Whats on your turntable tonight?

Macdadtexas,

Which pressing of the Yes Album is that, and is it any good? The AP reissue of "Fragile" is absolutely awful - certainly audiophile-y, but they sterilized (?digitized?) it to such an extent that the record sounds dead and lifeless and is easily surpassed by ANY 70's-era cheap Atlantic reissue. Alas, this is more the rule than the exception these days, so I ask questions before buying...

-Richard

Richard, it's a Rhino reissue. It sounds great, I'm 99% sure it is not a digitized remaster. It does not sound that way, nor does is say that anywhere. It is a huge imporvement over the nasty, surface noise vinyl from my 80's copy of this album.

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, "Where's the Money?". Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here".

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
White Stripes - Elephant
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen

A Borders in our area is closing shop with everything discounted, it was pretty cleaned-out but I managed to pick up several CD expanded remasters and box sets on the cheap, about half of it stuff I already had in one form or another (but not all the booklets and bonus tracks):

Charles Mingus - "Mingus Ah Um" [Columbia Legacy '59/'98] The Legacy Mingus reissue I'd held off on the longest, since unlike this one I didn't already own the others on vinyl
Oscar Peterson Trio - "...+ One Clark Terry" [Mercury '64/'07] A lot of the Verve Petersons sound better on remastered CD than they did on original vinyl for whatever reason (probably the mastering jobs), but good as this CD reish sounds, I wonder if the Mercury vinyl might give it a better run
Big Mama Thornton - "With the Muddy Waters Blues Band 1966" [Arhoolie '66/'04] San Francisco studio recordings, the title pretty much says it all
Yardbirds - "Roger The Engineer" [Great American Music Co./Airline '66/'0?] Mono + stereo mixes + the two Keith Relf singles
The Who - "Sell Out" Deluxe Edition [Polydor 2CD '67/'09] Mono + Stereo mixes + related bonus tracks and outtakes
Albert King - "Born Under A Bad Sign" [Stax '67/'02]
Love - "Forever Changes" [Rhino/Elektra '67/'01] + bonus tracks, alternate takes/mixes
Simon & Garfunkel - "Live 1969" [Columbia Legacy '08] Great followup to 2002's "Live In New York City 1967", if not quite as special as that concert, this one compiled from dates throughout their final tour peceding the release of the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album and the duo's breakup
Jimi Hendrix - "First Rays Of The New Rising Sun" [Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy '10] The included documentary on DVD isn't all it could and should have been
Iggy And The Stooges - "Raw Power" [Columbia Legacy 2CD '73/'10] With concert recording from the tour
Big Star - "Keep An Eye On The Sky" [Rhino 4CD '09] A nice package for the completist, which I'm not really sure I am one -- demos, rehearsals, alternate mixes, original mixes, alternate demos, alternate lyrics, early versions, single versions, alternate single mixes -- whew! -- most previously unreleased + live in Memphis + fat booklet
Ramones - S/T [Warner Archives/Rhino '76/'01] + bonus demos