[Elizabeth]

Please avoid buying ANy used Jazz LPs I am looking for. 
Once I have  them... you can buy a copy too...   
 (8^Q...

I still have big holes in my jazz LP, and CD collections...
With only 2,000 Jazz LPs and 800 Jazz CDs I am desparate to fill in the gaps...   
So back off...... 

Added: as for reissues... any is fine as long as it is used, in good condition, and cheap enough... Jazz is tough enough to even aquire some titles used, let alone worry about which pressing...

[Mitsuman]

Please avoid buying ANy used Jazz LPs I am looking for. 
Once I have  them... you can buy a copy too...   
 (8^Q...

I still have big holes in my jazz LP, and CD collections...
With only 2,000 Jazz LPs and 800 Jazz CDs I am desparate to fill in the gaps...   
So back off...... 

Added: as for reissues... any is fine as long as it is used, in good condition, and cheap enough... Jazz is tough enough to even aquire some titles used, let alone worry about which pressing...

Good lord woman, that's "all" you have? 

 

[TONEPUB]

Watch out for all the blue note stuff marked "Scorpio distribution"  Not very good quality.

[Wayner]

Friday Music at your own peril.  Consistently the worst remaster label out there.
All of that Yes stuff can be found in the used bins for $5 each and if you dig carefully for low
number stampers will far exceed the Friday stuff. Especially Tales.  You can probably find a great
copy of that for $2.

The America stuff is dreadful as well.  Millions of these were pressed and again if you live in
any major market, you should be able to find clean early stamper examples for a very reasonable
amount.

Well, I have originals of both and to crucify Friday Music is unjustified. I don't know what your problem is, but lots of their stuff is pretty good. You have to remember that lots of Friday Music was originally recorded in the '70s, so try and give them a break. You can't make silk purses out of sowes ears.

Wayner

[MarkM]

I have not had good luck with the Friday Music reissues either.  My experience has been the Friday reissue albums I have bought are wretchedly bad compared to the other labels recommended.

[Elizabeth]

Good lord woman, that's "all" you have? 

 

YES. and they are all highly rated Jazz stuff too. All the lesser stuff i tossed this last time I weeded my records last month.
My collection is self-limited to 6,000 total Lps*. (what fits into the shelving I now own) So since I buy tons of used Lps all the time... i have to cull the lesser stuff out.
(I have about 2,000 Classical, 2,000 Rock, and 2,000 Jazz LPs.)

So the Classical, I am pretty much just not buying any.
The Rock i went through a big buying phase a  few years ago, and the Jazz is 'IT' now.
I even just swapped the Jazz and Rock areas around, as the Former Rock area has a little more space available. So I could actually expand the Jazz now. (and since I did such a good job tossing junk out, I could squeeze the Rock into the slightly smaller area the Jazz was in.)

So with room to grow it, I am on a Jazz kick.

I am lucky with decent used Lp places around the metro area I live in.

* I used to have 12,000 plus Lps. Then I had to make a sort of emergency move. (the building got comdemned, Everyone had to move out. Not my apt, that was fine. just the city got annoyed with the owner for code violations... The owner was genuinely an idiot about it all. And having to move turned out to be a blessing, as where I now reside, is much nicer than the place I was in.) So that pre-move experience was when I vowed to never collect mountains of LPs stored in the closets etc... Again. I MOVED them all myself too. I used over a hundred McDonalds Frozen french fry boxes for the Lps..
So I was self-forced toweed it all down to half the number. Actually down to what I had better quality shelving already for: 6,000 Lps or so.  Mostly the gigantic Classical collection I had got devastated. So it is just pretty much stagnant now. As it is really hard for me to toss any more Classical, and the shelves for it are jammed tight.

[ptmconsulting]

Picked up the Friday's reissue of Robin Trower's Bridge Of Sighs and it is amazing. Same for their reissue of Tea For the Tiillerman.

[decal]

The Rhino Records reissue of Deep Purple "Machine Head" is more atrocious than the original recording.

[E4T]

+2 (or 3?) on the Costello, MoFi...amazing.  If you have any interest in the Pixies, the first three (also on MoFi) are fabulous, Doolittle and Bossanova for sure.  Bossanova, especially, has never sounded better.  I agree with Grace - Jeff Buckley, as well....very well done.  Rumors - FM, check...amazing in 45, cannot speak for the 33 RPM.  The Dream Syndicate -The Days of Wine and Roses.  XTC - Skylarking (Ape) is phenomenal.  Nirvana - Unplugged and In Utero.  Mostly "rock" but that's my input.

