I know there’s a bit of love for Lawrence round these parts, and SuperDeluxeEdition are all about the Pet Shops Boys right now so I thought I’d flag up that the mighty Felt are getting the reissue treatment again. Only seems yesterday all the albums were reissued on CD but in fact it’ll be (gulp) 15 years by the time these come out – and you try finding a Felt CD anywhere, if you do you’ll pay top dollar for those, never mind the Vinyl. There will be a new album from Lawrence as well in his Go Kart Mozart guise.
Cherry Red are starting with the first 5, and rest assured Lawrence is fully involved in the mastering and presentation..and he’s been tinkering again, as he will. This time he’s decided to restore the original title to what would have been “The Seventeenth Century” and says the decision to rename it “Let the Snakes Crinkle their Heads to Death” was his biggest regret. The one that’s had the most tinkering is the Robin Guthrie produced ‘Ignite the Seven Canons’. Apparently Lawrence wasn’t too happy with the ‘ethereal swirl’ and six of the 10 tracks have been remixed and “made symmetrical” although the majestic ‘Primitive Painters’ is untouched. Much as love Robin and ‘ver Twins, I know what he means and I’m interested to hear what he’s done with it.
There are vinyl editions of course. More interestingly there are also deluxe, boxed CD editions with a bonus 7″ single with badges and bits and bobs and signed by Lawrence – they’re 25 quid a pop though – ouch. A cheaper no-frills box set of all the CDs perhaps would have been nice, maybe that is coming later.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/felt-decade-music-first-five-albums-will-released-23rd-february-2018/
You’re welcome.
Hurrah!
Forever Breathes The Lonely Word is my fave and was played to death in my student digs. What do you mean, it was released 31 years ago? That was last week, surely?
It can’t be 15 years since the mini-LP CD reissues. Where does the time go?
Once again, the option to buy just the albums on CD is dodged, in order to squeeze a few quid more from the fan. Much as I’d love to buy the first five, even remastered and buggered about with so that they are not a direct upgrade for tired vinyl, Lawrence will have to make do without my cash until the things can be bought without a bloody 7 inch single attached. Christ almighty, the only people daft enough to actually want these ruddy singles are likely to be bearded fashion victims who were 12 when the first CD issues came out. This sort of blatant rip-offery is what drives people to torrent sites.
Hurrumph! I only recently finished collecting all of the previous CDs from 15 years ago. It does seem that every artist/record label is at it these days, cobbling together anything they can find, shoving it all in a box and getting us to buy albums we’ve already bought 3 times in the past. Having said that, I’m a sucker for a signed edition, so I’ve placed an order for the Ignite The Seven Cannons box, seeing as that’s the one that will sound different.
The daftest punters are the ones who are now paying £30-40 for vinyl copies of albums they already own on CD, probably having got shut of their original vinyl album when they bought the CD. The vinyl LP will look nicer, that’s without a doubt, but all the original reasons for changing from vinyl to CD still remain, and a well mastered CD will sound better than a vinyl LP anyway, no matter how hard people try to convince themselves otherwise. I do feel that buying vinyl again is more of a fashion statement than anything else and people are falling for a bit of ploy. The record companies will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Yes I’m still trying to complete my collection of the reissue CDs – they’re on discogs for 20-30 quid – maybe these new editions will reduce the price of the old ones. I’ll still probably plump for one or two of the boxed ones if only to get a signed copy, and they do look rather nifty
Took me a while, purely because I was waiting to find affordable copies. Worth it though, because it made the arrival of each one an occasion. All apart from one, that is, because despite being listed as very good it came with the cover creasier than a Rolling Stone’s face and it smelled like a packet of Rothmans.
There should be a word to cover the disappointment that comes over you when you open the parcel of something for which you had been searching for years, only to find it’s the wrong item or is so badly damaged it’s useless. It happened to me again a few months ago.
I have a collection of every Barnsley FC home football programme since 1955 bar 3. I have been searching for these three for decades. I should add that it’s not just those three I have been hunting for decades, as I have managed to gather the rest over that period, but I have been down to the last 3 for around 2 years. Well, I managed to get hold of one on eBay and paid £2.99 for it, so a rarity and a bargain, not that it’s worth much more than that anyway, but I would have been happy to pay over the odds for it, seeing as though I am almost there. Sadly, I found that the seller had incorrectly dated it and it was from a different season. So near, and yet so far.
So there should be a word to describe that feeling that falls in between the excitement rapidly disappearing and the swearing starting. It’s generally a very short period, but it comes back again once the swearing subsides, which can be up to an hour, depending upon the item.
“Anticipointment”?
That could also be a cream you rub in for urine retention