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by Xenu
Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:28 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: "Station to Station" German RCA
Replies: 35
Views: 33533

Andreas, I know you really like the Japanese Space Oddity, but are there any others that are preferable? Some of these discs are garbage. I'm listening to the Japanese "Low" right now, and it seems as if the stereo spectrum is entirely off.
by Xenu
Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:24 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: "Station to Station" German RCA
Replies: 35
Views: 33533

JWB asked me a question about this; it's amazing how wonky the RCAs are in general. Without having other mastering passes with which to compare, you'd never have any idea about how these things are supposed to sound. The regionalisms and peculiarities between versions--Japanese for US versus Japan f...
by Xenu
Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:31 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: "Station to Station" German RCA
Replies: 35
Views: 33533

I was pretty sure I actually BOUGHT the thing in '07. Maybe I'm misremembering.

Bah. This bites.

By the way: anybody need the Rough Trades of "The Queen is Dead" and "The Smiths?";-)
by Xenu
Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:32 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: "Station to Station" German RCA
Replies: 35
Views: 33533

"Station to Station" German RCA

Hey all, So I'm having one of those senior moments unique to those who have way too many discs for their own good: I am almost certain that I own the German RCA of "Station to Station," but it seems to have vanished. I apparently never burned it (??) to DVDR, either. Does anybody here have...
by Xenu
Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:47 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Tommy (two channel) 'Overture' comparison
Replies: 8
Views: 9397

Intriguing how analog-out from a SACD can look like that. It says a lot about the accuracy of the D--->A--->D process.
by Xenu
Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:46 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Luke, why are you so contentious?
Replies: 17
Views: 18802

They don't need to listen to my advice; the post was clearly out of line. I'd like to think I'm not on terrible terms with the Gorts, anyway; after all, "flaccid" was several years ago at this point.
by Xenu
Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:31 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Luke, why are you so contentious?
Replies: 17
Views: 18802

Perhaps they actually took my advice and removed the thread.
by Xenu
Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:35 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Luke, why are you so contentious?
Replies: 17
Views: 18802

A desire to help the few, the wonderful?
by Xenu
Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:20 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Luke, why are you so contentious?
Replies: 17
Views: 18802

Luke, why are you so contentious?

Posted here because it needs to be posted here. For whomever didn't see it: You say "Does that mean we can all ignore comments from people who hear differences between 2 digitally identical pressings? They've never compared those pressings to the master, right?" Two words: reading comprehe...
by Xenu
Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:36 pm
Forum: Reviews
Topic: Beefheart - Plain Brown Wrapper - Sundazed LP
Replies: 12
Views: 18851

I'm mildly surprised that a) they bothered to release this, and b) did such a poor job, via JWB. Releasing it under the "Plain Brown Wrapper" title was doubly deceptive.
by Xenu
Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:32 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dems dodge a bullet
Replies: 3
Views: 4882

My roomie was a NoCar native, and insisted to me all year that Edwards was well known back home to be quite sleazy. Score one for him.
by Xenu
Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:13 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Stones to leave Virgin and move to Universal
Replies: 20
Views: 21398

For some reason, the Virgin Black and Blue started selling for about eight bucks a while back, so I picked it up. I've got an original-issue Dirty Work LP I picked up used at some point. "One Hit (To The Body)" and the bizarre comic strip on the inner sleeve was worth the $4 I paid. (And ...
by Xenu
Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: McCain on Homodoption
Replies: 3
Views: 4689

McCain on Homodoption

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llZuoMXpr4s

To quote the forum I pulled this from, I've never heard anybody speak for so long and not say a fucking thing.
by Xenu
Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:40 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Paint It Black / Guitar Hero
Replies: 64
Views: 55838

I could check, but it's hard to do much critical listening with that. I still don't understand why that was redone - what's on LALC really isn't bad at all. The line is *there*, just not quite as clear. I was idling wondering whether the LALC line as we hear it is an overdub. The '95 overdub just s...
by Xenu
Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:37 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Copyright extension
Replies: 1
Views: 3250

Copyright extension

Given as I'm flagellating vigorously over at the other forum on this exact topic, I was wondering what the general consensus was here over the current state of copyright protection and promised extensions thereof.