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  • Best Pressing Shootout *Revisited: The Velvet Underground and Nico, 1967 US Original vs. 1967 German Original vs. 2000 reissue

    Ever since shooting out the German original and my 2000 reissue, I have of course been curious to know how a real-deal 1967 US Original would stack up against the 1967 German pressing, which I very slightly preferred over the reissue. As usual, my friend Jared was happy to oblige with a copy — a…

    March 20, 2022
    Best Pressing Shootouts, Records
  • Best Pressing Shootout: Bob Dylan, Self Portrait — Canadian vs US vs Japanese first pressings vs Sundazed reissue

    What is this shit? My favourite album by one of my favourite singers! Yep, I said it. I know a lot of people hate Self Portrait, and have since the day it came out. BUT I LOVE IT! I know it’s weird to love a record of covers by one of the great songwriters of…

    February 15, 2022
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  • Best Pressing Shootouxt: Bob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy Ways — US vs EU vs Coloured

    I’ve been meaning to write up a bunch of Bob Dylan Best Pressing Shootouts… and here’s the first! Get ready for more in the next little while on Self Portrait, Blood on the Tracks, and “Love and Theft.” When Rough and Rowdy Ways first came out, I was in a bit of a Bobby lull…

    February 15, 2022
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  • Best Pressing Shootout: Sun Ra, Lanquidity — Original Silver vs. Strut 4LP “Definitive Edition”

    My friend Jared — the one who lends me all his fancy records and who has successfully turned me onto jazz — is obsessed with Sun Ra. He’s got a massive collection of his stuff. I totally understand the obsession. A lot of the Sun Ra music is amazing. As a vinyl collector, there’s lots…

    July 4, 2021
    Best Pressing Shootouts, Records
  • Best Pressing Shootout: Neil Young’s Ditch Trilogy (Time Fades Away, Tonight’s the Night, On the Beach) — US First Pressings vs. Neil Young Archives 180g Reissues

    I’m going through a pretty huge Neil Young phase at the moment. I mean, there’s so much to enjoy! I would have first heard his records from my parents’ vinyl copies (which I still have!): the self-titled debut, After the Goldrush, and Harvest are the ones I remember best. Then I had a second phase…

    June 27, 2021
    Best Pressing Shootouts, Records
  • Best Pressing Shootout: The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967 German First Pressing vs. 2000 Reissue)

    Well, this is an exciting one — quite plausibly the coolest record ever. It needs no introduction. And will receive none. The pressings My friend Jared kindly lent me his pristine, like legitimately Near Mint, 1967 German first pressing. The banana has been peeled, and Mr. Emerson does not appear on the rear cover —…

    May 2, 2021
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  • Best Pressing Shootout: Stanley Cowell, Regeneration (Original Strata East vs. Pure Pleasure Reissue)

    Last week, I had one of those moments I live for as a blogger. Listening to borrowed copies of Clifford Jordan’s Glass Bead Games, I spotted what seemed like evidence that the Pure Pleasure reissue was sourced from a needle-drop that had then been digitally manipulated to remove pops and clicks… hardly a very “analogue”…

    May 2, 2021
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  • Best Pressing Shootout: The Clifford Jordan Quartet, Glass Bead Games

    Boy, did I pick the right place to live! Last year, I was spending all my extra cash on multiple copies of the same record to feed my mania for comparing pressings. Then one day last year, early in the lockdown, I looked out my window to see a familiar car — a very distinctive…

    April 26, 2021
    Best Pressing Shootouts
  • Best Pressing Shootout: Azymuth, Águia Não Come Mosca — 1977 Original vs. 2019 Mr. Bongo Reissue

    There is a moment in a story by I. B. Singer — I can’t remember where exactly, and maybe there are several of them — where he says that at a certain point in his career, it wasn’t about writing stories anymore. Once he had attained a certain fame, once people saw the kinds of…

    April 3, 2021
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  • Best Pressing Shootout: Tago Mago Take Two: UK Original vs. Celluloid French Reissue vs. 2014 Remaster

    Since I moved from my headphone-based system to my loudspeaker system, I’ve been revisiting a bunch of my Best Pressing Shootouts. Well, I’ve become tired of all the red fonts I need to use for those — and in the case, I’m adding a totally new pressing into the mix. So rather that a “Revisited,”…

    April 3, 2021
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