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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2015, 12:50:13 PM »
I have it in cassette, vinyl, cd, sacd, dvd-audio and 180 gr vinyl, so it makes 6 versions of BIA.

The dvd-audio mix is great, everytime I play it in my dvd I truly enjoy the wonderful 5.1 remix made by Chuck Ainlay, which is supposed to be the same of the sacd, but as long as I dont have a sacd player I can
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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #31 on: February 11, 2015, 04:22:20 PM »
Its been quite a while since my  audio system was hi-fi. Now it is more of wi-if. (willing if in the mood)  But my faithful DVD player and a set of headphones do the trick. However, I will not comment on the audio fidelity, because the songs are somehow imprinted in my brain, and the audio signal acts more as a memory stimulant, than a source of information to be analyzed by my brain. As such I find that the vinyl edition with the sorter versions of 4 songs (WoL, RATR, TMTS, OW, BiA being the same on vinyl and CD as well) is more solid. The extra minutes in the songs (SFA, MFN, YLT, WW)  don't add much to it. As a matter of fact they make the songs a bit tiring, since they are only repetition. (with the possible exception of YLT intro). MFN is even better in its even shorter edit from MFN compilation and even the BiA edit on the same disk has its merits-but I still prefer the longest version. Of course when I found out in 1990 that the CD version had extended  versions, I jumped train, but still, I find the shorter versions tighter and solid.  The new reissued in double vinyl, actually have the longer CD versions.
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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #32 on: February 11, 2015, 07:07:47 PM »
Oh well, I don't have a SACD-Player, too. Maybe I'm going to try the double LP. Interesting discussion regarding the track lengths, to me it all depends on my mood, when it's all about diving into the music the longer version do the trick for me.
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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #33 on: February 11, 2015, 08:34:10 PM »
The long outro of Why Worry is beautiful, with a great bass line, probably Neil Jason or Tony Levin...
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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2015, 08:43:04 PM »
"The eighth biggest seller of all-time in the UK, it sold 8,890 copies last week to lift its career tally to a massive 4,415,777"
-  As of the 8th Feb 2015

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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2015, 05:12:21 AM »
I got this special gold plated album last Christmas. It's hanging on the wall in my office waiting for MK to sign it  ;)

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Re: Brothers in Arms
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2015, 12:38:50 PM »
Ooh, nice SweetSurrender!  Tr
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