Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (2007 Remastered) [EAC-FLAC] [RePoPo]

******************************************************************************* Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again ******************************************************************************* This torrent contains both the Audio CD in its remastered stereo form, as released in 2007, plus a short video, which tells the story of DM during the era. The video is presented in XviD with .mp3 sound. There are spanish and english subtitles already ripped and a subpack which also includes subs in Deutsch, Français and Italiano. You have to rip it yourself (I currently use SubRip on Windows), in order to use them. Note: There's no 5.1 audio here. I repeat: there's no 5.1 audio here. Only the 2.0 stereo album remastered. And sounds great! CD: Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (2007 Remastered) 01. Love, In Itself [0:04:29.63] 02. More Than A Party [0:04:45.34] 03. Pipeline [0:05:54.70] 04. Everything Counts [0:04:20.66] 05. Two Minute Warning [0:04:13.38] 06. Shame [0:03:51.74] 07. The Landscape Is Changing [0:04:49.09] 08. Told You So [0:04:27.04] 09. And Then.... [0:04:39.23] 10. Everything Counts (Reprise) [0:00:59.63] Documentary: 1983 - Teenagers growing up, bad governments, and all that stuff [0:38:56] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ALLMUSIC REVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The full addition of Alan Wilder to Depeche Mode's lineup created a perfect troika that would last another 11 years, as the combination of Martin Gore's songwriting, Wilder's arranging, and David Gahan's singing and live star power resulted in an ever more compelling series of albums and singles. Construction Time Again, the new lineup's first full effort, is a bit hit and miss nonetheless, but when it does hit, it does so perfectly. Right from the album's first song, "Love in Itself," something is clearly up; Depeche never sounded quite so thick with its sound before, with synths arranged into a mini- orchestra/horn section and real piano and acoustic guitar spliced in at strategic points. Two tracks later, "Pipeline" offers the first clear hint of an increasing industrial influence (the bandmembers were early fans of Einstürzende Neubauten), with clattering metal samples and oddly chain gang-like lyrics and vocals. The album's clear highlight has to be "Everything Counts," a live staple for years, combining a deceptively simple, ironic lyric about the music business with a perfectly catchy but unusually arranged blending of more metallic scraping samples and melodica amid even more forceful funk/hip-hop beats. Elsewhere, on "Shame" and "Told You So," Gore's lyrics start taking on more of the obsessive personal relationship studies that would soon dominate his writing. Wilder's own songwriting contributions are fine musically, but lyrically, "preachy" puts it mildly, especially the environment-friendly "The Landscape Is Changing." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME WIKIPEDIA INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Construction Time Again is the third studio album by the British synthpop band Depeche Mode, released in 1983. This was the first Depeche Mode album with Alan Wilder, who composed the songs "Two Minute Warning" and "The Landscape Is Changing" (as well as the B-side "Fools"). The album was recorded at John Foxx's Garden studios in London, engineered by Gareth Jones (who had also engineered Foxx's seminal electronic album, Metamatic). It was mixed in the famous Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin (where much of David Bowie's trilogy of seminal electronic albums featuring Brian Eno had been produced). The album's cover artwork features the Matterhorn mountain. The song Everything Counts was covered by Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames on their album Whoracle. In 2007, Construction Time Again was re-released with a bonus DVD. The first CD was remastered and (except in the USA) was released on a CD/SACD hybrid. The bonus DVD includes B-sides in addition to the single and B-side for "Get the Balance Right", a one-off single recorded prior to the album. The album is released as originally intended and does not include the bonus extended mix of "Everything Counts", but does keep the reprise. The DVD includes a documentary on the album. The double-documentary discusses both "Get the Balance Right" and Construction Time Again, its two singles, the making of the cover, the lyrics, and the sampling technology used during the album's production. It also discusses Alan Wilder and Gareth Jones, a new member and a new engineer (respectively) and their impact on the band's sound. It also includes footage of the Construction Time Again tour from 1983, as well as excerpts from the music video for "Get the Balance Right". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME TRACKS REVIEWED AT ALLMUSIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOVE IN ITSELF by Stewart Mason The opening track and first single from Depeche Mode's third album, 1983's Construction Time Again, "Love in Itself" fully introduces the group's second stage after the spotty and transitional A Broken Frame, which had been unevenly pitched between frothy pop songs in the "Just Can't Get Enough" vein and Martin Gore's more ponderous, mopey experiments. "Love in Itself" integrates those two aspects quite neatly: although the overall tone of the song is solemn and dignified in the manner of early Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark or some of the other, artsier synth pop bands, "Love in Itself" also has a pair of maddeningly catchy synth hooks counterpointing each other, as well as a sweetly pretty and memorable chorus. New member Alan Wilder, introduced on the stand- alone 1982 single "Get the Balance Right," fleshes out the reconstituted quartet's sound perfectly, adding a depth that had been missing from A Broken Frame as well as a richer tonal palette that the comparatively brittle debut, Speak & Spell, had lacked. EVERYTHING COUNTS by Ned Raggett While Martin Gore had created his share of fine hit singles for Depeche Mode following Vince Clarke's departure, most were pleasant rather than deathless. That all completely changed with "Everything Counts," which saw both his own songwriting abilities matched with an increasing ambition of the band as a whole. With a big, full-bodied rhythm, as much indebted to hip-hop's worship of the breakbeat and industrial music's own love of huge beats as to disco's similar enthrallment, "Everything Counts" remains one of the band's best numbers. Gore's lyrical sentiments, ripping into corruption and compromised ideals via a perverse singsong ( Gore's own sweet delivery of the chorus is particularly ironic in this light), match the brutal work at play. David Gahan's lead vocal is a bit sour at points, but he handles himself well most of the time, letting the combination of drum machine, sampled metallic scrapes, deep synth bass, and, playing the lead melody, a sampled shawm, or Chinese oboe, come to the fore. Aggressive and beautiful at once, it can arguably be called the first English-language industrial pop hit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EAC LOG EXTRACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008 EAC extraction logfile from 31. July 2009, 9:58 Depeche Mode / Construction Time Again (2007 Remastered) Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N Adapter: 0 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 102 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 : Installed external ASPI interface Gap handling : Appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : F:Archivos de programaExact Audio CopyFLACFLAC.EXE Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCURIP REPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Verification date: 31/07/2009 10:02:23] [Disc ID: 0011623f-0089b192-8709f70a] Track [ CRC ] Status 01 [62d13fc5] (43/65) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 02 [562ee674] (43/65) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 03 [bfaae50f] (43/65) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 04 [e0424598] (42/64) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 05 [dceed375] (42/64) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 06 [dfe068e1] (42/64) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 07 [e7bfdaac] (42/64) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 08 [ca616b11] (41/63) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 09 [9b1f7cd1] (41/65) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 10 [9e4c83e5] (39/60) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ (A REQUEST) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's usual to post comments only to complain about a torrent which doesn't work in your configuration. 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degsey (2009-08-02)

Thanks...have seeded to at least 1:1

mauro145 (2009-08-21)

gracias.