Best British Music
The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In fact, much of the album was written in India."
"I wrote this review in order to assist the general consumer make an informative decision when purchasing a product that they can't touch prior***."
"It's the Beatles' White Album - what else is there to say?"
"It has Bungalow Bill, Back in the USSR, Rocky Racoon, and Blackbird plus a lot more."
"A 2 CD "mini-box" with a picture book, and a small version of a collage poster that may have been part of the original album all those years ago."
"Awesome tunes written/performed by 4 awesome talented me."
"Album cover was slightly warped, but other than that it was sure nice to hear these old songs again."
"I could go in depth about this album in my review, but don't need to: This mono issue has different versions of many tracks that cannot be heard anywhere else, including the Anthology series."
The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have multiple copies of this album going all the way back to 1968."
"I do think that the fidelity is lacking, despite the fact. that this is a "remastered and enhanced" version."
"All I can really say is....If you like this stereo mix....You will probably like REVOLVER and MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR as well....it isn't that hokey "music-left/vocals-right" wannabe stereo that I have been ragging about....This is actually listenable and enjoyable....The remastering job is pretty good...The biggest flaw is that it tends to be a bit too airey..."
"Good stuff for a 32 year old who would never pay hundreds to hear this is its original form."
"It wasn't voted the best album of all time for nothing!"
"I rated this remastered version 5-stars, even though it doesn't quite match the excitement of hearing the remastered "Yellow Submarine" Beatles' songs version of the movie soundtrack, or the aural assault that occurred in portions of the "Love" sucker soil eel...er, whatever (I'm sorry, I'm just not a fan of the musicals unless they're very, very good). Pepper was once called psycadelic, but the only real psycadelic offerings are "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," both of which are a sonic delight (especially in this remastered work), the likes of which allow me to "trip" without actually ingesting any chemicals or other mind altering substances."
""A day in a life" Three tunes mastered into one with the utmost precision."
In Rainbows.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In Rainbows represents almost everything good there is about Radiohead past Pablo Honey, maybe with the exception of harder rock side displayed on The Bends and the brilliant first half of OK Computer."
"There's so many good reviews here regarding this release."
"I won't go into detail on the album since most people on here have done that do death, but I will say Reckoner, 15 Step and Weird Fishes are phenomenal songs."
"Having only heard "Creep", I expected this Album to maybe be somewhat boring."
"This is my fifth radiohead album,and as with the others,the more you listen the better it gets."
"Then on "Hail to the Thief" they began to bring back their more rocking side with consistent presence of drums and guitar, though still making much use of electronics and an orchestra. Because basically In Rainbows and "The Eraser" split Hail to the Thief in two, with the electronics going mostly to The Eraser and the acoustic guitar and live drums going mostly to In Rainbows."
"This album is amazing and the music itself is worth 5 stars but this is a review of the vinyl record and the pressings are awful. So I first bought this album from my local Amoeba record store only to find that it had very bad skipping issue's all over the first side, particularly on All I Need, which is one of my favorite tracks so I ended up trading it there and buying something else."
Best Classic Psychedelic Rock
Over the next decade, the band would become one of the most influential, innovative and successful groups in modern music, selling more than 300 million albums worldwide. With the 2014 release of deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, & Led Zeppelin III , the band will launch an extensive reissue program of all nine of its studio albums in chronological order, each remastered by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The Album is Zeppelin in all it's early blues rock glory but if you previously owned this album, you already knew that."
"All I wanted to say was this, so I'll put it in caps so it'll stand out: THE SWEATIEST ROCK ALBUM EVER. On the TV series CHEERS, someone asked a literate professor what the sweatiest movie ever made was."
"Best CD & premastered done very well."
"It's Led Zeppelin II."
"The first album feels like the one that captured a magic energy from the band that I continue to be impressed by no matter I hear it, and III is my favorite album by the band. There are songs on the release that are essential Zeppelin, and you can feel the band hitting bigger and better creative streaks as they start to finesse their sound."
"I had this album on vinyl, bought it back when it was first released."
"Skips- disappointed."
Best Irish Music
Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, original packaging.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The only bummer is the Blu-ray audio won't play audio through a DAC."
"I bought the 2-disc expanded version when it first came out, but finally got the 4-disc version and I’m thrilled with the Blu Ray 5.1 mix."
"Thanks so much to Rhino for finally giving this release the care it deserves."
"This is my very first blue ray audio disc and with the 5.1 mix it is superb!"
"The out-takes have some funny and interesting studio chatter from Van."
"It was my first Van CD and opened my eyes to a soulfulness the likes of which I had never witnessed."
"Didn't think any album would be as good as Astral Weeks and I was blown away by how good Moondance was."
"This is a classic album I have owned for many many years."
Best Scottish Music
This Scottish band rocked hard on this 1975 LP, but it was Love Hurts -the original power ballad-that finally brought them stateside fame.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Genuing hard-rock classic of all times, just listen to "Miss Misery", "Hair of the Dog", Beggars Day", "Love Hurts", "Please Don't Judas Me"... and I am risking to name all the album's tracks."
"From Love Hurts to Hair of the Dog, Nazareth is one of those bands that can slow it down to a ballad or rock it like a god."
"The songs for each record are listed only on the B-side label, so you have to pay attention to play the album in the intended order."
"Get into Nazereth`s early tunes, soo many great songs and gotta love Dan`s raspy Scottish bagpipes...ahh, voice..."
"Probably the most famous of their catalog."
"I got this album for my 16th birthday, 1981."
"Deep Purple's Roger Glover had been the producer since that but when guitarist Manuel Charlton decided to take the job on 'Hair Of The Dog', he really hit that bit higher, by adding more power and giving it more punch while keeping the rawness required for this hard rock bonanza."
"Remastered sound is a clear improvement over old CD."
Best Scottish Folk
Fiddle virtuoso Bonnie Rideout celebratesChristmas with this enthusiastic holiday performance that she takes on the road each year, playing at performing arts centers and large theaters nationwide in November and December. Rideout performs along with the Scottish Christmas Ensemble - a group of internationally renowned musicians including the City of Washington Pipe Band and dancers from the Scottish Highlands!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Beautiful, calming, seasonal music that is not overly familiar."
"excellent solid instrumental."
"I'm married to a Scotsman."
"It's a nice break from the same Christmas songs you hear every year."
"A truly amazing album."
"awesome,, Scotland and Christmas, what more could a person ask for, well maybe to be there."
"I love this one."
"The CD was fine, as was the packaging, but the CD case was cracked."
Best Celtic New Age
Twenty years after her landmark. Watermark album, Enya's seventh. studio disc, 'And Winter Came' continues a phenomenally successful career that has included more than 70 million albums sold worldwide.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Enya is the queen of her genre."
"Along with "And Winter came...", I purchased two other holiday music CD's - those of Sarah Brightman ("A Winter Symphony") and Loreena McKennitt ("A midwinter's night dream"), and I must say Enya's is my favorite one. "And Winter came..." introduces this musical experience with a piece without lyrics, just tranquil "white" music. Songs that I find outstanding are the self-created "White is in the winter night", an up-tempo song that simply invites singing along its tune."
"Cd sounds incredible!"
"All Enya albums are great."
"Gorgeous seasonal sounds."
"Great CD."