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Pink Floyd: P.U.L.S.E Restored & Re-Edited - Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 10, 2022  |  1 comments
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I continue to feel blessed I was able to see Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour, their last jaunt around the world, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 17, 1994. Even though I was in the nosebleeds, way up near the top of the back of the stadium, I quite enjoyed the band's overall visual spectacle and the live quad sound system to their intended effects.
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Pink Floyd: The Division Bell--20th Anniversary Edition Box Set
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 02, 2014  |  0 comments
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Which one’s Pink? It’s a debate that’s polarized fans ever since Pink Floyd principals David Gilmour and Roger Waters split up their creative partnership in the mid-’80s. Waters went on to build an unprecedented solo live Wall of epic visual and auditory proportions, while Gilmour retained the rights to the band name and constructed two diverse, divergent studio albums and subsequent tours with his other two Floydmates in tow, keyboardist Richard Wright and drummer Nick Mason. The latter of those two LPs, 1994’s admittedly divisive The Division Bell, now comes back to life with a 20th anniversary deluxe celebration in box set form, and thanks to a brilliantly stunning surround sound mix, material initially perceived as B-level reveals itself to have been A all the way.
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Pink Floyd: The Later Years - 1987-2019
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 21, 2020  |  4 comments
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Which one's Pink? It's a question the mighty members of Pink Floyd have answered more than once throughout their unmatched 50-plus-year career. No matter who's been at the helm—the wide-eyed lysergic-minded guitarist/vocalist Syd Barrett, the uncompromising iconoclast bassist/vocalist Roger Waters, or the melodic linchpin guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour — the mantra of delivering music that's always high fidelity, first class has been at the core of Pink Floyd's production values from the very beginning.
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Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 15, 2008  |  0 comments
Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun

Kscope/Snapper

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Prince 1999 - Super Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 17, 2020  |  2 comments
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Prince was determined. While he had made some inroads on both the sales charts and urban radio with his first four hot-button, mostly one-man-show albums of the late-'70s and early-'80s, an opening slot on The Rolling Stones' 1981 tour exposed the narrowmindedness of many concertgoers who outright booed and/or threw things at Prince and his band while they were onstage.
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R.E.M.: New Adventures in Hi-Fi: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2022  |  0 comments
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R.E.M. were the undisputed kings of American-bred alt-rock by the time the mid-1990s rolled around. Emerging from the college-town kudzu of Athens, Georgia, with the game-changing jangle of July 1981's "Radio Free Europe" single and August 1982's subsequent Chronic Town EP, the underground quartet perfected a more fully realized signature sound on their April 1983 full-length debut, Murmur.
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Rachmaninov—Piano Concerto No. 2, Paganini Rhapsody—Lang Lang, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (Deutsche Grammophon) [SACD/CD]
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 04, 2005  |  0 comments
Sergei Rachmaninov's second piano concerto demands both a virtuoso pianist and a huge, supple orchestral sound. It gets both in this multichannel recording from Deutsche Grammophon, which pairs Lang Lang with a venerable Russian orchestra.
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Rave On, Raveonettes
 |  Jun 09, 2011  |  0 comments

My current favorite all-format album is the Raveonettes' Raven in the Grave (Vice), which sounds smoky-fab whether I'm listening to it via CD, MP3, or LP. I asked Raveonettes co-founder Sune Rose Wagner, 38, how the band (Wagner and co-conspirator Sharin Foo) corrals the backbeat for its 21st-century-cool Wall of Sound. Read on for his answers (and for a listen to "Forget That You're Young," a track from the new album.)

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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
Billy Altman  |  Jul 05, 2006  |  0 comments
Stadium Arcadium Warner Bros.
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Topping two hours, this double CD is almost too much of a good thing - espe
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Reference CD Review: Band of Horses
Rob O'Connor  |  Dec 03, 2007  |  0 comments
Cease to Begin Sub Pop
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By turning down the reverb, punching up the melodies, saying goodbye to co-fou

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Reference CD Review: John Fogerty
Brett Milano  |  Nov 04, 2007  |  0 comments

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Reference CD Review: moe.
Andrew Nash  |  Apr 03, 2008  |  0 comments
Sticks and Stones Fatboy
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After a couple of studio albums built from live rhythm tracks of

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Reference CD Review: Nellie McKay
Ken Richardson  |  Dec 03, 2007  |  0 comments
Obligatory Villagers Hungry Mouse/Vanguard
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She has made two double albums (Get Away fr

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Reference CD Review: Patty Larkin
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Mar 03, 2008  |  0 comments
Watch the Sky Vanguard
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Watch the Sky is pleasurable to listen to and somewhat therapeutic, to

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Reference CD Review: Pylon
Ken Richardson  |  Dec 03, 2007  |  0 comments

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