Been waiting what seems a long, long time for this
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/tom-waits-island-albums-reissued/
At last… Tom Waits’s Island Years remastered
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Sounds good. A pity there are no extras or remixes or anything, but it might be nice to have decent vinyl copies of some of these (may favourite being Bone Machine) instead of those wobbly wafer thin things that seemed to be the fashion back then!
Closing Time has just had the Abbey Road Half-Speed Mastered treatment, too. Pressed on double 12″ 45rpm for maximum wallop, although I’m not exactly sure why – hardly a doof-doof banger.
I’ve already got them. Unless there was something really wrong with the original I’ve decided remasters aren’t worth bothering with. And if the original was such a mess it needs a remix, not remaster. Call Steven Wilson!
Same here. The vinyl no longer gets played, but the CDs I have of the same Island titles are perfectly fine.
When I was buying the vinyl, if it was wobbly or horrible, it went back again and again until I got a decent copy – there was at least a decade when that was basically the norm, record-buying wise, if you hadn’t made the switch to CDs. A pain in the ass, but perseverance often delivered a decent pressing.
At the time it helped that I lived in inner city Bristol, within a single kilometre of Rival (2 branches), Revolver (“What do you want to buy that for? You should be buying this“), Rayners (dodgy pricing), Tony’s (2nd hand vinyl heaven), Replay, HMV (some good clearances), a Virgin Megastore (ditto), the little reggae music shop on Picton Street (dub plates!) and Azad’s Videos on Stapleton Road (bhangra and Bollywood central).
No wonder I subsisted on good bread, red lentils, tinned toms and brown rice (also from Picton Street).
I thought you’d be living on Roast Fish Fish And Cornbread
I have the Swordfish, Rain Dogs and Frank LPs (CDs also) and the vinyl is perfect. I’m definitely in for Bone Machine and Black Rider which will complete my TW LP collection.
About time he brought some new stuff out rather than fleece the gullibles to boost his pension pot.
“fleece the gullible”* Says the man who has bought 32 copies of ‘The Juliet Letters’
*There is no ‘s’ ya nob eend.
I’ll buy all of them.
The (non-physical) hi-res remasters of these are available since last Friday, by the way.
Seen a couple of recent-ish John Darko YouTube clips where he discusses why he still likes CDs, as well as liking vinyl and hi-res streaming. And his misgivings about remastered albums, which at times I share.
Just because it’s never been released on vinyl before is no reason to remaster a great-sounding CD album (because you would have to) for vinyl release.
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What’d he say, what’d he say? Widget, wodget, spandoodle. It’s like Dastardly & Muttley.
Fair play, though, it’s just reminded me – I need to buy a CD player, it’s been too long – hmm, won’t be spending thousands of anything (pounds, dollars, euros) on it, and most importantly of all, will not be putting any of those CDs in it!
Don’t matter how much you spend, you put a CD of Neil Tennant in something and it’s going to sound like you’ve put Neil Tennant in something. Like sticking a cow pat next to yer fish ‘n’ chips. I won’t be doing that any time soon. Tartare sauce, maybe.
Mmmm…surreal…
This is like getting a His-Res / Half-Speed Master of a bunch tom cats banging in the back yard.
Also Tom hears things “funny” ( it says here ).
Mind you the best sounding concert was his one at Le Carre Amsterdam in 2004
Half-speed mastered Scott Walker’s Drift, anyone? Sounds like he’s slapping his meat* in the room with you.
(*) Cue: Moosey.
Where IS that confounded Moose?