grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Well, it's one for the money.....
I think the version of "Carry on Wayward son" on it is fantastic, the way it segues in from "Portrait". I also love "Magnum opus", "Journey from Mariabronn", " Lamplight symphony", "The wall", "Lonely wind", and "Song for America" but the other versions pale when set against their studio counterparts.
But it's really badly recorded or mastered or mixed. Dave Hope's bass is thin and weedy with no bottom punch at all. The rest of the instruments are better but not great. But I just love some of the album.
In terms of actual CDs, I bought "Volume 4" by Black Sabbath back in '95, having owned the LP some years before. It was one of the first Cds I'd owned having once had the actual record. It was really thin and brittle sounding whereas the Sabs circa '70-'73 always sounded thick and warm and a little boomy. Good boomy though. So years later when I encountered the vinyl vs CD/analog vs digital debate, I could see why so many felt that CDs lacked warmth. They did. They've gotten much better in the years since.
I absolutely hated the redone "Yellow Submarine" Lp though that, in my mind, would have been a crapshoot whether it was on CD or vinyl. And Donald Byrd's "Ethiopian Nights" left alot to be desired. It was also a remix and so annoying. On the record, the track "Jamie" segues beautifully into "The Little Rasti" and it's such a glorious change of pace from funky jazz fusion jam involving some 8 instruments into an almost hymn like organ and trumpet led dirge. The CD omits this and "Jamie" has a faded end while "Rasti" has a full start. It's infuriating !
Only recently did I work out that the title of this album is from Carl Perkins'/Elvis Presley's "Blue Suede Shoes !
I think the version of "Carry on Wayward son" on it is fantastic, the way it segues in from "Portrait". I also love "Magnum opus", "Journey from Mariabronn", " Lamplight symphony", "The wall", "Lonely wind", and "Song for America" but the other versions pale when set against their studio counterparts.
But it's really badly recorded or mastered or mixed. Dave Hope's bass is thin and weedy with no bottom punch at all. The rest of the instruments are better but not great. But I just love some of the album.
In terms of actual CDs, I bought "Volume 4" by Black Sabbath back in '95, having owned the LP some years before. It was one of the first Cds I'd owned having once had the actual record. It was really thin and brittle sounding whereas the Sabs circa '70-'73 always sounded thick and warm and a little boomy. Good boomy though. So years later when I encountered the vinyl vs CD/analog vs digital debate, I could see why so many felt that CDs lacked warmth. They did. They've gotten much better in the years since.
I absolutely hated the redone "Yellow Submarine" Lp though that, in my mind, would have been a crapshoot whether it was on CD or vinyl. And Donald Byrd's "Ethiopian Nights" left alot to be desired. It was also a remix and so annoying. On the record, the track "Jamie" segues beautifully into "The Little Rasti" and it's such a glorious change of pace from funky jazz fusion jam involving some 8 instruments into an almost hymn like organ and trumpet led dirge. The CD omits this and "Jamie" has a faded end while "Rasti" has a full start. It's infuriating !
) so I only heard it haphazardly and it was the riff I tended to notice.
I sent the label an email with my comments on one of the Jayhawks cd's and they sent me a replacement (just as bad) and another freebe from another one of their artists (Tim O'Reagan, a sometimes Jayhawks member ) that was just as bad also. This is a soundwave of "Save it for a Rainy Day" from the CD "Rainy Day Music". Notice it's clipped where I stopped playback and throughout the song.
