One track from the “soundtrack of my life” that I hadn’t played since around the time it was released was “Walking on the Moon” from the Police’s Regatta de Blanc. There is a strange sound at the beginning that was always audible and part of the track but I could never make sense of on my college system. When I played it on my Vivaldi for the first time I had to laugh out loud, it’s mains hum on a guitar amp!
Can’t argue with your choice of Mayonnaise. That whole album has significant meaning for me. It got me through sleepless nights lonely at boarding school with my Panasonic personal cd player with MASH!
When I was 16, I bought the LP of Genesis, Nursery Cryme. On the stereo of my parents, the first track “Musical Box” started gently and it sounded great, but then in the middle of the track it was a kind of a chaos, I always jumped on the amplifier to lower the sound…I never understood, at that time, why Genesis ruined that song with this messy sound…And 30 years later, when I had a much better stereo than my parents (100 times better, probably 100 times the price), I heard this song completely different, no messy sound, I was able to hear a complex piece of music, but every instrument was precise and I heard the harmony instead of a noisy dissonance. I was shocked how much a good stereo can make a difference !
Made me reconsider my stage dive at a Clash show in SFO, circa 1982, fueled by liquor and ludes. Upon hearing it on the dCS>Naim>Dynaudio rig, I knew I was right to do it at the time, and wiser at 18 than I knew.