L.A.M.F. - Take the Taste Test

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Listening to my LAMF Revisisted for the first time in about five years, which came in a three disc budget thing You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory and I think it sounds amazing, really clear yet cruddy. The vocals are 3/4 of the way down, the hi-hat way forward with the mid-range guitar. It's mixed a lot like Jay Reatard, with tracks jumping artificially loud at the keenest moments. What am I missing by not hearing the original mix? These guitars have the perfect power-tool buzz to them.

jesus what an album.

like, wow.

I used to have the original cassette version and it always sounded just fine: certainly as good as the remastered CD from a few years back.

apparently jungle records is putting out a boxset of LAMF this year, with one of the discs being the original track records mix. glad that LAMF revisited has been consigned to the dustbin of history.

The Heartbreakers ‘L.A.M.F.’ album 4 CD box set:
The Definitive Edition.

Disc 1: ‘LAMF – the lost mixes’
As reconstructed in 1994 from original tapes.

Disc 2: ‘LAMF’ The original Tracks Records mix.
Restored at last! The 'muddy' version without the mud - how they wanted it to sound!

Disc 3: The pre-LAMF demos.
13 tracks including some previously unreleased from three sessions prior to signing with Track Records, including some with Richard Hell.

Disc 4: ‘LAMF’ Alternate mixes
21 different mixes from the lengthy sessions at five different studios.

Plus: a 44-page booklet with a timeline 1975-78 detailing the background to how ‘L.A.M.F.’ came about, listing all the gigs, recording sessions and much more.
Plus a new interview with Walter Lure about his recolllections of LAMF and London, and notes by Johnny Thunders and New York Dolls biographer Nina Antonia.

Plus: a set of four pin badges.

oh and the full cassette version's on youtube now natch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNM6_O3MjU

I used to have the cassette version and it was fine.

why yes, yes it is

so yeah that reish of the track records original mix is something else

http://open.spotify.com/user/edward_iii/playlist/20msOrGfGsc4IUDiFdpFyh

RIP Billy

Is the shitty-sounding vinyl version available anywhere?

i think there is a vinyl version of the "cleaned up" shitty-sounding mix, i.e. not remixed but w/o the supposed error that supposedly made it sound shitty. maybe on jungle? maybe as part of a 3lp set? to me the original lp never sounded terrible, and the "cleaned up" jungle version doesn't sound all that different. (i have that one on cd. picked it up just recently at the 40th-anniversary-of-lamf show with walter lure / clem burke / tommy stinson / wayne kramer. which was fun.)

All I know is this album rules, has always ruled and will continue to rule.

I guess this means I gotta spend fifty bucks on a copy on ebay to see if it really does sound like mud or not.

wow this was never available in the US at all? crazy.

OK I've obtained the original mix of LAMF through some ethically questionable means. Jeez, no wonder the band was so pissed off! The original mix is SO FUCKING AWFUL that it RUINS the entire album. You can't hear anything! So, disc 2 of the deluxe box set > the lost 77 mixes > revisted > the original. Glad we got this cleared up.