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FKA Twigs - Eusexua
posted a review of FKA Twigs - Eusexua. 23 days ago
Sounds fantastic, great packaging, and the LP is killer - surely an album of the year contender and easily her best so far. The only (silly) thing I'm a tiny bit disappointed by is that the album title is on a sticker rather than part of the artwork -... See full review
Simply Red - Life
posted a review of Simply Red - Life. about 1 month ago
How come this is listed as German-only? This pressing was sold widely in the UK at the time (and presumably also the rest of Europe) - Germany is just where it was manufactured, right?
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind. 3 months ago
By and large this is a corker of an extended mix but it's taken me more than 20 years to work out what bothers me about it - the climax of the song is missing! The 12" version, despite its length, skips straight from the second "little things I should... See full review
Bright Light Bright Light - Life Is Easy
submitted Bright Light Bright Light - Life Is Easy. 3 months ago
Kylie* - Tension II
posted a review of Kylie* - Tension II. 3 months ago
"Crunch sounds" suggests you've got non-fill rather than distortion from the master - try swapping it wherever you bought it. My copy of the green, which is from the same stampers, doesn't have anything like you're describing so (given that you've... See full review
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Yes. 4 months ago
Interesting, though I think Pandemonium and Love etc are a bit too similar rhythmically to have back to back?
Take That - Everything Changes
posted a review of Take That - Everything Changes. 4 months ago
Oh god ok I just saw a copy of this in the shop and yes, it looks worse than any of the 1993 pressings, even the Spanish one. How many people sign off on things like this before they get manufactured?! It always astounds me.
Take That - Everything Changes
posted a review of Take That - Everything Changes. 4 months ago
If it makes you feel better, all of the 1993 pressings of this - it was originally released on black vinyl in Spain, South Korea and Brazil - have pretty grainy artwork. It's worst on the Spanish one which looks like it's been blown up from a CD scan,... See full review
Erasure - Heavenly Action (Yellow Brick Mix)
posted a review of Erasure - Heavenly Action (Yellow Brick Mix). 5 months ago
dewey70 coming back nearly two years late to say the pressing rings actually match Linguaphone, and the disc feels very similar to my 1985 Linguaphone pressing of Unknown Pleasures (see https://www.discogs.com/label/1260404-Linguaphone-Institute-Ltd... See full review
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
posted a review of Death Cab For Cutie - Plans. 6 months ago
Does the cover really look this bright? I've got an early US pressing and the colours are extremely dark, at least on the front. Interested to know if the European version looks significantly different!
The Strokes - Room On Fire
submitted The Strokes - Room On Fire. 7 months ago
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Elysium. 10 months ago
Only one user seems to have said this, and they haven't been back here to confirm any details since making the claim despite requests in the page history, so I suspect it might be an error. I don't own it though so it isn't for me to say - but if it's... See full review
Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual. 10 months ago
This is a quiet pressing because of the length of the album - the Pet Shop Boys' longest - but the cut sounds great once you turn it up. The bass is surprisingly rich - on A6 it really drives the track for instance - and the top end is clear and... See full review
Suede - Coming Up
posted a review of Suede - Coming Up. 10 months ago
Seconding the glowing review of this pressing - it has a really delicious punchiness yet stays clear and controlled up to the end of each side. This is such a great sounding recording that I don't believe any of the pressings can really be *that* bad... See full review
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
posted a review of Genesis - Wind & Wuthering. about 1 year ago
Part of it is to do with the fact the album has a lot of light and shade - there are plenty of quiet passages without much bass (eg the verses of One for the Vine) which can be cut closer together because the grooves are less dynamic. That leaves more... See full review
Will Young - 20 Years - The Greatest Hits
posted a review of Will Young - 20 Years - The Greatest Hits. about 1 year ago
Still so angry that he didn't call this 20 Years Young
posted a review that has since been deleted. about 1 year ago
Wham! = ワム!* - Music From The Edge Of Heaven = エッジ・オヴ・ヘヴン
posted a review of Wham! = ワム!* - Music From The Edge Of Heaven = エッジ・オヴ・ヘヴン. about 1 year ago
dwr_pnw only that this song basically sounds horrible everywhere - it's almost like it's in mono, though there is the faintest stereo separation when the guitar solo comes in. I've got no idea why they mastered it to sound like this but i can only... See full review
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
posted a review of Röyksopp - Melody A.M.. about 1 year ago
Hope you do! I owned an older pressing and the edits between tracks were so laughably and obviously wrong that I couldn't listen to it without getting annoyed, and eventually gave it away. They've reissued this so many times, why can't they just get a... See full review
Pet Shop Boys - Smash (The Singles 1985-2020)
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Smash (The Singles 1985-2020). about 1 year ago
maxal - there's been a big increase in scammers with little or no feedback (or occasionally just feedback from each other) targeting certain high-value Discogs listings in recent months with prices that are too good to be true - can't say for sure if... See full review
The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights
posted a review of The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights. about 1 year ago
It is a little, but I can't remember seeing coloured vinyl that wasn't at least slightly marbled until maybe the early 2010s - was it just harder to completely mix the dyes at this point?
Blur - The Ballad Of Darren
posted a review of Blur - The Ballad Of Darren. about 1 year ago
Funny how opinions differ! I could take or leave The Rabbi, but not closing the 'proper' album with The Swan is a travesty - it's beautiful.
Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself
posted a review of Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself. about 1 year ago
My copy of this has a second generation inner sleeve with the corrected tracklisting on the picture side (but the lyrics are still in the old order with Wouldn't Change A Thing first). Should this be a new listing or is the picture here possibly wrong?
