The Art Of Noise – Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise

This sounds brilliant on vinyl - everything from Anne Dudley's classical piano to the sampled beats and taped vocals. Moments In Love is the obvious highlight, but there's a lot to feast on and uncover here.

Nice clean copy. Sounds way better than the picture disc I used to own in the 80's... Strangely that picturedisc is not mentioned here!

The quality of this pressing is stunning. Go straight to Moments in Love for the most obvious example. Crisp, dynamic, boomin. Couldn’t believe I found a copy so cheap.

If you didn’t like it then I’m guessing that you didn’t get it?

Tra-la-la

The other commenters clearly love this album way more than I do. To me it sounds like the trainee assistant in a music shop is messing about with the new sampler during lunchbreak. Can you dance to this? No, unless you are a looping silhouette. Is it a timeless classic? No, its sounds horribly dated. Is it full of great tunes? No, its a mish mash of beats and samples that start and stop and go nowhere.

Overall I'd say this may have been groundbreaking in 1984 and kick started dance music as we know it but to me it just sounds like Demo mode on a Yamaha Xmas toy keyboard with some kids pressing all the buttons to see what they do.

Go listen to Yello and then come back and tell me which you prefer.

The version of Moments In Love included here is the best IMHO (and probably first issue;)

Rediscovered this gem while reacquainting myself with my vinyl collection. After an ultrasonic cleaning, this pressing sounds great, very dynamic with little surface noise. Recommended!

I wouldn't call the first disc a disaster, but, Yes - the original vinyl album does sound better - more punch, more nuances and subtlety. If you are after the album itself, I would avoid this edition, but, I guess most of us are dedicated aficionados, so a second disc which hasn't been issued on vinyl before is enough - but I woun't listen to the first disc here ever again.
Ps. I do enjoy the second disc.

This album includes the breakthrough hit of track B2 "Moments In Love". A fun early 80s experimental electronic album. Worth the purchase just to have the track "Moments In Love" on vinyl. If you're a fan of Kraftwerk, you will enjoy and appreciate this album.
Very nice pressing. No surface noise. Dead silent. Very nice audio fidelity during playback.

My favorite tracks on this release:

A3 Snapshot (the piano at the end of this track is a nice touch)
A4 Close (To The Edit)
B2 Moments In Love

Great comp, but the Original, Into battle of "Beatbox" is not here. In fact, we had to wait until the 2014 boxed set to FINALLY have it on cd.