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Lennon "Acoustic"
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:57 am
by Xenu
This finally surfaced on firesharing networks today. I downloaded a rip of it.
Offhand, it isn't really a bad comp. The song selection is somewhat "obvious"--we don't get any Mind Games demos, we get one WaB demo, and we get *several* STinNYC demos--but it generally flows well. The sound quality shifts drastically on some tracks, though, which has made listening to the album straight through somewhat odd. And this may be merely the rip I downloaded, but the entire thing has an odd, "phasey" quality to it. This might be indicative of some processing/noise reduction, or might just be a poor-quality encode.
Anybody else grab it? It's up on suprnova.org right now (in several flavours, actually).
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:58 am
by Xenu
My favorite track thus far is probably "Look At Me," which may have surfaced previously on bootleg, but which sounds *very* good here.
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:24 pm
by ohnothimagen
David, which tracks have been previously released? And are all the previously-released tracks from Anthology?
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:22 pm
by Xenu
I don't have Anthology around to check against, so I'll leave this up to others.
Re: Lennon "Acoustic"
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:27 pm
by czeskleba
Xenu wrote:And this may be merely the rip I downloaded, but the entire thing has an odd, "phasey" quality to it. This might be indicative of some processing/noise reduction, or might just be a poor-quality encode.
Are these acoustic home demos, or acoustic alternate takes from the studio (or both)? On the Lennon Anthology, they went REALLY heavy with the noise reduction on the stuff that came from home demos, so if this is mostly home demos then that probably is what you are hearing.
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:56 am
by Xenu
A mixture of the two, I think. "Well Well Well" is clearly a home demo (I think one I"m familiar with from bootlegs), whereas things like "Love" sound like studio demos. "Love" sounds *really, really bad*. Really bad. I hope to god that's the MP3 encoding at work (or perhaps a dodgy source).
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:03 pm
by Matt
Strange sounding disc at times, "Phasey" is a good way to describe it...The "Look At Me" is from the ending credits on the Imagine DVD. "Real Love" sounds like the version from the Imagine soundtrack. "Watching the Wheels" is the same as the anthology version.
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:51 pm
by Xenu
So that in fact is the way the CD sounds, and not the way the encodes sound? Disappointing.
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:07 pm
by Matt
Very disappointing!
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:05 pm
by Xenu
It'd be mroe disappointing if it were something I was waiting for, truthfully. As is, I wasn't planning on buying it anyway. While the Anthology set was pleasantly surprising, the LLT really hit the spot for unreleased Lennon.