Stranger
- A Rock And A Hard Place
- Train
- Floorshow
- Body Electric
ENCORE BREAK
- Emma
- Alice
- Gimme Shelter


steve@cureconnections.com
http://www.cureconnections.com/

Enjoy!

Do not encode in lossy formats. Do not sell. Buy the records and go to every show!

The Cure - Capitol Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 17.08.1981 (Flac)

 

Excellent PreFM recording of the Picture Tour for the Faith album with the extra 4 songs from FM.. This version was recently shared on Dime, minus the song Faith, which is included in this link, and banned because of  suspicion of lossy ancestry.
The spectrum posted at Dime that showed cut off leading to claims of lossy lineage is the same as other versions of FM recordings from the 80’s, it’s also the same as the FM recording from the 2005 6 song broadcast, which means that the original master is the cause of the lossy looming spectrum, it has nothing to do with the use of any type of lossy process when editing it,

Huge Thanks to Brent Graham for sending me the link to share here.

Original info File:

Master clean up / edited / shared by Brent Graham.

-----------------------------------------
FIRST TIME IN CIRCULATION.
***Australian version, 11 songs digitized from 1/4 inch reel to reel tape, multitrack mix master.
***Plus 4 songs not included in the Australian version, digitized from master cassette tape (first tape no copies) recording of Canadian radio broadcast in the 80's.
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Today 14th April 2021 is 40 years since the release of The Cure's 1981 Faith album, I think the 40th anniversary would be a good time to share one of the rarities I have in my live Cure collection, the best sound quality recording I have of the tour from 1/4 inch reel to reel tape, I know that no other person has this, so this is a first for anyone to hear this in such great quality! No doubt it's the best sound quality anyone will have heard from the Picture Tour for the Faith album, there were better performances / shows, but this is undoubtedly the best sound quality of anything out there from
1981, so for the 40th anniversary of the albums release I'd like to put it out there and share it with everybody...

To make the show as complete as possible I have patched in 4 songs from a master cassette tape recording from Canadian radio in the 80's (In Your House, Primary, Jumping Someone Else's Train and Another Journey by Train), those 4 songs were not included in the Australian broadcast, the quality of those 4 songs is OK but not great, but the best that can be found.

The 1/4 inch tape digitization did not have Robert's comment before Faith "This is the last song it's called Faith" or the comment after Faith "Thank you good night", so I have patched in those 2 comments by taking them from the Charlotte Sometimes 12" vinyl single (the live version of Faith on the Charlotte Sometimes 12" vinyl single B-Side is from this show). The reason I sourced the comments from the 12" vinyl and not from the extras CD of the Faith album remaster is because the 12" vinyl single has a longer amount of crowd noise before Faith than the remaster bonus CD, which allowed me to seamlessly join up the crowd in between A Forest and Faith without having a cut in the crowd between the 2 songs.

I needed to do a bunch of fixing/cleaning up ("mastering") on the 1/4 inch tape digitization, the left channel was noticeably less bright sounding and lower volume than the right channel, I'm unsure if it was damaged tape edge, incorrect azimuth or tape head alignment during digitization, or maybe for some strange reason was EQ'd down, but after some time and effort I have got it to closely match the right channel and sound as it should (EQ'd left channel separately to match right, EQ'd both channels together). I also did a bunch of work on the 4 songs from Canadian radio broadcast (swapped left & right channels, EQ'd, lowered volume, and corrected speed-tempo & pitch -2.6% / -2.9% (about 45-50 cents as the cassette tape was playing quite fast).
I also EQ'd and lowered volume of the comments before and after Faith taken from the Charlotte Sometimes 12" vinyl single B-side. Overall no real problems anymore, the 1/4 tape has a bit of hiss sometimes noticeable left channel, but nothing bad, it is related to the very slight tape damage or digitizing issues I mentioned above. The main problem with the 4 songs from radio cassette tape was that the hit-hat was almost ear piercing, so I brought 12.k down around -13dB which has improved it greatly, but will never be able to be fixed properly.
I think it should sound good with standard type bass/treble controls around about bass 40% / treble 60% / subwoofer pretty low !?!?
 
This is all of the songs that exist of this show from this 1/4 inch tape source, after the multitrack tapes were mixed and edited down for Australian & Canadian 1981 radio broadcasts they were probably re-used / recorded over, but I think likely were given to Robert Smith, as I do know that Robert has multitracks of the show because he told me himself...
It would be nice to hear a full show re-mix from Robert's multitracks some day!, some of the mixing could be improved!

Some notes...
Faith from this show was officially released as the B-Side on the Charlotte Sometimes 12" vinyl single in October 1981.
Robert introduces Charlotte Sometimes as "this is a song we've only ever done once live", nobody would have known Charlotte Sometimes at the time as the single/song was not released until 2 months after the show.
Robert plays 6 string bass in Primary and Faith, and sings while playing synthesizers in The Holy Hour,
The Funeral Party, All Cats Are Grey, and Charlotte Sometimes, Simon also plays synth during the intro to A Forest and plays bass synth pedals in Faith, most noticeable the last minute or so of the song.
Faith is an extended 10 minute version with ad lib lyrics and 6-string bass.
The last song Forever is a "jam" with ad lib lyrics based on the instrumental track Three from the Seventeen Seconds album, it was played to end most shows on the tour (similar to All Mine in 1982), and played here and there throughout
The Cure's history to end shows, but this Picture Tour for the Faith album was the last year it was played to end almost every show of the tour.
 
