What about a Metal Box thread?

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pah, I wave my first aspect of the same thing in yower fiace..

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I figured everyone's talked about the music somewhere before - I'm sure there was some thread about that somewhere - well anyway the music is awesome really from start to finish - it's the only PIL album I can listen to all the way through - one of the few albums full stop I can listen to all the way through actually. No dud tracks and Poptones (for which I am SURE there is thread already) is one of the greatest things of all time ever.

Of course I listen to the CD nowadays as getting those things out of the box and changing the speed for the last side is too much hassle. But the CD comes in a metal box too so that's alright.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always held off buying this because I've heard the CD issue is one of those examples of really horrible CD mastering, or is that just the Second Edition version? Is there a decent reissue of this out?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I cannot count how many times this has been blasting in my car as I've scraped ice off my windshields. Scraping jagged ice as the bass goes through the glass into the scraper into the hands and then arms and then almost everything else = ahh.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - CD sounds fine to me but I am a very poor judge of sound quality.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a new reissue of the vinyl w/metal box that's really cool and affordable.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Answers to many questions:

Metal Box debates from old ILM:
Metal Box -- does anyone hate this as much as me?

How to buy the reissue:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/bin/search.pl?search_string=4M%20500LP

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― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

who the fuck are 4 Men with Beards? I have several reissues from them. And no, don't say they are a reissue group.. who are the people behind it and do they have beards?

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

4 Men with Beards

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow - quite a lot of hate for it on that old thread - I'm shocked.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

it's the 'sergeant peppers' of the late 70s so obviously it's going to provoke a backlash.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

well, hate was a request.

Anger is an energy, of course.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

'meh' is not an energy.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i believe the us cd is the one that is supposed to sound terrible, but the virgin cd in the metal box is supposed to sound better. I have the latter one and it sounds good

― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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