CD Albums - Reviews by mojofilter

CD Albums - Reviews by mojofilter

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mojofilter 14th Sep 2022		CD Album Chester [Canada] - Make My Life A Little Bit Brighter (2006)	Review As a reviewer on Amazon notes, the recordings on the CD sound different than we remember them. The prominent Hammond B3 with Leslie on the record of "Make My Life A Little Bit Brighter" has been mixed down so far it's like an incidental texture. Can't fault the sound on any of the tracks, though, they sound really nice. However, you come away with the feeling that yes, they did tamper unnecessarily with history. Jim Mancel's "Let The Phone Ring" is worth the price of admission. It's a wonderful side of blue-eyed soul, arranged by and featuring the Fender Rhodes of "Dr. Music," Doug Riley, as does its B-side. My overall impression is that Chester was a group with three main songwriters, who each used the band as session players on their own songs. There isn't much in the way of cohesive or identifiable "group sound." With all the blank space in the package, it would have been nice if they'd given us the story of Chester as liner notes (like, who plays what?), and some more personnel and credits for the last seven tracks. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
mojofilter 17th Nov 2016		CD Album Jackie Shane - All The Singles Plus The Concert	Review This CD contains a needledrop of the LP "Jackie Shane Live At The Sapphire Tavern" plus needledrops of 10 singles. It's an amateur job, done by some hack on his home computer, with way too much brute force declicking and noise reduction. I have it on "Rock And Roll Records" JSLS 05021 - the same tracks in the same order. The home computer guy burned his copies in Track-At-Once mode, so all the live tracks have two seconds' gap between them. They had the unmitigated gall to charge $45 for it, then I couldn't get a refund because I opened it. Rating: absolute garbage. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
mojofilter 17th Nov 2016		CD Album The Beatles - Ultra Rare Trax 2010, Vol. 1-3 (2010)	Review It's hard to know what they were thinking. Idol Mind claimed to have the tapes from which the original, groundbreaking "Ultra Rare Trax" set on The Swingin' Pig was made. They released them in this fashion in 2010, also claiming to have "remastered" them. If you look at the waveforms, their idea of "remastering" was heavy digital compression and limiting, which had to be undone for this issue. They padded out the contents to three discs by repeating several tracks throughout the set. If you have the original Ultra Rare Trax discs, their issues with playback speed and azimuth miscalibration notwithstanding, they sound a lot better than what Idol Mind released in 2010. In 1988, you couldn't mess up audio with digital jiggery-pokery yet, and some people just don't know how to leave a good thing alone. This Remasters Workshop issue succeeds by making the recordings sound less tampered-with, and by fixing the speed and phase issues. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
mojofilter 13th Nov 2016		CD Album Paul McCartney - Macca Mixes (2011)	Review I hope the original of this release was a hoax perpetrated by the Yellow Cat label on unsuspecting collectors. All it does is show what happens when you add hip-hop and club mix elements to songs that were never designed to accommodate them. It would be a challenge for any McCartney fan to listen to any track on this CD all the way through. I couldn't do it. Rating: No stars. A waste of bits. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?