Pink Floyd - "Animals" 5.1 Surround Sound Mix (Blu-Ray & SACD editions out in September 2022!)

[sjcorne]

Hasn’t hit Spotify yet, strangely.

Odd, I'm seeing it:

 

[bookofsaturdays]

Odd, I'm seeing it:

Using your link it’s now made it show up on the artist page, it wasn’t there this morning when I checked, thanks!

 

[bookofsaturdays]

I gotta say as much as I love the original artwork, I think Aubrey Powell has done a great job with the reimagining, looks really sharp. Especially the blu-ray cover with the red accenting!

 

[rusinurbe]

This is why SW stays as close to the original mix as possible without straying too far when he does a remix. People have only heard this version for 45 years. Any change to that is going to throw people off. This one sounds better than the re-recorded AMLOR, but that’s a whole different can of worms in the first place.

My thought on it not being true to it’s time is, if they had all the tools back in the 70s that we do now, don’t you think they would have used them?

For sure but I think it's now bright shiny and lacking menace. I have already stated elsewhere Guthrie just does not seem to understand the subtlety in theboriginal mixes when he does his new mixes which is why his DSOTM surround mix is so inferior to the Parsons mix, shame Parson's was not consulted. Maybe he would then understand why the closing heartbeat sounds sounded the way they did and not a bass drum and why the original mix did not have it bang center.

 

[JediJoker]

Trying to critique a mix run through the Youtube meat grinder?
Ha ha charade you are!

Overblown. High quality audio on YouTube is up there with dedicated lossy audio streaming services, which is to say very good and often indistinguishable to lossless in blind listening comparison tests.

 

[madship]

Traverse City MI

 

[fcormier]

Hasn’t hit Spotify yet, strangely.

Yes it did according to an email from PF:

 

[fcormier]

Traverse City MI

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This is the 2016 version
https://www.discogs.com/release/9431705-Pink-Floyd-Animals

 

[Tribby2001]

For a moment I thought I stumbled into a Classical music forum debating the merits of Harnoncourt Vs Karajan Beethoven symphony readings.

 

[César]

Ok, after two listens of the Apple Music lossless version, I'm a little bit confused
First one was on the full room setup. Once I got used to the change in David's voice, I started enjoying the version and raising the volume up. However, the bass drum started to get annoying (overwhelming) and ended up reducing the volume. On the other hand, the spaciousness of the mix is stunning, amazingly 3D-ish in the middle bridge of the song. Ok, same three-dimensionallity was there in the high-res version of the original mix, to be fair.
Drums and synths is where I think most of the improvement is.
But then the puzzling part: David's vocals sound radically different, but Roger's don't. Well, somehow they have been altered too, as there's always been some sibillance that now also bothers me.
Now I just finished another take, this time on headphones. Volume really high. To my surprise, the bass from the tom-toms sounds fantastic on my cans, really round and not annoying at all. I need to check tomorrow my big setup, but I have rarely had any issues with based management. Weird. And the sibilance is even more pronounced on headphones, but volume is much higher.
Don't get me wrong, perhaps I'm being too picky on my observations, but when Dogs just ended I had a big smile on my face. Does it sound more polished and perhaps less aggressive? Maybe... but I really like the mix and l feel like once the real high res is on my hands and I get more used to it I won't get back to the original mix.
Now, where's the 5.1

 

[GOS]

LOL! Regardless of everyone's attempts to make me feel some dread......I CANNOT FREAKING WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THIS ONE!

 

[Antonuzzo]

LOL! Regardless of everyone's attempts to make me feel some dread......I CANNOT FREAKING WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THIS ONE!

Ditto. It's been a long, long time coming!

But I'm sad at the lack of extras though. I was hoping for live versions, demos - hell, even the 8-track version of POTW!

 

[Sal1950]

I'm afraid I just don't share others' enthusiasm for this new stereo mix. The drums sound totally out-of-period for 1977. With the cymbals revealed better, I can understand why they were originally buried in the mix; they sound awful, like they were recorded without much thought to mic placement.

Sometimes you just have to do the best you can with what you have.
As we turn back the hands of time a lot of original master recordings have weakness that can be fairly obvious. But to follow your line of thinking above, if we are to bury all the "not so nice" parts there might not be much left.
It's like the two sided sword of forever more revealing HiFi's, they can sound better and better with newer pristine material but you sometimes hear some stuff you'd rather not.

 

[JediJoker]

But to follow your line of thinking above, if we are to bury all the "not so nice" parts there might not be much left.

To me, the cymbals are not simply "not so nice;" they're remarkably bad. It's best they stay hidden.

 

[Drlbizzle]

I think it sounds great

 

[fourml8r]

i get the each person has their own audio perceptions of this album after listening to it for 45 years. this is my favorite floyd album, but has not gotten the play it deserves mostly due to the fidelity of the original release. it just comes across as flat with reduced dynamics, but it wasn't recorded in a state of the art studio like some of their other releases. i gave the new dogs track a listen last night and enjoyed the newfound dynamics. drums have a lot more punch and high end a little more clarity. i did feel that a few parts were a touch too strong on the bass emphasis, but nothing horrible. i just turned down my sub a hair and it was all good. i could definitely make out more nuances on the new version that were buried in the original. i can't wait for the 5.1 release. i am sure that will be a huge leap forward in clarity and definition.

 

[privateuniverse]

Meanwhile, the song released earlier this year ("Hey Hey Rise Up") has just been released as a physical single. The b-side is a newly reworked version of The Division Bell track "A Great Day For Freedom". A new video just premiered as well.

 

[Bill B]

I can't say enough how much I love this album. I don't think it's their best but it is my favorite. It's the first PF album I ever bought. It is the first album I bought that didn't have a "hit" on it. It's the first album I bought without ever hearing a song on it beforehand. I picked it up only because I saw it on the top 10 rock albums list for like the entire summer. It changed the way that I looked for music in the future. It taught me that some of the best music ever will never make it on the radio. It made me very interested in checking out any song that exceeded 10 minutes.

So I find it kind of amusing that so many are debating the new mix (although I get it, that's what we do here). As far as I am concerned, as long as it doesn't severely change the structure of the songs, I don't care how it is mixed, the songs are awesome. I would love it in a box, I would love it with a fox, I would love it on a train, I would love it in the rain.......

 

[Sal1950]

To me, the cymbals are not simply "not so nice;" they're remarkably bad. It's best they stay hidden.

Just disconnect your tweeters.

 

[Frogmort]

This guy seems to like it.