Please tell me what I am missing here. Why would they do Bad Company when it was just released for Atlantic 75th. Could it really be that much better? I don’t think so. Why not do titles that haven’t been done instead of the same old ones over and over again

No disrespect to Patrick, but Rhino's been saying "We're working on the shipping and packaging problems" and "We are frustrated too and are trying to fix it" for months and months. Trying to do something and actually doing something is two different things. If the company Rhino employs doing shipping is bad, go somewhere else. Not rocket science.

On the bright side. I just saved a hundred bucks.

Zeppelin, Bowie, Smiths, Joy Division & Rush would all be good !!!

The Bad Co is curious given the Atlantic 75th release. Anything YES is a good choice.

Relayer is a great choice. Happy its getting the Kevin Gray treatment.

Steve, when you showed LZIII my mouth dropped. Too bad it’s not true.

Thanks so much for the shout-out and kind words, Steve and Patrick! Writing notes for a favorite record from a favorite band is the thrill of a lifetime, and I hope everyone enjoys this terrific new edition of 'Relayer.' One point of clarification @Steve: the quote about listening in the best possible way comes directly from Patrick Moraz, who I spoke with for several hours in research/prep for these notes. He is so proud of this record that his enthusiasm is infectious--I've listened to 'Relayer' endlessly since our talk. Super nice guy and an amazing talent. He put the phone next to an electric piano during our chat and started improvising on the intro to "Sound Chaser" which was WILD!

Don't understand why Bad company has been done when Analogue productions did a 45RPM recently, Atlantic 75 Bad Company was done on 33RPM, agree with others do something that has not been repressed on audiophile Vinyl recently !!! Don't care for Yes, not my thing !!!

Steve, why don’t you ever have follow up questions? You could have asked if the August release was a 2 lp version or just pressed him a little.

Yes and Bad Co again, that's a letdown for me. Wished for Diamond Dogs.

As a hard core Yes fan I disagree with Relayer being the end of the golden age of Yes. Going for the One absolutely belongs in there.

Can’t believe the Bad Company when we have a superb 45rpm reissued in the last year. This series is hit and miss but aren’t they all ?

It should not take a year to fix bad shipping and fix the ability to answer a customer service email. Rhino is the only company who can’t figure it out. Even VMP with all the problems they are having are near perfect in that department. This doesnt even touch the issues people had with back ordered Black Sabbath orders.

Gene Clark - No Other Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night 🙏🙏

It'll take years to sell out 5000 copies each of these Yes and Bad Company records D2C. Wait until they unload them to retail stores and get discounted.

The website states that it’s AAA cut from “the master tapes” but in the video, Patrick states that it’s taken from a 1st gen “copy”. It would be nice to have this clarified/confirmed.

LAAAAMMMMEEEEEEEE

Bad Company S/T again! How many brains did it take to decide that was a good choice? Lol

Disappointing, very disappointing.

I’m a serious YES Devotee and appreciate RELAYER being given the 33 rpm high FI treatment. The AP 45 of the YES album is on my turntable Constantly . superb.

Shipping is ridiculous!! I order immediately when these are posted on Rhino’s website and get very late numbers in the series. And it takes forever for it to ship. I watch others post videos on KZfaq about receiving their albums already-while mine haven’t even shipped yet. It almost seems like the fulfillment company ships west coast first and then works its way east (I’m on the east coast.). No one else in the business has such poor fulfillment and shipping.

I knew it was Relayer! It's awesome-my favorite YES album. I'm assuming that AP discarded Relayer for the 75th series because "Gates of Delirium" would take up like 3 sides in a 45 rpm format. So, I was very hopeful that Rhino HIFI would do it. Thank you very much, Rhino. I have a Porky Prime cut in NM condition, but I always thought it could sound better, so I'm looking forward to hearing what Kevin did. Now, regarding the Bad Company record: it's not my cup of tea, but I believe fans of this album should be really happy to have what could probably be the ultimate 33 rpm version of it. Next, please give us some Deep Purple and more Black Sabbath. I love this series!

FFS... the mailing issue is an easy fix. Mighty Mailers. I buy them in 50 packs for my record store and they run me about $1.80 each, so I'm sure someone with the buying power of Warner can probably get them for close to $1 each. I've shipped hundreds of LPs with Mighty Mailers and have only had maybe 2 damaged in shipping, and they were seriously mangled.

