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It's a good album. The cover reminds me of this, for some reason: (I think it's the light source)

Definately. I've only have their first album United, and it's very good - so I'd recommend that. Especially if you liked Too Young, which is on it.

He's singing - Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches I'm recruiting my army from the orphanages From Modern Times I really love the lines: I'm as pale as a ghost Holding a blossom on a stem You ever seen a ghost? No But you have heard of them Well, I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes I followed the winding stream I heard the deafening noise, I felt transient joys I know they're not what they seem And every single line from Thunder on The Mountain.

I don't think her voice sounds too much different myself, maybe slightly smoother around the edges, but I think the lush production makes her sound a bit more palateable - I don't know, it's hard to say really because I never found her voice too weird in the first place. They are bloody long songs though, aren't they!

Brilliant stuff! I didn't know Jim O'Rourke was mixing this. Only on track 1, but I'm very pleased so far (but I am one of the people that actually loved her first album, and her voice).

If they're talking about the 1999 remaster of the album by Don DeVito then they are mad. It's the best sounding Dylan album I've got on cd besides the last three, although to be fair I haven't got any of the newer remasters (although when I heard Blonde on Blonde I thought it sounded really seperated, in much the same way that Pet Sounds in Stereo sounds seperated or when they remastered Yellow Submarine - they brought up sounds in the mix just to show that the sounds were there rather than staying true to the original album). You've made me put on Street Legal again. Damn, Changing Of The G

Does it? I think it sounds great to me. What don't people like about it? Are we talking about the one that was remastered a few years before all the recent remasters?

If I were to ever refer to U2's iPod ad, I would be coming at it from the point of view that they never had anything to sell out in the first place because I personally view them as a fallacy, rightly or wrongly. I think Dylan has sold out, if you want to put it in those terms, he could have made another ad like this one for Love and Theft which uses the same medium, but is actually good.

It's about as cool as an iPod ad can be, which is not very. Or maybe they can be good, but I've yet to see one. As for the similarity to Bono. If Dylan was making music that I liked as little as Bono's then I'd probably be a bit more bothered. When you can say, "at least his album's good," it's a little easier to forgive (forgive not being the right word, but I can't think of another one at the moment).

Yeah, of course all those reporters and fans that Dylan rips the piss out of in Don't Look Back really feel a million bucks every time they see their clips. Obviously though, famous people shouldn't be shown in a negative light, ever. True, it's a boring clip, but lots of people think other clips are boring in the film which I don't, so I won't judge it based on that. The fact that they aren't on film together anywhere else makes it worthy of being shown, if for no other reason than that.

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I think I can wait till Tuesday now to hear a good copy, that bloody Oink Ratio thing is too much of pain to download the same thing twice anyway, but thanks for letting us know. By the way, is there a lot of clipping?

I stand corrected!

Definately a good one, and very obscure for the American market.

Merkin Quickshaw The Waxy Cuticles Maxwell CDR's Navel Fixation Tree Union The Jikeys The Young Dead They are off the top of my head, but it kind of depends on the type of music you make doesn't it.

I saw them in 2001, and at that point they'd only released the ep's and their first album. Perhaps they got better after that. They weren't bad, but I was expecting a lot more concidering it was just a small club venue, but they didn't seem to be too interested in things.

They generally remaster cds because the first time they put them onto cd they simply copied the vinyl masters onto the format rather than returning to the master tapes. It wouldn't matter what format they put them on, they'd still sound lacking, and therefore it's not a case that this was the best they could do, they simply were too lazy to do it properly. Vinyl and cd need to be mastered differently so you have to go back to the master tapes and mix & master them differently to produce the same (or similar) sounds to the human ear.

The Beta-Band weren't that good live either though. Saw them play at The Fridge in Brixton and it was pretty dull. Although I liked all their recorded stuff, I don't think they ever did anything to match the first three eps. I'd like to hear The Aliens new album though.

It's the reason why I think something like Summerteeth is produced badly compared to A Ghost Is Born. I say produced, because although the compression is all done in the mastering, if you produce a sound that sounds flat without compressing it in this manner then you have no choice. If you look at it, the whole of Love and Theft is clipped like this, as is the new album, so Dylan's doing it wrong too. Unfortuantely it's really hard to make digital music not sound flat without doing this, so again - this is why AGIB is so well produced.

I stole my parents Mono version of this long ago, so I have the only one I need. Actually this is the only Beach Boys Album up to the late 70's that I don't own on cd, so I could fork out for a copy and not feel gypped about having it already.

It's just a traditional song that he's added a whole bunch of new lyrics to. Beyond the first two lines it is original lyrically. A song such as Masters Of War is a traditional song, Nottamun Town, with different lyrics so is that a cover? It's not my favourite either, but it's not really filler, nor a cover version.

It's a great song. Am I the only one that likes Beyond The Horizon. though? I love the fact that it seems to start as though it had been playing for a few verses and then they had a key change.

Yeah, it's not so much that. I don't mind analogue hiss. It's more that .... well I don't know, I guess the instruments don't quite sound so full and punchy as they did on Love & Theft. I definately don't think the lead guitarist is anywhere near as good as Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell were on that album, maybe it's just that - they seemed to be able to mix playing the lead and the melody at the same time which gave the whole music a bit more purpose. This is me talking still only after listening to the new album a little bit, and as you said, from a poor mp3, so what I am saying will

Only really had a chance to listen to it through once, but it's pretty damn good so far. I don't think the playing is quite as strong as on Love & Theft nor the production, which is odd because Dylan produced them both. Maybe my mind will change on that, but all the same it's good stuff. Don't know how Froggie can't like Beyond The Horizon though, that's one of the ones I like a lot. Favs so far: Spirit On The Water Workingman's Blues #2 Beyond The Horizon Ain't Talkin'