Title: Buy the LP, not this sonic disaster
Product review: This is Donovan's best release, but DO NOT buy it on CD. The mastering is absolutely awful. Find a used LP of it and if you can't play LPs, have someone transfer the LP you just bought to cassette or CDR.The sound quality of the CD is criminal. Everything was maximized. That's where the quietest sounds are brought up to the same volume as the loudest sounds. The end result is no subtlety remains, no contrast remains, no music remains, no artistic vision remains.Not only that, but as others have mentioned, when remastered many portions are obviously and painfully DISTORTED. I don't know if they had a deaf chimpanzee running the controls or what. If so, he must have taken frequent banana breaks and left the mastering desk entirely for extended periods.
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