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Article Title:	Rehearsal For Reality
Author of reported comment:	Dougie Adam
Comment Date:	13:54 on Nov 10 2008
Comment:	The CD has 20 songs and by your reviewer's reckoning only about 4 of the 20 are really good and worth having. As has been pointed out this release is also a CDR and a bad sounding CDR at that where the original master tapes have not been used and where they have basically recorded a scratchy LP version and transferred this recording to a CD. The studio version of Messiah is also largely an instrumental backing track with bits of singing here and there. All of which begs the questions - why rate this as highly as 7 out of 10 and by giving this 7 out of 10 when it probably deserves only a 4 or 5 out of 10 does this not demean many other 'pretty good' and 'better than ok' albums in Larry's huge back catalogue which do genuinely desrve a rating around 7 out of 10 - eg many of the solo live albums like Children of Sorrow which are well enough recorded and have nice performances of old and newish songs? The Rehearsal 4 Reality CDR re-release sounds horrible sonically, only has a few worthwhile songs on it and most of them are available elsewhere, so why not call a spade a spade and rate it accordingly?!

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