Whip It On is the impressive debut by Danish psych-Pop duo The Raveonettes, originally released in 2002. All written in the key of B flat minor, band members Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner made quite an impact with 8 intoxicating 'film noiresque' tunes, driven by strong rhythms and heavy 3 chord riffs. Their stripped down, in-your-face sound stands out in the indie realm of dreamy guitar pop.
Whip It On was the starting gun that launched The Raveonettes, resulting in sophomore high-class albums like Chain Gang Of Love from 2003 [MOVLP069] and the recently re-released Pretty In Black [MOVLP721] from 2005. First 1000 copies are pressed on red vinyl and come in individually numbered jackets.
- 100 gram audiophile vinyl
- First 1.000 copies limited & numbered on RED vinyl!
Side 1
1. Attack Of The Ghost Riders
2. Veronica Fever
3. Do You Believe Her
4. Chains
Side 2
1. Cops On Our Tail
2. My Tornado
3. Bowels Of The Beast
4. Beat City
Music On Vinyl are thrilled to unleash the fourth studio album from Venice Beach, L.A. heavyweights Suicidal Tendencies. Lights… Camera… Revolution (1990) will be reissued on 180 gram turquoise vinyl for 1000 lucky thrashers!
Album opener and unmistakable anthem "You Can't Bring Me Down" – S.T.'s rally against vicious rumours and their notorious ban from playing public places in L.A. – sets the tone for the record, with 'Cyco' Mike Muir's lyrics of social commentary handled with intelligence, humour and a punk rock middle-finger. Lights… Camera… Revolution boasts the line-up now deemed classic. Suicidal's flirtation with the mainstream (complete with obligatory criticism of 'selling-out') went Gold in the US with over half a million copies sold, and to this day remains an essential record in any Metal or Punk collection.
For fans of: Anthrax, Metallica, Biohazard and Black Flag.
180 gram audiophile vinyl
1000 numbered & limited coloured copies
Tracklisting:
SIDE 1
1 You Can't Bring Me Down
2 Lost Again 488
3 Alone
4 Lovely
5 Give It Revolution
SIDE 2
1 Get Whacked
2 Send Me Your Money
3 Emotion No. 13
4 Disco's Out, Murder's In
5 Go'n Breakdown
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bare WiresJohn Mayall's Bluesbreakers were the undisputed flag-bearers of the British Blues movement during the mid sixties. The band saw many configurations, spawning talents like Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Bare Wires is their fifth album, recorded in 1968 with (a.o.) Mick Taylor on guitar, Jon Hiseman on drums, Dick Heckstall-Smith on sax and Tony Reeves on bass. The latter three started Prog Rock band Colloseum a little later - Reeves went on to work with Sandy Denny and John Martyn. Bare Wires is a truly iconic album, as it went down as the album where Mayall treaded Jazz territory, making it a record with historical importance. On 180 gram audiophile vinyl!
Tracklisting:
Side 1
1. Bare Wires
2. Where Did I Belong
3. I Started Walking
4. Open A New Door
5. Fire
6. I Know Now
7. Look In The Mirror
Side 2
1. I'm A Stranger
2. No Reply
3. Hartley Quits
4. Killing Time
5. She's Too Young
6. Sandy
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Miles Davis Sextet – Someday My Prince Will Come – Columbia Records Legacy Recordings – mono vinyl
Miles Davis – Milestones – Columbia Records/ Legacy Recordings – mono vinyl
Two great Miles Davis classics on reissued vinyl - but why in mono when stereo masters are available?
Published on April 15, 2013
(Miles Davis/Hank Mobley/Wynton Kelly/Paul Chambers/Jimmy Cobb)
Here are two more mono audiophile reissues on vinyl of albums recorded in stereo and much superior in that form, whether on vinyl or digital media. Three Miles Davis collectible titles are being released on mono vinyl on the 20th of this month (the third is ‘Round About Midnight”) in support of Record Store Day and independent record retailers nationwide. The first of these albums is available in a three-channel SACD from Analogue Productions, mastered from the original three-channel tapes of the 1961 session. In order to make more fair comparison, I used the two-channel stereo option on the SACD to compare with the new vinyl disc.
Miles sounds great as usual on the vinyl, with his sophisticated variations on the Disney tune and the rest of the half-dozen tracks. This was his successor to Sketches of Spain, but there’s little connection between the two albums. But the very highest frequencies of his trumpet are not there, and the other five players on the session sound way in the background rather than spaced out across the stereo stage. As various soloists come up, such as pianist Wynton Kelly, the same effect is repeated with the rest of the sextet. On the SACD each of the soloists is dead center, and of course with the three-channel version, it’s even more so. The mono vinyl puts Kelly’s piano right on top of Miles, whereas on the SACD he is off to the left and Miles is at center as it should be. Can’t imagine who would prefer the mono vinyl.
TrackList: Someday My Prince Will Come, Old Folks, Pfrancing, Drad-Dog, Teo, I Thought About You.
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-------Miles Davis – Milestones [TrackList follows] – Columbia Records/ Legacy Recordings audiophile mono 180gr. vinyl CL 1193 (No. 1643) **:
(Miles Davis, trumpet; Cannonball Adderley, alto sax; John Coltrane, tenor sax; Red Garland, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Philly Joe Jones, drums)
The tune “Milestones,” heard in two different takes on this disc, was just as important in making modality a feature of modern jazz as was the more famous Kind of Blue. There are also additional alternate takes of two of the other tracks on this CD, which the vinyl version does not have. By the way, this is a standard stereo CD—not a SACD—but in my A/B comparisons I heard almost as noticeable a contrast between the two media as with the Someday My Prince release. The Columbia CD, like so many releases, says absolutely nothing about whether it is mono or stereo, but the Mobile Fidelity version of it is marked monaural, which is wrong. It’s stereo, with the piano on the left and drums on the right.
The CD has more high end details and especially a strong feeling of the ambience of the studio, which is completely missing on the mono vinyl. Chambers’ doublebass seem to envelop everything on the mono version, rather than just being a member of the sextet, as on the CD. Having the players spread out a bit on the stereo stage is so much more enjoyable than all crowded together at the center. And then there’s those three additional tracks which you don’t get on the vinyl. Pricing on these Legacy monos seems to be less than the SACD version on Mobile Fidelity (which oddly is also mono) but more than the stereo CD. Perhaps with one of these new even-more-expensive mono-only moving coils and an even more expensive turntable system than I have, this mono vinyl might sound a bit better, but I doubt it. I did notice that switching my preamp to Full Mono instead of Direct on my turntable, made the disc sound even worse. (Milestones will be reissued by Mobile Fidelity on April 30th in a vinyl version.)
TrackList: Dr. Jekyll, Sid’s Ahead, Two Bass Hit, Milestones, Billy Boy, Straight No Chaser.
—John Henry
I want to thank John over at www.audaud.com for the exclusive rights to reprint this great review!
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION focuses on recordings of interest to audiophiles and collectors, with an accent on surround sound for music, and on all hi-res disc formats. Over 100SACD, DVD Video/Audio and standard CD reviews are published during each month, and our archives go back to January 2001.
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