Vinyl Me Please Essentials

keylime_5 said:
Was the 2009 AAA. The hype on this reissue is pretty much as high as Storf could possibly set the bar:

“The thing that is most mind-blowing about our edition of Check Your Head is that we’ve remastered it AAA all analog, as the Beasties were one of a decreasing number of rap artists recording direct to tape in 1992,” Winistorfer said. “Our edition sounds as good as the best of our Classics pressings, the best of our Anthologies; I kept playing “So What’cha Want” on my turntable and laughing at how good it sounds. Our 30th Anniversary Edition will go down as one of the best VMP Essentials releases we’ve ever done.”
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Not sure. The Hype doesn’t specify…
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All I know is it sounds excellent and The Beastie Boys seem like people that respect the vinyl format. The VMP version might sound as good but I would be surprised if it surpasses it.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
From a macro standpoint these are excellent choices from a Micro (me, personally) standpoint these are unnecessary and not better than what I already have.
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Yeah, I already have the box sets of Springsteen and Dylan, so it's not exactly "lost sounds found", but I'm still impressed with these picks. They've come a long way since Tennis and ole Dead Eyes, Kevin Morby.
 
TCell said:
Yeah, I already have the box sets of Springsteen and Dylan, so it's not exactly "lost sounds found", but I'm still impressed with these picks. They've come a long way since Tennis and ole Dead Eyes, Kevin Morby.
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On that note, when was the last time they did a new release as an essential? Sure they caught a ton of slack for that (especially after the Essentials re-branding), but I always thought it was a wonderfully ballsy thing to do even if I did swap a few of them.
 
The Voidoid said:
On that note, when was the last time they did a new release as an essential? Sure they caught a ton of slack for that (especially after the Essentials re-branding), but I always thought it was a wonderfully ballsy thing to do even if I did swap a few of them.
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Sleater-Kinney maybe? That album certainly would be reason enough for them to swear off ever doing a new release for Essentials ever again.
 
The Voidoid said:
On that note, when was the last time they did a new release as an essential? Sure they caught a ton of slack for that (especially after the Essentials re-branding), but I always thought it was a wonderfully ballsy thing to do even if I did swap a few of them.
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I think Caroline Rose back in 2020. Not a bad album actually either, but not worth the price of a subscription IMO
 
TCell said:
Yeah, I already have the box sets of Springsteen and Dylan, so it's not exactly "lost sounds found", but I'm still impressed with these picks. They've come a long way since Tennis and ole Dead Eyes, Kevin Morby.
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Weren't some of those RotM before they started labeling the sub "Essentials"?

Regardless, I like to think of the "essential" aspect of the Morby record as its being produced by Richard Swift.
 
hlaveta said:
Weren't some of those RotM before they started labeling the sub "Essentials"?

Regardless, I like to think of the "essential" aspect of the Morby record as its being produced by Richard Swift.
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Yeah, now that I think of it, Rose might've been the only one released after the Essentials rebranding. So others were probably just labeled AOM, and therefore a little easier to justify.
 
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