Atarnakh

I prefer the first two works of D Sylvian, "Brilliant Trees" and "Gone To The Earth", or something like that; my memory is now lost...

There's Alchemy in between, Gian. Let's start with the first three – the essentials. Then of course Sylvian didn't stop in '86, and he's made more masterpieces, oh yes he has.

True... I honestly don't like the latest works, they're too abstract.

I agree. This record has a mysterious allure for me, even though it is not the PF's masterpiece. It has an atmosphere that I periodically need.

I completely agree, I have always liked it quite a lot.

Blessed are you, I have lived The endless river...bah

Finally, a review that does justice.

I’m putting it there because somehow you have it in the collection... but dark side audio file no no... definitely not... :)

You’re right Pink84. Actually, it’s not a ripped audio file... I work a lot with the Mac and iTunes has become essential for me. I purchase many albums on iTunes even though the Mac is connected to a good quality Hi-Fi system: B&W speakers, Cambridge Audio amplifier, and a Marantz CD player (which, unfortunately, is used less and less).

I also have a nice Thorens turntable with quite a few vinyl records, but for practical reasons, I'm not using it... sigh...

It won't be ripped; it will be high quality... but you need to have it either on vinyl or CD... the beauty of certain works is to have them, to touch them... they are history... :)

do you have the record and no dark side on vinyl?....bad bad, very bad...:):):)

"The beauty of certain jobs is having them, touching them with your hands... they are history... :)" Well, come on, a copy from before the '80s of Dark Side of the Moon is surely history, but last year's reissue is as historical as a ripped file. I partly agree with you, musical fetishism is quite something, but if there are records for which one can do without a physical copy, as far as I'm concerned, they are precisely the great classics.

Well, okay, the cover of dark is a work of art on vinyl, alright.

@[snes] I don't think like you... the great classic should be had in its original form... of course, an old copy is better than reprints, as you say... but as you yourself mentioned above, the cover is a work of art... so it's better to have the original..:):)

The thing is that the great classic, besides knowing it by heart, they play it on the radio, friends listen to it, you hear it on the soundtracks of commercials, and all that jazz...
To say: the last time I decided to listen to Dark Side must have been in 2005. And it’s not that I’ve never listened to it again after that.
On vinyl, I’m trying to recover those records whose purchase will genuinely allow, hopefully, the artist to produce a new work. Yes, in short, I am convinced that in 2020 the only usefulness in buying records is to do "patronage" for the artist in question.
I bought a few vinyl records over the past years, but I’ve never bought a turntable to listen to them. People ask me what I do with those vinyls. And my heart aches every time I have to explain that: if you want a musician to make another album, you need to buy the one that’s on the market...
- "But it’s on Spotify!!!!!"
It’s true, but listening to music on Spotify doesn’t guarantee that the money goes to the artist you’re listening to.
- "But musicians don’t need money; they’re rich!!"
Yes, that’s true: the crap you listen to is all played by people full of money, you’re right, but I don’t listen to or buy crap records.
- "But then you don’t even listen to them!!!"
True, but I already know them by heart when I buy them.
- "In my opinion, you’re just throwing away money."
From a certain point of view, that’s true too, but I’ll spend two hundred euros a year on vinyl, which is what you spend on Netflix. That Netflix you complain about every other minute... have you ever heard me complain about the vinyl of Hate & Merda?

eeee nothing, sorry, I got carried away.

You're right Pink84, it’s true... I absolutely need to buy a copy of Dark Side... just to say that I bought on eBay the 1983 English pressing of the CD of The Final Cut because I don’t like the recent reissue I have since it includes the track When the Tigers Broke Free which was not present on the original album.

@[snes] the speech is partly right.. But for me, music that I truly like has to be listened to on physical media.. By now, as you know, you can find everything on YouTube.. But I can’t listen to records unless they’re in the original.. That’s all😉

@[Atarnakh] buy it in whatever version you want and on whatever medium you want, but get the original... I own 5 CD versions and 1 on vinyl of dark... Can you believe it...

But were they assholes like those who, when they reissued "Catastrophe Ballet," put the bonus track as the FIRST album of the record? I bought it, put it in the player at home, hit play, and exclaimed: "What the hell is this???" Then I looked at the tracklist, and sure enough: the first track of the album is a bonus track. And nothing, I still can't believe it.