Status Quo - Piledriver
German LP (1st pressing) / Vertigo 6360 082
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz (converted to 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | m3u, cue & Tech Log
DR Analysis | Artwork | 850/250 mb incl recovery | RS & Filefactory | Hard Rock | 1972
Allmusic.com rating: 4 / 5
“On the whole Piledriver is still an enjoyable listen, one that has aged much better than later albums by the same band or much other hard rock from this period.
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Piledriver is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in 1972. It was the first to be produced by the group themselves, and their first on the Vertigo label after their departure from Pye Records.
The album's only single, "Paper Plane" (by Francis Rossi and Bob Young), with the b-side "Softer Ride" (written by Rick Parfitt and Alan Lancaster), was to become the first in a sequence of thirty-three Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart when it peaked at #8 after its release in November 1972. The b-side would later be incorporated into the band's following album, Hello!, released the following year.
The album itself was released in December the same year, and reached the highest position of #5 in the UK charts, spending 37 weeks there.
Track listing
Side A
"Don't Waste My Time" (Rossi/Young) - 4:22
"Oh Baby" (Rossi/Parfitt) - 4:39
"A Year" (Lancaster/Frost) - 5:51
"Unspoken Words" (Rossi/Young) - 5:06
Side B
"Big Fat Mama" (Rossi/Parfitt) - 5:53
"Paper Plane" (Rossi/Young) - 2:52
"All the Reasons" (Parfitt/Lancaster) - 3:42
"Roadhouse Blues (Morrison/Densmore/Krieger/Manzarek) - 7:26
Personnel
Francis Rossi - guitar, vocals
Rick Parfitt - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Alan Lancaster - bass, vocals
John Coghlan - drums
 Dynamic Range analyzis----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Analyzed folder: D:\Status Quo - Piledriver (1972) [flac] {German 1st pressing; 16-44}\
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR12 -0.91 dB -14.91 dB A1 - Don't Waste My Time.wav
DR12 -1.40 dB -15.71 dB A2 - Oh Baby.wav
DR11 -1.88 dB -17.49 dB A3 - A Year.wav
DR13 -0.81 dB -17.43 dB A4 - Unspoken Words.wav
DR12 -0.97 dB -14.60 dB B1 - Big Fat Mama.wav
DR11 -0.92 dB -14.18 dB B2 - Paper Plane.wav
DR11 -1.68 dB -16.67 dB B3 - All the Reasons.wav
DR12 -2.17 dB -17.34 dB B4 - Roadhouse Blues.wav
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Number of files: 8
Official DR value: DR12
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Technical Log
RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Circulating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp) (temporarily replaced by "ProJect Tube-Box 2 SE)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering
Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.
Personal Note
With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.
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