My player was causing the troubles. After GG I popped in Anathema's latest and there was a freeze as well. Powering down and up the player and both discs play fine, luckily.Finally received the bds/cd set from amazon usa. Great value for money. Music and mix are great and the onscreen animation/films are lovely, very well done.
Only thing is that the disc freezes at 3:44 into Proclamation, with both the stereo and 5.1 mix. When I press forward twice the disc moves forward and pressing play it will play for afew seconds but then it is only white noise. The instrumental mix plays fine. Looms like a defective bda? Looking at the comments no one has this problem it seems.
Hmm, that is what you get for getting this disc cheap
Octopus next please!
The big debate is what will come after. Although we got an old quad mix of Free Hand, Free Hand is their best recording(IMHO) and should be next. A Steven Wilson 5.1 mix will blow away the old quad mix that was sold. If people disagree then they are frankly, well... uh.... very disagreeable!
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Well then let's agree to disagree as I want "In a Glass House" after "Octopus", followed by the first three studio albums (in no particular order).
I really love "Free Hand" but at least we have a Quad mix of that one, whereas the first 5 albums suffer from having no surround mix at all (at this time...)
A tough question is: What artwork will they chose for the cover? The English or USA version? I like both covers actually...
Well then let's agree to disagree as I want "In a Glass House" after "Octopus", followed by the first three studio albums (in no particular order).
I really love "Free Hand" but at least we have a Quad mix of that one, whereas the first 5 albums suffer from having no surround mix at all (at this time...)
"Glass House" would be stunning in surround.
I'm spinning the SHM-SACD of Octopus. This is the best version I've heard. Even so, I'm hoping a SW remix can bring new life to the drums. They've always sounded rather veiled and muddy to me.
Nice interview with Kerry, Derek and Ray giving their reactions to the new release:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_power_and_the_glory_of_gentle_giant
We’d had offers from other people who wanted to mix it in surround (sound) before and we weren’t very enthusiastic
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