The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (40th Anniversary, Super Deluxe, Remastered) - 1981/2021 [FLAC 16bit-44.1kHz] (Dynamic Range Restored)
Includes 4 x CDS (CD1 - Remastered Album, CD2 - Bonus 9 Tracks + CD 3 & 4 - Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982 + Tattoo You 12” Picture Disc + 124 Page Book + Lenticular Art.
Tattoo You celebrates 40 years with the release of a brand new deluxe remastered edition of the chart topping, multi platinum album. The Super Deluxe 4CD Boxset includes the newly remastered version of Tattoo You, Lost & Found, Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982 plus a bonus picture disc pressing of Tattoo You and a 124 Page Book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions & world tour + interviews with producer Chris Kimsey & photographer Hubert Kretzscmar. The package includes a special lenticular sleeve.
The Lost & Found disc contains no fewer than nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album's original release, newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band. Among these, 'Living In The Heart Of Love' is a quintessential Stones rock workout with all of the group on top form, complete with urgent guitar licks and fine piano detail. Other highlights of Lost & Found include a killer version of 'Shame, Shame, Shame’, first recorded in 1963 by one of the band's blues heroes, Jimmy Reed; their reading of Dobie Gray's soul gem 'Drift Away'; and a fascinating reggae-tinged version of 'Start Me Up’.
Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982 is an unmissable memento of the band's London show in June of that year on the Tattoo You tour. The mighty 26-track set is packed with Stones mega-hits, including an opening 'Under My Thumb' and all-time greats such as 'Let's Spend The Night Together’, 'Honky Tonk Women' and 'Brown Sugar’. The Wembley show has covers of the Temptations' 'Just My Imagination,' Eddie Cochran's 'Twenty Flight Rock,' the Miracles' 'Going To A Go Go' and early rock 'n' roller the Big Bopper's 'Chantilly Lace.' It also features early live workouts for tracks from the then-new Tattoo You such as 'Start Me Up’, 'Neighbours’, 'Little T&A' and 'Hang Fire’.
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Details:
Label: Polydor Records
Format: 46 x File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Super Deluxe Edition
Country: UK, Europe & US
Released: Oct 22, 2021
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock and Roll
Duration: 3:27:45
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Avg. bitrate: 841 kbps
Codec: FLAC (tracks)
Encoding: lossless
Tool: reference libFLAC 1.3.3 20190804
Embedded cuesheet: no
Official DR value: DR10
Dynamic Range Restored, 16bit conversion using iZotope RX8 by gonzalo76
Dynamic Range Notes:
This is a non brickwalled audio using iZotope RX8, de-clip plugin, volume -8db, gently equalized and converted to 16bit using MBIT+™ Dithering.
Mastering has a reputation of killing dynamics just to make the track loud. Compresson kills the "dynamic expression" in the music and makes it boring. (Often, the first impression is that it sounds better and more exciting, which is why they do it!) Compression/limiting is difficult (or impossible) to un-do, and it can be over-done to the point of clipping. Compression increases the overall (average) volume, making it louder than your older CDs (loudness war!).
There are de-clipping programs. These cannot accurately restore the unknown missing/clipped peaks, but they can make an approximation. (iZotope RX have an excellent de-clipping tool. It has an effect to undo clipping damage. This can make the sound a lot less harsh.
These methods may, or may not, work. There are a couple of reasons that you can't accurately reverse compression. First, you don't know what compression curves were used, and different compression was used on each individual track before mixing. Even worse, it's usually non-linear.... All of the peaks are compressed/limited to 0db, and just like de-clipping, there is no way to know which peaks were +6dB, and which peaks were +12dB (etc.) before compression.
It is possible to un-do dynamic compress *IF* you know what curve was used to compress to begin with. This process is used in Dolby noise reduction on consumer-grade audio casssettes and even better implmentations in professional tape equipment...the phone companies have been dynamically compressing and expanding audio for years...HDCD's whole enhancement was the ability to signal what curve was used and when allowing accurate expansion...but again, those systems knew the exact settings that were used to begin with. About the best you'll be able to do is play around till you've got something you like.
