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Talking Heads Remastered

Anyone out there splurg on the newly remastered Talking Heads Catalog "Brick"? Released on dualdisc with remastered stereo mixes on CD layer and extra tracks from the recording sessions and video and 5.1 mixes on the DVD layer. Every Talking Heads studio album is in the collection.

These albums were in desperate need of remastering as they came out in the late seventies and 80s. The original CD attempts sound pretty bad.

I've only been istening for a week and don't do 5.1, but the new mixes really add alot. They are tastfully done (Jerry Harrison had a lot to do with it) and sound great. I encourage any Talking heads fan to update their collection with this set.

Anyone else hear these things?

-Karl
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merganser
216 posts
 
Sony is still releasing SACD's, http://www.sa-cd.net/shownews/38
pardales
652 posts
 
I was a bit disappointed in the packaging of the brick. I will likely look for deals on the individual releases wich have nicer pacakging. It is good to know about the European 2 disc relseases -- I am not sure my CD player can play DualDiscs.
ben_campbell
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Paradales the TH box set is a monstrosity imho.

"Ok we've got 3 CD's of stuff what will we do?"

"I know make it 3 CD's wide!"

Yuck,terrible concept and horrible art but the liner notes are very good
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karl_desch OP
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Ben,

Huh?

I think the point of the collection is finally getting these excellent albums remastered into a form that audiophiles can appreciate. I don't care about the 5.1 mixes or the videos. But I'm not complaining that they are there. I find the extra tracks meaningful in the context of the time they were recorded.

If you are reffereing to the inserted artwork cards for each album as "horrible" perhaps you don't really get what Talking Heads were all about. Anyway thanks for qualifing your statement as IMHO. It is just that. IMHO.

-Karl
ben_campbell
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Karl maybe if you read what I wrote before you started shooting your mouth off you wouldn't have made the mistake you have.

I'm answering a comment on the box set on which Paradales and I agree on....... not the single albums.

And maybe if you paid attention to what music is released you'd have heard the remastered versions two years before you did.......imho.
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