I agree the band has championed music surround as a viable alternative to stereo, but, sadly, Porcupine Tree may be the only band out there keeping the faith. Punch up " SACD" on and what do you see? Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is the best-selling SACD, and it has one of the best-sounding music-surround mixes I've heard. Krall's SACD is the most recent recording on the list, and it's from 2004, while most of the titles date from the 1970s! So I'm left wondering, why aren't more new rock or jazz titles coming out in 5.1? At the time this post was written, "Dark Side" was followed by Eric Clapton's "Slowhand" then Elton John's self-titled album Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Diana Krall's "Girl in the Other Room" and so on.
The DVD-A titles are just as ancient, starting with the No.
1 seller, Queen's "A Night at the Opera," which I don't think is an actual DVD-A, it's just a plain DVD. 2 spot the Beatles' "Love," which I love, is No. 3 next comes the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" then at last there's a 2008 recording from Ringo Starr, "Ringo 5.1." Music-only Blu-ray titles appear every now and then, but Blu-ray doesn't seem to be going anywhere as a music format. So the question is: If people really do love surround sound so much, why are newly recorded 5.1 music-only releases so rare? Where are the Adele, Lady Gaga, Death Cab for Cutie, or, better yet, Radiohead 5.1 channel releases? My guess: since a lot of music is heard only over headphones and computer speakers, 5.1 doesn't fit the way we hear music now. If you have an opinion about why music surround formats always flop, share it in the Comments section.
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