Steve Hoffman Best Pink Floyd Vinyl Releases
Prog rock giants serving up complex and immaculately produced albums full of lengthy songs.
Steve hoffman best pink floyd vinyl releases. If you re going to just own one this is the one. I thought my stylus was dead until input on a properly mastered album by steven wilson which sounded sublime on my technics sl 1700 mk2. He obviously never heard a steely dan or pink floyd album from the 70 s. Per the pinkfloydarchives discography the first cd release of the wall in the us was on the harvest records label in 1985.
The german recording is also very good as is the 180 gram remaster in 2016. Fast forward to modern times and i am looking for the best mastering for a cd release of the wall. Following the original release of a momentary lapse of reason and the subsequent tour pink floyd went on to record the division bell followed 20 years later with the ambient swansong album the. Rolling stones stripped double lp.
Steve hoffman in 2010 called 2u 2u the best master for this album and i have to agree. I want this to be the catch all thread for discussion on all pink floyd album cd masterings instead of just for one album. Check out the steve hoffman forum for mastering questions even without looking i m 99 99 sure that there s more. But this one is very clean complex and good depth.
Digital most likely 48 24 but adam ayant didn t want to say. Rolling stones rarities 1971 2005. Pink floyd is probably regarded as the archetypal band for audiophiles. Pink floyd dark side of the moon and the wall recent reissues both 96 24k the doors box set from a few years ago 192 24k digital.
And never more so than on wish you were here an album that features only five tracks but runs well over 40 minutes. The whole album is essentially a tribute to floyd s founding. In the court of the crimson king subtitled an observation by king crimson is the debut studio album by english rock band king crimson released on 10 october 1969 by island records the album is one of the first and most influential of the progressive rock genre where the band combined the blues influences that rock music was founded upon with elements of jazz classical and symphonic music. Digital most likely 48 24k.
I don t think the wikipedia release sequence you reference is exactly correct for us releases.