Where is this video archive you speak of? I did an internet search but found nothing, even on their official site. I'd be grateful for a link.
I suppose, but there's a certain art and romance to having an actual live album in your official canon. I wish they'd make another more definitive live album, a double that doesn't feel like an after-thought. To me, this year is the year to do it!
I agree. The live EP has its own energy that allows it a respectable spot in their canon. They had some very potent performances from the Pool cycle, so it'd be nice to see an LP mixed and compiled from the 2016/17 shows like that EP was.
I've considered putting together my own compilation from the 2016-7 live shows uploaded to Radiohead's official YouTube channel over the last few weeks, but many of these only have mono audio, meaning I'd be limited to a handful of concerts where the performances may not be the best of what's available...
There's also differences between the shows that are stereo. Some have crowd mixed in and some do not, etc...
I don’t want to start a debate but rather, just ask a question. This is a long thread and I just don’t feel like going through 60 pages to find the answer. What am I supposed to be hearing in this that I couldn’t hear in the original master? Ok, I get that the bonus disc is definitely something that would be desired, but why the remastering? It was advertised as though this “new technology” was supposed to do something special yet I don’t hear anything added except for some added bass and some additional loudness. To be honest, the more I listen to it the more I regret buying it. It sounds more harsh and brighter then before. Please, someone tell me what I am missing.
I'm not nuts about the mastering either, nor am I thrilled at the "additions" to the songs (these amount to things as slight as an extra cymbal crash in a section of "Paranoid Android" to the "bleep-bloops" at the end of "Let Down" beginning earlier in the song).
Just opened my new 3-LP set and was appalled at the look of the vinyl on sides A and B. It looks like some of the pellets weren't completely melted, so there are small "chunks" embedded in the wax--utterly unplayable for sure. Infuriating indeed...
I’ve been getting the U.K./Europe copies and it’s been hit and miss as well.I finally have good copies of most, but only a couple came in good shape the first time. That said, I really like them once I get good copies. I returned my first copy of OKNOTOK because there was a scratch on Climbing Up the Walls. Pulled the replacement out and there was a scratch on Climbing Up the Walls, it even looked similar! Same thing happened on Sail to the Moon on Hail to the Thief. Hoping the 3rd time is a charm. Fingers crossed.
I just ordered the standard 3LP set from US Amazon over the weekend when the price dropped, and I got the Made in the EU pressing. Without combing through 60 pages, are there any significant differences between the US and EU versions? My copy is flat and silent, but seems like it's just a bit on the loud side. I'm happy with the package overall. I loved this album so much back in '97 when it first dropped that I listened to it constantly and kind of burned out on it pretty quickly. After 20 years or so, I'd missed listening to it.
Yep, 'Dimension', Soundstage, Imaging... More often than not that seems to be missing on a lot of the newer remasters... Many times even the better ones, although having a clarity or sound and separation, the sounds seem like they were artificially created in a 'sterile' environment. Thus, sometimes the lack of 'Dimension', or that it is 'really' there...
Sadly, I noticed something similar with KISS: Destroyer, the resurrected version. One of my very favourite songs, God of Thunder, was really changed in this same way. Whereas before the childlike background voices and wails gave it a real ghostly flavour, I notice that in the resurrected version he brought all those sounds forward and made them almost the same volume as the major rhythm / melody, thus kind of lumping it all into the same volume sounding mass rather than a textured, atmospheric sound like the original. I was considering snagging that version of the album, but all I had to hear was about half of that song and that killed it for me...
So I'm listening to my copy for the second time through, and it sounds quite noticeably better. Less distorted. The only cleaning it's gotten is the carbon fiber brush I use every time I play a record. Is it possible that there was some residue that has been cleared away by the first pass of the stylus? The difference is pretty surprising.
A UK music magazine, I believe Melody Maker, did an article trying to track down Radiohead in late 98 or even early 2000 (edit, found it!) I seem to recall a rumour that the follow up to OK Computer would be called Cogs, or even "cogs sarcy cogs swrking round" which was a title taken from their website for the song, interestingly, "Last Flowers" I love Kid A, but a part of me yearns for that album, especially when you see things like the 1997 soundcheck of Thom doing "Last Flowers". Anywho, Radiohead always try their new stuff on the road, and snatches of songs were in Meeting People is Easy and a webcast or two. .. So around this time frame, said magazine article said this album would feature the known but unreleased songs, probably the guitar versions if they continued down the classic 97-98 sound path... Here's what I was dreaming of back in 99/early 2000! Side A) Lift Man of War Follow Me Around I Promise Last Flowers til the Hospital True Love Waits Side B) Motion Picture Soundtrack Knives Out Egyptian (Pyramid) Song Life in a Glasshouse How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found I Will Nude ---------- That article is great read!
Yeah, you can say that again... And, since my head is usually up my @ss, the view is indeed amazing...
