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Title: Great album, lousy remaster
Review: I agree with everyone else here that this album is extraordinary. My complaint is with Rhino's remastering job, which is simply atrocious for this album. "Introduction" begins almost a semitone flat, and is seriously distorted at times. "Beginnings" is distorted during the big climax. So is "Questions 67 & 68." Etc. The mastering engineer cranked the average levels WAY up to make the album louder, and the results are often unlistenable.The original two-CD version is dated but okay. The one to get, alas, is the gold-CD MasterSound issue, now out of print. You can, however, get almost 2/3 of the album in the "Group Portrait" box, which is remastered very well by Mark Wilder.Again, my single star rating applies to this remaster, NOT to the music, which earns five stars. Rhino should be ashamed of themselves.
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