Kate fans, prepare to open your wallets/drain your bank accounts. Prices and pre-orders will be up at 2pm today.
Kate Bush album remasters and rare tracks box sets
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That’s my birthday present to myself then – assuming she hasn’t slapped a ridiculous price on them.
My first thought was – Christmas present!
My second thought was – wait until they’re half price in 2019
Looks like there are going to be individual releases of each album – they are up individually on Amazon at 2018 remasters……
Note the “katherine shrub” in the URL – either someone at Amazon has a sense of humour or its their attempt to hide these…….
Oh, great work!I don’t want the full sets but it’s a big yes to Hounds of Love and Aerial on remastered vinyl. Here’s hoping they come with a download code.
Woop-woop! I’ve been banging on about wanting these for years, so I’m duty-bound.
I don’t quite get how a box containing three £18 records can cost 90 quid, but perhaps the box is made of unobtanium. CD boxes + HoL on vinyl might be the answer.
ONLY! £139.99 when you order both at HMV.
https://store.hmv.com/music/cd/remastered-part-ii
The price will drop but by how much, Kate knows!
I`ll probably go for the Vinyl Box 4 but at a lower price.
The value of my original Aerial vinyl just plummeted …
Have all her albums on vinyl except The Red Shoes, plus various 12 inch and 7 inch singles, also have the 2 rarities CDs from This Woman’s Work set. So just one thing for me to buy I think.
There are a couple of B-sides and remixes missing (as there were on the “Woman’s Work” box) on the “Rarities” discs, so the only incentive would be “new James Guthrie mixes”. Hmm.
Albums from 2005 and 2011 to be remastered?
Sheesh!
Mmm, much as I want the 2 CD boxed sets I cannot justify spending £160 to buy remastered versions of albums I already own, along with a few discs of rarities that I have electronically. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could flog my original CDs to subsidise the purchase, but the individual CDs are going for a quid each on eBay, so no point trying to do that. I’m going to have to wait until these boxed sets come right down in price.
But I wonder what message it’s sending out that they feel the need to remaster albums that were only released relatively recently? Can’t imagine the people behind the mastering of the original albums will be impressed.
£99.00 for the 5- CD part two on preorder. £20 a CD. What are they? Platinum and cobalt inlaid? Whereas part 1 is 7 CDs for £59.00. Not gouging us for the non-album tracks in any way then.
Part 2 is 11 CDs.
Curse that Amazon and their Catherine Shrubbery. Not quite so much Daylight Shrubbery, but still pretty steep.
The 4 “Singles/Rarities” discs have a playing time of around 35 minutes. Which gives you the real vintage listening experience on CD. Obviously.
And “11 discs” probably sounds better than “9 discs”.
I am sure the odd track will winkle its way into wider…..
Remasters of newish records made with much the same technology as now? Come on, fellas, Aerial, for all the trumpets then, pretty slim stuff, uncertain I ever bothered two listens.
Aerial is a masterpiece, in her top 3 for me. The 2nd album took a lot of listens for me though.
Life’s too short. I’ll stick, ta, with Sensual World, Hounds of Love and Greatest Hits. O, and Sexual Healing. And Mna Ha H-Eirrann.
1. The Dreaming
Up for the first cd set when it becomes cheaper in 2019.
I’ll be going for Aerial vinyl, I think. Not sure about the merits of going for other albums that are generally a snip second hand.
I may just buy The Dreaming on LP. This depends on the mastering, who’s doing it?
James Guthrie – who did a sterling job on the Pink Floyd albums a few years ago, so hopes are high.
All the bruhahhah about these has drawn attention away from the other news of the day: dodgy Britpop second-raters Cast are having their entire works collected in a vinyl box entitled, imaginatively, The Vinyl Collection 1995-2001.
Did they really last 6 years?
Form an orderly queue…
So. You’re all prepared to give money to Rolf Harris, then?
MONSTERS!!
I fully expect that he’ll have been *remastered* out.
…replaced by someone called Harry Rolfiss, I’ll wager.
Albert McIntosh probably
A short-term pop up shop is to open for Christmas selling the reissues. Nothing you can’t eat elsewhere it’s seems, but all in a good cause. So that’s nice.
http://londonist.com/london/shopping/kate-bush-pop-up-shop-comes-to-king-s-cross
I’ve just stuck a pin in my eye but nope, doesn’t help