Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[bdrummond]

 

[bdrummond]

Honestly I think at this point I'm going to stick with my existing Wu copy and avoid the VMP when it comes around. Essentials seems to be the most hit or miss of the three tracks quality wise. Going to ride out my 3 months on RHH and Classics.

 

[Mather]

Don't worry, it's only all 7 reviews on cogs and every single person who received their copy on Reddit who are saying there's bad noise and crackle at the top of side A and B. But, hey, maybe those are the only bad copies. Right? RIGHT?

sigh...

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Excellent, glad I spent $180 to ensure I got one of these bad boys.

 

[Mather]

Excellent, glad I spent $180 to ensure I got one of these bad boys.

WELCOOOMME BAAAAAAA-FUCK

 

[djdavedk]

WELCOOOMME BAAAAAAA-FUCK

Like returning to an abusive spouse after they promise they’ll treat you right.

 

[duke86fan]

Don't worry, it's only all 7 reviews on cogs and every single person who received their copy on Reddit who are saying there's bad noise and crackle at the top of side A and B. But, hey, maybe those are the only bad copies. Right? RIGHT?

sigh...

One important question though

How is the sound of the non vmp version

Maybe it's an issue with the LP as a whole.. If the clouds hill version also has the noise.. in which case the selling these for 60 bucks is even more embarrassing

 

[Mather]

One important question though

How is the sound of the non vmp version

Maybe it's an issue with the LP as a whole.. If the clouds hill version also has the noise.. in which case the selling these for 60 bucks is even more embarrassing

I've seen no mention of this noise on the Cloud Hill press. It's done by Optimal. This is pretty much GZs calling card.

 

[Joe Mac]

Excellent, glad I spent $180 to ensure I got one of these bad boys.

Yep I should have known better too! My calculation that $52 was less than €52 it seems was a complete price over value judgement

 

[SanSeattle]

I tend to agree that colored vinyl is a marketing ploy for hipsters, but I fall into that hole far too often! But for the Mars Volta, I had an original pressing - happily sold it for very big bucks to get the VMP - and if they pressed up a turd on vinyl it would sound better.

It's funny, true "hipsters" or punks actually avoid colored vinyl for this very purpose. Black vinyl is the OG and not a trend. At least that's what I've seen/heard. It's actually "uncool" for a DJ to spin colored vinyl at a hip dive bar.

What do I know though anymore, I'm housebound with a 2 & 3 year old now FWIW.

 

[wmeugene]

My copy has surface noise for the first minute or two of Side A. It dissipates near the end of the first track. Absolutely a pressing issue. The disc sounds great after that first minute or so

 

[Mather]

My copy has surface noise for the first minute or two of Side A. It dissipates near the end of the first track. Absolutely a pressing issue. The disc sounds great after that first minute or so

This is gunna be a gong show.

 

[dbarila]

This is what happens when I decide to rejoin for a couple months thinking "it can't be as bad as I remember right?"

 

[wmeugene]

Side B also has the same level of noise for about the same length (though not as distracting). Fortunately just at the beginning and something I could live with if I had to.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

It's funny, true "hipsters" or punks actually avoid colored vinyl for this very purpose. Black vinyl is the OG and not a trend. At least that's what I've seen/heard. It's actually "uncool" for a DJ to spin colored vinyl at a hip dive bar.

What do I know though anymore, I'm housebound with a 2 & 3 year old now FWIW.

This is the correct take. It is like when your watching the news and the newscaster makes reference to records and then smugly says something like “remember those?” because he is worried that he will be perceived as being old or out of it unless they reference their antiquated nature but in doing that it actually makes them look more unhip because they are completely ignorant to the decade long vinyl revival.

Blaming hipsters for the proliferation of colored wax is similarly out of touch and makes the person slinging such claims seem both pretentious and seemingly clueless to what drives hipster culture.

It’s like saying hipsters shop at Urban Outfitters when really UO is just a mass produced regurgitation of hipster culture.

Hipsters strive for authenticity and vinyl reissues on colored wax would not typically fall into that category.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

This is gunna be a gong show.

Also, this completely destroys the secondary market value for this release because it’s gonna be flooded with people trying to flip their shitty copies after they receive their replacements.

 

[Mather]

It’s like saying hipsters shop at Urban Outfitters when really UO is just a mass produced regurgitation of hipster culture.

Yeah... YEAH! I worked at Urban Outfitters from 1998-2000 back when it actually WAS cool! Hipsters didn't even EXIST then. We INVENTED hipsters! You bunch of hipster doofus wannabes!

IT WAS COOL!
I WAS COOL!
I AM COOL!
OH MY GOD STOP LOOKING AT ME

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Yeah... YEAH! I worked at Urban Outfitters from 1998-2000 back when it actually WAS cool! You bunch of hipster doofus wannabes!

IT WAS COOL!
I WAS COOL!
I AM COOL!
OH MY GOD STOP LOOKING AT ME!

I was in High School from 1998-2000 and shopped at American Eagle because the local mall (that was still 35 miles away) didn’t have an Abercrombie & Fitch.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Yep I should have known better too! My calculation that $52 was less than €52 it seems was a complete price over value judgement

Yeah mine was more I didn't realize the Clouds Hill versions were pressed at Optimal and these weren't so the math made more sense for me. Anyone know how that version sounds?

 

[Urbs_hott]

Don't worry, it's only all 7 reviews on cogs and every single person who received their copy on Reddit who are saying there's bad noise and crackle at the top of side A and B. But, hey, maybe those are the only bad copies. Right? RIGHT?

sigh...

Bad noise? I just checked the streaming version and that is exactly how I’d describe it. So it’s not a pressing issue. I rag on GZ as much as the next guy but this fault lies at the feet of the Mars Volta.