From Tiggerlion’s review: »Even the font gets a remix, from Chantilly Serial Heavy to Futura ExtraBold.«

That’s a disgrace – I will not buy this!! What’s next: »Aqualung« with Comic Sans on the front!!?

I can understand him – remixing remixed demos (that were overdubbed to sound acceptable) is probably not a sound engineer’s wet dream 😉
And then have the bass player looking over your shoulder demanding that y […]

Well, to his credit Mr. Martin makes it clear (several times in the interview) that this remixing stuff is a JOB he’s signed up to do. Seems he’s not exactly sitting at home thinking about how he could improve his […]

In 1978 the US government fed names into a computer in order to come up with a Mr. Average American, a new “John Doe”. The name the computer chose was James C. Morrison.

As this was the time of the first Doors […]

It’s astonishing what kind of impact these Night Wanderers can have. In the late 90s I was part of such a group in Berlin. We walked the streets in groups of two or three, in a quarter full of young hoodlums, drug […]

Oh – I see I’m probably not a good expert on the male trouser department.

If you want to project that cool “fatale” look it’s always recommended that you can join in an improvised jive at short notice. And you don’t even have to dress like Paul Weller – look at that cad in his Mark E. S […]

I think you actually mean AWOPBOPALOO-BOPALOPBAMBOOM

I hope they include ALL the 12-inch versions and remixes this time – I’ve put them all on CD-R and it’s six 80 min. discs. And I hope they could prevent Visconti from tinkering with the albums.

There already IS a CD equivalent – it’s called »The Complete Album Collection Vol. 1« and other than this series it includes every Bob Dylan album.

I have Cup D’s so I might not join the ceremony unfortunately.

Mr. Schwarz had a second career as a luthier and guitar technician for more than 20 years, according to the recent feature in Mojo.

When Morrissey cancelled a gig in Berlin at the last minute, the venue hired Mexrissey (the covers band who play Smith songs in Mexican style) who happened to be on tour in Germany. Although a money-back offer was […]

Someone approached Jon Anderson in the street.
»I really like your former band!«
»Yes?«
»I said, I REALLY LIKE YOUR FORMER BAND…«

As surreal as I find these endeavours, always check if these plastic pockets are made of acid-free plastic. A friend whom I showed this thread (to have a big laugh) told me about his Pixies Concert Discs debacle. […]

Or rip off the hardcovers and unnecessary pages (contents, illustrations, title pages – “you only look at them once…”) from books. Saves a lot of space apparently.

All the EMI studio albums came out as mini-box sets, and in addition to the B-sides they compiled all the stray tracks from compilations and limited editions. And their TV appearances and videos, if you fancy […]

And Echo & The Bunnymen are still the only band in Pop History© to actually release a good reunion album.

Ha!

Those B-sides were all added to the EMI mini box sets from a few years ago, plus a couple of additional radio and TV sessions. Great stuff indeed.

As for the new release – I would buy it if they’d have thrown e […]