Editors 'Violence' (2018)
Working my way through the Editors back-catalogue and enjoying it thoroughly. This is a band who's style changed dramatically from an intense guitar-driven Joy Division / Echo & the Bunnymen tribute into an even-more-intense Synth-Rock sound. I have realised that in the past I have stopped following bands who make such shifts, only to come back later and realise what I had been missing. The same is true here; Editors have grown musically and are capable of all-out sonic attack AND a touching, gentle approach that moves and caresses.
'Violence' is an excellently-crafted album that displays both sides of this highly-talented band.
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We watched 'Love Actually' this evening, which has led me down a Joni Mitchell shaped alley.
Can anyone point out what her highest SQ recordings and 'best' albums are?
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Just finished watching Afterlife at the weekend which ended with this song, Both Sides Now.
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Huge Joni fan here;George Hincapie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:40 am
We watched 'Love Actually' this evening, which has led me down a Joni Mitchell shaped alley.
Can anyone point out what her highest SQ recordings and 'best' albums are?
For me the best albums are 'Hissing of Summer Lawns', 'Hejira', 'Miles of Aisles', 'Court and Spark' and 'Blue'.
If you want audio ecstasy then play the first side of 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' and wait for Jaco's bass to kick in ....
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Thanks Fretless. And where can I find the best versions of each of those please? Are there particular presssings or recordings which are of superior SQ?Fretless wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:40 amHuge Joni fan here;George Hincapie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:40 am
We watched 'Love Actually' this evening, which has led me down a Joni Mitchell shaped alley.
Can anyone point out what her highest SQ recordings and 'best' albums are?
For me the best albums are 'Hissing of Summer Lawns', 'Hejira', 'Miles of Aisles', 'Court and Spark' and 'Blue'.
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Pre-2000 CDs are rather dull-sounding.George Hincapie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:22 pm Thanks Fretless. And where can I find the best versions of each of those please? Are there particular presssings or recordings which are of superior SQ?
There is a remastered series of HDCD's from about 10-12 years ago that I have most of, those have a far superior sound quality to earlier CD editions.
Funnily enough, about half of the discs in the 2012 box-set 'The Studio Albums 1968-1979' are these HDCDs.
More recently, 2 new sets of freshly remastered Joni albums have been issued: 'The Reprise Albums 68-71' and 'The Asylum Albums 72-75' and these may well be the best versions up to now.
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