Minnie Ripperton - Minnie [[1979)

[soulster]

This 1979 Capitol album does not exist on CD, except as a Japanese import that costs upwards of $50, so, since I found a clean used copy at a used record store several years back, I decided it would make a nice needle drop. My work came out very nice. I have listened to it several times in both the car and my home stereo system. I cleaned up the pops and surface noise with Click Repair and iZotope RX. The stereo was so narrow that the album was almost mono, so I widened the stereo a bit and that gave it more of a three-dimensional sound. Then, I EQ'ed the midrange a tad to add some body to her voice, as it sounds nasal. I also added a touch of an exciter in Ozone. In fact, it sounds so good that if the owners of EMI ever do come out with a digital version of it, I won't need to buy it.

One thing, though, I don't know who got the bright idea to put "Memory Lane" as the first song but it just doesn't work. "Lover And Friend" is a much, much better album opener and leads into "Memory lane" much better with a tiny gap. So, that's what I did with my transfer, I switch the two around. Now it flows much better as an album. I also wonder if it would have done better if it were released that way.

Anyway, what other albums do you think would have benefited more from a slight track sequence alteration?