The discs can be found around in the bins at places like Amoeba and on Amazon for reasonable prices. The Flaming Lips released this fabulous live concert video on Warner Brothers’ short lived MVI format disc (essentially a DVD Audio disc with some other groovy features programmed in). If it came out once, chances are it will come out again on a more widely distributed format. Indeed, copies are running at crazy collectors prices on Amazon and eBay, some asking well over $100 for the disc! I can’t tell you whether it is worth spending that amount. Its really very cool! Its also a really hard disc to find - I have only seen one copy, the one I bought in the store when it came out.
Most notable is Townshend’s epic “Street in the City,” which puts the listener kind of in the middle between his guitar and voice and the symphonic string section behind you. A year later I happened upon a DualDisc format release of one of those albums, Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane’s fabulous Rough Mix album! This was merely a grand coincidence of course - I don’t have THAT much influence, folks! This far from rough mix is really quite nice with some intriguing moments when played in 5.1 surround. I remember talking with a friend who used to work at a big reissue label discussing “wish list” albums for surround sound. Rough Mix – Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane Perhaps soon these will be reissued for all to enjoy on Blu-ray. With all this Blu buzz brewing again, I thought it might be fun to revisit some surround sound gems that got lost in the sauce amidst industry bickering and withering marketing budgets. Yes’ Close to the Edge on Blu-ray Disc may well be the standard bearer for all to follow in terms of overall quality and attention to detail.
FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN NYE FREAKOUT 2010 SERIES
I am quite fond of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here “Immersion” series and Jethro Tull’s Aqualung reissue. Some of the first ones on the market have come out in boxed sets and the results have been quite spectacular. And it sort of has … I mean… Blu-ray is still here and the industry is even starting to experiment with audio-only Blu-ray releases, using the massive storage space on the discs for uber high resolution physical copies that can be packaged and marketed much like records and CDs used to be sold. It almost happened again with Blu-ray Disc but wisely one of the competing formats, HD DVD thankfully backed down, giving at least one of the fledgling super disc formats some chance at succeeding.
Betamax memories (and 8-track/Cassette for that matter) decades earlier decided to sit that round out. So, instead of consumers rallying behind the great sounding and flexible formats, those who were still stinging from their VHS vs. But in a consumer-driven marketplace burned out by prior format wars, the industry overall did a very poor job of (a) market research and (b) sell through marketing. At the end of the day, neither DVD Audio, SACD or the last-ditch attempt that was DualDisc took off in a very big way, which is really very sad. The surround sound world got a bit shafted back in the day, caught betwixt and between the bitter format battle of warring super powers vying for the champion crown (each obviously wanting to be the prime recipient of the majority royalties from format licensing). Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp
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