"Needs Remastering" - Wish List

Name ten singles that are tops on your "need to be remastered wish list"

Mine are:

Friday on My Mind - Easybeats
Walk Away Renee - Left Banke
Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful
Concrete and Clay - Unit 4 + 2
Black is Black - Los Bravos
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
California Dreaming - Mamas and Papas
Bus Stop - Hollies
Talk Talk - Music Machine
Everything That Touches You - Association

(And .... All Motown, All Atlantic, All Beatles .....

 

ELO-"Telephone Line"

 

For Lovin' Spoonful, get the Buddha Greatest Hits CD.

 

I'd rather know where the mono masters went....


ED

 

cb,
I have the Greatest Hits on Buddha on CD. All Buddha (and any other CD remasters I've heard of Spoonful) all sound harsh. And this is even after they have found the masters which were missing for so long. "City" is particularly vicious sounding ... the sibilant sounds on Sebastian's vocals alone make even Inglot's piercing work sound mild by comparison! We need a Tonmeister remaster here for sure.

 

Have you checked out Steve's mastering of 16 Greatest Hits for both the Mamas and the Papas and Steppenwolf? There's NO WAY you're gonna hear anybody duplicate the same sound, especially on California Dreaming. Steve had to do some pretty funky EQ moves on that one.

 

Matt,
Haven't got Steve's M's and P's or Wolf yet, though I hope he eventually redoes them on SACD (After all, the AF Zombies SACD represents a noticeable sonic improvement over the previous DCC CD, as great as the original was).

 

Bruce Springsteen's catalog!!

 

Check out The Left Banke -"There's Gonna Be A Storm"-Complete Recordings. IMO, Bill Inglot did a wonderful job with all of the Left Banke material. This disc is a winner!

 

The Pretenders

Bruce Springsteen

Neil Young

I wish Sony would finish the catalog overhauls begun on Cheap Trick and The Psychedelic Furs. And I hope we're still getting more Sly & The Family Stone and Lindsey Buckingham-era Fleetwood Mac remasters after the excellent two-disc comps.

 

Alan Parsons' catalogue.

 

Pretenders, Van Morrison WB years, Rickie Lee Jones, Tommy Bolin, Bruce Springsteen, Suzanne Vega.

 

Hmmm, The Beatles perhaps?

 

Strange Design,
I already have "There's Gonna Be a Storm," which is the compilation of Left Banke remasters and remixes. Though I must say in all honesty that Inglot's work here is not quite as grating on the ears as in some of his other projects, his "remix" of "Walk Away Renee" is not balanced vocally (compare the backing harmonies to the original track and you'll see they're not blended properly). To be fair, the original stereo mix of the tune has always left a good deal to be desired, but this version is not correct, either. Inglot has done much better with the other Left Banke classic, "Pretty Ballerina," also on this compilation (though, even here, the levels of the strings in the middle of the piece should have been higher in the mix) . We still need a masterstroke by Steve here to put these classic Left Banke tunes in their proper perspective. I know he is the only one who can really do it ....and the only one who CARES to do it RIGHT!

 

I'm not sure you'd like the results.

 

The Who
The Yardbirds
Small Faces
Elton John
Mrs. Miller

 

Oh I'm sorry,

singles, silly me!

Well have ya heard Mrs. Miller's version of "Downtown"/"A Lover's Concerto"?

 

Rory Gallagher.
The Buddah releases are way overblown.

 

Tallcoolone said:

Well, of course, Steve Hoffman would do the remastering if I were emperor.

 

"96 Tears"-? and the Mysterians!!!!!

 

I would love to hear a real nice remix of Springsteen's The River. It sounds so tinny and there's no depth and warth to it. It could use that SH touch.