In addition to the 1981 radio broadcasts of which only mostly badly degenerated sounding cassette tape copies exist, a few songs were broadcast on Australian radio in 1995, then 6 songs broadcast on Australian radio in 2007, however the quality of the actual broadcast was poor, the sound was very thin and brittle, so this is an all round huge upgrade.
The 80's Canadian broadcast did not include All Cats Are Grey, and when it was played during the Australian 80's broadcast a ladies voice (I presume the DJ) spoke over the top of the song 1 minute before the end saying "testing testing 1 2 3 testing", so this is the first time All Cats Are Grey has been available witout the ladies voice speaking over the song.

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Track listing is:

*All songs Australian source digitized from 1/4 inch reel to reel tape, except 02 - In Your House, 05 - Primary,
12 - Jumping Someone Else's Train and 13 - Another Journey by Train from master cassette tape recording of Canadian radio broadcast in the 80's.

01 - the holy hour (5min:00)
02 - in your house (3min:46)
03 - the funeral party (4min:47)
04 - m (4min:06)
05 - primary (3min:42)
06 - other voices (4min:58)
07 - all cats are grey (5min:34)
08 - three imaginary boys (3min:29)
09 - charlotte sometimes (4min:25)
10 - a forest (7min:24)
11 - faith (10min:22)
ENCORE BREAK
12 - jumping someone else's train (2min:40)
13 - another journey by train (3min:24)
14 - killing an arab (3min:00)
15 - forever (10min:47)

TOTAL: 1h:17min:25sec.
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Based on setlists of the time it's most probable the whole concert was the following setlist below, they had recently started playing the yet to be released Charlotte Sometimes B-side Splintered In Her Head in between Grinding Halt and A Forest, but in the reel to reel recording you can actually hear the last second of Grinding Halt before A Forest starts, so it's unlikely Splintered In Her Head was played.
The show is most probably complete except for the following 7 songs : The Drowning Man, 10.15 Saturday Night, Accuracy, At Night, Fire In Cairo, Play For Today, Grinding Halt.

the holy hour
in your house
the drowning man
10.15 saturday night
accuracy
the funeral party
m
primary
other voices
all cats are grey
at night
three imaginary boys
charlotte sometimes
fire in cairo
play for today
grinding halt
a forest
faith
ENCORE BREAK
jumping someone else's train
another journey by train
killing an arab
forever

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Robert Smith - vocals / guitar / 6 string bass / synthesizers
Simon Gallup - bass / synthesizer / bass pedal synth
Laurence Tolhurst - drums

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THANKS TO ROBERT, SIMON and LOL!!! (FAITH 40th ANNIVERSARY!).

Master clean up / edited / shared by Brent Graham

 

RE-UPLOAD: Swans - Gebaeude 9, Koeln, Germany - 10.11.2016 (Flac)

 

As requested. Very good sound. Thanks to SpaceBandit for posting on Dime:

Original Info File:
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from DIMENEW collection # 269
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Rec. Info:
DPA 4061 -> Roland D-26 (@ WAV 16/44) -> SD -> HD -> WeTransfer -> my HD -> Audacity (edit/remaster) -> WAV 16/44 -> TLH8 -> FLAC -> DIME -> YOUR EARS AND MIND...
Recorded by dear DIMENEW from 3-4 meters center stage. Exceptional fine recording, a bit bass heavy (but didn't expect this from a Swans concert?) but everything else is
just perfectly good. Sold out crowd. Sorry, no pics or setlist...

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Could this really been their farewell tour as announced? If so, the Swans pulled all the stops for a majestic performance in Koeln. I've been told that on the other side of
the road, at big Lanxess Arena, The Cure played...that seems like pop music compared to this long strange trip...So, enjoy! SB.
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FULL SHOW (151:12 min.)

01. Intro theme (2:50)
02. The knot (48:51)
03. The man that refused to be unhappy (12:23)
04. Cloud of knowing (47:15)
05. The glowing man/Band introductions (39:50)

help/correction with the setlist is always welcome

www.younggodsrecords.com
www.swans.pair.com
bandcamp/facebook and other sites...

Support this fine artists, go to their shows, buy all the merch your spacemobile can carry!
Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use. No lossy blog/tracker use. Flac rules!
If you spread keep lineage/taper info intact. It's us tapers that give you this recording for free!
If you sell (this recording)...go fucking straight to hell...

THE SWANS 2016...

Michael Gira - guitar, voice
Norman Westberg – guitar
Christoph Hahn – guitar
Phil Puleo – drums, percussion, dulcimer
Chris Pravdica – bass and gadgets
Paul Walfisch – vibes, dulcimer, keyboards


Uploaded to DIME by Spacebandit 2016/11/13

RE-UPLOAD: Cranes - La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France - 24.05.2004 (Flac)

 

Thanks to Chudaboy for sharing his master on Dime.

