| Review by PaulHoncoop June 19, 2005 (2 of 7 found this review helpful)
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All of Rory Gallagher's best on a double mc sacd? at the first i can't believe it but it's true, and the best of it all is; jus't sound great!!
Rory Gallagher was one of the best blues guitarists. Try this double best of album and you will not be dissapointed. Cabrio, long road, sun on your head and this cd in your player; still got the blues...
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| Review by malewis June 27, 2005 (0 of 1 found this review helpful)
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I must have a different version to the others as this sounds worse than my MP3s - seriously!!
The vocals are narrow, the instrumentation is muddy and there is no integration or soundstage. It could just be me but I'd advise waiting for more reviews before you spend your hard earned
Cheers
Martin
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| Review by racerguy June 27, 2005
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Performance: Sonics (S): |
Some fun stuff!
If anyone was hoping that a DSD transfer would clean up old, distorted, awful recordings, they'll be sorely disappointed. What does come out is the intensity, the rawness, and the emotion.
Like most "Best of" releases it's pretty uneven, but that's rather the point, isn't it? I'm glad SonyBMG saw fit to put this out on SACD. It's a ripper!
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| Review by Merganser July 4, 2005 (0 of 1 found this review helpful)
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| The packaging is top notch. Other than that I'm very disappointed with this one, both the sonics and song selection leave much to be desired. My redbook copies sound better. If they wanted to show Rory at his best a SACD of Irish Tour '74 would have been a much better choice. Avoid this one, it's a dog.
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| Review by jimmyjames8 July 11, 2005 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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| Let's see, where to begin? The Very Best Of? I don't think so. The Only One Of Rory on SACD thus far? Yes. "He also appeared on two seminal blues recordings: Muddy Waters London Session and Albert King Live"? What about Rory on the "Killer's" (Jerry Lee Lewis for the very uninitiated) London Session? And the guy that wrote this is the Editor in Chief of Guitar Player magazine? Come on! The sound on SHADOW PLAY and BOURBON is terrible. The Buddha Remaster Cd's are better. I can't believe Donal signed off on this. But it's not all bad cuz it is after all Rory and it is after all SACD. Worth getting just for that. If you don't know Rory and you don't own Rory and you have an SACD player, you could do worse than buy this disc. My idea of a Rory best of would be studio versions of all the songs on LIVE IN EUROPE and IRISH TOUR '74 and then off course the those two live packages. IRISH TOUR has got to be one of the top 10 live rock-n-roll records of all time. That would be an SACD worth buying, but the remaster cd is damn good except for that infernal "bumping" sound every now and again. AGAINST THE GRAIN, TATTOO, CALLING CARD and BLUEPRINT are must have Rory records. I think you get one track from each on this SACD. Not enough to be called a best of. You have been warned. Good stuff anyway cuz it's Rory, the Ole Stringbuster!
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| Review by putmess January 20, 2007 (1 of 4 found this review helpful)
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This recording does not deserve the characteristic of a SACD. Disappointing, very bad quality. :-(
Sold that CD accordingly.
Hopefully Irish Tour will be in better quality, if ever released on a SACD.
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