Of itself that isn't so remarkable as over the years series has been issued covering many artists and a good number of their Beach Boys and Steely Dan titles were bought here not least because they did bring real improvements in sound quality over previous major label issues that build upon the musical experience for hearing more subtleties in the playing originally captured.
What seems more controversial is an increasing trend to take single lps and cut them at 45 rpm, the speed of singles which often results in making what was a single lp into a double which a typical price of some $60, typical just under twice as much.
Apart from now having four get up from the listening chair to flip over the sides rather than two every ten minutes or so what has to be remembered is a recording was made with a format in mind.
Where a album comprises of relatively short individual songs that fade out to silence, to further split the initial sides is not so difficult so say a twelve song album originally split into two groups of six now becomes four groups of three but what is more difficult is where a track may run over ten minutes which takes us to the heart of this controversy.
Take the progressive rock group Yes's You And I for instance that runs for a whole 33 1/3 lp side around some twenty one minutes, this cannot be cut as one side at 45 rpm which means it gets split up between a whole lp.
The idea is to improve sound at the end of the disc which as the effective distance diminishes can compromise the high notes and tracking which if you own a few of these or perhaps UK 12" single singles that are cut at 45 rpm you'll know just how good it can get .
Finding a natural point to effectively pause the track before resuming on the other side is difficult and may involve fading out and then in rather reminiscent of how songs were split up to fit within the four fixed lengths of Eight Track tapes in the seventies and early eighties.
That has lead some to say whatever the technical merits of 45 rpm cutting of albums are, it really detracts from the listener experience, something I feel does matter and why it is likely I'll stick with the super audio cd issues instead.
The full release schedule:
Charles Mingus / Blues & Roots
AAPA 001-45
$60.00
Genesis / A Trick Of The Tail
AAPA 073-45
$60.00
Les McCann & Eddie Harris / Swiss Movement
AAPA 071-45
$60.00
Boz Scaggs / Boz Scaggs
AAPA 070-45
$60.00
Foreigner / 4
AAPA 069-45
$60.00
Foreigner / Head Games
AAPA 068-45
$60.00
Ray Charles / The Genius After Hours
Mono
AAPA 067-45
$60.00
Ray Charles / The Genius Of Ray Charles
AAPA 066-45
$60.00
Yes / 90125
AAPA 065-45
$60.00
Yes / The Yes Album
AAPA 064-45
$60.00
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane
AAPA 063-45
$60.00
John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz
AAPA 062-45
$60.00
John Coltrane / Ole Coltrane
AAPA 061-45
$60.00
Charles Mingus / The Clown
Mono
AAPA 060-45
$60.00
Charles Mingus / Pithecanthropus Erectus
Mono
AAPA 059-45
$60.00
Bad Company / Desolation Angels
AAPA 058-45
$60.00
Bad Company / Burnin' Sky
AAPA 057-45
$60.00
Dr. John / Dr. John's Gumbo
AAPA 056-45
$60.00
Otis Redding / The Soul Album
AAPA 055-45
$60.00
Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack / Killing Me Softly
T-Bone Walker / T-Bone Blues
AAPA 053-45
$60.00
Donny Hathaway / Everything Is Everything
AAPA 052-45
$60.00
Donny Hathaway / Donny Hathaway
AAPA 051-45
$60.00
Daryl Hall and John Oates / Abandoned Luncheonette
AAPA 050-45
$60.00
Foreigner / Double Vision
AAPA 049-45
$60.00
Ray Charles / What'd I Say
AAPA 048-45
$60.00
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles
AAPA 047-45
$60.00
Dr. John / Gris Gris
AAPA 046-45
$60.00
Willie Nelson / Shotgun Willie
AAPA 045-45
$60.00
Yes / Close To The Edge
AAPA 044-45
$60.00
Genesis / Genesis
AAPA 043-45
$60.00
Genesis / Abacab
AAPA 042-45
$60.00
John Coltrane / Coltrane Plays The Blues
AAPA 041-45
$60.00
John Coltrane / Coltrane's Sound
AAPA 040-45
$60.00
Charles Mingus / Oh Yeah
AAPA 039-45
$60.00
Bad Company / Run With The Pack
AAPA 038-45
$60.00
Bad Company / Straight Shooter
AAPA 037-45
$60.00
Jimi Hendrix Experience/ Otis Redding / Complete & Unbelievable... The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
AAPA 036-45
$60.00
Otis Redding / Otis Blue- Otis Redding Sings Soul
AAPA 035-45
$60.00
The Velvet Underground / Loaded
AAPA 034-45
$60.00
Wilson Pickett / The Exciting Wilson Pickett
AAPA 025-45
$60.00
Buffalo Springfield / Buffalo Springfield Again
AAPA 024-45
$60.00
Buffalo Springfield / Buffalo Springfield
AAPA 023-45
$60.00
Crosby, Stills and Nash / Daylight Again
AAPA 022-45
$60.00
Crosby, Stills and Nash / CSN
AAPA 021-45
$60.00
Dusty Springfield / Dusty In Memphis
AAPA 017-45
$60.00
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young / Deja Vu
AAPA 020-45
$60.00
INXS / Kick
AAPA 032-45
$60.00
Hootie & The Blowfish / Cracked Rear View
AAPA 030-45
$60.00
Stone Temple Pilots / Purple
AAPA 029-45
$60.00
Stone Temple Pilots / Core
AAPA 028-45
$60.00
Genesis / Foxtrot
AAPA 027-45
$60.00
Genesis / Nursery Chryme
AAPA 026-45
$60.00
Yes / Fragile
AAPA 014-45
$60.00
Matchbox Twenty / Yourself Or Someone Like You
AAPA 031-45
$60.00
David Crosby / If I Could Only Remember My Name
AAPA 019-45
$60.00
John Coltrane / Giant Steps
45 RPM 180 Gram Vinyl
AAPA 010-45
$60.00
John Coltrane / My Favorite Things
45 RPM 180 Gram Vinyl
AAPA 011-45
$60.00
Alice Cooper / Welcome To My Nightmare
AAPA 015-45
$60.00
Genesis / The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Crosby, Stills and Nash / Crosby, Stills & Nash
AAPA 018-45
$60.00
Phil Collins / Hello I Must Be Going!
AAPA 012-45
$60.00
Bad Company / Bad Company
AAPA 009-45
$60.00
Foreigner / Foreigner
AAPA 008-45
$60.00
Ray Charles / Ray Charles
Mono Version
AAPA 007-45
$60.00
Dr. John / In The Right Place
AAPA 006-45
$60.00
Otis Redding / The Dock Of The Bay
AAPA 005-45
$60.00
John Prine / John Prine
45 RPM 180 Gram
AAPA 004-45
$60.00
Phil Collins / Face Value
AAPA 003-45
$60.00
Genesis / Selling England By The Pound
Catalogue numbers are for the 45 rpm vinyl editions, nearly all will be super audio with CAPA prefixes.
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