Original Info File:

THE AMAZING CHUDABOY'S ARCHIVES PROJECT


Most of these recordings are uncirculated full digital transfer from my old DAT tapes.
No chronological order or music style rules.....it will come as I pick tapes from their boxes. Audience, soundboard, FM....
NO EQ or MASTERING... you will have to do your own. ENJOY.


1 Everywhere
2 Loved
3 Shining Road
4 Light Song
5 Avenue A
6 Future Song
7 Flute Song
8 Vanishing Point
9 Jewel
10 Far Away
11 Particles And Waves
12 Lilies
13 Cloudless
14 Sunrise
15 Adrift
16 E.G. Shining
17 Paris And Rome
18 Reverie
19 Adoration


TACAP #001#

CRANES - France - Strasbourg - la Laiterie - 2004.05.24
(AUDIENCE recording / Sony TCD-D8 & Sony ECM-717)

Wall Of Voodoo - El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada - 15.11.1982 (Flac)

 

 

Excellent sounding SBD recording sourced on the classic Dance Of Death bootleg.
 
Original Info File:

 Lineage: SBD -> ? -> CDR -> EAC -> TLH -> FLAC

Setlist:

01. Call Box
02. Animal Day
03. Lost Weekend
04. Call Of The West
05. Factory
06. On Interstate 15
07. Can't Make Love
08. Tomorrow
09. The Passenger
10. Longarm
11. Ring Of Fire
12. Mexican Radio
13. Back In Flesh

Notes:

The broadcast was released on LP as "BBC College Concert" that included a DJ intro and sounded more faint. This is probably the best recording in circulation.

 

A Certain Ratio - Paard van Troje, Den Haag, Netherlands - 27.02.1982 (Flac)

 

Very good FM Broadcast, thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

Original Info File:

Broadcast on Dutch "free to air" FM radio (VPRO) in 1982
Recorded by Frans to cassette, digitised by Frans

A very rare (but probably incomplete) FM Radio recording of Manchester's finest post-punk/funksters, A Certain Ratio.
Recorded during a short Benelux tour at Paard van Troje in Den Haag, the recording does show it's age with a little low freq background noise in places, some interference (probably from the radio) and a little distortion during Knife Slits Water. There is also some evidence of pauses during some tracks (talk over edited out?).

All in all (& this comes from a serious collector of ACR shows), this is a gem! Thank you, Frans!!

Lineage:

FM radio > cassette > wav > Nero Wavedit (normalise only) > CDWave (splits) > Flac Level 8

Setlist:

01 Back to the Start
02 Axis
03 Skipscada / Sesamo d'Apriti-Corco Vada
04 Sommadub
05 Saturn
06 Knife Slits Water

Enjoy!
D.

If you have any other gems like this by any Factory Records artists, then please get in touch!

**Please do not redistribute as MP3**

**Do not sell this recording**

Spleen - Discography (Flac)

 

Obscure industrial band from the early 90's. They seem to have only self-released these two tapes. They were quite good, a pity they didn't continued. Thanks to Scott for ripping is tapes and send them to me to share here. If you like Godflesh and Killing Joke this is definitively for you.

 

 Spleen ‎– It

Format:Cassette, Album 

Released:1993

Tracklist
A1 Re-Fuse    
A2 Timeserver I    
A3 Avuncular Supine    
A4 Timeserver II    
A5 Spineless    
B1 Prominent (Recorded Live 15/09/92)    

Spleen ‎– ....The Past

Format:Cassette, Mini-Album

Tracklist
A1 Burning Skin    
A2 Lost    
A3 Break Weak Back    
A4 Thread To Weave    
B1 Feverpitch    
B2 Gurd    
B3 Mourning

 

Tortoise - John Peel Session - 29.03.1998 (Flac)

 

Very good session. Thanks to Scott for transferring his tape and send it to me to share here. There's a lot of live recordings of Tortoise on Archive.org but not this one.

Tracklist:

01. John Peel Intro
02. In Sarah, Menchen and Christ...
03. I Set My Face To The Hillside
04. Aldeia de Ogum
05. TNT

BonusTrack:
06. As You Said (Joy Division Cover) 

RE-UPLOAD: Richard Lloyd - Hurrah, New York, USA - 23.09.1979 (Flac)

 

Excellent sounding FM broadcast. Thanks to the original uploader.


Original Info File:
SKOTF ARCHIVE VOL. 73

Many thanks to Realomind for sharing this with me, and to original taper SKOTF. Thanks and praises to them both.

I always think Richard Lloyd got a bad deal out of Television, with the spotlight always on Tom Verlaine who would never have been able to reach the heights he did without the able support of his fellow fender collaborator Richard. I rated RLs first solo album Alchemy as one of the really great semi power-pop albums, and I liked it a lot more than VerlaineÕs solo efforts (though comparisons are odious really).

This is a tape from a live gig as it was broadcast by local FM radio. It concludes with an interview done at the gig with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein who give their own verdict on Richard.

FM>MASTER CASSETTE>STAND ALONE BURNER>WAV>FLAC

BAND:
Richard Lloyd - guitar, vocals
James Mastro - guitar
Mathew MacKenzie - guitar
Fred Smith - bass
Vinnie DeNunzio - drums

SETLIST:
01. misty eyes
02. in the night
03. alchemy
04. number nine
05. woman's way
06. blue and grey
07. pretend>>>should have known better
08. --post-gig interview with debbie harry & chris stein--

no mp3's, no selling, YES SHARING
please no remaster/reposts - it is what it is.
“It ain’t perfect, but it ain’t bad”
Enjoy!!

