Did you ever buy a re-recorded album? Did you like it?

I forgot about this one. I listened to it when it came out and remember liking it.

 

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out along with The Who Sell Out redo.

 

Gordon Lightfoot's mid-70s hits album, Gord's Gold, features a number of re-recordings that I actually prefer to his own original recordings of those same tracks. That may be the only example I can think of in which that's the case.

As an aside, Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town box set, The Promise, included a home video component featuring Bruce and The E Street Band performing Darkness on the Edge of Town in its entirety in an empty auditorium. While I don't prefer that version to the studio album, it's a worthwhile watch/listen for Springsteen junkies.

 

There isn't. Check out post #11.

 

One could jokingly refer to AC/DC as rerecording themselves to sound like another album throughout their career.

 

I had never heard of that. Pretty cool!

 

I quite like Brian Wilson's solo studio version of Smile. Also, don't know if this counts, but Gene Clark recorded the vocals on the Gosdin Brothers album and remixed the backing tracks and removed one song and called in Early LA Sessions; Don't care for that one.

 

W.A.S.P - Reidolized - The Crimson Idol

The new version really improves an already brilliant album.

 

I have that 1972 re-do, and I agree. It's an interesting variation, but not an improvement at all. The remix is kind of wonky too.

From the liner notes:

Early in 1967, CBS released the original version of this album under the title "Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers." Perhaps it was ahead of its time. Gene Clark and his producer and friend Jim Dickson weren't happy with it either. When they learned that CBS planned to re-release the album (feeling that perhaps now its time had come), they decided that all of the original eight-track recordings should be re-mixed and at least some vocals re-recorded.

After a week in CBS L.A. studios, where it all began almost six years before, they emerged with an enormously improved, almost totally different album. Nearly all of the vocals were re-recorded, tracks were brightened, parts buried in the original mix were brought up (in some cases completely changing the sound of the cuts), and in re-sequencing the order of the sides they even removed one song, Elevator Operator, because with five years' perspective they felt strongly that the song did not measure up the others.'

- David Swaney

 

Like this? I enjoyed it more than I expected

 

I got Cracker "Greatest Hits Redux"

It's okay.

 

I've got two that I love:

Astral Weeks Live by Van Morrison, and the Great Balls of Fire film soundtrack by Jerry Lee Lewis. Great Balls of Fire, from 1989, is an horrendously awful film, but the re-recordings of the old Sun stuff by The Killer are excellent.

 

A couple years back I picked up the Ram cover album mentioned by the OP. A very good tribute, lovingly done.

I always enjoy this a cappella DSotM cover album:

 

I prefer the original recording of 'All I Need is a Miracle' by a country mile.

 

The wife loves Natalie Merchant's re-recorded version of Tigerlily. I do not feel the same way at all. The original is one of my all time favourite albums.

 

Fly From Here - Round Trip and The Snow Goose, both of them cannot beat the original

 

Replacing chintsy electric drums with real ones, better keyboard sounds (and organ replacing that wimpy synth lead during the solo), and a superb performance from Paul Young...I couldn't even listen to the original after that came out.

 

Does The Velvet Underground and Nico count? I think it does. And yes I like it.

 

there are a few...Nat King Cole rerecorded his hits in true stereo...and others.

 

In 1987 Roy Orbison issued a greatest hits album, which I bought because at that time
there was little of Roy's recordings available. Much to my dismay, it was re-recordings
and while Roy was in fine voice, it was not even close to the original Monument recordings
from the sixties. Needless to say, I returned it to the store I got it from.......

 

Sounds of Silence?

 

1996. All re-recordings. Still have it, as it's an interesting piece in my collection.

 

A few years ago they did a re-recording of the soundtrack of the musical "Scrooge", with Robert Picardo from Star Trek Voyager doing the Albert Finney part. While it's not bad, it lacks the special magic of the original, and Picardo tries way too hard to sound just like Albert Finney.

 

I've seen many re-recordings of the Star Wars and Star Trek soundtracks. Why screw with those when the originals are available?

 

If my favourite artists like King's X or Devin Townsend re-recorded previous songs or albums i'd have no interest in listening. If Brian and Roger re-recorded some of the Queen catalogue there is no way i'd listen to anything.
Sometimes a bonus track on a cd will be a re-recorded version of an old hit of that particular band, absolute bollocks! I don't want to hear an old song re-recorded with modern technology and sounding different.
Same with re-mixes.