bradman
Better than Steve
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Post by bradman on Jul 27, 2021 0:09:00 GMT
They've never gotten over there not being Beatles SACDs.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 27, 2021 5:09:28 GMT
When the last of the Beatards are in their 90s (in about five years from now, I suppose), they need to release a final, catch-all box called The Beatles Bitchfest Box: The Last Gasp. The box will consist of every leftover bit of useless ephemera that Beatards have been whining that they haven't yet received: SACDs, CD versions of the Vee Jay albums, "Carnival of Light" pressed on a glow in the dark 7", etc. The box will include a scorecard on which the wheezing Beatard can rate how much he hates each item and what precisely is wrong with it. Actually, the box will include two scorecards, so one can be kept pristine in order for the box to retain its imagined "collectability" and "resale value." You had me at “scorecard”…
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Post by graucho on Jul 27, 2021 16:42:19 GMT
This is why I guess I'm no "audiophile / fan". If a record was already very successful, i.e. George Harrison's allegedly far-and-away best album everrr, how is a remix going to take that already hyperbolic cultural consensus into something even more "revelatory"? "Wow, I've loved this album for fifty long and boring years, down to every last note of Thanks For The Pepperoni, it's the high watermark for Beatle solo albums and the most profound spiritual work since the New Testament, but WOW THIS CLEANER MIX OF THE ALBUM HAS NOW ALLOWED ME TO ACHIEVE A PERMANENT HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OMG!" Sure, you can say that the original mix is muddy and so on, but is there really going to be one person on the planet who is going to say "Oh, I couldn't bear to listen to All Things Must Pass until that fantastic life-changing remix came along." The remix is for existing old fans of the album, and there's no way it's going to please all of them. Everyone involved in these money-spinning remixes, vault dumps and/or RSD colored vinyl baubles — from the artists to the A&R people to those in marketing, all the way down to the mastering engineers, etc. — knows damn well that 1) these products are nothing more or less than cynical ploys to get the aging audience to buy this shit one more time, 2) that said audience re-purchasing the music from their long lost youth are the only ones buying this stuff, and 3) that these remixes and outtakes on these shit-filled box sets will at the most be maybe listened to once, then swiftly consigned to the Beanie Baby display case or the storage box and, finally, the landfill (courtesy of the classic rock phool's heirs). There is really nothing more to it than that. This is all true. As long as there are Shiteys salivating over obi,and the above, the companies will be churning out all this so called collector shit for silly prices.
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Jul 27, 2021 20:45:51 GMT
^ Steve in Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard fantasy mode. Pencil in hand, dreaming that this is him. He is still that in demand cutting room engineer, not a washed-up former rich kid with a bunch of sycophants to bolster up his fading never-existed reputation. FTFY STeve is big! It’s the physical music sales that got small.
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Post by Brick Wall on Jul 27, 2021 21:14:08 GMT
Damn straight. Just look at STEVE's swollen membership, bucko.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Jul 30, 2021 17:34:18 GMT
It's his ignorance of the shift in industry practice, where hot mastering does nothing for a recording under new streaming platform paradigms. Or, if you prefer, to address the "willful" aspect of my phrasing, knowing what to do, yet not doing it, is not "ignorance." You're right! There are many adjectives to describe such practices, like "stupidity" and "pig-headedness," to name a couple. I'm not sure where you pull arrogance and presumption from. If you are a part of the industry, in 2021, yet you still decide to master a recording hot, all the time knowing that it won't matter to the ears of millennials, then what is that? I'll defend the choices of Dhani Harrison, as the human right to make free choices. Moreover, I'm in no way butt hurt over his decisions (after all, this release is a small drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things); however, defending the right to choose is completely different than defending a poor choice. Wonderful people make poor choices all of the time. I have. You have. We all have. However, most of our choices don't tend to marginalize certain sets of people, as Harrison has. Anyhow, I write about it as if it is way more important than it is. In fact, the loudness wars started over something so innocuous as a CD changer. Still, I would think that Harrison, as a 42-year old gen-xer, and who also helped sign off on the Beatles' remixes, like TWA and Abbey Road, would know better than to squash such a fine work of art: his father's masterpiece.
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Post by powerpoppackage on Jul 30, 2021 17:43:14 GMT
Between Giles and Dhani, it's a rough day for Beatles and Co.'s offspring. Should've had STEEV do it!
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jul 30, 2021 21:43:03 GMT
EVOLIST: "I'm in no way butt hurt"
*proceeds to be constantly butt hurt*
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Post by huffyhoffy on Aug 1, 2021 17:11:05 GMT
This is why I wish they’d release Carnival Of Light. Just so it would disappoint the fuck out of these idiots. Heh heh yeah the pedestrian fuckwits at SHF would hate that if it was ever released.
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Post by gobshite on Aug 1, 2021 19:11:15 GMT
The smart money says CoL will turn out to be an irredemable pile of shit if it ever gets heard, while about 50% of top Beatards will claim that the Fabs’ avant-garde genius is still too much for the mass audience.
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Post by huffyhoffy on Aug 1, 2021 20:51:56 GMT
It probably is crap, and that's probably why it was never released. Paul was going to AMM concerts and listening to Stockhausen, and said he wanted to try "A bit of the random." But whether it's crap or avant garde genius, the idiots at SHF wouldn't know either way.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Aug 1, 2021 22:11:30 GMT
Oh, sorry. I thought this was a new Fiona Apple album title. Carry on.
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Post by The Discerning Consumer on Aug 3, 2021 3:25:10 GMT
STeve is big! It’s the physical music sales that got small. Farewell those golden days when Audio Fidelity could sell tens of copies of Pablo Cruise. I remember the big news that Steve was going to remaster Bread. It turned out to be "The Best of Bread." At first I was like wtf a comp? But Steve proved it's a fine, legitimate album in its own right.
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bradman
Better than Steve
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Post by bradman on Aug 3, 2021 9:10:29 GMT
No, he didn't.
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Post by essayceedee on Aug 3, 2021 12:45:23 GMT
Baby I'm-a-not-want-that.
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