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Town Hall, Huddersfield, UK (including Soundcheck) - 14.10.1984 (Flac)

 

SOURCE: Cassette - ION Tape2PC - Audacity - CD Wave - FLAC (level 8) - you

Burn
Heartland
Marian
Walk Away
No Time To Cry
Anaconda
Emma
A Rock And A Hard Place
Train
Floorshow
Alice
Body Electric
Gimme Shelter
Adrenochrome
Sister Ray

New Order - BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, UK - 25.08.1984 (Flac)

 

Very good FM recording. Thanks to Barbedwire  for sharing on Dime.

Original Info File:

Info
* From BBC Radio 1
* A simultaneous broadcast from the studios of Radio 1's Saturday Live studio in Broadcasting House, London as part of 'Rock Around The Clock' programme.

Lineage
FM Radio ->  EMI Super C60 (Master) -> Technics RS TR265 -> Behringer UFO202 -> Audacity (WAV) ->CD Wave Editor (track split) -> Traders Little Helper (Flac 8) -> Dime

01  Sooner Than You Think
02  Age Of Consent
03  Blue Monday
04  In A Lonely Place
05  Temptation

'Dusted From The Archives'

The Clash - Civic Theater, Akron, Ohio, USA - 17.08.1982 (Flac)

 

Original Info File:

Lineage: Soundboard mstr -> ? -> WAV -> xACT(extraction-> flac 8)

Disc 1
1. London Calling
2. The Leader
3. Radio Clash
4. Clash City Rockers
5. Know Your Rights
6. Guns of Brixton
7. Train In Vain
8. Call Up
9. Rock the Casbah
10.Police & Thieves
11.Police on My Back

Disc 2
1. Magnificent 7
2. Wrong Em Boyo
3. Career Opportunties
4. Somebody Got Murdered
5. Brand New Cadillac
6. I Fought the Law
7. Armagideon Time
8. Should I Stay or Should I Go
9. Clampdown
10.Straight to Hell
11.Janie Jones -> Garageland (cut)

Inca Babies - Schwimmbad, Heidelberg, Germany - 22.10.1986 (Flac)

Very good audience recording. Thanks to Stacheleber for sharing on Dime.

Originl Info File:


*********************************
from MILAVALENTI collection # 157
*********************************


master tape -> transfer via Akai GX-75 tapedeck -> Magix Music Cleaning Lab (edit/remaster) -> FLAC ->  DIME
Ex- after some minor EQ. Sound level adjusted.


I don't know if this was ever on Dime or even circulated but there seems not to be anything on Dimne of this band currently so here it is. The sound is great and the band plays over 90 min., what do you want more...



Setlist (93:15):

01. intro
02. Big Cyprus
03. Long Nights
04. Plenty More Mutants
05. Thirst
06. Daniella
07. Candy Mountain
08.
09. Big Jugular
10. Opium Den
11. The Interior
12. Correction Stack
13. Plenty More Mutants II
14. Cowboy Song
15. Dresden
16. Hole In The Gulley
17. Crawling Garage Gasoline
18.
19.
20.
21. Cowboy Song II
22. Blind Man


the band (most probable):

Mike Keeble – vocals
Harry Stafford – guitar
Bill Bonney – bass
Pete Bogg – drums

Support the artists, buy their albums.
Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use. Don't ever sell!

UPGRADE: The Gun Club - Markthalle, Hamburg, Geemany - 26.03.1983 (Flac)

 

Someone asked for a re-upload of the vinyl rip, I also included the complete PreFM recording, wich is the definitive version. Thanks to the original uploaders of both versions.

Setlist:

01   Strange Fruit / Fire of Love
02   Run Through the Jungle
03   John Hardy
04   The Lie
05   Black Train
06   House on Highland Avenue
07   Cool Drink of Water
08   Fire Spirit
09   Death Party
10   Sex Beat
11   Goodbye Johnny
12   Texas Serenade
13   Heebies-Jeebies
14   Medley (Sex Bomb; More, More, More; Get up and Boogie; Disco Inferno)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce (voc)
Jim Burns Duckworth (g)
Patricia Morrison (b)
Dee Pop (dr)


CDR (preFM)  -  xACT
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Total time: 66:42

Re-encoded to flac (8) by TLH.

___________________________________________________________________________

 AKA Amarillo Beach

Vinylrip from the Bootleg LP, released by Mania Gold Mine (AM3. Recorded live at the Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany, March, 26, 1983. Most probably taken from the German FM radio broadcast.

A1: Run Through The Jungle
A2: The Lie
A3: Black Train
A4: The House On Highland Avenue
A5: Cool Drink Of Water
B1: Fire Spirit
B2: Death Party
B3: Sex Beat
B4: Goodbye Johnny

The Band:

Patricia Morrison - bass
Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals
Dee Pop - drums
Jim Duckworth - guitar

audio->vinyl->wav->flac

RE-UPLOAD: Cranes - Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 22.02.1991 (Flac)

 

Thanks to the original uplader.

