1984-11-02 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK/Source 3

Notes

A very good FM broadcast recording. The previous transfer of this recording was a little bass heavy and had a sort of "breathing" effect to them due to Dolby mistracking. This retransfer was done on the final high-end cassette deck Nakamichi manufactured versus a Sony Walkman Pro that was, according to the taper, "past its best". It is a big upgrade in sound quality and sounds significantly better overall. Bass is improved, all high frequencies are present as they should be, there is significantly less wow & flutter, and there are no Dolby mistracking artifacts. The only thing I had to do to the audio was adjust the speed and apply a bit of normalization to even out the channels somewhat. Thanks for your effort in retransferring your original tape and for providing a high-resolution 24/96 transfer, twosheds!

This FM broadcast recording is incomplete, as the "Steve Blacknell intro", and "Something To Do" are missing entirely. Additionally, If You Want fades in and misses the initial atmospheric intro before the song starts. Moreover, Everything Counts is missing the first couple seconds, but this is the case on all pre-FM and FM broadcast variants; leaving only the raw soundboard cassette (Source 2) with a complete introduction.

Additionally, this FM broadcast included Blasphemous Rumours which is not found on the BBC pre-FM promotional vinyl, but misses "Puppets" which is present on that release. I have read that there was another radio broadcast which included "Puppets", but a recording of that broadcast has not surfaced yet. Nonetheless, "Puppets" can be found on the pre-FM vinyl, so it is not a big loss.

BBC Radio International information page for this date.

REVISION A Note: The date of this recording has been corrected to November 2, 1984, based on the BBC Radio International catalog search page. See right. No change to the audio has been made.

Other recordings from this concert exist:

• Source 1 is the BBC Transcription Disc (In Concert 345): pre-FM recording of 12 songs
• Source 2 is a second-generation cassette copy of a raw soundboard recording containing 17 and a half songs
• Source 4 is another FM broadcast recording broadcast by WXRT in Chicago

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

1. [5:18] Play If You Want
2. [4:15] Play People Are People
3. [5:00] Play Leave In Silence
4. [5:08] Play Somebody (*)
5. [3:47] Play Ice Machine
6. [5:30] Play Lie To Me
7. [5:26] Play Blasphemous Rumours
8. [5:16] Play Master And Servant
9. [4:24] Play Photographic
10. [6:25] Play Everything Counts
11. [4:41] Play See You

• Total time: 55:08

Lineage

• Incomplete FM broadcast recording
• Lineage: NAD 4020 Tuner or possibly a Yamaha (unknown model) -> Naim 32.5 preamp -> Nakamichi BX-100E (Dolby B on) -> Sony BHF 120 normal position cassette -> Nakamichi DR-10 cassette deck (Dolby B on) -> Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD USB -> Audacity (24/96 capture) -> dBpoweramp -> FLAC (level 5) -> in Adobe Audition CC 2015: speed adjusted 2.0% to 2.25% (start and end), channels independently normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> WAV (24/96) -> tracked using Audacity 2.1.1 -> WAV (24/96) tracks -> FLAC 24-bit 96khz using FLAC 1.3.1 64-bit (level 8 compression) and foobar2000 v1.3.8
• Taper: twosheds
• Generation: master; tape retransferred by twosheds on May 7, 2015 and shared on DIME May 11, 2015
• auCDtectTaskManager log included
• Originally broadcast on 1984-12-01 by BBC Radio 1 (see BBC website here and here)

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