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To be honest I don't think there's been an album these guys have put out that has missed the mark for me. They've all got their own personal charms and strengths and even when they don't immediately click with me a few returns is all it ever takes.

Revisited ...Like Clockwork and Era Vulgaris a few days ago and whilst they may not have started off as favourites these days I'd find it hard to put any of QOTSA's albums in a ranked list. 

Ordered the bone variant, the effects pedal seems to be a mockup as it has no  foot switches on it.  Too bad I can't pay in Cola nuts or else I would buy that variant. 

As someone who hadn't listened to Broken until a couple of weeks ago, I can tell you that each of the two masters are instantly recognizable.  The CD source requires you to crank your volume up; the remaster is more in line with the volume for the rest of the NIN catalog.  And when Wish takes off, it sounds loud and satisfying on the original master... but truly kicks you in the teeth (in the best way possible) on the remaster.
 
I'm waiting on an amp, but will have a "four-digit hi-fi setup" pretty soon here, and will gladly compare the two.  In the meantime, the definitive MP3s and FLACs are doing it for me with decent headphones and also in the car, surround speakers a'boomin'.  The Fragile, especially, is noticably louder but also... crisper?  I've listened to both versions at fairly high volumes and haven't picked up on any plateaud mastering or distortion.  I haven't spent years with the original CD, but in the last month I've revisited it a good bit and have officially swapped out the MP3s for the 2017 edition, in the car, and find myself going for the definitive editions of everything else that's been released so far.  I'll give them both a whirl when I get my hands on that DAC/amp, but for the time being I'd say that Trent and co. did a great job at breathing new life into the remasters and boosting their sound without brickwalling much (if at all?).  At least not from a standpoint of practical listening.  But I also don't plug into $3,000 headphones and $1,500 amps and carefully study spectral when I listen to music, so you may have to take this post with a grain of salt.
 
tl;dr – these sound just dandy.  I'll gladly pick them up when they hit shops this Spring.

Sounds like something from Soundgarden for Black Friday, according to this article.
 
http://loudwire.com/soundgarden-kim-thayil-vinyl-reissues-new-album-more/
 
Kim, is there anything you can tell us more about what’s to come in terms of Soundgarden. There’s some other rereleases, new music, timeline? Anything that you can share?
 
There are definitely other catalog projects that I’ve been overseeing over the past year and one of them is the record I referred to, earlier from the SST label which is out of Long Beach. That record, Ultramega OK, we’ve remastered and [it’s being] remixed here in Seattle … and we’re hoping to put that out early next year. We’ve moved the labels, we’re putting that out on Sup Pop. All the paperwork is in order. We have something slated for Black Friday and I think the most exciting thing in the next few months is we’re hoping, we plan to, the street date of November 18th with the 25th anniversary boxed for Badmotorfinger.


 

Went with Black Splatter. Cool rig rundown if anyone is interested  
 

Band gets more of the money !!

Got my job hifi version today. No lenticulars, little cards were included.

No sightings of the blue huh? They must be keeping it like a secret.

No sightings of the blue huh? They must be keeping it like a secret.

No sightings of the blue huh? They must be keeping it like a secret.

Got one a couple months back direct from the label. Solid pressing.

Got one a couple months back direct from the label. Solid pressing.

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He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.

He is human and he needs to be loved, just like everyone else does.