Blue Avocado?

RedMosquito02 said:

MedozK said:

Love Discogs. First thing I do with every music purchase is log it in to my collection.

Same here
:-bd

I joined up yesterday and started to log my vinyl last night...what have I become...???

Still I like that it values it for you, pretty cool site.

Yeah, I'm going to try logging all my stuff on discogs one of these days too... maybe in the winter. Definitely helpful for insurance purposes, and once a collection gets to a certain point, probably useful just for deciding on what to play! Guydudebro, that is some collection! Holy shit, how long is fhat going to take you?? You've definitely inspired me to enter my collection before it grows anymore.

Glad to hear about Discollector- been needing something that would interface with my discogs account. I have <100 discs, but my wantlist is growing all the time lol

Avocado arrived from Germany today. Just to confirm a few things most of you already know.

The jacket seems like it has been made very marginally small (the white sleeves are just visible when closed and it's a slight squeeze when the booklet is enclosed because the quality of card that is used warps a little.

The booklet looks amazing and is really good heavy quality like you come to expect from a regular release.

The jacket colour is a different shade of blue to the original and the pixelation although noticable is nothing major to complain about if you are picking up one of these at the same price as I did (around regular new release price).

As for the vinyl, I've not owned the original and I'm more likely to ever own a re-release than spend £200 on one so if this was to sound inferior to the CD I would have waited for PJ to release it again. It doesn't and I will still buy any eventual re-release. What I need is someone who owns an original to hear and review this so I can see if what I'm hearing is indeed correct but to me this sounds really stunning on vinyl and I'm really glad I bought this. I listened to it through headphones, something I have done many times on many different systems in CD, mp3, etc and tonight a bootleg vinyl copy on a pretty cheap deck through £40 Sony headphones sounded really special. Plus the blue marble is beautiful.

The guitars on the heavier songs sounded crunchier and the subtleties on the quieter songs, particularly the keys were far more dynamic. Inside Job and Severed Hand stood out a lot more than usual for me plus songs like Army Reserve, Marker In The Sand and Unemployable that sometimes make this album a bit middle of the road for me sounded really fresh compared with my normal experience with this album.

Anyone having any doubts about this not being worth spending the relatively small amount they are becoming available for shouldn't be worried about not getting a really decent stopgap copy and surely you could buy a re-release and keep it sealed and just use this instead? The only issue with this album that I see is a moral one that people seem very divided over but I'm happy with my purchase and don't feel any guilt about it whatsoever. Here's some photos:














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Thanks for the review! Cannot wait to get mine in the mail...

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJ_Soul said:

I think that Avocado has the best album artwork. No Code is clearly an amazing package, and LB is pretty sweet too, but I love the total fucking weirdness of the artwork on S/T.

:-/ Why?

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJ_Soul said:

I think that Avocado has the best album artwork. No Code is clearly an amazing package, and LB is pretty sweet too, but I love the total fucking weirdness of the artwork on S/T.

How about "Please stop posting Christina Aguilera clips..."

:-?

It Should Be Green!

Unimaginative bastards....

I got mine today. It looks really sharp and sounds pretty good too. I don't have a comparison when it comes to the cover, but yeah it looks maybe a little darker than in the pics I have seen of the original. The booklet makes a very good impression. I am very happy with my purchase