Anybody else get this?
Sound is amazing. Taken from the analog master tapes at Abbey Road.
I picked it up from Ken for about 30 bucks. Probably at least a hundred bucks cheaper than a nice condition original.
Anybody else get this?
Sound is amazing. Taken from the analog master tapes at Abbey Road.
I picked it up from Ken for about 30 bucks. Probably at least a hundred bucks cheaper than a nice condition original.
Yeah I picked this reissue up, plus the first Faust album too.
Both sound absolutely wonderful.
I've got this as well, sounded very good. In fact, I've got a few of this series of reissues - today picked up Caravan's In The Land of Grey and Pink and Phaedra on LP from a local record shop (HEAD in Royal Leamington Spa). I had a loyalty card filled up with tokens so one was free. 16 UK pounds each, which is about 25 dollars, I think. I was hoping to get the Peter Hammill reissue, but they didn't have it.
I guess my love of the album is a bit obsessive.
I have the original Japanese CD, a vinyl rip from the original UK LP, and now this.
Not sure I'd want to part with any of them. Haven't compared this new version to the rip of the UK original, but I can't see how it could beat it. This new LP is just fantastic, IMO.
Wish I was as wealthy as you guys. This sounds so tempting.
Wich one, the Esoteric 2008 reissue (ECLEC 2036) or the Deram 2014 one (SML 1074)?
I have the original vinyl and cd, enough is enough.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
The former is a CD, and the latter is a bootleg.
I'm talking about the 2014 Universal reissue. Cat # is 535334-4. It was just released last month.
I got it here ...
https://www.lasercd.com/vinyl/polite-force-vinyl
Thanks for bringing it to my attention, anything Dave Stewart is auto-buy.
One of the defining "avant-prog" protos. I never tire of this. I like it that Wiki gives away the low grading it got from 'Classic Rock'. "This doesn't succeed in sounding like ELP!"
"Long Piece No. 3" remains one of those "prog" epics that I just can't turn off when started. You simply HAVE to hear the whole damn thing. Formalist, academic, "cold" in every sense - yet so damned moving, beauty- and powerful.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I'll be keeping my original vinyl in a nice cozy place forever. I picked it up in perfect shape around 1992 for $50 through Goldmine magazine - never ever have I regretted spending that month's worth of food money back then. HA!
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