I've been reading similar things about the mislabeling on other sites. Can't say I'm surprised at how they bungled this but it does seem to be common with remasters nowadays.
― skip, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
should start a thread re all these high profile remastering f*ck ups.
i recently picked up the special edition of the spandau ballet debut, and lo', that too is f*cked.
no bass at all. truly dreadful remastering.
then again, they did label the cds correctly.
― mark e, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
No bass at all?!? Like... no bass part whatsoever or just no bottom end?
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
no bottom end.
check the reviews : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Journeys-Glory--Spec--Spandau-Ballet/dp/B0034GYAU8/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1336497581&sr=1-9
― mark e, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
Alas poor Martin Kemp (was it remastered by Gary?)
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
haha. no.seem to have read somewhere tis same bloke who messed up the recent duran remasters, but i can't be 100% certain.
― mark e, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
the worst remastering/ mastering job i can think of is the Blur StarShaped DVD which is *legendarily* screwed beyond words. it's the only genuinely unlistenable DVD or CDi've ever owned.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
I believe that was mastered from a VHS copy.
Anyways, I played CD1, it has the 'full fade' on Soon, which makes it a mislabel.
Mind you, the "CD1" and 2 markings are tiny so hey.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Hey what's this? Got a good beat to it.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
So, I gave them a listen and I don't think they really fixed the problems with Loveless and Isn't anything. I had heard people say before that Loveless on vinyl sounded amazing and the CD sounded like crap. I have always thought the recording was too tinny and not wide/full enough.
I thought the same thing about Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy, but I think the remaster fixed this album and now it sounds great. I thought Sterelolab's Peng! remaster fixed that album up as much as possible, but the Loveless remaster doesn't do the trick -- in fact, it kind of goes in the other direction. Now, a lot of the vocals sound so separated from the noisy drone that it looses the effect of being behind a wall of sound.
― 3×5, Sunday, 23 September 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Yo, what Peng! remaster???
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 23 September 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
ha i just checked the mbv forum for the first time in a lil while: the thing that makes me laugh is how GREEDY everyone is. like there is the perpetual state of still-flickering optimism riding on whispers or occasional kevin shields interviews, but on top of that people are all trying to put DATES on it. like possibly November??. i guess if it really is almost finished then WE COULD HAVE IT LIKE STRAIGHT AWAY? also atm there is a post in which people are enthused by rumours about, 1., deadlines, i guess forgetting the grey sunlightened pencil deadline of 1994 on the wall of a now demolished studio, &, 2., that after recording is finished there would only, "only", ~only~, only be mixing to do. i mean it could be out in october if he just has to scribble mix my new album off his checklist. i am really not different from these people but the similarities between mbv fans & doomsday cults are so marginal.
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Sunday, 23 September 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Peng remaster?
― svend, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Discogs says reissue is 2008, but I can't see any mention of a remaster.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link