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Amazing Collection

PHILIP S WOLF | SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA. USA | 12/16/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I didn't need to purchase this Two CD Collection, as I have all I of these tracks on the original releases by Pete, but...



It's just Great to see 34 Fantastic Pete Townshend Songs right here all together in One Place at a Low Price.



With: "Rough Boys","A Friend Is A Friend","Pure And Easy" and "Let My Love Open The Door"...All the Big and well known Hits are here, and now they are right besides Lesser-Known Gems as: "Heart To Hang Onto","Keep Me Turning", "I Won't Run Anymore" and "Don't Try To Make Me Real".



To say this is THE Collection of The work of Pete Townshend, would be putting it Mildly. It is the place to begin for a New Listener, and for all of us that have been on The Magic Bus since the Year Dot, THIS IS The Collection that puts it all together properly.



This is an Excellent Collection and a nice Bargain...FIVE STARS !!!"

Avoid for AWFUL sound

J. Scott | 01/23/2009

(1 out of 5 stars)

"It's a damn shame what the record industry has done to itself and the artists' music that built it. Here is yet another fantastic, could have been perfect collection absolutely ruined by bombastic mastering methods. If you own the original LP's or Atlantic-issued CD's of the bulk of this material, hold on to those and make your own compilation. I find it amusing that any attention to detail was paid in assembling this product, as the liner notes state Jon Astley's remastering was done utilizing original mixes. What they don't tell you is that, in an effort to make this music as LOUD as possible, Astley and crew have completely squashed all dynamic range and utterly compressed the life OUT of these tracks, so that the (previously) softer passages are already too loud, making loud passages distorted beyond all measure of good sense. Sample "Exquisitely Bored" for an example of this and be sure to have a vomit bucket nearby, not for the song of course, but because of how bad it sounds here. Truly awful. If you care at all about quality sound, avoid this and pretty much anything mastered in digital beyond 1999. I really wanted to purchase other titles in the "Gold" series, but they have seen their last dime from me."