![]() Is the vinyl "comeback" actually a regress? And to think i was going to become a record store owner myself!?! Thanks again Amazon for being so reasonable and taking back these post covid crappy produced records. Well, i will keep the faith and keep trying cause good ones do make it through but this time im sticking with my CD. I even feel sorry for Amazon and how many people in the world say this lol. I have to waste my time returning and returning. ![]() Even though that was doable 70 years ago. Now they want nigh £40 for a product made out of a small bit of pvc they cant be bothered to produce properly. When demand was low the pressing standards were WAY higher and the prices of records were also at least sane. This kind of shoddy work in vinyl production is why im sad that the medium has taken off again. Side 4 is - lets just say - not a good listen. Sure, as a result the records are unusually flat for heavyweights but the constant unpleasant noises from non fill offsets this massively. So the pressing plant has decided to go to the trouble of using more vinyl than necessary (this heavyweight fad really is a downside on every level) to create a good sounding record but then decided to release the press too soon and too quickly leaving the grooves not fully formed. What you can see is extensive patches of non fill on side 4. However my copy of Parklife looks - on careful and close inspection - like the one above. Yet its not a new thing to press a record well. One or two plants get it right 8 times out of 10 and some almost never do. A record CAN be silent and free of background noise (on proper decent and well setup equipment at least) and thats been the case since the 50s. On vinyl they ask four times as much as the CD and at this premium price the pressings need to be perfect or at least 99% as perfect as a record can be. If anyone can point me towards this version or at least the closest thing to it, I would be very appreciative.The Blur 2012 remasters are a good if not audiophile listen on CD and Vinyl. I do not know Blur at all and there are clearly way too many versions of this album to try and figure it out. It appears on a list of the 50 Greatest bootlegs of all time by Uncut Magazine 2019. Completists will also enjoy the second CD’s remixes and radio versions, while the final CD features triumphant live shows at Glasto and Leeds Town And Country Club. There’s also an early version of “One Born Every Minute”, which later appeared as the b-side to “Country House”. ![]() The only other song that’s markedly different is “Trouble In The Message Centre”, with much changed atmosphere and lyrics to the released version. Parklife is the most interesting, however, as the third CD contains 10 unreleased demos from the 1993 sessions, including an early take of “To The End” with Elastica’s Justine Frischmann –Damon Albarn’s then-partner – whispering in French on backing vocals. It’s part of a series, collating all existing and leaked material of all seven Blur studio albums. This extraordinary four-disc set rounds up everything Blur produced around the time of Parklife, including the original album, remixes, radio sessions, demos and live performances. Recorded 1993/4, London, Leeds and Glastonbury I have been looking for this version of Parklife for a few years.
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