Yep another tenner 10 now if we could just get Astral Weeks love that one too.
...but my interest in the music peters off a little bit once Side 2 begins, and some of the songs begin to sound alike after a while.
The opposite is true for me. After the hits are out of the way, the record gets more interesting and funky to me.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that so many of the songs (particularly on Side 2) are in the same key, and when I hear a similar tonality like that over and over again, it makes me think that it all starts to sound the same, but I still think I prefer the songs on Side 1 anyways.
You touch on a point of interest/criticism of VM (in my mind): comparison of many of his songs will show he tops out his melodies on this one note, mainly. If I had a piano here I could pin-point exactly what it is.
Moondance has rather varied melodies compared to some of his later albums, especially. Again, on later albums, he uses this kind of wailing shout or holler that tends to be the same note, so I'd imagine many songs are in the same key.
This isn't a major indictment, given the sheer number of his albums (last time I counted I had 37 or 38) and I'm glad I've been able to enjoy his creative output.
I guess the point I was driving toward re: Moondance side B is that the songs are less memorable (in a good way, for me), so still fresh.
For those who like looking at them, here is a screen shot of the 5.1 mix in Sound Forge. What's really strange is that in the 5th track, there's a lyric like "When the foghorn whistle blows", and you can see in the wave file that the fog horn is in the LFE!!
What's up with that? If I pull that LFE wav file and listen to it in a normal speaker, you can clearly hear sax's and horns doing the "foghorn whistle", but in the mix, it never makes it out of the sub woofer.
Most bizarre! Almost like someone messed up! (?)
Just received, and so far I'm liking what I hear.
Dumb question: the original packaging, held together by the shrink wrap, includes a paper insert with disc track listings. The insert seems too physically large to store inside of the "box", due to the wide binding.
What do you guys do with this insert once the original shrink wrap is gone?
I tossed it away.
I slipped mine inside the booklet, it sticks out a bit (3/8").
Exactly what I did.
That insert only adds to the overall collectivity of the release.