worst pressings.... EVAR
ariel_calmer
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What is the worst sounding vinyl ever? So many options. Korean bootleg LPs? Styrene funk 45s? French BYG pressings? Fifth generation Jamaican pressings?
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I think that's a 'mythical raer'.
Most bootleg LPs
Note on Funky Delicacies: the Bo-releated 12" singles sound damn good, they had the masters (but the comp LPs sound like SHIT for some reason)
Eddie Fisher & the Next One Hundred Years
and
Lou Courtney "In Need Of Love"
are awful...although I have heard the Eddie Fisher
is just muddy no matter what pressing. The Lou Courtney
is a piece of garbage, shitty cover and "new" LP that skips.
*although I will buy reissues, these are both LP's
that I bought off eBay thinking they were OG and
was sent shitty reissues instead.
I have a double vinyl pressing of a label called "pioneers of hiphop", it says for dj use only, it's a bootleg i guess, but the quality is ok....dunno if it is that lp, but "i juswannachill" and "funky 2 listen 2" are on there...
I had the above mentioned UK boot. And yes, it was unlistenably awful, except for songs like "Ijuswannachill" and "mad scientist," where they probably just stole the Geffen promo versions. The rest of it was shittyshitshitshit.
It is
Some of the Cadet/Chess pressings of that era are really badly mastered/pressed... electric mud indeed
Hiphopsite or some one line retailer offered free remastered cd copies of the LP when the last large professor album dropped. My guess is that the "pioneers of hip hop" pressing came out of that. It is the best sounding pressing of that album to date.
Worst pressing of a hip hop lp I own is "Step In The Arena." Its very quiet.
"Soul Brother" reissues from the UK are terrible. They did a double vinyl of the Marva Whitney that sounds way too bright. Indian pressings, in my limited experience, play with a lot of surface noise.
I know it was leaked somehow, somewhere... but I don't think there were actual Geffen promos. There is a CD often sold on ebay as the 'original promo' and it is, in fact, a Euro bootleg that I have (nice packaging, but easily distinguishable as fake)
The first actual release was as a bonus CD with the LP Matador album...
co-sign. I was stoked to find a few nice OG New Jazz things a few years ago, but they sounded like total ass.
Eddie Fisher and the next 100 OG is the same - I hope someone remasters this at some point.
I'll add
EPS disks
A LOT of private stuff.
Alvin Cash "Twine Time" lp
Folkways
Those CDs that used to clutter the 'Bay with the 'Mad Scientist-style' sleeves are bootlegs: 'One + One' with Nas was never scheduled to be on that album.
The CD that Hiphopsite did with his last album as a giveaway was as close to legit as you'd get. Apparently the cuts were from Xtra P's own DATs.
For poor pressings, I'd (aprropriately, as we're talking about Large Pro) like to throw Akinyele's first album into the mix.
I understand its a piece of rap history... but I'll be damned If Im gonna try and sit and listen to the entire LP
Anyone ever heard a good, noiseless copy of this LP? Do they even exist?
SG
so much so that Pokora called it "garage"
I've had a similar experience with Johnny Jenkins Ton Ton Macoute on Capricorn, although it played better than G-, perhaps VG or VG-.
gawd yes
and let me add
didn't the label put out copies of this that were meant to skip?