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The last Stones album in which cover material accounted for 50 percent of the content was thrown together from a variety of singles, British LP tracks, outtakes, and a cut from an early 1964 U.K. EP. Haphazard assembly aside, much of it's great, including the huge hit "Get Off of My Cloud" and the controversial, string-laden acoustic ballad "As Tears Go By" (a Top Ten item in America). Raiding the R&B closet for the last time, they also offered a breathless run-through of Larry Williams' "She Said Yeah," a sultry Chuck Berry cover ("Talkin' About You"), and exciting live versions of "Route 66" and Hank Snow's "I'm Moving On." More importantly, Jagger-Richards' songwriting partnership had now developed to the extent that several non-A-side tracks were reasonably strong in their own right, such as "I'm Free" and "The Singer Not the Song." And the version of "You Better Move On" (which had been featured on a British EP at the beginning of 1964) was one of their best and most tender soul covers.

olling Stones - December's Children (& everybody's) - ABKCO-8822922 (2002)

SACD rip via PS3 to iso (1.27GB) | 24bit/88.2kHz flac (634MB) | Hybrid 2ch only | DR10  | + 2.66dB gain



Great little collection of odd bits & pieces. Not one of their best albums, but still worthy of a listen or adding to your collection.



December's Children (& Everybody's) is the 5th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in late 1965. Drawn largely from 2 days of sessions recorded in September to finish the British edition of Out of Our Heads & to record their new singleó"Get Off Of My Cloud"óDecember's Children (& Everybody's) also included tracks recorded as early as 1963.

Half of the songs appearing on the album were written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, as they penned strong album cuts like "I'm Free" & "The Singer Not the Song" as well as such major hits as "As Tears Go By" & "Get off of My Cloud".

December's Children (& Everybody's) reached #4 in USA & went gold. Bassist Bill Wyman quotes Jagger in 1968 calling the record "[not] an album, it's just a collection of songs." Accordingly, it is only briefly detailed in his otherwise exhaustive book Rolling With the Stones.

In August 2002 December's Children (& Everybody's) was reissued in a new remastered CD & SACD digipak by ABKCO Records with "Look What You've Done" being issued in stereo.

The title of the album came from the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. According to Jagger, it was Oldham's idea of hip, Beat poetry.





The Rolling Stones:

Mick Jagger ñ lead vocals, harmonica on "I'm Moving On," percussion

Keith Richards ñ guitars, backing vocals, and string arrangement

Brian Jones ñ guitars, backing vocals, harmonica on "Look What You've Done," piano, and organ

Charlie Watts ñ drums and percussion

Bill Wyman ñ bass guitar and backing vocals



Additional personnel:

Ian Stewart ñ piano, organ, marimba, and percussion

Mike Leander ñ string arrangement

Jack Nitzsche ñ piano, organ and percussion

J. W. Alexander ñ percussion



Technical Details:



I use both Zcftr29 and Geo_log's script tools for these conversions, as and where appropriate.



01) ISO image created using sacd-ripper for PS3 

02) Edited Master Dff file extracted using SACD_Extract

03) Edited Master Dff file analysed using foobar + foo_input_sacd and DR Meter plugins to find peak track(s)

04) Dff files for loudest tracks extracted from the ISO using SACD_Extract and converted using Weiss Saracon 1.61-27 at 24bit/88.2kHz with -6.00dB gain

05) Non-clipping gain calculated using SoX

06) Final pass conversion using Weiss Saracon 1.61-27 at 24bit/88.2kHz with 2.66dB gain as calculated above

07) Final pass PCM file split into individual tracks (discarding first 41 samples) using track lengths calculated from cue file generated by SACD_Extract

08) Spikes at beginning of first/end of last tracks eliminated by deleting 24 samples and replacing with the adjacent 24 samples using SoX to give the correct track length

09) Finalised tracks converted to flac [level 8] and tagged using tag.exe

10) Dynamic Range measured using Foobar DR Meter plugin



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foobar2000 1.1.11 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1

log date: 2012-06-21 21:45:46

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Analyzed: The Rolling Stones / December's Children

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DR          Peak          RMS       Duration       Track

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DR10  -4.14 dB   -15.51 dB      1:37    01-She Said Yeah

DR11  -3.34 dB   -15.98 dB      2:31    02-Talkin' About You

DR9    -5.20 dB   -14.98 dB      2:41    03-You Better Move On

DR10  -2.25 dB   -14.58 dB      2:17    04-Look What You've Done

DR11  -3.13 dB   -15.43 dB      2:23    05-The Singer Not The Song

DR9    -2.24 dB   -13.40 dB      2:40    06-Route 66

DR11  -3.84 dB   -16.81 dB      2:56    07-Get Off Of My Cloud

DR11  -0.01 dB   -17.13 dB      2:24    08-I'm Free

DR10  -5.53 dB   -17.66 dB      2:46    09-As Tears Go By

DR11  -3.49 dB   -15.54 dB      2:07    10-Gotta Get Away

DR10  -2.35 dB   -13.90 dB      2:29    11-Blue Turns To Grey

DR9    -2.44 dB   -13.12 dB      2:16    12-I'm Moving On

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Number of tracks:  12

Official DR value: DR10



Samplerate:        88200 Hz

Channels:          2

Bits per sample:   24

Bitrate:           2635 kbps

Codec:             FLAC

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Checksum for iso:

5b208ba9cef29cf3fa0b0e586bc78fd1 *The Rolling Stones - December's Children.iso



Checksums for flac tracks:

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6463eeea213c99dd93c70f6dcea3153a *03 You Better Move On.flac

8cede0996cd0289cc664b173414174b6 *04 Look What You've Done.flac

9c4555a78f469b4a231fbeebce1666e0 *05 The Singer Not The Song.flac

f703818f87b89ce84149ff6490147c0a *06 Route 66.flac

00f619da6b21e65b22ea49c61d863b3c *07 Get Off Of My Cloud.flac

a9adaf2a3309ebe74d884709bcff74ba *08 I'm Free.flac

fa7b00e51e956cc5f2aa00e2527c6ab9 *09 As Tears Go By.flac

18171083002adcb31be3441eff107aeb *10 Gotta Get Away.flac

39337b63936946d6607098a51469d94a *11 Blue Turns To Grey.flac

f2c589f2c81a2d3bf9cb940362d204ba *12 I'm Moving On.flac