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Traffic - Last Exit (1969) UK Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Posted By: Fran Solo

Date: 5 Oct 2019 13:05:33

Traffic - Last Exit (1969) UK Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Traffic – Last Exit
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 800mb & 200mb
Label: Island Records/ILPS 9097 | Released: 1969 | This Issue: 1977 | Genre: Classic-Rock

A1 Just For You 2:24
A2 Shanghai Noodle Factory 5:04
A3 Something’s Got A Hold Of My Toe 2:14
A4 Withering Tree 3:10
A5 Medicated Goo 3:36
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Recorded Live At The Fillmore West
B1 Feelin’ Good 10:50
B2 Blind Man 7:10

Companies, etc.
Printed By – Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd.
Credits
Art Direction – Guy Stevens (3), Mike Sida
Photography By – Francine Winham, Ray Ross*, Richard Polak
Producer – Jimmy Miller
Notes
Blue ISLAND label

Printed in England by Robor Limited
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9097 A-3U
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9097 B-3U

Equipment

Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
Direct Drive Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK2 Quartz
Cartridge: SHURE M97xE With JICO SAS Stylus
Amplifier: Marantz 2252
ADC: E-MU 0404
DeClick with iZotope RX5: Only Manual (Click per click)
Vinyl Condition: NM-
This LP: From my personal collection
LP Rip & Full Scan LP Cover: Fran Solo
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Since Traffic originally planned its self-titled second album as a double LP, the group had extra material left over, some of which saw release before the end of 1968 (there was a new, one-off single released in December, “Medicated Goo”/”Shanghai Noodle Factory”). In January 1969, Steve Winwood announced the group’s breakup. That left Island Records, the band’s label, in the lurch, since Traffic had built up a considerable following. As far as Island was concerned, it was no time to stop, and the label quickly set about assembling a new album. The non-LP B-side “Withering Tree,” “Medicated Goo,” and “Shanghai Noodle Factory” were pressed into service, along with “Just for You,” the B-side of a solo single by on-again, off-again member Dave Mason that had been released originally in February 1968 and happened to feature the rest of the members of Traffic as sidemen; a short, previously unreleased instrumental; and two extended jams on cover songs from a 1968 live appearance at the Fillmore West. It all added up to more than half an hour of music, and that was enough to package it as the posthumous Traffic album Last Exit. Actually, Last Exit isn’t bad as profit-taking products go. “Just for You” is one of Mason’s elegant folk-pop songs, including attractive Indian percussion. “Medicated Goo” has proven to be one of Traffic’s more memorable jam tunes, despite its nonsense lyrics, and the equally appealing “Shanghai Noodle Factory” is hard not to interpret as Winwood’s explanation of the band’s split. And while the cover material seems unlikely, the songs are used as platforms for the band to jam cohesively. So, Traffic’s third album, thought at the time of its release to be the final one, has its isolated pleasures, even if it doesn’t measure up to its two predecessors.
Review by William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com

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