Standard 🇺🇸 edition has the cheapest and most flimsy excuse for cover art. Minimal if any credits or liner notes. The European edition has a 24 page booklet and slightly different cover art. Its the same primary image but somehow it's easier to appreciate with a larger contrast in color. The U.S. edition pits the main image against a background of very similar colors. I really have to squint to see what it is Im looking at.
The sound quality is top notch. "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" opens the disc with a thunderous jolt of energy and is immediately followed by the quintessential Collins ballad "Against All Odds". The 💿 alternates between fast and slow up until track 8, "Separate Lives", which follows the somber midtempo classic "Another Day In Paradise". Tracks 3 4 & 5 are all from the sfx heavy album NO JACKET REQUIRED. The sfx are somewhat replicated on stage but it just isn't as interesting. The musuc itself is ok. The seminal ballad "One More Night" fares best of tge three. The other two are kind of goofy and just pass on as background noise for this here dude who's heard this album about a million times by now...Oddky enough, "Sussudio" might actually surpass or at least equal it in qualitt despite the song being kind of dumb to begin with and overly repetitive and extended here into a SEVEN MINUTE track(!)
"Take Me Home" is one of my personal favorites and lingers on about 2 minutes longer than necessary in this recording.
I bought the European edition yesterday for $8 with shipping arriving from Germany. I got $1.25 of that refunded by requesting it ship without jewel case.
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