The remasters are of somewhat better quality if they pay attentuion. I like the audiophile samplers such as Burmester on occasion. What gets me though is the incedibly bad job some of the compilations do . It's as if they don't know that the speed of the first track is going much too fast compared with the second . However nothing is worse than using a piece of worn out mastering tape that's horrible sounding. Just exactly how tape a number of people missed the fact that it is dreadful and unlistenable makes you wonder if they hear what they create.
As for extra snippets, I agree Old garbage is still garbage no matter how old it is. This is true even if sadly, the artist is dead or becomes disabled or whatever. The reasoning for not using it is usually obvious and was cut out of the published music catalog for good reasons.
That said-I think of one song which was considered for snippetdom at first which turned out great. It is Ray Charles duet whith Van Morrison doing "Crazy Love ." As I understand it -it was going to be a previously unreleased filler piece. Of course you know a double albumn arose from that. I like Ray Charles' music a lot, but even so, some of that albumn should have been left safely tucked away out of earshot.
As for extra snippets, I agree Old garbage is still garbage no matter how old it is. This is true even if sadly, the artist is dead or becomes disabled or whatever. The reasoning for not using it is usually obvious and was cut out of the published music catalog for good reasons.
That said-I think of one song which was considered for snippetdom at first which turned out great. It is Ray Charles duet whith Van Morrison doing "Crazy Love ." As I understand it -it was going to be a previously unreleased filler piece. Of course you know a double albumn arose from that. I like Ray Charles' music a lot, but even so, some of that albumn should have been left safely tucked away out of earshot.