Hell yes ! Audiophile relayer. Great choice patrick m. Just bought. I wish you would do tales from topographic next

i'd like to ask Patrick - many of the Rhino reissues i have heard sound great, many original album pressings are supposed to sound the best but if Rhino can just smooth off the rough edges and improve the sound on modern playback systems from many of them after all this time then it would be a great attraction for those of us who own the original albums and newcomers on the vinyl scene, to spend money on these albums we need more of a a great incentive to do so, including shipping, a very important part of the deal!

These are actually astoundingly confusing titles to choose. On the bright side, I’ve just saved about $100 this month 😅 I feel like we’re never gonna get a glorious Rhino Hi-Fi box of The Smiths ☹️🥺 None of their albums have *ever* been given true “audiophile” reissues, so a high quality Stoughton box set mastered by Kevin Gray would be a reeeeeeally big deal.

Hey Steve - would you please ask PM if rhino intends on running the sold out hi fidelity reissues? Thanks

I’m guessing David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Rush - Self titled Side note: Thanks for all the great content Steve 😉👍

September = Earth, Wind and Fire

Ordered both yesterday, hopefully all arrives well to UK (as they have done previously) 💥

Steve...thanks for this! I nearly pulled the trigger on the AP Bad Company, but this is a better option IMO. Great surprise seeing 'Relayer' as the second new release. Both ordered.

I was just looking around on the Rhino website. I really wish they would show all the sources of their records on their website. Are we to assume everything they press has a digital step unless otherwise indicated? Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell for example is just $20. How would I find out if it's pressed using an all analog process?

Is there any particular reason the US copy tape was used for Relayer? If it's an issue of the original tape being able to go to the US, Rhino might want to look into using a mastering house in Europe. SCM at Emil Berliner would be an excellent candidate, given her excellent reputation for cutting for DG and also apprenticing under KG. Jimmy Page might be convinced to let LZ be on RHF if he personally could carry over the tapes to her. :p I'm all in on Relayer still, since I love prog yet have never heard that album before today. What I've heard on Qobuz, plus the assurance Rhino customer service has gotten better, made me pull the trigger.

Gates of Delirium is an adaptation of War and Peace. Tales from Topographic Oceans sold very well. Please do Tales!!! This album was the pinnacle of Alan White's drumming.

I’m glad Relayer is finally getting a proper Audiophile reissue, it’s the last truly great Yes album from their prog era.

BS Steve, Patrick isn’t working on shipping. Just talk and no action

greetings from north east thailand, close to the mekong river.

no august title?

I'm a big fan of this series, and i appreciate Patrick addressing the shipping issues. Maybe he could gather input on future release ideas from the customer base here? Glad they still keep coming out!

Please re-issue tiny Tim’s. God bless Tiny Tim.

I may have to get the Nad Company 45 now to compare

Can't wait for the NEXT NEXT two releases!

I am really perplexed like everyone why do Bad Co. again, just a money grab? Are they running out of titles? please ask and get back to us.

There is no chance the Bad Company Release will better the Atlantic 75th Anniversary released by A.P. from a few months back. Spend the extra $20.00 and get the best-sounding VERSION of this record regardless if you are an Audiophile person or not. The build-up for these 2 releases was really pumped up, only to really fall short. Zero interest.

did they tell titles yet?

I forgot about the shipping, the records I've been getting is in random used mailers it looks like something I'd receive from a home shipper off eBay actually most of the home shippers do better than this huge record company, there shipping is the most unprofessional I have seen from a company.

Steve, would you please discuss with Patrick the possibility of setting up a subscription to Rhino High Fidelity releases? I'm sure it would be extremely popular. It could be made even more "special" by a separate series of numbers, such as, S0001 through S1000. Just a thought. Keep up the great work, I really enjoy your videos.

I wished people would look into the 90s bands. Soundgarden’s Superunknown needs an analog release.

I'll go for maybe Burn : Deep Purple not sure about the other

I've now got 80 bucks burning a hole in my pocket. Thanks Rhino! 😊

I'm still holding on to my sealed Rhino hifi Television MM with a nasty seam split at the top of the jacket. I wish I could exchange it for an undamaged copy. If Rhino at least held back some copies of these releases to address these problems, it would go a long way with us avid collectors

I’m guessing August is a Double Album - they have not done that yet.

