Albums that are better on vinyl - Page 3

Yarbles · 07-22-2005, 02:45 PM

Vinyl makes my insides feel good.

Anyways, I definitely love Roxy Music's debut album on vinyl alot more. Not because of sound quality or anything but because of song order. The CD reorganized a few songs to fit in "Virginia Plain" and it just does not flow as well. "Virginia Plain" is a great single and all but it just doesn't fit in where they threw it. "Would You Believe" feels way out of place. It used to be on the end of the "A" side but now (if the CD were a record) it would be awkwardly placed on the B side. Also, "2Hb" has been moved as well. It used to follow "Chance Meeting" which was the perfect link between "The Bob" and "2hb." Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have the single on CD now but the rearrangement of the album really doesn't work this time around.

The album is still one of my all time favorites however.

whiteskittlz · 07-22-2005, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Yarbles

Vinyl makes my insides feel good.

Anyways, I definitely love Roxy Music's debut album on vinyl alot more. Not because of sound quality or anything but because of song order. The CD reorganized a few songs to fit in "Virginia Plain" and it just does not flow as well. "Virginia Plain" is a great single and all but it just doesn't fit in where they threw it. "Would You Believe" feels way out of place. It used to be on the end of the "A" side but now (if the CD were a record) it would be awkwardly placed on the B side. Also, "2Hb" has been moved as well. It used to follow "Chance Meeting" which was the perfect link between "The Bob" and "2hb." Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have the single on CD now but the rearrangement of the album really doesn't work this time around.

The album is still one of my all time favorites however.

I have an idea: burn the CD with a computer and reorder it just like the original!!!

Soulman · 07-24-2005, 08:35 AM

Rolling stones! Frank Zappa is great on vinyl too..

5-track · 07-24-2005, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Soulman

Rolling stones! Frank Zappa is great on vinyl too..

right on

dprussky · 10-01-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dprussky

I'm sorry to have to disagree with you on this. I have a great record player and I do love my LP's. I said the Beatles earlier in this thread only because it was how I was first introduced to them and retain a very large sentimental place in my heart to the vinyl versions. That being said, cd quality is much clearer, crisper, and truer to the original sounds of what was being recorded. Vinyl can still sound great, but will never hold a candle to cd sound.

I was wrong. Sue me. I've been converted to vinly in the last year. Much better than cd. I'm buying tons of vinly now.

TheZola · 10-01-2006, 11:58 PM

Hmm, good bump.

'Round About Midnight.

Satchmo8101 · 10-02-2006, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by dprussky

I was wrong. Sue me. I've been converted to vinly in the last year. Much better than cd. I'm buying tons of vinly now.

Would Satchmo steer you wrong?

Once again, for those interested in finding out what is happening with today's recordings.

http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/...s/dynamics.htm

P.S. In regards to Zappa. You're only going to hear them as originally released on vinyl. Zappa remixed and edited them when he reissued the recordings on CD.

Also, while recent reissue of the Stones' ABKCO releases on Hybrid SACD are a major improvement over the disasters that came out on cd originally, they're still not as good as the vinl.

aka

Vinyl, Baby!

Freedom Fries · 10-05-2006, 01:22 AM

Lots of older reggae sounds rock solid and big bottomed on vinyl. 12" 45's ruled the roost. I get the feeling that that's the sound/feeling they were looking for in the studio. Even the crappy Jamaican pressings with the surface noise added to the vibe. I love my wax reggae platters but now I get everything on CD. It's close enough and just more convenient to deal with.

Roivas · 10-05-2006, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by astra12

How can vinyl be better than CD?...When they are put on to records the stylus picks up all the rubbish from the vinyl. So they clean them all up again and put them on CD so you are hearing the sound as close to the original as possible.

Not true when you consider that you are hearing an exact copy of the original source's sound wave when you listen to vinyl recordings (minus what you lose of the audible range of sound from playback equipment in general, of course).

How much "sound quality" does the typical sample rate of a digital recording sacrifice?

So, intrusions of audible specks of dust or digital approximations of an already limited sound wave?

Matter of opinion, I guess. Have to admit...those old classical recordings on vinyl are frickin' amazing.

Analog vs. Digital in a nutshell

messina · 10-06-2006, 02:59 AM

robert johnson