The Tom Waits Thread

Turbo said:
How is it? Lots of mixed reviews on Cogs about pressings and the new mixes. Franks seems to be the one with the best comments so far.
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I like them all. Franks is the best out of the sleeve because it’s in a poly lined sleeve because it’s a gatefold. All the others were in printed sleeves and so have a fair amount of dust and static. Once cleaned they’re all pretty good. They are GZ though of of course there is a large probability of it being a mixed bag pressing wise.
 
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Joe Mac said:
I like them all. Franks is the best out of the sleeve because it’s in a poly lined sleeve because it’s a gatefold. All the others were in printed sleeves and so have a fair amount of dust and static. Once cleaned they’re all pretty good. They are GZ though of of course there is a large probability of it being a mixed bag pressing wise.
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Excellent! This is especially promising to me coming from you, because I know you weren't a fan of the previous remasters.
 
ranbalam said:
Wow, you've gotten all your shipping notices? I have zero on all five. King's Road says Oct 13th at the latest...
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It's pretty annoying waiting this long. I think I preordered mine about five minutes after they were announced, yet here I am waiting for them to be shipped. I could've just bought them at my local last week.
 
mrjoshuamccormack said:
It's pretty annoying waiting this long. I think I preordered mine about five minutes after they were announced, yet here I am waiting for them to be shipped. I could've just bought them at my local last week.
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This is why I try to always support my local. Also you can see if it's bent to shit from shipping before you purchase! :)
 
mrjoshuamccormack said:
It's pretty annoying waiting this long. I think I preordered mine about five minutes after they were announced, yet here I am waiting for them to be shipped. I could've just bought them at my local last week.
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I totally agree. I got all excited and jumped on purchasing all five from King's Road right away. The site says they'll ship by tomorrow but I don't have much faith in that at this point.
 
ranbalam said:
I totally agree. I got all excited and jumped on purchasing all five from King's Road right away. The site says they'll ship by tomorrow but I don't have much faith in that at this point.
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I am in the same boat here. Pretty frustrating.
 
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bettim84 said:
Bone Machine arrived today!
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I’m happy to report that my copy sounds great. It did come out quite dirty out of the sleeve and there were minor crackles on one of the quieter tracks but not enough to overpower the music (a proper cleaning would probably solve it). I’ve owned a bootleg of this record that was absolutely awful. This reissue made me fall in love with the album again.
 
bettim84 said:
I’m happy to report that my copy sounds great. It did come out quite dirty out of the sleeve and there were minor crackles on one of the quieter tracks but not enough to overpower the music (a proper cleaning would probably solve it). I’ve owned a bootleg of this record that was absolutely awful. This reissue made me fall in love with the album again.
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Yeah the 4 that came in printed sleeves were dirty and noisy for me uncleaned. After a cleaning and being put in anti static sleeves they were all silent.
 
ranbalam said:
Now that I received my represses of the five Island records, I can't decide if I should PIF my older Swordfish and Frank's LPs.
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I got rid of my first Frank's, but it wasn't in great shape tbh, so no huge loss, my reissue was very obviously an upgrade.
 
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