u/vincentblacklight — reddlx

Tulls Biggest Leap

Interested to know what you guys think is the biggest transition Tull ever made -- not in membership -- but in style/sound pre-Zealot Gene. Throughout their career they were obviously evolving/progressing to various degrees, going through different phases. But where would you place the biggest leap/change -- not necessarily the best, mind you, but the BIGGEST change of direction. Where did they most starkly stop sounding like the band they were before?

I've chosen, to me, the most obvious contenders...but feel free to select Other and explain why you crazy Christmas album fans.

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u/vincentblacklight — 6 days ago

▲ 563 r/Jazz

AI Slop hits/horrifes the vinyl market

What in God's name is this awfulness?

https://a.co/d/004qcygO

You'd think those shopping for analog media would be free from this sort of thing...but here it is infecting us too. I just can't believe musical estates allow this sort of thing to be produced/generated.

EDIT: Having done a little research, it looks like Magic of Vinyl are a semi-legit grey market label in Germany (https://www.discogs.com/label/2124409-Magic-Of-Vinyl), exploiting cheap licensing as many such labels have always done. They've now just begun supercharging their design/packaging with AI. The moral of the story being that people should avoid this stuff at all costs obviously, but also tell their local record stores to stop buying cheaply-licensed digitally-ripped trash like this...and WaxTime...and DOL which are just as insidious.

PS For anyone still claiming that EU copyright law is to blame, take a look at the 2011 extension that they made (from 50 to 70 years after the composer/performer's death).

u/vincentblacklight — 1 month ago

▲ 3 r/jethrotull

MU Re-release

Anyone catch this? Seems pretty incongruous amidst all the recent Tull re-releases, but may be interesting to hear how the half-speed mastering affects these tunes, whether an improvement or not (I know there are some who say it's snake oil). I have all the tracks on different OG albums and re-releases, including Rainbow Blues off of the OG MU and the underappreciated Warchild II -- but I'm nuts and love all things Tull so I'll still probably pick this up.

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u/vincentblacklight — 2 months ago