From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #49 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Monday, March 1 1999 Volume 02 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- P'o Dissapointment ["Jeff Chenault" ] Swim: Live CD review [Craig Grannell ] Wir - The First Letter [Sergey Kazachenko ] Re: Wir - The First Letter [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Wir - The First Letter ["Moshe Imel" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:18:12 -0500 From: "Jeff Chenault" Subject: P'o Dissapointment Hello Fellow Wire Fans, To my surprise I found the Po CD from the WMO Label. I was happy as hell to find this at a local store. But my sudden enthusiasm was cut short when I started to listen to this. Here are my observations upon listening to this disc whilst comparing to my original vinyl copy...... First of all HISS. From the opening track their is a very loud hissing going on like somebody forgot to hit the Dolby button. My vinyl has none of this extraneous noise. Second, The mix of the entire album sounds to be in MONO. I kid you not. In my vinyl copy I have a very definite stereo image going on. "Back To Back" was really noticable. It sounds like to echo has been turned down also or even worse remixed. Third. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but the entire CD plays just a tad faster than my album copy. Where did they secure this Master from??? I thought CD's were supposed to sound better than vinyl. WRONG. My vinyl copy actually blows away this CD. If not for the bonus tracks I would probably ask for my money back on this. Altogether I was VERY dissapointed. I really respect the job WMO has done to bring this music to the real fans but this is really bad. Sorry if anyone has talked about this already but I had to voice my opinion on this. Boy, I hope the "DOME" CD in the works over at WMO is a lot better than this effort. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:50:19 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Grannell Subject: Swim: Live CD review A review of the new mail order only (S)pigel * ne(W)man * col(I)n * (M)alka: Live CD can now be found on the Wireviews site. http://www.snub.dircon.co.uk/wirehome.html - - == - ---------------------------- Craig Grannell-------------- www: SNUB.COMMUNICATIONS - http://www.snub.dircon.co.uk Wireviews - http://www.snub.dircon.co.uk/wirehome.html - ---------------------------- cngrannell@yahoo.com ------- "Creativity is the highest civilising faculty - Ben Okri" - --------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:33:00 -0500 From: Sergey Kazachenko Subject: Wir - The First Letter I just got a hold of that CD. What do you listmembers think of it? I myself find it very impressive. To me (and I have maybe 20% of everything Wire did or even less) it stands close to Manscape though I rate it better - maybe just for it being new to me. Some questions arise: 1) Did Wir release anything else? CDNow suggests only the "So and slow it grows" single. 2) Is the vocal line on "A big glue canal" inspired by Malka? It sounds pretty Middleeastern (or pretending to be MiddleEastern) 3) Who of the three was programming the drum machines? Sergey Kazachenko aka Syarzhuk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:54:26 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Wir - The First Letter On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Sergey Kazachenko wrote: > 1) Did Wir release anything else? CDNow suggests only > the "So and slow it grows" single. there's also a CD single called Vien, containing songs "The First Letter" and "Sexy And Rich". the latter is similar to one of the songs that appears on Coatings. i've probably listened to the thing twice, but it's not awful. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:13:41 -0500 From: "Moshe Imel" Subject: Re: Wir - The First Letter I loved The First Letter - far more enjoyable than many of Wire's works (in my eyes). - -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Mandel To: Children Of Groceries Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 12:04 AM Subject: Re: Wir - The First Letter >On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Sergey Kazachenko wrote: > >> 1) Did Wir release anything else? CDNow suggests only >> the "So and slow it grows" single. > >there's also a CD single called Vien, containing songs "The First Letter" >and "Sexy And Rich". the latter is similar to one of the songs that >appears on Coatings. i've probably listened to the thing twice, but it's >not awful. > >a > ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #49 ******************************