Recent content by Alex Shk

;) I wish I had I had your mental capabilities. If I could list 50 albums that never failed, it wouldn't be a tough call.:D

Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! McSorley's!!!! I would sleep on the floor there - but they always had sawdust and peanut shells down there so that you wouldn't. Gotta admit - I haven't been there in 20 years.... I love vinyl - I like the high-rez sound (continuous analog). Yep - some pressings...

I have that 2 lp issue of Truth/Beck-Ola as well. Have you noticed that those albums are the blueprint for Led Zeppelin? Seriously - give them another listen with Zep I and II in mind. J.P. Jones even plays on some tracks.... as does Keith Moon (listed as "you know who" in the credits). I...

Well... if you happen to be "vinyl enabled", I would also recomend "Taking Liberties" - which you can probably get used in great shape for $3-$5. Almost all of it is available as bonus tracks spread out through the first four CD's - but there is a real nice "flow" to this lp, and it covers 20...

I think that Get Happy and Imperial Bedroom are as essential as the first three (Get Happy makes me think of his classic period as the "first four"). Trust came in-between those two and I can't dismiss it, many Costello fans feel it to be essential - but somehow it worked on a much lesser scale...

Yeah, but it's WICKED cornbread.

Strangely enough - I had a reel to reel back in the day, and we recorded several people clearly articulating the words "Number Nine". When you played it backwards it always sounded like turn me on dead man. It also sounded like "rerm me ahh ded ma", which is what it really sounds like on The...

Just to add a ditto - I also experience a "freeze up" and skip back about 10 seconds into chapter 51. Also a Sony - S530D. After running a fast forward over the spot, I experience a 3 or 4 second pause at the spot, and pick up in sequence, loosing about 5 or 6 seconds.

I really don'y have a demo favorite - but I do gotta (sorta) echo Frank S's sentiments. I had an old friend over a few weeks back, and I put on "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles... He said that it sounded great - he never thought that CD was any good. Before he started taking stock of my...

I think there are still some bugs in this whole 5.1 deal (not only hi-rez either). I have a Sony S530 that refuses to output the .1 channel on the dts CD of Wings Venus and Mars. Yeah, Yeah - I know that it is essentially the quad mix, but so is the dts CD of Wings Band on the Run, which does...

As far as the topic goes, I agree - the LFE channel should not be utilized for SACD/DVD-A. That is NOT the same thing as saying a subwoofer should not be utilized in a music system. IIRC - subwoofers with internal crossovers for music systems were first introduced for home music systems in...

There were 2 legitimate Beatle albums called Rarities - A UK version (Parlophone) with a blue cover that compiled songs that were not on the UK albums. A Capitol US Rarities, which was different animal. The UK version made little sense to release in the US as most of the singles, B sides...

In reference to "Rarities"

I'll also chime in as a Capitol Sinatra fan. I too am an ols rock n' roller who found pleasure in those 50's recordings. Another plus - the album titles accurately describe the tone of the music therein. You wanna swing, go for the "Swingin'" series of lp's. Mellow out, go for Nice n Easy. Sad...

Tom - you cannot replace the Anthology CD's with the DVD. Most of the songs are on the DVD, but they are often incomplete and sometimes used as background music under the narration. The DVD also features some songs in their "originally released versions" as opposed to the alternate takes often...