Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Bohnjaggs said:
I mean, to each their own. This is a much more essential pick for my collection than some of the other Essential picks so your milage may vary.
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AudioAce said:
AM was a great album and the pressings super good! Arctic Monkeys are an important band for that time.

Phoenix had 2 good singles and an all right album. For that time the album wasn't important in my opinion. This plus selling the album earlier this year was just not a good move. Seems like they were offloading stock of something they already had before getting this version out.

VMP doing a pressing of Merriweather would of been something "essential" for any collection.
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I respectfully disagree. It was absolutely an important album for the time and the "2 good singles" aren't even the best tracks on the album. For me, especially when it comes to the "alternative" genre, it was exciting to see something like this reach #1 (over the likes of Linkin Park, Muse & Shindown at the time). It was also the one time I felt the Grammy's got it right giving it Alternative album of the year.

However, I agree with you about Merriweather. Both are essential albums imo.
 
I might be in the minority, but I really like the pick, and Phoenix in general.

I've been lucky enough to have seen them 7 times (including the rain/hail show at Red Rocks mentioned earlier in the thread).

Their live show is a really fun, and awe-inspiring experience...excellent sound and visuals, professional, smooth and seamless song transitions. well-timed audience banter...and watching how passionate the drummer gets is worth the ticket.

They did an Austin City Limits taping years ago and in the post-episode interview, they said something to the effect of "You know, we aren't great musicians, we don't have complicated individual parts, but when we bring them together they create something special."

I always thought that was great description of a "band".
 
siremobunny said:
•Remastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound
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zombie.modernist said:
Honestly I was shocked this whole album was cut to tape. I was figuring there was a DAW involved at some point. Perhaps the final "analog" master is a bump to tape from the DAW, which a lot of artists due to add some tape distortion to the final digital master. This makes me wonder if the OG Euro LP which was cut at the Exchange where the CD master was made was also from this analog tape, or if it's just the CD master cut to wax.

I'll be keeping this as I would take an RKS cut over an WG/NRP cut any day of the week, and the "analog" is a bonus. The mirror board cover looks pretty stupid IMO, but messing with the art has become their MO.
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TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Im also incredibly suspicious of the true nature of this "analog tape"
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wmeugene said:
After all of the prior forum discussions/questions about AAA and people saying they’d pay more for AAA, don’t be surprised if VMP starts claiming Analog in the chain of everything.
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I too came here to express my surprise at the presence of analogue tapes for this album.
 
moohoohahaha said:
I might be in the minority, but I really like the pick, and Phoenix in general.

I've been lucky enough to have seen them 7 times (including the rain/hail show at Red Rocks mentioned earlier in the thread).

Their live show is a really fun, and awe-inspiring experience...excellent sound and visuals, professional, smooth and seamless song transitions. well-timed audience banter...and watching how passionate the drummer gets is worth the ticket.

They did an Austin City Limits taping years ago and in the post-episode interview, they said something to the effect of "You know, we aren't great musicians, we don't have complicated individual parts, but when we bring them together they create something special."

I always thought that was great description of a "band".
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I've seen them 3 times and every time they blew me away. The first time I saw them for a split second I thought Thomas Mars was lip-synching because he sounded so good live.

One of my biggest regrets was not going to their MSG show in 2010 when Daft Punk came out for the encore. I had a chance to go and have been kicking myself ever since.
 
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