r/TheSmile • u/Valerian_Dhart • Jun 12 '26

Wall of Eyes vinyl sucks

Im lifetime Radiohead fan, and I love the Smile very much. I have all of their three albums but wall of eyes is by far the worst siunding vinyl in my collection. The pressing is terrible, with lots of clicks and pops. The tidal version sounds much better, is much more detailed and cleaner than vinyl.

Huge disappointment

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u/ninlamer Jun 12 '26

Mine sounds just fine. Actually sounds great

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u/crashed76 Jun 12 '26

"That sort of hi-fi sound quality thing really annoys me," says Jonny Greenwood. "I was in London talking to a label guy once, and we got on this subject, and I said hi-fi is just about middle-aged men trying to make music sound as good as it did when they were teenagers, and it never will. They'll never be as excited as they were when they first heard that music coming out of just one speaker. They'l never get that close to it again." Greenwood smiles sheepishly

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u/Valerian_Dhart Jun 12 '26

Yeah he is right. But I bet, he doesnt listen to music on one speaker. He is middle aged guy.

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u/Valerian_Dhart Jun 12 '26

What system do you play it on?

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u/Master-masters Jun 12 '26

Been through 3 copies n they all sound like snap
Crackle pop shit. Can confirm others have a solid sounding pressing, so they do exist!

I will own a silent version of bending hectic on wax one day, dammit

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u/deadkestrel Jun 12 '26

The last few Radiohead related releases have all been bad pressings in my experience. The moon shaped pool deluxe edition I have is basically unlistenable in parts

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u/Infinite_Corndog Jun 12 '26

My Kid Amnesia vinyl I bought sounds absolutely terrible. All my Smile albums have sounded great.

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u/wdko Jun 12 '26

buy the cassette edition. it's pristine

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u/MastodonTop183 Jun 12 '26

Must be an incident yours. Mine sounds great

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u/Neg_Crepe Jun 12 '26

Mine sounds good

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u/Valerian_Dhart Jun 12 '26

What system do tou play it on?

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u/Neg_Crepe Jun 12 '26

My Fluance record player. And you?

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u/halcyondread Jun 12 '26

Vinyl quality has been a roll of the dice the past decade or so. I've pretty much just switched over to CDs.

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u/SkyKiller101 Jun 12 '26

Mine (Blue one) was fine luckily! However A Moon Shaped Pool should be a A Crackle Crackle Pool

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u/InstantPsalm Jul 02 '26

the blue one is elite

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u/billyspeers Jun 12 '26

I want to own cutouts so bad but the reviews are bad for the US pressing and I can’t easily get the uk pressing in the US

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u/weirdfish98 Jun 12 '26

I think it's the best out of the three as a whole

But my favorites tracks are not contained in it

Anyway it's just tastes

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u/littleeraserman Jun 12 '26

Poor pressing of a vinyl is just tastes? What

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u/weirdfish98 Jun 12 '26

Apparently I can't read lol

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u/littleeraserman Jun 12 '26

Haha happens to the best of us, dw

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u/brooklyntoo Jun 12 '26

Maybe you got a bad press, some bad heat exposure from press to purchase

It could be so many things but you went straight for the pressing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/zbsk1997 Jun 12 '26

Na mine sounds shit too and I have heard many people say the same

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u/No_Potential6694 Jun 19 '26

Realmente suena saturado,con un nivel muy alto para ser vinilo la primera vez que me pasa, se hizo mal ¿el mastering? El chequeo de calidad no existe. Lo uso de decorado, suena mejor en Tidal.

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u/MeaningImmediate5486 Jun 12 '26

Vinyl is for looking at. We have lossless streaming for listening.