There’s certainly nothing wrong with a bit of extra weight however, if anything it makes the records feel more substantial as you load them onto the player.Įach album includes replica artwork and inner sleeves. Factors such as mastering, cutting and pressing quality, the quality of the vinyl material itself and the cleanliness of the record tend to have a bigger influence on the sound quality than the weight or thickness of the record. Commonly (and wrongly) called ‘audiophile vinyl’, it should be noted that the weight of a record is no indication of its quality. The albums are pressed to 180 gram vinyl. Doubtless they’ll be released on CD soon, or as ‘high-resolution’ files.
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It would’ve been nice to have received a download card inside the box to gain access to digital copies of the new remasters. The box is a well-made two-part slipcase. The albums have been remastered for the release. The set also includes an exclusive extras compilation featuring ‘Always’ and rarities. These include the band’s latest studio albums (‘Burning Bridges’ and ‘This House is Not For Sale’, as well as Jon Bon Jovi’s solo releases ‘Destination Anywhere’ and ‘Blaze of Glory’. While majority of the bands studio albums are available individually, the set includes five exclusive pressings. ‘These Days’ and ‘Keep The Faith’ are available on vinyl in the US for the first time, the former with two previously unavailable bonus tracks.
This set sees Bon Jovi’s studio albums from the 2000s pressed on vinyl for the first time. I have a few original pressings on vinyl though not all. I am a huge Bon Jovi fan, and have been for many years. I waited several months, agonising over this release, and eventually ordered it after the release date from What Records for significantly less than the cost on Amazon.
This trend, coupled to the fact that they refuse to match the lower prices offered by other retailers means I rarely preorder music from Amazon, despite the benefits of a Prime membership. In my experience amazon’s preorder prices seem to fluctuate wildly, often pricing preorder items above the RRP and dropping them on release, at least where music is concerned. I was a little dismayed to learn that Amazon had been offering the set for £199 the previous month and had hiked the price for reasons known only to them. It carried an RRP of £350, and was available as a preorder from Amazon at a price of just over £370. A quick google revealed that they had in fact announced a set, scheduled for release on February 10 2017. They were the studio collections from Queen and the Beatles – the two biggest sets in my collection, totalling fourteen and fifteen albums in each respectively.Īs Bon Jovi’s ‘Wild In the Streets’ from 1986’s ‘Slippery When Wet’ began to play, I found myself wondering why they hadn’t joined the trend. Scrolling through iTunes and picking songs at random from a never-ending list of classic rock favourites, my thoughts turned to two sets then occupying the top shelf of a vinyl cabinet. It all started on a chilly night in (I think) November 2016.
Such sets offer a great way for a fan to own large slices or an entirety of a band’s back catalogue on vinyl without having to seek and pay the prices for original releases – though the sets often come at a hefty price, as does most new vinyl. Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Status Quo, Rainbow and Sting are all great examples, as are Queen and the Beatles, the latter having released boxes containing both stereo and mono releases. There’s been something of a trend of late for artists (particularly classic rock bands) to release extensive sets containing all or a selection of their studio albums, usually remastered on 180 gram vinyl with replicated artwork and a fancy box. This entry was posted in Vinyl and tagged Album Reviews Bon Jovi Music Music Reviews Vinyl on Apby Ashley
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