|   Getting into old music from a remaster | Rick H
Aug 27, 2001 6:08 AM | | This past weekend, I was playing "Very Best of Steppenwolf" (remastered) and found myself getting into the track "Jupiter's Child", more so than I ever remember getting into it before (among other tracks on the disc, including "Snowblind Friend"). I've always thought the original greatest hits CD "16 Greatest HIts" sounded pretty lousy and on first listen to this new compilation, I still wasn't overly impressed but this time I had the stereo cranked up and could hear the improvements brought forth by the remastering. It's great to be able to "hear" new details and emotion in music you've been missing through the years. Has this happened with you when you've listened to some newly remastered version of older recordings? |
| Yup, "Best of Santana" 1994 remaster is excellent | RPM
Aug 27, 2001 7:46 AM | | This album got quite a bit of play when I first purchased it, but I also play it fairly frequently even now. The remaster has a jump-out-of-your speakers quality. Some may claim it's excessive, but with music like Santana's which has so much energy (the percussion on the remaster is especially great) I like the in-your-face quality.
Rick |
| Sho nuff | #LB
Aug 27, 2001 8:06 AM | | I don't care what genre you're listening to either. I listen to a remaster of Brothers Johnson's greatest hits (Funk) and Steely Dan 'Can't Buy A Thrill' or Kansas 'Masque' or Carol King 'Tapestry'....and I hear nuance and detail I haven't heard on the previous CD releases. The first issues of Can't Buy A Thrill and Tapestry were terrible. |
| Give me 3D vision and the California blues | dbi
Aug 27, 2001 8:26 AM | | Me I funk but I don't care
I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair
Telegram Sam
You're my main man ...
Picked up the T. Rex <i>Slider</i> remaster this weekend and have been loving it. I don't have another CD to compare it to but I do have the very good sounding English vinyl and, while I haven't made any direct comparisons, I think this one is very well done. There isn't any sign of the excessive compression used on many other recent remasters I've heard and it has a natural sounding ease to it. The liner notes say it was done on the Prism 20-bit A/D and noise shaping system. Very nice job and I wish all remasters were done with such care. I also wish they had the rights to Electric Warrior :-(
Dave |
| Is this a good T. Rex album to start with? (nt) | Darius
Aug 27, 2001 9:15 AM | | |
| It's the best! | dbi
Aug 27, 2001 9:33 AM | | I love the previous Electric Warrior and some of the singles from that album are pop classics like Get It On and Jeepster but The Slider is outstanding too, and in some ways more mature and cohesive. And it still has the classic singles like Metal Guru and Telegram Sam. This is Bolan on top of the world ... T. Rex was enormous at the time and this album really comes to life with Tony Visconti's production but there is quite a bit of maturity hidden in the often cryptic lyrics, like the title track with it's overtly sexual and playful overtones that also hint at his knowledge of there being only one way to go once you reach the top.
And when i'm sad
I slide
Watch now
I'm gonna slide |
| BTW, I should mention it was only $7.99 at Tower (nt) | dbi
Aug 27, 2001 9:38 AM | | |
| you had me at hello (nt) | Darius
Aug 27, 2001 9:41 AM | | |
| you're too ez | dbi
Aug 27, 2001 10:22 AM | | It's also got three solid bonus tracks from the same time period but that's not much of an incentive if you haven't heard the original :-)
The usual criticism of T. Rex is that Marc Bolan really only had one song that he kept repeating ... but it was a VERY good song. I kind of agree but there's enough stylistic variation on The Slider to keep me interested, a little more so than on Electric Warrior.
Wasn't that line from Jerry Maguire or was it part of our vernacular before that? |
| 2 T. Rex questions | cc
Aug 29, 2001 7:17 AM | | Were Electric Warrior and Slider originally UK albums or were they some kind of US version? I can guess from what you said about the UK vinyl, but still worth asking...
What album is 20th Century Boy on? I only knew it from a cover by the Replacements, which is pretty good, but there's a car commercial now (er, the same car that used the Faces - some rock fan must have the job of his dreams at whatever company it is) that appears to be using the original - and it's hot! The funniest part is they show these 2 20-somethings singing along for a few seconds, then cut away to the car zooming along just when the lyrics get incomprehensible! |
| 2 T. Rex answers | dbi
Aug 29, 2001 8:24 AM | | They were both released in the US on Reprise and in the UK on EMI. I have the US release of Electric Warrior and the UK release of The Slider and also an English 45rpm 12" with Ride A White Swan/Jeepster/Hot Love/Get It On which is pretty nice. Those were the first 4 big hits and they sound much better than the versions on my Reprise vinyl. I only have the The Slider on CD now which was remastered in 1997. Bolan established his own company prior to The Slider to retain rights to his music from that point on and hence no Electric Warrior remaster in this series because it is controlled by Warners.
20th Century Boy was originally just released as a single and not included on the album as they often did in those days. It's probably available on some hits collections but the new remaster of Tanx, which was the album following The Slider, has it as a bonus track. I want to pick up that one too next time I'm at the store as I never had it in any version and don't think I have even heard it before since I kind of moved on after The Slider. I do vaguely remember that single but haven't seen the commercial. I think there is a version floating around by Bowie and Placebo from some awards show. Maybe an MP3 is out there. Might be worth tracking down.
Dave |
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