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Listening to it right now. It's one hell of a disk. In typical Who style, they've given a push at the boundaries (of CD this time!). 91+ minutes of material! My guess is that SACDs will likely continue to hover around the 75 minute limit, simply so record companies can sell 2-SACD sets for twice the ... more |
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Tommy is a snapshot of the Who in transition from their loud Mod roots to the more sophisticated fare of Who's Next and Quadrophenia. It has both the bare-bones hard rock of the My Generation album and baroque touches like John Entwhistle's French horn, making this release both raw & refined at the ... more |
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Don’t get me wrong, Bartoli is a great singer and we enjoyed her Gluck and Vivaldi albums (Vivaldi now on DVD-A), but IMO in this one she’s gone completely mad with her vocal euphoria. Things about her singing that annoyed me a bit on her two previous discs are overblown here to maximum. To my ears ... more |
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I grew up with this record. As a teenager I was immersing myself in all existential crap and thought of Herman Hesse highly. Pink Floyd was my music equivalent of discovering individuality and being unique. I grew up, Hesse is a faint memory, but Pink Floyd’s music is still here with me and it’s ... more |
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Have nothing much more to add to Paul’s review, this is a beautifully recorded disk and the music is probably well known even to those who don’t listen to classical music on a daily basis. We have a surround setup, and IMO the back channels are a bit more discreet than they could be, but some people ... more |
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