Argent - Argent / Ring Of Hands (1970/1971) {2000, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Date: March 26, 2024

Argent - Argent / Ring Of Hands (1970/1971) {2000, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 599 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 260 Mb
Full Scans | 00:40:28 + 00:42:39 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Classic Rock | BGO Records #BGOCD480

Argent's back catalog remains in a parlous state 20 years on from the group's peak, with great swathes of the repertoire unavailable on CD, and even some of the band's best-known and loved recordings are still chained up in a vault somewhere. Thankfully, this two-fer rendering of their first two albums is an exception to that sorry rule, as the group's transformation from the logical successors to the Zombies into one of the finest prog bands of the early '70s is traced out across 19 songs, almost any of which would be a shoo-in for some future "best-of" Argent compilation. It is true, of course, that Argent was prone to excess on occasion – what is remarkable is just how naturally the band approached that state, as songs build on their own momentum toward peaks that even the best oiled of the group's peers audibly struggled to approach. The combination of Rod Argent's keys and Russ Ballard's words and vocals is, of course, key to this success, and both "Dance in the Smoke" and "Lothlorien" offer firm pointers as to just how tight the union would become. Elsewhere, "Liar," "Schoolgirl," and "Celebration" all have "classic" stamped across them, even this early into the group's career. And as "Where Are We Going Wrong" brings the CD to a halt, one is left wondering what on earth the bandmembers were talking about…they weren't going wrong anywhere.

~ Dave Thompson, All Music

Wiki | Discogs | All Music

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CD1: Argent - Argent (1970)



Track List:

01. Like Honey [03:15]
02. Liar [03:15]
03. Be Free [03:52]
04. Schoolgirl [03:22]
05. Dance In The Smoke [06:19]
06. Lonely Hard Road [04:25]
07. The Feeling's Inside [03:51]
08. Freefall [03:21]
09. Stepping Stone [04:40]
10. Bring You Joy [04:12]

Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 27. August 2016, 0:05

Argent / Argent

Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW TS-L633B 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

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


TOC of the extracted CD

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10 | 36:16.34 | 4:11.16 | 163234 | 182074


Range status and errors

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Filename G:\Alexharvey\Argent - Argent.wav

Peak level 98.8 %
Extraction speed 2.6 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 88872791
Copy CRC 88872791
Copy OK

No errors occurred


AccurateRip summary

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CD2: Argent - Ring Of Hands (1971)



Track List:

01. Celebration [02:55]
02. Sweet Mary [04:06]
03. Cast Your Spell Uranus [04:32]
04. Lothlorien [07:50]
05. Chained [05:20]
06. Rejoice [03:46]
07. Pleasure [04:53]
08. Sleep Won't Help Me [05:11]
09. Where Are We Going Wrong [04:10]

Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 27. August 2016, 0:55

Argent / Ring Of Hands

Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW TS-L633B 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

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


TOC of the extracted CD

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8 | 33:18.05 | 5:10.40 | 149855 | 173144
9 | 38:28.45 | 4:09.72 | 173145 | 191891


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Filename G:\Alexharvey\Argent - Ring Of Hands.wav

Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 2.6 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC B7756B09
Copy CRC B7756B09
Copy OK

No errors occurred


AccurateRip summary

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