I agree, but the loop on that song can get pretty annoying after a while. Still, I love listening to it and the rest of that album in surround.
So many enjoyable songs on that disc.
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I agree, but the loop on that song can get pretty annoying after a while. Still, I love listening to it and the rest of that album in surround.
So many enjoyable songs on that disc.
That was the risk they took. I've always found it compelling in an edgy way. If the whole album were like that I'd stab my eardrums with ice picks, but it works for that track. Sells the lyrics, I feel. Feels like being trapped.
At least that loop is panned like a siren in the surround mix.
That's the track I always skip. I hate that loop going around and around. The song before it though, E-Bow the Letter, I find pretty amazing. There are a lot of great songs on the album. I am a bit puzzled by the mix however. It's not what I would call vintage Scheiner. It's a bit of hit and miss in my books.
Yeah, "E-Bow the Letter" is awesome. A great music track from the band with fantastic poetry by Stipe on top of it, not to mention that Patti Smith's contribution is killer as well.
I'm guessing this album didn't drop in your formative years? ES gets this record. Loved this album in stereo and it shines in surround.
R.E.M. - Monster
R.E.M. / Document (R.E.M. No. 5)
Nice mix by Mr. Scheiner, and probably my second favorite album of theirs after Automatic For The People. Life's Rich Pageant is actually tied for 2nd, I'd have to say.
Nice mix by Mr. Scheiner, and probably my second favorite album of theirs after Automatic For The People. Life's Rich Pageant is actually tied for 2nd, I'd have to say.
It's too bad albums like "Fables of the Reconstruction" and "Life's Rich Pageant" were not also remixed in surround along with "Document" when EMI owned those albums before the sell off to Universal in late 2012. I think the latter of the two would sound particularly impressive in surround with that fantastic production by Don Gehman.
sf49erjohn
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Rattle That Lock for about the 10th time. It"s meant to be played loud. Really getting into it.
So true. I'd love to have both of those in surround. The only others I have right now besides Document and Automatic... are Green and Out Of Time. I haven't really felt too motivated to get any of the others, but you guys have me thinking about New Adventures In Hi-Fi.
"Monster" and "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" are must-haves IMHO. The other three albums ("Up", "Reveal", and "Around the Sun") all have stellar surround mixes too, but the music and styles of those albums are probably not to everyone's tastes.
I really liked that quite a bit the first time through, and I can tell it's going to grow on me. I didn't get to play it nearly as loud as I wanted to, though. Just waiting for that first opportunity...
They need to upload to YouTube already. No teasers have grabbed me yet.
Tornado Red
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
Agree as well, listening for the fourth run-through at around 90-95 db...smooooth. The DR value is very nice for a change... with new music.
Allan Holdsworth - All Night Wrong (Japan SACD/5.0)
Any Holdsworth listeners out there? Awesome performance on this live disc, and incredible sound from a live album, particularly Chad Wackerman's drums.
Any Holdsworth listeners out there? Awesome performance on this live disc, and incredible sound from a live album, particularly Chad Wackerman's drums.
One of my very first dvd-audios was Reveal and it was also my first R.E.M. album. Not my formative years - that would be The Beatles - but in a way, my surround formative years LOL! And I know what you are implying - Scheiner takes a different approach here on New Adventures. Different than Captain and Me, Homecoming, Skynyrd, America, Winelight, or Nightfly. Those all have very balanced mixes. New Adventures doesn't even sound like a Scheiner mix when compared with those albums.
I really need to listen to New Adventures more often get an appreciation of the mix. I had pretty much dismissed it a few years back but since then I've improved my hardware and my room acoustics substantially. I did enjoy it tonight much more than I ever remember.
That is one of the rarest SACD's around.
Jim the Oldbie
My right elbow hurts.
Yes sir! Just listened to Bruford's Feels Good To Me earlier this week (oops! last week).
Haven't heard that one - I bet it's a great surround disc.
I got to hear Allan in a small meeting room at a NAMM show in Chicago back in the '80s. He was demoing the SynthAxe. He basically blew everyone's minds for 15 or 20 minutes, after which he graciously hung around awhile longer for a meet & greet, and I was lucky enough to talk to him briefly. What does one say to one of the very best musicians on the planet?! The only thing I could think of was the truth, which was that his solo on "In the Dead of Night," from the first U.K. album, was like nothing I'd ever heard before in my life. He smiled warmly and replied, "Oh - cheers, mate, thanks!" and proceeded to take a very long drink from a very tall glass of very dark ale.
-- Jim
kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
I've been a fan since I heard Jean Luc Ponty's "Enigmatic Ocean" back in the late 70's...
Met him in Boston after seeing his show on the "Atavachron" tour in 1987 (the SYNTHAXE tour! Gary Husband on drums!)...LOVELY person...he was having a Coronita or two...talked to him about JLP's LP and his hand size (since he does these chords that reach 4-5 frets); well, our hands are about the same size!!!
Anyway, the ANW SACD is a splendid performance but , unfortunately a very poor MCH mix..but , hey, how much can you do with a gtr , a bass and drums?
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