They toured through Holland with Cop Shoot Cop & Pain Teens and was a triple treat!!
This show was recorded at the Tegentonen festival in Paradiso.
For those who are following the Cranes uploadraid, 2 songs of this show we're recorded
for BBC Snub TV. There's a sounboard version of this show available via the Cranes
fanclub, which is NOT an official release. Cranes are taper friendly & approved the sale
of this CD. This is an excellent audience master & can still easily compete with the
clean SBD version where the audience is barely noticable on.
A tape of their Rotterdam show 2 days later (Feb 24, 1991) is following later

Lineage : SONY WMD-3 Master - Maxell XLII > SONY DVDRX970 > DVD+R >
DVD Audio Extractor 4.5.4 (WAV) > Audacity (splitting) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 8

Tracklist;

01. Intro
02. Sixth Of May
03. Focus Breathe
04. E.G. Shining
05. Joy Lies Within
06. Dada 331
07. Fuse
08. Reach
09. Slow Song
10. Inescapavle
11. Give
12. Starblood

 

RE-UPLOAD: The Sound - Arena, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 25.04.1984 (Flac)

 

Excellent FM broadcast. Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

Source Dutch Radio/Hilversum 3 FM Broadcast 26-04-1984

Tracks

1.Counting the days
2.Total recall
3.New way of life
4.Winning
5.Dreams then plans
6.Fire
7.Winter
8.Monument
9.Whirlpool
10.Sense of purpose
11.Party of my mind
12.Where the love is
13.Heartland
14.Golden soldiers

Adrian Borland Tribute page: http://www.brittleheaven.com/

An introduction to the sound of THE SOUND

Prior to The Sound's formation Adrian Borland (vocals/guitar) had already released "Calling On Youth" and "Close Up", and the "One To Infinity" EP on Raw Edge (a label run by Adrian's parents) as leader of UK's Outsiders from 1977-78. Towards the end of 1978 Graham Green joined the band, replacing the original bass player, Bob Lawrence, and Michael Dudley (drums) was recruited to play alongside Adrian Janes (percussion). The new line-up recorded three tracks, which emerged on the Tortch label as the "Physical World" EP in December 1979, credited not as the Outsiders but as The Sound. They had progressed musically from their punk roots and were anxious to leave behind a name that still conjured up the atmosphere of 1977.


After the critical acclaim of the debut EP, The Sound signed to Korova Records, releasing a string of singles and two albums, "Jeopardy" and "From The Lions Mouth". These stirred a great deal of interest from both critics and public alike, establishing Adrian Borland as one of the most creative and mature writers of the post-punk scene. During 1979, Borland and Green created Second Layer, a harder, more experimental project that ran parallel with The Sound, releasing two EPs and an album. Sporadic releases continued throughout the '80s for several different labels with varying degrees of quality and success, but never managing to equal the halcyon days of 1980-81. The Sound also collaborated with singer Kevin Hewick on his "This Cover Keeps" EP in 1984.


Even now it's still hard to understand why The Sound never found commercial success. At their best, The Sound's excellent neo-pop bears favorable comparison to the Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen. Their debut album "Jeopardy" has a stark, beautiful quality, with the material given direct exposure rather than a production bath. Adrian Borland's vocals are sincere and gripping; the musical attack is both subtle and aggressive. The inconsequential Live Instinct E.P contains four songs recorded onstage in London, including renditions of the band's 1979 debut single "Cold Beat" and a few "Jeopardy" songs. "From The Lions Mouth" builds on "Jeopardy's" firm foundation with a fuller sound that faintly recalls U2. Produced by Hugh Jones (around the same time he did Echo's Heaven Up Here), it's bright, dramatic and sometimes ("Fire", "Sense Of Purpose", "Winning") powerful, a riveting album, the group's best.

Pushed by their label to sound more commercial, "All Fall Down" is the defiant reply, a stark, barren landscape of harsh tones and dark passages. The black, clashing music makes the challenging album an acquired taste, an ambitious, admirable exploration of the downside; not surprisingly, the record company sent the band packing. "Shock Of Daylight" a six-song mini-album produced by Pat Collier, is a strong return, building melodic, dramatic songs on a gutsy bass/drums drive, overlaying guitar, keyboards and even brass to create an attractively textured and varied sound. "Heads & Hearts" is even better, a quilt of bright colors woven with simple care. Though it lacks the knockout punch they'd shown in the past, with "Winning" or "Golden Soldiers" for example, the record's modesty and continuous flow make it a thoroughly engaging listen, a memorable album whose sum is greater than its parts.

"In The Hothouse" is a double live thriller from London's Marquee, with all the claustrophobic ambience of the club's packed space coming through on the recording. Live records this immediate sounding are hard to find. With the bulk of the material chosen from "Heads & Hearts" and "From The Lions Mouth", this is a superb introduction for the curious. "Thunder Up" is a middle ground between "All Fall Down's" emotional warfare and the later, more sensuous pop. Punching right in with one of their most exciting tracks, "Acceleration Group", the album is a rollercoaster ride through desolation ("Shot Up and Shut Down"), titillation ("Kinetic"), cynicism ("Prove Me Wrong") and profound beauty ("You've Got a Way"). Though the contrast can be jarring, unpredictability is a strength, and this is a bold up/down, hot/cold, built-up/knocked-down record most bands would not attempt. It was to be their last such uncompromising work; the group finally called it quits in early '88.

