Modern Rock Late '80s

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Album Info

Release Date: 2000

Labels: Time Life Music, EMI-Capitol Special Markets

Made in U.S.A.

Track durations obtained from software.

Mastering information:
Track 1-1 is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on INXS - The Greatest Hits (Atlantic 82622, 1994).
Track 1-2 is a digital clone (2 dB quieter) of the corresponding track on Various - Rock Of The 80's Volume 11 (Priority P2 53767, 1994).
Track 1-3 is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on Various - Billboard Top Hits - 1987 (Rhino R2 71642, 1994).
Track 1-4 is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on The Smithereens - Blown To Smithereens - Best Of The Smithereens (Capitol 31481, 1995).
Track 1-5 has an unknown mastering history.
Track 1-6 is a digital clone (1.337 dB louder) of the corresponding track on Various - Sounds Of The Eighties - The Late '80s (Time-Life R988-19, 1996), which in turn uses the same analog transfer (basically, it tracks extremely closely without being a digital clone) as the corresponding track on Bangles - Everything (Columbia 44056, 1988).
Track 1-7 has an unknown mastering history.
Track 1-8 is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on Various - Hitmakers Top 40 CD Sampler January, 1988 (Hitmakers Vol. 1 January 1988).
Track 1-9 has an unknown mastering history. Left and right channels are reversed on this disc.
Track 1-10 is a digital clone (0.5 dB quieter) of the corresponding track on Various - Hang The DJ - Modern Rock 1987 (Rhino R2 72501, 1996).
Track 1-11 is a digital clone (digitally identical) of the corresponding track on Various - Hang The DJ - Modern Rock 1987 (Rhino R2 72501, 1996), which in turn is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on Various - Sounds Of The Eighties 1986-1987 (Time-Life R988-28, 1995).
Track 1-12 is a digital clone (digitally identical) of the corresponding track on Various - Hang The DJ - Modern Rock 1987 (Rhino R2 72501, 1996).
Track 2-1 is a digital clone (1.1 dB quieter) of the corresponding track on Various - Rock The First - Volume One (Sandstone, 1992), which in turn uses the same analog transfer as the corresponding track on Robert Palmer - Addictions Volume 1 (Island 91318, 1989).
Track 2-2 has an unknown mastering history.
Track 2-3 has an unknown mastering history.
Track 2-4 is a digital clone (0.462 dB louder) of the corresponding track on World Party - Private Revolution (Chrysalis 41552, 1986).
Track 2-5 has an unknown mastering history.
Track 2-6 is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on Various - Nipper's Greatest Hits / The 80's (RCA 9970, 1990).
Track 2-7 is a digital clone (1.7 dB quieter) of the corresponding track on Various - Rock Of The 80's Volume 15 (Priority P2 53754, 1994).
Track 2-8 has an unknown mastering history.
Track 2-9 is a digital clone (with EQ adjustment) of the corresponding track on Various - Rock 'N Roll Relix 1986-1987 (EMI, 1998).
Track 2-10 is a digital clone (1.5 dB quieter) of the corresponding track on The Alarm - Standards (I.R.S. 13056, 1990). Note that this is not a "Radio Edit", as listed on the cover art, but is a unique 4:10 edit that first appeared on the Standards collection.
Track 2-11 is a digital clone (digitally identical) of the corresponding track on Various - Sounds Of The Eighties 1987-1988 (Time-Life R988-29, 1995), which in turn is a digital clone (0.4 dB louder) of the corresponding track on Was - What Up, Dog? (Chrysalis 41664, 1988).
Track 2-12 has an unknown mastering history.
(Confirmed in null tests performed by user crapfromthepast, August 2021.)

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