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i bought 'Sheik Yerbouti' and 'We're Only In It For The Money' by Frank Zappa some months ago now (more than a year actually i think), in a beautiful edition which was very cute, a replica of the vinyl edition in mini size! (the CD looks like a mini vinyl, and it is in a little... thing, like the ones they use in CD wallets)... ...but it seems like it was a bad idea to get them in this edition... 'We're Only In It For The Money' has a poor lo-fi sound quality, this of course i noticed at first listen (i had downloaded some mp3s before and the mp3s were better sound quality than the CD!)... and 'Sheik Yerbouti' has clicks in some tracks, but this i only noticed after some time (some weeks or months)! now it bothers me more and i hear it in more and more tracks, i don't know if i just didn't notice them before or if the CD is damaging itself due to time?! °_° (probably i didn't hear them before... like on the track off 26 Mixes for Cash, i didn't notice them before someone pointed it out... anyway this sucks. oh well, they're great albums nevertheless.) well, there isn't anything to do i guess, but just wanted to tell, don't be fooled by the good looking appearance of these CDs... (and if you have other CDs with a bad quality, post it here if you want to warn other people... : )) |
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(also 'Rid Of Me' by PJ Harvey has a very low volume, i listen at volume 6 or 7 while actually i listen at volume 4 - but that's not really a problem, you just have to pump up the volume... and the album is wonderful.) |
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you could try opening a track in a soundeditor - if the wave has strange almost straight vertical lines in it, those are pops and clicks. they shouldn't be there. then you can check if it's your equipment or the cd. on Rid of Me - yeh, it is quite low in volume. I made a copy for a friend of mine, who then put it on, starting with the song "rid of me" - she cranked up the volume because she thought it had been recorded too soft. then the chorus came.. DON'T YOU DON'T YOU WISH YOU NEVER NEVER MET HER |
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i don't have any sound editor, but i tried on my two portable cd players (and on my computer if i remember) and it always does that... (and the CD isn't crached) |
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(erm, i meant scratched) |
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these were rykodisc releases? |
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Rid Of Me = Fan tab tis tick |
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yes. |
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there were japanese import releases, with obi-strips... (not more expensive than the others though) i have two rykodisc regular jewel case releases and they're fine (one has problems playing with one of my cd players but that must come from the player) |
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sent a link to this thread to a friend of mine who is a huge Zappa fan. maybe he has an idea. |
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here i am! of the mini-vinyl-cd release i only have one size fits all. which is fine... so i can only guess. of we're only in i for the money there are roughly two very different versions. one with rerecorded drums and bass. so maybe that accounts for the difference. as for sheik yerbouti... the album HAS ticks and clicks. it's from ed mann's syndrums. they're not very loud, but very annoying especially if you listen with headphones. well, maybe your cd's are just fuxorred... ;/ |
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ah, thanks!! =) i am listening with headphones, always, actually. i know there are several versions of We're Only In It For The Money... some tracks were accelerated in some editions, also the early pressings were "censored" on Harry You're A Beast and Mother People... or so i've heard my copy has the slower versions - and the censored versions too! (but i'm not bothered by the censorship for this case, it's not like there were bleeps or silent vocal gaps =)) |
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okay, then that's NOT the overdubbed version. it has a more raw sound... the overdubbed version is more...ehm...smooth. |
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the trick in 'rid of me' is that much more dynamics than most rock records, which is nice. |
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yeah don't you just hate that when the cd is the problem, and not even the music... I bought One Word Extinguisher by Prefuse 73 over in the netherlands, and it was scratched when I bought it... and because of the circumstances I couldn't get to the store to return it... the music is fantastic but my cd would just go haywire while it played and it bugged me... so dammit, I dished out the money and bought it again... but this time here in Canada, where they keep the damn cd's in the plastic! |
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Simple solution is to just MP3 it and rename it as an Oval remix.... |
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..hey! ..satire..? |
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apparantly cd's pressed over in america are infinitely superior to cd's pressed over here |
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heh....I've been drifting off to sleep recently with the aid of Raster Noton, but ALWAYS wake up at this one track that sounds like a 1950s trans-atlantic phone call made by ants on Ketamine... I so need to redo that CD so I can get a decent nights rest...:)l.. |
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Why would that be?... |
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uh oh.. no double r! |
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ah! but the rule is, no double r in titles! |
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bah!! |
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he actually thought it thrrough. |
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just a rumor I heard |
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spokes is bad quality, it feckin clips |
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ARE YOU AFRAID OF A BIT OF CLIPPING, BIG GIRL'S BLOUSE!?? "BOOHOO!! BOOHOO!! MY CD IS CLIPPING!! WHERE'S MY SPECIAL PINK COMFORT-DRESS WITH THAT NICE GARFIELD EMBROIDERD ON IT??" |
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