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Reviews and Commentaries for Rickie Lee Jones’ First Album
Sonic Grade: B
Another MoFi LP reviewed, and this one’s pretty good for a change.
The Mobile Fidelity pressing of this album can actually be pretty decent.
If you get a good one, that is. Records are records and limited editions have dramatic pressing variations just like all the other records out there in Record Land.
Audio perfection it ain’t, but all in all it’s a very enjoyable record. Its strengths are many and its faults are few. Let’s give credit where credit is due; the MoFi is dynamic, transparent, sweet, and open, and you won’t hear us saying that about very many MOFI pressings.
It belongs in their Top Ten (a list we have yet to make, for some reason we never find the time!), toward the bottom I would guess, due to its own sloppy bottom, but that’s half-speed mastering for you. Like most new audio technologies it was a giant step in the wrong direction.
We suppose you could live with the blubbery MoFi bass found on their remastered LP — most audiophiles seem more than happy to, right? — but instead, we’re happy to report that it will no longer be necessary. All our Hot Stamper copies are guaranteed to trounce it.
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