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Should I look for sealed originals? What about the new heavy weight pressings?
I want Moving Pictures, of course, and 2112 as well. I see them on Amazon for a little under 30 bucks...
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I bought the recent 180g reissue of 'Fly By Night'. It promptly went into the 'For Sale' pile. Dead, lifeless, undynamic, amusical, and sterile and would be the words I'd use to describe the sonics. The original Mercury bests the reissue in every definable category. Perhaps the other reissues are OK, but at $30 a whack, I'm not a betting man and will stand by the originals... YMMV and all that.
To be honest, I always lament at the relatively poor sound quality of all rush albums, vinyl or digital. Ok, but just. Especially when you compare to something like Dire Straits or Steely Dan. Always a bit dirty and congested sounding.
I still listen to them though as the music is simply too good to pass up.
Get the Gilbert Kong (GK in deadwax) mastered LPs.
I profoundly regret even breathing these words in the Temple of Syrinx (or 'Temple of the LP') but, on the whole, Rush is better heard digital... played at the HIGH VOLUME LEVELS their music demands. The original pressings were pretty noisy and warp-prone and the bass filtered above about 50HZ. FILTER GEDDY? WTF!?!? The CDs just sound better, better bass especially, and I ain't payin' no 30 dolluhs apiece for new rekkids! I hereby confess that I ditched my complete Rush discography a couple years ago, all the LP's and CD's, in a painful ritualistic "thinning of the herd" and kept only the following: eponymous LP "Rush" (1974)- because it would be wrong to sell it to some punk- and my CD of "Hold Your Fire" - because its essential for road-trips and 'Time Stand Still' makes me cry. (All the other albums are on my lossless computer files.)
Edits: 04/28/16
Appreciate the info! 90 to 100 bucks for sealed originals... no thank you.
I'm going with the 180 re-issues. But hmmm now I see 200g as well....
They were/are popular and sold a lot of records. Tons of used copies floating around.
2112 look for "G.K." in the deadwax. Moving Pictures look for RL.
All of my pre- Moving Pictures are G.K. (mastered by Gilbert Kong) and they all sound at least good at worst.
Only one of my Rush albums is beat to hell, and it's a Dutch pressing of Moving Pictures that otherwise has excellent sonics.
By the way Gilbert Kong is an unsung great when it comes to mastering LPs. He was Mercury's ace; you can't go wrong with Kong.
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The new 180 gram remasters are fantastic. I have original pressings of "Hemispheres", "Permanent Waves", and "Moving Pictures - RL Robert Ludwig cut" and the new pressings are right there with them...maybe a bit better in some instances.
You can still find the original pressings but to avoid the aggravation of finding one clean as most have been played to death, you can't go wrong with the new pressings.
And they were remastered by Sean Magee who also did the Beatles Mono pressings which to me are really great. Highly recommended.
A buddy of mine bought Moving Pictures at Guitar Center. Don't recall the label but it's a 180gm remaster and it sounds very good, indeed. Cost just under $30.
you can't go wrong getting a period press. That goes across the board for all genres.
I still blast TCE and 2112 now and then. The drums sound particularly good on MP.
Ain't no CD/file OR reissue gonna replace a nice minty original. Gimme a stitchy original original over a CD any day.
Sealed original? open your wallet, if indeed it's a REAL period press.
Cheers
Welly
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
TCE-from Moving Pictures The Camera Eye. Sometimes I get lazy and assume Rush heads will interpret the abbreviation. Very cool intro and it demands you have a VERY clean copy which will sound awful on a less than capable system.
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