Eric Burdon & The Animals - The Twain Shall Meet (MrMalikai) DTS 2

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Eric Burdon & The Animals - The Twain Shall Meet DTS
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Artist...............: Eric Burdon & The Animals
Album................: The Twain Shall Meet
Source...............: Lossless (FLAC)
Year.................: 1968
File Format.........: DTS WAV (*.wav)
Channels............: 5.1 Surround Sound
Sample Rate........: 44.1 KHz
Sample Size........: 16 bit
Quality/Bit Rate...: 1411.2 kbps
Burn test............: 5/15/2013
Method:..............: Some variation of 225WAD? Did it long ago
Included.............: WAV,CUE,NFO,Cover
Posted by............: MrMalikai on 2/9/2008, 9/18/2012, 5/18/2013, 6/4/2013
Information..........: Play it LOUD!
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Tracklisting
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01. Monterey
02. Just the Thought
03. Closer to the Truth
04. No Self Pity
05. Orange and Red Beams
06. Sky Pilot
07. We Love You Lil
08. All Is One

Playing Time.........: 00:43:37
Total Size...........: 440.30 MB
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... ;) It's a stereo to DTS 5.1 conversion. Burn it to a standard CD-R.
Can be played on home theater systems that have a DTS decoder
and on PC's with the software to play DTS.
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I turn the PC on at 5:00AM and off at 9:00PM
(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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The Twain Shall Meet sort of whited out this reviewer's brain when he came back
to it, for the first time in years, in 2004. Partly it's the sheer range of its
contents -- when Eric Burdon first started recording in 1964, who would ever have
thought it would lead to this? The mix of topical songs, surreal antiwar anthems,
and diffuse psychedelic mood pieces is extremely ambitious, and while much of the
group's reach exceeds its grasp, it's all worth a trip through as a fascinating
period piece. In fact, the mood pieces predominate, mostly underwritten and
under-rehearsed, and recorded without the studio time needed to make them work.
"Just the Thought" and "Closer to the Truth" are dull and unfocused, even as
psychedelia, while "No Self Pity" and "We Love You Lil" are above average musical
representations of mind-altered states. "We Love You Lil" opens with a clever
play on the old popular tune "Lili Marlene" that leads to an extended guitar jam
and ethereal backing that rather recalls the early work of Focus, among other
progressive rock acts. "All Is One" is probably unique in the history of pop music
as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly
idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up its tempo like
the dance music from Zorba the Greek while mimicking the Spencer Davis Group's
"Gimme Some Lovin'." On the more accessible side are "Monterey," a distant precursor
to Joni Mitchell's more widely heard post-festival anthem "Woodstock," with some
clever musical allusions and a great beat, plus lots of enthusiasm; and the shattering
"Sky Pilot," one of the grimmest and most startling antiwar songs of the late
'60s, with a killer guitar break by Vic Briggs that's marred only by the sound
of the plane crash in the middle.
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