Friday Music

Maybe I've just gotten lucky but the titles I've picked up (Point of Know Return; Dreamboat Annie, Boston ST and Elvis "Elvis") all sound great. Easily as good or better than the original releases I had. (Turns out these titles are all mastered by Kevin Gray)

(Ray Charles "Rock and Roll" was also OK but was easily bested by the recent 75th Anniversary AP 45 RPM)

I have gotten sucked in many times by Friday Music because they get the rights to some really great titles. Joe Resgoso mastered albums aren't very good ranging from truly horrible to good but never great. Often the original pressings are as good if not better BUT I recently discovered 3 titles where Joe had the good sense to hire Kevin Gray for the mastering and they are very good as you would expect from Kevin. They are - James Taylor - That's Why I'm Here, Loggins & Messina - Sittin' In and Heart - Dreamboat Annie.

Well…I guess I dodged a bullet. I have Santana - Lotus and Santana - Moon Flower from Friday. The records are flat, both albums and they both sound great. The Lotus packaging wasn’t as good as it could have been. But honestly, it sounds wonderful. My only bitch is there is little transparency with their mastering process. I’ve written Friday several times. They responded once with a very vague word salad. Don’t know if there is a digital step in any of them still.

...the two Monkees Missing Links LPs I picked up (volumes 2 and 3) were the best-sounding and best-pressed Friday Music titles I've come across, but there's a catch: None of the original liner notes from the CD editions are included, which for a collection of outtakes and rarities is a pretty glaring oversight. The original compilers/producers of the project were also not credited, which seems unnecessarily harsh. Lastly, the covers say the projects were mastered from the original tapes, which seems HIGHLY unlikely...so, nice pressings, but done in a rather callous manner...

Wherever possible check what pressing plant they have used. If they have used RTI your ok, for example Blood Sweat & Tears Greatest Hits is fantastic.

hi all i have Elvis first album on Friday music and i have no issues at all on the record sounds great and wasn't warp at all i like the gate fold cover as well

No one has anything good to say about this label. Does anyone have the Allman Brother Shades of Two Worlds Friday reissue from last year? There are 2 different colored vinyls. I was wondering if this one sounds good? Any of the other issues?

Ahh, Friday Music. You've tempted me with various releases over the past few years. The pictures of the colored vinyl you make always look pretty. But then I receive them (usually after a lengthy delay), and I play them, and .... they suck. Done with you.

DO NOT WASTE your time or money with anything that Friday Music / Joe Reagoso touches. Disastrous. Just absolute garbage.

Seeing a lot of negative reviews for Friday (unsurprising). So let me give you some advice - if a MusicOnVinyl pressing exists of a Friday record, get the MoV one.

I'm a rather big fan of David Bowie - with his 1990s output being my favourite. I have both MoV and Friday pressings from that time and can hands down say that MoV is better quality in terms of packaging (the sleeves are immaculate and they actually come with proper poly-lined innersleeves) and the records are great quality too (love my blue copy of 'Earthling' - sound quality is perfect).

Seriously though, FridayMusic aren't worth the money considering they use awful, cumbersome tri-gatefold sleeves and send out warped records repeatedly with little to no protection. So if you're a Bowie fan deciding whether to get the MoV or Friday pressing of... let's say 'hours...' (because I own both versions). Dear God get the MoV one if you have any sense. Seriously, the Friday pressing of 'hours...' is a joke though - crap sound quality, artwork that has somehow been made so washed out and pixelated that I've seen better bootlegs!

If you're a Bowie fan like me, the only reason I can think of that would mean you'd have to buy a Friday product, is if you want the full version of 'Outside' (its my favourite album of all time so I took that risk). For some reason MoV aren't reissuing that variant, just the cut down one - meaning that you're stuck with the cumbersome tri-gatefold and crap quality records.

Moral of the story - avoid Friday Music like it was the coronavirus, and buy MoV where possible instead.