Re: [RE: (TV) MM Vinyl v. CD/"5 Miles of You"/Cameron Crowe's"Almost Famous"]

["J. GERMAINE" <jpg@sirius.com>]

I have a request. Can someone burn for me a cd with a copy of "Little Johnny Jewel
part 1 & 2 "? I would be very grateful. I once had the original on the Ork label
but that was many years back.
Please let me know

Michael wrote:

>     I can't believe I'm about to defend a CD. Well here it goes, have any of
> you actually listened to MM CD in headphones? It sounds incredible. More
> than Verlaine, Lloyd did lots of doubling of his guitar parts which is how
> MM gets it's chimey sound. What I didn't realize until I hear the CD of it
> was that the guitar parts are split from left to right which is more obvious
> on the CD version, the guitars are so clean. The bizarre thing is that the
> 2nd parts that Lloyd laid down keep going in and out so that there's
> doubling and then it's gone and just before you notice that the 2nd guitar
> is gone it's back again. The songs that stand out most in my mind are Venus,
> Prove It, and Elevation. For me, MM is a record that was made for CD. There
> are lots of those little guitar parts that somehow are not heard on the
> vinyl. If any of you have headphones check out those 3 tracks on LP and CD
> and see if you can hear what I'm talking about. It made the album that much
> more important to me. I never realized just how much thought went into the
> production end. Sure the Beatles did lots of those doublings for George
> Harrison's guitar parts(Ticket To Ride,Nowhere Man) but they were never as
> intricate as Lloyd's parts. So while I love the vinyl version of MM for all
> it's warmth, so do I love the CD version for it's clarity. Perhaps it was
> always there on the vinyl, but it was the CD that made me aware of it. M T C
>
> >
> > I know I can go on about vinyl vs. CD, so I'll make this quick.  Although
> > they're much better now than they were at the time they mastered MM at
> > sidestepping the flaws inherent in the CD medium, still, as Neil Young so
> > aptly put it, they "set the bar way too low" when developing the standards for
> > digital.  They're trying to correct that now, though naturally there are two
> > competing technologies (Sony's Super Audio CDs and Phillips' audio-quality
> > DVDs, each of which, I think, would require new players).  Hold out a few more
> > years until one of these formats wins out and then lobby hard for an
> > audiophile version of Marquee Moon.  It might even rival the sound of the
> > vinyl edition.
> >
> > - Jeff
> >
> >
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