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Mike Oldfield - QE2 (1980)

Posted By: v3122

Date: 11 Sep 2021 09:52:33

Mike Oldfield - QE2 (1980)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1984 | Virgin, CDV 2181 | ~ 265 or 105 Mb | Scans
New Age / Art Rock / Prog Rock

This album is simply exceptional. You get a hearty dose of a musical genius's compositional skills and vocabulary, but you don't come away feeling as though you were "taken to school"; the music is very accessible. Oldfield veers from the "long piece" album format which was the hallmark of his earliest work - the longest song on QE2 is only ten or so minutes long - but the album is cohesive and conveys a rather concise musical theme.
With QE2 you have some of Mike's distinguishing trademarks. For example, the first piece, Taurus, is at times alternately mean and nice, a dichotomy evident in some of his other work. Taurus also contains some very adroit key changes which allow for contrasting degrees of musical brightness. The title track is perhaps the album's best; in fact, Mike shows daring here in dueling synthetic bagpipes against an electric guitar for a very engaging effect. Mike also uses Celtic-based melodies throughout the album as he has done during various stages of his career.
Has any single composer born anytime after 1950 composed more aesthetically satisfying melody lines than Mike Oldfield? And has any put them to work more effectively in his music? I honestly suspect not. Just listen to the one melody near the end of Taurus which he predicates the title track upon and take note of the heights he reaches. The melody is strong, to be sure, but Mike is able to do so much with it. (You don't have to listen too carefully to appreciate the difference between what he does with it on Taurus and what he does with it on the title track!) Very few composers can essentially stay with a theme for a long time and continue to add interest through subtle changes and well-conceived developmental tactics, but Mike is one of the very few who can not only get away with it, but make the approach one of his greatest compositional assets.
This is one of Mike's best; it comes highly endorsed.

By David, amazon

Mike Oldfield - QE2 (1980):

Tracklist:

01. Taurus 1 (10:16)
02. Sheba (03:33)
03. Conflict (02:53)
04. Arrival (02:48)
05. Wonderful Land (03:38)
06. Mirage (04:41)
07. QE2 (07:38)
08. Celt (03:06)
09. Molly (01:15)

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 26. December 2012, 17:21

MIKE OLDFIELD / QE2

Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B3ST Adapter: 3 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
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 : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\EAC\WV\wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -h -hh -m %s %d

TOC of the extracted CD

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7 | 27:52.17 | 7:38.45 | 125417 | 159811
8 | 35:30.62 | 3:06.00 | 159812 | 173761
9 | 38:36.62 | 1:15.13 | 173762 | 179399

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Filename G:\MIKE OLDFIELD\1980- QE 2 (DE 1984 Virgin Records • CDV 2181)\MIKE OLDFIELD - QE2.wav

Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC BEB49404
Copy CRC BEB49404
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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All tracks accurately ripped

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DR Log

foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-05-18 19:31:41

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Analyzed: MIKE OLDFIELD / QE2
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.09 dB -16.15 dB 10:17 01-Taurus 1
DR11 0.00 dB -15.24 dB 3:34 02-Sheba
DR10 0.00 dB -13.60 dB 2:53 03-Conflict
DR9 -0.43 dB -12.49 dB 2:49 04-Arrival
DR10 -0.18 dB -15.09 dB 3:38 05-Wonderful Land
DR10 0.00 dB -14.73 dB 4:41 06-Mirage
DR11 -0.01 dB -14.38 dB 7:39 07-QE2
DR10 -0.88 dB -13.25 dB 3:06 08-Celt
DR11 -16.15 dB -30.51 dB 1:15 09-Molly
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 854 kbps
Codec: FLAC

CUETools Log

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