The dynamics aren't really restored... all that is, is the clipped audio phase shifted elevating some peaks and lowering some, but the clipping can't really be restored, information has been thrown away and the eq doesn't guess at restoring that, but they can make an approximation for a pleasant listening. New DR value: 10 (against 5)
Tracklist:
Disc 1: Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)
01. Start Me Up (3:34)
02. Hang Fire (2:22)
03. Slave (6:32)
04. Little T&A (3:24)
05. Black Limousine (3:35)
06. Neighbours (3:34)
07. Worried About You (5:18)
08. Tops (3:49)
09. Heaven (4:23)
10. No Use In Crying (3:27)
11. Waiting On A Friend (4:36)
Disc 2: Lost & Found: Rarities
01. Living In The Heart Of Love (4:13)
02. Fiji Jim (4:00)
03. Troubles A’ Comin (4:16)
04. Shame, Shame, Shame (4:14)
05. Drift Away (4:07)
06. It's A Lie (4:57)
07. Come To The Ball (3:41)
08. Fast Talking, Slow Walking (5:40)
09. Start Me Up (4:10)
Disc 3: Still Life (Wembley Stadium 1982) Part 1
01. Under My Thumb (3:54)
02. When The Whip Comes Down (4:34)
03. Let's Spend The Night Together (4:22)
04. Shattered (4:41)
05. Neighbours (4:10)
06. Black Limousine (3:51)
07. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (9:32)
08. Twenty Flight Rock (1:46)
09. Going To A Go-Go (3:40)
10. Chantilly Lace (4:12)
11. Let Me Go (4:06)
12. Time Is On My Side (3:51)
13. Beast Of Burden (7:23)
14. Let It Bleed (6:00)
Disc 4: Still Life (Wembley Stadium 1982) Part 2
01. You Can't Always Get What You Want (10:41)
02. Band Introductions (1:12)
03. Little T&A (3:21)
04. Tumbling Dice (4:27)
05. She's So Cold (4:10)
06. Hang Fire (2:27)
07. Miss You (7:49)
08. Honky Tonk Women (3:31)
09. Brown Sugar (3:24)
10. Start Me Up (4:40)
11. Jumpin' Jack Flash (6:02)
12. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (6:02)
Credits:
The Rolling Stones:
Mick Jagger - lead vocals (all but 4), backing vocals (all but 5); electric guitar (9 & 10); percussion (track 9)
Keith Richards - electric guitar (all but 9), backing vocals (1–4, 6, 7 & 10); lead vocals and bass guitar (track 4)
Ronnie Wood - electric guitar (all but 3, 7–9 & 11), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 6 & 10)
Bill Wyman - bass guitar (all but 4); guitars, synthesizer and percussion (track 9)
Charlie Watts - drums
Mick Taylor - electric guitar (8 & 11)
Additional personnel:
Nicky Hopkins - piano (8, 10 & 11); organ (10)
Ian Stewart - piano (2 & 4–6)
Billy Preston - keyboards (3 & 7)
Wayne Perkins - electric lead guitar (7)
Ollie E. Brown - percussion (3 & 7)
Pete Townshend - backing vocals (3)
Sonny Rollins - saxophone (3, 6 & 11)
Jimmy Miller - percussion (8)
Michael Carabello - cowbell (1); conga (3); güiro, claves, cabasa and conga (11)
Chris Kimsey - electric piano (9)
Barry Sage - handclaps (1)
Sugar Blue - harmonica (5)
Notes:
- Originally released on August 24, 1981
- New 2021 remaster by Stephen Marcussen
- Three CDs of previously unavailable studio and live tracks recorded in Wembley, England, Wembley Stadium on June 26, 1982 and mixed by Sam Wheat
original CD1
de-clipped CD1
Many thanks to Andromaxvic from rutracker for the original 24/44 files!
Enjoy,
Gonzalo
