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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		CD Album U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)	I have seen the comedy "It Might Get Loud" - it had me in stitches. In particular the part where the hapless Egg tries to play the guitar with his feet had me roaring with laughter. While he pounded and stomped away for ages on his specially built guitar-playing pedals trying to get a decent sound Jimmy Page and Jack White - using the more traditional handheld method of guitar playing - were knocking out one killer riff after another. Although Davis Guggenheim was trying to make a documentary the juxtaposition between the two methods of playing inadvertently turned the film into side splitting comedy.
Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		CD Album Lou Reed - Transformer (2004)	This one is from the golden era of producer Ken Scott. Now that I think of it the whole of the 70's was the golden era of Ken Scott. He's still the benchmark in producing drum sound, clarity and fine detail in recorded work. A genius of sound production.
Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		CD Album U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)	@Apollo59 You're too kind with your assessment of this mob of ne'erdowells. I find it hard to believe they even managed a half decent album and refuse to have anything they've done in the house. The guitar playing (I'm using the term loosely) and effects make the hairs on my neck stand up for all the wrong reasons. Horrendous but millions love them and I can't work out why. Hype works very well sometimes. Now I'm starting to think about Oasis...
Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		CD Album U2 - Pop (1997)	Message unscrambled and understood. I still don't like bleeps though.
Lee Wrecker 10th Aug 2017		CD Album U2 - Pop (1997)	I hate f#@king bleeps. This reminds of the Australian version of Magazine's "Secondhand Daylight" where Virgin Australia thought it necessary to put a loud bleep over the word "f#@k" in last song "Permafrost" which not only ruined the song but in my opinion the whole album. Forced me to track down a UK edition. What was the impact here Apollo%( ? Number censored due to legal advice.
Lee Wrecker 10th Aug 2017		CD Album The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)	Once again the closer you look the more differences you can see. The linked disc has the UK and EU cat#s (smaller under the UK cat#) and even though it comes out of EMI's Swindon plant is on different glass and states Made in the EU on the disc. So I was a bit hasty saying these are the same disc but regardless the point has been made. I'll edit my comment below so that it more accurate..
Lee Wrecker 10th Aug 2017		CD Album The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)	Hi Greg, this UK issue and my linked EU version below are a classic example of why the country option is important in CD world. The two CDs were made in the UK and have the same primary cat# on the CD. The packaging however, contains different cat#s and a different bar code for specifically different markets. Is everything really international? I don't think so. Mark this as exhibit A.
Lee Wrecker 7th Aug 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Masterpieces (1991)	I hope it fades away quickly Leonard it would make things so much easier all round. I'm with you in that this should remain an Australian release because that is the only place it was made. Surely that's enough. Oh, Phil welcome home and back to 45Worlds. I hope you had a good time away.
Lee Wrecker 6th Aug 2017		CD Album Bob Dylan - Masterpieces (1991)	PhilMH we need your help where are you??? Leonard, if these were exported, obviously they were, it depends on how they were sold whether they're international or not. Sold as imports then they stay Australian. Sold as a regular release then they are international but this is much harder to prove. I'm sure you know all this already but it does expose the intricacies your problem. We Australians are lucky on the site to have PhilMH who is very good at tracking down actual release dates, chart positions, contemporary advertising and the like that prove a CD was released here as a regular release. Unfortunately, you are now in that position now and need to prove that this was released as regular release in the Netherlands or Europe in order to change this to international. This where the international category becomes a very difficult customer and tracking down evidence can be hard not to mention very time consuming. All I know about this one is that it was released three times with the same details but different covers. Whether Sony shipped them to other markets and sold them as local stock I don't know. I'm off to work now but I'll have a think about it and see if I can come up with anything that may be able to help you out. Oh, the only other thing I know is that this was always sold as a discount CD in Australia at about 2/3 regular price.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (1996)	Looks like it as both my other releases (USA versions) from this 1996 set of Spirit releases The Family That Plays Together and Clear both have the Ode / Epic / Legacy labels listed on the spine.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Spirit - Clear (2013)	The title here should be "Clear" not "Clear Spirit" as it is listed here. Spirit is the name of the band and is not part of the album title. I'll link this to my USA and the two other European releases on the site. By the way all the European (and UK) releases have the same erroneous title and the discussion on the correct was settled last year on this release. So all of those listed as "Clear Spirit" need the titles changed to "Clear". I'll send a correction. This edition is the 45Worlds primary release, I think. I've managed to link all four copies on the site to this edition.It is odd that this album's 1996 EU and USA releases are both on the Ode label and some others from the same series of Spirit releases are on Epic. Confounding?
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (1996)	That is a little odd as it does not appear on the corresponding USA release linked below. I would have imagined the Ode logo would appear on both given the global nature of the industry these days.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album The Who - Greatest Hits Live (2010)	I Can't See For Miles (2-01) - neither can I these days but surely this is a typo!
