5/5/2021 0 Comments Marvin Gaye Gold 2005.Rar
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Frankie Valli And The Four Sea - Big Girls Dont Cry (2:24) 14. Dusty Springfield - You Dont Have To Say You Love (2:49) CD 2 1. Spandau Ballet - Gold (3:52) 9. UB40 Feat. Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe (3:08) 10. Cliff Bennett The Rebel Rous - Got To Get You Into My Life (2:29) 16. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. Theres so much layering of tape to begin with before it got to the master tapes that you can only get improved here, never jaw-dropping, the way the OneStep Abraxas or even the Sunday At The Village Vanguard are to my ears (even the latter is flawed, but what the OneStep brought out amazing). Berry Gordy founded Motown Records to produce pop hits that would appeal to young people across the racial and ethnic divide and of course he succeeded. But by the early 1970s world events, especially the war in Vietnam had become the focus of the generation called upon to fight it and the music makers of the time took note. At around the same time the record businesss studio system had also begun to break down as musicians demanded greater control over both the music and the production. Marvin Gaye already had almost a dozen albums to his credit but here for the first time he assumed complete creative control of the music and the production. Created as a song cycle with one song segueing into the next, and backed by a lush string section with added sound effects and walla, the album was more Sergeant Peppers. The subject matter ranged from the war in Vietnam, to police brutality to drug addiction, to ecology and the environment. In other words it was a protest album that could have been written last year. Gaye had got through a rough patch and had turned introspective. The multi-layered music mixed soul, funk, jazz, gospel and even classical. Despite Berry Gordys dislike for the album, it resonated with all of the music buying audience, reaching the Top Ten (Gayes first to do so) and remained on the charts for almost a year, selling over two million copies. I compared my original RCA mastered and pressed original (Tamla TS310) with Mobile Fidelitys 2008 12 speed mastered reissue (MFSL 1-314) and then with this 1 Step version (UD1S 2-008) pressed on the new MoFi Supervinyl manufactured by NEOTECH and its difficult to believe these are sourced from the same tape. The resolution of musical and spatial detail thats smeared on the other versions is huge. Ive heard complaints about there being too much bass but I think thats whats on the tape thats previously been rolled off. This reissue is a major sonic step forward both for Mobile Fidelity and for vinyl reissues generally. ![]() I appreciate you saying it was artfully done, but Im really hesitant. The edit that ends Side 1 of this set (Flyin Highs segue into Save The Children) is very oddly done and jarring to the point that it undid all of the immersive magic of the improved sonics. I cant understand why they waited until Save The Children begins and THEN faded out, cutting off the song just as Marvin utters the first line of that songs spoken introduction. Theres a natural breakbreath between those two tracks already (they were edited together rather than recorded as one continuous take) and all of the digital versions put the break between those songs at that moment. I get the improvement in sound that comes with the move to 45RPM, but is that worth sacrificing Gayes intent and part of the experience that makes Whats Going On so groundbreaking and immersive as a piece of music After listening to my copy, I really wished MoFi would have applied this one-step process to a 33RPM cut and left the flow of the album intact (or perhaps just given this treatment to the equally astounding Lets Get It On, which could be broken up without altering the character of the album). Its too easy to get this stuff right to justify why they couldnt have executed the artwork with as much attention to quality and detail as they gave the sonics. At 125, I think its fair to hold the package to the same standard as the pressing itself. Once you catch it, it renders the record essentially too distracting to listen through to catch the music.
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