© 1999 Simon Heavisides / Rients Bootsma

RE-UPLOAD: Gary Numan - Santa Monica Civic Center, California, USA - 09.03.1980 (Flac)

 

Excellent sound for this Gary Numan concert from The Touring Principle World Tour 1980. A request from frederik. 

Original Info File:

The Band:
Gary Numan (Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar)
Paul Gardiner (Bass)
Chris Payne (Keyboards, Violin)
Rrussell Bell (Keyboards, Guitar, Violin)
Dennis Haines (Keyboards)
Cedric Sharpley (Drums)

Source: Professional Recording
Lineage: BBC Rock Hour #136 Transcription LP > AT-LP2D Turntable > Audacity > FLAC

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This is a professionally recorded show done for the BBC Rockhour. I have sourced the entire show from an original transcription LP. I am not an audacity expert so no 'cleaning' has been done to this show. It is presented as exactly as heard straight from the record. Unfortunately there is a scractch on the track Conversation so there is a point where it skips. I am not sure of the copyright of the original commercials (Scotch Recording Tape/Heath Candy Bars) so I have left the commercials off of this recording just to be safe.

I hope everyone enjoys this show!


Disc 1:

01 Introduction
02 Airlane
03 Me! I Disconnect From You
04 Praying to the Aliens
05 M.E.
06 Films
07 We Are So Fragile
08 Are 'Friends' Electric?

Disc 2:

09 Conversation
10 Metal
11 Cars
12 I Die: You Die
13 Down in the Park
14 Closing Credits and Advertisements

RE-UPLOAD: Front 242 - Le Spectrum, Montreal, Canada - 22.09.1985 (MP3)

 

Someone asked for a re-upload of this ancient post, still only have this lossy version. Nice audience recording. 

 

Setlist:

1. S.Fr.Nomenklatura

2. Don't Crash

3.Lovely Day

4. No Shuffle

5. Body to Body

6. Commando Mix

7. Take One

8. Funkhadafi

9. U-Men

 

 

RE-UPLOAD:The Sisters Of Mercy - Wake (50p MKV with chapters and 3 soundtracks: Video Tape FLAC transfer, DTS 2.0 Bootleg CD and DTS 2.0 Jenny Audience Recording)

 

DocSommer and VonOben rip of Wake is of course the best copy avaiablle so far, this version is the same videowise but adds another 2 soundtracks, DTS 2.0 CD Version and DTS 2.0 Audience recording and chapters for all the songs. Thanks to Lee for sending me the files to share here.


Original Info fir Video:

Video Lineage:    Original VHS tape (Channel 5)
         -> JVC SVHS HR-S9400 deck
         -> Cypress Technologies CTB-100G (aka AVT-8710) Timebase corrector
         -> Canopus ADVC-55 dv converter
         -> Avisynth/QTGMC3.01/Neatvideo magic
         -> x264 Level 4.1 / FLAC level 8

This video i 50 progressive frames per second, that means that I can NOT
be burned to a video-DVD without severe quality destruction!

It will however fit on a data-DVD. Get a good media player.

Transfer by DocSommer and VonOben of the MyHeartland forum.


X264 arguments used on pass 2:
x264.exe --bitrate 8500 --stats "statsfile.stats" --preset veryslow --fps 50
--input-res 720x576 --bluray-compat --vbv-maxrate 40000 --vbv-bufsize 30000
--level 4.1 --keyint 50 --open-gop --slices 4 --pic-struct --colorprim "bt470bg"
--transfer "bt470bg" --colormatrix "bt470bg" --sar 12:11 --pass 2 -o pass2.264 source.avi


General
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 4 / Version 2
File size                                : 4.36 GiB
Duration                                 : 57mn 10s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 10.9 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2015-12-20 12:39:19
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v8.5.2 ('Crosses') 32bit
Writing library                          : libebml v1.3.3 + libmatroska v1.4.4
DURATION                                 : 00:56:51.648000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES                         : 319841
NUMBER_OF_BYTES                          : 327517184
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP                  : mkvmerge v8.5.2 ('Crosses') 32bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC             : 2015-12-20 12:39:19
_STATISTICS_TAGS                         : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 5 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 57mn 10s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Nominal bit rate                         : 8 500 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 40.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Original display aspect ratio            : 4:3
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 50.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.410
Writing library                          : x264 core 119 r2106 07efeb4

Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.601 PAL
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.470 System B, BT.470 System G
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601

Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : FLAC
Format/Info                              : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Codec ID                                 : A_FLAC
Duration                                 : 57mn 10s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Writing library                          : libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Audio #2
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 57mn 10s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 314 MiB (7%)
Title                                    : CD Version DTS 2.0 768kbps
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No

Audio #3
ID                                       : 4
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 57mn 10s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 314 MiB (7%)
Title                                    : Audience Version DTS 2.0 768kbps
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No