[midfi]

my reissue of Velvet Undergrounds White light/White heat is no where near as good as the original.  The only reason I bought a reissue is because I have jacked up the B-side (don't ask!) many moons ago.  The original sounds much better, the reissue has that "Cart out of alignment" sound, hard to describe but I don't like it!

[Scottdazzle]

Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy" is great in the 4 Men with Beards reissue.  The Columbia original (produced by Daniel Lanois) was good, but the reissue has a more liquid and dynamic presentation. Four big stars!

[TONEPUB]

Well, I have originals of both and to crucify Friday Music is unjustified. I don't know what your problem is, but lots of their stuff is pretty good. You have to remember that lots of Friday Music was originally recorded in the '70s, so try and give them a break. You can't make silk purses out of sowes ears.

Wayner

Im not crucifying Friday Music.  We compare all the remasters we review to the best original pressings and average off the shelf pressings available.  The 70's was the golden age of recording, and many average pressings of your favorite rock recordings sound pretty good.

Their product is consistently off the mark.  That Trower disc is one of the few good ones they've done.

MoFi, ORG, Pure Pleasure and others have done fantastic jobs on many of these records.  What you consider "originals" is probably not what I would consider original.  If you don't have low stamper number original pressings from the country that the record was originally produced, then you don't have "originals."  Better yet, if you can find white label promo records with as low stamper numbers as possible, then you truly have the closest thing to the original tape and lacquers that were used.

If you want to consistently spend $30 bucks on something that sounds worse than what you can buy in a budget bin for $5, be my guest.  However after having heard a lot of their catalog, most of it is inferior in every way not only to the original pressings, but to common pressings.

A lot depends on the studio doing the remastering, the engineer and whether they actually had access to the original master tape, which judging by what Friday turns out is doubtful.

And, FYI, Friday Music did not remaster Tea for the Tillerman.  That was Acoustic Sounds, and compared to the original British Pink Island pressing, they did a fantastic job.

[Russtafarian]

Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy" is great in the 4 Men with Beards reissue. 

Thank you, thank you Scott for mentioning this.  One of my favorite albums and don't have it on vinyl.  The original CD sounded really good.  I stupidly "upgraded" to the SACD when it came out, and it sucks in comparison.  Just ordered the record.

Russ

[Scottdazzle]

Thank you, thank you Scott for mentioning this.  One of my favorite albums and don't have it on vinyl.  The original CD sounded really good.  I stupidly "upgraded" to the SACD when it came out, and it sucks in comparison.  Just ordered the record.

Russ

Russ, you're in for a treat. I agree that this is one of Dylan's very best and it is given justice in this reissue.
 

[vinyl_guy]

Does anyone have any experience with the Music on Vinyl label from the Netherlands? They do 180g reissues as well as some original pressings.

Thanks

[kbuzz3]

I picked up a vinyl remaster of tom petty's first album at J&R last week.  Freakin fantastic.  I have to check the label, but i believe its a german pressing. The white vinyl is cool also. 

Really, i head this one 1000s of times in various formats and love the new one. HIghly recommended.

[roscoeiii]

Potentially good news midfi.

Sundazed is reissuing the Velvets. A box set I believe. Here is hoping that they press at QRP as they have started doing for some but not all of their recent releases. I posted a plea for QRP for these VU releases on their Facebook page. Crossing my fingers for a great pressing.

[Miney]

Does anyone have any experience with the Music on Vinyl label from the Netherlands? They do 180g reissues as well as some original pressings.

Thanks

I like the Mac reissue just acquired...

[95Dyna]

Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray's AcousTech remaster of Pablo 2310-878, a 180g 45 RPM 2LP of Count Basie's Kansas City 3 with Ray Brown and Louis Bellson (Circa 1975) is one of the finest recordings I have ever enccountered.  They've done 2 or 3 others of Basie's small ensembles that I can't wait to get my hands on.

[Etnier]

This is my first post here. I've been replacing first-generation vinyl and adding new remasters over the past year. I'm surprised some reissues haven't been mentioned here. These would include -

• The new remasters of Jimi Hendrix' WB material
• The Classic Records Bernie Grundman Led Zepplin remasters- expensive but worth it
• Capitol Records' admirable remasterings of the first two Band LPs

Hope this helps