Well I'll save my money for the next batch

hard to fathom bad company not in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FRAME.

I’m a sucker for Yes reissues, but I’m a little confused about a high fidelity Relayer. I’ve always considered that recording to be not up to par, and I assumed it was the way it was recorded, using their live board for tracking in Squires untested home studio. The Steve Wilson remix fixed some of the issues, but the mid frequency cluster of poor sound still stacks up once all the instruments come in. I’m aware that I’m in the minority of opinion on this. If Rhino managed to get high fidelity out of that original master tape (copy, whatever) I will gladly fork over my $. That will be fantastic news!

Wow! What a letdown. I’ll be saving some money this month.

Are You kidding me, Bad Company was it in 74'. You shouldn't have to talk this Album up. Its the very definition of Classic Rock.

How can you get it so wrong.

I just got my order. The packaging was state of the art. You could toss this package around like a Frisby and the records would be undamaged. And of course my records were completely unblemished. They have fixed the problem

Give us some of the Sire stuff!

Had a feeling "Bad Co" would be one of the choices. Not a bad track on that album for me. Love the original. I totally agree Steve, that Simon's Ludwig's, much like Bonzo's Ludwig's, drive everything! Both drummers had very distinctive styles, but equally were just as different. Very interesting to hear that Nevison probably copied Bonham's mic set up? Although used Neuman's 87's condensers instead of Shure's? Such an incredible live drum sound all the same.The quintessential Bad Co. drum sound. Big shout out to the late Ronnie Lane's (ex Faces) mobile recording unit.Built be Nevison himself. Responsible for so many other great albums as well. Do debut albums get released, much better than this? Maybe that is why, this particular album is receiving, the "Rhino treatment", to mark it's 50th anniversary? Hopefully we will see "Straight Shooter" get selected when it's 50th anniversary rolls around next year. Bravo! Great choice Patrick and Rhino on selecting "Bad Co". At 33. Which for me is still the way to go! In my opinion, just can't beat an original 33 1/3 original UK pressing of any Zeppelin, or Bad Co. album. 'Yes' was my brother's band. "Tales of Topographic Ocean" and "Yessongs" etc...Never got into them personally.Although I always took artistic inspiration from Roger Dean's amazing album covers. I'm sure though this issue of 'Relayer' will be special though.How could it not? Enjoyed the video Steve.

this was the big announcement from Rhino Hi Fi? for real? my lord this is getting silly. Rhino really missed the mark this time.

Third one from Rhino and all three have arrived with inner sleeve seam splits and corner damage! I will pay extra for better shipping containers! Call Chad and ask him where he gets his packaging from……oh btw it sounds great!

You seriously need to look at the packaging. The Devo release took me 15 minutes to get it back into the cover. Shoddy workmanship.

gonna pass this round... Please release Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, etc.... (also Janes Addiction)

I got this Bad Co Friday. Sounds great. But Definitely not as impressive as the previous Rhino HiFi releases. I was surprised to be underwhelmed, tbh. I have the Rocktober release from last year and there is no real discernible difference. Highs are a bit crisper on the Rocktober pressing. Still happy to have this. And it trounces the OG for sure, though thats not saying much. I didn’t want to get the Analogue Productions 45 rpm for an album with only 8 tracks. So I’m glad this came out. Thanks for the video

WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN goN on

My Black Sabbath title was perfect upon arrival from Rhino btw

The self titled Bad Company is one of the greatest debuts of All-time but to Reissue it again after all the recent entries is kinda lazy in my opinion...looks like I will stay with my minty UK Original 🇬🇧🧨 As far as shipping problems...best way to avoid this is to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORES!!! Cheers 👍

Ive just signed up with rhino, and purchased relayer, I'm in the uk , ive got relayer in the steven wilson box set , just hope it arrives in good shape after reading some of the comments 😮. I would have liked the sabbath lp but im not paying the inflated ebay prices.

Whomp whomp. Thank goodness. Now I can save some money

I enjoyed the discussion and thanks Steve, but that was a bit of a letdown. I’m sure some folks will be happy, but here is to better stuff the next round. Since they did 1st and second Cars, which I love, why not do Sabbath 2nd album, Paranoid. Bowie is always good, but how about Ramones Rocket to Russia, Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight, or R.E.M. Murmer? I think those two would sellout more than Bad Company, just my opinion.

