I wont deny I have my beef with Japanese pressings in general, it really is paying more for cooler packaging but worse sound, not just for new vinyl but older releases as well. Thats off topic though.
Totally befuddled by how many folks quite strongly resist The Endless River. Imo the contributions of Richard Wright alone were worth it. Absolutely gorgeous piano work. Having extensively listened to every taped Floyd show in existence, as well as owning, the album imo sounds like exactly like the 3 of them. Which, also imo, is all I think it should do.
As I often mentioned, TER is closing the Pink Floyd story in a beautiful way. TMK, not a lot of bands had the opportunity to call it a day like Floyd did.
I enjoy The Endless River more now that I have a stylus that can track Side 4 with the minimum of sibilance.
Found a cheap used BG 2016 Wall and just compared it to a first UK. The 2016 despite looking new was consistently noisier than it should have been, especially considering I gave it a clean. The first UK sounds considerably better. The UK makes you smile, makes your ears perk up and realize sadly that the 2016 is a sterile listen in comparison. How utterly spectacular is Dave's guitar sound and rhythm playing in run like hell. Boy that was something to witness live, even in post Water's shows.
Perhaps. I'm generally pleased with the quality of most new vinyl. I think QC is better now than it was in the glory days of vinyl, but this record looks new and has been cleaned ultrasonically, so really it suggests to me that the playback is not what is needs to be. More than that the 2016 BG sounded quite bland to me, kind of like a noisier CD.
So this is interesting. I didn't know there were non-BG mastered Wish You Were Here pressings from this 2016 campaign. I just checked my copy which I bought in the US and the hype sticker lists Bernie Grundman. However, the deadwax matches the Doug Sax mastering.
Yes the 2011 mastering by DS re-released for the 2016 campaign in North America. Not sure if the BG edition was finally repressed in NA. Got mine from the UK. Both sound great.
Yep as Norco said the first US issues used the Sax plates. The sticker was incorrect. Later the US used the BG cut. They are actually quite different. Worth owning both.
Nah this is the SHF after all. At the time of release there were about 15 pages of this thread dedicated to the inaccuracy of the hype sticker. It is somewhere within the past 580 pages....
well we didn't see that coming... To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, a limited release of the album in translucent blue, heavyweight vinyl as a 2LP set, is coming on June 7th, 2019. It echoes the original limited blue vinyl release by Columbia Records in 1994. Released on Pink Floyd Records (catalogue number PFRLP 31) it features the 2014 master by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and the late Doug Sax of the Mastering Lab, California. The 2LP version of The Division Bell features full-length tracks throughout (the original 1994 vinyl release had tracks edited to fit onto 1 LP), a gatefold sleeve with four different images of specially-created heads, and two full-colour lyric/image inner bags. It can be ordered through https://pinkfloyd.lnk.to/DB25
I usually don't bite when it comes to these types of eye catching novelties.........but I'll have a hard time resisting this one.
The Division Bell is the only PF album I don't have on vinyl. I need to rectify that, we shall see. Still bitter that they didn't release a standard Piper Mono.
