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2010 Uncompressed 24-bit/48kHz Web Edition
Mojo is the twelfth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on June 15, 2010 on CD and June 29 on BD. It is Petty's first album with the Heartbreakers in eight years. Mojo debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 125,000 copies in its first week of release. The album is also the band's first album since 1981's Hard Promises to feature returning original bassist Ron Blair in its entirety, as he only played on one track on the previous Heartbreakers album, The Last DJ.
Recording
In November 2009, Petty told Rolling Stone's David Fricke that it was his intention to record the album live in the studio without overdubs. He said of the album's tone, "It's blues-based. Some of the tunes are longer, more jammy kind of music. A couple of tracks really sound like the Allman Brothers — not the songs but the atmosphere of the band."
Promotion and release
The band began streaming a song from the album, "Good Enough", on their website on February 24, 2010. "First Flash of Freedom" is now streaming on the website. Videos for "Jefferson Jericho Blues," "First Flash of Freedom," "I Should Have Known It," "Something Good Coming," and "Good Enough" have been posted on the band's YouTube channel.
Tom Petty has also released five of the songs prior to his upcoming Mojo tour via his YouTube account, the first of which was the single "Good Enough", released on March 4, 2010. The songs released as of June 10, 2010 are, in order of release:
1. "Good Enough"
2. "First Flash of Freedom"
3. "I Should Have Known It" [Official Video]
4. "Something Good Coming" [Official Video]
5. "Jefferson Jericho Blues" [Official Video]
The last three of the songs were clean, non-overdubbed songs filmed in his new studio, as he expressed in a roughly twelve-minute "Mojo Documentary". He notes that he has had the studio for "eight or nine years", which dates back approximately to before the recordings of his last studio album with the Heartbreakers, The Last DJ.
In addition to his YouTube account, Mojo's tracklist was made available via an article on one of ESPN's websites, on June 8, 2010. The article goes into very brief detail of the tour and of the songs. Most of the songs were made available on the website through a "Streampad" music player, at least until the album was officially released.
Track Listing
All songs written by Tom Petty, except where noted.
1. "Jefferson Jericho Blues" - 3:24
2. "First Flash of Freedom" (Tom Petty, Mike Campbell) - 6:53
3. "Running Man's Bible" - 6:02
4. "The Trip to Pirate's Cove" - 5:00
5. "Candy" - 4:12
6. "No Reason to Cry" - 3:04
7. "I Should Have Known It" (Tom Petty, Mike Campbell) - 3:36
8. "U.S. 41" - 3:01
9. "Takin' My Time" - 4:21
10. "Let Yourself Go" - 3:23
11. "Don't Pull Me Over" - 4:05
12. "Lover's Touch" - 4:24
13. "High In the Morning" - 3:36
14. "Something Good Coming" - 4:11
15. "Good Enough" (Tom Petty, Mike Campbell) - 5:57
Personnel
* Tom Petty - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, lead vocals
* Mike Campbell - lead guitar
* Benmont Tench - acoustic and electric pianos, organ
* Ron Blair - electric bass
* Scott Thurston - rhythm guitar, harmonica
* Steve Ferrone - drums, percussion
Released: June 15, 2010
Recorded: April 28, 2009 - January 11, 2010 at The Clubhouse, Los Angeles
Genre: Rock, Blues-rock
Length: 1:04:58
Label: Reprise
Producer: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Ryan Ulyate
Uploader's Notes
The purchase of the Blu-Ray or vinyl edition of Mojo includes a free download for high resolution 24-48 FLAC
The originals very badly tagged and named, with a lot of nonascii characters.
Originally they were decoded as: FLAC settings: exhaustiveModelSearch:0 midSideStereo:0 looseMidSideStereo:0 QLPCoeffPrecision:0, ,enableQLPCoeffPrecisionSearch:0, minResidualPartitionOrder:0, maxResidualPartitionOrder:3, maxLPCOrder:0, apodization:tukey(0.5)
I used dBpoweramp's FLAC decoder 1.2.0 and decoded them to level 8. Originally the files were 778 mb, after recoding they were 739 mb.
On the vinyl sleeve, there were notes that the vinyl was mastered from the "Uncompressed 24 Bit 48 kHz" files. Obviously the uncompressed files were used also for this 24-48 download, as the signal is nearly unprocessed and the crest factor (dynamics) is only 11.5 dB on the CD version. The 24 Bit 48 kHz version down-converted to the regular CD standard is above 18 dB dynamic on the same track.
It's more than 7 dB higher dynamic. Why in the world do they compress the original CD version at all?
One thing is clear, it's no mistake that they use compression on most CD releases today, even more on so called Remasters. The producers and technicians know very well how good sound is made and they have the equipment and knowledge too. In spite of that, there is a lot of compression used!!!
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