Shoot Out the Lights [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

Richard & Linda Thompson, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Hannibal
• ASIN: B00027JCKA
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,257 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Now remastered for Super Audio! This Hybrid SACD plays on CD players and SACD players.

"Absolutely perfect, an album for which even five stars seems not enough." – Rolling Stone Album Guide

"A meditation on love and loss in which beauty, passion and heady joy can still be found in defeat." – All Music Guide

"This record has no contemporary equal." – Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A CLASSIC!! CLEAN, ECONOMICAL, ROCK!!!, September 23, 2005

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D. R. Goldsmith (Edwardsburg, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shoot Out the Lights (Audio CD)

This is an album I've had for sometime. I have it in the regular format, a gold disc, and then had to hear it in the hybrid format. It was worth every penny and them some. The hybrid version is definitely the cleanest, bringing out every nuance of voice and instrument.

Any criticism of the content of the CD would simple be ludicrous. This album is one of the best in rock. Walking on a Wire, Just the Motion, Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed, and the Wall of Death are strong statements about humans and their behavior, and the conditions that brings.

This album is as clean and economical as they come. No note is here that doesn't need to be (economical) and nothing is lost in the mix. I strongly recommend "Shoot Out the Lights" as an essential part of any music collection. 6 stars.

24 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Sound, Great Album, Why not 5.1 Surround?, June 24, 2004

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Jojopuppyfish (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shoot Out the Lights (Audio CD)

A classic album. But a big disappointment that this is just a hybrid sacd stereo and not a 5.1 surround.

Although sacd is an improvement over a regular cd, what makes the new format compelling is the 5.1 surround.

The album does sound great in stereo. But it should have been redone in 5.1

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent but with one qualification, November 14, 2005

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Sheila Bloom "Norma" (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shoot Out the Lights (Audio CD)

This cd runs 38 minutes, way too short. it seemed over before it began and I wanted more. However, this being my first cd with Linda, I fell in love with her singing. Richard Thompson, however, is familiar and I love him. Great is too modest an adjective for him. The songs are great although not as shocking as I had heard. His songs are truly on the dark side, although some of them are downright hilarious and fun. Did She Jump or Was She Pushed is a very unusual song and I wonder what inspired that but then he has a great imagination. Linda's singing was a wonder but I wished there was more of her on the cd. Now I have to get more of her solo albums as well as the two of them together.

It amazes me that they are not more well known and popular while other mediocre or less talented performers are on top of the charts and famous! I'll take Thompson over Clapton (not to denigtrate Clapton but Thompson has it all over him in singing, guitar playing and songwriting.