(Pop, Soul) [LP] [24/96] The Jacksons - Live (2 LP) - 1981, FLAC (tracks)

01. Opening/Can You Feel It (5:59)
02. Things I Do for You (3:30)
03. Off the Wall (4:05)
04. Ben (3:57)
05. This Place Hotel (4:43)
06. She's Out of My Life (4:47)
07. Movie and Rap (Including Excerpts Of): I Want You Back/Never Can Say Goodbye/Got to Be There) (3:03)
08. Medley: I Want You Back/ABC/The Love You Save (3:00)
09. I'll Be There (3:13)
10. Rock with You (3:56)
11. Lovely One (6:31)
12. Working Day and Night (7:07)
13. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (4:19)
14. Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) (8:28)

This is a rip of the original vinyl release of the Jacksons' "Live," released in 1981 as a 2xLP on Epic (KE2 37545). This copy was still sealed and unplayed when I bought it on discogs; this rip is the first spin of these records.
Equipment and process:
Records were cleaned with a Spin Clean prior to ripping.
Equipment used: Rega Planar 2 with the GrooveTracer subplatter and a modified RB300 tonearm that incorporates better cables (and a ground wire), on an isolation sandbox. I used a Denon DL-110 cartridge. The sound is routed through a Musical Fidelity X-LPS phono stage to an E-Mu 0202 USB ADC, and then to my laptop via USB.
24/96 was captured in Audacity and output as a single 24-bit WAV file.
Manual de-clicking was handled in Izotope RX 2 Advanced.
I imported the 24-bit WAV file from RX 2 Advanced back into Audacity, where I normalized the file (Remove any DC offset checked and normalize maximum amplitude to -0.1 dB), split the tracks and output the resulting files as 24/96 FLAC. I then cleaned up the tags in foobar2000.
Enjoy!

foobar2000 1.6.12 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-10-01 20:48:51
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Analyzed: The Jacksons / Live
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR16 -0.10 dB -18.34 dB 5:59 01-Opening/Can You Feel It
DR15 -0.31 dB -17.25 dB 3:30 02-Things I Do for You
DR17 -1.02 dB -18.99 dB 4:05 03-Off the Wall
DR15 -4.07 dB -24.39 dB 3:57 04-Ben
DR15 -0.72 dB -17.36 dB 4:43 05-This Place Hotel
DR13 -4.83 dB -23.10 dB 4:47 06-She's Out of My Life
DR14 -5.10 dB -22.71 dB 3:03 07-Movie and Rap
DR16 -0.63 dB -18.08 dB 3:00 08-Medley
DR16 -0.21 dB -20.11 dB 3:13 09-I'll Be There
DR15 -0.10 dB -17.93 dB 3:56 10-Rock with You
DR17 -0.35 dB -18.72 dB 6:31 11-Lovely One
DR17 -3.89 dB -22.55 dB 7:07 12-Working Day and Night
DR16 -2.89 dB -21.71 dB 4:19 13-Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
DR17 -3.58 dB -23.27 dB 8:28 14-Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR16
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2798 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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It's easy to forget, in the wake of a decade of bizarre behavior, rumors, and innuendo surrounding Michael Jackson that the Jacksons were once known solely for being a major music franchise. This live album, which was pretty obscure in its original double-LP vinyl version, is a reminder of how great an act they were, and captures what was just about the end of Michael Jackson's work with the family group, all of it very much on a high-note. Live opens with a pounding, powerful rendition of "Can You Feel It" and, with one exception, never lets up, pushing on through a high-velocity and high-articulation version of "Things I Do for You," and a soaring "Off the Wall." There's an unfortunate lag where Michael Jackson slows things down for "Ben" (arguably the nadir of his Motown career), but "This Place Hotel" and the far more effective ballad "She's Out of My Life" make up for that lapse. The last section of the album, commencing with Off the Wall's "Rock With You," is practically a live rendition of that album, and so bracing as to almost exhaust the listener; and the preceding medley of their early Motown hits is just about worth the asking price of the disc by itself. On the down side, there are no notes and barely any credits, and the volume is set a bit low, but it pumps up beautifully with virtually no excess noise. The album is worth tracking down as an artifact of a simpler, more unabashedly joyous time in music, as well as the family's history.