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Foghat - Fool For The City (1975) [MFSL, 2008]
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Foghat - Fool For The City (1975) [MFSL, 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 8 MB
Genre: Hard Rock, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (UDSACD 2037)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 8 MB
Genre: Hard Rock, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (UDSACD 2037)
After building a solid core audience through relentless touring and a string of hard-rocking albums, Foghat finally hit the big time in 1975 with Fool for the City. It still stands out as the best album in the group's catalog because it matched their road-tested abilities as hard rockers to a consistent set of tunes that were both well-crafted and ambitious. The tone for the album is set by its title track: This hard-rocking gem not only pairs riff-driven verses with an effective shout-along chorus, but also throws in a few surprising moments where the guitars are taken out of the mix completely and Nick Jameson's bass is allowed to take the lead in a funky breakdown. Fool for the City also produced an enduring rock radio favorite in "Slow Ride," a stomping rock tune that transcends the inherent clichés of its "love is like a car ride" lyrics with a furious performance from the band and a clever arrangement that works in well-timed automotive sound effects during the verses and plays up the band's ability to work an R&B-styled groove into their hard-rocking sound (again, note the thumping bassline from Jameson). Further radio play was earned with "Take It or Leave It," an acoustic-based ballad that worked synthesizers into its subtle yet carefully layered arrangement to become one of the group's finest slow numbers. The album's other songs don't stand like the aforementioned selections, but they all flow together nicely thanks to a consistently inspired performance from the band and clever little arrangement frills that keep the group's boogie-oriented rock fresh (example: the witty spoken word bit at the end of "Drive Me Home"). All in all, Fool for the City is both Foghat's finest achievement in the studio and one of the high points of 1970s hard rock.Tracklist:
01. Fool for the City
02. My Babe
03. Slow Ride
04. Terraplane Blues
05. Save Your Loving (For Me)
06. Drive Me Home
07. Take It or Leave It
Total time: 35:25
Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016
EAC extraction logfile from 30. June 2017, 21:20
Foghat / Fool For The City (2008 MFSL)
Used drive : PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 30
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 : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -6 -e -p -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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Track 1
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Accurately ripped (confidence 21) [E0943E75] (AR v2)
Copy OK
Track 2
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Accurately ripped (confidence 18) [61EEB63B] (AR v2)
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Track 4
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Track 5
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Accurately ripped (confidence 18) [6EFF0ECE] (AR v2)
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Track 6
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Accurately ripped (confidence 18) [1B0CDFCD] (AR v2)
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Track 7
Filename C:\tmp\00_RIPS\07 - Take It Or Leave It.wav
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Accurately ripped (confidence 18) [D58AA6AB] (AR v2)
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==== Log checksum 9639E1C46FC45F398605CD6FD0DC2DBEDE12455A4075FE0FCD8DBCBF4B573AFC ====
EAC extraction logfile from 30. June 2017, 21:20
Foghat / Fool For The City (2008 MFSL)
Used drive : PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 30
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 : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
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TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:33.11 | 0 | 20485
2 | 4:33.11 | 4:37.47 | 20486 | 41307
3 | 9:10.58 | 8:11.03 | 41308 | 78135
4 | 17:21.61 | 5:42.38 | 78136 | 103823
5 | 23:04.24 | 3:31.36 | 103824 | 119684
6 | 26:35.60 | 3:54.44 | 119685 | 137278
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Accurately ripped (confidence 21) [E0943E75] (AR v2)
Copy OK
Track 2
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Accurately ripped (confidence 18) [61EEB63B] (AR v2)
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Track 3
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Accurately ripped (confidence 21) [F63E583A] (AR v2)
Copy OK
Track 4
Filename C:\tmp\00_RIPS\04 - Terraplane Blues.wav
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Track 5
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Accurately ripped (confidence 18) [1B0CDFCD] (AR v2)
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Track 7
Filename C:\tmp\00_RIPS\07 - Take It Or Leave It.wav
Pre-gap length 0:00:01.70
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Track | CTDB Status
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2 | (15/15) Accurately ripped
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==== Log checksum 9639E1C46FC45F398605CD6FD0DC2DBEDE12455A4075FE0FCD8DBCBF4B573AFC ====
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[CTDB TOCID: bx5gSTGvSx6.y28.fwNtMdZofXs-] found.
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[AccurateRip ID: 000a127f-003c4830-5a084d07] found.
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05 [1baeaa8c] (00/58) No match
06 [7a22535f] (00/58) No match
07 [15f4d5e4] (00/59) No match
Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL] [ LOG ]
– 100,0 [0D6F703F] [303ED496]
01 99,2 [B1AE623E] [10098397] CRC32
02 98,7 [1167EC3A] [B2E9955C] CRC32
03 97,0 [77212BE1] [781F5932] CRC32
04 100,0 [65F12A8B] [BBF810CC] CRC32
05 99,7 [5D4F0BEE] [DC83C696] CRC32
06 98,4 [9532EA56] [C1A5C002] CRC32
07 99,3 [647F54E3] [272C8047] CRC32
[CTDB TOCID: bx5gSTGvSx6.y28.fwNtMdZofXs-] found.
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3 | (55/55) Accurately ripped
4 | (55/55) Accurately ripped
5 | (55/55) Accurately ripped
6 | (55/55) Accurately ripped
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[AccurateRip ID: 000a127f-003c4830-5a084d07] found.
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06 [5f88a557] (02/58) Accurately ripped
07 [c9ee43a8] (02/59) Accurately ripped
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03 [e5764701] (00/63) No match (V2 was not tested)
04 [06726663] (00/58) No match (V2 was not tested)
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07 [15f4d5e4] (00/59) No match
Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL] [ LOG ]
– 100,0 [0D6F703F] [303ED496]
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04 100,0 [65F12A8B] [BBF810CC] CRC32
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06 98,4 [9532EA56] [C1A5C002] CRC32
07 99,3 [647F54E3] [272C8047] CRC32
Thanks to mclarenspy