Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies: LP Places the Organ-Drenched Music on a Grand Soundstage
Few songs are more instantly recognized – or more influential, infamous, and, yes, notorious – than Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” The anchor of the mind-trip of an album of the same name, it occupies an entire side of an LP and runs for 17 minutes and five seconds, both bold moves in 1968 that changed how artists approached music in the studio and how listeners experienced it at home. The California-based group’s sophomore record also blew open the possibilities associated with psychedelia, heavy arrangements, and suggested meanings. And with apologies to those who might’ve heard it in a chemical haze in the late 1960s, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has never sounded more transformative than it does now.
Most Anything You Want
Flowers and Beads
My Mirage
Termination
Are You Happy
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s World-Renowned Mastering System and Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies
Welcome, friend. You’ve just checked into the Mars Hotel. The Wall of Sound, the greatest PA system ever constructed, is freshly built and ready to go. Phil Lesh is busy experimenting with a low-frequency concept known as “Earthquake Bass.” Jerry Garcia is smiling, fresh from blaring a tongue-in-cheek anthem titled “U.S. Blues” that serves as both an irresistible rallying cry of pride and ironic commentary. And the Grateful Dead’s interplay continues to wow, peaking on “Unbroken Chain,” the most obvious example yet of the group’s shared chemistry and individual talents. Yes, we’re certain you’ll enjoy your stay. In the lobby, you’ll find decoratively funky “Scarlet Begonias.” Do we need mention the music, performances, and sights sound and look better than ever?
U.S. Blues
China Doll
Unbroken Chain
Loose Lucy
Scarlet Begonias
Pride of Cucamonga
Money Money
Ship of Fools
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: SACD Presents Hallmark Smoothness, Lushness, Balance, and Detail in Alluring Sound
The opening track to the Alan Parsons Project's Eye in the Sky remains the most recognized instrumental in sports – fanfare inseparably tied with introducing NBA legend Michael Jordan and his six-time world-champion Chicago Bulls mates before games, and still used by many teams as an energy-raising prelude. Indeed, the subdued grandiosity, cosmic bluster, and lights-out wonder of “Sirius” also sets the table for the band's smash 1982 album, whose hallmark smoothness, lushness, and balance reach epic heights on Mobile Fidelity's collectible reissue.
Sirius
Eye in the Sky
Children of the Moon
Gemini
Silence and I
You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Psychobabble
Mammagamma
Step by Step
Old and Wise
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies: Features You-Are-There Immediacy and Presence
Bob Dylan's Love and Theft is a visionary train ride through the vast American landscape and all its hills, valleys, mountains, river towns, and urban and rural settlements. As they burrow into villages and barrel across trestle bridges, the 2001 record's songs introduce us to outlaws, outliers, gamblers, brawlers, tricksters, bootleggers, and scoundrels. It is, in effect, a commanding survey of and plunge into American music. Named the best album of the year by Rolling Stone and the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, anointed the second-best album of the decade by Newsweek, and later declared the 385th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, Love and Theft remains the Nobel Laureate's finest effort since 1975's Blood on the Tracks – and an extension of the jesting, imagery, and free-form looseness present on his seminal 1960s works. Now, it possess knock-out sound.
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Mississippi
Summer Days
Bye and Bye
Lonesome Day Blues
Floater (Too Much to Ask)
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Moonlight
Honest with Me
Po' Boy
Cry a While
Sugar Baby
1. Precious
2. The Phone Call
3. Up the Neck
4. Tattooed Love Boys
5. Space Invader
6. The Wait
7. Stop Your Sobbing
8. Kid
9. Private Life
10.Brass In Pocket
11.Lovers of Today
12.Mystery Achievement
Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears
180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes with Mobile Fidelity's One-Step Process: Deluxe Audiophile Pressing Limited to 6,000 Numbered Copies
Don't call it a comeback. Not only did Blood, Sweat & Tears' eponymous album establish new precedents for musical fusion and record production upon release in late 1968, the quadruple-platinum set marked a new commercial beginning for a cross-cultural group nearly decimated months earlier when its prominent co-founder, Al Kooper, departed along with two other members. The resultant sophomore effort simply went on to top the charts for seven straight weeks, earn the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, spawn three successive Top 5 singles, and land the group a headlining slot at Woodstock. No wonder its reputation remains golden among listeners, particularly audiophiles, which have never experienced the hybrid fare in more vibrant fashion than on this collectible reissue.
Reference-Level Detail, Depth, Soundstaging, Balance, and Presence: Communiqué Has Never Sounded Better
Tracks :
Once Upon a Time in the West
News
Where Do You Think You're Going?
Communique
Lady Writer
Angel of Mercy
Portobello Belle
Single-Handed Sailor
Follow Me Home
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies: Presented in True-to-the-Original Mono
Tracks :
Ticket to Ride
People Get Ready
She's Not There
Bang Bang
Illusions of My Childhood – Part One
You Keep Me Hanging On
Illusions of My Childhood – Part Two
Take Me for a Little While
Illusions of My Childhood – Part Three
Eleanor Rigby
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies: Presented in True-to-the-Original Mono
Tracks :
I Walk the Line
Bad News
Folsom Prison Blues
Give My Love to Rose
Hey Porter
I Still Miss Someone
Understand Your Man
Wreck of the Old 97
Still in Town
Big River
Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye
Troublesome Waters
We’re Not Gonna Take It
Burn in Hell
Horror-Teria (The Beginning)
Captain Howdy
Street Justice
I Wanna Rock
The Price
Don’t Let Me Down
The Beast
S.M.F.