BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985
Originally posted April 11, 2010
“Don’t Break My Heart” was the second single taken from UB40’s sixth studio album “Baggariddim” released in September 1985. The single was the follow up to the massive hit “I Got You Babe”. “Don’t Break My Heart” failed to chart in the US but peaked at #3 in the UK, #8 Ireland, #13 New Zealand and #37 in Australia.
SIDE A:
Don’t Break My Heart (12″ Version) 7:20
SIDE B:
Mek Ya Rok (12″ Version) 6:19
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: DEP International – DEP 22-12
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Synth-pop
CREDITS:
Engineer – Alan Caves, John Shaw, Ray ‘Pablo’ Falconer*
Producer – Ray ‘Pablo’ Falconer*, UB40
Tape Op – Nicks Phipps*
Words By, Music By – UB40
NOTES:
Produced at The Abbatoir, Birmingham.
Manufactured in the UK
Find the 12″ on DISCOGS
EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube: Tung-Sol 12AX7ECC803-S Gold Electron Tube
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
I haven’t heard this in years. Thanks so much for sharing.
thanks!!
Thank you for re-ripping this one Paul.
Hi Paul – so glad to see these UB40 popping up again, as i missed them back in 2010. Any chance your I Got You Babe promo will get a new rip as well? All 3 were on my Discogs wantlist (as well as most of the others from this era), so it’s nice to have such great sounding transfers of them – far better than i would ever be able to do 🙂 keep up the great work, it is very much appreciated! ps Not sure if you have any more Sade 12″s from her first 2 albums –… Read more »
Hey Paul, can I vote for my favorite UB40 singles? How about One In Ten, or Rat In Me Kitchen!?!
Hi Paul, I wait every day to arrives the big and great mail that tells me a fresh load on burningtheground.net like a child waiting for his gift on Christmas day, waiting for that magical moment that brings a pleasant surprise, many things known when I was a teenager and other unknown and in many cases big surprises that I like a lot, many times I have thanked you for what you do and today and a thousand times thank you very much again, have a wonderful and nice day and millions more days.
Rafa.
Thank you Rafael Cova you are very nice. Hope you have many more wonderful days too 🙂
Another that doesn’t seem to be on my hard drive. Many thanks i can’t help wondering what other gems i’ve missed over the years. When and what was your first post? Was it a Duran Duran single?
I’m not really sure Neil there have been a couple of reincarnations of BTG I started on blogger/blogspoy way back in 2007 then moved to wordpress in March 2010. In 2012 I started paying for hosting which is where we are currently.
Thank you so much Paul for these UB40 re-rips. This is the sound of Summer and it makes me so happy!!
you’re welcome Daniel 🙂
THANKS PAUL!!!!!!!!! LOVE your work!
You’re welcome Rafael Cova 🙂
Despite my warnings yesterday, I must confess I bought this on 7″ when it came out.
😀
I relly like this one 🙂
Thanks to you Paul I’m now having a UB40 festival in my kitchen!
ooh that sounds fun! 🙂
You’re welcome David I’m afraid I don’t have much more UB40 in my collection. However as more donations come in I will pick up a few more 🙂
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I’ve been waiting years for this!
Thanks Paul for the rip!
Getting error not found though?
You’re wlcome they are working now 🙂
Played this 3 times this evening, been so long since I heard this version 🙂
Lovely. I used to own this one, but it disappeared from my “field collection” back in the 80’s. Never figured out who nicked it. Btw, any chance you have the Little Baggariddim EP?
Sorry I don’t at this time Osc as more donations are made I will try to locate it 🙂
Paul, thanks so much for these UB40 singles. I really don’t know much of their discography so you oblige us with the perfect forum to check out some of their best. Thank you for all the care that’s involved with the presentation of it all. You are quite the special fellow!!
Jeff
You’re very welcome Jeff 🙂