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New Vinyl

Hi everyone, will you please list some new vinyl pressings that didnt make you wanna return it right away when you first played it. I have found a few:

Anything by Phil Collins has been done well and sounds good.
older box set of "the Song Remains the same" Led Zepp. Great sound. (Mothership sux)
Eric Clapton, everything on the shelf has been re done either 45/33 rpm's all great sounding. RTI pressings especially (duh).

Matt

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Bill, your reasoning makes perfect sense; that hadn't occurred to me! Planet Waves came out on Asylum Records, and is Dylan's lone non-Columbia release. I haven't gotten the MFSL LP yet, but at Amoeba Records in Hollywood found the Japanese Sony SACD from the early 2000's, put out no doubt to provide some source material for their new $3000 SACD player. I don't intend to get the MF SACD, but a comparison of the two versions would be interesting.
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Not that I'm excited at the prospect of spending a hundred bucks on a single LP, but if Mobile Fidelity is going to all that trouble I wish they would do it with an album that contains music I like! I've long wondered what the H*ll their criteria is in picking titles to remaster and press on high quality vinyl and SACD.

An unusually cool one they've recently done is Planet Waves, the 1974 Dylan album with The Band backing him. It's a charming little record that sounds like it was recorded live in the studio. Very unprocessed (no electronic reverb, etc.), "in the room" sound. Engineer Rob Fabroni really captured Levon Helm's trademark drumset sound. "Going, Going, Gone" is a killer songm as is "Forever Young" and many others. One of my favorite Dylan albums, and a welcome reprieve from the generally dreadful music being made at the time.

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