Menu
00:00:00.000                             : en:<<Studio Logo>>
00:00:19.000                             : en:1. First And Last And Always
00:04:27.000                             : en:2. Body And Soul
00:08:03.000                             : en:3. Marian
00:13:05.000                             : en:4. No Time To Cry
00:16:59.000                             : en:5. Walk Away
00:20:38.000                             : en:6. Possession
00:25:15.000                             : en:7. Emma
00:31:32.000                             : en:8. Amphetamine Logic
00:35:46.000                             : en:9. A Rock And A Hard Place
00:39:16.000                             : en:10. Floorshow
00:43:09.000                             : en:11. Alice
00:46:37.000                             : en:<<Credits>>
00:47:20.000                             : en:12. Fix
00:50:01.000                             : en:13. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

RE-UPLOAD: The Cure - B-Sides and Rarities (Flac)

 

 

This is a huge fan made release picking up after the joining the dots compilation and a bit inbetween. A must have for all The Cure fans. HUGE THANKS TO WHOEVER DID THIS ONE.

The tracklist is too large for me to bother putting it here, check the photos of the covers ;)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Seaport Blues Festival, Haifa, Israel - 23.06.1993 + Glastonbury Festival, UK - 25.06.1994 + Mark Radcliffe Show - 14.03.1994 (Flac)

 

Very good collection of FM broadcasts. thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

June 23, 1993

SOURCE: FM Radio broadcasts (no detail on lineage)

Notes:
To continue with Nick’s tapes from the 90ies: The original idea was to release perhaps 1 show/tour; and those tape shouldn’t have been on dime in the last 2-3 years, should sound nice, and have some decent source/lineage info (there are many shows that I have with no source information on whatsoever!). Requests welcome :)

1993 is a difficult one! There were only 23 shows to begin with; and among 8 that I have, most lack source info or came from here :) there are just a couple exceptions and ONLY ONE is complete which made this Haifa Seaport Blues festival in Israel an obvious choice! This is an FM broadcast, and it sounds quite nice although I think someone edited out DJ host together with the music he was talking over. So in many places there are virtually no breaks between songs. Then again - would you prefer a DJ yakking? It’s a tough one!! There was some interesting technical difficulty during The Weeping Song - they stopped singing, but the rhythm section continues - seems like Blixa was switching his guitar or something. Than audience resumed singing and then Nick got everyone (one-two-three!) on the same page again :) Kind of fun to hear!
Now, to keep this going: my coverage of 1994 is limited to dime-sourced or unsourced shows, HOWEVER - this 1993 Israeli FM came with some very nice 1994 FM add-ons - from Glastonbury and Mark Radcliffe show - so I figured this particular 2xCD set really fits the bill!!

Enjoy! And anything Nick Cave you are willing to seed will be much appreciated as well!

inez

Seeded to dime Christmas 2015


CD.1:
01. The Mercy Seat
02. The Good Son
03. John Finn's Wife
04. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
05. The Ship Song
06. Brother My Cup Is Empty
07. Plain Gold Ring
08. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
09. Tupelo
CD.2:
01. The Weeping Song
02. Deanna
03. From Her To Eternity
04. Jack The Ripper
05. Long Time Man
06. New Morning
07. The Carny

Glastonbury Festival, UK, June 25, 1994
08. I Let Love In
09. City Of Refuge
10. The Ship Song

Mark Radcliffe Show, BBC Radio 1, March 14, 1994
11. Do You Love Me?
12. Nobody's Baby Now
13. Interview
14. Loverman
15. I Let Love In

"MTV Most Wanted" with Kylie Minogue, October 13, 1995
16. Where The Wild Roses Grow

TIME: 46:38 / 75:58

Cranes - Barbue, Copenhague, Denmark - 10.03.1992 - FM Version (Flac)

 

HUGE thanks to Meth for sending me this recording. Very good FM recordig and a good complement to the complete audience recording posted a couple of weeks ago.

Original Info File:

Lineage: FM-Unknown generation tape-WAV-FLAC Level 8
Ripped from: JVC TD-W309 Double Cassette Deck to PC with Creative Labs Audigy 2 Sound Card.
Source Tape: Maxell XLII
AR3 Wizard to capture audio in WAV. Wavepad to split tracks and removes beginnings and ends of the tape.
No EQ, nothing touched in the sound. I leave that for you if you want to improve sound. Feel free to do the improvements you want to do with the sound of this gig.

Setlist:

Reach
Living And Breathing
Adoration
Starblood

Got this tape from a friend from Belgium called Vincent, one of the traders with largest collections of recording I have seen, in a trade back in 1996-1998.
Very good/excellent sound quality, from a FM broadcast.

Free to share this bootleg and to convert it to the format you like! Just doesn't distribute it in LOSSY formats.
DON'T SALE THIS BOOTLEG!!! It is just for trading/sharing/enjoying/tripping!!! Don't be stupid and make money with a bootleg. Respect the artists!!!
Support the band buying their official albums!

Ripped and shared by putuco at DC++/DIME (08/Jan/2008)

 

PJ Harvey - Festival Paredes de Coura, Paredes de Coura, Portugal - 19.08.2003 (Flac)

 

Very good audience recording. Thanks to the riginal uploader on Dime.

