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What deserves to be Remastered on CD?

Now I don't mean or want for this to become a digital vs. analogue discussion! I have a modest CD collection, around 300 titles, but all are the "best" recordings available. This being said, I have about a dozen or so CD's that haven't been remastered since I first bought them in the mid-80's! The difference between these early AD remasters and what's been produced in the last few years is astonishing! So lets hear it; what needs to be remastered in your CD collection? Some of my votes would include Peter, Paul & Mary, The Doors, The Who and many others! Too bad Mo-Fi isn't still around, they probably would have gotten to some these by now!
treyhoss
kira
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For starters, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young catalogs
hungryear
62 posts
 
Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac
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megasam
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Trey not all remasters are improvements on rock/alt CDs, many times they pump up the presence and give you a brighter CD that has diminished 3D and no air/bloom around instruments (and charge full list price!)......that said there are many great sucesses like Joni Mitchell "Court and Spark" HDCD which is great improvement. I find the Beatles remasters are sucessful, but the Rolling Stones albums from 60S ie: Hot Rocks is very dissappointing remaster, of course Beatles had Abbey Rd Studio masters to work from! I am sure the Bruce Springstein catalog will get remaster soon, although Darkness and River sound very good for main stream rock albums in current form. Fleetwood Mac CDs also sound good in current form from early 70's, I am afraid remaster will screw them up.........Tom Petty box set is remastered, I have original CDs ie: Torpedos, Waiting, would be interesting to compare sound.....they are getting better, but sometimes I prefer the original to the remaster.......classical remasters are usually very successful, probably because they have better original masters, and are sold to a more discriminating customer......Sam
treyhoss OP
287 posts
 
Sam, I agree with a lot of the points you make. However, most of the "alternative" rock music has been recorded in the 90's. It also seems that a healthy portion of 60's music was remastered at the "dawn" of the digital age and hasn't been remastered since. I'm still having to suffer with great titles like The Who: Who's Next - and I don't want to spend $50 for MoFi version. These old CD's just lack life - the warmth, depth and detail just ain't there! Thank God I kept SOME vinyl!
carl_eber
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Why don't you get the MCA reissue on 180gm vinyl, of Who's Next? It has more warmth and depth than any CD. Another thing I don't understand, is why there isn't more debate about analog, versus digital...this thread would be the perfect place for it....oh, yeah, sorry! Guess I had a brain hiccup...
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