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Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
posted a review of Gorillaz - Plastic Beach. about 1 year ago
Been waiting to find a copy of this for a few years to see if it was better than the 2010 pressing that I got upon release. Delighted to say that it is!

The 2010 LP (the one with runouts containing "BA" - all others are future reissues) has the... See full review
Pet Shop Boys - Smash (The Singles 1985-2020)
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Smash (The Singles 1985-2020). about 1 year ago
For completists and general mix nerds, this collection is a substantial improvement over PopArt - Opportunities, Suburbia, Heart, DJ Culture, Go West and I Wouldn't Normally... are all restored to their 'correct' single edits (though in some cases the... See full review
Pet Shop Boys - Smash (The Singles 1985-2020)
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Smash (The Singles 1985-2020). about 1 year ago
They've always capitalised this song this way - I guess The Pop Kids are proper nouns the way they see it, nicknames for two defined people. Otherwise they decided years ago that they'd use sentence case for their song titles, which results in some... See full review
Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess
posted a review of Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess. about 1 year ago
Out of curiosity, does this have the same mastering errors as the orange version, where A5, B1 and B4 all have half a second cut off at the very beginning? I can see the runouts are different so I'm wondering if there are two different sets of plates around! See full review
New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
posted a review of New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call. about 1 year ago
Something that's never really made sense to me is why they split the discs where they did, rather than after I Told You So. Morning Night and Day would be a great opener for the second half, and the LPs would have been more equal in length. As it is,... See full review
New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
posted a review of New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call. about 1 year ago
This one was pressed at Optimal in Germany, according to the runout format; the copy I bought in April 2005 was pressed in the UK at the old EMI plant (which was by then in the hands of Portal Space, but used the same presses and thus had the same... See full review
Keane - Hopes And Fears
posted a review of Keane - Hopes And Fears. about 1 year ago
The brown cover CD was the international edition, released at the same time as the green UK one - not sure why they did it like this but I guess it was so Universal could put those ubiquitous "special edition" stickers on the British CDs.
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The Black Dog - Parallel
posted a review of The Black Dog - Parallel. about 1 year ago
Still happening, and I've changed stylus and even rearranged my room. Am I really the only one?!
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
posted a review of William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops. about 1 year ago
Most of them had 0-star ratings and a handful of comments about being scams - some hack seems to be trying their luck listing this over and over again at a fraction of its usual price under different accounts in the hope of making a few quid before... See full review
Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
posted a review of Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album. about 1 year ago
I can't see a second version in the listing here (so maybe this has already been resolved), but can confirm my copy has the JN-H etched next to STERLING on all four sides.
a-ha - Headlines And Deadlines - The Hits Of A-Ha
posted a review of a-ha - Headlines And Deadlines - The Hits Of A-Ha. about 1 year ago
Yeah, the one you've linked to sounds good. It's a little quiet, but it's no problem to turn up the volume as there's very little surface noise and the master is detailed and punchy in the right places.
Air France - No Way Down
posted a review of Air France - No Way Down. about 1 year ago
Woah, I've been listening to this CD for 14 years and assumed it was...meant to sound like this?? I've gotta hear the EPs now!
Pet Shop Boys - Discovery Live In Rio 1994
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Discovery Live In Rio 1994. about 1 year ago
Honestly, I'm so jealous! I think if there's any show in history I wish I'd seen, it's this. I know Performance is the more impressive of the two theatrically, but this looks and sounds like the arcadia for which the tragic subjects of Go West were... See full review
Gorillaz - Demon Days
posted a review of Gorillaz - Demon Days. about 1 year ago
Had this since it came out, and sold my original because this sounds so much better. The people losing their minds over a one-second break between tracks 13 and 14 (which is the only place it's really even noticeable) need to touch grass, it still... See full review
Spiritualized®* - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
posted a review of Spiritualized®* - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. about 1 year ago
Sounds like you've got a defective copy - I got through two before I found a more or less perfect one. Take it back to the shop for an exchange!
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Elysium. about 1 year ago
Ah that's a shame. The 2012 one is pretty good to my ears and certainly doesn't have any distortion so try picking that one up instead - it's still pretty easy to get hold of.
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Pet Shop Boys - PopArt (The Hits)
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - PopArt (The Hits). about 1 year ago
Nah, it's not that - the running time per side is comparable to most of their later studio albums, which all sound fantastic and clock in at around 25 minutes per side (Very, Bilingual, Elysium etc). A good master is a good master no matter how loud... See full review
Björk - Fossora
posted a review of Björk - Fossora. about 1 year ago
Anyone got a bit of noise in the right channel on side three?

Edit: One Little Independent exchanged my disc two and the replacement is fault-free :)
Boards Of Canada - Twoism
posted a review of Boards Of Canada - Twoism. about 1 year ago
I have the corrected version so I'm curious - what was the defect?
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
posted a review of Depeche Mode - Memento Mori. about 1 year ago
Thanks Hot_Snake - didn't know that! I can think of a few examples where they've been done without a label (and without warping) but fair enough if it's best practice - just think it interferes with the design somewhat :)
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
posted a review of Depeche Mode - Memento Mori. about 1 year ago
Great album, great pressing, beautiful package, but what's with pressing plants putting blank labels onto etched sides? They've even gone to the trouble of colour matching them to the three different pressings but...why?
Pulp - Different Class
posted a review of Pulp - Different Class. about 1 year ago
Just swinging by 12 years late to say that no, they have different deadwax.
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posted a comment on Electric And Musical Industries. about 1 year ago
Surely this is just an ANV for EMI? Two more words.