Original Info File:

Lineage: Aud > CDR Trade > EAC > Soundforge 8 > CDWave 1.95 > FLAC5

Setlist:

01. To Bring You My Love
02. Dress
03. 50ft Queenie
04. Good Fortune  
05. Rid of Me
06. The Dancer
07. Who the Fuck?
08. Snake
09. Water
10. Big Exit
11. A Place Called Home
12. Me-Jane  
13. The Whores Hustle & The Hustlers Whore
14. Man-Size

notes:

-VG+ quality, good quality for an outdoor festival
-PJ played as a trio in this tour and their setlist recovered many early tunes

The B-52's - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 17.11.1979 (Flac)

 

Very good FM recording. Thanks to _tunic_ for sharing on Dime.

Original Info File:


A concert re-broadcast on FM radio in the Netherlands, june 13th 2008 by "KRO's Legendarisch Live".
Although it is clear that the concert was not wholly broadcast, nothing was said about the track-order, so I don't know if this is the original one. But it is an excellent soundquality and a very nice concert.


Lineage: FM-radio NAD 414 -> NAD C660 -> my own Wave-tool (normalization and editing) -> FLAC

Quality:  FM radio broadcast

Line up :

Ricky Wilson  guitar
Fred Schneider  vocals, keyboard bass*
Kate Pierson  vocals, organ, keyboard bass, guitar*
Keith Strickland drums
Cindy Wilson  vocals

Track listing:

01 - 52 girls
02 - 6060-842
03 - devil in my car
04 - hero worship
05 - lava
06 - there's a moon in the sky (called the moon)
07 - dance this mess around
08 - rock lobster
09 - downtown
10 - private idaho
11 - strobe light



===================================================================

The Flac files were obtained from fredheadset's blog https://fredheadset.wordpress.com/
The original info file was updated from the bot-archives. This fileset was shared on Dime by serroes1972 in 2008. New checksum files were created.
This is the complete FM broadcast, but not the complete concert, the first song Planet Claire is missing. A complete audience recording was shared by arcorman in 2005 and again in 2010 in a remastered and speed-corrected version (which I don't have).

 

Belly - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK - 18.03.1995 (Flac)

 

Since the Belly re-upload was quite popular here's another FM recording of them. Don't have much info but the sound is good. Thanks to the original uploader on Dime. When originally posted it misssed one track, but this version is the complete recording, adding that track and a redone MD5 file.

Setlist:

01. Now They'll Sleep
02. King
03. Seal My Fate
04. Feed the Tree
05. Gepetto
06. White Belly
07. Slow Dog
08. Are You Experienced?

RE-UPLOAD: The The - Brixton Academy, London, UK - 05.06.1993 (Flac/MP2)

 

 Two sources forthis recording, the first one from one of the bootleg CDs (various versions exist, but they all have the same recording, sourced on the broadcast at the time) and a MP2 version of the 2008 digital broadcast.

Original info Files:

Kiss The Stone 211
Commerciel Bootleg from soundboard

Source: Taper: Unknown
             BootlegCD>FLACfrontendlevel 8

Traklist:
01. Infected
02. Helpline Operator
03. Love Is Stronger Than Death
04. Dogs Of Lust
05. August & September
06. Heartland
07. Soul Mining (Mislabeled on cover as "Something Always Goes Wrong")
08. Sweet Bird Of Truth
09. The Violence Of truth
10. Armageddon Days are Here (Again)
11. Lonely Planet
12. True Happiness This Way Lies

2008 Digital Broadcast:

Broadcast by BBC 6Music on 7th January 2008 "Live at 4" series

**[BBC 6Music is a digital only broadcast with no FM transmission. Bit rate on DAB radio is 128kbps, DVB-T and Digital Satellite 160kbps. Older archived recordings may have been transmitted on BBC FM stations in the past and FM recordings may exist. Please post torrents of these if they exist as upgrades to these digital recordings which will then be removed. As these are lossy radio transmissions they have not been bloated to flac, following DIME guidelines.]**

DVB-T (160kbps / 48Khz) > Nebula DigiTV > Hard Disk MP2 > mp3DirectCut

Complete broadcast.

Tracks
01 Infected
02 Helpline Operator
03 Love Is Stronger Than Death
04 Dogs Of Lust
05 August And September
06 Heartland
07 Sweet Bird Of Truth
08 The Violence Of Truth
09 Armageddon Days Are Here Again
10 Lonely Planet
11 True Happiness This Way Lies

RE-UPLOAD: Type O Negative - Harpo's, Detroit, Michigan, USA - 31.10.2009 (MP3)

 

Again Thanks to JEmber for this one.

If you do not include track 15, encore break, this show will fit on one CD.
1.4 sec drop out at 31 sec into track 2

Location: in front of soundboard
Recorder: Sharp MD SR60 Mic: Sony ECM-DS70P
Lineage: MD --> Audacity --> WAV (44,100 Hz, 16 bit) --> Switch --> mp3 320 kbps
FLAC audio on Dimeadozen

taped by gladcarrot

setlist:

01 preshow intro
02 Dead Again
03 In Praise Of Bacchus
04 Nativity In Black (Black Sabbath cover)
05 "Happy Halloween Detroit!"
06 Halloween in Heaven
07 ?unknown
08 Profit Of Doom
09 Love You To Death
10 *banter
11 Wolf Moon
12 Anesthesia
13 World Coming Down
14 Christian Woman
15 encore break
16 Black No. 1

duration: 81:25