The problem with originals are mostly condition. If you have mint or near mint condition originals, than you don't need the reissues. However, if you DSOTM still has that piece of spaghetti of bubble gum stuck on it, than you might want to consider those reissues.They are pretty good Sax-son, Oct 1, 2017.
Review Of Pink Floyd Ummagumma Vinyl 2016 Full Fruition On
Title: Pink Floyd Ummagumma (Remastered 2016) Format: 180g 2 LP vinyl record Label Label: Warner Cat/Barcode: 825646493166. Inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm, Animals provides an analysis of the social-political society of 1970's Britain and also served as a response to the era's punk-rock movement. Anchored by Roger Waters' pointed songwriting and David Gilmour's stunning guitar work, the fan-favorite Animals finds the band in transition yet again offering constructs that would come to full fruition on ambitious successor The Wall. The album cover, featuring 'Algie' the pig floating above London's Battersea Power Station, is amongst Pink Floyd's most recognizable. This must-own pressing features a faithful-to-the-original recreation of the original LP sleeve.
My first encounter with the band was at school. So the studio material could be considered as some kind of solo stuff.As I stated at the outset I have been an avid fan of Pink Floyd for many years. The first album is the live album and the second album is the studio disc where all of the band members wrote their own material. It consists of two separate albums. It will not, however, review the albums themselves for that is ground sufficiently well-trodden enough at this point.AutoreTitoloAnnoEtichettaPINK FLOYDanimals (180 gram vinyl) (2016)1977pink floydPINK FLOYDwish you were here (180 gram vinyl +card) (2016)1975pink floydPINK FLOYDthe final cut (remastered)83/016pink floydView 45 more rowsUmmagumma is Pink Floyd's massive recording from the late 1969.
Try, for example, listening to ‘Wish you were here’ on CD and then vinyl and you’ll see what I mean. The reason for this is simply that the mid-90s re-masters often felt flat with subtle elements even missing entirely. Subsequently I collected the entire back catalogue and I own the mid-90s re-masters as well as various original vinyl pressings and to date, I have always turned to the vinyl for sonic quality, pops and crackles notwithstanding. I started with ‘the wall’ and got lost in the album for weeks, thrilled by the snarling ‘another brick in the wall part 2’ and elated by the high drama of ‘the trial’ and then, of course, there was ‘comfortably numb’ a song that ranks in my top ten songs of all time and which never fails to bring goose-bumps to my arms whenever I hear it.
Tracklist-Arnold Layne, Biding My Time, Bike, Interstellar Overdrive, See Emily Play, Remember a Day, Paintbox, Julia Dream, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, Cirrus Minor, Nile SongEnter, then, the 2011 re-masters which are, for the most part, an improvement on the previous set and certainly the discovery box set itself is a great improvement, sonically, over the confused mishmash that was ‘oh by the way’ which didn’t seem to know which versions to go for and thus offered representatives from across the board ( please note, before you overload my message board with vitriol, that I mentioned it was ‘sonically’ an improvement and not materially – we’ll come to that later).So in what ways do the new versions improve upon what has gone before? Well, this is where the debate becomes intense and your opinion is as likely to be correct as mine, but for the record here is how I found the new editions to be. Manufacturer-Pink Floyd Records. Now, in truth, there is only so much that can be done by re-mastering an album, as opposed to going for an all out remix in the manner of the King Crimson back catalogue, and the 90s re-masters certainly did improve over the original CD pressings, but to many they felt far from definitive.Artist-Pink Floyd. Equally the re-master of ‘animals’ failed entirely to match up to the high hopes set by the original vinyl pressing, and as many have noted over the years the drum sound on that version is truly poor.
Much has been made over the alleged boosting of presence (essentially the higher frequencies) and it is certainly true that these mixes sound much brighter than previous versions (indeed one fan site has posted a spectrograph analysis that highlights a specific bump at 17khz although that’s hardly conclusive). Moreover, whilst the drums are still too low in the mix for my tastes, what can be heard comes through as sounding much more natural – as if Nick Mason was actually playing a drum kit and not a selection of poorly shaped cardboard boxes, and while I’d love to hear a sparkling, pristine drum track on the record, something tells me that this is as good as it’s going to get. ‘Animals’ in particular gains a huge amount from the makeover with the bass sounding fuller and more rounded, the acoustic guitars finally sounding bright and natural and the backing vocals, previously an indistinct haze, allowed room to breathe and flow.
Buy the discovery box set (approx £130) 2. Direct A-B comparisons on all but the most worthless of machines will highlight significant improvements and in the case of four releases (DSOTM, WYWH, Ummagumma and Animals) I was even able to compare the new remasters to the original vinyl with mostly favourable results (for my money the original vinyl of WYWH is still the best version available although I have yet to check out the 5.1 mix).However, that is where my approval must end because EMI have, once again, made mugs of the lot of us when it comes to the releases themselves and packaging.Essentially you have five options available thanks to the new campaign. Thus, it seems that in this case the re-masters have been handled with the demanding Pink Floyd fan in mind as opposed to the thoroughly undemanding, ‘I want it louder’ IPod set who would be unlikely to notice the difference anyway thanks to using a massively compressed format (yes folks – that’s why MP3s and the like make music sound rubbish) to ingest their music in the first place.So, sonically, the releases are worth every penny of the money you are liable to spend on them. The volume can then be boosted without distorting but at the expense of the dynamic variance of the instruments. Of course, not all compressed mixes are that extreme but certain remasters have proved to be entirely disappointing (Rainbow’s ‘rising’ for example) with new versions that are certainly louder but at significant cost to the clarity of the music.As stated earlier, compression isn’t necessarily always evil and for this selection of releases the good news is, that for the most part, they are not louder (most actually show to be marginally quieter than the last set of re-masters) with compression used sparingly and with a rare sensitivity. Latterly, however, volume has become more important than sonic clarity, but, when you boost the volume on uncompressed music the peaks end up distorting so compression is used to compress the soundwave – levelling out all those nasty peaks and troughs to create something that essentially resembles a large rectangular block. Early engineers considered dynamic range far more desirable than volume and so most records were mastered very quietly so you could hear every nuance – if you wanted it loud just turn the bloody thing up! This is one of the reasons why vinyl is considered desirable to audiophiles.
Limit yourself to only to the vinyl reissues and curse the fact that you get none of the bonus material even though they are more expensive than comparable releases (approx £90). Buy the discovery editions, the immersion box sets and the vinyl (approx £400 – but you now have everything) 5. Buy the discovery versions plus the immersion box sets (approx £320) 4.
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