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DandelionPowderman
It's a compilation worth having
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DandelionPowderman
It's a compilation worth having
Indeed, even though I never have had it (and now it's too late...). It would have been a gem back in the day when I tried to collect every Stones track officially released...
I just love the German preciseness:
"This box contains four albums with fifty different recordings from 1963 to 1970. On these four discs of this carefully edited box-set you'll find all those recordings of The Rolling Stones that did not appear on the twelve Decca albums which were originally issued in Germany; Singles (A and B-sides), rarity items, and some titles which appear here for the very first time on an album. You will also find recording information, dates and places, where and when the songs were issued for the first time." (Wolfgang Michels)
Makes me wonder about the absence of their early singe A-sides - "Not Fade Away", "I Wanna Be Your Man" and "It's All Over Now" were released in AROUND AND AROUND, which I suppose is one of those "twelve Decca albums originally issued in Germany". But what about "Come On"? It can't be from BIG HITS, since there are already many other tracks from that album in THE REST OF THE BEST.
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DandelionPowderman
It's a compilation worth having
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Doxa
Now to think of that, if I have had this REST OF THE BEST, and since I got AROUND AND AROUND and all the UK versions of Decca albums, I shouldn't have needed to purchase many albums just for the sake of a couple of songs. Those include, at least, FLOWERS, DECEMBER'S CHILDREN, both BIG HITS collections, NO STONE UNTURNED, COLLECTOR'S ONLY, STONE AGE, 12 x 5, NOW!.... Well, in that case, my vinyl collection would have been much poorer...
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stonehearted
Insofar as "new" releases go, it appears that the way past is the way forward.
At least we know that Mick Taylor will still be working with them on the "new" album.
Who knows, there might be another Plundered My Soul in the works.
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F*ck them. What a shitty companion disc. Each one gets worse and worse. The fact that they really aren't putting out a 1976 show is criminal.Quote
Maindefender
It was just announced Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti deluxe is being released 2/27 which is just under 6 weeks. 2/27 is also the date of the original releases in 1975. Based on this hopefully we'll see a confirmed April 2015 SF deluxe statement toward the middle to end of February.
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MileHigh
Like, do you want to see a new improved Mona Lisa on a wider canvas with more of the countryside in the background?
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MileHigh
Like, do you want to see a new improved Mona Lisa on a wider canvas with more of the countryside in the background?
Actually yes, but I would prefer to buy it separately, without having to buy the original Mona Lisa remastered with stronger colors again.
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MileHigh
I actually think they should not release a deluxe version with extra songs or do any new producing and mixing.
This trend needs limits. Like, do you want to see a new improved Mona Lisa on a wider canvas with more of the countryside in the background?
Just let Sticky Fingers' greatness stand on its own. Tell the bean counters to go to hell.
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RollingFreakF*ck them. What a shitty companion disc. Each one gets worse and worse. The fact that they really aren't putting out a 1976 show is criminal.Quote
Maindefender
It was just announced Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti deluxe is being released 2/27 which is just under 6 weeks. 2/27 is also the date of the original releases in 1975. Based on this hopefully we'll see a confirmed April 2015 SF deluxe statement toward the middle to end of February.
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MileHigh
I actually think they should not release a deluxe version with extra songs or do any new producing and mixing.
This trend needs limits. Like, do you want to see a new improved Mona Lisa on a wider canvas with more of the countryside in the background?
Just let Sticky Fingers' greatness stand on its own. Tell the bean counters to go to hell.
That crooked grin on Mona always annoyed me. Would love to see her smile normally.
We only have an idea of what might or might not be released, should they decide to do this. So I'm not going to complain about the bean guys just yet. And I sure wouldn't mind cleaned up versions of some of the alternate, etc. stuff. And maybe a DVD. And a book. And vinyl. And a watch.
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MileHigh
I actually think they should not release a deluxe version with extra songs or do any new producing and mixing.
This trend needs limits. Like, do you want to see a new improved Mona Lisa on a wider canvas with more of the countryside in the background?
Just let Sticky Fingers' greatness stand on its own. Tell the bean counters to go to hell.
That crooked grin on Mona always annoyed me. Would love to see her smile normally.
We only have an idea of what might or might not be released, should they decide to do this. So I'm not going to complain about the bean guys just yet. And I sure wouldn't mind cleaned up versions of some of the alternate, etc. stuff. And maybe a DVD. And a book. And vinyl. And a watch.
...and who wouldn't like to have some 'alternative mixes' of the Mona Lisa? Alternate, maybe even 'toothy' smiles, more revealing clothing, alternate backgrounds?
Sounds like a great box set!
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MileHigh
What do they do when they "remaster" an album? I realize that there is something like a 16-track analog original master tape for the source material. Then in the old days I assume that they set mixer gains and possibly added equalization and compression/expansion and effects to the the 16 tracks to create the final release of the two-track stereo master.
So do they start remixing by playing with the original 16 tracks and doing the same thing all over but in the digital domain? Doing slight tweaks on gain or even processing the original tracks?
In my opinion the only thing that counts is the released stereo master tape that was used to make the original vinyl record. If you want to sample that at 192 kHz / 24-bit stereo and release that in high-def audio format then fine. That would be the only valid 'reissue' in my mind.
And when you do the 192 kHz resampling of the final stereo mixdown, you do it as a 100% flat zero-processing digitization of the tape. Just a perfectly linear absolutely transparent digitization of the original source material.