Celmac Paramount Super Deluxe Pergamon Wood Moulded Toilet Seat & Cover Including Plastic Hinge Pack
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Disc 1 – Original Album (remastered) + B-sides – I like the remaster for the most part, but to me the parts of the song with crunchy guitar almost seem to be turned up too loud in the mix, to the point where they break out of the field of a sound a bit, if that makes sense. Kurts guitar in Come As You are (not the solo) seems turned up too much in the mix also. Disc 2 – The Smart Studio Sessions, The Boombox Rehearsals, BBC Sessions – Great disc with great quality early studio sessions and demos. This disc is awesome for getting a look at the creation of the Nevermind material from rehearsals, to early studio sessions, to a pair of early live performances. Disc 3 – The Devonshire Mixes – Definitely an interesting CD and I love rockin’ it. There are mostly minor differences in the sound and mix. An interesting document of the first draft of the completed album. For me, the On A Plain mix was the coolest of the different mixes, I loved the sound, especially the mix on Kurts vocals and the outro. This is a cool way to listen to the CD with more variety in the sound. Disc 4 – Live at the Paramount CD – An excellent live concert with a ton of material – 19 tracks in all. Each song is played incredibly and Kurts vocals are right on. Incredible sound and performance all around. Disc 5 – Live at the Paramount DVD – The 16mm film makes watching this concert much more interesting than the normal “concert on DVD.” Kurt knocking down the mic stand during a song, and breaking his guitar at the end are cool as well. This could easily have been released as a theatrical release. Krist’s statement “White boy funk sucks!” is also funny. Having the 4 videos from the album are also awesome to have together with the concert. The Book – The book has high quality color pictures of the band during the time of the recording and promoting the album including pics of the infamous pool photo shoot, with the band in the pool. There are lyrics, expense reports, pictures of singles released, magazine articles, pics of the music video shoots, etc. Very thorough, color picture heavy book. So here’s what I would say are the main deficiencies… #1 – Price – This was outrageously expensive. You can get the first two discs and the concert on DVD for right under $40. For The extra $70 I paid, I got the Devonshire mixes (Disc 3), a poster, and the book. Give a fair value of $15 to the Devonshire disc, and $5 to the poster, and you’re looking at $50 for the book. The book is really nice but $50? It’s also worth noting Anyone reading this is certainly going to pay more than $110 like I did because they’re limited to 40,000 worldwide and have sold out so now you’re going to be buying from a re-seller. #2 – Remaster Of Original Album – Definitely wish the original album would have had a touch more care put into the remastering job – minor gripe. #3 – Missing “Song In D” – Why this song was excluded on this $100+ “Super Deluxe” album is beyond me. It’s an unreleased Nevermind sessions instrumental. Vig and Grohl were recently joking around about the fact that the song was not included on this set, and Grohl laughingly said “Sounds like another box set!” This 5 disc release of the original “single disc” album and they leave off that one instrumental? Uncool in my opinion. I certainly hope they don’t make us poor fans buy another $100+ set to get that one song in the future. #4 – Packaging – This set is highly prone to smudges and fingerprints and seems to have a horrible reaction to the oil on human skin. I’ve already put a few smudges that won’t come off on the case and have to wash my hands before handling the set each time. I ripped all of the music from the CD’s to high quality 320kbps mp3s so that I don’t have to open it and mess with it all the time. Also, the CD’s are slid into cardboard cutouts in the book, which is guaranteed to scratch the discs if you take them out more than a few times, regardless of how careful you are. The case is basically the exact size of a square record sleeve but is a little over an inch thick. If you’re a product of the 90s (like me) and don’t have storage for LP’s, storing it can be a bit awkward. These four issues make me drop a star to a 4 out of 5 rating, which is accurate for my level of satisfaction. I would never give mine up now that I have it and I love this set! The positives easily outweigh the negatives here and having official versions of all this highly bootlegged material is awesome to both benefit the artists, and get higher quality versions of this material. I can smell a similar release in a couple of years for In Utero, which I look forward to. Rock On! 38 of 49 people found the following review helpful. This is the same guy who’s remastered this version of ‘Nevermind’ 2 years later to the very same loudness war standard he has criticised and seemed to suggest was reversing. All the dynamic range on this classic album is gone. Which means there’s no punch to the music, every song stays the same volume throughout so when a chorus kicks in it doesn’t get louder than the verse and lift the song. From what i’ve read over the years, Kurt loved using the quiet verse LOUD chorus technique, so for a band that was obviously about dynamics it’s baffling that this remaster even made it onto a commercially available CD/download. A whole new generation of Nirvana fans are going to be robbed of the way this album should really sound as mastered dynamically in 1991 by Howie Weinberg. UMG don’t care, they just want your money, but that’s ok, you don’t have to give it to them, no matter how big a Nirvana fan you are, you can download the extra content for free ‘illegally’ after all they’re offering you an inferior ‘new’ product when your original copy of Nevermind sounds perfect — you just have to use that thing known as a volume knob or volume buttons. “All the kids will eat it up, if it’s packaged properly”. *NOTE* — the Devonshire mixes + Live at Paramount (CD) aren’t as harshly mastered as the original album and the CD of rarities that’s also available with the deluxe edition.. (they still have heavy peak limiting on the loudest parts of the songs — but the verses do drop in volume and are not clipped like those 2 discs, probably ’cause luckily this is a limited edition package with less mainstream appeal.) 8 of 11 people found the following review helpful. No doubt, the boombox rehearsal tape and the “Devonshire Mixes” were tantalizing. I was really hoping for the Devonshire Mixes to deliver, as Butch’s mix of Breed on With the Lights Out is KILLER. However, they are kind of all over the place, which I suppose one should expect for rough mixes – some drums are too loud (Lithium), some too buried in the mix (Breed, Territorial Pissings), etc. I wanted to love them, but overall I don’t. I do prefer the vocals on there, as they actually sound like vocals and not wrapped in plastic, and the bass sounds like a bass. People who are seriously into engineering seem to have problems with the different sounds of the drums. It’s nothing I notice though. Also, if you wanna see hardcore Nirvana fans get REALLY pissed off, Google “Sound City Sappy.” In the end, the Boombox tape is definitely the gem here. Much better quality than I was expecting and it has never been circulated in any form anywhere. Really interesting stuff to see the band developing these monster songs in a time that would, in retrospect, be the calm before the storm. It’s that much-fabled “last innocence” period. Now to get at what you receive in exchange for your money – four CDs, a DVD and a hardcover book for $109-$130+, depending where you got (get) it. With the Lights Out is currently around $40 here and you get three CDs, a DVD and a softcover book. Both have substantial packaging. With the Lights Out had WAY more unreleased stuff on it, like most of it. All of Disc One and part of Disc Two on the other hand, has been released commercially. Disc Four replicates the DVD, which again, has been available as a high-quality audio bootleg since time immemorial. Plus, all the live b-sides are from this show, so those songs appear three times on the set – what? Anyway, you can buy the Deluxe for $20 and the DVD for $16 or so. What do you miss out on? Not much. Not much. Seriously, why have not more people reviewed this thing to spread the truth? |
Overall Happy, But There Are 4 Deficiencies…
Thanks Mr. Ludwig for keeping the loudness war alive.
Underwhelming
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