Simple answer they have to have at least a potential of 5000 customers willing to spend a bunch of money on an audio file record and they have to pick artist that have a base that possibly a small percentage of them would pay a bunch of money for a limited addition, classic LP. That’s the answer, it’s all about money my man and this is a hobby and music means a lot to a lot of people including myself and I’m willing to spend the big bucks for an audio file recording but I’m one out of 100 or 200 that would do that but I appreciate it and I’m an audio file and this is a hobby and a very expensive hobby but very enjoyable. If you’re in the music, it’s just a hobby.

oh dear, what a miss this round....

Give us some 90’s albums!

Do a Rhino HiFi of Paranoid! That one hasn’t been reissued for far too long

I got the Devo Rhino HF release.....it's fantastic!

Really enjoyed the program. While you're coming up with your next love/hate selections as well as trying to figure out how to ship the elephant in the room. Make a black mug with your red logo on it available. It would be easy enough to do. I didn't get the 45 caliber BAD CO. so I'm going to get the Rhino version. I'm hit or miss with the band Yes, this being a miss, but for others, glad you got what you wanted.

I know.......let's put out one of the most NON commercial/popular Yes albums that they made. Should have went with "Living On The Fault Line" by the Doobie Brothers.

I just bought a white label promo of Relayer. Waiting now for a comparison when this comes in. 😊

good god what a disappointment! wow AP jus did it, i am sooooo bummed out!

I have the AP 45 Bad Company already which is so-so in my opinion. Maybe I’ll order and sell my AP version.

I just bought an OG Spanish press of Bad Co. I gotta say it’s freaking amazing. I am sure KPG pressing is great…. Hmm. Didn’t they coordinate on the A75? Seems like we need other titles. Nobody was asking for these. What about Free? Is that a Warner band? What about Quicksilver Messenger Service? What about Devo Q: Are we not men? Maybe Patrick should setup a website for us and list all the bands available…then we can figure out what we want. Nobody needs or wanted Yes. Patrick? We need a crowd sourced method to determine what we want you to do. I could also see Robert Plant’s principle of moments or fate of nations. What about the first few rush albums. Those need the KpG treatment. 2112, farewell to kings. What about smashing pumpkins? We have some good reissues…. But a true AAA of Gish/Siamese Dream would be great. What about STP - tiny music, STP - Four

So, they really weren't a brand new band. Paul and Simon were in Free together first, and Free was a hit band. If not for the loss of their guitar player, Bad Company may never have happened.

Gene Clark- No Other. Please

Great, don't have to bother about these then because of Atlantic 75. Those are available all over the world, which these one's are not.

And here's.............Bad Company (collective groan) lol. I already have the Atlantic 75th.

They have a vast collection to pull from and this is what they come up with ? Do better in picking titles and get your head out of your ass about the shipping issues people are still having !

I’d say this is Ho hum news. There seems to be the same retread bands if not albums from the desperate reissuers. When is someone going to do their homework and find some popular if not seminal albums that were recorded at the end of the analogue era. This by default would mean they are more recent albums even though that means at least 30 years old. 🤷

I would love Van Halen s/t!!

How unexciting!!

I can't listen to anything right now, my Fluance RT -84 has trouble spinning after i did a very stupid thing and put "sewing machine oil" on the spindle! Hopefully the electronics guy can fix it tomorrow! I just hope i didn't f**k it up permanently!😢

The Smiths? That'll sell around a hundred copies.

Hard pass on both titles for me I’m afraid! Bad Company is a strange choice given the recent AP 45 release. Hopefully the next release(s) will offer something more interesting. 🤞

Black Sabbath - Paranoid please

Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio

Audiophile Sex Pistols is an oxymoron

This will be a hard pass for me! with the big catalog they have, and we get dudes! Chad is laughing so hard right now!

Sorry, but until Rhino has a terrible shipping dept. They are slow in shipping, waited over 3 weeks before my order was shipped, and the packaging is 3rd class. I can't understand how crappy the packaging is. They need to copy Chad's packaging. I ship all my records using Whiplash packaging. It's expensive, but it's worth it, no corner dings or seam splits.