![]() It’s also surprisingly airy, open, and spacious - not quite what you’d expect from a bluesy British rock album like this, right? Not too many Faces records sound like this, we can tell you that.īut the engineers here managed to pull it off. Most copies tend to be dull, veiled, thick and congested, but the trick with the better pressings is being able to separate out the various parts with ease and hear right INTO the music. Old records have it - not often, and certainly not always - but maybe one out of a hundred new records do, and those are some pretty long odds. If you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. It’s what vintage all analog recordings are known for - this sound. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to “see” the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn’t showing signs of coming back. This vintage Mercury pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records rarely even BEGIN to reproduce. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does. No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now. Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space.Natural tonality in the midrange - with all the instruments having the correct timbre.Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low.Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1972 The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing.The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space.What the Best Sides of Never A Dull Moment Have to Offer Is Not Hard to Hear Rod Stewart did what few artists have ever managed to do: release his two best albums back to back.Īnd this Hot Stamper, not to overstate the obvious, is clearly the way to hear it. Practically every song here is a classic, with not a dog in the bunch. Who has a better drum sound than Rod Stewart on his two best albums?Īlong with Every Picture Tells A Story this is one of the two Must Own Rod Stewart albums. The bass is deep and well-defined, and the sound of the drums is awesome in every way. ![]() ![]() The meaty guitar in the left channel sounds mind-blowingly good. Listen to the percussion on Angel - you can really hear all the transients and the sound of the drum skins. 5 stars in AMG, and simply “… a masterful record … He never got quite this good ever again.”.Marks in the vinyl are sometimes the nature of the beast with these Classic Rock records – there simply is no way around them if the superior sound of vintage analog is important to you.The music comes alive on this vintage domestic pressing (the only ones that have the potential for Hot Stampers in our experience), assuming you have your volume up good and loud.Extremely well-recorded, full of great songs – Rod Stewart was on top of the world when he followed up the brilliant Every Picture Tells A Story with this album in 1972.You’ll find excellent Double Plus (A++) sound on both sides of this early Mercury pressing of Stewart’s fourth solo album. ![]()
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