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It was a punk sort of day at the local.

I'm most excited for the Minutemen album.

This Lawrence Arms album has one of my favorite songs ever on it.

It's rare for a super hyped album like Wet Leg to exceed my expectations, but it sure did it in spades.

Never seen this HWM split anywhere so had to bite on it.

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Hemotep said:
Nice! I like it! I've got a big orange velvety chair in my living room and it's hard to find stuff to tie it to the other colors.
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We have a tangerine orange knockoff womb chair so it works with the rug nicely! My wife and I like colorful stuff and sometimes we worry that everything we buy is a crazy color/pattern so we did tone down some other furniture haha.

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he's the artist that designed the rug.
 
I'll also provide feedback when mine comes in (it's on a journey for a bit) I have an early repress I can at least compare Side B to (Side A is a disaster, my cat yowling at 2 AM sounds better), albeit on a very basic system.
 
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MikeH said:
We have a tangerine orange knockoff womb chair so it works with the rug nicely! My wife and I like colorful stuff and sometimes we worry that everything we buy is a crazy color/pattern so we did tone down some other furniture haha.

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he's the artist that designed the rug.
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Same here, haha.
 
zdkaiser said:
Interested to hear your thoughts on Maggot Brain.
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Listening to it now. As I mentioned, I don't have another copy to compare to on vinyl, but I did download a needledrop of the white label promo that I can compare to.

The vinyl is VERY low volume. The pressing is pretty centered and flat and I'm almost through side 1 and hardly any surface noise which is a nice surprise. But it's just very.......meh. Everything sounds kinda lifeless and muffled. I'm very surprised that it's from a transfer of the master tapes. There's no way the original album sounds like this. It's also strange because the separation and soundstage is kinda nice on it. Everything just kinda sounds like it's almost underwater or has wool over it.
 
djdavedk said:
Does the hype sticker specify master tape?

Now I’m not really looking forward to it.
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it says "remastered from new high-res analogue transfers" on the hype sticker. I have no problem with mastering digitally if it's done right. I have plenty of digitally remastered albums that sound fantastic (the Bruce Plangent remasters and KG Van Morrison remasters come to mind). Dean Rudland, who works with Ace (but didn't work on this specific album), says over on Hoffman that it was cut from high-res WAV files from the original master tape.

I just listened to the 2005 Ace Remaster, as well as a needledrop of the White Label Promo from 1971. Both are way more dynamic sounding than this version. It almost seems like a mistake.
 
MikeH said:
it says "remastered from new high-res analogue transfers" on the hype sticker. I have no problem with mastering digitally if it's done right. I have plenty of digitally remastered albums that sound fantastic (the Bruce Plangent remasters and KG Van Morrison remasters come to mind). Dean Rudland, who works with Ace (but didn't work on this specific album), says over on Hoffman that it was cut from high-res WAV files from the original master tape.

I just listened to the 2005 Ace Remaster, as well as a needledrop of the White Label Promo from 1971. Both are way more dynamic sounding than this version. It almost seems like a mistake.
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Honestly I probably would have bought it for the second disc with the live versions anyway. So I'm not writing it off as a complete loss despite that being a huge bummer on such a great album.
 
Hemotep said:
Honestly I probably would have bought it for the second disc with the live versions anyway. So I'm not writing it off as a complete loss despite that being a huge bummer on such a great album.
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I'd been holding off of picking up any copies in hopes that a better pressing would happen - which I really hoped this one would be... I'm pretty bummed even though i still have another couple of weeks to wait for mine.
 
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