https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 05 May 2026 05:36:00 +0000 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:55:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7330 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37048&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37048 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7330
Posted: 18 March 2013 at 5:55pm

Good catch, Aaron. I only have the Like Omigod set,
but it's a painfully obvious glitch in the opening note.]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:55:27 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37048&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37048 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37045&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37045 Author: aaronk
Subject: 7330
Posted: 18 March 2013 at 9:35am

Ron, I just checked, and the discs that seem to be problematic are all on Rhino. I hear the glitch on these discs:

Like Omigod box set
Entertainment Weekly presents 80s Explosion
VH1 The Big 80s

The Billboard 1982 disc actually sounds fine, though.]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:35:09 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37045&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37045 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37044&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37044 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7330
Posted: 18 March 2013 at 7:22am

Interesting! I'll go back and re-listen. Details to follow...]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:22:43 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37044&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37044 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37043&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37043 Author: aaronk
Subject: 7330
Posted: 17 March 2013 at 9:55pm

Ron, there are a number of discs that have a very slight glitch or drop
out in the opening note. I found at least one copy that does not have
the slight drop out, but I don't remember which disc is on. I think it might
be the full-length Freeze-Frame cd. Maybe you can confirm this.]]> Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:55:56 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37043&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37043 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7330&PID=37040&title=j-geils-band-centerfold#37040 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7330
Posted: 17 March 2013 at 11:50am

The good news is that it's really difficult to find a version of this song that doesn't sound good on CD. (There's no bad news.)

The EMI version of the Freeze-Frame sounds very nice. The song runs 114.3 BPM (it uses a live drummer playing with a click track.) The same analog transfer is used for these CDs:

• Razor & Tie's 2-CD Totally '80s (1993)
• JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1980-1984 (1994)
• Warner Special Products' 2-CD Rock This Way (1995)
• Disky's 8-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s (1998)
• Disky's 8-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s (2002)
• EMI's 2-CD Best Of 1982-1983

There's a version on EMI-Manhattan's Flashback (1985) that runs 114.5 BPM. The Flashback is a little quiet, but otherwise sounds very nice. The same analog transfer is used for:

• Madacy's Rock On 1981 (1996; digitally exactly 4.5 dB louder)
• EMI's Rock 'N Roll Relix 1980-1981 (1998; digitally exactly 4.4 dB louder)

There's a version on Priority's Eighties Greatest Rock Hits Vol. 4 Party On (1992), whichruns 114.4 BPM, is too loud and clips a bit. The same analog transfer is used for:

• Swaitek's promo A List Disc 13 (1994; has noise reduction - avoid)
• Cema's Greatest Hits Of The 80's Vol. 6 The Decade Of Excess (1994)
• Universal's Pure '80s (1999)

Bill Inglot did a new analog transfer for Billboard Top Hits 1982 (1992), where it runs 114.2 BPM. It doesn't sound that much different than the two EMI single-artist discs, but it's EQ'd with a little more high end, which I prefer. This same analog transfer is used on:

• Time-Life's Guitar Rock Vol. 13 The Early '80s (1994; digitally exactly 0.1 dB quieter)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Vol. 25 Rolling Stone 1980-1981 (1995)
• EMI UK's CDCard/Time To Remember 1982 (1997; has added compression)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Essential '80s (1998; digitally exactly 0.6 dB quieter)
• Rhino's 8-CD Like Omigod (2002; a little loud and clips a bit)

There's one outlier running 115.0 BPM on Australia's 5-CD Eighties Complete Vol. 1 (1997), which fades early before the cold ending - avoid.

Aside from the too-loud and NR'd discs, just about all of the above sound good. If I had to rate them based on sound quality, I'd vote for Rhino's Billboard Top Hits 1982 (1992).

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