Thenk yew verrrry much! Dinosaur Jr are finally being remastered!! You’re Living All Over Me was one of the true casualties of early cd pressing. I want to hear that Feast of Sludge beneath the studio faults! Let’s hope it comes out anywhere near as well as Slanted and Enchanted.
If we all visualize together, maybe we can get the following remastered:
The Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique
Word is, this’ll never make the cut due to sample clearance and Capitol owning the master. I say it’s time for the people to rise up and demand label capitulation. It’s the least they can do after two decades of breaking their promises of better sounding, cheaper music. It would be a larger goodwill gesture than renting music online. Besides, Jacko’s probably distracted enough to give it up on all those Beatles swipes on “The Sounds of Science”. Scheisse, I might have to EQ a copy just to make it loud enough, but it’ll probably lose whatever semblance of crispness it has, as well as those super-bad transitions. The Japanese release tacked on the Love American Style ep, but I don’t think it was remastered, and it’s not very findable or affordable.
The Stone Roses Self-Titled and Turns Into Stone
These two alone can save any near-loser shelf, but it would be so nice if they blasted. Forget the Complete Stone Roses–sorry, but I pity the fool that trades the full length “Something’s Burning” (and to an extent, “One Love”) for 3 1/2 minute versions and the early singles. And editing Fool’s Gold is truly a fool’s errand. Oh, sob, amongst the vanished vinyl is the perfect heavy-ass UK 7″ for “She Bangs the Drums” (built in adapter and all!). Easily my least favorite of their classics, it was saved by “Standing Here”, one of the only nods to Hendrix that’s ever sounded fun and unlabored. Too bad it sounded nearly as good with a cheap Technics plugged in to a boom box as it now does on a stereo worth half of my cd collection. Indeed, that single presaged my whole SR experience. The debut was just so played, I nearly prefer the B-Sides.
The Pixies Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim
The world needs more whores, but c’mon guys (yeah, yeah, Kim’s a girl, but she’s one of the guys), take some pride in your profession! Quit giving us shite b-side compilations that aren’t complete. Don’t bother with an attempted one-disc overview. I pays my money, I want you to put out to the max. Let’s start with Albini Himself mastering and recombining these discs onto one monstrously good sounding comp that’s long enough for a fairly fulfilling lay. And let’s put the ep first. That way, it’s chronological, and “Let’s go, let’s sit, let’s talk, politics go so good with beer…and while we’re at it baby, why don’t you tell me some of your biggest fears” is part of the warm-up, rather than the wind-down. Plus, this time, it could get the track-listing to match the number of tunes, if that’s not too much to ask.
New Order Power, Corruption and Lies and Low Life
Oh, I guess there are lazier ho’s than the Pixies. Now I’m pissed. New Order do not get one more cent from me until they quit with the ludicrous boxes, and maybe even new recordings, and start fucking with Mother Nature herself, by which I mean two decade-defining albums which likely helped along as many adolescences as Prince, The Cure and The Smiths. The current (um, 20+ year old) issues sound tinny and flat, and also do one of the worst translations of album-to-cd art of their era. Additionally, the 12″ singles actually hold up, and would make thoroughly worthy bonus discs to the main features. Anyone remember Dub Vulture? (Um, no new Blue Mondays, thanks). Y’know, visualization is so over–scientific studies prove that cash is more effective. Anyone else willing to pony up $36 in a joint subscription to pre-pay for this? New Order, get your house in order. Until then, please just leave me alone.