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I've avoided all the recent reissues of Loaded, including the 9 LP monstrosity on Rhino, but I might pull the trigger on this one:
https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/1817 ... eYbfSzmJoT

hkmartin wrote: ↑19 Aug 2024 23:07 I've avoided all the recent reissues of Loaded, including the 9 LP monstrosity on Rhino, but I might pull the trigger on this one:
https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/1817 ... eYbfSzmJoT

Analogue Productions will do a high quality cut and pressing. Personally I’m just not sure I can ever really deal with listening to albums as 45rpm double LPs, though.

I wonder whether they are using the original Sweet Jane edit - without the ‘wine and roses’ section?

20 minutes per side is the perfect length for great sounding records. Stretching it to a double album is a gimmick.

That said, AP usually get the sound right, so landing this great album in a bunch of audiophile households can't be a bad thing.

Saving out for the 78rpm 5 record boxset reissue / 1 song per side

falconwhit wrote: ↑21 Aug 2024 17:06 Saving out for the 78rpm 5 record boxset reissue / 1 song per side

Post of the month !

I wonder whether they are using the original Sweet Jane edit - without the ‘wine and roses’ section?

I just got my copy. I'm on Side 2 (of 4). Liking it a lot so far.
No "wine and roses" on Sweet Jane, which is a plus for me.

hkmartin wrote: ↑25 Sep 2024 02:04

I wonder whether they are using the original Sweet Jane edit - without the ‘wine and roses’ section?

I just got my copy. I'm on Side 2 (of 4). Liking it a lot so far.
No "wine and roses" on Sweet Jane, which is a plus for me.

Are Rock and Roll and New Age the 1970 versions or the 1995 (or later) versions?

DavidH wrote: ↑25 Sep 2024 04:27

hkmartin wrote: ↑25 Sep 2024 02:04
I just got my copy. I'm on Side 2 (of 4). Liking it a lot so far.
No "wine and roses" on Sweet Jane, which is a plus for me.

Are Rock and Roll and New Age the 1970 versions or the 1995 (or later) versions?

Sorry, haven’t really listened to the 1995 versions since, well, 1995. I’ll have to re-familiarize myself with the other differences to be certain.

hkmartin wrote: ↑26 Sep 2024 15:54

DavidH wrote: ↑25 Sep 2024 04:27 Are Rock and Roll and New Age the 1970 versions or the 1995 (or later) versions?

Sorry, haven’t really listened to the 1995 versions since, well, 1995. I’ll have to re-familiarize myself with the other differences to be certain.

That's OK, they're more subtle than Sweet Jane, but still quite noticable - an extra little instrumental lick in R&R and a strange extra part in the last part of New Age. I'm also a bit vague on what exactly is on which version, because the only one I listen to is the original CD.

DavidH wrote: ↑28 Sep 2024 06:07

hkmartin wrote: ↑26 Sep 2024 15:54

Sorry, haven’t really listened to the 1995 versions since, well, 1995. I’ll have to re-familiarize myself with the other differences to be certain.

That's OK, they're more subtle than Sweet Jane, but still quite noticable - an extra little instrumental lick in R&R and a strange extra part in the last part of New Age. I'm also a bit vague on what exactly is on which version, because the only one I listen to is the original CD.

OK, I went down the rabbit hole on New Age. I guess I'd forgotten (or never knew) that there are THREE variants. There's the original version, where Doug sings "it's the beginning of a new age" twice at the end (not counting the spoken "oh - it's a new age"). Then there's the "long version," where he sings the refrain four times and the "full length" version, where he sings it 6 times. Confusingly, Amazon music, where I went first, labels the "long version" as the "full length" version.

Anyway, the new reissue from Analogue Productions is the "long version". Doug sings the refrain four times.

(I'll have to get to Rock & Roll some other time)