Latest Remasters

[Derek]

In light of the remasters and John's albums also getting remastered for the upteenth time, do the 2010 remasters sound better than the remasters before this? What year were they remastered last time, i'm guessing 2006, maybe??)
The remasters of POB, "Imagine" and W&B BEFORE the 2010 ones are the ones i have. Do i need to update?...PLEASE SAY "NO"!!

[Kylenz]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think John's cds had ever been remastered til 2010. They were just basic cd transfers. Remastering implies that some kind of work had gone in to give them the same level of fidelity as the original master tapes.

But I know what you're getting at, it seems like a money-making scam, just like when cds first came out and we all had to 'rebuy' our record collections and now they make us do it all over again in the name of 'remastering'. They do the same thing in the movie industry, moving from VHS to DVD then Blu Ray. In marketing it's called planned obsolescence. It's a definite agenda, ensures the wheel of consumption which our capitalist economy is geared around!

[Derek]

I'm looking at the booklet of my W&B CD and it says remixed in 2005 at Abbey Road Studios. The producer was Yoko and the remix engineer was  Peter Gobbin. The mastering engineer was Steve Rooke. I assume remixing means remastering?? Those are the reissue credits. Now, tell me this: Why would Yoko want to do the same thing again 5 years later??

[Kylenz]

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You're gonna love this, Derek - Pink Floyd are to re-release (remaster?) all their albums with previously unheard bonus tracks!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/10/pink-floyd-unreleased-tracks-on-emi

[Derek]

GRRRRRRRR Thay need to stop this, i don't have the money for all this crap. And another complaint about these remasters: THE PACKAGING SCRATCHES THE DISCS! BRING BACK THE JEWEL CASES!! That's why i put them in CD wallet. They are obsessed with authenticity, making everything look like records, that they don't even care if it's good for the CD. Well, here's a newsflash: In records, haven't yall ever heard of an INNER SLEEVE?? That was to keep from scraching the records against the cardboard. Here's a novel idea: WHY DON'T YOU USE ONE FOR THE CD AND MAKE IT OUT OF PAPER! Bunch of half-witted morons, a bunch of apes can do a better job at repackaging ! GEEEEZ!!!

[Kylenz]

They WANT you to scratch them! That's all part of the plan! 

[Derek]

I guess it stands to reason when i was teen in the 80s, i used to buy cassettes. But i noticed something in the mid to late 90s, the new cassettes started to be poorly made and they would get "eaten up" alot easier the ones made in the 80s. 80s cassettes were alot sturdier and could last for 13 years. but the 90s cassettes lasted for only about a few months.
However, i also remember as a kid, i had better luck with 8-tracks than cassettes. Sometimes even my good 80s cassettes would screw up on me, but not my 8-tracks, those suckers could last for 20+ years and way more sturdier than cassettes. I think the industry got rid of them because it kept changing the sequence of the songs around to make it fit each channel perfectly and when they can't, they would have to repeat a song (i wouldn't have done that, i'd just put in a bonus track) or worse yet split the song into 2 parts on seperate channels. but, hey, as long as it lasted, that would be fine by me, even though i wouldve liked to hear the songs in the original sequence.
But thanks to the MP3/ipod age, it's gotten ALOT easier. I've got complete albums on my ipod that i don't have on CD so it's working out.