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Captain Beefheart / Shiny Beast
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Cueing this latest "The Wall" up, I was ready to post, it is muffled compared to my original pressing. Then, I kept on listening. That was the correct approach. Because now, I hear delicate details that I never heard before. Moreover, the child choir is more expansive and important than ever before, "Another Brick in the Wall". I can now hear a faint, singular person singing along with the children's choir on this track. Very cool. This lp always needed the full volume afforded by any system to sound it's best. No difference here. The more I turn it up, the better it sounds. Ahhhh, glorious analog! The real sense of space and the original acoustic environment is all here to enjoy. I think what I may be trying to ultimately get to is the warmth that comes along with all of the previously unheard details I just mentioned all equals out to be...this pressing is superior to my two originals, hands down. That's pretty darn good for me. |
@slaw That reissue of The Wall is damn good, my daughter got me a copy for my birthday this year and it sounds pretty spectacular and I agree, it really has to be fairly full volume for me as well which means I get windows to which I can listen to it, kinda like Rage. That Aretha's Gold is pretty damn good. Tough to remaster a greatest hits as the originals are so different but it is very good nonetheless. Dr. Feelgood is exceptional. |
@slaw The solo in Comfortably Numb is in my top 5 of all time and that reissue sounds epicly large and wide. I had forgotten that The Wall won Grammy for best engineered that year. I remember skipping school to get my copy the day they released it and I must have put 100 spins on it the first month I had it |
@slaw Agreed, I have seen them about a dozen and a half times and met Jay briefly at a solo show in Austin that was in between Straightaways and Wide Swing (I think). I was an Uncle Tupelo fan prior and when they split I actually think Son Volt is the better band (at least for the first 3 records) and I like Jay more than Tweedy as a song writer. I am really not much of a Wilco fan. I would have told anyone for many years that Trace was my favorite collection of songs on one record. It is incredible. But from a playback perspective, my copy of Straightaways smokes Trace. They went kinda wonky after Wide Swing and I was not happy that it really became a solo effort for a while as I really liked the Boquist brothers, they are super talented. And the pedal player from the Jayhawks, who's name escapes me at the moment. They are not super exciting live but can be damn good. Pablo |
@bdp24 GDP, I couldn’t agree more. I personally thought Trace just absolutely mopped the floor with the first Wilco record from a songwriting and execution perspective. And I too could not figure out why Tweedy got so much more attention than Farrar. Didn’t compute to me. Hell, in my opinion, if you listen to Anodyne the two bands had already formed and when I would play that record I would skip most of the Tweedy tracks. Oddly, I was never a huge fan of Jay’s solo stuff. The first 3 SV records were just so frigging great. A golden period like the Stones from Beggars Banquet to Sticky Fingers. Pablo |
"Perfect Record" as in every song is perfect, no filler songs or bad songs on the record or/and? Perfect vinyl quality and sound? As many phenomenal albums as there are in this world I think there is a handful of "Perfect albums" Kind of Blue, Dark Side, Aja, Led Zep I, Highway to Hell, Never Mind the Bollocks, In Rainbows, Trace and...? Are a few I put into my list. Hell, Exile on Main Street may be the greatest Rock and roll album of all time but there are two schitt tracks on it I can't stand, just like OK Computer. Now Morning Phase is a strong contender to me for the most perfect album ever. Amazing performance, amazing recording, amazing sound quality and mastering. It is awesome in every way to me. Pablo |
Great question slaw. A few I can name off the top of my head that are as close to perfect as any I’ve heard (excluding The Band’s first two albums, which go without saying ;-) : Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Planet Waves, a few others The Beatles: Rubber Soul, Revolver (if you remove "Yellow Submarine" ;-) The Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action Dave Edmunds: Get It Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely Iris Dement: My Life John Hiatt: Bring The Family, Slow Turning Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid Buddy Miller: Your Love And Other Lies, a few others of his Julie Miller: Broken Things Procol Harum: A Salty Dog The Beach Boys: Smile That’s enough outta me..... |
That is the trick bdp, when I think "perfect" you can't pull off a single song (like Yellow Submarine) and EVERY track has to be awesome. It is a tough criteria and even renders a massive number of masterpieces 'imperfect' to me. Doesn't mean they aren't the greatest albums of all time but very few "perfect" |
As I'd mentioned doing this earlier in this thread I just posted my impressions of comparing the MoFi and Classic 45 "Bridge over troubled Water" here -- it's a mixed picture https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/simon-and-garfunkel-bridge-over-troubled-waters-mofi-ud1s/pos... |