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America - View From The Ground (1982) {2014, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered} Repost

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 31 Aug 2025 09:28:10

America - View From The Ground (1982) {2014, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered} Repost

America - View From The Ground (1982) {2014, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 268 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 97 Mb
Full Scans ~ 166 Mb | 00:40:07 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soft Rock | Capitol Records / Universal Music #TYCP-80050

View from the Ground is the tenth studio album by British-American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in August 1982. The album marked a comeback for the group, who had been written off since Dan Peek's departure five years prior. It was a modest hit in the US, reaching number 41 on the Billboard album chart, and produced two hit singles: "You Can Do Magic" reached number eight on the Billboard singles chart and number five on the adult contemporary chart, and "Right Before Your Eyes" (also popularly known as "Rudolph Valentino") peaked at 45 on the Billboard singles chart and 16 on the adult contemporary chart. "You Can Do Magic" spent more time on the charts, 20 weeks, than any other America single. The song "Inspector Mills" was a hit in the Philippines in the 1980s and remains one of the band's best-known songs in the country.

The claim to fame for America's 1982 album, View From the Ground, is that it yielded the soft rock duo's last Top Ten hit, "You Can Do Magic." Vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Gerry Beckley and vocalist/guitarist Dewey Bunnell scored big with this infectious, hook-riddled single. It was written and produced by Argent guitarist and solo artist Russ Ballard, who is most famous for penning songs that others have hit with. View From the Ground is an exceptionally slick-sounding yet pedestrian album overall, despite – or because of – the famous hired guns and anonymous session pros involved. In addition to Beckley, Bunnell, and Ballard, Blood, Sweat & Tears veteran Bobby Colomby produced a couple of tracks. Toto is represented by guitarist Steve Lukather, bass guitarist Mike Porcaro, and drummer Jeff Porcaro. Backing vocalists include the Beach Boys' Carl Wilson, Christopher Cross, and the Eagles' Timothy B. Schmit. Actor/musician Bill Mumy contributes guitar work and co-wrote a few tunes, including the brightly upbeat "Never Be Lonely." "Desperate Love" is frantically melodic, even edgy – for America, that is; the flashes of biting guitar that pepper this song and other portions of View From the Ground probably all emanate from Lukather. "Right Before Your Eyes" is a pop ballad that just missed the Top 40. The best way to experience America is through its singles, which means greatest-hits albums are the answer. Although View From the Ground was reissued on CD by One Way, go for one of the two readily available collections with "You Can Do Magic": 1991's Encore: More Greatest Hits or 2001's The Complete Greatest Hits.

~ Bret Adams, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. You Can Do Magic [3:57]
02. Never Be Lonely [4:00]
03. You Girl [3:34]
04. Inspector Mills [5:13]
05. Love On The Vine [3:23]
06. Desperate Love [3:59]
07. Right Before Your Eyes [3:54]
08. Jody [3:57]
09. Sometimes Lovers [4:38]
10. Even The Score [3:37]

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 15. June 2014, 21:35

America / View From The Ground SHM-CD

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Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
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

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

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Test CRC 92BCDE2C
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