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The REAL King of Rock & Roll

Niels | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 01/29/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

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To me Eddie Cochran deserves that description!



Great songwriting, great energy, great singing & shouting and great guitar playing... and far ahead of his time.



This is a superb collection and the best you can get on a single disc compilation of this unique artist!

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Decent sound...terrible copy protection

Comic Online | Washington, DC United States | 01/21/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"First, i don't know what that other reviewer is talking about. He made some kind of over-the-top comparison to this having bad, muddy sound quality. These tracks sound pretty good. No, the sound quality is not as good as something recorded today. Maybe to your ears, not as good as on your radio. But how can you compare a CD of Cochran now to what was on your radio 50 years ago??? That's completely anecdotal. Even 50 minutes between listens is too long to make an accurate quality comparison, let alone 50 years.



Remember, Cochran recorded in low-class studios in the mid/late '50s. All the vocals come through clean, as do all the instrumentation. It does distort slightly at the top end, but that's inherent in the original recordings. There's nothing you can do about that. If you try to mask it, you destroy the sound. This disc is fast, immediate, and in-your-face, with scorching guitar solos, and searing vocals. Be assured that the sound quality is what this music deserves.



But the downside...this will NOT WORK ON EVERY CD PLAYER. This disc has a special copy control encoding that doesn't allow it to play on many car steros, portable CD players, or computers (i.e., forget importing it to your ipod!) If you don't believe me, it says so RIGHT ON THE CASE. I don't have a car or a portable CD player, but i know it won't play on my Mac Mini. First disc in...oh thousands that wouldn't play. so, buyer beware!"

Recording Quality Rips Off the Buyer AND Eddie Cochran

44Fribbitz | Gettysburg, PA | 08/03/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I'm old enough to have heard Eddie's records when they were hits played on the radio (AM, of course), and have always loved his music. But I must give this CD a rating of "1" because of the astonishingly poor quality of the recording; it sounds like the 6th copy someone made of a bootleg 8-track, and a cheap 8-track at that. The 'engineers' who made this recording somehow managed to reproduce a sound that is at once muddy, muffled, AND twangy. It's un-listenable, no matter how much you might like Eddie Cochran. I'm sorry I contributed to their making money by exploiting a great, pioneering Rock & Roller. Skip this dog, and maybe look for something of Eddie's that doesn't contain the one word that should have tipped me off, i.e., "[IMPORT].""