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Writing On The Wall ‎– The Power Of The Picts (2007) 2 CD

Posted By: hill0
Writing On The Wall ‎– The Power Of The Picts (2007) 2 CD

Writing On The Wall ‎– The Power Of The Picts (2007) 2 CD
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) | 572 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 262 MB | Scans (JPG) | 31 MB | 51:34 + 1:01:50
Genre: Progressive Rock / Psychedelic Rock | Country: Scotland | Label: Ork Records | ORKD 2

Writing on the Wall's only album was theatrical heavy blues-psychedelic-rock that, despite its power and menace, was too obviously derivative of better and more original artists to qualify as a notable work. The organ-guitar blends owe much to the Doors, Procol Harum, and Traffic, though the attitude is somehow more sour and ominous than any of those groups. The vocals are sometimes pretty blatant in their homages to Arthur Brown, particularly when Linnie Paterson climbs to a histrionic scream; Jim Morrison, Gary Brooker, and Stevie Winwood obviously left their imprints on him too.Throw in some of the portentous drama from the narrations to the Elektra astrological concept album The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds (particularly on "Aries") as well. A problem is, however, that not many singers other than Morrison and Brown could pull off this kind of solemn poetic mood, and on "Aries," to take one example, the attempt to create a seance-like atmosphere seems faintly ridiculous. To look at the positives, the band does play with a soul-rock crunch; the songs sometimes shift tempo (occasionally in and out of martial beats) and melody unpredictably, if not nearly as memorably as, say, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown did; and there are occasional off-the-wall touches of accordion and, on "Virginia Waters," speaking-in-tongues vocals with a nod to Family's Roger Chapman. [The 2007 CD reissue on Ork is an expanded two-CD edition adding lengthy historical liner notes, the non-LP 1969 single "Child on a Crossing"/"Lucifer Corpus," and, on the second disc, a dozen 1968-1971 tracks that weren't released at the time.]
Review by Richie Unterberger
Writing On The Wall ‎– The Power Of The Picts (2007) 2 CD



Tracklist :

CD 1:
01. Bogeyman (03:45)
02. Shadow Of Man (05:56)
03. Taskers Successor (03:42)
04. Hill Of Dreams (03:08)
05. Virginia Water (05:56)
06. It Came On A Sunday (04:18)
07. Mrs. Coopers Pie (03:21)
08. Ladybird (03:46)
09. Aries (08:06)
10. Child On A Crossing (Bonus Track) (03:32)
11. Lucifer Corpus (Bonus Track) (05:45)

CD 2:
01. Felicity Jane (3:20)
02. Nobody Knows (3:44)
03. Buffalo (6:55)
04. Henry Dawson (4:57)
05. Diane's Big Daddy (5:30)
06. Live And Learn (4:59)
07. Dream Yourself A Hero (7:10)
08. Fishers Of Men (6:31)
09. Tripsy Lady (4:00)
10. Bellyful Of Rock (5:35)
11. Man Of Renown (3:56)
12. Buffalo (6:07)

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

EAC extraction logfile from 10. June 2010, 20:23

Writing On The Wall / Power Of The Picts, The

Used drive : ASUS DRW-22B2L Adapter: 1 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
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

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TOC of the extracted CD

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2 | 4:15.04 | 3:20.51 | 19129 | 34179
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7 | 29:49.03 | 3:42.22 | 134178 | 150849
8 | 33:31.25 | 3:08.15 | 150850 | 164964
9 | 36:39.40 | 5:58.61 | 164965 | 191875
10 | 42:38.26 | 3:32.32 | 191876 | 207807
11 | 46:10.58 | 5:47.11 | 207808 | 233843

Track 1

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [3894943A], AccurateRip returned [A10873F7]
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Track 2

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [EEF7E162], AccurateRip returned [B5996FE3]
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Track 3

Filename E:\03 - Ladybird.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [A386F29A], AccurateRip returned [47C97ACC]
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Track 4

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [14F249D9], AccurateRip returned [0100A187]
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Track 5

Filename E:\05 - Bogeyman.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [9D6EDDF6], AccurateRip returned [7AC3B3CF]
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Track 6

Filename E:\06 - Shadow Of Man.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [776DCA12], AccurateRip returned [D8A90756]
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Track 7

Filename E:\07 - Taskers Successor.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [5F780DB3], AccurateRip returned [A11507D3]
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Track 8

Filename E:\08 - Hill Of Dreams.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [0DF151B7], AccurateRip returned [82419966]
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Track 9

Filename E:\09 - Virgina Water.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [434106E0], AccurateRip returned [A20B9682]
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Track 10

Filename E:\10 - Child On Crossing.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [C19D4594], AccurateRip returned [0C9E3B76]
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Track 11

Filename E:\11 - Lucifer's Corpus.wav

Peak level 96.5 %
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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [7FECF292], AccurateRip returned [894C81CF]
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No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database

No errors occurred

End of status report

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

EAC extraction logfile from 10. June 2010, 21:17

Writing On The Wall / Buffalo

Used drive : ASUS DRW-22B2L Adapter: 1 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
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : E:\Програмы\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
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TOC of the extracted CD

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8 | 36:24.44 | 6:29.49 | 163844 | 193067
9 | 42:54.18 | 3:58.52 | 193068 | 210969
10 | 46:52.70 | 5:33.63 | 210970 | 236007
11 | 52:26.58 | 3:54.47 | 236008 | 253604
12 | 56:21.30 | 6:07.02 | 253605 | 281131

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [FB115594], AccurateRip returned [62DE5320]
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Track 2

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [E142A395], AccurateRip returned [9712E7BB]
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Track 3

Filename E:\03 - Buffalo.wav

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [7E789D87], AccurateRip returned [E46BB202]
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Track 4

Filename E:\04 - Henry Dawson.wav

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Track 5

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Track 6

Filename E:\06 - Live And Learn.wav

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Track 7

Filename E:\07 - Dream Yourself A Hero.wav

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Track 8

Filename E:\08 - Fishers Of Men.wav

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Peak level 95.5 %
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Track 9

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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [8C2D15D6], AccurateRip returned [EFDE5BD7]
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Track 10

Filename E:\10 - Bellyful Of Rock.wav

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Track 11

Filename E:\11 - Man Of Renown.wav

Peak level 95.7 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC C24E0040
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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [3249BA18], AccurateRip returned [EC35EFE4]
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Track 12

Filename E:\12 - Buffalo (demo hidden track).wav

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Peak level 95.5 %
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Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [26E13AF5], AccurateRip returned [C0EDBA4B]
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No errors occurred

End of status report

[CUETools log; Date: 27.07.2016 13:22:24; Version: 2.1.5]
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[CUETools log; Date: 27.07.2016 17:34:13; Version: 2.1.5]
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10 95,7 [9DD99788] [63B38F3B] CRC32
11 95,7 [C24E0040] [00372CB0] CRC32
12 95,5 [0A5A9CA8] [DD48BDBD] CRC32


Musicians

Bass – Jake Scott
Drums – Jimmy Hush
Guitar – Willy Finlayson
Keyboards – Bill Scott
Vocals – Linnie Paterson

Writing On The Wall ‎– The Power Of The Picts (2007) 2 CD

All thanks goes to Контарик
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