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title: "File Under: Easy Listening"
brand: "merge records"
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# File Under: Easy Listening

**Brand:** merge records
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File Under: Easy Listening

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## Customer Reviews

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    Original vs Remaster: An Audiophile Faceoff
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014*

This is the audiophile review.First off, the original version was released on Rykodisc in 1994. The remastered version was released on Merge Records in 2012. The Remaster comes with b-sides, a live disc from 1994 in Minneapolis and an excellent booklet with lyrics, pics and interviews with all three guys.The sound.I did an A/B comparison using a Philips dual disc recorder with record level meters.The remastered version is night and day compared to the original. The volume is louder. There is more and better bass. The drums are full. Guitar soundstage is full, wide and huge. Guitar has a 3D sound. It's more stereo like compared to the "wall of sound" presented on the original. There is so much more detail. I heard guitar parts I had never heard before. It's like listening to the CD vs the radio. The original sounds compressed and flat and like it was an album transfered to CD vs mastered on CD.The remastered version is exciting, live, raw, electric, dynamic and full sounding compared to original. And if that didn't convince you, the b-sides and live disc should.

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    How a Remaster Should Be Done
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2012*

It was already a classic, but the remastering is like a perfect restoration of a museum-quality work painting; it's cleaner, a bit louder (but not in the loudness war fashion!), it's the way Mould intended, as he stated in the liner notes.  What Mould's done with the Sugar albums and what Corgan's done with the Pumpkins' catalog are how albums should be remastered; subtle  re-balancing and cleaning up here, tweaking and equalizing there.  Compared to the Nevermind "remaster disaster," these are works of art.  Well, that's not saying much, but you get the idea.As far as the original album goes, like I said, it was already one of my favorites from the era I grew up in, and the b-sides are solid (I can see where Mould says including them as the second half instead would've made the album more like Copper Blue) and also sound better than their appearance on the B-Sides album.  Speaking of, the inclusion of the concert album from the original production run of that album is just icing on the cake, especially at the price.  I never heard the original version, so I can't say if this, too, was remastered, but it sounds great and is worth the price alone ($11.99 when I bought it).Whether or not you have this album already, and have any love for 80s/90s alternative music, pick up the remaster.  It's worth it.  It's too bad more artists don't take this much time and care with their reissues.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    very good album by Sugar
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2001*

Sugar's FILE UNDER EASY LISTENING is a fine CD, with plenty of good songs.You probably know Bob Mould from his days co-fronting the legendary Husker Du.  He went on to make some solo records, then he worked in SUGAR.  Sugar made an album entitled Copper Blue, then they made this little gem.In a nutshell, Sugar are noisy but very tuneful post-punk pop music.  Bob Mould's music was always marked by sharp songwriting and rough production.  The production on FU:EL is a bit tighter than what Husker Du had, and the songs sound about as much like Pixies as they do Husker Du, but the magic is still there."I Can't Believe What You're Saying" is a poppy little song, easy to sing along to, with a catchy chorus.  It almost sounds like "Sugar Unplugged" compared to the rest of the songs.Most of the other songs on the album tend towards noisy but tuneful rock.  "Panama City Motel" strikes a chord with anyone who has spent a night in a foreign city, feeling homesick.  "Company Book" has a different feeling altogether; I think it may have been written by one of the other members of Sugar.  My favorite song is called "What You Want It To Be," which is heavier and more repetitive than the rest of the songs on this record.All the songs on this CD do NOT sound the same.  There's quite a bit of diversity here; I haven't listened to the CD in months, and I can distinctly recall the melodies of each of these songs I've mentioned.Most of the songs here are strong.  There is only one I don't like.  If you like noisy 90s pop music with strong songwriting, don't overlook FILE UNDER:  EASY LISTENING.  I think it's an essential purchase.ken32

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