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Finland Freakout 1971 |  | Artist: The Pink Fairies
Label: MLP
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $4.45
as of 9/9/2010 03:50 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 76607
Genre: alternative-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 2849 Minutes
ASIN: B001DP6RDA
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Potentially Good Concert Ruined January 12, 2010
Fritz Gerlich (admin@audioetc.info)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'll dispense with my normal review structure and just comment on the sound quality.
This concert had the potential to sound half decent if the mastering guy hadn't been told to make it as loud as possible.
Anyway, the phenomena is called 'the loudness war', and you can google that for more info. Music, like all natural sound, has louder parts and quieter parts, this is called dynamics. A cd as a digital medium has a maximum signal value it can contain which is defined as 0 dB, any sound below that is represented by a negative number with dB as the units. What many modern mastering engineers are told to do is make every sound during every second of a cd 0 or as close to 0 as possible. They do this by reducing the volume of the loud parts so that it is the same volume as the quiet bits, then they amplify the whole thing so it is at 0 dB. Whispers become as loud as shouts, drum hits are no louder than quiet guitar parts. The sonic cost to this process is to destroy the punch of drums, make bass sound like a continual indistinct flatulence, make sound waves to clip, and to create digital distortion.
The whole point behind that is that when someone is listening to music from a variety of sources, the music that has crammed the most signal into the digital representation will sound louder. This of course assumes that the person doesn't use the volume knob or a replaygain-like volume normalizer. You've probably had the experience of listening to track from a cd mastered in the 80s followed by one from 00s and having your eardrums blown out. This is why.
Anyway, this disc is one a good example of how music can be neutered by horrid mastering. And no, it is not a result of the original tapes, this concert was recorded very well as I have heard it in an alternate form and it sounds miles better than this travesty. It's always funny when the officially released version sounds way worse than the other ones.
Although it seems like many don't care about sound quality which is why companies keep telling the mastering guys to wreck music; and some people keep buying the stuff even when things sound unnecessarily terrible, so of course ymmv and you may very well love this record.
 The Apocalypse comes to Turku May 20, 2009
lawzlo
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Recorded live at the Turku Rock Festival, it's awesome that they made this available. Wild, heavy, out-of-control jams of 'Uncle Harry's Last Freakout' (off their first album) and 'the Snake' (their [first?] single), as well as surf-rock standard 'Walk, Don't Run' and Beatles psychedelic classic 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. I don't think either the Ventures or the Fabs had ever been butchered quite this uniquely (or massacred quite this brilliantly).
Don't expect a clean, sanitized, melodious or finessed performance. Expect a band that sounds like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tripping out and smashing planets at random. With feedback.
Proto-punk? Proto-metal? God only knows. I'm just glad they put this out. How about a release of their performance *outside* the Isle of Wight Music Festival? If such a recording exists...
 Pink Fairies - 'Finland Freakout 1971' (Major League Productions) April 26, 2009
Mike Reed (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great-sounding archive live performance from the Pink Fairies. Gig took place on August 21, 1971 at the Finland Turku Rock Festival. My only complaint is this vintage show should've been a bit longer - but that's okay. Live recording you get here has that 'like you are there' sound. Starts off with their powerful Beatle's cover "Tomorrow Never Knows", then "The Snake" followed the UK psychedelic punkster's classic - the twenty-minute ripping "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" and the set closer, their homage the the surf legends The Venture's thirteen-minute "Walk Don't Run". Line-up was strictly a trio - Paul Rudolph-guitar & vocals, Duncan Sanderson-bass and Russell Hunter-drums. So highly recommended, I often get dizzy just thinking about it.
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