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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The original upload of this had an unplanned alteration to a file causing it to be only 98% availiable to the downloader. My apologies! This one is proper.<br />
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David Gilmour - About Face<br />
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Artist...............: David Gilmour<br />
Album................: About Face<br />
Genre................: Rock<br />
Source...............: CD<br />
Year.................: 1984<br />
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) / Level 8 & TSSTcorp CDDVD SE-S204N<br />
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)<br />
Version..............: FLAC 1.2.1 20070917<br />
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 95 %)<br />
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit<br />
Tags.................: VorbisComment<br />
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Ripped by............: Warlordhunter on 8/30/2008<br />
Posted by............: Warlordhunter on 9/7/2008<br />
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Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE<br />
Covers...............: Front Back Leaflet<br />
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Tracklisting<br />
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1. (00:05:17) David Gilmour - Until We Sleep<br />
2. (00:04:59) David Gilmour - Murder<br />
3. (00:04:19) David Gilmour - Love On The Air<br />
4. (00:04:36) David Gilmour - Blue Light<br />
5. (00:03:36) David Gilmour - Out Of The Blue<br />
6. (00:03:15) David Gilmour - All Lovers Are Deranged<br />
7. (00:05:06) David Gilmour - You Know I'm Right<br />
8. (00:04:40) David Gilmour - Cruise<br />
9. (00:04:10) David Gilmour - Let's Get Metaphysical<br />
10. (00:05:37) David Gilmour - Near The End<br />
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Playing Time.........: 01:13:20<br />
Total Size...........: 268.14 MB<br />
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NFO generated on.....: 9/7/2008 12:25:27 AM<br />
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About Face is the second solo album by the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, <br />
released in March 1984. The album was co-produced by Bob Ezrin and David <br />
Gilmour. Two songs were co-written by Gilmour (music) and The Who's Pete <br />
Townshend (lyrics), the rest by Gilmour himself. In May of the same year, <br />
fellow Floyd counterpart Roger Waters released his first official solo album <br />
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.<br />
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The album was recorded in France with engineer Andrew Jackson at a time <br />
when Pink Floyd's future was uncertain. The album was mixed by James <br />
Guthrie at Mayfair Studios in London.<br />
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Some of the musicians helping Gilmour out were Jeff Porcaro, Pino Palladino, <br />
Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord, Roy Harper, Michael Kamen (who also <br />
worked on Waters' album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking), Sam Brown and <br />
Steve Winwood.<br />
<br />
Gilmour on the In the Studio with Redbeard episode spotlighting his 2006 solo <br />
effort On an Island commented on About Face saying, "Looking back on it, it <br />
has some great moments on there but the whole flavour of it is too '80s for <br />
my current tastes."<br />
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The album featured the disco-style single "Blue Light" (later remixed by <br />
François Kevorkian and which was often voted as worst Floyd solo song <br />
according to the Floyd fanzine The Amazing Pudding) and another single, <br />
"Love on the Air". "All Lovers Are Deranged" and "Murder" were released as <br />
singles for North American rock radio and hit numbers 10 and 11 respectively <br />
on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Charts.<br />
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The album reached #21 in the UK and #32 in the U.S. and was certified Gold <br />
by the RIAA.<br />
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About Face was re-released by EMI Records in Europe as a digitally <br />
remastered CD on August 14, 2006. Legacy Recordings/Columbia Records <br />
released the remastered CD in the US and Canada on September 12, 2006.<br />
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Another piece of music written for the album was not used by Gilmour.<br />
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He asked Roy Harper and, separately, Pete Townshend, to supply lyrics, but <br />
felt that those provided were not messages that he could relate to. Harper <br />
subsequently used the tune, with his lyrics, as "Hope", on his 1985 album <br />
with Jimmy Page, Whatever Happened to Jugula?. Townshend used it with <br />
his as "White City Fighting", which has a markedly faster tempo, on his 1985 <br />
album White City: A Novel.<br />
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