Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster [Picture Vinyl]
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Artist: Lady GaGaEdition: Vinyl
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo
CD Release Date: 2009-12-15
Music Label: Interscope Records
Music reviews of The Fame Monster [Picture Vinyl]
Music Review: Great Album but many flaws......
Rating: 1 Stars
This is a great album, musically that is. Keep in mind that this review is for the VINYL LP and not the CD. First, I usually give fair reviews and even when I don't like a product, I usually commend Amazon for its quick, simple and easy return policy. This review will have criticism of both Amazon and record company itself.
First Amazon, as with so many vinyl lp record album purchases, damage damage damage! My first ever Amazon purchase was packaged so poorly that a brick would barely have survived!! I have noticed with more orders that the packaging seems to be improving. When I received this Lady GaGa Fame Monster album, I was very impressed to see a firm outer box, then a inner box used for album shipping, both boxes firmly intact. Keep in mind this is a PICTURE DISC ALBUM and not a typical album that comes in a typical album sleeve, it comes in a thick plasic jacket which is standard for most picture albums. Someone at Amazon thought it would be a good idea to put a rubber band along the length of this plastic sleeve to keep it from opening (if in the right box, which it was, this would NOT happen), this rubber band made a permanent sharp fold in the plastic, a NO NO for album collectors. Secondly, the bottom of the plastic sleeve, and BOTH sides are split open, allowing the album to fall out, third, there is a section that the plastic is broken and ripped. Firm, intact shipping boxes but damaged product indicate to me a storage and/or handling problem WITHIN THE AMAZON WHAREHOUSES.
Now for the actual album review: Great music BUT if your ordering vinyl albums to avoide that crappy CD sound, forget this vinyl album. It was very obviously mastered (made) from the CD!! The sound is god awful, very over amped, (recording level set WAY to high) resulting in distortion, and nothing but distorted thumping BASS. Many of you may be used to this with CD's and it's the very reason vinyl albums are coming back, "The Loudness War" (google search it) is the process where sound engineers are cranking up the recording level SO high (just because they can) that in the process they are actually degrading the sound and the result is very low, poor DYNAMIC RANGE (something that CD's are supposed to be superior to over albums) and have resulted in people from age 13 to 99 either discovering for the first time or re-discovering just how great a vinyl album can sound.
Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster sounds like total crap! It is NOT music, it is PURE NOISE!! You may read similar reviews about Metallica's "Death Magnetic" - the distortion was SO bad that the company had to do a remaster of the CD and issue replacements and refunds. Lastly, for those who do NOT know, vinyl albums are supposed to be mastered from the original studio TAPES, yes tapes of studio recording quality that have far superior sound than CD's. Most all CD's are mastered from studio TAPES. It's the mastering process where the sound engineer can "over do it" on the recording levels. Some studios are taking a "short cut" and mastering Vinyl albums from the CD!! So that means that all flaws evident on the CD re-record to the vinyl!!
SHAME ON INTERSCOPE RECORDS!!!! SHAME SHAME SHAME!! Lady GaGa has a magnificant voice, her Vinyl "The Fame" is brilliant, YOU DESTROYED HER LATEST ALBUM and I can only imagine just how much worse the CD sounds!! STOP THE LOUDNESS WAR PEOPLE!! The music industry has fallen on it's ass with illegal MP3 downloads and I was starting to buy music again ON VINYL in large quantity just because the quality was coming back, plus the ARTWORK that you can NOT get with CD's. Keep this up and I'll go back to free, illegal file sharing downloads, I'm not paying hard earned money for CRAP whether it's on CD, Vinyl, cassette or 8 track. STOP
Description of The Fame Monster [Picture Vinyl]
"THE FAME MONSTER" TO BE RELEASED IN 3 VERSIONSThe Fame Monster, in three different versions - a standard version of the new 8-song album; a deluxe version which includes both The Fame Monster and her massively successful debut album The Fame; and this collector's edition super-deluxe art book version, which includes both albums, fanzines, 3-D glasses, paper dolls, a puzzle, pictorials, a lock of Lady Gaga's hair and other surprises.
Says Lady Gaga, "In the midst of my creative journey composing The Fame Monster, there came an exciting revelation that this was in fact my sophomore album. I would not add, nor take away any songs from this EP, it is a complete conceptual and musical body of work that can stand on its own two feet. It doesn't need The Fame." "We may have an economy, but MUSIC HAS NO ECONOMY. I will release four or more singles from The Fame Monster, tour the world with The Monster Ball Tour, and most importantly
I insist on honoring my fans with an affordable new album, an album that is as loyal to them, as they have been me." "For those who do not have my debut album, there are a series of collectible double-disc editions that include both albums and artwork conceived by the Haus of Gaga in collaboration with our mentor Hedi Slimane. Hear the music, see the show, live and love yourself...Lady Gaga."
Lady Gaga is the first artist since the inception of monitored airplay to chart four #1 hits at Top 40 Radio -"Just Dance," "Poker Face," "LoveGame," and "Paparazzi."
Has an album title ever been so self-prophetic? In its first year, this electropop opus rocketed Lady Gaga from unknown New York lounge singer to the world?s biggest pop star this side of Britney Spears. The Fame?s brand of pop is shamelessly decadent: 11 of its 13 songs are about money, celebrity, sex, clubbing, or a sticky combination of all four. It?s insipid subject matter, unless you consider Gaga as less of a silly, manufactured blonde than an ingenious artist playing the part of a glitzy pop star. Witness The Fame?s impeccably sleek opening songs, from the carelessly rambling chorus of ?Just Dance? to the snappy, futuristic beat of ?LoveGame?: Gaga?s got the outrageous outfits and dance moves down to a science, but underneath it all, the music is aggressive and authoritarian in ways that most other Top 40 tunes are not. Often compared to Gwen Stefani?s, Gaga?s vocals are in fact richer and rounder, allowing her a certain stylistic versatility, and her personae alternate from wild party kid to vulnerable lover. Some of the risks don?t always pay off, but the Lady Gaga of the dark and ardent megahit ?Poker Face? prevails. She is commandeering enough, bizarre and beguiling enough, to ensure that she?ll be basking in our attention for a very long time. --Erin Thompson
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