Prog albums - CD vs. vinyl

This is really a case by case dilemna. There are LPs that rule above their CD counterparts and vice versa. I wish all LPs ever created were available in the CD format so we could have this discussion about all music ever recorded but not such the case. THere are surely CDs that pale in comparison to their original recordings, CDs that far surpass and those that stand on equal grounds in no need of remastering because they were so deftly done in the first place. Too many examples to cite at the moment but many, many ,  many

The misanthrope wrote: I prefer the record version of Living in the Past by Jethro Tull to the CD version, aside from the great band pictures there are songs on the album which do not appear on the CD.

Actually there is the converse situation - as well as the above.

My LITP is the Jap replica LP version - very nice - and complete - sounds ok to me as well. There is, as you said the CD with omissions - recommend to avoid this. Now there is the CD version that is complete. I saw the latest vinyl version - it's complete but with only a standard slip type (CD replica... ha!) cover.

BTW the original CD of Songs From The Wood sounded like it was set in glue. The remaster is heaven. Tape dumped straight to CD is the bane of the CD experience. This is what is so often behind the cause of so much dissension, discussion and debate.

Likely scenario - a 2 DVD, 2 CD Steven Wilson remaster of LITP. The the rest of the Carnegie Hall material can get issued.

Caveat emptor as always.


Edited by uduwudu - October 09 2016 at 04:49

Makes me think.
You see, every track on Tales from the topographic oceans is a side-long track. The first track was originally 28 minutes long, but they had to cut 6 minutes from it because of the limitations of the LP format.
Kamasi Washington's debut album has a vinyl version. And Wikipedia says that the last side is 30 minutes long. Maybe it's one of those special vinyl record types created by Jack White, I don't know how did they manage to do that.
Even the CD comes with limitations. The Flaming Lips released a track called "I found a star on the ground", and that song is 6 hours long. The song was inside a memory stick. The band also released another track called "7 Skies H3", which is 24 hours long, they decided to put that song on a web stream, but the stream is dead now (I think) That song also was inside flash drives encased in real human skulls.