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Santana - Woodstock `94	Most certainly is and it's traditionally eaten with a Skyhook and Lizard's Gizzards.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)	This one has always intrigued me Magic. I heard it somewhere and liked and heard somewhere else and didn't. That's way it is sometimes places, time, people and the mood you're in all make a difference. So I've looked and baulked at this one several times and your review has consolidated my ambivalence. I'm sure that's not what you intended but I'll probably sit on the fence forever on this one. Unless of course someone gifts me a copy.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Santana - Woodstock `94	Apollo59 is on the money with his xmas cracker jibe. No scans yet just imagine this, a cartoon image of; Two Turtle Doves and a headstock that's pear green. Let's see who can best describe the tacky artwork before an image is posted.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Sex Pistols - Anarchy Live At The 76 Club (2005)	Ed Kuepper is currently touring with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (not near me unfortunately) but it does demonstrate his stature as a musician and back up your comment Apollo59. Incidentally, I grew up in the same neck of the woods as the Saints and went to school with many of their younger brothers and sisters (even went out with some of them) but when we were kids we thought they were crap. Always making an unearthly racket when we were playing in the back garden. Bob Farrell (later sax player for the Laughing Clowns was the worst) but by the time we wised up in our later teens they were all long gone. They did manage to leave us a good blueprint of the DIY method of how promote and make music. Brisbane was the perfect culturally void shithole town in a police state for artists to develop in relative isolation. So it was until the corrupt government was exposed and the advent of the internet stuffed everything up. Now it is the same as everywhere else and less interesting than when supposedly nothing was happening at all. This is still my favourite Saints single (EP) two great covers and two great originals.
Lee Wrecker 5th Aug 2017		CD Album Sex Pistols - Anarchy Live At The 76 Club (2005)	Recorded at 76 Club eh? It's kind of odd as in Brisbane we had a venue called Club 76 in Petrie Terrace where the Saints cut their teeth before heading to the UK to get pissed off and break up. Thankfully, they still managed to knock out two great albums Eternally Yours and Pre-Hiistoric Sounds in the process before Ed Kuepper left and Bailey took the (New) Saints for long journey down Rock Ballad Road until their eventual demise. 76 Club - Club 76 some sort of global punk zeitgeist?
Lee Wrecker 3rd Aug 2017		CD Album Johnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other Side (1999)	This is one of my favourite albums Leonard. It was never released here in Australia and my copy is an mp3 digital download which is my least favourite medium but the album overcomes the shortcomings of the format. I love the loose arrangements, bum notes, energetic songs but most of all I think it's the sad arsed stories in the songs that keep me coming back to this one. It's gritty but beautiful at the same time. This is also my favourite Johnny Dowd outing as he can be patchy even across an album but this one solid from start to finish
Lee Wrecker 3rd Aug 2017		CD Album Smokestack Lightnin' - Off The Wall (2008)	I can see why Steve. Check it out! Anyone who thinks they've heard the best version of this classic Howlin' Wolf song and hasn't heard this may need to rewrite their list. This is fabulous! [YouTube Video]
Lee Wrecker 3rd Aug 2017		CD Album Smokestack Lightnin' - Off The Wall (2008)	Listed with a cat# 89112 (which is on the spine of this copy) as an unofficial release here. The cat# No. 29112 (not NO. 29112) appears on the CD and inlay though so it may need to have two cat#s entered and the capital O changed to a lower case o. Other than that I think we could safely raise the pirate flag on this one.
Lee Wrecker 3rd Aug 2017		CD Album The Bob Seger System - Noah	Could be a pirate it looks very suspicious to me, me hearty.
Lee Wrecker 3rd Aug 2017		CD Album The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (1997)	You can also do edit (brightness, saturation, tint etc.) in Microsoft photos if you don't have photoshop and if you have a Mac you should be alright anyway. Pastels, oranges, pinks and reds sometimes don't scan well at all and can be a little fiddly to get looking like the genuine article. It's just one area where photos are better than scanning I suppose.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Aug 2017		CD Album Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome (2016)	Apollo59 I did say "A great album if you love the Stones so much hearing them run through some blues standards is enough to get you off." This has been consigned to the cheap bins in Australia and is currently for sale nearly everywhere for $9.99 that's 6 Quid or $8 USA and is now the cheapest "Stones" album you can buy new in the country. I know that doesn't reflect the value of the music on the CD but more likely reflects record company over production. You yourself said "They (the Stones) always hold pre-production jam sessions before proper recording, where they knock around a few ideas and run through old stuff like this just to warm up." And sure if you (or I) saw the Stones do this as a warm up set in a little club it would be a dream come true but as an album it 's not so hot - to me anyway. It wasn't me that started the comparison to the first album. That idea was bandied about in the initial PR or mainstream reviews and I just used it as it was contemporary talk at the time of release. Anyway Apollo59 you should know by now I have a love - hate relationship with the Stones. When I was 10 the first band I ever saw was the Stones back in the early 70's and it completely blew me away. As a result I became an avid collector in my teens and early twenties up to the Dirty Work (not many of that one on here) and Undercover period where I lost the faith. Too a large degree that's where I still sit on subsequent material. So anything I say is tinged with my bias in these areas and a bit of "Aussie" tall poppy syndrome mentality I suppose. Nice to know this one hits the spot for some fans though.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Aug 2017		CD Album The Kinks - The Road (1988)	So is his brother Dave, Steve! Have you read Kink? I'd recommend it if you haven't. Ray may well be a genius but I rank him up with Pete Townshend in terms of continually reinventing the truth when it comes to his own story or that of the band.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Aug 2017		CD Album The Kinks - The Road (1988)	Only managed to get to 110 on the Billboard charts and didn't attract any favourable reviews. Of course that doesn't mean much it could still be alright. How do you rate it overall Beggars Road?
Lee Wrecker 1st Aug 2017		CD Album John Farnham - Chain Reaction (1990)	It certainly didn't make it to East Timor or West Papua! The album was #1 on debut here in Australia and was also the best selling album of 1990. It got to #8 in New Zealand, #35 in Sweden and #88 in the Netherlands. So I'm guessing you picked this up in Holland after reading your bio. Am I right?

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