What are the chances of 20th Anniversary Vinyl Pressing of 'The Holy Bible'?

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by Suicide Aldi

I would hope so, i nice 180g double gatefold LP Would be lovely.

why 180g?

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Originally Posted by Suicide Aldi

I would hope so, i nice 180g double gatefold LP Would be lovely.

I disagree also. Why 180g? Let vinyl just be vinyl not a luxury product! Too many albums are over £20!
Lyric posters would be cool!!!

[Porco]

Originally Posted by Donkey

why 180g?

Originally Posted by ( )

I disagree also. Why 180g? Let vinyl just be vinyl not a luxury product! Too many albums are over £20!

Why wouldn't you want it on 180g if the choice was there? Madness.

[Hans]

Originally Posted by Librarian On Fire

"The Holy Bible" must have been one of these cases where it went straight on cd and not vinyl.

Originally Posted by Takk

No, there was a picture disk, just not a regular one (although it's long been claimed there was).

It could be argued though, that picture disks, with their inferior sound quality, are more merchandising gimmicks than real vinyl albums. In that sense THB never got a proper LP release.

[Hans]

Originally Posted by Donkey

why 180g?

Originally Posted by ( )

I disagree also. Why 180g? Let vinyl just be vinyl not a luxury product! Too many albums are over £20!

Originally Posted by Porco

Why wouldn't you want it on 180g if the choice was there? Madness.

True. Why not get the best of the best when asking for a better product?
Do you not intend to listen to it?

[hummingbird]

I'm not usually fussed about 180g but in this case yes please

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by Porco

Why wouldn't you want it on 180g if the choice was there? Madness.

OK, I ask again: why 180g?

Originally Posted by Hans

It could be argued though, that picture disks, with their inferior sound quality, are more merchandising gimmicks than real vinyl albums. In that sense THB never got a proper LP release.

of course PDs look good on the wall only

Originally Posted by Hans

True. Why not get the best of the best when asking for a better product?
Do you not intend to listen to it?

Originally Posted by hummingbird

I'm not usually fussed about 180g but in this case yes please

and again: am I missing something?

I don't believe you want to say that 180g 12" plays better than 140g 12" ;-)
so what's the point then?

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by Donkey

OK, I ask again: why 180g?



of course PDs look good on the wall only





and again: am I missing something?

I don't believe you want to say that 180g 12" plays better than 140g 12" ;-)
so what's the point then?

no idea why its 180g mate..it's meant to be the highest quality soundwise. Ask a sound engineer for specifics

[Dancing Kirby]

Originally Posted by Donkey

I don't believe you want to say that 180g 12" plays better than 140g 12" ;-)
so what's the point then?

The thicker the vinyl, the less chance of warping.

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

no idea why its 180g mate..it's meant to be the highest quality soundwise. Ask a sound engineer for specifics

Nonsense, 140g 12" is better sound quality than 180g

Originally Posted by Dancing Kirby

The thicker the vinyl, the less chance of warping.

Yes, that's true, however warped vinyl is a faulty one, so no 140g which is being sold should be warped. And if it's slightly warped and it doesn't affect the sound in a significant way, 140g is still superior to 180g.

Btw. I'm talking about black vinyl of course, if they do some colour version the sound is completely lost

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by Donkey

Nonsense, 140g 12" is better sound quality than 180g

ok

[Hans]

Originally Posted by Donkey

Nonsense, 140g 12" is better sound quality than 180g

Okay, well, that settles that.

[Takk]

Originally Posted by Donkey

Nonsense, 140g 12" is better sound quality than 180g

According to who?

[Porco]

I don't claim to be an expert on vinyl but I'm not convinced 140g is better in terms of potential quality than 180g (at least in principle, I know there are many other factors involved that are more important and that there are many examples of even 120g that sound better than say 200g…), but we're talking a hypothetical release anyway so… *shrugs*

I'd rather have multi-track lossless hi-res digital audio files anyway if we're making up fantasy releases.

[Dancing Kirby]

They've never been much of an audiophile band anyway. The recent vinyl releases have been token efforts. The vinyl only b-sides are forever destined to be heard as muddy and flat.

For a THB release to meet the Steve Hoffman forums' seal of approval...

It would need to be a double album, 45rpm.
Mastered from analogue properly.
Not brickwalled.
Vinyl is clear so black vinyl is coloured - and to paraphrase Michael Jackson, it doesn't matter if it's black or white. Or red or blue, though those colours wouldn't really suit the album.

Do not fuck with the Steve Hoffman forums, Sony...

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thread...344289/page-35

And even if all the above is met, MP3s of the US mix will still sound superior, so it's all about the packaging.

A 4x vinyl of the original and US mixes. One on black, the other on white, in separate sleeves in an outer box to fit a 12x12 book featuring all the crap Nicky said he found. No extra tat. I'll go up to £60, Wire, and you can release a simple THB vinyl for £15 as well. Run to Sony with this, Wire, RUN!!!!