Rating: - bad mastering
This CD contains some of the best of The Art of Noise but the mastering is awful. On Paranomia which fetures Max Headroom the mastering is so bad that his voice is barely audible. Why no Beatbox on this CD? All in all 5 stars for the great songs but 1 star for the mastering. Don't buy this CD, get the songs on their other CD's.
Rating: - And if music were processed like noise?
Superb work on voice that is mostly reduced to syllables over and over reproduced and repeated with at times a change of intonation. English at first it very fast moves to some African language. And instruments come into the picture but only to accompany these voices with a rhythm or with a harmonic background or packaging. The African rhythm of Yebo is truly close to a trance beating the rhythm at least three times faster than the voice is singing. They create an amazing sound harmony in some tracks by associating the instruments and the voices in all possible ways. The guitar in Peter Gunn sounds so much like some Ennio Morricone music turned slightly urban jazzy and corrugated into some strange never stable patchwork of sounds coming who knows where from. They pretend we are quite safe here, but Paranoimia is by far a trip into the sound of some Hollywood old films that are mixing their atmospheres by providing ... Read More
Rating: - BLUE vs. PINK Versions revealed !
I finally decided to upgrade my A.O.N. cassetes to CD,
and I had forgotten there were two versions of the 'Best Of A.O.N.'- blue AND pink- which I still resent today as when I was first was forced to choose-
(and there is confusion when the color specification is missing - so hopefully this helps you to choose the color that's right for you.
When I first discovered A.O.N., I was enthralled.
I opted then for the BLUE version on cassette because it had more songs and boasted the extended and 'AON' mixes(which are essentially just extended post-release), but fear it's demise as cassette decks become harder to replace.
Over the years, I came to accept this BLUE version as the definitive collection of A.O.N., but, alas, some of the extended,
mixes were kind of long-winded (like this version of 'Dragnet 88' with a Dan Ackroyd sampled vocal overdose,
and the superfluous, repetetive ... Read More
Rating: - Noise is the Art!
Ok, I'm going to preface this with a quick mention of the fact that when I clicked on the search result link, it was the version of this CD with the pink cover. However, once on the page with the details, it was the blue cover CD image that was displayed. They are 2 distinctly different albums. But both are great and deserving of 5 stars. My review is of the pink cover issue.
The reason for the different coloured covers was to distinguish them. The pink release features single mixes of some of the tracks on the blue release, and also tracks not on the blue issue. I'm sure part of the reason was to encourage fans to buy both. The other is that the pink cover came out after another album was released and they wanted to include tracks from that, in case fans hadn't bought that album.
'The Best Of The Art Of Noise' 1992 (in pink), opens with the same track as the 1988 (in blue), the delightful "Opus 4" and its multi ... Read More
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