Recommend some DVD-Audio titles for a newbie?
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Recommend some DVD-Audio titles for a newbie?
Hi, I recently got a sound card with DVD-A decoding and was wondering what the blow-you-away reference DVD-Audio titles were. In contrast, have you experienced any underwhelming, "why bother?" titles?
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I have several DVD-A discs and the two best are:
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 5.1 - a must if you own a dvd-a. It is by far the greatest dvd-a I have heard. Buy it now.
Beck: Sea Change - in my opinion his best album and it sound even better on dvd-a. It gets the most plays out of any of my discs.
Queen's mix of A Night At The Opera is outstanding and really made the album seem new to me. And this is one album I know backwards and forwards. The Game also sounds really good.
I like The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds but many people compained about the mix.
Others that I have that are good are Eagles: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac: Rumours and Elvis Presley: 30 #1 Hits.
Every disc pales in comparison after listening to the Flaming Lips/Yoshimi. Trust me.
I have others but those are the best. I hate to say it but I love the format but hardly ever listen to DVD-A anymore.
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 5.1 - a must if you own a dvd-a. It is by far the greatest dvd-a I have heard. Buy it now.
Beck: Sea Change - in my opinion his best album and it sound even better on dvd-a. It gets the most plays out of any of my discs.
Queen's mix of A Night At The Opera is outstanding and really made the album seem new to me. And this is one album I know backwards and forwards. The Game also sounds really good.
I like The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds but many people compained about the mix.
Others that I have that are good are Eagles: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac: Rumours and Elvis Presley: 30 #1 Hits.
Every disc pales in comparison after listening to the Flaming Lips/Yoshimi. Trust me.
I have others but those are the best. I hate to say it but I love the format but hardly ever listen to DVD-A anymore.
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Originally Posted by brianluvdvd
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 5.1 - a must if you own a dvd-a. It is by far the greatest dvd-a I have heard. Buy it now.
Beck: Sea Change - in my opinion his best album and it sound even better on dvd-a. It gets the most plays out of any of my discs.
Beck: Sea Change - in my opinion his best album and it sound even better on dvd-a. It gets the most plays out of any of my discs.
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Originally Posted by brianluvdvd
I like The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds but many people compained about the mix.
The only other one I have is "Automatic for the People" by R.E.M. It's pretty good.
BTW, if you're going to use WinDVD 7 to listen to them, don't download the latest update. Because of someone figuring out how to save the DVD-A streams, in addition to patching it, they disabled DVD-Audio support.
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Originally Posted by tor_greg
In contrast, have you experienced any underwhelming, "why bother?" titles?
Stone Temple Pilots: Core
The Doors: L.A. Woman
Metallica: Metallica (aka The Black Album)
Disturbed: Believe
Steely Dan: Everything Must Go & Two Against Nature
Again, none of these sound bad by any means but they won't blow your mind (or at least they didn't blow mine).
A couple of others I forgot to mention that I have:
Beck: Guero is decent.
Linkin Park: Reanimation - it sounds incredible but I would rather have the real albums instead of remixes.
Donald Fagen: The Nightfly & Kamakiriad - both of these sound better than the Steely Dan releases for some odd reason.
Hope that helps. I only spend the money on DVD-As by artists that I really like (unless I find a steal & want to try it out). The only DVD-A I ever bought & ended up getting rid of was a Chicago disc (can't remember which one).
What I learned is no matter how good the music sounds, it you don't like to listen to it, it's not worth buying.
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As others have mentioned, Flaming Lips is about as good as it gets, and more extras than you can shake a one-eyed snake at!
Tipper: Surrounded -Electronica/techno/chill-out with aggressive surround involvement. About half the songs are really good, but those alone are worth the purchase, videos included.
Buena Vista Social Club: Old school Latin/Cuban music with great accoustic/percussive surround involvement.
Dishwalla: Opaline- Great Alt/pop with incredibly subtle yet very effective surround ambience.
Tipper: Surrounded -Electronica/techno/chill-out with aggressive surround involvement. About half the songs are really good, but those alone are worth the purchase, videos included.
Buena Vista Social Club: Old school Latin/Cuban music with great accoustic/percussive surround involvement.
Dishwalla: Opaline- Great Alt/pop with incredibly subtle yet very effective surround ambience.
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Originally Posted by brianluvdvd
What I learned is no matter how good the music sounds, it you don't like to listen to it, it's not worth buying.
Along with the obvious already mentioned Lips and Beck discs, I love my Grateful Dead American Beauty DVD-A, along w/ Workingman's Dead. Ripple will indeed send Ripples up your arm, if the Dead are your thing.
Porcupine Tree's In Absentia is a pretty heavy mix, if you like them. I have not heard the new one yet.
Medeski Martin & Wood's Invisible is great, and in DTS-ES. If you have a rear center, it is a true 6.1 discrete mix, and highly recommended.
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Originally Posted by InnocentBlood
does any have the Iron Maiden Dance of Death DVD-A ? is it defective in any way?
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I would reccomend Dishwalla's - Opaline, too. Great audio commentary track from the band, as well.
And, of course, Beck's - Sea Change.
The only other I'd add, that no one else has yet, is Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral. That one really gave my surround system a good workout.
And, of course, Beck's - Sea Change.
The only other I'd add, that no one else has yet, is Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral. That one really gave my surround system a good workout.